The corporate venturing arm of US chip maker Intel has sealed four deals – Aldebaran Robotics, JouleX, Altergeo, Sapato – after breaching the landmark $10bn invested last month.
Author: Toby Lewis
Fusion-io makes large first day gains
Fusion-io floats with corporate backers including Dell Ventures, Sumitomo Ventures and reportedly Samsung Ventures.
Qualcomm backs Cavendish Kinetics
The corporate venturing arm of technology equipment maker Qualcomm has joined a $10m funding round raised by US and Netherlands-based semiconductor manufacturer Cavendish Kinetics.
SR One-backed Constellation raises $15m
The corporate venturing unit of UK-listed pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has participated in the extension financing raised by US drugs company Constellation Pharmaceuticals.
LSI Corporation joins Aquantia backers
NYSE-listed technology company LSI Corporation has joined the latest $21m round backing US ethernet connection company Aquantia.
PTT Chemical-backed Myriant in $125m flotation
PTT Chemical owns 47.9% of Myriant after it invested $60m in January.
Sanofi leads $7.5m Esperance round
French drugs company Sanofi has led the $7.5m round into cancer treatment company Esperance Pharmaceuticals.
Holtzbrinck Ventures in $24m Wooga investment
The series B round follows Holtzbrinck Ventures (HV) spinning out from German media parent Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
55tuan.com in $200m funding round
Chinese website 55tuan.com is reporedly raising $200m from Zero2IPO, Goldman Sachs and others.
Cisco-backed Act-On raises $10m
Other C-round backers of Act-On Software, a US-based provider of online marketing services, are venture capital firms Trinity Ventures, US Venture Partners and Voyager Capital.
Bosch-backed SiTime raises $22m
The semiconductor parts maker has taken $22m in a funding round which included Russian state investment firm Rusnano.
IDG says technology is India’s tiger
The Indian unit of US-based publisher International Data Group finds that technology deals make more than five times investors’ money in the region.
Nvidia does first venturing deal
Nvidia has made its first corporate venturing investment backing Israeli chip company Rocketick.
Hubert Burda acquires Sevenload shares
Germany-based media group Hubert Burda Media’s corporate venturing unit has acquired the shares of local online video platform Sevenload from phone operator Deutsche Telekom’s equivalent investment group.