Salesforce Platform Fund will back startups developing apps on the corporate's platform, and was launched alongside an initiative to bring more products to its AppExchange.

CBRE, Prologis, Lennar and Hines are among the anchor investors for newly formed real estate technology-focused VC firm Fifth Wall Ventures, which has just closed its $212m fund.

Venture Reality Fund, has added HP Tech Ventures to a stable of corporate backers that includes PMBC, Youzu Interactive, Colopl, YJM, Gumi and Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Jungle Ventures offshoot SeedPlus has exceeded its hard cap with funding from limited partners including corporate venturing unit Cisco Investments.

The corporates, both members of the Telecom Infra Project initiative, are collaborating on an accelerator program for network infrastructure technology startups.

The internet company's newly formed Games Investment Division will invest up to $100m in game developers and publishers in the form of equity, acquisitions and royalty deals.

The enterprise software firm will up the number of participants in its SAP StartUp Studio from seven to 16 this year.

Hero Enterprise has committed $15.5m to the $310m Aavishkaar Bharat Fund, the latest to be raised by impact investor Aavishkaar Venture Management.

Venture firm YI Capital has closed its first fund at its RMB800m hard cap, with capital coming from limited partners including appliance producer Joyoung.