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Analysis: First-time corporate investors
Over the past few years, roughly a fifth to a quarter of all corporate investors whose deals we track appear to be newcomers.
Aug 23, 2021Daily Deal Round Up: August 20, 2021
M12 backed three deals in recent days, including a $50m series D round for Split.io that also featured fellow corporates Atlassian and ServiceNow.
Aug 20, 2021Apollo GraphQL inputs $130m
Apollo has been valued at over $1.5bn after raising funding from investors including Siemens’ Next47 unit.
Aug 20, 2021Powerlist Q&A – Derek Idemoto, Cisco Investments
Q&A with Derek Idemoto, senior vice-president of corporate development and investments, Cisco
Aug 19, 2021Monte Carlo secures $60m series C
Only six months after its previous round, the data reliability platform company has netted $60m with backing from Salesforce.
Aug 19, 2021Southchip secures Cash Capital investment
Cash Capital has reinvested in the semiconductor technology developer through a $46.3m series D round.
Aug 19, 2021Stellatus snapped up by Slingshot Aerospace
Slingshot Aerospace has acquired the UChicago spinout developing a communication channel for preventing satellite collisions in space.
Aug 19, 2021Daily Deal Round Up: August 17, 2021
National Grid Partners contributed to data protection software provider Baffle's series B round while Axa and Zendesk exited sales enablement platform developer Seismic.
Aug 17, 2021Stewart marches on to M12
GCV Emerging Leader Michael Stewart has taken up a partner role at Microsoft’s M12 subsidiary after a six-year stint at another corporate venture capital unit, Applied Ventures.
Aug 17, 2021Adverity advertises $120m series D round
SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the SAP-backed marketing data software provider’s series D round, which brought its overall funding to over $165m.
Aug 17, 2021Cisco snags Epsagon in $500m deal
The app monitoring techology developer has agreed to an acquistion by Cisco having raised $30m from investors including the Deutsche Telekom-backed DTCP.
Aug 17, 2021Figment finds $50m in series B funding
Anchorage Digital and GSR have contributed to a series B round for blockchain infrastructure provider Figment.
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