Returning investors Axel Springer and Purplebricks combined to invest $45.2m in the online real estate brokerage that will fund hiring and product development.
Month: June 2020
Rate of slowdown is steadying in May
Monthly data: May
The challenger university landscape
Comment from Mario Barosevcic, principal, Emerge Education
Proteus Digital produces bankruptcy filing
The move came after the digital health technology provider, which has a raft of corporate investors, reportedly failed to raise a nine-figure round last year.
The dark side of venture capitalist funding
Comment from Theodore Khoury, Cameron Professor of Strategy, Sustainability and Entrepreneurship, Portland State University
Tech giants reinforce country’s strength
Innovative region: Singapore
Which way forward for education?
With campuses shuttered in the pandemic, society needs to find solutions quickly to continue education and avoid a lost generation of skilled workers.
A new productivity strategy for Europe
Comment from Max Neufeind and Christoph Priesmeier, advisers at the German Federal Ministry of Finance (writing in a personal capacity)
Wandelbots wins $30m
Next47 and M12 took part in Wandelbots’ latest round, which came as it publicly launched its robotics training software tool.
In a recession, CVCs can be even more valuable to startups
Comment from Scott Lenet, co-founder and president, Touchdown Ventures
VC-backed innovation and recessions
Comment from Sabrina Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda, Richard Townsend
Redesigning VC: a hypothesis
Comment from Dominic Hofstetter, director of capital and investment, Climate-KIC
Are financial services the heroes of the crisis?
Comment from Rita Costa Waite, head of payments business development and innovation, Millennium bcp
VC has a lot to learn from fintech
Comment from Alex Lazarow, venture capitalist, Cathay Innovation