Kaloyan Andonov, GCV Analytics, presents the results of The Global Corporate Venturing Survey 2018, our annual survey on the state of corporate venturing conducted in cooperation with Stanford University and Insead Business School.

Who doesn't want to be on the right side of history?

The $460m funding round for Megvii, also known as Face++, featured a host of corporates: Foxconn, SK Group and Ant Financial.

That these companies are still accessing the public markets indicates investors are taking a view that future probity will not necessary follow past behaviour.

Special report by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, with thanks to Pramila Mullan of Accenture Ventures for the notes of the roundtable