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26 September 2016 – Deals for LeEco and Airbnb, Finance Wales Launches Wales Business Fund plus much more
Listen nowDeals LeEco, has announced a $1.08bn funding round backed by Lenovo and Macrolink, and will use the funding to further develop LeSee, an autonomous electric…
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19 September 2016 – Clear Vision Investment, A Fund for Baidu and Russian State Exits plus much more
Listen nowDeals AcuFocus, developer of a medical device that improves near vision, has raised $66m in a KKR-led round. Microprocessor and system-on-chip technology developer Soft Machines…
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12 September 2016 – Automotive Deals, UK Funds and more funding for Didi Chuxing plus more
Listen nowDeals Best Logistics has closed a massive $760m funding round that shows how big China’s logistics sector is growing in the wake of the country’s e-commerce success.…
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5 September 2016 – A look at Lidar, $1bn fund for UK Ministry of Defence and more
Listen nowPeople Renard heads west after SanDisk merger Wang heads Tsinghua fund Funds Reliance pledges $750m for digital startup funding Elevator advertising firm Focus Media prefers…
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29 August 2016 – University and Government Venturing Summer Catchup and more
Listen nowInvestments One97 Communications, which has reportedly raised almost $1bn to date, most of which came after it formed mobile payment subsidiary Paytm in 2010. It’s…
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22 August 2016 – Autonomous and Smart Car Investments, $30bn Fund in China and more
Listen nowFunds China has just reportedly approved the establishment of a state-owned $30bn VC fund in Shenzhen. ONGC to drill into startups with $15m fund Uber…
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15 August 2016 – VR and Food Delivery Investments, GV People Moves and more
Listen nowPeople Friday was Bill Maris’s last day at GV, the corporate venturing unit he helped to set up for search engine Google in 2009. But…
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01 August 2016 – Asian Funds, MyTaxi hails Hailo, University Record Breaking and more
Listen nowPeople Intel Capital has chosen Christine Herron and Trina Van Pelt to manage its $125m Intel Capital Diversity Fund. A former startup CEO, Herron joined…
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25 July 2016 – Last week’s biggest investments, funds, exits and people moves
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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18 July 2016 – The Power Behind Pokémon Go raises $181m plus more
Listen nowInvestments Unity, which is the game engine that helped build Pokémon Go, raised $181m in its series C round led by DFJ Growth and including…