Consumer

KK Rathi, chief executive of Future Ventures, said: "The idea is to invest in businesses that are strategically important for the overall group. We will be looking at acquiring, creating new and growing our existing private brands."

Pierre Donaldson, partner at BlackBerry Partners Fund, said: "Digby was one of the first companies we invested in when we started the BlackBerry Partners Fund in 2008, and we are thrilled to see how they have grown to become the market leader in enabling the mobile channel for top retail brands.

Newswire Reuters said Black River Capital Partners (Food) Fund gained half its $400m target in commitments and would invest about half the money in China.

Austin Ligon becomes non-executive chairman having been a director of Gazelle since 2007 after previously leading car retailer CarMax.

In the past 12 months since launch, and including two previous rounds, Lashou has now raised $165m.

GoPro declined to disclose the size of the investment by disney's Steamboat Ventures to news provider Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that revealed the round.

$5m for Lieferheld.

The company has raised $400m from an undisclosed mix of new and existing public and private investors, compared to $950m raised by peer Groupon earlier this year.

P&G cleans up with a decade of Connect+Develop

Preparing for a new thrust into emerging markets and moving to an evergreen funding structure.