Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
The government-mandated Cool Japan Fund today invested $10m in KKDay, a Taiwan-based experience travel booking platform backed by travel agency HIS, messaging platform Line and e-commerce group Alibaba. HIS led a $10.5m series B round for KKday in February 2018 that also featured venture capital firm MindWorks Ventures, taking the company’s total funding at the time to $22m. It added undisclosed sums from Alibaba in July 2018 and Line Ventures, Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, CDIB Capital and Monk’s Hill Ventures…
