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12 February 2018 – Ant Financial in Potential $5bn Funding Round
Listen nowDeals Ant Financial, e-commerce group Alibaba’s financial services affiliate, is reportedly preparing to raise $5bn in funding in a round that will value it at…
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29 January 2018 – Ping An Insurance On a Roll
Listen nowDeals Ping An Insurance is on a roll. At the end of November, the insurance provider was gearing up for a $1bn IPO of Ping…
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18 December 2017 – OneWeb Follows SpaceX with a $500m Investment
Listen nowDeals Days after SpaceX raised $1bn in funding, another satellite technology company, OneWeb, is lining up a $500m investment from SoftBank, which had previously put…
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11 December 2017 – Obsidian Therapeutics Raises $49.5m
Listen nowCovering the week’s venturing news including funding, investments, exits and people moves. This week’s episode includes: Fund news from Viola and GeneChem and deal news…
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20 November 2017 – SoftBank Uber Investment Finally Happening
Listen nowDeals People have been waiting for SoftBank’s proposed investment in Uber to be confirmed, and it now appears as though it’s happening, after Uber revealed…
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16 October 2017 – Ola Raises $1.1bn in Tencent-led Round
Listen nowDeals Ola confirmed today it has raised $1.1bn in a round led by Tencent, which invested $400m according to recent reports. Tujia, the online accommodation…
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09 October 2017 – Uber’s Board Approves SoftBank Investment
Listen nowDeals Uber’s board of directors has approved an investment by SoftBank of up to $1.25bn, in a deal that will also give the corporate two…
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02 October 2017 – Roscosmos Establishes Space Ecosystem Fund
Listen nowDeals Chinese online services portal Meituan Dianping is reportedly nearing the close of a $3bn round featuring long-term investor Tencent that will value it at…
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25 September 2017 – Gogoro Raises $300m for Electric Scooter with Swappable Batteries
Listen nowDeals Gogoro has developed an electric scooter that it sells alongside access to a network of stations where riders can swap batteries, and it’s raised…
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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…