Global University Venturing

ETH Zurich spinout GetYourGuide secured $484m in a round led by SoftBank Vision Fund that took its total funding past $650m.

Farm e-commerce company On the Slope has won support from Kyoto University’s KU-iCap, with the funding allocated for expansion in several Asian countries.

Stanford-backed medical supplies delivery service Zipline has revealed two funding rounds totaling $190m, one of which is a $70m series C that included existing backer GV.

The Parkwalk-managed co-investment fund has supplied Cambridge cancer therapy spinout PolyProx Therapeutics with capital, augmenting a $4.4m seed round for the latter announced earlier this month.

The TAU 3D imaging spinout has closed its seed round after previously receiving capital from the university’s Technology Innovation Momentum Fund.

Quell Therapeutics will develop treatments for conditions such as solid organ transplant rejection and has also secured capital from UCL Technology Fund.

Cambridge's cancer drug spinout Storm Therapeutics convinced its existing investors to join new participant Seroba Life Sciences for a second extension that brought its series A total to $38.2m.

Venture capital is commonly referred to as a people business. Intel Capital, the corporate venturing unit of technology company Intel, has adopted that approach more than most by accessing a diaspora of former employees to help syndicate deals, and thousands of entrepreneurial executives it has backed over nearly 30 years.

Sector analysis: Media

Results of the Global Corporate Venturing founders pilot survey conducted in March and April 2019.

Overview of the Global Corporate Venturing Connect corporate venturing meeting in Madrid, hosted by IESE Business School.