Consumer

The on-demand consumer delivery service more than doubled its valuation to $8.9bn in under six months, in a round backed by SoftBank Vision Fund 1.

Fosun Xingyuan Innovation Fund, reportedly an existing investor, helped the processed food provider secure $15.3m.

The newly established Tokai Venture Capital and Incubation unit will focus on the total life concierge concept.

Overview of three of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) from 2020 in which the China-based internet company either scored an exit or increased its stake.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Sunac Services supplied the lion's share of the capital for the smart home device producer's series A round, which has closed at approximately $76.9m.

This is the first in a series of quarterly publications for the Global Health Council looking at drug development, healthcare providers such as hospitals and digital health, payments and patient wellness. This first article looks at the implications of the disease treatments coming out of advanced research and artificial intelligence and the broader shift to digitalisation in healthcare. The next issue will focus on the providers of healthcare.

Monthly analysis: February

Where do you begin to summarise a year that has been the most challenging on a global scale in living memory?

Feature: artificial intelligence driving disease prevention, digital health enables personalised medicine, investment takes off

Sector analysis: Industrial