We utilize our proprietary DownSelect process to identify which technologies meet our accelerated adoption and market penetration targets, and then seed and establish these transformational NewCos. We further capitalize initial scaling and commercialization through an established Fund, providing Innventure’s institutional and private clients unfettered access to the end product of all of our work and experience in launching these unique, high value private companies through a systematic approach that greatly reduces the risks inherent in venture investing. Our proven approach systematically matches and aligns innovative technologies with substantial market opportunities, and then quickly commercializes to create highly successful, high value businesses.
Dear Investors:
Welcome to Innventure and thank you in advance for your time. Innventure is recognized as the first global, open-architecture venture firm dedicated to sustainability. Through our deep partnerships with MNCs, Innventure is given the opportunity to identify, vet, scale and commercialize their unique IP whose end product is intended — through the combination of revolutionary new technology, business model, and market execution — to systematically build transformative businesses with a higher likelihood of success and significantly reduced risk profiles. Our current Platform Companies (PureCycle Technologies & AeroFlexx) protect the environment by providing better, more efficient solutions to recycle plastic and activate circular economy solutions, as well as packaging and optimizing packaging and distribution, and we anticipate launching additional companies across the sustainability spectrum. As acting fiduciaries for our clients, our commitment remains unwavering: to protect capital and provide long-term return to investors who, along with our own capital, recognize the impact of new breakthrough technology and accelerated commercialization and the new opportunities that come from harnessing both.
Partnering with industry experts, Innventure has built a scalable infrastructure to grow and commercialize businesses for which there is no natural peer: a competitive edge in our sourcing network and the utilization of our proven resources to provide revenue-generating, scalable businesses. Please enjoy learning about Innventure and the extraordinary, positive impact derived from our capital partners.
We hope, as you explore the many decades prior to the launch of Innventure, that we might welcome you (in person or virtually) into our offices to meet our team and see the incredible good that comes from a commitment to making the planet a better place to live and a fiduciary commitment all the while for protecting and deepening our investors’ wealth. In summary, “any investment worth making requires long-term confidence and short-term courage” and so, we thank you for your interest and look forward to continuing our conversation.
With my appreciation,
Mike Otworth, Founder & CEO
Our unique, proprietary approach is designed specifically to lower the many inherent risks to more conventional start-ups.
Assets were eventually liquidated by investors. XLTG management team retained the rights to DownSelect
John Scott maintained a role with PetroAlgae & other early stage tech companies & Rick Brenner founded SPRIM US Consulting; Mike Otworth founded Green Ocean Innovation
John with PetroAlgae & other early stage tech companies; Rick with SPRIM US Consulting; Mike with Green Ocean Innovation
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Mike serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Board of Managers of Innventure which he co-founded in 2015 to work in partnership with top MNCs to evaluate, scale, and commercialize disruptive technologies with significant transformative market potential. Prior to co-founding Innventure, Mike served as President and Founding Partner of Green Ocean Innovation and held the position of Vice-President and Founding CEO for multiple start-ups while at XL TechGroup (XLTG). He earned his B.A. in Political Science and Biology from Otterbein University.
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Rick serves as Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Innventure and Founding CEO of AeroFlexx. He brings over 35 years of experience in building successful start-ups, new products and innovation across a broad range of categories. Prior to co-founding Innventure, Rick founded SPRIM Strategy and Intelligent Innovation and was the Founding CEO of TyraTech, which he led to a successful IPO in 2007. He earned his MBA from Northwestern University and his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Maryland.
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John serves as Chief Science Officer at Innventure. Prior to co-founding Innventure, John served as Founder and CEO of XL TechGroup (XLTG) where he developed the DownSelect Method that Innventure uses today to vet disruptive technologies from top MNCs and their associated business opportunities. John also served as an academic scientist at numerous universities and government labs including the Universities of Maryland, North Carolina and Arizona, as well as the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Arizona and has published over 60 academic papers.
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Lucas serves as Chief Investment Officer of Innventure and brings over 20 years of experience in managing investment teams, building companies / business units and the seeding and build-out of multiple investment platforms and investment products for both large institutional investment and start-up organizations. Prior to joining Innventure, Lucas held a Principal role at Santa Monica Capital Group as well as serving as President & CEO of Ocean Avenue Investment Partners. He earned his B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and currently holds a Series 7 and Series 63 license.
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Gene serves as the Vice President, Finance at Innventure where he brings over 25 years of financial and operational leadership in both Fortune 500 and operational start-up companies. Prior to joining Innventure, Gene held the position of Director of Finance at Primal Innovation, Senior Director of Finance and Underwriting for CuraScript Pharmacy, and Finance Manager for Walt Disney World. He earned a M.B.A, a J.D., and a B.S. in Business Administration, Economics from the University of Florida.
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Tom serves as Head of Business Development for Innventure, a role that began with his help in shaping the company’s business model in 2015. He brings 35 years of experience in technology development and has been focused on bringing new-to-the-world technology to the market. Prior to joining Innventure, Tom retired from a 32-year career at Proctor & Gamble where he held the role of Director, Global Business Development. He earned a Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Physical Organic Chemistry from Northwestern University and holds a B.S. in Chemistry from St. Norbert College.
