Startup investor and former American Football star Richard Sherman has been brought on board by Cisco-sponsored venture fund Decibel to help founders develop their teams.
Month: January 2020
Europe’s opportunity
Hopefully our American readers are refreshed after their Martin Luther King holiday yesterday but with that and the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and Digital Life Design Conference in Munich, Germany, this week it is a rare opportunity for Europe to be at the front of the news cycle.
Alibaba invigorates Jumpstarter 2020
Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund and HSBC’s Jumpstarter 2020 contest is holding its Grand Finale event in Hong Kong next month, with each winning startup to receive up to $5m in funding.
Orbital Ventures lifts off with first fund
The space-focused venture firm, which counts corporates OHB, Post Luxembourg and SES as backers, has achieved a first close sized at $77.9m.
Qualcomm quickens pace with IoT fund
The semiconductor producer’s investment vehicle has partnered Brazilian development bank BNDES to set up a $39.3m fund to provide seed to series A funding for internet-of-things startups.
Impact funds
It hardly felt like the festive season was particularly quiet but it seems plenty of corporations kept under wraps some exciting fund launches to unveil this month with more than a dozen announced in the first two weeks of the year.
GoPuff gets $750m funding delivery
The online convenience store raised $750m six months ago, in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund, it has emerged.
UCloud stars in $284m IPO
Bertelsmann achieved an exit as the cloud services provider raised $284m in an initial public offering that reportedly valued it at about $2bn.
Danke Apartment deploys IPO
The Bertelsmann, UCommune and Ant Financial-backed property manager raised nearly $130m depite downsizing its initial public offering.
I-Mab enters public markets in $104m IPO
The Tasly and Genexine-backed drug developer floated above the mid-point of its range, in an initial public offering that could end up topping $119m.
LaunchDarkly arcs to $54m round
The code management platform developer has now raised $130m in total, getting its latest funding from existing investors including Bloomberg Beta.
Homebound hosts GV in $35m series B
The general contracting services provider has emerged from stealth with $53m, $35m of which came from a GV-backed series B round.
Lizhi lists in $45m IPO
The Xiaomi-backed, China-headquartered podcast app developer priced its shares at the bottom of their range to raise $45.1m in a US offering.
Concerto HealthAI codifies $150m in series B round
SymphonyAI Group has taken part in a $150m round for one of its spinoffs, precision cancer therapy developer Concerto HealthAI.