Internet giant out-competing corporate venture peers.

Universities will want to take note of which corporate venturing investors have been most heavily involved in supporting early stage start-ups and innovation, as revealed by Global Corporate Venturing’s analysis of 2013 deal data.

Google Ventures proved to be the leading, early stage corporate venturing investor in during 2013, according to Global Corporate Venturing’s recently published “2013: Full Year Data Analysis”. The report covers 1,068 investment deals worth $19.6bn and 98 exits worth $9.8bn, and shows that Google was most…