Exits with corporate investor involvement are consistently larger and becoming more frequent.
It has become clear over the past few years that having at least one corporate venture in a round is usually helpful to the entrepreneurs.
Partly this is in helping the business function through supplier and customer relationships and technical inputs but the most visible way it shows up to the outside world is in the exits.
Given relatively few corporate venturing parents buy a portfolio company, (analysis by Martin Haemmig a few years back indicates about 3% to 5%,)…
