| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.10.2025 | Phaidra: Over $50 Million Series B Raised For Building AI Agents For AI Factories | Phaidra, a company focused on building AI agents to manage and optimize data centers built for AI workloads, has announced a Series B funding round exceeding $50 million. The round was led by Collaborative Fund, with participation from Hele... |
| 03.10.2025 | Phaidra Secures $50M+ Series B Funding to Power Efficient AI Factories | Phaidra, a leader in AI infrastructure, announced a Series B funding round exceeding $50 million. Collaborative Fund led the investment. Key participants included Helena, Index Ventures, NVIDIA, and Sony Innovation Fund. Phaidra develops so... |
| 01.10.2025 | Phaidra Raises Over $50M in Series B Funding | Phaidra, a Seattle, WA-based company building AI agents for AI factories, raised more than $50M in Series B funding.
The round was led by Collaborative Fund, with participation from Helena, Index Ventures, NVIDIA, Sony Innovation Fund, and ... |
| 01.10.2025 | Collaborative Fund Leads Phaidra’s $50M+ Series B to Build the AI Factories of the Future | , the company building AI agents for AI factories, announced a Series B funding round of more than $50 million led by Collaborative Fund, with participation from Helena, Index Ventures, NVIDIA, Sony Innovation Fund, and others. The funding ... |
| 24.09.2025 | Bastion Raises $40M in Funding | Bastion, a NYC-based stablecoin infrastructure provider, raised $40M in total funding to date.
The round was led by Coinbase Ventures, with participation from Sony Innovation Fund, a16z crypto, Samsung Next and Hashed.
The company intends t... |
| 08.09.2025 | CVCs Gain Ground in India with Advantage in Long-Term View for Deeptech In 2024, Bain & Company's India Venture Capital Report finds that CVCs stepped up meaningfully: their deal volumes increased... | Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) firms have a disproportionate advantage over traditional VC firms, especially in areas such as deeptech, in terms of long-term mapping, said Adarsh Sekhar, Partner, IBM Ventures.
In 2021, IBM committed USD 1 ... |
| 08.01.2024 | Exclusive: Venrock ups its find size for the first time in a decade, raising $650M for tenth fund | It was mid-December as Venrock partner Bryan Roberts waltzed into one of the conference rooms of the venture capital firm he’s been running since 2007—his German Shepherd close at his heels with a tennis ball.
When I asked how he’s been, he... |
| 09.10.2023 | Sony Ventures, Interview With Gen Tsuchikawa and Austin Noronha | Sony Ventures Corporation was established in 2016 to manage all of Sony’s venture investment activities through Sony Innovation Fund (SIF), Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, a joint venture with Daiwa Capital Holdings, Sony Innovation Fund: Envi... |
| 24.08.2023 | Sony Innovation Fund adds $500K to Scriptic's Seed round | Sony Innovation Fund has topped up Scriptic’s Seed fund with a $500,000 investment bringing the company’s total seed round to a close at $8.7 million. The UK-based media tech firm's latest funding announcement was in June when it raised $5.... |
| 24.08.2023 | UK’s Scriptic raises €5.7M in second close of seed round for AI-powered phone-first interactive shows | Read this article in:
London-based Scriptic, a studio developing interactive phone-first shows and pioneering creative apps of generative AI in entertainment, announced on Thursday that it has secured $6.2M (approximately €5.7M) in the seco... |
| 06.07.2023 | 15 investors lift the lid on the biggest surprises of H1 2023 | The first half of 2023 hasn’t been kind to startups, but venture capital investors weren’t spared migraines either. Some VCs had a tough time of it, with their portfolio companies finding it hard to fundraise, while others dialed back their... |
| 02.07.2023 | 15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023 | As part of our ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch+ surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year.
