With the slow recovery from the financial crisis and divestiture strategies undertaken by some big players, 2014 was marked by numerous exits by corporate investors in the industrials sector.

With the slow recovery from the financial crisis and divestiture strategies undertaken by some big players, 2014 was marked by numerous exits by corporate investors in the industrials sector. The CEO of Siemens Venture Capital, Ralph Schnell, has commented that the company’s plan was to “invest smaller amounts between half a million and one million US dollars in the respective companies” which would enable them to “support many more individual startups and more effectively spread the risks.” Extensive diversification appears to be the leitmotif of…