Financial

Sector focus: Industrial

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

GUV editor Thierry Heles reports from Autm’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas

Maumee Ventures president Rashmi Agnihotri left parent company The Andersons at the end of 2018, with John Kraus stepping up to take on the role.

Credit Suisse-backed SPF Investment Management has contributed to a $75m series B round for Pagantis, the online lender previously known as Digital Origin.

GCV Rising Star 2017 Amish Parashar, a founding partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, has joined corporate VC services provider U First Capital as an adviser.

Natiowide has taken a minority stake in financial services portal developer 10x Future Technologies through a $16.9m series B investment.

Tencent invested $8m as the Chinese online brokerage floated at the top of its range in the US, at a valuation of more than $1.3bn.

CapitalG committed $4.7m to Aye Finance's $33.3m series D round, which closed in conjunction with a $2.2m debt investment from Karvy Capital.

Salesforce and First Data participated in an $11.2m series A round that increased the total raised by the student debt repayment service to almost $16m.

Amazon led the latest round of electric truck developer Rivian Automotive sized at $700 – the first large corporate-backed round in this space for 2019.