Consumer

Location companion and check-in app Foursquare raises $35m series D funding from venture capital investors DFJ Growth and Capital Group.

Chinese web services company Baidu leads $15m series C funding for Yoka, with participation of Hearst.

This article is republished from our sister title, Global University Venturing, as part of our monthly series on academic and industry collaborations.

The Orange Chef Company, maker of smart kitchen gadgets, raises $1.2m seed funding led by Google Ventures and SparkLabs, with the participation of investors including Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.

University of Washington spin-out Qazzow brings in a further $2.4m series A just a month after closing its seed round.

Coda payments, a company which allows users to pay for digital content using a prepaid card, has raised $2.3m in A round funding for expansion into Southeast Asia with backing from CyberAgent and Rakuten.

That the GIB has formed such an extensive partnership across boundaries and with different corporations and investment groups with varying objectives and approaches to clean-tech is positive.

Respondents to our year end survey seemed generally enthused by the pace of technological change and the way that technology is rapidly changing the markets in which their parents operate.