SoftBank led the companionship service provider’s latest round, pushing its total funding to $240m.
Month: November 2021
Bit.bio bids hello to $103m
Tencent, Charles River Laboratories and National Resilience all backed the stem cell technology developer’s series B round.
Avesta impact vehicle lets in $2m
Liberty Global’s investment unit has contributed to the equality and climatetech-focused Avesta Fund, which has raised over 80% towards its ceiling.
Mebuki Financial Group moulds corporate venturing fund
The group’s Joyo Capital Partners subsidiary will operate the newly formed $8.8m J-Raise Fund, which will back digitalisation and local economy revitalisation technology developers.
Oil and gas venturing in Q3 2021
Sector report: Oil & gas Q3 2021
Fuelling energy technologies that can save the planet
While COP26 is about to start and the representatives of almost 200 countries prepare to gather in Glasgow for what has been described as “the world’s best last chance to get runaway climate change under control”, the energy industry is in the middle of a profound metamorphosis that could radically reshape global power production and transform our relationship with the planet’s natural resources.
Solid returns are key to realising zero emissions goal
Global Energy Council Q4 2021 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
GCV Symposium 2021: Panel – Cutting through the hype in ESG ventures
Eco-shaper’s Tracey Carr, Brill Power’s Christoph Birkl and Henkel Tech Ventures’ Paolo Bavaj shared their insights into sustainable investing.
Daily Deal Round Up: November 4, 2021
Ubicom Holdings Japan helped gynaecological imaging software developer Illumigyn take its total funding to $33m while Optum took part in a $30m round for health payment technology provider Medallion.
GCV Symposium 2021: Keynote – The role of fusion power in the future of energy
OSI portfolio company First Light Fusion’s co-founder and CEO, Nicholas Hawker, explained how his company’s nuclear fusion technology could contribute to net-zero targets.
GCV Symposium 2021: Hydrogen – the next big thing?
GCV’s James Mawson interviewed Energy Transitions Commission chair Lord Adair Turner on the hydrogen space.
HoneyBook tells story of $250m series E
The business management software developer hiked its overall funding to $465m and its valuation to $2.4bn in a Citi Ventures-backed round.
GCV Symposium 2021: Panel – The energy matrix – fuels for a sustainable future
Brown Rudick’s Neil Foster moderated a discussion between National Grid Partners’ Ian Cooper, Baker Hughes’ Luca Maria Rossi and ZeroAvia’s Katya Akulinicheva on the fuels of the future.
Biolinq patches in corporates to raise $100m
The wearable glucose monitor developer’s nine-figure series B round included M Ventures, Hikma Ventures, Axa Investment Management, Ascencia, Hikm Taisho, Cirrus Logic and EOFlow.