These investors are: Advance Publications, AH Belo, Community Newspaper, Cox Media Group, EW Scripps Company, Gannett, GateHouse Media, Hearst, Lee Enterprises, MediaNews Group, McClatchy Company, and Washington Post Company.

GPT Group, an Australia-listed property company, led the B round as a new investor and was joined by venture capital firms Shasta Ventures, Floodgate and Greylock Partners.

Talus completes second corporate venturing deal in a quarter.

Craig Weissman, former chief technology officer at Salesforce, co-founded Duetto alongside Patrick Bosworth and Marco Benveuti, both formerly of hotel and casino chain Wynn Las Vegas.

Each calendar year, GC&H forms a new fund, and partners, special counsel and eligible associates are invited to participate in deals that have included QuinStreet and Radiance Technologies.

Rocket Lawyer, a US-based legal lead generation start-up, bought LawPivot, a local legal question-and-answer platform, for an undisclosed amount.

WPP said it regarded this decade as very much the decade of Latin America, particularly with the FIFA World Cup taking place in Brazil in 2014 and the Olympics in Rio in 2016.