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Gayle serves as Director of Business Development at Innventure a role to which she brings over 23 years of financial and business development experience. Prior to joining Innventure, Gayle held top positions within Proctor & Gamble’s Global Business Development (GBD) division where she achieved CFO Circle for Global Business Development – a distinction earned by only the 5% of P&G Finance top-rated performers globally. She earned her B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
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Teresa serves as Vice President of NewCo Formation at Innventure where she works in partnership with Fortune 100 companies to evaluate, scale and commercialize disruptive technologies with transformative market potential. Prior to joining Innventure, Teresa was an Executive Management Consultant at various advanced technology companies and served as Executive Vice President for XL TechGroup’s portfolio companies where she co-founded and launched several XL TechGroup ventures. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Central Florida and completed a Business Strategy and Product Development curriculum with Kellogg School of Management at Northeastern University.
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Andrew serves as a Serial CEO for Innventure and the Chief Executive Officer of AeroFlexx, an Innventure portfolio company. He has 20 years of diverse corporate development and management experience in high-tech companies including roles as Board Member, CEO, CCO, President and SVP of Business Development. Prior to joining Innventure, Andrew served as Chief Executive Officer of Cobalt technologies and Chief Operating Officer of Synata Bio. He earned his MBA and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toledo, and holds a dual-major B.S. in Environmental Management and Mathematics from the University of Findlay.
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Colin serves as Vice President and Head of DownSelect at Innventure where he manages the DownSelect process and matches unmet business needs with partner technology solutions to evaluate new venture opportunities. Prior to joining Innventure, Colin held the position of Managing Director at SEQ Impact and begin has career with XL TechGroup where he served as a member of their serial management team focused on business development and new products management. He earned his MBA in Strategy and Entrepreneurship from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and his B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from Duke University.
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Nicole serves as the Senior Program Manager for DownSelect at Innventure where she utilizes the systematic methodology of the DownSelect process to help evaluate, select, develop and launch transformative technology solutions. Prior to joining Innventure, she worked at SPRIM, a globally integrated life science consulting firm as an Engagement Manager and Project Manager. She earned her B.S. in Biology from the University of Central Florida.
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David serves as Chief Commercial Officer at PureCycle Technologies, an Innventure portfolio company, where he focuses on building the strategy, planning and overall commercial development of PCT, including leading the global expansion team and working closely with finance and capital markets leadership to drive capitalization and value growth. Prior to joining PureCycle, David held the position of Senior Manager at Deloitte. David earned his MBA from Texas A&M and holds a B.A. in Business Administration, Operations Management from The University of Texas.
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Heather serves as Director of Human Resources for Innventure, a role to which she brings over 20 years of experience. Prior to joining Innventure, Heather served as Senior Director, Human Resources at XPO Logistics and Human Resource Administrator at Drywall Service of Gary, Inc. after transitioning from a career in social services where she held the role of Executive Director for a supervised visitation agency. She holds an MBA from Valparaiso University with a concentration in Business Intelligence and a B.A. in Psychology from Purdue University.
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Diana serves as Senior Executive Assistant to the C-Level management team at Innventure, a role to which she brings over 12 years of experience in executive support. Prior to joining Innventure, Diana supported the Chief Operating Officer at Bluegreen Vacations and additionally coordinated various Executive Forum Events featuring a roster of notable speakers including a former US President, US Senators, authors, and sports celebrities. She earned her B.A. in Organization Behavior from Rollins College in Winter Park, FL.
The Innventure Closed Loop Model was created in partnership with our PLPs as a critical component of Innventure’s investment model. It provides unique access to highly disruptive technologies that are not available to the marketplace. These technologies, by definition, are designed to be transformative market solutions and have substantial economic potential, inspiring large MNCs to adopt, promote, and provide ongoing support for development and distribution.
The engine by which Innventure selects and launches disruptive technologies.
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MNCs who are investing technology based on market needs are ideally suited for spin out as venture-funded company.
In traditional early stage investing, a large portion of investment technologies could be shut down – a holistic approach to each venture maximizes success potential.
The nature of highly transformative technology investing companies results in direction of market change where venture required the nimbleness (provided by consistent funding).
Innventure’s Platform Company Risk Management approach is designed specifically to mitigate the risks typically associated with early stage companies:
Origination
Technology
Adoption
Execution
Funding
Innventure revolutionizes the traditional venture capital “set-it-and-forget-it” model by providing the open-architecture framework, resources and infrastructure to commercialize proprietary IP.
Chart Source: Cap Table 101, Kevin Lu 12/3/2018
Built-in Pipeline from PLP
Infrastructure & IP for growing and scaling business (Closed Loop Model)
DownSelect Process Infrastructure & IP for growing & scaling business
Built-in ESG focus and social consciousness
Success by association tied to MNC partnerships
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