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15 May 2017 – SoftBank Leads Improbable $502m Investment and Much More
Listen nowDeals The $5.5bn round on-demand ride provider Didi Chuxing just confirmed was closed at a $50bn valuation that means it is closing ground with rival…
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24 April 2017 – SoftBank Considers $1bn+ Deal and Much More
Listen nowDeals SoftBank is reportedly considering paying upwards of $1bn for a 20% stake in One97 Communications, the Indian e-commerce firm that’s also the parent company…
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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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3 April 2017 – Panasonic Puts $100m into Corporate Venturing and Much More
Listen nowFunds Panasonic to put $100m into corporate venturing German consumer product and industrial manufacturer Henkel has been exploring corporate venturing over the past year as…
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27 March 2017 – MuleSoft’s Shares Soar Following $221m IPO and Much More
Listen nowMuleSoft raised $221m in its IPO on Friday, only to see its share price soar to almost twice the mid-point of its range. The offering…
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20 March 2017 – Netflix’s Regional Rival iFlix Secures $90m and Much More
Listen nowAlthough Netflix is the global market leader when it comes to online video streaming subscription services, regional rivals are beginning to raise substantial sums, particularly…
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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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06 March 2017 – British Business Bank’s $500m fund and Much More
Listen nowFunds Foxconn, the contract manufacturer that’s already backed the $100bn SoftBank Vision Fund, has now also dropped $600m on a majority stake in the telecoms group’s Asia-based…
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27 February 2017 – Westpac Supplies A$100m to Reinventure for Disruptive FinTech and Much More
Listen nowDeals SoFi is reportedly close to completing a $500m funding round backed by existing investor SoftBank. Speaking of SoftBank, editor-in-chief James Mawson has taken a deep look at its…
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20 February 2017 – Ford Invests in Argo AI, Enterprise Ireland backs 4 Funds and Much More
Listen nowDeals SoftBank has agreed to pay $3.3bn to acquire Fortress Investment Group, an investment manager with some $70bn of assets under management. Jera, the joint…