Corporate venture capital used to run on instinct, relationships, and a healthy dose of internal diplomacy. You built a thesis, flew to the conferences, shook the hands, and spent a good chunk of every quarter explaining to your business unit why a gut-microbiome startup in Estonia aligns with the core mission of making an allergy medicine.

Then AI showed up. And like every disruption before it, it arrived with both promise and confusion. Venture teams now compete not just with rival funds, but with algorithms that can source deals, run diligence, and draft a board update faster than most of us can find the right Zoom link. READ MORE