Sectors

Venture firm Harlem Capital has added Apple to its limited partners having brought in payment services provider PayPal in October.

Sinar Mas-backed SMDV has invested in 20 startups from its earlier fund and will target larger deals through its next fund.

Jeff Housenbold was a former GCV Rising Star award winner having joined SoftBank as a managing partner for its Vision Fund almost four years ago.

Dave Smith was a former GCV Powerlist award winner at Corning and sat on the board of X Display and Versalume.

The Inventec Appliances-backed PV equipment provider has closed an Energy Growth Momentum-led round, five years after securing about $24m from investors including SMA Solar.

SoftBank Ventures Asia has led the sports shoe resale platform’s series A and B rounds, investing alongside participants including Colopl Next and The Guild.

Advance Publications, Cisco, Intel, Fortinet and VMWare have exited the cloud security technology producer in a purchase by Entrust.

WPP has exited the television and video analytics provider in an acquisition by iSpot, with CEO Peter Daboll to become the latter's chief strategy officer.

Shunwei Capital has led a close for the cloud-native big data platform that came two months after a $7.6m first tranche backed by SIG Asia Investment.

The Intel-backed healthcare analytics technology provider has closed a new round with investments from AllegisNL Capital and Blue Venture Fund.

Shenzhen Capital Group has provided tens of millions of yuan for Xiaomi-backed monitor projecting technology developer Happycast.