Services

Call centre software provider Talkdesk has formed a $10m investment fund partially based on one of its investors, Salesforce Ventures.

In this short piece, we provide a comparison of our GCV Analytics data with Pitchbook’s data up until the end of the third quarter of 2018.

American Family Ventures and GV have exited property rental platform developer Cozy in a $68m acquisition by CoStar that followed about $18m in funding.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Siemens' Next47 subsidiary has participated in a series B round led by Mubadala Ventures that boosted the collaborative shipping platform's overall funding to near $100m.

Global Corporate Venturing’s inaugural award for ‘Energy-tech Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Investment of the Year’ was announced on November 8th during the Venture Houston conference.

University of Minnesota is part of a list of limited partners that provided $150m for Brazil-based venture firm Monashees to close its eighth fund.

Emergency services data provider RapidSOS took its total funding to $65m in a series B round backed by existing investors CSAA and M12.

Patrick Murphy, who headed Universal Music's corporate venturing activities for three years, will head Web Summit's newly formed fund, which is targeting a $50m close.

SEI Ventures will invest in seed-stage companies and give startups the opportunity to pilot their technologies across the privately-owned Strayer University and Capella University.

Tencent is contributing $250m to a larger funding round reportedly being raised by online education platform Yuanfudao at a valuation of $2.8bn.