Ontario Venture Capital Fund joins Research In Motion and Thomson Reuters as lead investors in Blackberry Partners Fund II.

News provider Fortune, which revealed a $66m initial round of fundraising for Oxford Bioscience Partners, said Hanwha would help the US firm in Korea.

For the first time a Japanese non-life insurer has entered the venture capital business in other parts of Asia.

Google Ventures leads the $1.5m series A round for Miso, having the month before invested in the portfolio company's $600,000 seed round.

Longwood Founders Management raises $85m for its first fund with GlaxoSmithKline and Genzyme among its limited partners.

International Data Group was the first non-Korean company to set up a corporate venturing firm for nascent companies in the country and will start raising its second $100m fund this year.

China Development Bank raises RMB15bn ($2.3bn) fund of funds to be split two-thirds towards buyouts and a third to VC and has a target of RMB60bn.

Meebo has now raised $70m since launch in 2005 after previously raising $25m in April 2008 from a consortium including Time Warner Investments.

After buying a minority stake in Aurora Feint, a US-based social gaming platform for Apple's iPhone, earlier this year, The9 has launched a $100m corporate venturing fund.