Channel Talk, Segari and Borneo are all among the companies that have raised corporate venture capital, while Tepco celebrated an exit with the acquisition of Me:New.
Funding
Channel Talk, a South Korea-based customer service platform backed by telecommunications firm KDDI, has raised ¥2.8bn ($25.5m) in series C funding from Pavilion Capital, a subsidiary of Singaporean government-backed Temasek Holdings. The company previously closed a $2.3m in March 2020 backed by Atinum Investment, KB Investment and Laguna Investment. KDDI Open Innovation Fund, formed by telecommunications firm KDDI, and Colopl Next, a vehicle for game publisher Colopl, had injected $3.9m in 2017.
Segari, the Indonesia-based operator of…
Thierry Heles
Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.
