Bollywood's Salman Khan joins Intel Capital as an investor in India-based travel site Yatra.

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

Consumer companies eat up venture investments.

Rahu finds right chemistry for Unilever.

Now they have developed a new approach to their open innovation efforts called X3 and I really like how they focus on the need for facilitators.

Servicing the world's consumers.

CVC Capital Partners-backed Nine Entertainment, which launched its corporate venturing unit last year, has helped online shoe company StyleTread raise $12m ($12.5m).

Alibaba has also created AliVenture, another corporate venturing unit with a team of 16 to 20 investment professionals, according to news provider Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ).

The Unilever and PepsiCo-backed venture capital firm's hires include business writer and entrepreneur Lisa Gansky and the Center for Connected Health founding director Joseph Kvedar.