Services

Tencent has recommitted to providing $150m for language tutoring platform VIPKid, having reportedly withdrawn from a verbal agreement to invest last month.

Recruit and Just Eat-backed TouchBistro has collected another $119m thanks to investors including strategic partners Barclays and JP Morgan Chase.

The early learning and childcare provider received $14.1m in a round co-led by corporate investor Ednovation.

Monthly analysis: July-August 2019

Three corporate venturing windfalls have resulted in three different strategies to maximise shareholder value over the long-term.

The Davidson Group was among the investors that have added $40m to flexible workspace provider CommonGrounds Workplace's series A round.

With innovation in technology fast outpacing traditional business processes, corporations are increasingly turning to investments as a way of adapting to change and staying ahead of the competition.

New York has one of the most vital tech ecosystems in the world, with Silicon Alley in Manhattan said to be the east coast’s answer to Silicon Valley.

Sister publication Global University Venturing’s analysis of the second quarter of 2019 shows increased investment activity as the year progresses and record-breaking amounts generated through exits.

The developing digital health sector has had to wait almost three years for the public markets to open up to it, but when they did, it was corporate venturing portfolio companies that were first through the flotation exit doors.

Sector review: Telecoms