Motricity will pay an initial $100m in cash and potentially shares with up to a further $50m in performance fees based on targets for the next 12 months for Adenyo.

A quarter of the money for NDI Medical's fund came from the Ohio state and the rest from undisclosed investors.

More than a dozen firms and organizations have joined the Startup America Partnership, including Facebook. Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM and Intel, as well as private equity firm Blackstone Group's charitable foundation and non-profit Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship.

Community Health, LifePoint Hospitals, Vanguard Health Systems, Iowa Health System and Trinity Health, which in aggregate have more than 400 hospitals, will provide the $10m to corporate venturing fund, according to news provider The Tennessean.

Industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE), energy utility NRG Energy and oil major ConocoPhillips have provided undisclosed-sized tranches of the $300m to launch Energy Technology Ventures.

The multi-million dollar Citrix Startup Accelerator will invest in technologies or business models that can extend the Citrix virtual computing solution portfolio and those where anyone can work and play from anywhere on any device.

The Yet2Ventures fund will provide follow-on investment and liquidity to small companies.

EmiSense started in November 2009 after the merger of assets by Innovate! Technology and CoorsTek, which has just provided a further $3m.

The launch of Tencent's RMB5bn ($760m) Industrial Win-Win corporate venturing fund is the second biggest of the past year.

SAP Ventures Fund I will invest in software and software-enabled service companies globally and builds on the team's work since 1997.