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Investors divided over linking startup funding to commercial deals
Investors either focus almost exclusively on investments where there was a commercial deal, or avoid any requirement at all.
Nov 6, 2022Daily Deal Round Up: November 4, 2022
Paragon Biosciences was part of Emalex Biosciences’ $250m series D while CMA CGM and AP Moller participated in an $80m round for Project44.
Nov 4, 2022Daily Deal Round Up: November 3, 2022
Databricks, Dell, HPE and Salesforce were all part of Alation’s $123m series E round while Alphabet took part in AMP Robotics’ $91m series C.
Nov 3, 2022Daily Deal Round Up: November 2, 2022
Sumitomo Corporation of Americas took part in ColdQuanta’s $100m series B round while Tesi provided $31.6m in series B funding for VoltAero.
Nov 2, 2022Is the autonomous driving dream dying?
The shutdown of Argo.AI is a blow to the self-driving dream (and a loss for its carmaker backers). But is transport CVC merely maturing?
Nov 2, 2022Daily Deal Round Up: November 1st 2022
Geely's subsidiary, GLy Capital Management of Hong Kong participated in Volocopter's $182m extended series E round, with Neom, the Saudi Arabia-based sovereign wealth fund leading the financing
Nov 1, 2022CasInvent Pharma goes for cancer hat-trick
CasInvent Pharma’s approach is aimed at three forms of cancer rather than just one, with leukaemia, lymphoma and solid tumours all in its sights.
Nov 1, 2022Daily Deal Round Up: October 31, 2022
Sumitomo participated in Zebra Labs’ $5m round while investors including FTX Ventures and Aptos provided $3m in pre-seed funding for Martian.
Oct 31, 2022Insights trump commercial deals as main reason to invest in startups
Some 31% of corporate investors told us that the main thing they wanted to get from their startup investments was insights.
Oct 30, 2022Fewer dollars and fewer exits for O&G investors
The value of corporate-backed deals in the energy sector dropped in Q3 but the overall pace of deal making remains steady.
Oct 28, 2022Daily Deal Round Up: October 28, 2022
Octopus Energy Generation invested $127m in Be.EV while Centene Corporation and HopeLab took part in Hazel Health’s $51.1m series C1 round.
Oct 28, 2022The Big Deal: HeyRitual targets the couples economy
The Samsung-backed relationship therapy app developer has just raised pre-seed funding as part of what could be a vanguard of startups catering for couples.
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