As expected, it appears a good mix of investors w... |
| 05.06.2023 | 6 investors explain why they are bullish about Japan’s startup scene despite an uncertain economy | Thinking of Japan often evokes notions of bleeding-edge tech mixed with deep tradition and culture. The country’s startups, however, haven’t seen the sort of growth that upstart tech companies in other parts of the world have. There are sig... |
| 24.05.2023 | Sony Innovation Fund Joins Largest UK Quantum Investment in Second Close of Quantum Motion’s Funding Round | Sony Innovation Fund is making its first investment in quantum computing with Quantum Motion LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 24, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- Sony Innovation Fund has become the latest high-profile investor to back Quantum Motion, ... |
| 25.04.2023 | Indian media startup Lokal raises $14.6m from Global Brain, Sony Innovation Fund | Bengaluru-headquartered Lokal, a hyperlocal content, community, and classified platform, on Tuesday announced that it has raised about $14.6 million (Rs 120 crore) in its Series B funding round from new investors Global Brain and Sony Innov... |
| 02.03.2023 | The Week in AgriFoodTech: Shef cooks up $75m, Futura Gaïa lands $11m, Asuene closes $22.8m | This week, US-based Shef, which runs an online marketplace for home-cooked meals, announced new funding, as did France’s Futura Gaïa, for its soil-based vertical farms. Climate tech startup Asuene closed a $22 million round and several comp... |
| 30.01.2023 | 50 recently-funded startups to watch in 2023 | With the ongoing economic downturn and fear of a recession, tech startups have been hit hard as investors pulled back from new venture deals and reduce their investment in startups with exposure to recession. Further expounding on the fundi... |
| 20.01.2023 | Sony Ventures Corporation Closes Sony Innovation Fund 3, at 26.5 Billion Yen | Sony Ventures Corporation, the Tokyo, Japan-based wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation (Sony Group), closed “Sony Innovation Fund 3 L.P.” (SIF3), with total of 26.5 billion yen.
The closing brings the total Assets Under Managem... |
| 29.06.2022 | Metcela Inc. Completes the Series C Financing of Total $14 Million | KANAGAWA, Japan (PRWEB) June 29, 2022
Metcela, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-class autologous cell therapies targeting serious cardiovascular diseases, today announced the closing of a $14 million Series C round... |
| 14.06.2022 | Sony, Flashpoint back regtech Clausematch with $10.8 million to spread its tentacles in US and Europe | London-based regulatory tech platform Clausematch has raised $10.8 million in funding. The round was led by New York-based Lytical Ventures, with participation from the Sony Innovation Fund and Flashpoint. The company plans to invest the ne... |
| 09.02.2022 | Scandit hits unicorn valuation with new funding round | |
| 09.02.2022 | Switzerland's Scandit scans in $150 million in Series D round, now at $1 billion+ valuation | Zürich-based smart data capture firm Scandit has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round, now providing the company with a valuation north of $1 billion. The funding will be used to further develop the company’s computer vision and ... |
| 21.01.2022 | Fotokite secures CHF 13.7 million to expand operations | |
| 23.11.2021 | IP : Ieso Digital Health Ltd - ieso raises $53m to address global mental health crisis with digital therapeutics | UK innovator closes Series B financing to develop AI-enabled, evidence-based digital therapeutics built on the world's largest mental health treatment data set
ieso has completed its £39million ($53 million) Series B financing round led by... |
| 06.07.2021 | EXCLUSIVE: Agrando raises $14m in Europe’s biggest farmer marketplace Series A to date | Germany’s Agrando has raised €12 million ($14.3 million) in Series A funding, which it claims is the largest round on record at that stage for an online agribusiness marketplace startup.
Yabeo Impact led the round, with new investors Sony I... |
| 02.06.2021 | London’s white-label for retail finance platform Divido picks up $30 million in Series B round | London-based white-label platform for retail finance Divido has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by HSBC and ING. Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain, and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors ... |
| 12.05.2021 | London’s predictive healthcare and research platform Huma raises $130 million in Series C round | London-based Huma Therapeutics has closed a Series C funding round at $130 million. Led by Leaps by Bayer and Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Next, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Unilever Ventures, and HAT Technology & Innovation Fund by HAT, a... |
| 31.03.2021 | Oishii sees itself as ‘the Tesla of vertical farming.’ Here’s how it’s cracking CEA strawberries | Indoor farming is best known for leafy greens and micro-herbs. But New York’s Oishii is hoping to blaze a new trail and sweeten up the segment.
“A lot of people call strawberries the holy grail of vertical farming,” Oishii founder Hiroki Ko... |
| 24.03.2021 | London-based location tech what3words lands (close to) £12 million from Ingka Investments | IKEA owner and operator Ingka Group has invested close to £12 million in location technology firm what3words via Ingka Investments.
Ingka Investments representatives declined to comment on the exact figure.
The investment is slated to help ... |
| 11.03.2021 | Vertical farming startup Oishii raises $50m for bee-assisted, carbon-neutral strawberry cultivation | US vertical farming startup Oishii has raised a $50 million Series A round led by Mirai Creation Fund, part of Tokyo-based SPARX Group. Additional investors in the round include Sony Innovation Fund — the corporate venture arm of Japanese t... |
| 27.02.2020 | Kitman Labs Receives Investment from Sony Innovation Fund | Kitman Labs, a Dublin, IE & Menlo Park, CA-based provider of Performance Intelligence Solutions to elite sports teams globally, received an investment from the Sony Innovation Fund, Sony’s corporate venture fund.
