Blackstone Life Sciences and Novartis have launched Anthos Therapeutics, with the former putting in $250m and Novartis licensing one of its assets to the startup.
Month: February 2019
Coinbase pockets GIC as investor
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC has been revealed as a backer in corporate-backed Coinbase’s $300m series E round last October.
Chehaoduo motors ahead with $1.5bn
SoftBank Vision Fund has committed $1.5bn to Chehaoduo, whose past funding rounds include a $818m series C round led by Tencent a year ago.
Instructure picks up Portfolium
USA Loans looks to have found an exit at student portfolio publishing platform Portfolium, which has been bought by education software provider Instructure.
WeWork helps Landit raise $13m series A
Career development platform Landit has reeled in $13m in a WeWork-led series A round that included commitments from Workday and Morgan Stanley.
Rockets of Awesome fashions series C
Children’s clothing subscription service provider Rockets of Awesome has collected $19.5m in its series C round, which included the CVC unit of Hubert Burda and was led by Foot Locker.
Zinc clips onto ServiceMax
Zinc’s occupational communication platform, geared towards deskless workers in service industries, has been picked up by ServiceMax after receiving equity from CVC subsidiaries of GE and Hearst.
Cmd secures GV for $15m series B
Alphabet’s corporate venturing subsidiary has led the series B round, which increased cybersecurity technology developer Cmd’s overall funding to $21.6m.
Hookipa Pharma develops series D
Immunotherapy developer Hookipa, backed by Gilead, Boehringer Ingelheim and Takeda, has collected $37.5m in a series D round led by Redmile Group.
Affirmed Networks dials in Qualcomm for $38m round
Qualcomm’s corporate venturing unit has taken part in the Centerview Capital Technology-led round, which will ramp up the company’s 5G networking services.
Anaveon validates Novartis for series A
Zurich immuno-oncology spinout Anaveon raised $35.1m from Novartis Venture Fund and Syncona in addition to seed-stage notes converted by the UZH Life Sciences Fund.
FreightWaves navigates $20m series B round
The freight market commentary provider has increased its overall funding to approximately $40m following a series B round that included corporate venturing units of Hearst and Prologis.
ThirdLove embraces $55m round
Novel Group-backed lingerie manufacturer ThirdLove has closed a $55m funding round after investors including L Catterton pre-emptively approached the company about investing.
Vast Data stores $80m
Vast Data has emerged from stealth with a total of $80m in funding raised over two rounds from investors such as Dell Technologies Capital.