SAP Ventures is running the $155m fund, which will reportedly also focus the traditionally late stage corporate venturing firm on early stage deals.

The partnership between Merck and the venture firm, follows the pharmaceutical company partnering with venture firm Lumira and fund of funds Teralys Capital last month.

Chip design systems company gets backed by sector giant Intel's corporate venturing unit for its latest round.

Deutsche Telekom's corporate venturing unit invested in the gaming company and its parent signed a marketing agreement, a month after the German business was backed in an Accel-led round.

RR Donnelley, a US-based print company, backs Real Value Corporation, the parent company of iPad shopping app CoffeeTable, which is led by venture firm Maveron's Ben Choi.

Marshall's Martlet and Fidelity's Moonray Investors back LED company iSotera.

Qualcomm Ventures reportedly backs the Taiwan-based event ticketing company founded last year.

The search engine company raises $47,5m from gaming company Zynga's secondary offering as its prolific deal-making continues.

Venture capital firm Lerer Ventures led the round for Yoke, which was founded by Rob Fishman, former Huffington Post social media editor.

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