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Telecoms are the connecting tissue of today’s digitised world

Data management software provider Snowflake, which counts Salesforce among its backers, has gone public and its price doubled on the first day of trading.

SoftBank emerged in the news last week with its sizeable bets in the equity derivative markets in the US. Despite some recent challenges, the telecoms conglomerate has been very active in large venturing deals this year as well.

Special report: pandemic has boosted venture dollars across health AI

After the announcement of Warren Buffett’s bet on Japan’s largest trading houses, we take a brief look at how they have been doing on the corporate venturing arena.

As the month of August draws to a close, last week we reported several initial public offerings (IPOs) which are lined up for the coming weeks along with some notable ones that have already taken place.

US-based business finance provider Kabbage, which has a host of corporates as backers, will be acquired by payment processing firm American Express.

Amid the covid-19 pandemic, interest in life sciences is now perhaps at its highest. This is true in corporate venture capital and three of the multimillion-dollar stories we reported in mid-August corroborate this.

The number of corporate-backed companies going public declined in 2019, despite some major IPOs like those of Uber, Lyft and Slack.