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Earlier this year The Korea Capital Market Institute estimated that the government measures there to support angel investors and start-up companies would initiate a subsequent 4.3 trillion won increase in venture investment over the next five years. And with angel investor data also rising, deal flow is naturally buoyant. But the impatient exit culture of this market could be setting up entrepreneurs and investors alike for failure.

South Africa media and internet services firm, Naspers, is not pulling out of the Indonesia and Philippines online service markets, despite the corporate investor having to bite the bullet and close two sites in those markets earlier this year. Two strong brands in the classified sector has proved that the right strategy works in any market.

LVMH corporate venturing unit, L Capital Asia, has exceeded its original target for its second private equity fund, announcing it has reached its hard cap of US$950m. Launched in March 2013, targeting commitments of US$800m, the fund raising exercise has been completed within six months.

Intel Capital leads $14.3m financing for retail search exchange operator HookLogic.

Findings from a survey by compensation specialists at J Thelander Consulting in partnership with the Corporate Venture and Innovation Initiative CVI2 provide a rare glimpse into compensation trends in corporate venturing.

Japan-based Rakuten, an electronic commerce, internet services and digital media content company, is on an ambitious path to one day go neck and neck with Amazon and Lovefilm subsidiary, Netflix. Its recent acquisition of Singapore-based Viki.com, a crowd-sourcing multi-lingual video streaming company, is likely to give it the global edge it needs to build scale. The Japanese company is reportedly set to pay close to $200m for Viki, according to media sources.

A look at the UK's university commercialisation ecosystem in the first of a regular regional analysis series by our sister title Global University Venturing.

Corven Networks' Andrew Gaule interviews Reed Elsevier Ventures' Tony Askew.