Corporate venturing has been on a tear over the last five years, and 2015 was the biggest year that Global Corporate Venturing has tracked. We have used our GCV Analytics tool to show a snapshot of the industry during this boom period across multiple metrics in a 42 slide presentation.
Our data shows that 800 units participated in at least one deal last year.
We tracked 1790 corporate venturing deals, a doubling in a deal activity, with these transactions worth $75.4bn in 2015, quintuple 2012.
The most marked rise in corporate venturing-backed company rounds has been at the later stage with a near 300% increase in E round size since 2012, but even at earlier stage there has been a significant increase in the size of rounds with A and B rounds increasing by high double-digit percentage points.
We also look at the sectors with the biggest gains, with the transport sector dominating the big rounds in 2015, with fundraisings by ride sharing companies Uber and Didi Kuaidi among those securing big transactions.
These trends and much more, can be seen in the attached deck, which was first used in a talk during our sold out Global Corporate Venturing and Innovation Summit in Sonoma two weeks ago.
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