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Sector review of top investors, breakdown by subsectors and breakdown by type of corporate backers

2021 year-end data analysis

In a recent poll of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what the most important trends were in 2021 and sought their insights into the big opportunities that 2022 may have to offer.

From September to December 2021, Global Corporate Venturing conducted its annual State of CVC survey.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $300m round for business-to-business marketplace ElasticRun and co-led blockchain creation platform developer Aleo's $200m series B.

Financial services provider Tribal raised $60m in a SoftBank-led series B round while Credit Saison invested $30m in a round for peer-to-peer lender Julo sized at up to $60m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Prosus Ventures committed capital to e-commerce finance provider Wayflyer at a $1.6bn valuation, increasing its overall funding to over $236m.

The pet services provider is joining forces with CHW Acquisition Corporation at a valuation just over half that at which former backer SoftBank invested in 2018.

Intel and Alibaba-backed database software producer MariaDB agreed a $672m reverse merger while predictive analytics provider Pecan AI was one of three GV investments.

Constuction materials marketplace RenoRun's $142m Schneider Electric-backed series B round headed up some large rounds for Canadian companies also including League and Ekona Power.