Olo,a PayPal-backed developer of a restaurant order management software, will float today in an offering priced well above its range.
Month: March 2021
PatSnap snags $300m in series E funding
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent have co-led the intellectual property management platform’s series E round, which reportedly valued it at over $1bn.
Strive Health works out $140m series B
The kidney healthcare provider boosted its total funding to more than $220m in a round led by Alphabet’s CapitalG subsidiary.
Vaccitech accelerates to $168m series B
Tencent and Gilead Sciences took part in a round that will fund clinical trials for three of Vaccitech’s vaccine product candidates.
Inflammatix invites OSF to $102m series D
OSF Healthcare Ventures contributed to a $102m series D round for Inflammatix, a developer of diagnostics systems for detecting infections.
Squarespace makes room for $300m
Fidelity Management & Research has joined new and returning investors to back the website creation platform developer’s latest round at a $10bn valuation.
Davey leaves Barclays Ventures for SPAC life
Ben Davey has departed from corporate venturing activities at Barclays for an executive position at a special purpose acquisition company.
StrideBio strikes series B deal
Novo co-led an $81.5m round for the gene therapy developer that included Sarepta Therapeutics, UCB Ventures, Takeda Ventures and Alexandria Venture Investments.
Fenbeitong finds series C payment
Tencent co-led a $92.5m round for the corporate expense management tool provider, investing alongside new and returning backers including Eight Roads Ventures.
Alibaba leads Leyan’s series C3 round
Alibaba led a $30.8m round that helped the customer service software developer close its third round in the space of less than a year.
Glooko gets $30m in series D
Novo Nordisk, Insulet and Mayo Clinic helped the diabetes monitoring technology provider push its overall funding past $100m.
Innovation and digitisation mean healthcare is at a tipping point
This is the first in a series of quarterly publications for the Global Health Council looking at drug development, healthcare providers such as hospitals and digital health, payments and patient wellness. This first article looks at the implications of the disease treatments coming out of advanced research and artificial intelligence and the broader shift to digitalisation in healthcare. The next issue will focus on the providers of healthcare.
Global Healthcare Council launched
GEC Healthcare Q1 2021 forward by Rob Coppedge, chief executive, Echo Health Ventures, and Bill Taranto, and president, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
RentoMojo homes in on $21m for series C
The GMO, Mitsui Sumitomo and Samsung-backed furniture rental platform developer has added $1.4m to its latest round to take its total funding to $35m.