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18 March 2019 – Uber Lines Up $1bn in External Capital
Listen nowThe Big Ones Uber is lining up at least $1bn in external capital for its autonomous car division. SoftBank Vision Fund and Toyota, both of…
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11 March 2019 – SoftBank Announces $5bn Latin America SoftBank Innovation Fund
Listen nowThe big ones SoftBank, SoftBank, SoftBank. It feels like that’s all we’re talking about on this podcast, and that shows no sign of stopping, as…
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04 March 2019 – Honda, Panasonic and Omron Become Limited Partners in NordicNinja VC’s First Fund
Listen nowBig 3 Charles Conn and Patrick Pichette will join Oxford Sciences Innovation to become chief executive and chairman, respectively, with founder Dave Norwood retiring. Honda,…
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25 February 2019 – LPs Express Concern in SoftBank Vision Fund
Listen nowBig stories Reports earlier in the week claimed some of the LPs in SoftBank Vision Fund have concerns about its centralised decision making and the…
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18 February 2019 – Mitsubishi Takes 20% Ovo Energy Stake for $256m
Listen nowBig 3 Mitsubishi Corporation has paid $256m for a 20% stake in energy retailer and smart systems provider Ovo Energy, which plans to use the funding as…
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11 February 2019 – Tencent and the Gaming Industry
Listen nowBig Three General Electric’s corporate venturing unit is launching a content portal called Flux to help companies overcome barriers to diversity and inclusiveness. In game-industry…
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28 January 2019 – Stanford StartX Fund Comes to an End
Listen nowThe big 3 For all the talk about the big numbers of 2018 – Global Corporate Venturing tracked 2,775 deals worth an estimated total of…
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21 January 2019 – SenseTime Prepares for $2bn Round
Listen nowThe big ones Image recognition software provider SenseTime raised a total of $1.7bn in the year running up to May 2018, and news has emerged…
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14 January 2019 – CloudEndure Acquired by Amazon
Listen nowThe big ones Reports in late 2018 suggested SoftBank Vision Fund was planning to invest between $15bn and $20bn in order to take a majority…
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07 January 2019 – Bristol-Myers Squibb Agrees Celgene Acquisition
Listen nowThree biggest stories In this week’s biggest deal, pharmaceutical firm Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to acquire peer Celgene in a buyout made up of cash…