Global Venturing Review

Big 3 Charles Conn and Patrick Pichette will join Oxford Sciences Innovation to become chief executive and chairman, respectively, with founder Dave Norwood retiring. Honda,…

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Big stories Reports earlier in the week claimed some of the LPs in SoftBank Vision Fund have concerns about its centralised decision making and the…

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Big 3 Mitsubishi Corporation has paid $256m for a 20% stake in energy retailer and smart systems provider Ovo Energy, which plans to use the funding as…

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Big Three General Electric’s corporate venturing unit is launching a content portal called Flux to help companies overcome barriers to diversity and inclusiveness. In game-industry…

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The big 3 For all the talk about the big numbers of 2018 – Global Corporate Venturing tracked 2,775 deals worth an estimated total of…

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The big ones Image recognition software provider SenseTime raised a total of $1.7bn in the year running up to May 2018, and news has emerged…

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The big ones Reports in late 2018 suggested SoftBank Vision Fund was planning to invest between $15bn and $20bn in order to take a majority…

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Three biggest stories In this week’s biggest deal, pharmaceutical firm Bristol-Myers Squibb has agreed to acquire peer Celgene in a buyout made up of cash…

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Deals Grab has boosted its latest round to $2.85bn, taking in $150m from Yamaha Motor through a strategic partnership agreement. Indonesian online marketplace Tokopedia has…

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Covering the week’s venturing news including funding, investments, exits and people moves. This week’s episode includes: Fund news from SK China and Michelin, deal news…

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