Sector Focus: Energy
Author: Kaloyan Andonov
Kaloyan Andonov is head of analytics at Global Corporate Venturing.
Transport and autotech drive
Over September, GCV Analytics tracked 164 deals backed by corporate venturing investors, worth an estimated total of $6.09bn. The majority of those deals (74) took place in the US, although some of the top rounds were almost evenly distributed between China, the US and other geographies, such as Singapore and Canada. The number of deals… Continue reading Transport and autotech drive
Analysis: New GV’s leader’s steady hand
Two months ago, in early August, Bill Maris stepped down after seven years as head of the GV, the Alphabet venture capital subsidiary formerly known as Google Ventures. David Krane took over as managing partner and CEO and has retained consistency with the Maris-era in the half-a-dozen investments made since the transition. This is perhaps… Continue reading Analysis: New GV’s leader’s steady hand
Interview: Dominique Mégret, Swisscom Ventures
What is Swisscom Ventures’ overall investment thesis? We are the corporate venturing unit of Swisscom group, which is a telecommunications and IT company based in Switzerland, so strategic impact is what we ultimately aim to achieve, on top of good financial results. We invest in core telecom and IT services, in technology that will emerge… Continue reading Interview: Dominique Mégret, Swisscom Ventures
Media enters virtual reality and telecoms gets smarter
Sector focus: Media & Telecoms
Summer slowdown
Over the summer months of July and August we tracked a total of 235 investment deals involving corporate venture investors, with an estimated $9.87bn of total capital involved. More than half of all tracked deals (142) took place in the US. Other important investment geographies were China (24) and India (16). The number of deals… Continue reading Summer slowdown
Fewer but larger deals in Q2
Quarterly analysis: The is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To cross-check and double-check details of reported deals, we have contacted a large number of corporate investors around the world.
US Investments pick up in June
Over the month we have tracked 122 deals worth an estimated total of $9.55bn involving corporate venturing investors. More than half of those deals (72) took place in the US. However, some of the top rounds, including a record-setter, occurred in China. The number of deals involving corporate VCs in June exceeded the number of… Continue reading US Investments pick up in June
IT sector digitises the world
Sector focus: IT
Record year for life sciences
Sector report: Healthcare
A slowdown in May
In May, we tracked 103 deals involving corporate venturing investors worldwide. The deals were worth an estimated total of $4.71bn. Geographically, the majority were in North America, mostly the US, and Asia. The leading corporate investors in terms of number of deals were Intel, International Data Group and General Electric (GE). However, in terms of… Continue reading A slowdown in May
GCV Symposium 2016: Contrarian Data Insights
Stefan Gabriel, formerly head of advanced materials and manufactured product group 3M’s corporate venturing unit for six years, hosted a discussion on CVC data.
GCV Symposium 2016: Lessons on Diversity and Inclusion from the Rising Stars
SVB’s Tracy Isacke spoke to Akira Kirton from BP, Jaidev Shergill from Capital One and Sohaila Ouffata from BMW on the best ways of incorporating diversity into corporate venturing.
Siemens searches for the ‘leading technological edge’
What would you say have been your most successful investments? To date, we have invested more than €800m ($900m) in 180 companies across all divisions, while also making over 40 separate investments in VC funds – so, as you can imagine, there are a large number of success stories. One of the most recent successes… Continue reading Siemens searches for the ‘leading technological edge’