The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Amy Kobe, director, Baxter Ventures
Month: January 2017
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Michael Kim
The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Michael Kim, principal, Rogers Venture Partners
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Christina Karapataki
The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Christina Karapataki, venture principal, Schlumberger Corporate Venturing
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Kurt Kaltenegger
The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Kurt Kaltenegger, group vice-president and head of technology, ABB Technology Ventures
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Brian Kaas
The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Brian Kaas, president and managing director, CMFG Ventures
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Therese Jordan
The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Therese Jordan, director of new business development, Asahi Kasei America
Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Awards 2017: Ilonka Jankovich
The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order): Ilonka Jankovich, partner, Randstad Innovation Fund
Corporates venture to French African Fund
Orange, Saham and FinanceCom are among the contributors to the cross-border venture fund, which was formed by Bpifrance and AfricInvest.
Cognizant proves it is made for Measure
Drone-as-a-service startup Measure has raised $15m in a series B round led by IT services provider Cognizant’s corporate venturing unit.
Comcast’s Catalyst Fund casts its Bond
Comcast Ventures has hired Kai Bond from Samsung Accelerator as principal, a role in which he will also head its Catalyst Fund.
Shiftgig strives for $20m series C
The Renren-backed worker sourcing service has now raised $55m altogether and will spend its latest funding on product development, sales and marketing.
AppsFlyer lands $56m
Deutsche Telekom has joined the mobile marketing platform’s investors in a series C round that boosted the company’s total funding to $84m since 2011.
UrWork moves into next stage with $58m
Property developers Junfa Group and Dahong Group joined a consortium including an Ant Financial affiliate to take the working space provider’s overall funding to $175m.
ObsEva to search for $103m in IPO
The reproductive health therapy developer, which has raised more than $93m from backers including Novo and Merck Group, has set the terms for its initial public offering.