Ammar Alkassar, founder and ex-CEO of cybersecurity software provider Sirrix, has been hired as a venture partner at the unit.
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Rakuten selects 10 for Singaporean accelerator
Additor, AND Global, Elumium, Groovy Antoid, Immersive Systems, Jazzy Pay, Retarget Links, Rooit, Talk-A-Bot and Shoffr are Rakuten Accelerator’s first entrants.
Spice spies exit for Luharia investment
Spice Digital has exited Luharia, the operator of online lending marketplace AnyTimeLoan, having invested late last year.
LoginRadius measures out $17m in series A
Microsoft subsidiary M12 co-led the customer identity software provider’s series A round with ForgePoint Capital.
Editorial: Alphabet’s results highlights its ‘Other Bets’
With Facebook and Netflix stumbling without recognised corporate venturing units, it has been interesting to see the other big four US internet companies, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet and Apple, with powerful CVC investments report or predict strong results. Alphabet was the most clear-cut as it reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings last Monday, driving Alphabet shares to a new… Continue reading Editorial: Alphabet’s results highlights its ‘Other Bets’
Peerspace hosts GV in $16m series B
The event space provider has now raised almost $34m altogether and added GV’s Joe Kraus to its board of directors.
Baidu helps Quantapore create new round
The nanopore sequencing platform developer has closed a $15.5m series 3 round backed by Baidu Ventures.
Pocket.watch clocks in with $15m
Viacom led a series B round for the children’s digital media brand that included corporate venturing unit UTA Ventures.
Qumu confesses BriefCam exit
The corporate got a $9.7m return from the acquisition of video analysis software provider by Canon that was agreed in May.
Comcast helps kick in cash for K Health
Comcast Ventures was among the investors that put up $12.5m of financing for the care advice app developer.
Blast pushes seed round to $12m
CreditEase was among the investors that added $7m to the $5m game-based saving platform Blast raised in March.
TVision Insights draws attention in series B round
The Itochu-backed attention measurement technology provider has raised $11.5m, taking its overall funding to more than $20m.
GV measures Abacus exit
Certify has bought real-time expense reporting and management platform developer Abacus for an undisclosed sum.
InkBox closes $13m series A
Novel TMT was among the investors in a round that will enable the tattoo technology developer to expand its team and create new products.