Financial

Summary of corporate-backed funding initiatives 2011-19

Real estate advertising portal Square Yards added $20m from investors including Bennett Coleman & Co to take its overall funding to $50m.

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

Creditshelf is buying business financing tool developer Valendo, which has raised an undisclosed amount from investors such as ProSiebenSat.1 Accelerator.

Binance and Matrixport participated in a round of undisclosed size for crypto news service Mars Finance that reportedly valued it at $200m post-money.

General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz all chipped in as Alphabet, Visa and Amex-backed Stripe took its total funding past the $1bn mark.

Monthly analysis: July-August 2019

The children's debit card provider has now raised more than $77m in total, having secured new funding from investors including JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Live Oak Bank.

Citi Ventures, Santander InnoVentures and American Express Ventures chipped in for a $52.8m series C round revealed together with approximately $7.6m in follow-on funding.

Three corporate venturing windfalls have resulted in three different strategies to maximise shareholder value over the long-term.

With innovation in technology fast outpacing traditional business processes, corporations are increasingly turning to investments as a way of adapting to change and staying ahead of the competition.