Sectors

The raw material procurement service has retained almost 75% of financing subsidiary Oxyzo Financial Services following its series A round.

Q&A with Gonzalo Soriano, senior investment analyst, AC Ventures

Salesforce Ventures was among the investors in an Insight Partners-led round which helped fund the data orchestration platform developer's purchase of data flow software developer Datakin.

The molecular drug developer received funding from investors including GlaxoSmithKline, MRL Ventures Fund and GV in a Fidelity-led series C round.

The KDDI and Sinar Mas-backed video streaming platform developer is scheduled to float on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Growth Market on April 27 at a valuation of approximately $51m.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 has led the API marketplace’s latest round at a unicorn valuation, with returning investor M12 also taking part.

The corporate card provider was valued at $2.1bn in a round backed by Stanford University that increased its funding to $380m altogether.

Citi, SVB, State Street and JP Morgan were among the investors that helped the financial software provider boost its valuation to $1.6bn.

The drone technology provider received support from Mitsui, Seika, Kyushu Electric and Tokyu Land to bring its total funding to over $84m.

The Global and China L4 Autonomous Driving and Start-ups Report, 2021, found that except for a few companies, such as Waymo and Uber, which performed worse than expected, level four (L4) autonomous driving firms in other fields gained momentum.

Hikma led a $15m extension to surgical robotics developer Activ Surgical's series B round, now sized at $60m, while data collaboration software provider Hex raised $52m from investors including Snowflake and Databricks.