corporate-partnerships
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Greentown Labs and the value of a useful neighbor
Four startups shared a warehouse to make the rent manageable. They discovered that the person next door could be worth as much as the equipment - and built a climate incubator around that discovery.
Startuplab puts Norway’s founders in the room where business happens
A desk is easy to rent. A first investor, a useful mentor and a customer willing to try your technology are harder to find. Startuplab brings those scarce things into the same orbit.
Kickstart Innovation gets startups to the other side of the corporate door
A stalled pitch, a persistent insider and a deal that finally stuck: the Swiss company’s real business is helping startups find someone ready to put their technology to work.
InsurTech Hub Munich Is in the Business of Opening Doors
A Munich nonprofit puts insurance giants and technology startups in the same room, then helps them find a reason to work together. Its next test is getting AI out of the demonstration and into the working day.
Moderne Ventures Wants to Bring the Customer, Too
The Chicago investor pairs venture capital with a six-month introduction to the people who buy technology. Its wager: a route into real estate, finance and insurance can be worth as much as a clever product.
Luxembourg put its startup network under one roof
At the House of Startups, the neighbours include incubators, investors and potential customers. The bet: a shorter walk can help turn a young company into a working business.
ATDC opens the startup door for $25 a quarter
Georgia’s technology incubator makes its first rung cheap and takes no equity. The harder part is turning access to coaches, customers, and capital into a business that can stand on its own.
Cube Incubation puts a clean room between the idea and the investor
At Teknopark İstanbul, founders can borrow the expensive parts of building a technology company: laboratories, specialist equipment and access to industrial customers. The harder assignment is turning that access into a business.
Aaron Bilyea Is Marketing What Cannot Be Replaced
After years building consumer brands, Aaron Bilyea moved his marketing career into conservation. His work now asks a harder question: how do you make distant landscapes feel close enough for people to protect?
Lee Haney
Lee Haney is Partner and Head of Corporate Partnerships at Greylock Partners, the storied Silicon Valley venture firm behind LinkedIn, Airbnb, and Workday. A Naval Academy graduate who served as a Marine Corps Human Intelligence Officer with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Haney took the long road to venture capital - through Goldman Sachs investment banking, then Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he served as COO of Vertica and helped engineer the spin-off that became DXC Technology. Since 2018 he has run Greylock's CXO Program, a matchmaking engine that connects early-stage portfolio companies with the senior technology executives at the world's largest enterprises, turning cold introductions into lighthouse customers and proof-of-value pilots.