Peijia Medical participated in JenaValve’s $100m series C round while L Catterton led Planted Foods’ series B extension, lifting it to $93m.

Public markets

Biocytogen Pharmaceuticals, a China-based antibody drug discovery platform developer backed by insurer China Life, has listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s Main Board. The company is set to secure about HK$471m ($60m) in net proceeds having issued nearly 21.8 million shares at HK$25.22 apiece.

Funding

Company Company description Sector Country Round Round size($m) Deal date Investors
JenaValve Technology Differentiated transcatheter aortic valve replacement system manufacturer Healthcare US C 100 31/08/2022 Peijia Medical; Bain Capital Life Sciences (lead), Andera Partners, Valiance Advisors, Gimv,  Cormorant Asset Management, RMM, Venture Incubator, Pictet Alternative Advisors SA, Qatar Investment Authority, Innovatus Capital Partners
Planted Foods Biostructuring and fermentation-derived meat substitute developer Consumer Switzerland B 93 (updated) 01/09/2022 LVMH (L Catterton) (lead); Vorwerk Ventures, Gullspång Re:food, Movendo Capital, Good Seed Ventures, Joyance, Ace & Company (SFG strategy), Be8 Ventures
Zhejiang Longneng Electric Power Technology Green energy subsidiary of electric machinery manufacturer Wolong Electric Group Energy and Natural Resources China 63.1 31/08/2022 Wolong Electric Group, Muyuan Industrial Group; FR Asset, 12 unnamed individual and institutional investors
VRGL Wealth management industry-focused data extraction service Financial US A 15 30/08/2022 Dynasty Financial Partners; MissionOG (co-lead), Fintop Capital (co-lead), Sallyport Investments, Checchi Capital, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures,  Flyover Capital, Fin Capital, The Compound Capital
Billogram Invoicing and payment platform operator Financial Sweden N/A 14.9 31/08/2022 Swisscom (Swisscom Ventures) (lead); Partech, CNI Nordic, Inbox Capital
Stacked Video streaming and gaming platform Media  US A 13 31/08/2022 Z Holdings (Z Venture Capital), Gree (GFR Fund); Pantera Capital (lead), Alexandr Wang, Eddy Lu, Carl Pei
Neutral Foods  Carbon-neutral food company Industrial US A 12 01/09/2022 Kirin Holdings Company, Norinchukin Bank; Global Brain, Craig Shapiro, LeBron James, Kevin Love, Tobias Harris, John Legend, Questlove, Breakthrough Energy (Breakthrough Energy Ventures)
Oxwash  On-demand laundry and wet cleaning service Consumer UK A 11.5 30/08/2022 Pentland Group; Clean Ventures, Conduit Capital London (Conduit-Ascension EIS Impact Fund), Leon Lewis 
FX HedgePool Foreign exchange transaction matching platform  Financial  Canada A 8 31/08/2022 Fidelity (Fidelity International Strategic Ventures), NAventures (National Bank of Canada); Information Venture Partners (lead)
Charged  Electric motorcycle provider Transport Indonesia N/A 4.5 01/09/2022 DeClout (DeClout Ventures)
Justhome Digital home financing platform Services Germany Pre-Seed 3.3 31/08/2022 Axel Springer/Porsche (APX); Target Global (lead)
Alloy Enterprises Fully-dense aluminum parts manufacturer Industrial US N/A 3 31/08/2022 Lockheed Martin (Lockheed Martin Ventures) (lead); Congruent Ventures
Aesop Technology AI-equipped clinical documentation analysis service Healthcare US Pre-A 2.95 31/08/2022 Colopl (Colopl Next); Taiwania Capital (lead), 500 Startups, BE Capital
Thalamos Mental healthcare digitisation platform Healthcare UK Seed 1 01/09/2022 Ascension (Conduit Impact EIS Fund); Syndicate Room, Seedrs crowdfunding
Kaeka Communication training service Services Japan N/A <1 (857,000) 01/09/2022 Digital Garage (DG Incubation); W Ventures, Anri
Spearix Technologies Industrial IoT audio processor IT US N/A N/A 31/08/2022 Emerson (Emerson Ventures)
MyHealthMath Big data-equipped insurance risk mitigation platform Financial US N/A N/A 30/08/2022 AccuRisk Holdings 
T2P B2B-focused ewallet provider Financial Thailand N/A N/A 31/08/2022 Kasikornbank (Beacon Venture Capital)
3atlana Car services app operator Transport Egypt Seed N/A 31/08/2022 Ghabbour Auto
Noile-Immune  Cancer immunotherapy developer spun out of Yamaguchi University Healthcare Japan N/A N/A 31/08/2022 Medipal (Medipal Innovation)
Extech (Exchange Tech) Unmanned foreign currency exchange machine developer Financial Japan N/A N/A 31/08/2022 Hankyu Hanshin Holdings (Hanyu Hanshin Innovation Partners), Mizuho Bank (Mizuho Capital), Concord Executive Group
Remow Anime streaming platform Media Japan N/A N/A 01/09/2022 ADK Emotions
Edison Fu

Edison Fu is head of Asia development at Global Corporate Venturing.