Q&A with Gonzalo Soriano, senior investment analyst, AC Ventures
Month: March 2022
Astronomer lands $213m in series C funding
Salesforce Ventures was among the investors in an Insight Partners-led round which helped fund the data orchestration platform developer’s purchase of data flow software developer Datakin.
LifeMine Therapeutics sprouts $175m in funding
The molecular drug developer received funding from investors including GlaxoSmithKline, MRL Ventures Fund and GV in a Fidelity-led series C round.
Moi moves towards public listing
The KDDI and Sinar Mas-backed video streaming platform developer is scheduled to float on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Growth Market on April 27 at a valuation of approximately $51m.
RapidAPI hastens to $150m series D
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led the API marketplace’s latest round at a unicorn valuation, with returning investor M12 also taking part.
Capitolis captures $110m in series D round
Citi, SVB, State Street and JP Morgan were among the investors that helped the financial software provider boost its valuation to $1.6bn.
Terra Drone flies to $70m series B
The drone technology provider received support from Mitsui, Seika, Kyushu Electric and Tokyu Land to bring its total funding to over $84m.
Mobility levels up
The Global and China L4 Autonomous Driving and Start-ups Report, 2021, found that except for a few companies, such as Waymo and Uber, which performed worse than expected, level four (L4) autonomous driving firms in other fields gained momentum.
Autonomy shows profound promise
GCV Mobility Q1 2022 supplement editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Daily Deal Round Up: March 23, 2022
Hikma led a $15m extension to surgical robotics developer Activ Surgical’s series B round, now sized at $60m, while data collaboration software provider Hex raised $52m from investors including Snowflake and Databricks.
Yuga Labs pulls in $450m
Animoca Brands, FTX, Adidas, Alphabet, MoonPay, Genies, Samsung and The Sandbox all took part in the the NFT platform developer’s seed round at a $4bn valuation.
Jeeves serves up $180m series C
The corporate card provider was valued at $2.1bn in a round led by Tencent that increased its funding to $380m altogether.
Affini-T discovers $175m
Leaps by Bayer co-led an oversubscribed round for the oncology therapeutics developer, with the proceeds to go to clinical trials and supplementary licences.
Omnipresent finds space for $120m series B
Tencent co-led the cross-border human resources provider’s latest round, which included pre-series B funding raised in the second half of 2021.