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13 March 2017 – Airbnb Closes Series F, IPO for Snap and Much More
Listen nowDeals Airbnb has closed its series F round at just over $1bn, bringing its overall equity funding to $3.4bn. Instacart, the company touted as ‘the…
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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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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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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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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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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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25 April 2016 – Arvind Sodhani, Alibaba, JD.com, Baidu, Gensights Biologics, Gree, Mars Petcare, Birmingham University and more
Listen nowVC Creation Arvind Sodhani, former president of Intel Capital, has formed a new VC firm called Silver Trail Ventures and, ahead of a keynote speech…
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18 April 2016 – Didi Kuaidi, Alibaba, Khazanah Nasional, Intellia Therapeutics, Novartis, Google Ventures and more
Listen nowDeals Global Corporate Venturing Didi Kuaidi is said to be approaching a $1.5bn close for its latest round. It’s also been a particularly busy week…
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11 April 2016 – Ant Financial, Alibaba, Human Longevity, Slack, Africa Internet Group, the IFC and more
Listen nowDeals Global Corporate Venturing By far the biggest deal of the past week comes from China, where Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of e-commerce…
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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…