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21 December 2020 – ByteDance Raising $2bn at $180bn Valuation
Listen nowThe Big Ones Ant Group may not have been able to successfully go public but China’s other hugely valuable VC-backed private company, ByteDance, is reportedly…
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14 December 2020 – Drug Development Company Tempus Secures $200m
Listen nowThe Big Ones 2020 has been a year when, for obvious reasons, innovative drug development has taken a leap forward. Tempus combines artificial intelligence and…
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07 December 2020 – Salesforce Announces $27.7bn Purchase of Slack
Listen nowThe Big Ones Electronics and appliance retailer Suning has spun off its online retail platform and e-commerce services activities into a newly formed business called…
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30 November 2020 – Stripe Opens Discussions for Funding at Potential $100bn Valuation
Listen nowThe Big Ones Digital payment technology and services provider Stripe last raised money in October 2019, closing $850m from investors including Alphabet unit GV at…
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23 November 2020 – PingCap Stores £270m in Series D Funding
Listen nowThe Big Ones Distributed database software provider PingCap has secured $270m in series D funding from backers including Bertelsmann Asia Investments that will support research…
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16 November 2020 – SentinelOne Bags $267m in Series F
Listen nowThe Big Ones “The door is always open for a second and third [Vision] fund, but we’re not very popular,” according to Masayoshi Son, founder…
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09 November 2020 – Ant Group’s IPO Suspended by Regulators
Listen nowThe Big Ones Law firm Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe’s recent investments in Priori Legal and term sheet data analysis provider Aumni, coinciding with Latham & Watkins and Clifford…
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02 November 2020 – Ant Gets Ready for Global Expansion
Listen nowThe Big Ones Ant aims to raise $34.5bn – the biggest initial public offering – by splitting its stock issuance equally across Shanghai and Hong Kong stock…
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26 October 2020 – Ant Group Aims for World’s Biggest Floatation Topping $250bn
Listen nowThe Big Ones Yuanfudao is the latest Chinese online education provider to raise a huge amount, reportedly securing $1bn in a series G2 round led…
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19 October 2020 – SoftBank Backs Kahoot with $215m Investment
Listen nowThe Big Ones Kahoot has been one of the biggest recent success stories in the startup space. The company, the developer of a gamified online…