Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Salesforce Ventures, the investment arm of enterprise software producer Salesforce, has added an undisclosed amount to US-based marketing software provider AppsFlyer’s series D round, which stood at $210m as of January this year, at a valuation reported by VentureBeat to be $2bn. The January close featured DTCP, the investment manager backed by telecommunications firm Deutsche Telekom, in addition to General Atlantic, Goldman Sachs Growth, Qumra Capital, Pitango Venture Capital and Magma Venture Partners.
Kea, a US-headquartered developer of voice-based ordering technology for restaurants, has received $10m in a series A round featuring telecoms and internet group SoftBank’s artificial intelligence fund, Deepcore. The round was led by investment firm Marbruck and included Streamlined Ventures, Xfund, Heartland Ventures, Barrel Ventures, AVG Funds and angel investors Raj Kapoor, Craig Flom, Tony Lam and Jonathan Kelly. It came after $2.8m in seed capital in May 2019 from Deepcore, Streamlined Ventures, Xfund and various…
