McCain Foods participated in a $150m round for GoodLeaf Farms while Shinsegae, YBM and SoftBank helped lift Mathpresso’s series C to $70m.

Reverse merger

Getaround, the US-based car sharing service backed by telecommunications and internet group SoftBank, media and automotive group Cox Enterprises and carmakers SAIC Motor and Toyota, has gone pubic through a reverse merger with New York-listed special purpose acquisition company InterPrivate II Acquisition Corp. The deal was agreed in May this year and valued the combined company at $1.2bn. Getaround had raised almost $600m in venture…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.