GMG Ventures and Hearst Ventures have returned to back the data analytics service, joining financial investors such as Abrdn, which had hitherto concentrated on other asset classes.
Month: December 2021
Daily Deal Round Up: December 15, 2021
Investments roll in for blockchain-based games, fintech, enterprise software and energy companies.
AnHeart beats its way to $61m series B
Innovent Biologics was among the investors in the oncology therapy developer’s oversubscribed round, which came as global investors are boosting their healthtech, biotech and wellness investment activities in China despite the country’s trade war with the US.
Uni ushers in $70m series A
Fidelity’s Eight Roads Ventures subsidiary has helped the BNPL platform provider close its fresh round at a $350m valuation a year after it was founded, as India sees steady growth in the market.
Electrification is reshaping the mobility industry
The mobility sector has been flourishing in the past few years with the development of ground-breaking technologies in the electrification, autonomous vehicles and connectivity segments reshaping the entire industry.
Staying focused on the atoms behind mobility
GCV Mobility Q4 2021 supplement editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Daily Deal Round Up: December 14, 2021
Airtable, HealthCare.com and T11 pull in nine-figure rounds.
Hulic builds corporate venturing vehicle
Hulic Startup is the latest real estate-focused CVC unit in Japan, after the likes of 31Ventures, HHP Co-Creation Fund, NN Corporate Capital and TFHD Open Innovation Program, part of Mitsui Fudosan, Hankyu Hanshin Properties, Nomura and Tokyu Fudosan respectively.
Svolt swerves to $943m in series B-plus funding
The Great Wall Motor-founded battery and energy storage technology developer is among the latest EV-linked tech companies receiving corporate backing, as the CVC ecosystem builders increasingly incorporate ESG criteria into their investment mandates.
Kenya catches the corporate eye
Innovative region: Kenya
Corporate venturing growth rages in November
Monthly analysis: November 2021
Crypto companies insider ownership is approaching that of classic startups
By Tomasz Tunguz, venture capitalist at Redpoint
Need for speed: CVC as an innovation tool
By Héctor Shibata, director of investments & portfolio at global corporate venture capital (CVC) fund AC Ventures (ACV) and adjunct professor for entrepreneurial finance; and Ricardo Latournerie, a VC investor at ACV
Syndicated corporate venturing: what all companies can learn from life sciences
By Ezra Carlson, who is an innovation and corporate venturing consultant and recently completed his doctorate at the Cranfield School of Management. This article partly draws on his research at Cranfield.