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Analysis: Didi autonomous driving unit raises $500m
SoftBank led a $500m round for the driverless vehicle software spinoff of the ride hailing company Didi Chuxing.
Jun 8, 2020Corporate venturing deal net: 1-5 June 2020
Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Jun 5, 2020NetApp highlights Spot acquisition
NetApp has agreed to pay a reported $450m to buy the cloud workload management platform, which had raised $52m in funding from investors including Intel Capital.
Jun 5, 2020Thoma Bravo to execute $100m Exostar acquisition
Cloud collaboration software provider Exostar was formed by BAE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce before Merck & Co became a shareholder in 2014.
Jun 5, 2020HyperScience accelerates to $60m series C
Penna and Company contributed to a round that lifted the total raised by the QBE and TD Ameritrade-backed enterprise automation software provider to $111m.
Jun 5, 2020Cortex flexes with series B funding
Cortex, a developer of big data-powered marketing tools, raised $22.3m in a round led by SoftBank's Latin America fund.
Jun 4, 2020Daily deal net: June 3, 2020
Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Jun 3, 2020Bespin reels in series C funding
SK Telecom contributed to a $74.5m round for the cloud software provider that will support expansion internationally and in its home market of China.
Jun 3, 2020National Grid nets two new portfolio companies
The energy infrastructure operator has backed a $15m series D round for RiskIQ and a $14m series A for 1touch.io through investment subsidiary National Grid Partners.
Jun 3, 2020BAI goes DeepExi in $50m round
Bertelsmann Asia Investments returned to co-lead digitisation technology startup DeepExi's series A-plus round with Sanxia Xintai Investment and GL Ventures.
Jun 2, 2020Wasabi wraps up $30m round
NTT Docomo-backed Wasabi plans to use the proceeds from the $30m round to expand its hot cloud storage service in international markets.
Jun 2, 2020Loom weaves new series B funding
Video messaging platform developer Loom, which counts Slack as an investor, closed a $28.8m round that reportedly doubled its valuation to $350m.
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