Alphabet, Tencent and Gilead Sciences are in line to achieve exits, after the vaccine developer filed to go public on the Nasdaq Global Market.
Month: April 2021
Artiva activates $100m IPO plans
The NK cancer drug provider has filed to go public in an offering which would enable GC and its GC Labcell subsidiary to exit.
Hologic hoists in Mobidiag
Autobio Diagnostics is set to exit the molecular diagnostic test provider through a purchase by women’s health-focused technology provider Hologic.
Salesforce joins Community with $40m investment
Salesforce has supplied additional funding for the text messaging platform operator, which is also backed by Sony, Live Nation and Twilio.
Snorkel AI pipes in $35m
GV returned for a series B round that increased the machine learning technology developer’s overall funding to $50m.
IceKredit gets series C2 funding
The Youzu Interactive-backed credit rating services provider has collected $34.8m in a series C2 round led by CDB-CDC Capital.
Carta Healthcare carves out series A funding
Mass General Brigham’s AI Digital Innovation Fund has chipped into a $17.3m round for the healthcare data technology provider.
Analysis: Ikena goes public
The oncology drug developer, backed by Bristol Myers Squibb, secured close to $144m in its IPO. This is an exit from a space that has seen much corporate support over the past decade.
Yunyou Freight delivers series B1 funding
Existing backer Tencent returned to co-lead a series B1 round sized at tens of millions of dollars for the AI-enhanced logistics service.
Corporate venturing deal net: 5-9 April 2021
Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Meet the Experts
Bill McNulty, operating partner at Capital One Growth Ventures’, Meet the Expert session for the GCV Institute on Wednesday brought home how the best corporate venturing units continue to iterate and look to improve to find an edge in the increasingly heated venture market.
OneTrust upgrades series C to $510m
The compliance and trust management platform developer has closed a $210m tranche for the round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 at a $5.3bn post-money valuation.
Krafton crafts IPO plans
The Tencent-backed video game holding group has applied to float in a Korean initial public offering which could value it at about $18bn.
CloudMinds collects $153m in series B round
The SoftBank-backed robotic technology developer has secured series B-plus funding two months after US regulators deemed its initial public offering abandoned.