The year’s biggest fundraising came after US-based search engine Google committed itself to investing $300m a year until 2018 through its corporate venturing unit Google Ventures, up from $200m last year. See table of top 30 fundraisings.
The increase catapulted the corporate venturing unit into the top 10 of all units by size – see table. Intel’s corporate venturing unit, Intel Capital, remains the largest in the industry that discloses its assets, although there is a growing variety of new entrants increasing their commitments to corporate venturing.