The round increased the total raised by the Alibaba, Sony, WndrCo, 21st Century Fox, Walt Disney, WarnerBros and Entertainment One-backed short-form streaming startup to $1.75bn.
Month: March 2020
Oric originates IPO filing
The Taiho Ventures, Memorial Sloan and Hartford HealthCare Endowment-backed cancer drug developer has filed to raise up to $86.3m.
Transphorm shapes reverse merger
The semiconductor technology producer has gone public through a reverse merger with penny stock company Peninsula Acquisition and received $21.5m from investors including Marelli.
Netlify sets out $53m series C
The app development software provider increased its overall funding to more than $97m in a series C round that did not include existing corporate investor Bloomberg Beta.
Five counts up $41m
Sistema and Direct Line participated in a $41m series B round for Five, which is currently trialling its autonomous driving technology in London.
JLL passes into Eden in $29m round
The workplace services platform raised the money in a JLL Technologies-led round just four months after its series B, and is using the cash to buy competitor Managed by Q.
Deep Sentinel oversees $24m series A
The intelligent security system provider has raised money from Nationwide to boost the size of its series A round, which reached its first close in 2017.
Grab grows accelerator operations
The ride sharing company has opened the application period for its third Velocity scale-up initiative and launched a Vietnam-based startup accelerator called Ignite.
Swaminathan swims to Khosla Ventures
The venture fund has appointed GCV Powerlist member Rajesh Swaminathan, who had led Amat’s corporate venturing unit for nearly two years, as a venture partner.
GameOn engages with convertible note round
Asahi Media Lab Ventures was among the investors as marketing chatbot developer GameOn Technology boosted its total financing to $18.5m.
UnitQ tunes into $11m series A
UnitQ has launched its software debugging tool having raised $11m in a round led by Google’s Gradient Ventures investment vehicle.
Talespin lands $15m in series B round
Talespin’s virtual training software will be offered to Cornerstone OnDemand’s customers in connection with a round led by the latter.
Novartis and Google show contrasting approaches to healthcare deals
Two types of healthcare deals and two types of corporate backers.
GV helps pump series C funding into Element
The wearable defibrillator developer revealed GV is an existing investor as it raised more than $145m that will support the launch of its lead product.