Apart from Mythical, investors in blockchain videogame studio Mythical’s series A round included corporate-backed vehicle Eos VC Fund and Javelin Venture Partners.
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Bitfury joins Plekhanov university for blockchain accelerator
Bitfury and Plekhanov Russian University of Economics will pilot the program with Russian government funding.
Kanova captures $16.6m series A
Legend-backed biotherapeutics developer Kanova has secured capital from investors including Tsinghua University-managed Lotus Lake Ventures.
News round up 26 November 2018
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IBM and Columbia matriculate blockchain accelerators
IBM Blockchain Accelerator will focus on later-stage startups, while Columbia Blockchain Launch Accelerator has been established for pre-seed companies.
Camel-IDS calls in $42m
Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Camel-IDS collected funding from investors including Novo for a radiation-based oncology platform that will initially target Her2-positive brain metastatic breast cancer.
News round up November 19 2018
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EdX enrols in Unicaf’s $28m series B
Online higher education platform Unicaf has raised series B funding from a consortium including Goldman Sachs, EdX and CDC Group as it gears up to target more students.
NAB and US Bancorp reach Poynt for $100m
NAB and US Bancorp subsidiary Evalon invested in a series C round that increased payment technology developer Poynt’s overall funding to more than $130m.
News round up 12 November 2018
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News round up 5 November 2018
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Rakuten to exit as MakeLeaps jumps to Ricoh
Rakuten has scored an exit from digital invoicing platform MakeLeaps after Ricoh agreed to buy the company for a reported eight-figure amount.
Wukongbao claims series B funding
Guohua Life Insurance and 58 Group supplied series B funding for online insurance platform Wukongbao, adding to $15.3m in pre-series A funding in 2016.
Jain jets into Sistema Asia Fund
Sumit Jain has taken on a managing partner job at Sistema’s Asia Fund on the back of nine years at Kalaari Capital which included a role in seeding two VC funds.