Sector focus: IT

Cisco is the main news of the past week but there's been plenty of fund launches and deals struck.

Paul Morris, corporate venturing adviser, UK Trade & Investment reviews the breakout sessions at the GCV Symposium 2016.

Toby Lewis, chief analytics officer, reviews the GCV Corporate Accelerator Unconference 2016.

Exits with corporate investor involvement are consistently larger and becoming more frequent.

After several decades of peaks and troughs, corporate venturers feel they are climbing up the slope of enlightenment.

All the VC deals (with named investors) on Friday had effectively corporate or government venture capital angles, including sole rounds by CVCs.

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