H&R Block signs strategic partnership and investment with mobile payments company Wipit.

IDG Ventures has helped India-based lingerie company Zivame raise its first founding round after it was set up last year.

Mitsui helps the US-based plastics company raise $13.6m, saying the company had "great potential to provide a paradigm shift" in many industries

Dealised sells off its UK operations and makes an Asian push, less than a year after receiving backing from SingTel's corporate venturing unit.

The India-based IT company follows up a $45m round from investors including Intel Capital, opening a UK office.

US-based bank's corporate venturing unit backs Hong Kong-based trading company founded two years ago.

This is the first new investment by Innogy Venture Capital's fund, IRTF I, since RWE Innogy and Bankhaus Lampe (through its Conetwork Erneuerbare Energien holding) signed their strategic cooperation agreement last November to commit to the fund.

Google Ventures entrepreneur-in-residence Craig Walker is separately looking at returning to his VoIP roots when he founded the company which becam Google Voice.

Genetic diseases company 4s3 Bioscience lands funding from a healthcare subsidiary of the family office of the wealthy Pritzker and Vlock families.

The corporate venturing fund backed by Nasdaq-listed MDC Partners and Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal & Partners invests again in the near $5m series A round raised by Yieldbot, an advertising technology company.