The biopharmaceutical company has closed an oversubscribed round co-led by Merck that also featured GlaxoSmithKline, Monsanto and Pfizer.
Month: July 2015
SGN aims for next stage with $130m Netmarble investment
Korean game publisher is now US-based game studio SGN’s largest shareholder, and the two plan to help each other break into their respective markets.
Granular reaps $18.7m in series B harvest
The crop management software provider has closed its second Google-backed funding round in less than 18 months, having sold off its previous business to Monsanto.
Voltea clears $5.5m series B
Unilever spin-out Voltea, a developer of water desalination technology, raised the funding in a round also featuring industrial products maker Pentair.
Intel to benefit from AtHoc acquisition
Smartphone manufacturer Blackberry has agreed to acquire mass notification service AtHoc, which had raised about $8m in capital, providing an exit to Intel Capital.
Novo helps administer $33m to KalVista
The series B funding will help KalVista, a spin-out of Vantia Therapeutics, to advance treatments for diabetes and blood disease to clinical trials.
GenSight looks to series B for $36m
The Novartis-backed eye disease treatment developer, which filed to go public earlier this month, has now raised almost $78m from two equity rounds.
Events.com greets investors to reach $17m
The online events platform, which counts DLA Piper and Grace Beauty among its investors, has closed a round that boosted its overall funding to $17m.
Giosis rings up $82m
Giosis, the eBay-backed owner of e-commerce marketplace Qoo10, raised the cash in a series A round led by media group Singapore Press Holdings.
Bima fundraising policy pays out $38m
Bima’s existing investors, including Millicom and Digicel, backed the insurance platform’s $38.4m series C round, taking its overall funding to more than $67m.
DCM ropes in corporates for $100m Android fund
The venture capital firm has secured Tencent, Naver, Baidu, Gree, Qualcomm and SoftBank as limited partners for its second A-Fund, formed to back Android app developers.
Testin receives lucrative series C results
Testin raised $54.9m in a round that included IDG Capital Partners, an investor in the app and game testing company since its 2011 series A round.
Investors pour $9.1m into Organica Water
Eletranova Capital, which is backed by EDF and Allianz, is among the investors in a series C round for the water treatment technology developer that so far stands at $9.1m.
NestAway brings home $12m
Flipkart and Tiger Global have supplied $12m in series A cash for the home rental marketplace, which raised seed capital from investors including IDG.