Comment from Alex Chachava, managing partner of Leta Capital, on Russian venture capital trends.

Comment from Vectra Networks, a cybersecurity company backed by Intel Capital.

Comment from Indro Mukerjee, chairman of FlexEnable

Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum and founder of Carbon International, explores trends in clean-tech.

In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini review and analyse the latest trends

Andrew Gaule talks to Geoff McGrath, vice-president of McLaren Applied Technologies

Katherine Steiner-Dicks talks to Mark Kaplan, chief executive and founder of Tone, a US-based mobile communications company, which partners predominately non-US network operators to market co-branded mobile content services.

Tracy Isacke is the managing director of corporate venturing at Silicon Valley Bank.

Saemin Ahn, head of Rakuten Ventures, talks to our reporter Kaloyan Andonov about the unit, bitcoins and his views on investment and trends in the consumers sector.

The huge initial public offerings of Alibaba and Rocket Internet capped a hugely busy period for the consumer sector.