The Art of Corporate Venture

Conference review: Venture Houston, Texas

Lessons from the GUV Summit in Houston, Texas, this month

Pharma CVCs have achieved an impressive exit record on the back of successes balancing tools in the innovation toolkit over the past 20 years

Innovative region: China

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. 
The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

HomeToGo has acquired the troubled Recruit-backed holiday home rental platform Tripping for an undisclosed amount of money. The company is part of the larger travel and accommodation space, which has seen growth of corporate-backed deals in recent years.  

China-based wealth management and lending platform has raised a large round backed by six corporate venturer and a sovereign investment fund.

Collaboration platform for the construction industry PlanGrid was acquired by software developer Autodesk for $875m.

Two large and important deals above the $1bn mark in the e-commerce and e-retail space in East Asia appeared in the news last week. Both deals involved telecoms group SoftBank as a corporate backer.

The number of flotations of companies that have previously received corporate backing has been growing over the past couple years. More interestingly, it has been companies from the life sciences sector that beat other sectors in going public.