There have been some reports that there are now more corporate VCs in the market than traditional venture firms. Using CB Insights data, we tested this by scanning active U.S. VC and corporate venture arms over the past four years.
The reality is that there are, in fact, significantly more pure-play VCs than corporate venture arms. In fact, even if you included corporations making investments in startups who don’t have a separately delineated corporate venture unit, financial VCs still greatly outnumber corporate investors.
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