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Startup incubator io/LA's Cozy, makes it's venturing debut with financial input from Google and others.

Be braced for Workday, or another IPO to pop, to see the market heat up again. Until, of course, investors are sold another extraordinarily over-priced listing, like Facebook turned out to be, at least for those investing over the short-term.

Perhaps one should be perusing the marriage updates section of old media dealmaking, instead of harping on about those venerable old things that have died?

Moment.me's amalgamation app for social content receives financial support from Singapore Telecommunications.

He was a founding member of US-based venture capital firm Physic Ventures, and accountable for Unilever's anchor investment in this fund as a full-time member of the Physic operating team based in San Francisco.

A large patent portfolio bought by iRobot in its acquisition of Evolution, doubtless has been of interest to its corporate venturing unit backer Vodafone Ventures.

India-based classifieds company backs local restaurant review company Zomato again, taking its stake in the company to 48.5%.

German media company Bertelsmann's corporate venturing unit contributes funds to online sales technology startup Whisbi, as it prepares to expand abroad.

Sports coaching app maker Ubersense concludes a seed round raising $1.1m from Google's corporate venturing unit, ex-Olympian turned investor Ty Danco and venture capital firms Atlas Venture and Boston Seed Capital.

The AWS challenge, first launched in 2007, offers companies implementing the amazon cloud service a $100,000 prize and exposure to venture capitalists.