Tee Pruitt’s move from Santander InnoVentures to Anthemis Group follows the latter’s hiring of Ruth Foxe Blader from insurance group Allianz last month.
Month: June 2017
EaseCentral benefits with $6.5m
BBVA-backed venture firm Propel Venture Partners led the series A round, which came after a $2.1m seed round for the employee benefits software provider in 2015.
AproPlan constructs series A round
Digital construction aid AproPlan has raised $5.6m in a round that included Matexi and SmithBucklin, and which will be used for sales, marketing and product improvement.
OurCrowd adds multinationals to Israel
OurCrowd has launched a collaboration scheme, OurNetwork, which has more than 200 multinational corporations, mentors and industry experts.
Sense employs GV to raise $10m
Sense, the creator of an engagement platform for temp workers, has disclosed $10m raised across seed and series A rounds co-led by GV and Accel.
Vineti wins series A funding
Founding investors GE Ventures and Mayo Clinic Ventures have taken part in a $13.8m round for Vineti, which aims to increase access to gene and cellular therapies.
WPP and Unilever send $15m to Celtra
Celtra, the developer of a creative management platform for digital advertisers, has raised funding in a round co-led by WPP and Unilever Ventures.
Woodford joins Dementia Discovery Fund backers
Woodford Investment Management has supplied approximately $19m for the fund, whose backers include Biogen, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda and Astex.
Corporate venturing deal net: 19-23 June 2017
Health insurance provider Medicash invested £4m ($5m) in UK-based digital healthcare technology startup Now Healthcare Group (NHG) on Monday. NHG, which claims to be Europe’s largest supplier of telehealth services, will use the funding to further develop its artificial intelligence and machine learning-equipped app and online pharmacy, as well as its private medical insurance product.… Continue reading Corporate venturing deal net: 19-23 June 2017
Helsinn backs GreenBone Ortho
Bone implant developer GreenBone Ortho has secured $9.4m in funding from investors including Helsinn’s corporate venturing subsidiary.
Textio compiles investors for $20m series B
The augmented writing platform has now raised almost $30m since it was founded, having attracted Bloomberg Beta for a third successive round.
Editorial: State-owned enterprises’ towering role in innovation
Potentially one of the most exciting periods for innovation and the global markets is coming from a perhaps-unexpected source: governments. A wave of privatisations from the 1980s in the US and UK sparked others in Europe and beyond but more recently the focus has been on entrepreneurial startups and scale-ups and helping incumbent corporations deal… Continue reading Editorial: State-owned enterprises’ towering role in innovation
BrideClick acquires Mode assets
Mode Media, which shut down in September after raising $220m from investors including Hubert Burda, has had its assets acquired by wedding advertising platform BrideClick.
M.Gemi indulges in $16m series C
US-based footwear producer M.Gemi has raised $16m in a series C round led by Burda Principal Investments, the growth capital arm of media group Hubert Burda Media. The round also included venture capital firms Accel Partners, General Catalyst Partners and Forerunner Ventures. Founded in 2015, M.Gemi operates an e-commerce platform as well as brick-and-mortar stores… Continue reading M.Gemi indulges in $16m series C