SIG-backed online content advertiser Outbrain has been acquired for $250m in cash and a 30% stake in competitor Taboola.
Month: October 2019
Bird feathers its nest with $275m
The Simon Property-backed e-scooter rental platform is now valued at $2.75bn following a series D round co-led by Sequoia Capital and CDPQ.
Tenaya tends to pipeline with $92m series B
GV has contributed to a $92m series B round for Tenaya, three years after it was spun out of Gladstone Institutes and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
Aprea collects $85m in IPO proceeds
Praktikertjänst-backed Aprea Therapeutics has priced its shares at $15 to raise $85m, with stock rising a third to $20.50 on the first day of trading.
Icosavax accesses $51m in series A round
Icosavax has launched with $51m in series A funding from Sanofi Ventures and others to move a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus into a phase 1b trial.
SnapLogic snatches $72m
Microsoft and Capital One-backed software integration platform developer SnapLogic has secured additional funding in an Arrowroot Capital-led round.
Elicio aligns itself with Livzon for $33m
Livzon Pharmaceutical Group has been identified as an investor by Elicio Therapeutics, which just completed a series B round that takes its total financing to $63m.
CareStack polishes up $28m round
CareStack’s latest round attracted Delta Dental of California and will be used to extend the dental management software provider’s customer base.
Udaan unites Tencent and Citi for $585m
Business-to-business e-commerce platform Udaan was valued at $2.3bn to $2.7bn in a series D round backed by Tencent and Citi Ventures.
Frequency attracts $84m in IPO
The Alexandria Real Estate Equities-backed regenerative medicine developer floated at the bottom of its range while cutting the number of shares.
Oracle cracks CrowdTwist acquisition
Customer engagement platform CrowdTwist has raised $20m from investors including Softbank Capital, KBS+ Ventures and Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments pre-acquisition.
Salesforce helps deposit $80m in nCino
Salesforce Ventures, a shareholder in nCino since 2015, has returned for an $80m round that brought the banking platform’s total funding to at least $218m.
SoftBank to pick up more Delhivery shares
SoftBank Vision Fund is exploring a secondary share purchase of approximately 3.3% of the logistics provider’s shares for roughly $50m, to take its stake above 25%.
Brightfield shows hard graft to raise $53m
Corporate venturing unit Capital One Growth Ventures supplied part of a series A round for recruitment analysis software provider Brightfield Strategies.