Intel Capital modified its investment structure in 2016 and pledged to cut its portfolio by around 25% in the next five or six years while increasing its investment sizes.

The China-based internet major romped ahead of rivals Alibaba and Baidu this year when it came to corporate venturing, investing in two billion-dollar deals and three more $500m+ rounds.

Alphabet subsidiary GV lost key figures Bill Maris and Rich Miner but Google Capital rebranded as CapitalG and ramped up the size of its investments.

Despite the departure of company president Nikesh Akora in June, SoftBank continued to invest big in Asian consumer internet and is set to close its $100bn Vision Fund soon.

GCV Analytics provides an in-depth breakdown of corporate venturing activity during the boom period of corporate venturing.

Corporate venturers provided more than $7.5bn to companies in 2015, with the software, biotechnology and industrial/energy sectors the big recipients.

We continue our look at the defining trends in corporate venturing this year, including sports and online gaming, new media consolidation and funding for online education providers.

Salesforce's corporate venturing unit invested larger amounts in 2015, building up a stable of enterprise IT unicorns as its strategic VC model began to be widely replicated.

The internet portal invested heavily in food delivery, ride hailing and ticketing as it seeked to build out the services linked to its extremely popular WeChat messaging app.