Telecoms

Data management software provider Snowflake, which counts Salesforce among its backers, has gone public and its price doubled on the first day of trading.

SoftBank emerged in the news last week with its sizeable bets in the equity derivative markets in the US. Despite some recent challenges, the telecoms conglomerate has been very active in large venturing deals this year as well.

Special report: pandemic has boosted venture dollars across health AI

After the announcement of Warren Buffett’s bet on Japan’s largest trading houses, we take a brief look at how they have been doing on the corporate venturing arena.

MDI Ventures, BRI Ventures and Mandiri Capital Indonesia will be tasked with investing in technologies that can modernise state-owned enterprises.

As the month of August draws to a close, last week we reported several initial public offerings (IPOs) which are lined up for the coming weeks along with some notable ones that have already taken place.

Bill Gates has returned to lead an $85m round for satellite internet provider Kymeta, which has now raised more than $280m from investors including Intelsat and Liberty Global.

Juniper Networks has exited wireless communications technology developer Fastback in a $14m acquisition that follows at least $55m in funding.

US-based business finance provider Kabbage, which has a host of corporates as backers, will be acquired by payment processing firm American Express.

Telkom Indonesia's latest fund will invest up to $30m in domestic digital technology developers that will be able to connect to other state-owned corporations.

Amid the covid-19 pandemic, interest in life sciences is now perhaps at its highest. This is true in corporate venture capital and three of the multimillion-dollar stories we reported in mid-August corroborate this.