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11 July 2016 – Microsoft Venturing Fund, Exits for Multiple Companies and Investment News plus more
Listen nowPeople Rich Miner helped to launch Google Ventures in 2009 as general partner but seven years later, he’s dropped down to a venture partner position so he…
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04 July 2016 – Crispr investment, Siemens fund and more Intel Capital people moves plus more
Listen nowNews and Deals Corporate On GlobalCorporateVenturing.com, the week’s biggest news was the downfall of Zenefits, a US-based HR software provider that closed a $500m series…
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27 June 2016 – Blade Therapeutics, Kellogg, and IPOs for Twilio and Selecta Biosciences and more
Listen nowDeals Corporate While not technically new, we have more information on the massive $7.3bn round for Didi Chuxing that we talked about on last Monday’s podcast.…
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20 June 2016 – Post-lean interview with Frode Odegard, Didi Chuxing, FII, Rgenix, Imperial Innovations and more
Listen nowDidi Chuxing, the ride-sharing app developer that’s been causing a headache to Uber, has raised the largest venture round of all time with $7.3bn in…
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13 June 2016 – Cisco shakeup, Line flotation, Oxford ISIS rebranding and more.
Listen nowCisco is in the news for not so positive reasons following the walkout of its spin-in team. Exits Line, the messaging platform, wholly-owned by Naver,…
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06 June 2016 – Funds from Microsoft and Romulus, job moves, Alibaba and Uber gain investments and more
Listen nowMoves Stephen Lowery, partner at venture capital firm Frog Capital, has joined Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) UK team to lead it corporate and independent VC…
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30 May 2016 – Bank Holiday Monday
Listen nowNo episode today due to the UK bank holiday. The podcast will be back as usual next week. “Funky Chunk” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under…
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23 May 2016 – Johnson & Johnson, Invitalia, Geodesic Capital, Kaspersky, Slack Technologies, Intel and more
Listen nowFunds Four Singapore-based companies – real estate company CapitaLand, data centre provider DeClout, agribusiness Wilmar and logistics provider YCH Group – have been awarded S$40m…
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16 May 2016 – Naspers, Kuang-Chi, HP, Malaysian Islamic fund, Hyperloop, VenBio and more
Listen nowFunds Global Corporate Venturing Naspers is looking to put down roots in Silicon Valley via a newly formed investment subsidiary called Naspers Ventures. Kuang-Chi makes Israeli…
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9 May 2016 – Ford invests in Pivotal Software, Chehejai gets charged up, Adobe buys RayVio, Lenovo establishes a fund and many people moves
Listen nowInvestments Ford led a $253m round for Pivotal Software, a spinout of EMC and VMWare. These two corporates also joined the most recent round, alongside…