IGNITE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES
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HEDGE DISRUPTIVE THREATS
SOME OF OUR RESULTS
Why Venadar?
We provide you with a pathway to develop actionable growth options to secure the future of your business.
Venadar makes your most immediate growth initiatives actionable, by identifying and interpreting relevant entrepreneurial activity, and orchestrating bespoke alliances with startups and emerging companies.
Approach Holistic Growth Strategically
Think beyond financial return. Unlike exit-focused investing, dedicated external-based growth support has the power to help companies achieve their strategic, operational, and financial goals.

Approach Holistic Growth Strategically
Think beyond financial return. Unlike exit-focused investing, dedicated external-based growth support has the power to help companies achieve their strategic, operational, and financial goals.
Strategic > Financial
Engage in diverse partnership types. Create and maintain meaningful corporate growth through a proven and time-tested mechanism. Don’t just create a growth strategy, enhance and execute it by challenging the status quo.
It always takes longer than you think. Avoid the pain and risk of the early years by partnering proven trailblazers. Corporate Venturing is an effective, efficient and more affordable way to create impactful growth.
Be proactive, not reactive. Hedge against disruption and stay ahead of competition by partnering with entrepreneurs, the drivers of change.
The right metrics and cadence are dynamic and milestone driven. Right measurement evolves with growth to allow you to intervene and pivot to ensure you don’t fall in love with a false positive.
Maintain decision-making capacity and control. Capture learnings from entrepreneurs, interact directly with new trends, then nurture and grow the ventures outside of the core business to maximize success.
Drive serendipity out of the process. Don’t fall in love too soon; rather, take smart, calculated risks with a defined and diverse partnership and investment portfolio by focusing on the best, not the first ones you see.
OUR WORK IS CUSTOMIZED FOR EACH CORPORATE GROWTH CHALLENGE
- Create & structure the corporate venturing arm
- Identify growth opportunities
- Implement venture investments
- Facilitate acquisitions
- Form strategic partnerships
- Structure or restructure a deal
- Monitor market activity
- Refine the corporate venturing arm vision
OUR DISCIPLINE SPANS ALL MAJOR INDUSTRIES
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Retail & Consumer Goods
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Food & Beverage
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Financial Services
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Professional Services
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Healthcare
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Energy
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Automotive
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Industrials & Manufacturing
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Technology, Media, & Telecommunication
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Transportation & Logistics
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Social Impact & Non-Profits
OUR WORK IS CUSTOMIZED FOR EACH CORPORATE GROWTH CHALLENGE
OUR DISCIPLINE SPANS ALL MAJOR INDUSTRIES
OUR PLAYBOOK AND SERVICES
ENTER our process at any time through our various services.

Why Work with Venadar?
The benefits of partnering with Venadar are myriad. We have the agility of a small company and the expertise of experienced professionals from big companies. Other advantages our clients enjoy include:
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About Us
Our History
Venadar was the brainchild of Mark Kaiser in 2005. Mark, a seasoned entrepreneur and a former public company CEO, believed that large corporations could “make their future tangible” by first establishing a strategic landscape of the relevant innovative products and services of entrepreneurs, and then building and accelerating the execution of corporate strategic growth plans.
Keith Cowan, a former President of Sprint and the former Chief Development Officer of BellSouth, identified the Venadar process as a unique corporate development tool for identifying, targeting, acquiring, and scaling the technologies, products, services and capabilities of entrepreneurs through partnerships, investments and acquisitions.

Together, they built and structured the Venadar team and services to fill an undeniable gap in the business services market – an outsourced corporate development service that works hand-in-hand with corporate strategy, development, technology and product teams to accelerate the execution of mission critical partnerships and acquisitions delivering innovation, transformation, and growth. Today, the Venadar services fill the huge void between traditional strategic consulting advisory services and buy-side investment banking services, by quickly bringing together large corporate clients with entrepreneurial providers of emerging solutions in collaborative transactions that facilitate innovation, transformation and value creating growth.
Since 2005, Venadar has successfully helped over 45 Fortune 500, private equity backed, and special purpose acquisition companies, along with countless other businesses across dozens of industries accelerate their strategic growth initiatives, helping our partners generate or defend tens-of-billions of dollars of revenue, and transform their services and products. More recently, the role of Venadar has expanded with corporate clients to include the acceleration of the “physical to digital” migration of both core business operations and the delivery of services and products through a digitally engaging and retentive customer experience.
Leadership Team

Becky Volandt
The most professionally purposeful person who leaves no detail unaddressed

Darin Glass
The people-person and consummate planner who keeps the trains moving on time and lands the “thought plane” with strategic precision

Nepanji Davis
The discoverer of top talent who nurtures and manages the best in everyone

Brooke Bender
The "Venadar Encyclopedia" and information collector who organizes and contextualizes entrepreneurial activity

Sally Cohen
Our own Kevin Bacon - six degrees separated from everyone