$5m for Lieferheld.

The company has raised $400m from an undisclosed mix of new and existing public and private investors, compared to $950m raised by peer Groupon earlier this year.

P&G cleans up with a decade of Connect+Develop

Preparing for a new thrust into emerging markets and moving to an evergreen funding structure.

Let there be growth...greater population brings more consumers but faster pace of changes requires companies to use corporate venturing to keep up.

The below table provides the most influential corporate venturing units for companies in the consumer sector.

Two German corporate venturing units, eVenture and T-Venture, which are sponsored by local retailer Otto Group and phone operator Deutsche Telekom respectively, had backed Kaufda, which is sold to Germany-based media group Axel Springer.

Best Buy Capital backs US-based mobile phone sales service Dashwire.

Syngenta licenses crop technology and intellectual property so Agrivida can develop new traits for crops, including corn, sorghum, switchgrass and miscanthus, in return for equity.