Transport

Special report: pandemic has boosted venture dollars across health AI

The corporate returned to provide $55.1m for Carvolution having previously invested in the flexible car rental service in November.

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.

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

Stanford spinout QuantumScape is set to merge with NYSE-listed Kensington Capital Acquisition in a $700m deal that will value the combined company at $3.3bn.

Singapore Airlines, SATS and Panasonic Avionics Corporation are partners for the airport and aviation-themed Aviation Tech Accelerator Program.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The Toyota and Yahoo Japan-backed drone developer has secured $36.7m from investors including Eneos, Gree, Itochu, NEC, Obayashi and VeriServe.

American Express Ventures and Citi Ventures have exited flight insurance software developer Freebird in an acquisition by Capital One.

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.

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