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23 January 2017 – $20m Series B-1 for Moon Express, Rocket Internet Capital Partners Fund Closes at $1bn and Much More
Listen nowDeals Chinese used vehicle marketplace Uxin has raised $500m in new funding, making it only the latest player in the sector to close a nine-figure…
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16 January 2017 – Funding Circle Raises $100m, Starship Technologies Raises $17.2m Seed Funding and Much More
Listen nowDeals Insurance and reinsurance firm Arch Capital Group has contributed to a $510m round that has launched Premia Holdings, a Bermuda-based company that will offer…
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9 January 2017 – Welcome to 2017 with Bike Sharing Deals, Fund backing from Apple and Much More
Listen nowDeals Easy Life Financial Services, a tourism-focused financial services spinout of aviation and travel conglomerate HNA Group, has raised approximately $273m in series B+ funding…
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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…