Cyber security company McAfee has signed a deal worth over $14 billion to be acquired by an investor consortium led by Advent International and others. The other investors in the buying group are Permira Advisers, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), Crosspoint Capital Partners, GIC Private Limited, and a fully-owned subsidiary of the Abu […]
Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has raised $3.6 billion from a new funding round to take its valuation to $37.6 billion. The new funding round of Flipkart was led by Singaporean sovereign fund – GIC, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), and retail giant Walmart. Sovereign funds DisruptAD, Khazanah Nasional Berhad, […]
US-based self-driving truck startup Embark Trucks will merge with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Northern Genesis Acquisition Corp. II in order to become a publicly listed company. The deal values the enlarged Embark Trucks at approximately $4.55 billion. Post-merger, the self-driving truck startup will have a market capitalization of around $5.16 billion. The autonomous vehicle […]
Cordelio Power, a Canadian renewable energy company, has acquired a couple of wind projects under development – the Glacier Sands and Moraine Sands in central Illinois with a combined capacity of more than 350MW. The Glacier Sands and Moraine Sands wind farms have been acquired from Swift Current Energy and are slated to enter into […]