Consumer

CRM forecasting software provider Node has been purchased having raised $37m from investors including MS&AD Insurance, Gree, Recruit and JetBlue.

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

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

The Alibaba-backed meal preparation brand has secured capital in a Talis Capital-led round that increased its funding to $65m to date.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

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.

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

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The Alibaba and SoftBank-backed sports apparel merchant increased its valuation to $6.2bn in a series E round co-led by Fidelity and Thrive Capital.

The plant-based food producer boosted its valuation to $4bn and has now raised $1.5bn since being founded by Stanford faculty in 2011.

The plant-based food producer boosted its valuation to $4bn and has now raised a total of $1.5bn from investors including GV.