Global Corporate Venturing recorded 142 investments during April worth a total of $6.2bn and 18 exits worth $3.2bn.

US-based companies received the greatest number of investments (79) followed by Germany (8) and China and India (7 each). The top sector was IT (37) followed by health (31), media (21) and services (17). In cases where the investment round was disclosed, series B was the most common (21).

IT

The largest investment in the information technology sector was Cloudera, a US-based Hadoop software developer, that closed…