Twitter revealed in its earnings report that it spent a combined $86.6m to acquire William Morris Endeavor-backed Niche and Periscope earlier this year.
Month: May 2015
DocuSign alerts investors for $233m series F
The e-signature company, backed by Comcast, Samsung, BBVA, NTT, Recruit, Mitsui, Google, Telstra and Salesforce, has now raised $440m in total.
Blue Danube flows to $16m series B
AT&T has made a strategic investment in the mobile wireless access technology company’s latest funding round, which brought its total equity to almost $24m.
Investors put $17m into Bit Stew
The industrial internet technology company raised $17.2m in a series B round backed by General Electric and Cisco’s corporate venturing units.
Plucking the fruits of innovation
Innovative region: Taiwan
Venturing metamorphosis
Dayo Abinusawa, researcher in corporate venturing, Cambridge University
Acommerce prepares for series B with $5m
Acommerce has secured $5m from existing investors including Sinar Mas, as it gears up for a series B round that could raise more than $30m.
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Spotlight: Comcast’s signal
A decade ago large listed corporations were worried whether private equity firms’ governance model and access to long-term capital would undermine them. The natural response has been the greatest form of flattery: copy their approach. US corporations have increasingly moved from corporate venturing, including taking minority equity stakes in third-party private entrepreneurs, to also exploring… Continue reading Spotlight: Comcast’s signal
Autonomic avoids funding headache with $38m
Novartis and Cleveland Clinic returned to fund the medical device maker’s series D round, which increased its overall funding to $95m.
Digital health – when medicine becomes hot
You may have heard about the boom in digital healthcare investment. But why does everybody seem to be talking about it? The answer is simple: according to Rock Health, digital health investment smashed records in 2014, with more than $4bn in funding, double of the total reach in 2013, which in turn was 119% higher than… Continue reading Digital health – when medicine becomes hot
Zesty books European travel with $7.2m
The consumer healthcare company has raised a series A round from investors including Qualcomm Ventures to expand across Europe.
Amgen and Baxter target Precision
Genome editing technology developer Precision BioSciences has raised $25.6m in funding from backers including Amgen and Baxter’s corporate venturing units.
The optimal venturing approach for telecoms
Telecom operators have been facing growing competition in recent years, not only from other operators, but increasingly from over-the-top players such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. This has eroded returns from their core products, with messaging increasingly viewed as a zero-cost service by consumers and voice-over-internet protocol solutions starting to lure away some voice traffic. While operators… Continue reading The optimal venturing approach for telecoms