Global Corporate Venturing recently asked corporate venture investors for brief quotes on trends and technologies of importance. The quotes, included in this section, offer a unique snapshot of verticals and horizontals that have caught the attention of these investors throughout 2021 as well as the potential opportunities they identify for 2022. It would be no overstatement to say that the covid-19 pandemic has marked the past two years and this is still manifest in some investors’ responses, which still highlight areas like the “future of work” (or remote work), telehealth and digital health. These are identified hand in hand with “usual suspects”, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automation, industry 4.0, electric vehicles (EVs) and the Internet of Things (IoT), among other. Notably, we have also seen responses pointing to climate tech, decarbonisation and hydrogen. As the world moves toward its net zero goal by 2050 and innovation and technology follow in the same direction, such responses are hardly surprising and we will likely continue to see more of them in the future.
