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Hitachi spotlights VLC Photonics purchase
Polytechnic University of Valencia spinout VLC Photonics has been bought by Hitachi for an undisclosed sum nine years after it was founded.
Nov 19, 2020Memblaze embraces corporates in series D round
The SSD technology provider's $30.4m round was led by SoftBank Ventures Asia and included Tencent Investment, BAI, Qualcomm Ventures and Toyou Feiji.
Nov 19, 2020Autodesk designs $240m Spacemaker acquisition
Autodesk is buying the architectural assessment software developer, which had raised $32m, to enhance its offering for architects.
Nov 18, 2020Daily deal net: November 18, 2020
Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Nov 18, 2020DataRobot performs $270m funding task
The Recruit, Intel, New York Life, Cisco and Citi-backed enterprise AI platform developer increased its valuation to $2.7bn and its overall funding to about $500m.
Nov 18, 2020Hacarus hacks series B funding
MTG Ventures and Ohara Pharmaceutical backed the second close of the medical data modelling technology developer’s latest round, which stands at $12.4m.
Nov 17, 2020Plaid pushes towards IPO
The customer data analytics software operator is scheduled to go public on TSE Mothers Market, allowing Google, Mitsui and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance to exit.
Nov 17, 2020Yappli gets IPO application approved
The mobile app development platform is set to float on TSE’s Mothers Market in an initial public offering that would allow Globis, Itochu, Salesforce and Yahoo Japan to exit.
Nov 17, 2020PingCap taps Bertelsmann in $270m series D
Bertelsmann Asia Investments contributed to a round that the distributed database developer will use for global growth and research and development.
Nov 17, 2020Barracuda barricades Fyde in acquisition deal
Wells Fargo Ventures has exited zero-access security tool developer Fyde, which had raised at least $5.3m in funding.
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