Pet medicine developer Jaguar Animal Health, backed by Napo Pharmaceuticals, raised $20m after receiving $2.2m of venture funding.
Month: May 2015
Tencent spends $60m on Pocket Gems
Tencent reportedly paid about $60m for a 20% stake in the mobile gaming company, which is planning to expand in China.
Corporates help MPM close $400m fund
MPM Capital has closed an oversubscribed $400m life sciences venture fund that counts Novartis and Astellas among its limited partners.
GlaxoSmithKline seeds HIV treatment joint venture
Qura Therapeutics will develop HIV treatments in partnership with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a venture in which it is investing $20m.
Sapphire trades funding for minority stake in IEX
SAP-affiliated venture firm Sapphire has invested an undisclosed amount in equity trading platform IEX, which had raised $100m in funding as of September.
Foxconn reveals involvment in Cyanogen series C
Cyanogen, the US-based developer of a mobile operating system, revealed yesterday that contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn was among the investors in the $80m series C round it closed in March. The round was led by investment firm Premji Invest and included internet portal Tencent, semiconductor technology producer Qualcomm, microblogging platform Twitter, telecommunications companies Telefónica and… Continue reading Foxconn reveals involvment in Cyanogen series C
Foxconn reveals involvment in Cyanogen series C
Cyanogen, the US-based developer of a mobile operating system, revealed yesterday that contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn was among the investors in the $80m series C round it closed in March. The round was led by investment firm Premji Invest and included internet portal Tencent, semiconductor technology producer Qualcomm, microblogging platform Twitter, telecommunications companies Telefónica and… Continue reading Foxconn reveals involvment in Cyanogen series C
Jumpshot scores $22m from Avast
Security software provider Avast has invested $22m in Jumpshot, which it acquired two years ago when the marketing analytics company focused on online security.
Wave breaks $10m mark in series C
Wave Accounting, the developer of a Canada-based accounting, invoicing and payroll platform, raised $10m yesterday in a series C round that included funding from an undisclosed strategic investor in the fintech software space. The rest of the investors in the round were Omers Ventures, the investment arm of pension fund Omers, as well as Charles… Continue reading Wave breaks $10m mark in series C
SoftBank moves back into Talkspace for series A
Existing investor SoftBank returned to back a $9.5m funding round for the on-demand therapist service, which has now raised $13m in the past year.
Salesforce helps send series D funding to Kapost
The marketing platform raised $10.25m in its latest funding round, boosting its total funding to nearly $19m.
Juventas regenerates series B with $7.5m
Green Cross and Posco Capital co-led a $7.5m series B-2 round for the Takeda-backed regenerative medicine developer, which has now raised almost $40m in total.
Eli Lilly inks $360m agreement with BioNTech
The partnership, formed to develop immuno-oncology drugs, will include a $30m equity investment in BioNTech subsidiary Cell & Gene Therapies.
AM-Pharma clocks $87.5m Pfizer investment
Pfizer also picked up the right to acquire AbbVie-backed AM-Pharma, the developer of a treatment for acute kidney disease, in a deal that could eventually total $600m.