Ping An co-led the round, the largest ever raised by a private company, investing alongside participants including Alibaba and Tencent.
Month: September 2015
Sanifit cleans up with $41m series C
Lundbeck, Baxter and La Caixa have contributed to a series C round that will support clinical trials for Sanifit’s treatments for dialysis patients.
UK university tech transfer: behind the headlines
Technology transfer offices at UK universities play a valuable role in protecting and commercialising intellectual property developed at universities for social and economic benefit around the world. UK universities are almost all charitable bodies, required to comply with charity law. Their charitable objectives are research, teaching and scholarship and the application of new knowledge arising from these activities.Everything… Continue reading UK university tech transfer: behind the headlines
SetPoint leads to $43m series C win
SetPoint Medical has raised a further $15m to close out a series C round featuring Covidien, Boston Scientific and GlaxoSmithKline subsidiary APVC.
Independence Blue Cross carves out venturing freedom
Andrew Gaule talks to Eric Steager, director, corporate development and innovation, and managing director, strategic innovation portfolio, Independence Blue Cross.
Government venturing versus private venturing
Early Stage Report 2015: Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini
Israeli VC investing on the increase
Israeli startups are going global and playing in the big leagues. Venture capital funding is taking notice.
Recovered, refreshed, refuelled and raring to go
Comment from Marianne Abib-Pech, venture capitalist and writer.
Save fixes $16.8m series A
Idinvest Partners helped provide the mobile device repair service’s series A funding, which will support an expansion into four new markets by the end of this year.
A chemicals, wearables and 3D printing cocktail
Tom Whitehouse, GCV contributing editor, and chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in cleantech.
Next tech breakthrough will come from eastern Europe
Intel Capital’s Marcin Hejka says Kiev, St Petersburg, Tallinn, Krakow and Vilnius are the hidden gems of the tech world.
Taking the entrepreneurial spirit to the global level
When Muhammad Yunus, Nobel prize-winning founder of the global microfinance movement, spoke at a Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) event in June, he delivered a short yet powerful message – everyone is an entrepreneur. Later in the month, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell met at a San Francisco startup incubator, along with other… Continue reading Taking the entrepreneurial spirit to the global level
Monthly Analysis
Media deals thrust forward
Sector focus: Media