Regional report: Russia
Month: November 2016
Silvair gets gold in $12m series A
CyberAgent Ventures has taken part in the latest round closed by Silvair, which relies on Bluetooth to produce a smart lighting environment.
Bloomberg helps deliver ValiMail $12m
Existing shareholder Bloomberg Beta has returned to contribute to a $12m series A round that will allow ValiMail to cope with increasing demand for its authentication technology.
Infinity AR rejoins private market reality
The augmented reality technology producer is being taken private thanks to an $18m investment from Alibaba and Sun Corporation.
Royole commands $80m from Warmsun
Rollable display technology developer Royole has received $80m in new funding, adding to a $172m IDG Capital-backed series C round in August 2015.
Editorial: Corporates shift their relations with VCs
SHIFT: Accelerating Corporate and Venture Partnerships was a meeting of the best venture investors’ minds in New York City at the end of October. The 200 attendees at the event, co-hosted by Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) and US trade body National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), heard from industry luminaries, such as Alan Patricof, whose 46-year career… Continue reading Editorial: Corporates shift their relations with VCs
Ananth to run Siemens’ Next47
Prior to heading Next47, he developed and built up the Hewlett Packard Pathfinder organisation, bringing together innovation strategy, venture investments, acquisitions and partnerships.
Alphabet rebrands Google Capital as CapitalG
CapitalG also potentially disclosed an investment in communications platform Snap by adding the company’s logo to the investment portfolio page on its website.
News roundup 7 November 2016
A round up of all the latest news on www.globalcorporateventuring.com for our subscribers.
Genos conjures up $6m
NantOmics provided the funding for Genos as it gets ready to commercially launch its exome sequencing service.
CounterTack makes $10m move
Siemens, ManTech, Mitsui and Alcatel-Lucen have contributed to a round that took the enterprise cybersecurity company’s overall funding to nearly $65m.
Corporate venturing deal net: 31 October–4 November 2016
Portugal-based language processing platform Unbabel raised $5m on Monday in a round co-led by Caixa Capital, the venture capital arm of bank La Caixa, and Notion Capital that featured existing investors including Faber Ventures and Schilling Capital Partners. The round took Unbabel’s overall funding to $8m and follows $1.5m in seed capital from internet company… Continue reading Corporate venturing deal net: 31 October–4 November 2016
Unilever goes for the Gousto in $12.5m round
Recipe delivery service Gousto has increased its total funding to more than $37m after existing backer Unilever Ventures invested for a third time.
Annexus seeks exits from corporate venturing vehicle
Insurance firm Annexus will fund insurtech, fintech and software startups through a venture capital firm called Annexus Ventures.