Corporate Venturing
We co-create high growth and impact-oriented
platform ventures with you.
Flying Rhino Studio is a strategic, operational and financial co-founder.
No speculation, we build zebras.
“Unlike unicorns, zebras are not mythical & speculative animals.
Zebra companies are both black and white: they are profitable and improve society. They won’t sacrifice one for the other.”
Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break, Mara Zepeda et Jennifer Brandel, 2017
BOLDNESS CONFIDENCE EXCEPTION
We enable innovative & impactful projects
to grow at scale.
Co-creation
You have the industry knowledge or an innovative idea, we have the tools, the methodology and the entrepreneurial expertise”.
We will help you build a business model that makes the idea economically viable, and put in place the right execution strategy and operational capacity.
Scale up
Once the project is launched, we will help you to accelerate it, and make it profitable in the long term: optimisation of the monetisation strategy, network effects, increase in annual revenue…
Our team is able to manage the scaling of the platform, in France and internationally.
Funds
Through our investment vehicle and financial partnerships, we are involved in seed funding, Calls for Proposals and fundraising, allowing the operational team to focus on the product and the market.
We are operationally involved in the startups we co-create.
We are strategically involved in the startups we co-create.
We are financially involved in the startups we co-create.
Candidate
Join our team of entrepreneurs
Company
Explore opportunities, grow your business
Founder
We will help you make your project come true
Investor
Access a qualitative, confidential and de-risked deal flow
Candidate
Join our team of entrepreneurs.
Look at our job offers.
Company
Explore opportunities, grow your business.
Send us a message to let us know what you need and we will come back to you with a solution.
Founder
We will help you make your project come true.
Pitch your project in a few sentences and we will come back to you with a plan.
Investor
Access a qualitative, confidential and de-risked deal flow.
Send us a short message with the type of projects you are looking for or to receive our portfolio.
We combine our strengths
Your company
Seed funding
Business expertise
Market knowledge
Ecosystem
Brand
Assets (data, industrial, human)
Flying Rhino Studio
Platforms expertise
Circular economy expertise
Operational resources
Entrepreneurial agility
International network
Seed funding
Our success depends on the success of the startup and its valuation.
Our collaboration is based on trust and a lasting partnership.
We act as a partner, a co-creator, we become part of your team throughout the life cycle of the start-up.
Our role is to share and reduce the risk, fasten the go-to-market and the growth, and increase the returns’ potential of the start-up.
We are builders.
A startup studio (aka venture studio) accelerates your projects
and increases your returns’ potential.
Average internal rate of return (IRR)
- 21.3% for traditional startups
- 53% for startups created by studios
Average time from zero to seed
- 36 months for traditional startups
- 10.7 months for startups created by studios
Average time from seed to series A
- 20 months for traditional startups
- 14.5 months for startups created by studios
Methodology
For each start-up, we apply a methodical, milestone-based, entrepreneurial execution, combined with agile adaptation ; we recruit talents progressively based on project needs.
The 5 stages of the platform’s life
“Corporate venture building makes the most of your core organization’s existing assets to create separate but linked businesses offering new products, services, or business models, typically addressing new markets and geographies. Corporate ventures can operate with the flexibility and agility of startups, yet they have the advantage of being able to leverage the many resources of the core business.
Corporate Venture Building: The Process, innov8rs.co
Some of our projects
Revolutionising the competitiveness of European transport SMEs
by providing them with a tool for the automated capture and exchange of their documentation, in compliance with the eFTI regulation (EU 2024 regulation).
Website coming soon
Position Europe as a destination for eco-responsible productions
and orchestrate the global ecological transition of the audiovisual industry, contributing to carbon neutrality and promoting the commitments of companies.
To enable users to gain competitive skills for the businesses of the future
by offering an online educational platform for individuals and professionals.