Every cohort is a preview of your industry's next decade: AI-native tools attacking the legacy systems you pay millions to run. Corporate partners pilot them first, shape them as design partners, and take LP positions in the fund that owns them at $1M entry.
See AI-native replacements for your stack at MVP stage - months before your competitors know they exist. Pilot on your data, on your terms.
Your innovation problems become cohort challenge briefs. Founders build the solution with our capital, not your budget - you keep first-customer position.
Strategic partners take Fund I LP positions - exposure to every company at $1M entry, with the same governance every LP gets. Upside on the disruption instead of just defence.
Watch the disruption form
Shape what gets built
Own the category shift
Innovation Partners submit real operational problems. The IC prioritises applicants attacking them - you've just directed the pipeline without spending a build dollar.
When a funded founder ships MVP, your pilot is their verified usage - and their pilot revenue helps them clear M1. You get first look; they get their milestone. Both sides win the gate.
Roll the pilot into procurement, follow on at VC Day, or hold exposure through your Fund I LP position. Three ways to win from one relationship.
Corporate and CVC commitments enter Innovation Fund I on identical terms - independent IC, written mandate, cost-basis valuation, quarterly reporting, annual audit. Strategic interests never override the mandate: the conflict register covers corporate LPs explicitly, and pilot relationships are disclosed in LP reporting.
Every enquiry gets a vertical snapshot: which cohort companies are already attacking your category, and what a challenge brief in your vertical would look like next cohort.
Partnerships are annual. Fund I commitments are subject to the fund's offer documents and investor eligibility verification.