Elevar and SVB join for micro-finance expansion in india

Corporate-backed BlackBerry Partners Fund looks at organisation change as global expansion begins.

Genacast Ventures, a corporate venturing affiliate of telecoms company Comcast's Interactive Capital division, has reinvested in Demdex, a New York-based online audience monitoring business.

US publisher Hearst Interactive Media's strategic investments group has backed an $8m second round of funding for BuzzFeed, an online advertising management services company.

Kaplan, a provider of educational services owned by the Washington Post Company, has invested $3.5m as part of a fourth funding round for child education company Headsprout.

US-based cleaning company Waste Management has made a strategic investment in MicroGreen Polymers, a firm developing technology to reduce the amount of plastic required in consumer products.

Publishers have continued to support US-based LibreDigital's expansion of its online warehouse and distribution platform after it raised $8.1m in third-round funding.

Zend Technologies, a US-based provider of software for developing and deploying hypertext preprocessor (PHP) applications to produce dynamic websites, has raised $9m in its sixth round of funding.