HomeToGo has acquired Recruit-backed holiday home rental platform Tripping for an undisclosed sum, while also raising an amount likely to be about $120m.
Month: December 2018
Constellation to pour $100m into female-led startups
Alcoholic beverage producer Constellation Brands plans to provide $100m for female-led companies through its newly formed Focus on Female Founders initiative.
Meiri Yitao produces $100m series B
The fruit and vegetable-focused social commerce platform was incubated by MissFresh and has just raised $100m in an SIG-backed round.
Blippar slips toward insolvency
Kazanah Nasional is reportedly blocking emergency funding for the Qualcomm-backed AR technology developer, which has raised some $137m while trying to locate a sustainable business model.
NavVis maps out $35m series C
Kozo Keikaku Engineering and BayBG were among the investors in a round that took the indoor mapping technology developer’s total funding past $45m.
Corporates help EdCast curate fresh funding
The AI-based contextual insight service has closed a $33.6m round that included SoftBank, Relx and Crescent Enterprises, taking its total funding to almost $56m.
WaveOptics makes a splash with $26m
Robert Bosch Venture Capital reinvested in the augmented reality technology developer as part of a round that valued it at $96m.
Qian moves up at JD Finance
Bill Qian, JD Finance’s head of cross-border M&A, was promoted to general manager of corporate ventures in July.
Del Palacio departs from M12
Itxaso del Palacio has left her partner position at M12 in order to become an investment director at venture firm Notion Capital.
Genomics gees up series B round
Drug discovery technology provider Genomics has closed a second tranche of its oversubscribed series B round to increase its size to $41.7m.
Abeja adds another corporate to series C round
The retail technology provider has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Google, boosting a series C round sized at $38.3m as of July.
Moderna loads up $604m in IPO
AstraZeneca, Merck & Co and Alexion all scored exits as mRNA therapy developer Moderna floated in the largest biotech IPO of all time.
Bytedance takes a turn at corporate venturing
The digital media company is putting together a $1.44bn fund in which it will provide 20% of the capital, targeting state-owned vehicles for the rest.
G7 tracks corporates to raise $320m
The fleet monitoring software provider’s latest round, concluded in October but only revealed now, featured Total Energy Ventures, Tencent, GLP and Bank of China.