Financial

Falcon Edge Capital has led the latest round for the Info Edge, Intel, SoftBank and Tencent-backed online insurance marketplace operator.

Ping An, Sberbank and Commerzbank are in line to exit the share trading platform developer, while SoftBank is backing a $650m private placement.

Olo,a PayPal-backed developer of a restaurant order management software, will float today in an offering priced well above its range.

Ben Davey has departed from corporate venturing activities at Barclays for an executive position at a special purpose acquisition company.

Tencent co-led a $92.5m round for the corporate expense management tool provider, investing alongside new and returning backers including Eight Roads Ventures.

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.

Google subsidiary Gradient Ventures returned for a $14m second tranche of the round, having led the August 2020 first close.

Monthly analysis: February

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

Sector analysis: Industrial