Global Venturing Review

Exits AT&T has agreed an acquisition of AppNexus reported to be priced around the $1.6bn mark, enabling WPP, Microsoft, News Corp and Deutsche Telekom to exit. PayPal…

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Deals Showing that China’s online education sector continues to grow, VIPkid has raised $500m in a series D+ round that reportedly valued it at more…

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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 Bayer and Samsung Next, deal news…

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The European Commission has today released its draft budget for its next financial period to start after 2020 with its draft plans for about $100bn…

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Deals Despite the short week, Ant Financial has really been rather busy, and has reportedly now sealed a $10bn funding round led by GIC, the…

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We are back from the annual GCV Symposium and GUV: Fusion conferences, our London events bringing together CVCs and university tech transfer leaders from around…

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Deals Last week’s Big Deal on Global Corporate Venturing looked at a reported $800m in funding raised by NewTV, a stealthy video content producer formed…

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Deals Online medical booking and healthcare services portal WeDoctor has raised $500m at a $5.5bn valuation, securing the cash in a round co-led by insurer…

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Deals Baidu has spun off the likes of Baidu Video and Zuoyebang in recent years, and video streaming platform iQiyi, in which Baidu owned a…

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Deals Ant Financial, Alibaba’s financial services arm, is on its way to becoming the most valuable private VC-backed company ever, having reportedly lined up $3bn…

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