E.ventures, a venture firm with corporate backing, helps food delivery company Munchery raise $4m in series A funding.

Complex buyout by Nasdaq listed Global Eagle Acquisition Corporation of two inflight entertainment companies, was proceeded by a minority stake buy by one company in the other in June.

Itochu Technology Ventures and SMBC Venture Capital help the parent company manga shopping website Mangazenkan.com top up its total raised to about $3.3m.

Nexopia.com received a multi-million dollar investment from Burda Digital Ventures, the former corporate venturing unit of Hubert Burda Media, a Germany-based media company, in 2008.

He has worked for 25 years at Coca-Cola, and previously at Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever.

He moved to the role having been a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) project leader at Syngenta, where he has worked since 2009.

The deal is unusually personalised for a chief executive of a major company, with Schultz himself sitting on the board of Square.

The venture capital arm of Legend Holdings, Legend Capital has invested in Phoenix Holiday International Travel Service.