There were 168 corporate-backed deals in January, down from the 199 funding rounds in the same month last year. Investment value, however, increased by 108% to $12.66bn, compared with $6.09bn in January 2017. On a month-on-month basis, the deal count in the first month of this year fell from the 185 rounds worth $13.61bn in December.

The US hosted the largest number of corporate-backed deals, 83, while China was second…

Kaloyan Andonov

Kaloyan Andonov is head of analytics at Global Corporate Venturing.