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04 June 2018 – Vision Fund Backs Cruise With Up To $2.25bn
Listen nowDeals Despite the short week, Ant Financial has really been rather busy, and has reportedly now sealed a $10bn funding round led by GIC, the…
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28 May 2018 – Ant Financial’s Latest Round Pegged at $10bn
Listen nowWe are back from the annual GCV Symposium and GUV: Fusion conferences, our London events bringing together CVCs and university tech transfer leaders from around…
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21 May 2018 – NewTV Raises $800m in Funding
Listen nowDeals Last week’s Big Deal on Global Corporate Venturing looked at a reported $800m in funding raised by NewTV, a stealthy video content producer formed…
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14 May 2018 – China About to Finalise $47bn Semiconductor and Chip Investment Fund
Listen nowDeals Online medical booking and healthcare services portal WeDoctor has raised $500m at a $5.5bn valuation, securing the cash in a round co-led by insurer…
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07 May 2018 – Tencent Leads $820m Series C for UBTech
Listen nowDeals Baidu has spun off the likes of Baidu Video and Zuoyebang in recent years, and video streaming platform iQiyi, in which Baidu owned a…
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16 April 2018 – Ant Financial Reportedly Targeting $150bn Valuation
Listen nowDeals Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial services arm, is on its way to becoming the most valuable private VC-backed company ever, having reportedly lined up $3bn…
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09 April 2018 – Management Approaches to Portfolio
Listen nowWhich camp are you in? In China, it seems, there is Alibaba and there is Tencent. Alibaba and Tencent account for 40% to 50% of…
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26 March 2018 – Sir Li Ka-shing to Retire from Two Businesses
Listen nowDeals Alibaba has provided another $2bn for Lazada, the Southeast Asian e-commerce marketplace it had already invested $2bn in as of June last year. India-based…
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19 March 2018 – Walmart Discusses Investing $7bn in Flipkart
Listen nowDeals Big-box retailer Walmart has entered discussions to invest roughly $7bn in India-based e-commerce company Flipkart at a valuation of about $20bn, Bloomberg reported on…
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12 March 2018 – Magic Leap Increases Series D to $963m
Listen nowDeals In last week’s Big Deal on GCV, news editor Robert Lavine looked at DoorDash, which just got its first corporate investment in a $535m…