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Author: Callum Cyrus
Qingtuanshe recruits corporates for series B-plus
Part-time job search platform Qingtuanshe has raised at least $30m in funding led by Ant Financial and featuring Tal Education.
Corporates accentuate Aqrose’s series A-plus vision
Baidu Ventures and Legend Capital helped put funding into an eight-digit dollar round for industrial computer vision technology developer Aqrose Technology.
Aprea prolongs series C to $62.8m
Praktikertjänst-backed oncology company Aprea has received a $5.7m series C extension adding to an initial $56.8m close in November 2018 that featured Karolinska Development.
i2x identifies MS&AD for $11.4m round
MS&AD Ventures has contributed to a round for i2x, which offers an enhanced speech recognition product that provides automated coaching tips to improve business phone calls.
Instructure picks up Portfolium
USA Loans looks to have found an exit at student portfolio publishing platform Portfolium, which has been bought by education software provider Instructure.
Zinc clips onto ServiceMax
Zinc’s occupational communication platform, geared towards deskless workers in service industries, has been picked up by ServiceMax after receiving equity from CVC subsidiaries of GE and Hearst.
Anaveon validates Novartis for series A
Zurich immuno-oncology spinout Anaveon raised $35.1m from Novartis Venture Fund and Syncona in addition to seed-stage notes converted by the UZH Life Sciences Fund.
News round up 25 February 2019
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Iwoca takes down $26m in series D
The CommerzVentures and Intesa Sanpaolo-backed business lending platform secured the series D funding together with some $169m in debt financing.
TPG-SV fund bites into Shiheng
SoftBank and TPG’s venture capital partnership has supplied an eight-figure dollar amount of series B2 funding to food retail management platform Shiheng.
News round up February 18 2019
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RapidDeploy gets $12m funding dispatch
Samsung Next and GreatPoint Ventures supplied series A capital for emergency response software provider RapidDeploy, which recently moved from South Africa to the US.
Corporates board space accelerator
Lockheed Martin, SAIC and Maxar Technologies have all become sponsors of a new space-focused accelerator targeting industries including communications, energy and robotics.