Harvard Business Review’s (HBR) review of Black Swans author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s follow-up book, Antifragile, nearly a decade ago summed up a useful way of responding and bringing flexibility back into decision-making: “Crises and major disruptions are not an abrupt departure from what anti-fragile organizations do continuously — solve problems. Rather than being controlled through rigid command structures, employees at all levels are trained every day to be quick problem-solvers.”
Month: March 2020
SenseTime assesses billion-dollar round
The corporate-backed artificial intelligence technology producer is looking to raise $500m to $1bn as an alternative to going public.
Fox catches Tubi for $440m purchase
Streaming service Tubi will be bought by Fox Corporation after raising a total of about $31m from investors including MGM and Lionsgate.
StackPath packs up $216m
Edge computing network provider has pushed its total funding to $396m in a series B round co-led by Juniper Networks and Cox Communications.
RemeGen retrieves $100m
The antibody therapy developer closed a $100m round co-led by Lilly Asia Ventures that will fund phase 3 clinical studies for its lead drug candidates.
Keros clears space for initial public offering
Medison Pharma and Partners Healthcare could be in line for exits after the haematological and musculoskeletal disorder therapy developer filed to raise $86.3m.
Binance bankrolls $50m India fund
Binance and its Indian subsidiary WazirX intend to provide $50m in funding for blockchain technology developers following regulatory changes in the South Asian country.
Proxy boxes in $42m
WeWork-backed Proxy has raised series B funding that will help it expand its online-to-offline identity verification system across multiple continents.
Rancher Labs lassos $40m
Telstra Ventures led cloud container technology developer Rancher’s series D round, which increased its overall funding to $95m.
Axel Johnson propels funding to Prolupin
Axel Johnson investment fund Novax co-led a $15.3m round for the vegan protein and dairy substitute developer with Capricorn Partners Sustainable Chemistry Fund.
From cancer to chicken nuggets
Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.
Digital for Agriculture in Africa
Comment from Nicolas Leyssieux, senior investment director, Bamboo Capital Partners
Foundations of agtech ecosystems in Piracicaba
Prepared by researchers from the Washington University, St Louis on behalf of The Yield Lab, sponsored by Rabo Strategic Ventures
Eyes on the prize
Agtech supplement March 2020 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing