AAA December 2011 – Page 11

Cleveland Clinic gets early Christmas present

Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the commercialisation and corporate venturing unit for academic medical centre Cleveland Clinic, received its largest ever gift last week, from James C. Justice II, a businessman with a reported $1.1bn in assets. Justice and his wife Cathy contributed $10m of an overall $11m donation, intended to finance economic development in Ohio, the… Continue reading Cleveland Clinic gets early Christmas present

Nokia connects with Innovis

Nokia Growth Partners, the corporate venturing unit belonging to telecom conglomerate Nokia, invested an undisclosed amount in India-based telecommunications networking services company Innovis Telecom Services yesterday. Innovis provides end-to-end services covering the building of networks for wireless and broadband telecommunications networks. Although Innovis currently has a presence in several African and Asian countries, it plans… Continue reading Nokia connects with Innovis

xAd marks the spot for Softbank

US-based local mobile advertising network xAd raised $9m in funding yesterday from Softbank Capital, the venture capital (VC) firm affiliated with telecom, internet and media conglomerate the Softbank Group, as well as financial services firm the Silicon Valley Bank, VC firm Emergence Capital Partners and VC fund Palisades Ventures. xAd has now raised a total… Continue reading xAd marks the spot for Softbank

BrightFarms harvests funding

Hydroponic greenhouse company BrightFarms closed a $4.3m funding round on Monday with participation from Emil Capital, the US-based investment unit for Germany-based retail group Tengelmann, as well as venture capital firm NGEN Partners and Ted Caplow, the founder of BrightFarms. The series A round follows a round of seed funding in May that raised an… Continue reading BrightFarms harvests funding