Services

OSI is among the investors in drone developer Animal Dynamics’ latest round, which will help it develop products based on aerodynamics from the animal kingdom.

The transportation services provider is eyeing mobility startups with $100m corporate venturing fund ComfortDelGro Capital Partners.

Online higher education platform Unicaf has raised series B funding from a consortium including Goldman Sachs, EdX and CDC Group as it gears up to target more students.

Ucommune, a China-based workspace provider backed by corporates including Prosperity Holdings, Junfa Group and Dahong Group, has now raised $715m altogether.

Work and living space provider WeWork will receive warrant financing from Vision Fund at a valuation of at least $42bn through two $1.5bn tranches in 2019.

USC Marshall Venture Fund supplied an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding for talent booking platform Engage, which was founded by two USC students.

Boehringer Ingelheim and Helsinn helped oncology vaccine developer Amal reach the second close of a series B round that now totals $32.7m.

Osaka University and Kyoto Institute of Polymer Science have both put money behind automated patent investigation platform Gold IP, taking its funding to $4.6m altogether.

Innovative region: Brazil

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

GCV Analytics defines the financial services sector as encompassing payment technologies and cryptocurrencies, personal finance and wealth management, insurance, alternative lending, crowdfunding, client and risk analytics, firms and funds, social investing and others.