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Corporate venturing deal net: 24 December 2018-4 January 2019
Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Fundraising
Corporates help ATM Capital get $200m deposit
Venture firm ATM Capital has raised $200m for a first close anchored by 58.com and the Alibaba-headed Electronic World Trade Platform.
SoftBank reshuffles its CVC activities in Asia
SoftBank Ventures Korea has relaunched as SoftBank Ventures Asia with an expanded remit that will take in the US and Europe as well as the whole of Asia.
People
GV brings in Kapeller to target biotech
Alphabet subsidiary GV has bolstered its biotech focus by bringing in Rosana Kapeller as an entrepreneur-in-residence and David Reshef as venture partner.
Zeaske seeks out Echo Health position
GE Ventures’ director of healthcare investments, Jessica Zeaske, has left for a…