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UC Davis debuts 14 spinouts during 2018-19

While slightly less than the 16 generated by UC Davis past year, the university remains pleased with the performance of internal tech transfer operations.


Jul 22, 2019

Corporates find PayMate in $25m series D

Recruit Strategic Partners, Brand Capital and Visa have backed the series D round, which the digital payment platform developer plans to close at $25m.

Jul 22, 2019

Analysis: Vungle’s $750m acquisition

Blackstone will purchase the advertising platform Vungle in a deal giving exits to corporates Alphabet and Verizon.

Jul 22, 2019

Corporate venturing deal net: 15-19 July 2019

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

Jul 19, 2019

ZhongAn rakes in $285m funding round

ZhongAn invested $145m into its fintech-focused unit as part of a $285m funding round that also featured Sinolink Worldwide.

Jul 19, 2019

Sierra calls in corporates for $215m fund

Venture capital firm Sierra Ventures has received LP commitments from several undisclosed corporates to reach a $215m close.

Jul 19, 2019

Banco ABC Brasil begets Begotti appointment

Pedro Begotti, who was mostly recently responsible for Banco do Brasil’s corporate venturing initiatives, has become head of innovation and corporate venture at Banco ABC Brasil.

Jul 19, 2019

N26 recounts $470m series D

Tencent and Allianz X, both backers in the first $300m series D tranche, have returned for a $170m extension that boosted N26’s valuation to $3.5bn.

Jul 18, 2019

Visa pins in Payworks purchase

Visa has acquired the cloud-based payment processing software provider Payworks, one of its portfolio companies, also handing an exit to Commerzbank.

Jul 18, 2019

Flybits takes off with $35m series C

Mastercard, Citi, Westpac and TD Bank Group have all participated in a $35m series C round for Flybits that was led by Point72 Ventures.

Jul 17, 2019

Finix swipes in series A funding

Visa took part in the $17.5m in a series A round, which increased the smart payment card and mobile app developer's total funding to over $20m.

Jul 17, 2019

Curve chalks up $55m series B

CreditEase and existing investor Santander InnoVentures both took part in the round, which valued the digital payment card developer at about $250m.

Jul 16, 2019
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