Corporate venture capitalists invested $7.6 billion in startups in the United States last year, the largest investment year since 2000, according to the MoneyTree Report put out by PricewaterhouseCoopers, the National Venture Capital Association and based on data from Thomson Reuters.
The funds went into 905 deals, or 21 percent of all venture transactions.
The annual total was up 37 percent in dollars from 2014’s $5.5 billion.
