Aegea has now raised $96m in overall financing, after securing funds from investors including existing backers Medtronic and BioMed Ventures.
Author: Callum Cyrus
Corporates help fund RNA drug developer Expansion
Novartis Venture Fund and Sanofi Ventures are among the four investors that co-led Expansion Therapeutics’ $55.3m series A round.
Novartis takes a slice of Pear
Novartis participated in a series B round that raised $50m for Pear Therapeutics, the creator of a software platform that assists substance abuse treatment.
Apple brings Buddybuild into the group
Corporate venturing unit Bloomberg Beta has exited app testing platform developer BuddyBuild through an acquisition of undisclosed size by Apple.
Pimax pins down series A funding
Industrial manufacturers O-Film Tech and Tianma Bearing have co-led a $15.3m round for Pimax, which plans to launch an 8K VR headset in 2018.
Taris tallies $25m for series B
Bristol-Myers Squibb joined the urology treatment developer’s investors in a round led by Yonghua Capital.
Aura reveals $30m series C round
Existing investors Chiesi Ventures and Li-Cor Biosciences came back for the cancer treatment developer’s Lundbeckfonden Ventures-led series C.
Happy Returns brings back $8m
The R/GA-backed e-commerce returns service has raised series B funding that will go to product development and an expansion of its partner network.
Splice Machine cuts together $9m
Predictive analytics software developer Splice Machine has now raised more than $31m in total, in a round that included Salesforce Ventures.
Ample Hills scoops up $8m
The startup has drawn interest for its series B round from processed food supplier Allana Group, following a $4m series A in 2015.
Bigfinite bags $8.5m
Bigfinite has picked up funding from industrial process manufacturer Krohne as it bids to commercialise its pharmaceutical information platform.
DigitalGenius finds series A solution
The customer service enhancement platform increased its overall financing to $26m in a $14.8m round featuring existing backer Salesforce Ventures.
Ripcord reopens series B to reach $65m
Corporate venturing units GV and Telstra Ventures have contributed to a $25m expansion to record digitisation platform Ripcord’s series B round.
Cargill and Ecolab fork out for accelerator
The Techstars-backed Farm to Fork Accelerator will give food and agtech startups access to funding and networking opportunities.