Corporate venturing’s engine has begun to roar loud and clear in 2014. Global Corporate Venturing’s data shows that this year has already been more active in terms of number and size of investments as well as in exit activity, as our third-quarter analysis in this issue shows.

This frenetic pace of dealmaking is being accompanied by a seemingly limitless group of corporations trying to figure out their strategy for investing in venture. Seldom does a week go by…