Why Smart Founders Are Taking CVC Money (And Most VCs Won't Tell You That).

Most VCs will tell you to stay away from Corporate Venture Capital. Angelo Del Priore is here to tell you why they're wrong.

Angelo is the Founding Managing Director of HP Tech Ventures, one of the most active CVCs in the game. He's led and followed investments in AI, edge compute, and the future of work, and he's sat on boards alongside companies that have exited to Google, Oracle, and Unity. Before all of that, he consulted for Apple, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Sony, so he's seen this world from every angle.

In this episode, Ravi Belani, CEO and Founder of Alchemist Accelerator, pushes back hard, and Angelo pushes back harder.

They get into:

Why CVC money can actually be smarter money than a traditional fund

The no-BS truth about when CVCs follow vs. when they lead

How having HP, Intel, or Samsung on your cap table signals something no pitch deck can

Why CVCs rarely take board seats, and why that's a bigger deal than founders realize

The one mistake founders make that wastes everyone's time (free pilots)

How great founders actually use their CVC investors vs. how most founders ghost them

The pre-seed warning: why bringing in a CVC too early can quietly kill you

This is not a CVC sales pitch. It's a real, honest debate between two people who've been on both sides of the table, and it'll change how you think about building your cap table.

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