Wanxiang will join the board of directors of GreatPoint, which won the Global Corporate Venturing award for investment of the year when Wanxiang made its original investment at the start of the year.

Advanced Electron Beams (AEB) is reportedly winding down operations, after having raised more than $50m in three rounds from a consortium including GE Energy Financial Services, part of US-listed industrials group General Electric, according to news provider Fortune.

The sale provides an exit for Fastpoint's (formerly known as RotoHog.com) backers.

Harbinger acquired a quarter of Augere in late 2009 for $50m.

Vitrue had raised about $33m, including 17m in its series C round in February last year from a consortium including cable group Comcast's corporate venturing unit.

Chevron and STMicroelectronics exit Ember to peer.

The wireless communications company had been reportedly backed in a $15.5m round by defence companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman in 2009.

The antibiotics developer backed by SR One and MedImmune Ventures postponed its initial public offering a day after it halved the planned price of its float earlier this month.

Soltecture, previously backed by corporates including Intel's corporate venturing unit, Vattenfall Europe and GDF Suez, said it had "extensively explored new financing options".

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