The top 25: Jaidev Shergill, Capital One
Month: May 2017
GCV Powerlist 2017: #16 Amy Banse
The top 25: Amy Banse, Comcast Ventures
GCV Powerlist 2017: #15 Jennifer Li
The top 25: Jennifer Li, Baidu
GCV Powerlist 2017: #14 Quinn Li
The top 25: Quinn Li, Qualcomm Ventures
GCV Powerlist 2017: #13 William Taranto
The top 25: William Taranto, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
Falcon takes flight with $8m
Intel Capital has led an $8m round for big data technology provider Falcon Computing Solutions that also featured Baidu’s corporate venturing unit.
G-Banker goes for gold in $29m series C
The gold trading platform has raised new funding in a round led by Bank of China that included corporate venturing unit and existing investor SBCVC.
Blader cuts herself free from Allianz
Ruth Foxe Blader has departed from Allianz Ventures to take up a director of investments role at VC investment and advisory firm Anthemis.
Legend gets some Bangsun for its buck
Legend Capital was among the investors that have provided $23m in series B+ funding for financial risk management and anti-fraud software developer Bangsun Technology.
GV reaches Podium in $32m series A
Customer engagement software startup Podium has raised $32m in an oversubscribed GV-backed round that valued it at more than $100m.
Gainsight to pursue vision with $52m
Cisco Investments joined existing backers including Salesforce Ventures in a round that took the total raised by the customer data tracking company to almost $160m.
PayU puts $120m into Kreditech
Online lending platform Kreditech has followed a $10.5m investment by Rakuten in December with $120m of funding from payment services provider PayU.
Modernizing Medicine takes $231m from Warburg Pincus
The investment included secondary purchases from existing investors, the electronic health record system developer having previously been backed by Pentland and IBM.
GCV Powerlist 2017: #12 David Krane & David Lawee
The top 25: David Krane, GV and David Lawee, CapitalG