A range of new materials and technologies could yield vastly improved batteries for purposes including electric vehicles and grid storage. 

The Brazilian payment and commerce services provider floated above its range and raised an extra $100m from Ant Financial through a private placement.

Digital media company Bytedance has agreed $3bn in a round set to be led by SoftBank that will reportedly value it at $75bn.

The China Electronics Technology Group subsidiary has invested $28.7m in NextVPU, which will use the funds for R&D, recruitment and the pursuit of its growth strategy.

Purplebricks and Axel Springer both took part in a $22.8m round for online real estate marketplace Homeday, taking board seats in the process.

There’s now just a month to go until Global University Venturing Summit and I would love to see you there supporting the community by participating. As I’m sure you know, for many years NCET2 ran a best-practice event for university venturers. But with Tony Stanco from NCET2 now focussing most of his time working with […]

A range of new materials and technologies could yield vastly improved batteries for purposes including electric vehicles and grid storage.

Sector report: Energy

Special report: GCV Asia Congress 2018

The following is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To verify reported deals, we contact about 300 corporate investors each quarter – these comprise roughly 18% of the global CVCs we cover, but account for most of the deals that are made public.

Holiday accommodation booking service Oasis Collections has been picked up by Vacasa after raising $35m in funding from investors including Hyatt and AccorHotels.

The cross-border e-commerce platform raised $14.6m in a Taofen8-led round that included Santuo Investment Management and Ningbo Municipal Government Angel Guidance Fund.

Series A investors Pfizer Venture Investments and Roche Venture Fund have returned for a $10m round three years later.

Company profile: Tencent

There were 242 corporate-backed rounds reported in July, and 237 in August, considerably higher than those recorded in the same months last year – 211 and 194. Investment value was higher in July at $13.63bn, up from $8.8bn in July last year. August’s investment value, however, at $10.25bn, was considerably lower than last August’s $17.61bn. […]

Leigh Sullivan will leave his position as vice-chancellor for research and innovation at Federation University Australia to take on the same position at Canberra.

Maoyan Weiying, a China-based mobile ticketing platform backed by corporates Tencent, Meituan Dianping and Enlight Media, has filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong. The company submitted the filing under the name Entertainment Plus and did not include any financial terms, though reports in January this year suggested it would be seeking approximately […]

The investment holding company has made an investment in Paytm owner One97 Communications reportedly sized at up to $356m.

Since the beginning of 2017, Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) Analytics has tracked and seen a number of companies backed by China-based internet company Tencent go public in Hong Kong and the US.

The New York branch of SAP.io Foundries has showcased its first nine participants in a demo day.