Analysis: Exits
One of the most interesting questions occupying the minds of academics, industry practioners and companies raising VC rounds is the overall importance of corporate venture capital, the weight of having corporate-backing. An academic study, published in 2014 by Thomas Chemmanur, Elena Loutskina and Xuan Tian, showed that entrepreneurial companies backed up by CVCs are more likely to achieve a successful exit.
Our partners at PitchBook provided data on exits and M&A transactions for companies backed by corporate venturers in Europe…