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.

SoftBank is winding down corporate venturing vehicle SoftBank Capital in favour of fewer, bigger investments as it looks to replicate its Alibaba investment.

Intel Capital fell short of the $600m target it set in September but will enter 2016 under new leadership with some promising IPO candidates.

Google restructured itself under a holding company called Alphabet, but its corporate venturing units continued to invest heavily in healthcare despite GV pulling the plug on its European fund.

An analysis of GUV data for the year so far.