The Venture Building team

Building a corporate unicorn

In this video series on building corporate unicorns, we explore how to adopt a venture mindset and leverage your company’s strengths to build a new $1 billion business.

The success rate for companies building a new digital business is low. To build corporate unicorns companies need to adopt a venture mindset to quickly develop new business models or reimagine their core businesses. Watch our Venture Building team explain how to successfully build a corporate unicorn and what pitfalls to avoid.


Episode 1: Corporate unicorn opportunities

Discover the value-generating ventures you can build with strengths your company already has.

Episode 2: Introducing the corporate unicorn

Learn how companies can find and grow corporate unicorns.

Episode 3: The digital anatomy of a corporate unicorn

Learn about the key elements to build a successful new venture.

Episode 4: The Corporate Venture Building way

Learn how a venture-building mindset differs from traditional digital projects.

Episode 5: A consumer case study

Learn how our Venture Building team helped a consumer products company find its next billion-dollar opportunity.

Episode 6: An industrials case study

Find out how our Venture Building team helped an industrial company foster innovation while meeting strict regulatory requirements.



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The Venture Building team


Praveen Arivazhagan
Chief Venture Builder, Americas Leader Venture Building

Lauren Schmeer
Venture Builder, EY-Parthenon Venture Building


Damian Klute

Damian Klute
EY Principal, Business Consulting, Consumer Venture Building

David Wells

David Wells
EY Partner, Markets & Business Development, AM&M Business Building


How EY-Parthenon can help

Our Venture Building team can help you innovate at the speed of a start-up to deliver breakthrough impact. We build new breakthrough businesses that can outpace the competition and drive concerted P&L impact and total shareholder return. Our agile multi-stage approach helps organizations reimagine and scale up a portfolio of digital-centric businesses. Find out more.


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Get in touch to discuss how we can help you build your corporate unicorn to drive breakthrough growth.

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