Accelerators are increasing their startup impact through corporate backing. The rapid growth in numbers is raising questions of results and sustainability.

Early Stage Report 2015: Investors are open to new and good ideas from anywhere. Raising awareness about entrepreneurship in academia is paramount. Positive trends increasing business orientation, building networks with industry and entrepreneurs as well as co-operation. Challenges remain with expectation discrepancies.

First quarter analysis

During March, Global Corporate Venturing tracked 162 investments in corporate venturing-backed companies worth $5.5bn, compared with 162 investments worth $5bn in February. We also tracked four exits in March worth $482m.

Lessons learned from 15 Dutch corporates. Written by Corina Kuiper and Fred van Ommen. Published by VOC Publishing

Deal Analysis for February

In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini review and analyse the latest trends.

Exit numbers in October were high thanks to the KRW 10 trillion ($9.4bn) merger of online messaging company Kakao, and internet portal Daum Communications, both based in South Korea.