Built for Corporate VCs

Deal sourcing built for Corporate VCs.

Parent-company strategic fit, treated as a first-class evaluation dimension. Encode “must integrate with our stack” and “must not compete with BU X” directly in your DNA — and get a defensible answer for every company.

app.flowhive.vc / pipeline
Run 01
1High-level Scope
2Detailed Company Scope
3Quality Analysis
4Market Analysis
5Detail Analysis
Importing your sector universe
50,000
companies

Your whole sector, straight from the data you already license — every company you could conceivably look at.

CompanyAI Verdict
sector_universe.csv
Importing 50,000 companies · Harmonic + PitchBook

The same pipeline every fund runs — only here, parent-company strategic fit is one of the rules applied at every stage, so “is this good for our parent?” gets answered on every company. Stage 1 is live today.

The CVC problem

Your IC has one question no tool answers.

“Is this good for our parent?”

It’s the question every kill and every advance gets re-litigated around. It decides your standing with the BU heads. And it’s the one question no off-the-shelf VC tool can help you answer systematically.

What CVCs actually need

Strategic fit, baked in. Not bolted on.

Investment thesis
Parent strategy

FlowHive lives where your investment thesis meets your parent’s strategy — every company scored on both.

Typed strategic constraints

mustHave, to_exclude, desired — first-class fields in your DNA, not a free-text note bolted onto the end.

Strategic fit at every stage

Judged in Stage 1 alongside industry and stage, then re-examined with deeper context as a company advances.

Briefs your strategy team can read

Per-criterion rationale a BU head can open and understand — without a venture analyst translating it.

How it works

Three constraint types. Total flexibility.

Strategic rules are typed and explicit — each one a statement, a reason, and a verdict you can defend.

mustHave
statement: Must integrate with our existing cloud platform.
reason: Portfolio companies have to plug into the group’s infrastructure.
type: required — companies that fail are kicked out regardless of other strengths
to_exclude
statement: Must not compete with our consumer-hardware unit.
reason: We don’t fund our own competitors.
type: absolute exclusion — no exceptions
desired
statement: Should sell into industrial supply chains.
reason: That’s where our distribution gives an unfair advantage.
type: positive signal — strengthens the case, not a hard gate

Strategic fit stops being a hallway debate. It becomes a rule — applied the same way to every company.

The landscape

The biggest CVCs built this in-house. The rest got nothing.

The largest corporate venture arms — the GVs and Intel Capitals of the world — built internal tooling to capture strategic-fit constraints. The middle market never could. Generic VC platforms (Affinity, Specter, Harmonic) treat every fund the same, corporate or not. FlowHive is the only commercially available platform built CVC-first.

You shouldn’t need a hundred-engineer team to answer “is this good for our parent?

Where CVCs point it

One platform, three CVC mandates.

Innovation sourcing for the parent

Surface companies whose technology accelerates the parent’s roadmap — not just whatever the market is hyping.

Supply-chain adjacency scouting

Find companies that strengthen the parent’s supply chain, scored on that fit from the first pass.

Defensive competitive scanning

Spot companies whose growth threatens a parent BU’s revenue — while they’re still small enough to matter.

Who this is for

If two of these sound like you, we should talk.

No form, no submission — just a gut check.

Tick the ones that sound like you. Two or more, and we should talk.

Built for CVCs. Built with CVCs.

A fifteen-minute demo. Bring your strategic-fit constraints — we’ll show you how they become enforceable rules.