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Venture Capital vs. Corporate Funding

Heidi Roizen, Threshold Ventures

VCs give entrepreneurs money and want to get a lot more of it back sometime in the future, Roizen says. Unlike VCs, corporate investors generally want an early view into the technology and sweet deals from a business development perspective. If you are taking money from corporate investors, Roizen cautions, make sure you know what they want and what you want.