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22 March 2021 – Stripe Raises $600m with a $95bn Valuation
Listen nowThe Big Ones Payment processing software provider Stripe has raised $600m from investors including Axa and Allianz X, but the key element to the story…
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15 March 2021 – $1.9bn for Cold Chain Services Provider Lineage Logistics
Listen nowThe Big Ones One element of retail that has emerged unscathed from the covid-19 pandemic is food, and Lineage Logistics is among the biggest cold…
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08 March 2021 – Klarna Raises $1bn
Listen nowThe Big Ones E-commerce instalment finance provider Klarna is riding the fintech wave, having raised $1bn in financing from undisclosed new and existing investors in…
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01 March 2021 – Could the Sleeping Giant of Corporate Venturing – India – Finally Be Waking Up?
Listen nowThe Big Ones 1 Bonny Simi, pilot and founder of US airline JetBlue’s corporate venturing unit, read the runes correctly in December when she left…
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21 February 2021 – Blockchain.com Raises $120m in Strategic Growth Round
Listen nowThe Big Ones 1 Wishing our readers around the world a wonderful prosperous lunar new year – welcome to the year of the ox. There…
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15 February 2021 – Nationwide Increases Nationwide Ventures Allocation to $350m
Listen nowThe Big Ones 1 I was catching up with a former corporate venturing leader this month as she described a healthy portfolio of activities covering…
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08 February 2021 – Robinhood Raises $3.4bn
Listen nowThe Big Ones Few VC-backed companies have had as busy a week in the mainstream media as Robinhood. The share trading platform developer has been…
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01 February 2021 – Xerox Sets Up $250m Corporate Venture Capital Fund
Listen nowThe Big Ones GCV Digital Forum 2021 event had a host of highlights, including awards, the World of Corporate Venturing annual review, magazines and to bring together…
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18 January 2021 – GV Returns for EQRx’s $500m Series B
Listen nowThe Big Ones EQRx formally launched a year ago with $200m from investors including GV and Nextech, and all its series A investors have now…
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11 January 2021 – Online Tutoring Platform Zuoyebang Raises $1.6bn Series E
Listen nowThe Big Ones One of the big shifts in 2020 was the surge in educational technology providers, with China leading the way. That was before…