Kaloyan Andonov of Global Corporate Venturing presented a brief overview of important datapoints from the realm of corporate venture capital, which GCV and its data visualisation service tool GCV Analytics had been tracking over the past decade.
Andonov highlighted how corporate investors had come to play a significant role on the overall venturing scene, and as such investors now participated in about 15% of all disclosed deal flow, compared to 6-7% in the beginning of last decade.
However, he also noted that the majority of corporates (77%) had a track record of less than 10 years, which implied that the decade they had left behind needed to be seen as an important milestone for learnings.
Looking forward, the further professionalisation and gathering of experience for CVC would be crucial in order for them to survive and thrive, he concluded.