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…

Kaloyan Andonov

Kaloyan Andonov is head of analytics at Global Corporate Venturing.