The intellectual property bank is to be set up with NT$500m ($17m) from venture capital firms and local equipment companies HTC, Acer and Asustek Computer under the supervision of Taiwan’s semi-official Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).
Category: Deals
Lashou raises $165m in 12 months
In the past 12 months since launch, and including two previous rounds, Lashou has now raised $165m.
SAP programs Alteryx
SAP Ventures set up Fund I earlier this year following a successful track record drawing corporate venturing money from its parent’s balance sheet and has invested $6m in Alteryx.
CyberAgent backs Kayac
Besides CyberAgent, online clothing store operator Start Today and venture capital firm Globis Capital Partners will take private placements of Kayac shares, with their stakes adding up to nearly 10%, according to news wire Nikkei.
Intel invests $20m to get in the Kno
Intel Capital’s investment is part of $30m round for Kno, which also sees Advance Publications join the consortium as a new investor.
Bertelsmann falls for Flat World Knowledge
Bertelsmann’s Random House publisher join another of the Germany-based media group’s subsidiary in backing Flat World Knowledge.
Money follows SocialFlow
Japan-based internet holding company Softbank led the A round for SocialFlow, and the consortium also included SocialFlow’s incubator, Betaworks and AOL Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of US media group AOL.
KBS+P backs PlaceIQ
The other investors include venture capital firms IA Ventures and Social Leverage, and angel investors.
Cellular Dynamics breeds success
Tactics II Stem Cell Ventures, a venture capital firm set up by Robert and Thomas Palay after they sold NimbleGen Systems to Switzerland-based drugs company Roche in August 2007 for $272.5m, led the round for Cellular Dynamics International .
Google glares at German deal
US search engine provider Google has made its first clean energy project investment in Germany by teaming up with local private equity firm Capital Stage. Benjamin Kott (pictured), clean energy advocacy manager at Google, said Google would invest €3.5m ($5m) in a solar photovoltaic power plant in Germany.Capital Stage said Google was buying a 49%… Continue reading Google glares at German deal
Safeguard focuses on PixelOptics
Alongside Safeguard in the PixelOptics round was venture capital firms Delphi Ventures, Carlyle Group, Longitude Capital and Stark Investments.
Steamboat caught on film again
GoPro declined to disclose the size of the investment by disney’s Steamboat Ventures to news provider Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that revealed the round.
Alstom comes second with BrightSource
Alstom invested $75m in BrightSource’s E round, in addition to $55m committed last year as part of a $176m D round.
JumpTap leaps for $20m
JumpTap raises $20m of a planned $27.9m round.