Reports of new fund-raising for e-commerce site, already backed by corporate venturing units including The Times of India Group, value it at $1bn.
Author: Quentin Carruthers
Newsle discovers $1.65m
Advance Publications subsidiary leads investment in news-discovery, people-tracker.
Adaptive Planning’s funding soars
Adaptive Planning, a US-based provider of cloud-based business analytics solutions, has raised $45m in a further round of venture funding in which RBC Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Royal Bank of Canada, participated. Tnd the company has now raised at least $100m after its $22m series E round closed in March last year, taking… Continue reading Adaptive Planning’s funding soars
Numbrs to take Swiss banking mobile
Centralway, a Switzerland-based funder and developer of internet companies, has raised SFr7.5m ($7.5m) for Numbrs, a personal finance banking application, in order to fund its roll out across Germany and the UK, followed by Singapore and Hong Kong. Julien Arnold founded Numbrs and is entrepreneur in residence at Centralway.
Wanderful Media finds further $9m
Newspaper-backed online shopping company increases total funding to $36m.
Amano McGann and ParkMe cut and shut
IDG-backed ParkMe partners with Amano Corporation subsidiary Amano McGann.
Transgene ups anti with Elsalys Biotech
French biopharmaceutical company Transgene invests in antibody start-up
Dekko attracts real interest
Augmented reality apps platform technology developer raises $3.2m while talking to corporates.
Salesforce-backed Box snaps up Crocodoc
Cloud content storage manager buys consumer technology start-up for undisclosed sum.
Air Liquide lifts up Plug Power
French industrial gases company Air Liquide make strategic $6.5m investment in its partner, Nasdaq-quoted hydrogen fuel cell maker Plug Power.
AesRx banks $1.36m
AesRx, a US-based biopharmaceutical company backed by MedImmune Ventures (wholly-owned corporate venturing fund within the AstraZeneca Group, founded in 2002 for investing in emerging healthcare), has raised $1.36m convertible debt out of a $1.53m offering, according to a 9 May regulatory filing. AesRX is also backed by Fidelity Biosciences, a venture capital division of mututal… Continue reading AesRx banks $1.36m
Tigo Energy brightened by $13.1m
Inventec-backed solar energy optimizer has new Chairman Zvi Alon and $13.1m funding led by Alon Ventures.
Wayra UnLtd calls for answers to UK social problems
Wayra UnLtd, the joint venture between Telefónica’s technology incubator unit Wayra UK and the UK charitable organization UnLtd (provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK), announced on 9 May 2013 that it was open to submissions from UK early stage digital social ventures. Applications are being taken until mid-June; shortlisted candidates will be… Continue reading Wayra UnLtd calls for answers to UK social problems
BBVA takes Radius of small business world
Spanish banking group BBVA invests undisclosed amount in Radius, US-based provider of small business data intelligence.