This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

The number of corporate-backed rounds in January was 225, up slightly from the 208 deals tracked in the same month last year. Investment value, however, dropped to $9.39bn – down 38% from $15.2bn in January 2018. January’s figures were somewhat higher than the 205 rounds in December last year, but lower than the 240 in reported in November.

The US hosted most corporate-backed deals with 112 rounds, China was second with 28, the UK third with 14 and Japan fourth…