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24 October 2016 – Temasek Invests $250m, SoftBank and Saudi Arabia Create a Fund and Much More
Listen nowInvestments Cancer drug developer ADC Therapeutics has taken its total financing to $225m with a $105m private placement that included existing investor AstraZeneca. Mobike has closed more…
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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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03 October 2016 – Funding news from Canada, the EU and the UK, Exits for Nokia and Much More
Listen nowPeople Jack Leeney, US head of investing for Telefonica Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous Spain-based phone operator, has left after nearly five…
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26 September 2016 – Deals for LeEco and Airbnb, Finance Wales Launches Wales Business Fund plus much more
Listen nowDeals LeEco, has announced a $1.08bn funding round backed by Lenovo and Macrolink, and will use the funding to further develop LeSee, an autonomous electric…
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19 September 2016 – Clear Vision Investment, A Fund for Baidu and Russian State Exits plus much more
Listen nowDeals AcuFocus, developer of a medical device that improves near vision, has raised $66m in a KKR-led round. Microprocessor and system-on-chip technology developer Soft Machines…
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12 September 2016 – Automotive Deals, UK Funds and more funding for Didi Chuxing plus more
Listen nowDeals Best Logistics has closed a massive $760m funding round that shows how big China’s logistics sector is growing in the wake of the country’s e-commerce success.…
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5 September 2016 – A look at Lidar, $1bn fund for UK Ministry of Defence and more
Listen nowPeople Renard heads west after SanDisk merger Wang heads Tsinghua fund Funds Reliance pledges $750m for digital startup funding Elevator advertising firm Focus Media prefers…
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29 August 2016 – University and Government Venturing Summer Catchup and more
Listen nowInvestments One97 Communications, which has reportedly raised almost $1bn to date, most of which came after it formed mobile payment subsidiary Paytm in 2010. It’s…
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22 August 2016 – Autonomous and Smart Car Investments, $30bn Fund in China and more
Listen nowFunds China has just reportedly approved the establishment of a state-owned $30bn VC fund in Shenzhen. ONGC to drill into startups with $15m fund Uber…
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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…