The university has launched its accelerator through the King's Entrepreneurship Institute, which will support 20 startups over the next 12 months.

Dan Primack, known for his Term Sheet column published by Fortune, is joining an as-yet unnamed media startup by Jim VandeHei, backed by NBC.

Madefire, developer of a moving-picture comic book app, plans to move into 3D with help from visual effects producer Framestore, which invested through its Framestore Ventures unit.

Snap, formerly known as Snapchat and backed by Alibaba, Tencent and Yahoo, is preparing an offering that could value it at $25bn and take place as early as March.

A+E Networks has led a round for the subscription-based streaming service, which raised the funding as it spun out of parent company Simplestream.

WWE has returned to back a $26m series C round for online video technology provider Tout, which will use the money to continue its path towards profitability.

AppNexus, already backed by WPP, Microsoft and Deutsche Telekom, has added News Corp to its shareholders as part of a strategic partnership with its Unruly subsidiary.

Ideo has joined forces with VC firm Genuine Startups to jointly launch a venture capital firm dubbed D4V.