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Month: October 2014
Intel invests in cloud communications company Gotye
Cloud computing communications company Gotye has raised an undisclosed amount of series A funding from the corporate venturing arm of Intel.
Raze Therapeutics closes $24m series A
Cancer treatment developer Raze Therapeutics has secured $24m from a series A round that included Novartis and Astellas’ corporate venturing arm, Astellas Venture Management.
Bicycle Therapeutics speeds up for series B
Biotherapeutics company Bicycle Therapeutics has raised $32m in a series B round featuring pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Astellas.
SoftBank catches Bertelsmann and AMC-backed DramaFever
Korea-focused online video platform DramaFever has been acquired by SoftBank’s internet media subsidiary for an undisclosed amount after raising $7.5m in equity.
Hunan Juewei seeks nourishment from IPO
The Fosun-backed snack food retailer is set to issue 90 million shares in a Chinese initial public offering, three years after raising $42m.
EMC buys cloud infrastructure company Cloudscaling
Juniper Networks and Seagate Technology exited the software provider in a sub-$50m deal, made after Cloudscaling had raised about $15m in equity.
Loggly rolls into $15m series C
Cisco was among the investors in a round that will allow data analytics company Loggly, which boosted its overall funding to more than $33m.
Energy sector electrified by venturing
A round-up of recent activity in the energy sector.
Profile: GDF Suez New Ventures
GDF Suez New Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of France-based energy company GDF Suez, is looking to invest in energy efficiency and storage to reflect changes in the energy sector that have made traditional models less profitable, according to Giovanni Ravina, an investment manager at the unit.GDF Suez launched the €100m ($125m) fund in May this year, following the lead of… Continue reading Profile: GDF Suez New Ventures
News focus: BP uses venturing as a route to innovation
In a keynote speech at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium, Issam Dairanieh, managing director of BP Ventures, explained how the unit was created out of the decision its parent company made to focus more heavily on alternative energy.Subsequently founded in 2007, BP Ventures operated as part of plans for BP to spend $8bn over the course of… Continue reading News focus: BP uses venturing as a route to innovation
Dealmaking charges on as Alibaba floats
A look at second quarter corporate venturing activity.
A rosy outlook: France
France has been reworking its university commercialisation efforts from the ground up in recent years. The 2011 investissements d’avenir (future investments) initiative has allocated €3.45bn ($4.46bn) to research commercialisation at public laboratories, public research institutes and public universities. The initiative has led to the creation of the sociétés d’accélération du transfert technologique (Satts), which are receiving… Continue reading A rosy outlook: France
A rosy outlook: Germany
University research commercialisation in Germany is still a recent development. It began in 1975, when Ruhr University Bochum set up the country’s first tech transfer office, Unikontakt. It was another two decades before the institution formalised the arrangement and set up a limited company, Rubitec, in 1998.Tech transfer in Germany has lacked a national strategy such as… Continue reading A rosy outlook: Germany