Rakuten is exiting the online reading platform developer in a $500m acquisition by online education provider Byju’s following $50m in funding.

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26 – 100 in alphabetical order by company: Hiroshi Saijou, vice-president of business development and strategy of Woven Planet Holdings (Woven Planet) and director of Woven Alpha, and George Kellerman, head of investments and acquisitions, Woven Capital, Jim Adler, founding managing director and board member, Toyota Ventures

Global Energy Council Q3 2021 issue editorial by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing

Quarterly analysis: Q2 2021

Monthly analysis: June 2021

Innovative regions: California, New York, Massachusetts, Texas

The global electricity market is worth around $3 trillion a year and is only likely to get bigger. But if electricity power generation fails to keep up with demand securely and flexibly, what trade-offs need to be made for which devices gets what level of allocation?

Zhejiang Newspaper Media’s Fresscon Capital unit took part in a round for the Cisco, Country Garden and Greenland Holdings-backed urban data technology provider.

ClalTech is set to exit the cloud infrastructure management software provider in an acquisition by HPE, which will integrate Zerto with its storage division.

Mediaset has exited the sports clothing retailer in a majority share acquisition by JD Sports following just over $9m in venture funding.

Monthly analysis: May 2021

The joint venture between Grab and BRI’s respective accelerators will concentrate on Indonesia-based developers of technology for merchants and small businesses.

There is a lot happening in Cambridge, England. The university might have passed its 800th anniversary earlier in this century but the basics of its operating model to bring the smartest people in the world together to solve its hardest challenges remains intact.

Novel Group and CAA are set to exit NuOrder after the business-to-business e-commerce platform agreed to an acquisition by Lightspeed.

SoftBank contributed to a $65m round for fresh produce marketplace Frubana while KDDI invested in food ordering service Menu at a $228m valuation.

The online household items and fresh produce marketplace has sealed a $1.2bn majority acquisition by the Tata unit, enabling Alibaba to exit.

Main Sequence Ventures-backed Amber has closed a $15.5m series B round led by Commonwealth Bank.

Lund spinout Glō has agreed to an acquisition by Nanosys, which will now look to strengthen its market share in TV sets and enter more markets such as AR.

Agder Energi and Google are in line for exits as Nanosys agrees to purchase Lund University spinout Glō.