Sector focus: Media
Global Corporate Venturing reported 338 rounds involving corporate investors from the media sector for the period August 2016 to July 2017. Slightly more than half (186) were raised by businesses based in the US, while 33 rounds took place in China, 25 in the UK and 15 in India.
A significant number of total commitments went to emerging enterprises in the media sector (136), with the remainder funding companies in IT (52), consumer (44), services (39) and financial services (27),…