The company priced 12.5 million American depository shares at $17 each, after having filed to sell 12 million shares at between $16 and $18 each.

In July 2011, Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of US-listed search engine, joined a consortium providing a reported $400,000 of seed round funding to Astrid.

Advanced Underwater Surveys, a St Andrews and Dundee universities spin-out, sells 50% interest to DeepOcean UK to form ADUS DeepOcean.

Betaworks backers include corporate ventuiring units from chip maker Intel and media groups AOL Ventures and New York Times.

Facebook paid a reported $85m for Google Ventures-backed Parse.

In 2011, ParAccel raised $15m in an Amazon-led E round.

Shareholders include UK-listed internet services provider Mail.ru Group and Japan-based financial services group Mitsui own A shares which will have "substantial control" over the company even though Qiwi's regulatory filing said they could be competitors.