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12 June 2017 – Essential Houzz Deals and Much More
Listen nowDeals Houzz is reportedly nearing the close of a $400m round led by multi-family office Iconiq Capital that will value it at about $400m. Essential,…
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05 June 2017 – Invenergy Launches Cleantech Corporate Venturing Arm and Much More
Listen nowFunds Invenergy announced (just ahead of Trump’s Paris deal pullout) that it will launch a corporate venturing arm aimed at cleantech software companies. Chinese internet company…
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29 May 2017 – Home Fitness Service Peloton Raises $325m and Much More
Listen nowDeals Alibaba and Ant Financial are reportedly set to lead a $1bn round for food ordering platform Ele.me that will value it at up to…
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22 May 2017 – Naspers $420m Order for Delivery Hero and Much More
Listen nowBefore we dive into this week’s news, here’s a recommendation for a more in-depth look at a recent deal. Naspers has invested more than $420m…
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15 May 2017 – SoftBank Leads Improbable $502m Investment and Much More
Listen nowDeals The $5.5bn round on-demand ride provider Didi Chuxing just confirmed was closed at a $50bn valuation that means it is closing ground with rival…
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8 May 2017 – Didi Chuxing Confirms $5.5bn in New Funding and Much More
Listen nowCloudera’s $225m initial public offering has been relatively successful so far, with the enterprise big data company floating above its range and seeing its share…
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1 May 2017 – Bank Holiday Message
Listen nowNo episode this week due to the British Bank Holiday Weekend. “Funky Chunk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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24 April 2017 – SoftBank Considers $1bn+ Deal and Much More
Listen nowDeals SoftBank is reportedly considering paying upwards of $1bn for a 20% stake in One97 Communications, the Indian e-commerce firm that’s also the parent company…
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10 April 2017 – Lyft Raises $500m & Unusual IPO for Spotify Plus Much More
Listen nowDeals It feels like the whole Flipkart/Snapdeal funding/merger saga’s been going on forever by this point but news continues to flow out of the respective…
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3 April 2017 – Panasonic Puts $100m into Corporate Venturing and Much More
Listen nowFunds Panasonic to put $100m into corporate venturing German consumer product and industrial manufacturer Henkel has been exploring corporate venturing over the past year as…