The corporate venturing unit of the Mayo Clinic is among the financiers contributing to the series B round of the China-based healthcare diagnostics company.
Month: July 2011
Hansjee leaves Google for EQT
Hansjee was on the board of legacy European corporate venturing deals he made, such as Fon, Ubiquisys and DotMobi, but has left to join buyout firm EQT as a senior adviser.
AOL finds its Impermium
Alongside AOL Ventures in the Impermium round were venture capital firms Accel Partners, Charles River Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Greylock Discovery Fund and Morado Ventures, and angel investors Archimedes Capital and Embarcadero Ventures.
UMC joins Trilliant consortium
UMC Capital joins corporate venturing peers from industrial groups ABB and General Electric as well as financial investors Investor Growth Capital and VantagePoint Venture Partners in Trilliant’s latest round.
Arm and Qualcomm tame Thunder
UK-listed chip maker ARM and technology equipment maker Qualcomm invested in Thunder alongside venture capital firms Northern Light Venture Capital and Casrich Fund.
CyberAgent Ventures deals online
CyberAgent Ventures invests in Clever Advertising.
CSK spins out venturing unit
Renamed Whiz Partners, CSK will retain a one-third stake.
Ando joins Whiz set
Ando has previously been chairman of the Investment Trusts Association, Japan, and before that had the same role at the Japan Securities Dealers Association.
SecureAuth ends cash quest
Quest Software, a Nasdaq-listed technology management software provider, has invested an undisclosed amount in SecureAuth, online digital identification service.
AMD calls into Vivu
AMD said it sometimes invested in companies using its Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) products, understood to include Vivu.
Novartis leads $36m Sorbent extension
Novartis joins Dow Chemical backing US drugs maker Sorbent.
Square reads $100m credit
In April, Visa provided an undisclosed amount to Square and has been joined by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round, and was joined by hedge fund Tiger Global Management and peers Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.
Martlet flutters into Neul
Alongside Martlet in the round for Neul were individuals investor network Cambridge Angels and venture capital firms DFJ Esprit and IQ Capital.
News Corp sells MySpace
News Corp. is understood to be retaining a minority stake in MySpace having paid $581m for the social network in July 2005 from VC firms VantagePoint Venture Partners and Redpoint Ventures.