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14 March 2016 – Ant Financial, Flipkart, WeWork, Astroscale, Precision Ocular, Replay Technologies, Lasergen, Stanford University and more
Listen nowDeals Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of Chinese giant Alibaba, which is seeking up to $3bn at a valuation of $60bn while it reportedly…
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7 March 2016 – Google Capital, Alphabet, Magic Leap, Snapchat, Mercari, AXA, Slack, Souqcom, Vertex, Purdue University, Oregon State University and more
Listen nowDeals We tracked 132 deals in the month. While this would be the lowest month for deal activity since September 2014, it is not much…
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29 February 2016 – Tsinghua Unigroup and TCL Corporation fund, University of California and RNT Associates, Uxin, Didi Kuaidi, Razer, Nestlé, Qualcomm and more
Listen nowFunds The start of Mobile World Congress which saw Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), the venture capital firm sponsored by communications equipment maker Nokia, start a…
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22 February 2016 – Campbell Soup, Statoil, landscaping in China, MindMaze, Yello, Volvo, Google, Pie and more
Listen nowFundraising Food technology developers like Impossible Foods and Juicero have raised some big rounds over the last year or two and that’s spurring food product…
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15 February 2016 – Chinese new year, fintech investor BBVA, Innogy Venture Capital, triple French biotech fund, Unicef, Shanghai reimburses venture capital firms and more
Listen nowFunds Financial services provider BBVA has been a notable fintech investor since early 2013 when it formed a $100m fund that has since backed companies…
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8 February 2016 – Munce retires, Jasper exit, Sesame Street, Pierre Fabre and more…
Listen nowBig news – people moves Claudia Fan Munce’s retirement as managing director of IBM’s Venture Capital Group, following other high-profile departures such as Nagraj Kashyap…