Industrial

Alexandria Real Estate Equities-backed gene-edited seed developer Cibus has withdrawn its IPO application three months after setting a price range that would have raised $107m at the upper end.

Redbud Capital is among the limited partners in Longwater Investment’s advanced materials-focused fund, which also features several corporates.

Alphabet-backed spacecraft producer SpaceX has revealed more than $1bn in new funding, raised across two rounds sized at $486m and $535m respectively.

In February and March 2019, we conducted a small pilot survey (n=31) of founders of businesses that have received corporate funding, which were referred to the survey by their corporate backers. We called it the “GCV Founders Survey” and it gave us some interesting insights.

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

Hyundai-backed industrial security drone developer Percepto secured funding in a USVP-led series A round that boosted its overall equity financing to nearly $28m.

Data presented by Martin Haemmig and GCV Analytics provided insight into the substantial growth in corporate venturing along with some of the major trends.

The top 25: Jeffrey Li, Tencent Investment

Introduction to the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist 2019 by James Mawson, editor-in-chief

Global Corporate Venturing's top 100 Powerlist 2019

For the GCV Powerlist 2019 awards on May 23 at the House of Commons at the end of the GCV Symposium at County Hall, London, here are some of our favourite nomination quotes.