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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…
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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.…