The amount of the deal ... |
| 26.11.2019 | Leading robotics VCs talk about where they’re investing | The Valley’s affinity for robotics shows no signs of cooling. Technical enhancements through innovations like AI/ML, compute power and big data utilization continue to drive new performance milestones, efficiencies and use cases.
Despite th... |
| 08.11.2019 | Research: October Health IT M&A Activity, Public Company Performance | – Healthcare Growth Partners (HGP) summary of Health IT/digital health merger & acquisition (M&A) activity, and public company performance during the month of October 2019
During the month of October, Health IT continued its evoluti... |
| 16.07.2019 | Landr raises $26 million CAD Series B for audio mastering platform | Landr, an AI-powered audio mastering software startup based in Montréal, has raised a $26 million Series B. Sony Innovation Fund, microphone manufacturer Shure, Investissement Québec, and Fonds de solidarité FTQ all led the round.
“This Ser... |
| 11.07.2019 | Robo-Made Octopus Balls Are Go! Japan’s Connected Robotics Raises $7.8m Series A | Japan’s Connected Robotics (CR) first made waves in Tokyo’s food tech space with its ballsy launch of OctoChef, a robot that serves hot octopus balls. This Tokyo-based firm has also turned heads with its “Reita robot” — a cartoonish blue be... |
| 03.07.2019 | Sony и инвестбанк Daiwa Securities создадут фонд на $185 млн для поддержки стартапов Статьи редакции | Стороны хотят инвестировать в компании «ключевых быстрорастущих отраслей».
Sony и Daiwa Capital Holdings («дочка» японского инвестбанка Daiwa Securities Group) объявили о создании совместного инвестиционного фонда Innovation Growth Ventures... |
| 03.07.2019 | Sony announces a new $185M fund to invest in tech startups | Sony is doubling down on the world of startup investment. The Japanese tech giant announced a new fund that is aiming to raise 20 billion JPY (around $185 million) to invest in companies within “key high-growth industries.”
While Sony launc... |
| 04.03.2019 | Aroma Bit Secures 250M JPY in Series A Funding | Aroma Bit, Inc., a Tokyo, Japan-based provider of compact odor imaging sensor and innovative service using the sensor, raised 250m JPY in Series A funding.
Backers included Sony Innovation Fund, Sony Corporation’s corporate venture capital ... |
| 30.07.2018 | Rapyuta Robotics raises USD 9.5 million | |
| 06.06.2018 | $18 million to expand indoor drones in live events | |
| 04.06.2018 | Music startup Roli adds Sony as investor, eyes up expanded range of hardware and software | When people think of music startups in the tech world, the focus is often on streaming, or figuring out how to better track and monetise those streams, or perhaps hardware to make those streams sound better. But today comes news of funding ... |
| - | Addressing mental health with digital therapeutics, ieso raises $53 million | Cambridge-based digital mental healthcare ieso has raised $53 million in a Series B funding round. The funding will be used to develop autonomous therapy systems that aim to match, if not exceed, the standards of human care delivery, all at... |
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| - | Switzerland's Scandit scans in $150 million in Series D round, now at $1 billion+ valuation | Zürich-based smart data capture firm Scandit has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round, now providing the company with a valuation north of $1 billion. The funding will be used to further develop the company’s computer vision and ... |
| - | London’s white-label for retail finance platform Divido picks up $30 million in Series B round | London-based white-label platform for retail finance Divido has raised $30 million in a Series B round led by HSBC and ING. Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, SBI Investment, OCS, Global Brain, and DG Daiwa Ventures along with existing investors ... |
| - | Lokal raises Rs 120 Cr in Series B from Global Brain, Sony Innovation Fund and others | Lokal, a hyperlocal content, community, and classified platform, has raised Rs 120 crore in a Series B funding round from new investors Global Brain and Sony Innovation Fund, with participation from India Quotient and other existing invest... |
| - | London’s predictive healthcare and research platform Huma raises $130 million in Series C round | London-based Huma Therapeutics has closed a Series C funding round at $130 million. Led by Leaps by Bayer and Hitachi Ventures, Samsung Next, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Unilever Ventures, and HAT Technology & Innovation Fund by HAT, a... |
| - | Green Earth Institute Receives Capital Increase through Third-party Allocation | Green Earth Institute Co., Ltd. (GEI), an investee of PIEF, has implemented a third-party allocation of new shares to be underwritten by AIR WATER INC., Sojitz Corporation, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, and Norinchukin Bank. (no specific ord... |
| - | Sony, Flashpoint back regtech Clausematch with $10.8 million to spread its tentacles in US and Europe | London-based regulatory tech platform Clausematch has raised $10.8 million in funding. The round was led by New York-based Lytical Ventures, with participation from the Sony Innovation Fund and Flashpoint. The company plans to invest the ne... |
