By developing relationships with start-ups, KPMG Ventures can identify technologies to enhance our KPMG service offerings—and ultimately, better serve our clients.

By sharing insights from the start-up world in their domains of interest—e.g., where capital is flowing, which set of priorities they need to supercharge, and eventually what investments will help meet their expanding challenges—we can help companies gain a competitive edge.

Future-proofing our client base

• Tailored innovation for specific needs: Our investment philosophy starts by identifying start-ups solving the challenges enterprise organizations face—both today and in the future. By working together, we help start-ups mature to better meet the needs of the businesses we serve.
• Access to a dynamic ecosystem: KPMG clients gain access to leading solutions, disruptive technologies, and transformative services. KPMG Ventures also acts as a signal-sensing tool in the market, helping companies understand and stay ahead of key trends.
• Early adoption of breakthrough technologies: Our clients gain the opportunity to implement breakthrough technologies and advanced solutions ahead of competitors, see a first-mover advantage, and cement their businesses as industry leaders.
• Reduced risk in innovation: With KPMG Ventures’ extensive vetting and deep commitment to our ecosystem of start-ups, enterprise companies can adopt emerging technologies with fewer challenges usually associated with early-stage innovations.
• Collaborate with corporate venture capital teams: We welcome the opportunity to work with the businesses we support in new ways, including sharing investment perspectives with their corporate venture capital teams.

KPMG Ventures is the strategic investor of choice for start-ups looking to solve complex business challenges and transform the way our clients operate. We offer more than just capital—we provide a platform for growth, differentiation, and access to transformative opportunities.

Our size helps start-ups scale—with 265,000 partners and employees, and a global network of technology alliances and clients, we can help amplify the impact of your business, drive industry-changing transformation, and propel your company to new heights.

Durability, agility, and alignment through the use case 

• Strategic investor of choice: KPMG Ventures provides a platform through which you can build powerful relationships that accelerate your growth and amplify the impact of your business.
• More than just a check: Once a start-up is within our ecosystem, we open access to a range of experts—from specialists who can help create a more enterprise-ready solution to client-delivery teams able to make introductions.
• Driven by business value: While many investors focus on the feature, functionality, or founder when evaluating a start-up, the heart of our investment thesis is always the use case—the business problem that the start-up is trying to solve. As start-ups mature, KPMG Ventures accelerates this evolution and supports start-ups as they refine their products.
  
• Durability and trust: KPMG Ventures invests for the long run. We build relationships that are durable across economic cycles because we’re committed to our start-up ecosystem—providing support, guidance, and sales channels.
• Move at deal speed: We combine durability with agility, because we understand that everyone needs to move with speed and purpose.
  
• Values and culture (a/k/a we’re nice): Commitment, values, and culture matter. The most common informal feedback we receive is that we’re “really nice” and “easy to work with.” It’s a very human comment that can get lost when translated into the language of investments-but we believe people, relationships, and kindness matter. 

As the world accelerates, we need the insights and tools to stay ahead of disruptive change.

KPMG Ventures helps future-proof both the firm and our client base, amplify our commitment to innovation, and infuse new technology into our services—building the KPMG of the future.

Bridging the gap: Entrepreneurial start-ups and established businesses

See how KPMG Ventures accelerated the growth of a start-up while solving an existing client’s challenge—amplifying the impact of the start-up and creating a first-mover advantage for client.