First quarter analysis
Over the first quarter of this year, GCV Analytics has tracked 423 deals worth a total of more than $18.9bn, up 15% by value from $16.3bn in the same quarter last year. This quarter’s totals also compare favourably with those of the previous quarter, the last three months of 2015, when an estimated $11.3bn of corporate venture capital was deployed globally.
The two leading investors by number of deals in the first quarter were Salesforce and Intel, with 19 and…