Consumer

Content personalisation technology provider Movable Ink and carbon-negative concrete developer Brimstone each raised $55m, with Intel and Amazon respectively among the investors.

Info Edge's corporate venturing activities are being boosted by Singapore-owned Temasek, which is committing 50% of the capital for three of its funds.

Vishal Gupta, formerly a director at the SoftBank division that oversees its Vision Funds, has joined TA Associates in a similar role.

Q&A with Lukasz Garbowski, investment director, Btomorrow Ventures

Sector report: energy Q1 2022

Corporate-backed medical imaging technology producer Lunit is preparing to float in South Korea while cancer drug developer Pheast secured $76m from investors including Alexandria Venture Investments.

Web3 security software producer Certik received $60m from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund 2 while corporate-backed automation technology provider Vicarious is being bought after raising over $250m.

Swiggy helped boost Rapido's valuation to $800m in a round that featured Shell Ventures and TVS Motor. This is a deal of a rather surprising size and valuation in a space that has not been as hot over the past years, as far as corporate-backed deals are concerned.

Appliance management app developer Fresco's $20m round was co-led by Vorwerk and Instant Brands while NBCUniversal and Hearst helped media measurement software provider TVScientific raise $20m.

SoftBank, Cargill, Tyson Foods, Dentsu and Givaudan invested in the cellular meat producer’s series C round, as it prepares to move to the commercialisation phase.

The cricket-themed NFT platform developer pulled in a nine-figure sum through a round led by Dream Sports and backed by Animoca Brands.