🌍 Accenture Acquired Boslan. $350M+ VC Funding.
Daily Impact Deals #151 looks at major deals and M&A in impact industries, and upcoming economic releases.
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📈 Today's Global Economic Update: US job openings fell to 8.18M in June 2024 from 8.23M in May. Gains in food services were offset by declines in manufacturing and federal jobs. Hires were at 5.3M, separations at 5.1M, and job quits hit their lowest since November 2020, indicating a cooling job market.
🚀 Deal of the Day: Xpeng Aeroht, the electric flying car unit of Xpeng, raised a $150M Series B to finance its development and commercialization of a modular flying car.
What's New?
📚 Education. EdTech
🌍 Climate. E-flying car and Accenture acquiring Boslan
💻 Technology. Semiconductor startup
🩺 Health. Cardiac monitoring solutions
📅 Economics. Balance of trade, employment data, inflation + more
📚 Education
👩🏫 Masterplace, a Spanish AI-powered EdTech firm, raised a $2M Seed from Ilya Rouss to launch its AI-powered education technology platform.
🌍 Climate
🚀 Xpeng Aeroht, the electric flying car unit of Xpeng, raised a $150M Series B to finance its development and commercialization of a modular flying car.
🌍 Accenture, a global professional services company, acquired BOSLAN, a Spanish provider of management services for large infrastructure projects, to help clients optimize investments in net-zero infrastructure.
💻 Technology
💰 Silicon Box, a Singapore-based semiconductor startup, raised $99.9M in funding.
🩺 Health
💊 Octagon Health, a Texas-based provider of AI-driven cardiac device monitoring solutions, raised a $43M Series B from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital to Advance AI-driven cardiac Device Monitoring.
📅 Economic Calendar
Balance of Trade, Employment Data, Inflation Data + More
Monday, August 5th 2024
Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Wednesday, August 7th 2024
🇩🇪 Germany's Balance of Trade
🇨🇦 Canada Ivey PMI, July
🇦🇺 NAB Business Confidence Index, July
🇨🇳 China Balance of Trade, July
Thursday, August 8th 2024
🇨🇦 Canada Balance of Trade, June
🇨🇳 China Inflation Data, July
Friday, August 9th 2024
🇨🇦 Canada Employment Data, July
Monday, August 12th 2024
🇦🇺 Australia Westpac Consumer Confidence Data, August
Tuesday, August 13th 2024
🇬🇧 UK Unemployment Data, June
🇩🇪 Germany ZEW Economic Sentiment Index, August
🇺🇸 US PPI MoM, July
Wednesday, August 14th 2024
🇬🇧 UK Inflation Data, July
🇺🇸 US Inflation Data, July
🇯🇵 Japan GDP Data (Preliminary), Q2
🇨🇳 China Industrial Production Data, July
🇨🇳 China Retail Sales Data, July
Thursday, August 15th 2024
🇬🇧 UK GDP Data, June
🇺🇸 US Retail Sales Data, July
Friday, August 16th 2024
🇬🇧 UK Retail Sales Data, July
🇺🇸 US Building Permits Prel, July
🇺🇸 US Michigan Consumer Sentiment Prel, August
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