Annual review: 2018
In 2018 GCV Analytics tracked 2,775 deals worth an estimated total of $180.17bn. While the number of deals increased on a year-on-year basis – 14% compared with the 2,427 transactions reported in 2017 – the total value of corporate-backed VC rounds grew by 55%, reaching an all-time high.
Nearly half the corporate-backed transactions last year took place in the US (1,322). Other notable innovation geographies were China (328), India (173), the UK (156), Israel (90) and Canada (59).
