About
The terms venture capital and corporate venture capital are becoming increasingly common in the business world of large corporations and startups. These two vehicles work hand in hand with entrepreneurs, startups, and other key players in the ecosystem to provide solutions to the challenges faced by each industry. This is done in a coordinated manner with the objective to provide innovation and economic or strategic return to each of the parties involved.
Venture capital, also known as VC, is a financial tool for companies and a vehicle for institutional investors to participate in emerging businesses.
Therefore, it is an opportunity for new companies to secure funding, strengthen their business models, and/or explore new markets by receiving money in the short-term. As is usually the case, venture capital investors tend to have a purely economic motive and will have a negotiated participation with the new company or startup.
Venture capital firms raise capital to create investment funds, used to invest in both early and mature stage startups depending on the specialization of the firm – although VCs do not necessarily always pay attention to the stage of the company at the time of closing the investment. For VCs it is very important to have good performance measures, especially financial, in order to see the level of development of the company.
Corporate venture capital, also known as CVC, is the practice where corporate entities test, accelerate or invest directly in external startups to pursue innovation and strategic returns.
Often, startups will approach these corporations to test their technologies, initiate new collaboration agreements for the development of their business models, obtain new clients, or raise capital.
Another key benefit of corporate venture capitals is their ability to help startups expand into new markets and connect them to the network of collaborators and clients of the parent corporation.
We also see support in collateral disciplines: from legal teams, communication and marketing services, or access to facilities, among many others, to provide a complete service tailored to the particular needs of each party.
As Cemex’s corporate venture capital, we aim to be the eyes of Cemex abroad, providing the company with new technologies and business models that will allow us to innovate in our offerings to customers and respond to the major challenges in the sector. Meanwhile, we leverage our position as one of the major players leading the revolution of the construction industry.
Investment criteria
Pre-seed
Invests
Seed
Invests
Series A
Invests
Series B
Invests
Growth
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- Sectors
- Construction & EngineeringVenture Capital & Private Equity
- Geographies
- Canada · Denmark · Mexico · Spain · Switzerland · United Kingdom · United States
- Round role
- Leads and co-leads rounds
Highlights
Highlights coming soon
Notable work and milestones will show up here.
