Microsoft begins making investments with its tech angel investor and incubator Bing Fund.
Author: Gregg Bayes-Brown
Google signs $8.2m cheque with DocuSign
Google’s corporate venturing unit invests $8.2m in $55.7m Series D funding for eSignature company DocuSign, alongside Comcast Ventures and SAP Ventures.
Google drops out $16m for TuneIn
Popular radio app TuneIn drum up $16m in a venture round led by General Catalyst Partners with participation from Google Ventures, Jafco Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
Square wakes up, smells Starbucks’ $25m
Mobile payments start-up Square has attracted a $25m Series D investment from US-based coffee retailer Starbucks.
Cleveland Clinic makes healthy connection to ProMedica
Academic medical centre Cleveland Clinic has partnered up with healthcare organisation ProMedica to deliver higher quality healthcare.
Matomy and thetime send up $2.1m to UppSite
Startup incubator thetime and advertiser Matomy Media are investing $2.1m in automatic website-to-app developer UppSite.
LVMH premiers $19m investment in PVR
L Capital Asia, an LVMH-backed investment fund, plans to invest around $19m in India’s leading cinema company PVR.
Preferred Ventures invests in GoDigital
Online independent film distributor GoDigital attracts a “high six figure” seed-round investment from Preferred Ventures backed by former Facebook and Experian Executives.
Bluebird flies to $60m with Shire
Gene therapy specialist Bluebird Bio raises $60m in a Series D financing round, backed by UK and US-listed pharmaceutical company Shire.
SCVNGR Levels Up with Deutsche Telekom
US-based games maker SCVNGR has raised $9m in funding from T-Venture, the venture unit of Deutsche Telekom, for its mobile payment service LevelUp. It is the second tranche of a larger Series D round investment, and brings the total raised from the round to $21m. SCVNGR’s first close of the round in June raised $12m.… Continue reading SCVNGR Levels Up with Deutsche Telekom
Google hooks on to MediaSpike
MediaSpike, a California-based company looking to monetise gaming through in-game product placement, has attracted the attention of US-based search engine Google’s corporate venturing unit as a backer in a seed round of funding. Joining Google Ventures in the investment are Raptor Capital Management affiliated venture fund Raptor Ventures, venture fund Venture51, actor Robert Downey Junior’s… Continue reading Google hooks on to MediaSpike
Mersana Therapeutics raises $27m
Pfizer’s corporate venturing unit invested in the pharmaceutical company along with New Enterprise Associates, Fidelity Biosciences, ProQuest Investments, Harris and Harris Group, and Rho Ventures.
GoPro looks to float
The camera manufacturer is reportedly looking to go public after it won a funding round from Disney’s Steamboat Ventures last year.
Avalanche cascades to $30m
The memory chip company receives another investment from chip manufacturer Qualcomm’s corporate venturing unit, in its second round this year.