Company: INV
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form Type: S-1
Source: 0001140361-25-039085
Chunk: 94

Company: Innventure, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-10-23
Form: S-1
Chunk 94
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 of at least $1 billion as Innventure. Other potential competition might include individual entrepreneurs looking to purchase technology solutions from an MNC or other technology innovator. We believe that while individual entrepreneurs may have the right technical or business skills, they frequently lack the credibility and financial resources to meet the requirements for the top, most disruptive technologies resident in MNCs and other technology innovators. We also believe these entrepreneurs can lack the resources and business infrastructure to quickly establish a new company, reducing the likelihood of a successful commercialization process. Members of Innventure’s core team have put into practice various components of the DownSelect model for choosing opportunities to scale over the past thirty years. This history, along with our ability to work in collaboration with Technology Solutions Providers, are key drivers of Innventure’s success to date and critical to Innventure’s future growth. Innventure Company Competition The competition at the Innventure Company subsidiary level varies by company and by the markets they serve. The examination of the competitive landscape is a key component of the DownSelect process. Innventure is focused on building companies that have unique products that will transform industries. More detail on competition for both AeroFlexx, Accelsius and Refinity are provided below in the business sections related to each company. Intellectual Property For an opportunity that meets all DownSelect criteria and for which Innventure enters into a contract to license or acquire technology from an MNC or another technology innovator, Innventure focuses on acquiring commercial control of the application of all IP related to the specific opportunity. Each such contract is unique is

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TABLE OF CONTENTS crafted to address long-term value sharing among Innventure, the new Innventure Company, and the technology provider. Such a contract typically involves Innventure or the new Innventure company acquiring or licensing the IP for use in defined applications and geographies, and Innventure’s objective is to maintain maximum freedom to practice (with unlimited access and control as the primary goal) across many applications, industries, markets, and geographies for the new company which will be built around and, ideally, ultimately take ownership of the IP. In some cases, Innventure will license IP instead of fully acquiring the rights, but the license must provide that Innventure and the new company has sufficient exclusive access to practice and commercialize a technology solution defined by the IP across the broadest set of applications, industries, markets, and geographies in order to meet Innventure’s goals. Also in selected cases, Innventure may agree to a limited number of applications, industries, markets, and/or