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1 month ago | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
Startups backed by corporate investors are less likely to go bust. This pattern holds true even in a tough investment climate. Startups with corporate investors are half as likely to fail and tend to achieve higher exit multiples when acquired or listed on the stock market. This holds true even after two years of an investment bear market, which has seen the overall number of bankruptcies increase.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov |Stephen Hurford
There was a 62% jump in exits for corporate-backed startups in November exits, with IPOs and acquisitions across a wide range of geographies and sectors but also some notable bankruptcies. A growing number of corporate-backed startups were acquired or listed in November, with exit numbers up 62% on the same month last year. But the dollar value of deals - where disclosed - did not keep pace, rising by only 7%. Startup deals came from a wide range of sectors and regions.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
Half of all of the energy startups raising money from corporate investors in 2024 tapped up companies outside the energy sector.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
Both VC and CVC-backed rounds in space tech have proven resilient in recent years. In the corporate-backed spacetech sector, Japanese corporates are stepping up their global investments, fueling innovation both domestically and internationally in 2024. Many of the biggest headlines about space technologies are still captured by US companies, from the recent launch of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft to the the chopstick manoeuvre performed by SpaceX’s Starship during its test flight.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
LEADERSHIP SOCIETY Informing, connecting, and transforming the global corporate venture capital ecosystem. The Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Leadership Society’s mission is to help bridge the different strengths and ambitions of investors across industry sectors, geography, structure, and their returns.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
LEADERSHIP SOCIETY Informing, connecting, and transforming the global corporate venture capital ecosystem. The Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Leadership Society’s mission is to help bridge the different strengths and ambitions of investors across industry sectors, geography, structure, and their returns.
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Aug 12, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
LEADERSHIP SOCIETY Informing, connecting, and transforming the global corporate venture capital ecosystem. The Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Leadership Society’s mission is to help bridge the different strengths and ambitions of investors across industry sectors, geography, structure, and their returns.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
The pandemic and cost of living crisis have weakened the sector, as the stories of these five startup failures demonstrate. The last two years have been a brutal time for startups with capital more scarce and funding rounds harder to find — even for corporate-backed startups. The largest tranche of bankruptcies for corporate-backed startups — 22% of the total — has been in the consumer sector, according to data from PitchBook.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
Alongside fintech and consumer startups, this sector has seen the most startups go into administration since 2022. These are some of the reasons why. The life sciences sector has seen an uptick in exits in the first half of 2024, with more than 36 stock market listings, starting with the $380m listing of CG Oncology at the start of January. While we’ve not returned to the peak of 2021 when we saw 150 IPOs raising more than $37bn, there has been a recent uptick in activity.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
globalventuring.com | Kaloyan Andonov
Humanoid robots have gone from theory to reality thanks to advances in AI and falls in component costs — and corporate investors are interested. In a memorable moment for AI technology, OpenAI’s ChatGPT stepped out of the virtual world into the form of a humanoid robot made by Figure AI. The video, which went viral a few months back, captured an impressive debut of AI in a human-like form.
