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20 July 2020 – 5G & IoT Provider Jio Platforms Gains $4.5bn from Google
Listen nowThe Big Ones Jio Platforms was spun off by Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries late last year to build a mobile network tailored for 5G and…
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09 March 2020 – Waymo Secures $2.25bn in Initial Close of First External Round
Listen nowThe Big Ones Waymo began life in Alphabet’s secretive Google X division but has now fully emerged as a standalone company, securing $2.25bn from investors…
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29 April 2019 – Uber Sets Terms for $9bn IPO
Listen nowThe Big 3 Uber has set terms for an IPO that will raise $9bn if it floats at the top of its range. SoftBank is…
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20 August 2018 – Podcast and Radio Streaming Service Ximalaya Secures $580m
Listen nowDeals With much of the western VC industry seemingly on summer holiday (and frankly, who can blame them?), it’s up to China to pick up…
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30 July 2018 – Alphabet Shares Hit All-time High
Listen nowWith Facebook and Netflix stumbling without recognised corporate venturing units, it has been interesting to see the other big four US internet companies, Microsoft, Amazon,…
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18 September 2017 – ZhongAn Lines up $1.5bn IPO
Listen nowExits All eyes will be on Chinese online property and casualty insurance platform ZhongAn next week as it is lining up a Hong Kong IPO that…
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19 June 2017 – Ride Hailing Services Grab Deals and Much More
Listen nowFunds Ping An outlines fintech investment plans Medicxi nabs corporates to close $300m fund Novartis and Alphabet subsidiary Verily were among the limited partners for…
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10 April 2017 – Lyft Raises $500m & Unusual IPO for Spotify Plus Much More
Listen nowDeals It feels like the whole Flipkart/Snapdeal funding/merger saga’s been going on forever by this point but news continues to flow out of the respective…
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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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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…