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The corporate venturing unit expects an imminent close on its fundraising with another strategic backer besides Nielsen.

The winners were picked by editorial selection with the help of our advisory board. Many thanks for their help.

Google Ventures' fifth arrow in its quiver - helping its portfolio companies and their mergers and acqusitions strategy.

This is our first quarterly look at the European corporate venturing market.

Wider corporate venturing activity continued to be robust, although the month was down on prior periods. In April there were 64 investments worth $885m, 93 investments worth $1.6bn in the same period last year, and 78 investments worth $905m in March.

My trip to the Munich Network in March painted an interesting portrait of an innovative region.

As corporations become increasingly open to external innovation and many of their own executives become angel investors themselves, there is a great opportunity to help the nascent start-ups.

This is an analysis of the ten most active units and has attached the main data of our new quarterly reports, the first of which, a 12-page special, can be seen in full, in this month's magazine.