Sectors

Digital banking platform operator Nu Holdings priced its IPO at the top of its range in New York, representing the first Brazil-originated flotation in three months.

Data and analytics companies raise money in the hundreds of millions, while GV spreads investments across multiple sectors.

Sony Innovation Fund and Innovation Growth Ventures both had a spectacular 2021, and various team members spoke to GCV about their latest investments in Cruz Foam, Delos, Identiq and Kiswe.

Mouro Capital has returned to back the real estate transaction platform in the largest VC deal in Spain that outstripped Glovo’s $529m series F round closed earlier this year, thanks to an increased interest in the proptech and iBuyer space in the local market.

SoftBank invested in rounds for Olist, Open Co and Juspay while Innovaccer raised $150m.

Affirm, FIS, Fiserv, MassMutual and New York Life all contributed to a round valuing the Bitcoin technology provider at over $7bn.

Q&A with Gonzalo Galindo, head, Cemex Ventures

The chartered crypto bank continues to raise money as it ramps up its efforts to bring crypto to the traditional banking system.

GMG Ventures and Hearst Ventures have returned to back the data analytics service, joining financial investors such as Abrdn, which had hitherto concentrated on other asset classes.

Investments roll in for blockchain-based games, fintech, enterprise software and energy companies.

Innovent Biologics was among the investors in the oncology therapy developer’s oversubscribed round, which came as global investors are boosting their healthtech, biotech and wellness investment activities in China despite the country’s trade war with the US.