Consumer

Baidu is now the widescreen projector maker's largest external shareholder, having returned for a round that follows its initial investment last year.

The publicly-listed fast food retailer has committed almost $80m to a consumer and retail-focused fund that will be managed by Tiantu Capital.

Singha Ventures will invest in areas such as consumer products, retail, logistics, enterprise healthcare and renewable energy as well as other funds.

Allegion Ventures will invest between $250,000 and $5m in physical security technology developers on behalf of its parent company.

Bose Ventures has been formed to support the audio equipment maker's newly launched augmented reality platform.

State Street Corporation has invested $38.5m in Bertelsmann-backed e-commerce platform Pepperfry, taking its total funding to almost $200m.

Amazon Alexa Fund made its second investment in the smart thermostat developer, which has now raised $146m altogether.

The pet food and health product maker has formed a corporate venturing fund called Companion Fund and an accelerator dubbed Leap.

Salesforce is expecting to exit the file storage and sharing platform Dropbox, which filed for an IPO after having raised more than $1.7bn in debt and equity financing.

Augmented reality technology developer Magic Leap closed a series D round at over $960m, featuring a host of corporate investors like Google, Alibaba, Axel Springer and Grupo Globo.

Just ahead of our first ever Global Corporate Venturing Israel event in Tel Aviv this week, we are offering our readers a brief data overview on the innovation scene in Israel which has managed to attract corporate venturers from around the globe.