Technology-focused corporate venturing deals with a decade of boom, bust and back to growth again.

A decade after the Nasdaq stock index peaked with the dot.com bubble, the technology sector’s corporate venturing units are still dealing with the consequences of its subsequent fall.

At 2,358 on March 10, the Nasdaq was still less than
half its 5,132 peak 10 years earlier. The stock index came to symbolise the new paradigm of dot.com stocks from internet-related business and its rise and subsequent fall reflected and drove the frenzy of venture investing in this period, primarily in…