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Dialog Axiata digs up $15m for fund

Dialog Axiata Digital Innovation Fund, formed by telecoms firm Axiata's local subsidiary, is Sri Lanka's largest ever corporate venturing fund.


Dec 28, 2017

2017 Roundup: Salesforce

The customer relationship management software producer launched four specialist funds with $250m of capital and scored big on the IPO exit front.

Dec 22, 2017

2017 Roundup: Tencent

Tencent added huge private equity deals to investments in the likes of Meituan-Dianping, Go-Jek and Flipkart before a run of huge IPOs late in the year.

Dec 21, 2017

2017 Roundup: Alphabet

The Google owner committed big money to Lyft and Airbnb as GV increased its late-stage deals, formed an AI fund called Gradient and exited from Snap and Cloudera in IPOs.

Dec 20, 2017

2017 Roundup: SoftBank

The telecommunications group raised almost $98bn for its Vision Fund and dominated the tech VC space in 2017.

Dec 19, 2017

Casa houses $78m in IPO

Broadband software provider Casa Systems, backed by Liberty Global Ventures, has gone public in a downgraded initial public offering.

Dec 19, 2017

Corporate Venturing in 2017: The Trends

The upper end continued to grow and corporates launched a raft of AI funds, as bike sharing, real estate, smart vehicles and urban farming drew capital.

Dec 18, 2017

Analysis: Kingsoft Cloud receives $300m

Cloud storage firm Kingsoft Cloud raised $300 in a series D round, one of the largest rounds in the cloud tech space in 2017

Dec 15, 2017

The talking points of 2017

What were the most important trends in 2017?

Dec 13, 2017
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