Investors deployed USD21.78 billion to 1,958 US venture-backed companies during the second quarter, marking a significant uptick from the first quarter in capital invested while the number of companies receiving investment was stable, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. Through the first six months of the year, 3,876 companies received
Drayson Technologies Limited has reached a Five-Year Strategic Research Agreement (SRA) with the University of Oxford (OU) and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) in the field of digital health. The Licensing deal could see millions of NHS patients benefit from the commercialisation of cutting edge technologies invented in
An affiliate of private equity investment firm HIG Capital (HIG) has acquired BIC Graphic North America and the affiliated Asia sourcing operations (BIC Graphic) from Société BIC. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Clearwater, Florida, BIC Graphic, with sales over USD300 million, is one of the largest suppliers in the
Liberum Investment Banking has completed eight public market transactions during a busy five-week summer period, acting as financial adviser on two public offers, completing the IPO of a service provider to the film industry, and raising equity for five listed clients in the Real Estate, Healthcare and Telecoms sectors. Steve
Wholly-owned subsidiaries of Cosco Shipping Holdings and Shanghai International Port (Group) Co have made a voluntary cash offer to acquire Orient Overseas (International) Limited (Orient Overseas) in a deal worth up to USD6.3 billion. Cosco ShippingHoldings, which was represented by law firm Paul Hastings in the acquisition, is the world’s fourth largest
Yamibuy, an e-commerce site for Americans to purchase the best Asian snacks, beauty products, health supplements and home appliances, has closed a USD10 million Series A funding round led by GGV Capital, with participation from New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc. (NYSE: EDU) and K2VC. The investment, the company’s
United Group, a multi-play (Pay-TV, Broadband, Telephony, Mobile) operator in South East Europe, backed by KKR and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), is to acquire the Croatian and Slovenian media portfolio owned by CME (CETV). The transaction is subject to the relevant regulatory approvals. The portfolio
Early-stage investor Rainbow Seed Fund today announces that Oxfordshire-based Cobalt Light Systems, a provider of highly differentiated Raman spectroscopic instruments, has been acquired by Agilent Technologies Inc. Cobalt Light Systems, a spin-out from the UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory which was funded from the earliest
Funds managed by Alpina Partners have acquired the quality management software division from ASI DataMyte. In the course of the carve-out of the American parent company, technology investment firm Alpina Partners (“Alpina”) acquired the quality management software division from ASI DataMyte. The existing management team around the managing director Sven
Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ) and Fortune Venture Capital (one of the funds collectively known as UMC Capital) in Taiwan have jointly invested JPY800 million in CerebrEX through a third-party allocation of shares, to develop the technology and business needed for the next-generation semiconductor products. CerebrEX is a fab-less
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