GV participated in a round that will enable the on-demand recruitment platform to accelerate its expansion across the US.
Month: May 2019
Allianz aligns itself with Wealthsimple
Online investment management service Wealthsimple secured $74.6m in an Allianz X-led round that also featured long-standing investor Power Financial.
Bicycle Therapeutics rides into public markets
GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Astellas are among the investors to have celebrated an exit after cancer therapy developer Bicycle secured $60.7m in its initial public offering.
Locana locates $55m in series A round
UCB Ventures and Alphabet unit GV took part in the RNA-targeting gene therapy developer’s first publicly disclosed funding round, which was led by Arch Venture Partners.
Cardinal Analytx ticks off $23m series B
GuideWell Mutual, Blue Shield California and existing backer Premera Blue Cross all invested in the healthcare prediction platform developer.
Pixie Dust cleans up with series B funding
Pixie Dust Technologies, which promotes university-derived technologies from Japan, has received $34.7m in a round that included KDDI, Kansai Electric Power, NEC, Toppan, Dai-ichi Life and Dentsu.
GCV Symposium 2019: Showing impact in fintech in half the time
The GCV Symposium finished up with a discussion with Dominic Maffei of SC Ventures and Erica Young from Anthemis Group concerning the impact of fintech on big banks.
GCV Symposium 2019: Deal sourcing – Tools to change corporate venturing
InReach’s Roberto Bonanzinga talked about how AI technology can help corporate venturing units locate companies from obscure countries and scale their investment pipeline.
GCV Symposium 2019: Commercialising startups from idea to scale-up in a complex technical area
GUV editor Thierry Heles spoke to professionals from three fusion energy technology companies to gauge the challenges involved in scaling a breakthrough technology.
GCV Symposium 2019: Future Planet Awards
Digital course textbook catalogue Bibliotech took the crown in the 2019 edition of the Global University Venturing-allied Future Planet Awards.
GCV Symposium 2019: VR fireside chat and pitches
Dave Haynes from HTC’s Vive X accelerator talked about its activities in the virtual and augmented reality space, before nine companies in the sector pitched their products to attendees.
GCV Symposium 2019: Global Data Insights and Benchmarks
Data presented by Martin Haemmig and GCV Analytics provided insight into the substantial growth in corporate venturing along with some of the major trends.
GCV Symposium 2019: Blurring public and private markets
Tencent Investment’s Jeffrey Li, number one on the GCV Powerlist this year, spoke to Michael Redding of Accenture Investments about how he approaches investing.
GCV Symposium 2019: Future of work and impact of human-machine interfaces and AI
Paul Jacquin of Randstad Innovation Fund, Bo Ilsoe of NGP Capital and Leo Clancy from IDA Ireland exchanged views on how AI technology will affect the HR sector.