Disney's Steamboat Ventures has backed one of the analytic companies, Ground Truth, since its series A round.

Keynectis has entered exclusive talks to acquire peer OpenTrust with both backed by Gemalto, a France-based digital security provider.

In January, Liberty Media-backed Lockerz also acquired photo sharing application Plixi for a reported $10m to $15m.

Motorola Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures have both backed mobile app developer GoTV, which has raised at least $27m in its history.

The Reed Elsevier-backed digital media network has acquired its British counterpart, TDP, with which it has been working in partnership since December.

Chesapeake is setting up a $1bn corporate venturing fund to deploy over 10 years to help gas more effectively compete with oil as the world's main fuel for transport. It also announced more than $300m of investment during three years in two clean tech companies.