Give and Take has marked the beta release of its occupational networking platform Givitas, which aims to foster a giving culture in the workforce.

Andrew Gaule talks to Michael Smith (pictured), assistant vice-president for corporate development, USAA

Sector focus: Financial services

Cisco Investments and Country Garden Holdings have co-led the cloud computing and big data technology provider's series B round.

Northwestern Mutual and Aurora Health Care have each put $5m into respective VC vehicles Cream City Venture Capital and InvestMKE.

The two worlds are starting to come together more, according to Declan Kelly.

Congress report: GCV Asia 2017

That these companies are still accessing the public markets indicates investors are taking a view that future probity will not necessary follow past behaviour.

Congress report: GCV Asia 2017

GCV’s Tom Whitehouse and Kaloyan Andonov spoke to Kemal Anbarci, vice-president and managing executive of Chevron Technology Ventures, the Houston-based venturing unit of oil and gas major Chevron, about the efforts to rebuild Houston after hurricane Harvey and attract more capital to the city, the financial and industrial centre of the US “third coast”. Anbarci […]

The wireless internet provider has secured an investment from Cisco backed Digital Alpha to expand its team and fund a new technology centre.

Saurabh Bhansali (pictured), who spent a year as a corporate venturer at Humana Health Ventures and was this year a winner of the Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars Award, last month join Health Velocity Capital as a partner. Health Velocity Capital invests in growth stage healthcare software and services companies and its limited partners include US-based  […]

Universities in the US have engaged in academic technology transfer since before the Bayh-Dole Act, and make significant contribution to the economic and social health of the US.

Bicycle rental platform Mobike has had a hugely successful 2017 so far, with two multimillion-dollar funding rounds as well as expansion out of its native China into Southeast Asia and, most recently, Europe.

Food and beverage producer Nestlé agreed yesterday to acquire a majority stake in Blue Bottle Coffee, the coffee roaster and retailer backed by internet technology group Alphabet. Nestlé declined to provide details of the deal, but the Financial Times reported it is set to pay up to $500m for a 68% stake in the company. […]

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Sector focus: Media

Ant Financial-backed Citybox has received series A capital from a host of venture capital firms to fund deployment of 5,000 retail terminals by mid-2018.

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