Bike taxi service provider Rapido has surpassed $130m of overall funding through a series C round featuring corporate investors Shell Ventures, Yamaha and Positive Moves Consulting.
Month: August 2021
Stewart marches on to M12
GCV Emerging Leader Michael Stewart has taken up a partner role at Microsoft’s M12 subsidiary after a six-year stint at another corporate venture capital unit, Applied Ventures.
Hireup finds fresh funding
Seek Investments has provided $29.5m for the disability support worker matching platform, having also formed a strategic alliance with the business.
Rising Stars Q&A – Florian Chilla, Randstad Innovation Fund
Q&A with Florian Chilla, investment manager, Randstad Innovation Fund; principal and co-founder, Taptrove Ventures
GentiBio jumps to $157m series A
Novartis Venture Fund returned as GentiBio raised money that will support the progress of its type 1 diabetes drug candidate toward clinical trials.
Adverity advertises $120m series D round
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the SAP-backed marketing data software provider’s series D round, which brought its overall funding to over $165m.
Cisco snags Epsagon in $500m deal
The app monitoring techology developer has agreed to an acquistion by Cisco having raised $30m from investors including the Deutsche Telekom-backed DTCP.
Figment finds $50m in series B funding
Anchorage Digital and GSR have contributed to a series B round for blockchain infrastructure provider Figment.
Ultromics bolts to $33m series B round
Blue Venture Fund led a round that included corporate venturing units GV and Optum Ventures, taking the medical imaging system developer’s total funding to almost $60m.
Daily Deal Round Up: August 16, 2021
Ventricular assistance system developer CH Biomedical closed a Baheal-backed series D round while peer-to-peer lending platform Alami secured $17.5m in a round led by EV Growth.
Carta darts to $500m series G
Goldman Sachs-backed Carta used its own equity funding management software to set the $6.9bn pre-money valuation at which it raised the cash.
TaxBit nets $130m in series B funding
The PayPal and Coinbase-backed digtal tax software provider hiked its valuation to over $1.3bn in a round co-led by Insight Partners and IVP.
Longcheer snatches $154m in series C round
The smart electronics producer, backed by Xiaomi, closed series C funding to accelerate research and development with a focus on 5G technologies.
M-Daq finds Affinity in $147m deal
The Ant Group, Samsung and Citi-backed cross-border trading software provider secured series D funding from Affinity Equity Partners.