Tomoko Inoue, formerly senior manager at MedVenture Partners, joined corporate venturing unit Omron Ventures as chief executive earlier this year.
Month: August 2018
Dasgupta plugs into National Grid
Swati Dasgupta, a director at Siemens unit Next47, has taken the same role at another corporate investment arm, National Grid Ventures.
Lee finds Silk Ventures road
Leonard Lee, formerly global head of new business models and services for Airbus, has taken a partner position at Silk Ventures.
Gardner joins Energy Innovation Capital
Chad Gardner has departed from Modumetal to join Energy Innovation Capital.
Morales’ journey reaches Outlier
Rumi Morales, head of CME Group unit CME Ventures from 2013 to 2017, has joined blockchain-focused Outlier Ventures as a partner.
Steffek makes strides to Ara Partners
Cory Steffek, a US-based managing director for Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, has taken an MD role at private equity investment platform Ara.
MineSense finds $18m capital deposit
Mitsubishi, ABB and existing investor Caterpillar have helped MineSense close a round that will support the launch of its mining data technology.
Sila Nano charges up with $70m
Amperex and Siemens’ Next47 unit both chipped in as the battery technology developer secured series D cash, lifting its funding to $125m in total.
Thunder Stone rocks $29m series B
Beijing Yue Meters Technology, which produces keyboards for the karaoke system provider, has also invested in its series B round.
Cargomatic carries off $35m
Volvo-backed trucking services marketplace Cargomatic has completed a series B round featuring strategic partner Genesee and Wyoming.
Investors dispatch $51m to Sendo
FPT, SoftBank, EContext Asia and Beenos were part of a consortium that committed $51m in funding to online marketplace operator Sendo.
Twistlock secures $33m in series C funding
Dell Technologies Capital contributed to a round that more than doubled the container security software provider’s overall funding to $63m.
Ubiquity6 captures $27m
The augmented reality technology developer, which closed an A+E and Google-backed round five months ago, has raised series B funding.
Axoni accepts $32m in series B round
Series A investors NEX Group, Citi and Wells Fargo all returned for a round that boosted blockchain technology developer Axoni’s total funding to $55m.