As the iconic Fender guitarmaker goes towards a $200m IPO, here is its history with Japan-based musical instrument companies Kanda Shokai and Yamano Music. Fender Japan guitars make rockers weep.

A venture firm set up as an affiliate of Taipei-listed motor company Yulon Group is among the prior backers of Epitomics.

The chipmaker reportedly reveals itself as a backer of Israel-based memory storage company Anobit, which sold in January to Apple for $500m, as one of its executives says the company regretted not buying the whole company.

Terracotta has completed at least two rounds of post-seed funding from a consortium including investment bank Goldman Sachs, which has used the portfolio company's products on its trading room floors, and Presidio, the corporate venturing unit of Japan-based conglomerate Sumitomo and its subsidiaries, including Sumisho Computer Systems.

In July, SeaMicro raised $20m from a consortium including undisclosed, listed, strategic investors for its series D round.

Mitsui-backed cancer treatment research company Boston Biomedical has sold to its strategic partner Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma, in a deal that could net up to $2.6bn.

Bright Automotive, an electric van company backed by corporates including General Motors, Alcoa, Duke Energy, search engine group Google's foundation and Johnson Controls, blames its closure on the US Department of Energy.

Online collaboration and communication startup Cove, as well as its ex-Facebook founders, has been absorbed into cloud-based file sharing firm Dropbox.