Change has come even to the venture industry.

Lifestyle media company Mode, valued at $1bn just three years ago, has shut down after failing to secure financing or a buyer.

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Sector focus: Media & Telecoms

Regional Report: India

Eze Vidra, who helped GV set up its aborted European branch, has taken the chief innovation officer role at clinical trial connection platform TrialReach.

The CAA Ventures-backed excursion booking platform has received $10m from individual investors to take its overall funding to $18m.

Postmates has acqui-hired mobile app developer Hey for an undisclosed sum, giving an exit to GV, the unit formerly known as Google Ventures.

Collab+Line, the startup funding initiative launched by messaging platform Line and VC firm Collaborative Fund, has backed nine startups including YouNow and Zendrive.

The deal provided an exit to Lookup shareholders including DeNA and MKS, and the startup will continue to develop its local retail-focused messaging platform post-acquisition.

Over the month we have tracked 122 deals worth an estimated total of $9.55bn involving corporate venturing investors. More than half of those deals (72) took place in the US. However, some of the top rounds, including a record-setter, occurred in China. The number of deals involving corporate VCs in June exceeded the number of […]

Sector focus: IT

The news roundup for the week ending 1 July 2016.

Imperial graduates celebrate an exit as Twitter acquires machine learning systems developer Magic Pony Technology.

Nikesh Arora, who had moved SoftBank's corporate venturing strategy toward larger and fewer investments, has left his position as president and COO.

A round up of all the latest news on www.globalcorporateventuring.com for our subscribers.

The social media data provider will close its service next month due to features introduced by the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Twitter making its service unnecessary.

Music streaming service SoundCloud secured the funding as part of a $100m series E round it is raising at a $700m valuation.

In May, we tracked 103 deals involving corporate venturing investors worldwide. The deals were worth an estimated total of $4.71bn. Geographically, the majority were in North America, mostly the US, and Asia. The leading corporate investors in terms of number of deals were Intel, International Data Group and General Electric (GE). However, in terms of […]

The data security platform, already backed by GV, has attracted Amazon to its shareholders as it boosted its total capital to $122m.