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GS Energy helped hydrogen sensor developer H2scan raise $70m while London Stock Exchange is buying Goldman Sachs-backed trading technology developer Tora for $325m.

Neobank Atom raised $102m in a round co-led by financial services firm BBVA while SG Fleet and Copec helped Zoomo boost its series B to $80m.

Agility returned to reinvest in the commercial EV developer as it gets ready to kick off production of its trucks.

Technip Energies committed capital the hydrogen fuel producer's latest round, while hydrogen continues to make inroads as an alternative energy source.

JetBlue's corporate venturing unit has hired Steve Taub, formerly of GE Ventures and In-Q-Tel, to head its investment team.

Conversational automation software provider raised $400m while e-commerce and payment software provider Flutterwave secured $250m in a Salesforce-backed round valuing it at $3bn.

A decade's focus on digitalisation leaves physical assets vulnerable.

Softbank Vision Fund 2 co-led academic support software producer Paper's $270m series D round and a $144m round for online lender Funding Societies.

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Major challenges that foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) face when doing business in emerging markets, such as China, can be conceptualized in terms of the risks that host countries' institutions present to them.

This is a provisional study ahead of a full paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Cardiff, Wales, in 2021.