Sectors

As set out in his keynote at the GCVI Summit in 2019, Lin has focused Intel Capital’s investments on leading more rounds in more diverse companies.

“Before we have reached singularity developing materials faster does not provide much of an upside, as with the current regulation systems introducing them still takes a decade,” according to George Gogolev, head of Severstal Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Russia-based industrials conglomerate Severstal.

Aisin, Airbus, Intel, LG, SBI, Hella and SK Hynix all celebrated a win as AEye agreed to a reverse merger with CF Finance to list on Nasdaq at a $2bn valuation.

Spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX has pushed its valuation to $74bn, a more than sixfold increase on the $12bn it fetched when Google led a $1bn round in 2015.

Prologis has participated in a series E round for the warehouse robotics technology developer, although Zebra Technologies did not return this time.

The Medtronic-backed medical device maker has pulled in $108m in equity financing just under a year after delisting.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led the round which also attracted SK Networks and will enable Standard Cognition to deploy its autonomous checkout system in hundreds of stores.

University of Oxford and OSI have both returned for a $95.4m series C round that also included GV and, through the conversion of a note, Eli Lilly.

GV has returned for a $95.4m series C round that also included Eli Lilly through the conversion of a $10m note secured as part of a collaboration agreement last year.

The Mouro Capital-backed developer of customer engagement technology has hauled in fresh growth equity funding from Warburg Pincus.

Tencent and its Tencent Music Entertainment unit are among the participants in the royalty attribution service provider’s latest round, four years after UMG and WMG provided seed funding.