A range of corporates contributed to electric carmaker Aion’s $2.5bn series A round while Prosus took part in a $46m series E for farming services provider DeHaat.
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Daily Deal Round Up: 7th October, 2022
Prologis Ventures and GV helped supply chain analytics provider Altana raise $100m while Amazon and BHP were among the investors in an $85m round for clean steel technology developer Electra.
Daily Deal Round Up: September 12, 2022
Alphabet led a $1bn round for its Verily subsidiary while Kimco Realty and The Silverman Group were part of Gotham Greens’ $310m series E.
Daily Deal Round Up: August 26, 2022
Bertelsmann-backed paywall management software provider Zephr is set to be acquired by Zuora in a $44m deal while Meituan co-led a $875m round for EV battery producer Sunwoda.
Daily Deal Round Up: August 17, 2022
Virgin Group helped its cruise ship spinoff, Virgin Voyages, raise $550m while American Express Ventures lined up two M&A exits.
Daily Deal Round Up: August 16, 2022
Galaxy Digital called off its $1.2bn purchase of BitFury-backed crypto wallet developer BitGo while SK Group helped nuclear technology developer TerraPower raise $750m.
Daily Deals Round Up: July 29, 2022
Deutsche Telekom and Salesforce-backed PerimeterX is joining forces with Human Security while M12 and Alexandria Venture Investments took part in Ozette’s $26m series A round.
Is quantum computing ready for corporate investment?
Thirteen corporates invested a total of $1.31bn in quantum computing start-ups in 2021. That is a 68% rise from 2020. But is this nascent sector ready to see even bigger corporate cheques?
Daily Deals Round Up: July 22, 2022
SAIC Motor’s Shang Qi Capital vehicle led RT Advanced Materials’ $740m series D round while Contentsquare pulled in $600m from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Daily Deal Round Up: July 21, 2022
Intesa Sanpaolo Group helped online property marketplace Casavo pull in over $400m while collaborative robotics developer Jaka raised $150m from investors including SoftBank and Saudi Aramco.
BNPL crunch starts to bite, with Klarna the first taste
Klarna’s 83% drop in valuation to $6.7bn is the most visible harbinger of a buy now, pay later sector suffering from defaults and competition – some from the same corporates investing there.
Daily Deal Round Up: July 7, 2022
Volkswagen and Ingka Group helped Northvolt secure over $1bn while Dai-ichi Life has led a $120m series C for YuLife.
Rimac’s $536m round heralds survival fight for EV startups
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Porsche were among the investors in a late-stage round indicating the need for additional cashflow as new vehicle developers see the public markets shut off.
Corporates sign up to 10-figure Securonix round
Capital One Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Verizon Ventures and Wipro Ventures were all named as participants in a round for the cloud security software provider sized above $1bn.