The Lloyds Banking subsidiary has backed e-commerce fulfilment platform developer James and James, providing $15.5m in funding.
Month: March 2020
LatAm’s blind spot comes into view
Global Corporate Venturing has had the honour of partnering with Telefonica’s corporate venturing unit, Wayra, and Spain-based IESE Business School professors Josemaria Siota and Julia Prats to shed light on the Latin American blind spot of collaborations between corporates and startups.
Gojek carts away $1.2bn
Unnamed investors have added $1.2bn to a round already featuring AIA, Mitsubishi, Visa, SCB, Astra International,
Tencent, JD.com and Google that reportedly now totals near $3bn.
Tempus successfully tempts Novo in $100m round
The pharmaceutical firm was among the investors in a series G round that valued precision medicine technology provider Tempus at $5bn.
Bakkt stacks up $300m
Microsoft, PayU, Boston Consulting Group, CMT Digital and founding investor Intercontinental Exchange all backed the digital wallet provider’s series B round.
Eigen upsizes series B to $42m
ING has added $5m to a series B round for the natural language processing technology provider through a strategic partnership deal.
Vingroup Ventures vanishes from the spotlight
The conglomerate’s corporate venturing subsidiary, set up over a year ago with a $100m investment target, has closed, apparently without striking a deal.
Cloudwise clasps $24m in funding
The SIG-backed enterprise software provider took its overall funding past the $100m mark in a series D-plus round led by VC firm Everest Venture Capital.
Deal activity still dropping in February
Monthly analysis: February 2020
Carbon capture tech pioneer offers hope
The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has previously estimated the world will need to remove an average of 10 gigatons –10 billion tons – of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year from the atmosphere by 2050.
How corporations can help university spinouts cross the valley of death
Comment from Josemaria Siota, IESE Business School, Andrea Alunni, Oxford University and Università degli Studi di Perugia, Paola Riveros-Chacón, Northwestern University, Mark Wilson, Strategic Technology, Bioconsulting, Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz European Commission
Rabo Frontier Ventures one year on
Netherlands-based financial services firm Rabobank provided an additional €80m ($90m) of funding for its strategic investment subsidiary, Rabo Frontier Ventures a year ago in February 2019.
Xirgo captures Owlcam in acquisition deal
Owlcam has been acquired by Xirgo Technologies for an undisclosed sum two years after emerging from stealth, having raised $28m from investors including CSAA.
Food fit for a growing world
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