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Daily Deal Round Up: August 31, 2021
Genomics care provider Genome Medical closed a $60m round backed by several corporates while brokerage software producer Alpaca secured $50m.
Aug 31, 2021Zeekr sees its way to $500m
Bilibili, CATL and Intel were among the investors that have backed the smart EV developer’s pre-series A round, valuing the Geely spinoff at $9bn.
Aug 31, 2021Daily deal net: August 31, 2021
Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.
Aug 31, 2021Rising Stars Q&A – Phoebe Wang, Shell Ventures
Q&A with Phoebe Wang, principal, Shell Ventures
Aug 31, 2021Neural Galaxy taps into $77m series A
Harvard and MIT-linked Neural Galaxy has picked up $77m in a series A round led by existing shareholder 3E Bioventures.
Aug 31, 2021Overjet organises $27m series A
E14 Fund has contributed to a series A for Overjet, having previously backed the company’s seed round.
Aug 31, 2021Rivian readies IPO
Amazon, Ford, Sumitomo, Cox Enterprises and Abdul Latif Jameel are set to score exits after the electric truck developer filed confidentially to go public.
Aug 31, 2021SenseTime feels its way toward public markets
Alibaba, Qualcomm, SoftBank, Suning and Dalian Wanda are among the investors that could exit the AI-equipped machine vision technology developer, most recently valued at $12bn.
Aug 31, 2021Melio processes tripling of valuation
The Salesforce and American Express-backed online payment platform developer is reportedly set to see its valuation explode in a new funding round.
Aug 31, 2021Whoop runs to $200m series F
SoftBank doubled down on the wearable performance gadget developer in a round that gave it a $3.6bn valuation.
Aug 31, 2021Toast puts IPO on the menu
The restaurant management software provider had received funding from Alphabet’s GV unit prior to the announcement of its IPO plans last week.
Aug 31, 2021Petlove performs $150m funding trick
SoftBank and Porto Seguro were among the investors that brought the pet-focused e-commerce platform’s disclosed funding to more than $225m.
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