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Celgene has agreed to acquire Impact Biomedicines for a multibillion dollar whose total size may reach $7bn, giving an exit to fellow pharmaceutical company Sanofi. This is a record-setting deal in the life-sciences exits involving corporate investors, where other transactions like IPOs seems to have been in decline.

Annual analysis: 2017

Kaloyan Andonov, GCV Analytics, presents the results of The Global Corporate Venturing Survey 2018, our annual survey on the state of corporate venturing conducted in cooperation with Stanford University and Insead Business School.

Salesforce Ventures has contributed to a $12m second tranche of the supply chain software provider's latest round, which already included Coca-Cola.<br />

The CapitalG-backed online polling platform, valued at $2bn as of 2014, is reportedly in talks with banks for an offering later this year.

The joint venture will target early-stage logistics services and technologies such as big data, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence.

Tencent was among the investors in a Warburg Pincus-led round that valued the accommodation provider, a spinoff from Lianjia, at $3.1bn.

The company has revealed a $7.8m series B and $46.6m series C round, the latter featuring Terminus Technologies and the Focus Media-backed Guangkong Zhongying Capital.