James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing, introduces the World of Corporate Venturing 2018

Last year, the introduction to the World of Corporate Venturing 2017 started:

It is hard not to look at commitments made to a near-$100bn venture fund organised by a Japan-based conglomerate SoftBank with an expectation that last year [2016] was a high point in private capital markets and innovation capital. But SoftBank’s fund might not be the signal of peak venture that it first appears for two reasons that became clearer over the past year – supply of capital is changing…