Industrial

Fantasy sports platform Dream11 is reportedly aiming to raise a round sized at $500m to be backed by several corporate investors. The company is part of the broader gaming and eSport space which has seen growth recently.

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

Oilfield water management company Sourcewater secured series A funding from backers including Marubeni and Bison having launched from MIT’s Energy Ventures program in 2014.

Loebermann has left his position as head of corporate venturing for chemicals provider Altana for a managing director role at DP Polar.

Solar system provider Bboxx completed a round led by Mitsubishi. This year we have seen a revival of corporate-backed deals in the solar energy tech space, which registered a slowdown last year.

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

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Regional TTO Satt AxLR has joined forces with University of Reunion Island to evaluate the latter's commercialisation opportunities.

Cargill has put another $75m into pea protein-based food ingredient provider Puris, roughly a little over 18 months after it invested an initial $25m.

Sustainable food-focused Germi8 has been co-founded by Leave a Nest and has backing from fellow corporates Kobashi Industries and Euglena.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.