Marui Group and Value Create are among the LPs for the venture firm’s Food Future Fund, which is sponsored by restaurant operator En-Rest and is targeting $28.4m.
Author: Edison Fu
Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.
Kiyo Learning gets IPO qualification
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Homer takes home $50m
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Facebook bets on Baita agtech scheme
Facebook-backed Campo Digital will partner 10 Brazil-based agtech developers that will showcase their products on a demo day scheduled to take place in April 2021.
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Common houses $50m series D funding
Kinnevik has led the LeFrak-backed community housing service provider’s latest round, taking its overall funding in excess of $110m.
ShareChat shoots to $40m pre-series E
Twitter has returned to back the social media platform that provides services in 15 Indian languages, which pushed its total funding to about $264m.
Accenture helps Ripjar raise series B
The existing investor has chipped into the anti-fraud technology producer’s $36.3m round that lifted its overall funding to more than $60m.
MineralTree bears $50m in fruit
Eight Roads Ventures returned for the First Data-backed payment software developer’s series D round, announced alongside two strategic acquisitions.
Cyclone hits $40m series B
Lenovo Capital has chipped into the RPA software provider’s latest funding, which will go toward improving its products and entering new markets.
Teo and Ng reach Altara Ventures
Former B Capital Group partners have formed a $100m venture fund that will principally target Southeast Asia-based technology startups.
XWPharma takes in $40m series C round
Existing investors Johnson & Johnson and WuXi AppTec have returned to take part in the neurological drug developer’s latest funding.
ETS starts corporate venturing
The nonprofit educational organisation’s ETS Strategic Capital unit will invest in edtech companies at early to late-stage, having already made five deals.