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World of Corporate Venturing 2026: Sectoral analysis

by Joseph Hook, head of data and AI, Global Corporate Venturing

Explore the key CVC trends in 10 industry sectors: consumer, energy, financial services, healthcare, industrial, IT, media, services, telecoms and transport. 

Use the drop down menu on these interactive charts to see the most active corporate investors in each category by volume and dollars spent.

We also look at where the corporate-backed funding in each sector comes from: within the same sector (eg healthcare companies backing healthcare startups) or externally (eg technology companies investing in healthcare startups).  

Finally we look at how corporate funding is distributed across the sub-sectors of each industry. 

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