Diabetes treatment developer Hua Medicine has completed a $25m Wuxi PharmaTech-backed round that boosted its overall funding to $75m.
Month: January 2015
Rethink Robotics engineers $26.6m series D
GE Ventures has led a series D round for the robotics producer, increasing its total funding to $99.5m.
Fast Track Asia secures Wonder investment
Wonder Holdings has led an $8m cash infusion for Korea-based incubator and venture firm Fast Track Asia, which will be used to launch more startups.
Bertelsmann invests $10m in mobile marketing company OptAim
OptAim, which provides online marketing analysis technology to app developers and marketers, received the cash from Bertelsmann’s Asian corporate venturing subsidiary.
Turkey’s focus on ecosystem growth
Turkey’s vision for 2023 is to capitalise on its demographic opportunity to grow rapidly by about 7% per year for the next decade. Funding innovation as a way of boosting the local economy and exports is central to its aim to take its gross domestic product (GDP) to $2 trillion in 2023 from $820bn last year.Hasan Pehlivan,… Continue reading Turkey’s focus on ecosystem growth
Profile: Tubitak president Ilker Aycı
How much activity is through government support of VCs – being investing through them – versus directly? The Turkish private equity and VC scene has been pretty sparse until recently. Only few small and mid-cap investors with local fundraising activities were in place back in 2006. This picture changed dramatically in the past five years, with many international firms, including large-cap firms, entering… Continue reading Profile: Tubitak president Ilker Aycı
WeLab finds successful series A results
The online lending platform has closed its series A round at $20m, after raising $14m in a first tranche in June 2014.
Taxi deals drive activity
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Government House: Standing still to see the innovation around us
A look at government venturing in Turkey.
What is the impact of cheap oil on clean deals?
Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in clean-tech.
Partnering and competitive information leakage
In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini review and analyse the latest trends.
Westwing backers club together for new round
Tengelmann and Access-backed online shopping club Westwing has secured $29.7m from existing investors at a $529m valuation.
Gaule QT: Ignaas Caryn, KLM
Andrew Gaule, of our GCV Academy, talks to Ignaas Caryn, director of innovation and venturing at Air France-KLM
SVB’s Becker: The tech talent crunch
Often, with tech CEOs, we quickly get to a sobering discussion about how to scale, and that is when I hear how hiring world-class talent is one of their biggest challenges. They struggle to find, attract and retain the engineering, scientific and technical talent they need to grow their businesses and be competitive in the global economy.