This week’s most interesting deals included insect-based animal feed and a system that uses kinetic energy to shoot satellites into space.
Category: News
Why beauty companies are taking tips from China
Beauty treatments, medical procedures and personalisation are blending together, with China at the forefront of these key trends.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 22, 2022
Brevan Howard Digital has led a $35m series B round for Messari while Robert Bosch Venture Capital participated in Tulu’s $25m series A.
Cybersecurity specialist SentinelOne forms $100m strategic fund
S Ventures will fund data and security technology developers and is led by Rob Salvagno, the former head of Cisco Investments.
Swisscom Ventures raises new $300m fund
Dominique Mégret has exclusively revealed to Global Venturing that the unit closed its fourth main fund in July, with 75% of the capital coming from external limited partners.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 21, 2022
Allianz and White Mountains Insurance helped Pie Insurance raise $315m while Cargill and ADM chipped into Innovafeed‘s $250m series D round.
Enagás, Alantra hit $208m hard cap for Klima Energy Transition Fund
With three investments already in the pocket, Klima is set to back a wide range of energy transition startups.
DTCP announces the first close of its latest fund
The Deutsche Telekom spinoff’s Growth Equity III Fund has completed a $300m first close backed by its former parent company as well as SoftBank.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 20, 2022
DG Daiwa Ventures contributed to a $40m series B round for Yellow Card Financial while Vitol provided $37m in series C funding for VavaCars.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 19, 2022
Novo Holdings led a $75m series C round for Kate Farms while PayU and InfoEdge Ventures participated in DotPe’s $58m series B.
The Standout Six: Deals you need to note this week
Alphabet led a $1bn round for its life sciences unit, PTT bets on insect startup and corporate-backed Propzy is set to shut down.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 16, 2022
Intuitive Surgical was part of Galvanize Therapeutics’ $100m series B round while Intel Capital participated in a $90m series C for Fortanix.
Melnikova recruited to Pfizer Ventures
Pfizer Ventures has hired Irena Melnikova, formerly CFO of Umoja Biopharma and MD of SVB Leerink, as an executive director.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 15, 2022
Next47 has participated in a $205m series D round for Verkada while UPMC Enterprises has co-led SparingVision’s $75m series B.