A £28 million funding was given by the National Institute for Health Research or NIHR and its 50 partners to a health research initiative focused on the East Midlands.
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New York-based betaworks secures additional $10M in round led by Digital Garage
Betaworks, a New York-based media products maker and seed stage investor, has received additional funds amounting to $10 million in a round led by Digital Garage, TechCrunch reported.
Mode Analytics raises $375K to improve sharing and collaboration among data analysts
San Francisco-based startup Mode Analytics secured $375,000 in fresh capital from unnamed investors citing a filing submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Walt Disney Company rolls out own Techstars-powered Accelerator
The Walt Disney Company is launching its own Disney Accelerator powered by Techstars to incubate early stage companies possessing unique ideas about products in the consumer media and entertainment segment, TechCrunch reported.
London-based Shazam said to be raising $20M in a new funding round - report
Shazam, a London-based music and television tagging service, is rumored to be raising a $20 million funding round, a VentureBeat report said citing a Re/code report.
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Instead of taking things easy on retirement, an increasing number of older Americans have become entrepreneurs and have taken the risk of forming their own companies, Bloomberg reported.
Coal & Oil Group based in Dubai said it has secured $250 million for the completion of its 1,200 megawatt power plant called the Mutiara Thermal Power Plant in Tamil Nadu, India.
Venture capital investors and startup CEOs are feeling optimistic and confident about the venture ecosystem next year, according to a survey from National Venture Capital Association and Dow Jone VentureSource.
Aubrey McClendon, the former Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake Energy Corp, is seeking investors for a new venture that would invest in oil and gas.
According to the UK-based "Global State of Enterprise Mobility for the Past, Present and Future" report, mobile apps could be the most invested-in startups in 2014.
Venture capital trust Time:Reboot VCT plans to raise around GBP20 million by the end of April 2014 to invest exclusively in firms run by UK military veterans.
NBC Universal is close to getting a minority stake in a new company being formed by technology journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher whom runs AllThingsD from sources whom are familiar with the situation.
Cloud storage provider Box, a rival of Dropbox, is raising USD100 million in new funding through a share sale that would value the company at around USD2 billion.
A Business Standard report said impact investors and social entrepreneurs in India are now concentrating their investments on the urban poor market. These social ventures have been steadily gaining ground with investors providing seed and early stage capital.
