There was a record number of first-time corporate investors in the first half of the year despite corporate venturing activity being down across deals, exits and funds.
Tag: Annual Review
Another good year for corporate venturing
Annual review: 2018
Why private market strategies are outperforming public ones
The astonishing development of the private capital markets for fast-growing companies in the past five years is easy to record but only when put against public markets does the transformation in liquidity become apparent.
The most important trends of 2018 and the big issues for 2019
In our annual survey of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what were the most important trends in 2017 and sought their insights into the big opportunities of 2018.
2018 in three charts
We present you three charts that summarise some of the major trends and highlights in corporate venturing from 2018 and years prior
Corporate and university venture highlights
There’s now just a month to go until Global University Venturing Summit and I would love to see you there supporting the community by participating. As I’m sure you know, for many years NCET2 ran a best-practice event for university venturers. But with Tony Stanco from NCET2 now focussing most of his time working with… Continue reading Corporate and university venture highlights
Energy sector grows again
Sector report: Energy
Strong third quarter for corporate venturing
The following is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To verify reported deals, we contact about 300 corporate investors each quarter – these comprise roughly 18% of the global CVCs we cover, but account for most of the deals that are made public.
GCV-BMG 2018 CVC trends and insights project
Introduction In our inaugural 2017 CVC Trends & Insights summary report (http://www.bellmasongroup.com/insights/) we capped a look at the last five years’ explosive growth of global corporate venturing programs, highlighting the professionalisation of CVC specialty practices, the standardisation of foundational CVC team roles and with now documented external benchmarks framing compensation design, and noting the progressive… Continue reading GCV-BMG 2018 CVC trends and insights project
Global Government Venturing’s year in review
For all the geopolitical upset in world, countless governments around the world found a lot of time to double down on – or get involved in – the venturing space in 2017. The timing was right, therefore, for Global Government Venturing to launch its Leadership Society at the annual Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit in January,… Continue reading Global Government Venturing’s year in review
Global University Venturing’s year in review
2017 has been a year of change – of positive change, for the most part, but also some shocking developments that took the technology transfer world by surprise. Chief among the latter was the hostile takeover of Touchstone Innovations, the commercialisation firm spun out of Imperial College London, by its peer IP Group. The story… Continue reading Global University Venturing’s year in review
Corporate venturing growth continued through 2017
Annual analysis: 2017
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.
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.