Engage Ventures - Venture capital firm
Engage Ventures
CORPORATE VENTURE PLATFORM Engage is a first-of-its-kind innovation platform comprised of category-leading corporations in the Southeast that have joined forces to support startups building the future of enterprise
Learn about our Corporate Partnership We take an individualized approach with founders, creating tailored plans to build an enterprise sales playbook and connect with the corporate leaders making critical company-wide decisions Startups go through the Engage Program in a Cohort of 6-8 other companies, learning from entrepreneur peers who are also focused on breaking into enterprise channels The Program runs twice a year, in the Spring and Fall
Our team works closely with the most senior leaders and executives within the corporate partners: AT&T, Chick-fil-A, Cox Enterprises, Delta Air Lines, Georgia-Pacific, Georgia Power Foundation, Georgia Tech, Goldman Sachs, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), The Home Depot, Invesco, Invest Georgia, Tech Square Ventures, and UPS
Direct top-down support helps startups navigate the enterprise sales and partnership process
Learn about our Startup Program
Partner corporations utilize the Engage innovation platform to gain curated insights into the future of industries through a venture lens, collaborate with peers at like-minded organizations, and flex their entrepreneurial muscle
We work closely with our corporate partners to facilitate innovation at scale Rather than being limited to an industry-specific market view, corporate partners work with like-minded peers across verticals to get ahead of emerging market trends, accelerate their learning, and speed up innovation cycles
Engage hosts regular curated events, industry roundtables, and expert councils for our corporate partners to share knowledge, resources, and ideas with other member companies
Our events facilitate the convergence of startups and enterprise, catalyzing an environment where new ideas and relationships can come to life and thrive
In conjunction with the Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech, Engage collates and analyzes information on new enterprise verticals, sourcing powerful insights and developing data-driven theses to share with corporate partners and enable better innovation decisions
In tandem, Engage and its corporate partners use these Insights to incubate new internal businesses, pilot innovative startup technology, make strategic investments, and validate their acquisition strategy
“By enabling us to collaborate with world-leading enterprises, Engage accelerated the development of our AI, allowing us to work towards a mutually beneficial product from inception Pryon now provides augmented knowledge to employees for critical work flows, creating a strategic advantage for Engage’s corporate sponsors ”
CEO & Founder, Pryon “Through our partnership with Engage, we have gained access to companies tackling large enterprise-wide challenges in new and different ways Our relationship with Pryon, an enterprise assistant powered by AI, is a prime example — we are now leveraging Pryon to deliver critical safety information to our employees ”
MD GP Ventures, Georgia Pacific “When we got connected with Delta, we started to think collaboratively to try to address some of these large global issues What their team is able to do was above and beyond some of the other corporations that we’ve worked with ”
CEO & Founder, Vyv “It’s these partnerships that will enable us to do really creative, innovative things, and only feed the appetite to do more and more ”
COO, Delta Air Lines “We’ve proven to our customers that hiring and retaining moms isn’t just a nice thing to do It’s good business, and we’re empowered by the scale of impact we can achieve with this round of funding ”
CEO & Founder, The Mom Project “We’re pleased to join other employers and The Mom Project in supporting women who want to return to work, where their contributions will continue to make Atlanta one of the best cities in which to pursue a career, raise a family and grow a business ”
CEO & President, Invesco “[Engage] gets the corporations involved in these early-stage companies; it gives them an interest in seeing successful outcomes from these businesses ”
CEO & Founder, FreightWaves “This agreement highlights our continued focus on innovation as well as ensuring that we can better plan and utilize our resources across our global network to provide best-in class cargo service to our customers ”
MD – Revenue Management, Delta Engage is a first-of-its-kind corporate venture platform intentionally designed to streamline the process of allowing emerging companies to seamlessly work with some of the most influential corporations and universities in the world Through insights derived from our partners’ strategic goals and challenges, we leverage the Engage platform to give entrepreneurs what they need most – access to customers and new markets
