GCV Analytics tracked 2,320 deals worth an estimated total of $109.23bn raised through 2017. The deal count was a minor increase on a year-to-year basis (6%) compared with the 2,173 transactions of 2016. The total value of corporate-backed VC rounds reached a new high, surpassing the $100bn mark.
Nearly half of corporate-backed transactions in 2017 took place in the US (1,140). Other notable innovation geographies on a global scale were China (264), India…
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