SavingStar, an online grocery saving service, has raised $9.1m in its fourth round of funding in a round led by Edenred.

Bill Maris, managing partner of Google Ventures, said venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) and Andreessen Horowitz had joined its Glass Collective.

The other investors included venture capital firms Great Oaks, 500 Startups and BHV Ventures.

The corporate venturing unit of Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has made plans to increase its assets under management with its latest $450m fund from its parent, Global Corporate Venturing can reveal.

Modern consumer corporations generally continue to pump out the kind of products that the world population simply cannot stop buying. Yet these industries, which have been brutally competitive, as well as profitable, since ancient times, are being transformed by a rapidly growing world population, where consumer spending power is truly globalising.

Corporate venturing investments slowed in March by number and value as exits were boosted by three initial public offerings. The slowdown in deal activity came as nerves appeared to creep back into wider market trading, as eurozone country Cyprus negotiated a bailout that involved haircuts for bank depositors.

TheBestDay, a Sydney spin-out, secures AU$1m ($1.05m) to launch its social planning tools service.

India-based e-commerce start-up ShopClues has raised $10M in a series B round from Helion, Nexus & Netprice.