Annual analysis: 2017
Category: Analysis
The Global Corporate Venturing Survey 2018
Kaloyan Andonov, GCV Analytics, presents the results of The Global Corporate Venturing Survey 2018, our annual survey on the state of corporate venturing conducted in cooperation with Stanford University and Insead Business School.
Big Deal: Auto1 accelerates with $565m
SoftBank Vision Fund has acquired a sizeable stake in automotive e-commerce platform Auto1, its first Germany-based investment.
Big Deal: Didi Chuxing buys a 99
Didi Chuxing’s reported $600m acquisition of a majority stake in its Brazilian counterpart indicates a new level to its expansion plans.
Analysis: Boehringer Ingelheim starts 2018 with $300m fund
Pharmaceutical firm Boehringer Ingelheim has committed €150m in capital to its corporate venturing vehicle, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund (BIVF), increasing its total investment in the fund to €250m ($300m). BIVF typically provides between €10m and €15m to each portfolio company in totL, where initial commitments vary between €500,000 and €3m. Its investment areas are focused… Continue reading Analysis: Boehringer Ingelheim starts 2018 with $300m fund
Analysis: Didi Chuxing invests in 99
China-based on-demand ride hailing service Didi Chuxing acquired 90% of its Brazilian counterpart 99
2017 Roundup: Salesforce
The customer relationship management software producer launched four specialist funds with $250m of capital and scored big on the IPO exit front.
2017 Roundup: Tencent
Tencent added huge private equity deals to investments in the likes of Meituan-Dianping, Go-Jek and Flipkart before a run of huge IPOs late in the year.
2017 Roundup: Alphabet
The Google owner committed big money to Lyft and Airbnb as GV increased its late-stage deals, formed an AI fund called Gradient and exited from Snap and Cloudera in IPOs.
2017 Roundup: SoftBank
The telecommunications group raised almost $98bn for its Vision Fund and dominated the tech VC space in 2017.
Corporate Venturing in 2017: The Trends
The upper end continued to grow and corporates launched a raft of AI funds, as bike sharing, real estate, smart vehicles and urban farming drew capital.
Teaser from the World of Corporate Venturing 2018 survey
GCV Analytics conducted its annual survey on the state of the corporate venturing industry in October and November 2017. A total of 60 respondents participated. The response rate was slightly lower than in previous years due to the considerable additional length and depth of the survey (we asked over 40 questions this time). However, we… Continue reading Teaser from the World of Corporate Venturing 2018 survey
Analysis: Kingsoft Cloud receives $300m
Cloud storage firm Kingsoft Cloud raised $300 in a series D round, one of the largest rounds in the cloud tech space in 2017
The talking points of 2017
What were the most important trends in 2017?