Financial

Mogo has agreed to buy a nearly 20% stake in the cryptocurrency trading platform operator and will have the right to double this through a secondary transaction.

Q&A with Itamar Sivan, the co-founder of Israel-based quantum computer orchestration technology developer Quantum Machines.

Nature’s laws of physics are difficult to replicate through an arrangement of binary computer switches, no matter how many of the switches we have access to.

Cloud servers can be thought of humanity’s first truly global infrastructure given they act as the bedrock for executing artificial intelligence (AI), or so went the argument in a November edition of The Economist.

DeepMind Technologies’ achievement of applying machine learning to predict 3D protein structures has certainly got the scientific world excited, with some experts hailing a massive step forward for medical research.

Feature: AI sector report

The round consisted of a primary and secondary transaction and the latter allowed Xiaomi to fully exit the company and Kunlun to reduce its shareholding.

Insight Partners returned to lead a $53m round fo the Vensure Enterprises and Home Credit Group-backed financial services technology developer.

The Coinbase-backed blockchain payment platform provider has secured $20m from investors as it unveils a remittance and peer-to-peer payments mobile app.

Monthly report: January 2021

Mitsui, Edison Energy, BMW, Daimler, General Motors and Exelon-backed electric bus manufacturer Proterra achieved a $1.6bn enterprise value in the deal as special purpose acquisition companies take off in the sector.