More than 80% of CNBC's 50 top disruptors list is CVC backed.

In the eighth annual Disruptor 50 list, US-based broadcaster CNBC identified “private companies whose breakthroughs are influencing business and market competition at an accelerated pace”.

The group of academics who mainly helped select the 50 picked startups with corporate venturing backing in more than 80% of cases.

Though it used to have a reputation of being “dumb money” and being unable to access the top startups, the corporate venturing industry is now working more collaboratively with other parts of…

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.