Comment by Linda Yates, chief executive, Mach49
Month: April 2022
Megatrend: fully homomorphic encryption
Comment from Jack Crawford, founding general partner, Impact Venture Capital
Why tech companies have venture capital funds
Comment from Matt Asay, MongoDB
Consumer sector rebounds after the pandemic
Sector report: consumer
Venture enters its age of ashes
April 2022 editorial by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Daily Deal Round Up: April 21, 2022
SK Hynix, Marvell and M12 helped data centre technology producer D-Matrix pull in $44m while health insurance provider SafetyWing raised $35m from investors including Digital Garage and CreditEase.
Rising Stars Q&A – Bonnie Chau, BCF Ventures
Q&A with Bonnie Chau, portfolio manager, BCF Ventures
Oyster onboards $150m in series C funding
Salesforce Ventures, Okta, Slack, PayPal Ventures and HR Tech Investments contributed to the human resources software developer’s latest round at a valuation exceeding $1bn.
Panasonic puts $200m more into Conductive Ventures
The growth equity firm has closed its Fund III at $200m, with all the capital again coming from corporate partner Panasonic, bringing its capital under management to $450m.
Octant Bio accepts $80m
Bristol Myers Squibb was among the investors in a series B round announced alongside a collaboration with the small molecule drug developer.
Foodics fulfils $170m series C order
Prosus co-led the restaurant management software provider’s latest round, which will support its international expansion.
Touchdown moves up four
GCV Rising Stars Will Geiger and Brett Kadesh have taken up director positions at the CVC management services firm while Maddi Holman and Kathy Quigley have been appointed associates.
Tokio Marine takes chance on $42m fund
The insurance provider’s Future Fund will be run by venture firm World Innovation Lab’s US-based team to identify and support early-stage entrepreneurs.
Daily Deal Round Up: April 20, 2022
Accenture, Workday and Bank of America helped VR training technology developer Strivr expand its latest round to $65m while Consensys backed a $50m round for blockchain analytics provider Flipside Crypto.