The cross-border e-commerce platform has completed a $59.5m series C round led by the Alibaba-headed Electronic World Trade Platform, boosting its total funding to about $85m.
Month: March 2019
How much autonomy will maximise impact?
Comment from Maria Julia Prats and Josemaria Siota, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre, IESE, and Isabel Martinez-Monche and Yair Martínez, BeRepublic
Interview: Michael Mahan, Stanley Ventures
The new boss at Stanley Black & Decker’s corporate venturing unit, Michael Mahan, spoke to GCV’s Robin Brinkworth about running Stanley Ventures, its portfolio, and looking forward.
Interview: Ingo Ramesohl, Robert Bosch Venture Capital
Ingo Ramesohl, co-managing director of Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC) spoke to GCV’s Robin Brinkworth about investing in artificial intelligence and RBVC’s model for success.
Tigerobo catches CreditEase in $33m series A
CreditEase’s New Financial Industrial Fund was among the investors in a round that took the financial search engine’s overall funding to $60m.
Industrials grind forward
Sector focus: Industrial
InventisBio invites Eli Lilly to $70m series C
Lilly Asia Ventures has returned for a series C round that boosted the total raised by the cancer and metabolic disease drug developer to $100m.
Deals continue to grow
This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.
Editorial: It is a privilege to watch this bright future unfold
March issue editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Holding hands with the entrepreneurs of tomorrow
GUV editor Thierry Heles reports from Autm’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas
Byju’s takes more Tencent funding
Existing investors Tencent and General Atlantic have supplied up to $11.4m of additional funding for Byju’s, which was valued at at least $3.6bn as of December.
Agnihotri moves away from Maumee Ventures
Maumee Ventures president Rashmi Agnihotri left parent company The Andersons at the end of 2018, with John Kraus stepping up to take on the role.
DuPont unites with U First in partnership
DowDuPont’s electronics and imaging subsidiary has picked U First to identify internet-of-things and artificial intelligence investments.
DSG moves out of Oyo
DSG Consumer Partners made a four-times return on its investment in corporate-backed Oyo, exiting as part of its recent $1bn round.