The new venture, partnered with Moscow State University, will provide support to early-stage projects.

The fund will focus on the Waterloo Region in Southern Ontario.

The venture partners are targeting $250m.

The company's Innovators Program will take concepts such as 'lean start-ups' into account when developing startups that will get access to corporate mentors and potentially seed funding.

Cisco's Canadian arm will seek to boost the country's IT innovation by providing funding to the sector.

The search engine provider is committing $100m to the initiative, which represents its 16th clean energy investment.

Corporates will benefit from the Rosinfocominvest initiative alongside venture capital firms.

The Qatar-based telecom company will join Rocket Internet in investing in e-commerce companies in Asia through their new Asia Internet Holding joint venture.

The diversified Chinese conglomerate will extend its corporate venturing activities to the US with a $100m Silicon Valley-based VC firm.

Garena, a portfolio company of Tencent, has established a subsidiary that will invest an 'eight-figure' amount of dollars each year.