Consumer

The media and e-commerce group invested an additional $71m in Flipkart in April 2017 as part of a $1.4bn funding round also backed by Tencent, eBay and Microsoft.

The Comcast-backed company, which links a visual social media platform with goods and services, is valued at $4bn and is potentially pointing a new way forward for mobile commerce.

The corporates have launched a $30m joint venture that will invest in catering companies with growth potential with which they can partner.

The e-commerce firm will help luxury fashion marketplace Farfetch expand in China as part of a strategic partnership deal that took Farfetch's total funding to about $700m.

Target invested a reported $75m to lead the series C round, which will fund the expansion of the bedding maker's distribution and R&D activities.

Recruit has acqured Ganske Verlagsgruppe and HP Autonomy-backed consumer feedback platform TrustYou for an undisclosed amount.

Tom Whitehouse, contributing editor at Global Corporate Venturing, hosted a breakout speciality sector session on health at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2017

Representatives of ABB Technology Ventures and Magna International were among the speakers discussing the trends in advanced manufacturing at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2017

Francois Auque of Airbus Ventures went head to head with Jason Ball of Qualcomm Ventures Europe to discuss the relative prospects of each technology at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2017