Corporate venturing fuels early-stage explosion.
The growing interest in corporate venturing which has come in the past three years has been accompanied by an explosion of corporate schemes to support early-stage investing.
This corporate interest in such investing has imitated and also supported the success of widely toasted start-up programmes such as Y Combinator and TechStars.
Global Corporate Venturing research has tracked 110 corporates running their own early-stage activities and we have traced 62 early-stage firms, incubators and accelerators with corporate backing.
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