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Exits
Johnson & Johnson is celebrating an exit with the acquisition of its portfolio company NeoTract by Teleflex for a total consideration of $1.1bn.
Intel Capital also celebrated an exit as its portfolio company StarCash, a digital gift card service, was acquired by fintech company Blackhawk Network for $175m in cash.
Madsack hails CleverShuttle
Paytm to make Little acquisition
Juicero breaks down
It seems as though Roku is serious about an initial public offering this time. The company was rumoured to be seeking a flotation all the way back in 2014 but those plans never materialised. Fast forward to last July and reports emerged that Roku was hoping to go public this year. On Friday then, the media streaming software and device maker finally made its regulatory filing that revealed it is aiming for $100m in its IPO.
Matrimony.com, a matchmaking service aimed at the Indian market backed by Yahoo, is gearing up for an initial public offering that will launch next week and is expected to bring in $78m in proceeds (though part of that will be existing stockholders selling some of their shares).
Government
RedOwl reaches Forcepoint
Compositence puts acquisition deal together
Investments
Via, the operator of a shuttle-based carpooling service, has collected a reported $250m in funding from a consortium led by Daimler.
LeddarTech, which was spun out of Canada’s National Optics Institute in 2007, has raised $101m in fresh funding.
Innoviz appears on corporates’ radar
23andMe is seeking to top up its capital resources with another $200m – which would nearly double the amount of equity and debt it has raised so far to approximately $445m.
Gritstone Oncology, which is working on personalised cancer immunotherapies, has collected $92.7m in a series B round led by Lilly Asia Ventures with participation from investors including GV.
Entasis restructures $81.9m series B
If you are one of those people who dream about owning a flying car, you may be excited to hear that Lilium Aviation, a company that is working on precisely such technology, today secured $90m in series B funding from a consortium of investors that included Tencent.
Lendingkart shops around for $80m series C
MapR outlines $56m funding round
University
Amal develops $9.6m series B
Minnesota embraces CoreBiome
Prowler.io sneaks into $13m series A
Funds
Investors have long taken note and Fidelity International, which already has dozens of portfolio companies in the area, hopes that a $250m fund set up by its investment arm Eight Roads Ventures will help it grab a bigger piece of the pie.
Qingsong attracts $130m for third fund
Government
Corporate venturing news from Poland are a rarity, but that could be about to change withthe government’s launch of a $225m fund of funds that is expected to back both domestic and international companies hoping to establish investment subsidiaries that support Polish startups.
Ireland sows $24m agtech fund
University
Melbourne gains $64m incubator
“Funky Chunk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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