US car developer and manufacturer, Fisker Automotive has reportedly received a recent undisclosed joint offer by strategic car parts company Wanxiang Group of China and US car developer VL Automotive.

Sellers would include venture philanthropy institutions Rain Source Capital, RSF Capital Management and the WK Kellogg Foundation.

In July 2011, Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of US-listed search engine, joined a consortium providing a reported $400,000 of seed round funding to Astrid.

Betaworks backers include corporate ventuiring units from chip maker Intel and media groups AOL Ventures and New York Times.

Facebook paid a reported $85m for Google Ventures-backed Parse.

In 2011, ParAccel raised $15m in an Amazon-led E round.