Peer-to-peer lending company Ppdai has secured nearly $100m in the series C round, which also featured Susquehanna International Group.
Month: April 2015
A reel expert can tackle anything
Katherine Steiner-Dicks talks to Mark Kaplan, chief executive and founder of Tone, a US-based mobile communications company, which partners predominately non-US network operators to market co-branded mobile content services.
Nabriva closes $120m Novartis-backed series B
Nabriva, which is developing antibiotics for drug-resistant infections, has now raised more than $190m in total and will advance its lead candidate into Phase 3 studies.
Measured optimism drives growth of innovation economy
Tracy Isacke is the managing director of corporate venturing at Silicon Valley Bank.
Interview: Saemin Ahn, Rakuten Ventures
Saemin Ahn, head of Rakuten Ventures, talks to our reporter Kaloyan Andonov about the unit, bitcoins and his views on investment and trends in the consumers sector.
DraftKings commands $250m from Disney
Entertainment company Walt Disney is set to invest the money at a $900m valuation, and the fantasy sports company has agreed an advertising deal with Disney-controlled ESPN.
Dianping secures $850m in series E round
Xiaomi, Tencent, Wanda and Fosun all contributed to a round reportedly raised at a valuation of more than $4bn.
Quikr classifies itself as unicorn with $150m
The Nokia and Ebay-backed online listings platform has raised a late-stage round at a $1bn valuation, taking its overall funding to about $350m.
Consumer sector in shopping frenzy
The huge initial public offerings of Alibaba and Rocket Internet capped a hugely busy period for the consumer sector.
Telefonica Ventures looks to open future
Toby Lewis discusses the future of Telefonica Ventures
Talent agenda survey interview
Global Corporate Venturing is supporting a survey by executive search firm Intramezzo into talent. We catch up with Georgina Worden, client director at Intramezzo, on what they are doing.
Comcast’s creation
US corporations have increasingly moved from corporate venturing, including taking minority equity stakes in third-party private entrepreneurs, to also exploring and investing larger amounts in later-stage companies.
News round up 06 April 2015
A round up of all the latest news on www.globalcorporateventuring.com for our subscribers.
Weekly corporate venturing deal net: 30 March – 3 April 2015
InVent, the corporate venturing arm of telecommunications company InTouch, has provided a $750,000 seed round for Sinoze, a Thailand-based mobile games studio. The company has developed a music game called Thapster, which features both local and international artists’ materials and claims approximately one million active monthly users. Silk Therapeutics, a US-based maker of skincare products,… Continue reading Weekly corporate venturing deal net: 30 March – 3 April 2015