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19 December 2016 – $225m for BlueRock Therapeutics, Microsoft Ventures Invests from its AI Fund and Much More
Listen nowDeals Bayer and investment firm Versant Ventures have jointly provided $225m in series A funding for a regenerative medicine startup called BlueRock Therapeutics. Symphony emerged…
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12 December 2016 – Tinder creates Swipe Ventures, Australia launches $150m Csiro fund and Much More
Listen nowPeople Mary Kay James, previously a managing director at DuPont Ventures, has joined Tyson Foods as the US-based meat processor unveils a $150m corporate venturing…
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5 December 2016 – HTC $1.45bn VR Fund, BMW Increases Fund to €500m and Much More
Listen nowCovering the week’s venturing news including funding, investments, exits and people moves. “Funky Chunk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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14 November 2016 – Imax VR Fund, Space Mining for Luxemburg and Much More
Listen nowNews Walgreens sues portfolio company Theranos for $140m Alphabet rebrands Google Capital as CapitalG Funds Ten oil their way to $1bn fund Imax screens partners…
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7 November 2016 – Alibaba cultivates $1.5bn Fund, $100m First Fund for Keen and Much More
Listen nowPeople Lak Ananth has left US-based technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) to join Germany-based conglomerate Siemens as managing partner of its €1bn ($1.1bn) Next47…
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31 October 2016 – Intel Capital invests $38m in 12 startups, MIT creates an Incubator called Engine and Much More
Listen nowInvestments Chinese personal finance management platform U51 raised $310m in its series C round less than a month ago but has already added $84m from retail group…
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24 October 2016 – Temasek Invests $250m, SoftBank and Saudi Arabia Create a Fund and Much More
Listen nowInvestments Cancer drug developer ADC Therapeutics has taken its total financing to $225m with a $105m private placement that included existing investor AstraZeneca. Mobike has closed more…
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17 October 2016 – Short Break
Listen nowNo podcast this week but we’ll be back next week with all the biggest corporate, government and university venturing news. “Funky Chunk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)…
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10 October 2016 – Possible Snap IPO, Exit for Time Warner Investments, Investment News and Much More
Listen nowFeature GV’s new leader’s steady hand People Microsoft continues rapid hiring and investment pace Leeney leaves Telefonica Funds Spanish VC firm Kibo Ventures has raised…
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03 October 2016 – Funding news from Canada, the EU and the UK, Exits for Nokia and Much More
Listen nowPeople Jack Leeney, US head of investing for Telefonica Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous Spain-based phone operator, has left after nearly five…