Corporate venturing unit IDG Ventures sees a buoyant future in the mobile-based field sales technology segment. The investor has invested an undisclosed amount of capital in this series A round of funding for India field employee-focused sales software company FieldEZ Technologies.

The NBCUniversal News Group has taken a minority stake in US social video start-up NowThisNews. Existing backers of the Lerer-start-up include Softbank Capital, Bedrocket, Lerer Ventures and Oak Investment Partners. The two companies will work with each other out of New York. Prior to the NBCUniversal transaction the start-up had raised just under $10m.

Sales management platform Salesforce invests an undisclosed sum in B2B-focused Stanford accelerator Alchemist.

Sales management platform Salesforce invests an undisclosed sum in B2B-focused Stanford accelerator Alchemist.