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Analysis: A week of big exits
We provide a brief overview of some of the notable exit transactions reported last week. They highlight a broader upward trend in exit transactions for corporate investors, which we have been tracking for some time now.
May 17, 2021Analysis: Mid-May multimillions
May was a busy time for exits; GCV reported various multimillion and multibillion deals across sectors.
May 17, 2021Daily Deal Round Up: May 14, 2021
Kyocera, Mitsui Fudosan and Japan Post hepled satellite technology developer Axelspace complete its series C round while PayPal is buying portfolio company Happy Returns.
May 14, 2021Daily deal net: May 14, 2021
Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
May 14, 2021Arqit arranges $1bn reverse merger
Virgin Orbit and Sumitomo Corporation are participating in a $70m PIPE financing to support a reverse takeover for the quantum encryption technology developer.
May 14, 2021SiMa sees its way to $80m
Dell Technologies Capital returned for a series B round in which the machine learning technology developer hiked its overall funding to $120m.
May 14, 2021Daily Deal Round Up: May 12, 2021
Human resources software provider Legion and edge cloud services provider Zenlayer each received $50m while Intel is exiting Sedona Systems in a $100m acquisition.
May 12, 2021Similarweb catches $176m in initial public offering
Prosus will score an exit today when data analytics platform developer Similarweb floats in the US following $240m in earlier funding.
May 12, 2021Irish universities reunite for $96.7m fund
Atlantic Bridge has launched the University Bridge Fund II, with University College Cork joining existing partners Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin.
May 12, 2021Eli Lilly counts up Sixty8 Capital contribution
Eli Lilly has helped Sixty8 Capital hold a first close for its $20m fund, which the venture capital firm will use to back startups led by members of typically underrepresented communities.
May 12, 2021Safar Partners attracts $191m
The venture fund, focused on companies out of MIT, Harvard and Rochester, has collected more than $191m on its way to a $325m target.
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