The household services booking app has been backed by Tencent since its $650,000 seed round in 2013, and has filed to list on NEEQ.
Month: December 2015
Nutanix loads up $200m IPO
The cloud enterprise platform, which counts Sapphire Ventures among its investors, has raised a total of $312m in funding since 2009.
Vidra exits Google Ventures
Less than 18 months after co-founding Google Ventures Europe as a general partner, Eze Vidra is leaving Google Ventures and parent company Alphabet.
Vertex Ventures closes Infosys-backed fund at $151m
Infosys joined anchor investor Temasek to invest in the firm’s first fund, which is supporting enterprise and cloud infrastructure startups.
Huitongda enters funding country with $77m
The rural-focused e-commerce logistics company has followed a series A round reportedly backed by Xiaomi with $77m of cash from investors including Huaxia Life Insurance.
Lyft receives $247m by royal decree
The ride hailing company, backed by Alibaba, Rakuten, Didi Kuaidi and Tencent, has raised $247.7m at a $4.92bn valuation, $104m of which was provided by Kingdom Holding.
Venture looks more to emerging managers
“The dynamism of technology and healthcare markets since the bubble period has broken venture’s concentration ‘curse’.” For the past 10 years, 40% to 70% of total gains in venture capital tracked by asset management consultants Cambridge Associates (CA) were claimed by what it called “new and emerging managers” rather than “the widely held belief that… Continue reading Venture looks more to emerging managers
Amgen buys Medigene immunotherapy spinout Catherex
Catherex was spun out of Medigene, which held a 40% stake in the company, in 2010, and Amgen will pay $10.5m, with milestone payments to come.
Freshdesk tables Konotor purchase
Konotor, which had obtained about $150,000 in funding from backers including Qualcomm and Target, has been acquired by Freshdesk for an undisclosed sum.
MapAnything locates Salesforce for $7.3m series A
The geo-location technology company has secured funding from backers including Salesforce, and is also part of the Salesforce ISV Partner Program.
NextInput touches corporates for $8m
Intel and GoerTek participated in a round that increased the touch-enabled technology company’s total funding to more than $11m.
Neural Anayltics heads to $10m series A
Taiyu Capital, a corporate venturing unit of TigerMed, is among the investors in a round that increased the concussion response specialist’s total funding to $13m.
Arre acquires video content platform Apalya
The mobile content delivery company had raised about $21m from backers including Cisco, Qualcomm and IDG, but has reportedly been acquired for less than $4m.
Nokia joins WorkFusion investors for $14m series C
Nokia’s corporate venturing unit led a round that increased the workflow automation company’s total funding to more than $36m.