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Venture capital firms GrandBanks Capital and High Peaks Venture Partners joined Hearst in the $3m series A round consortium for VillageVines, after the company raised an initial $750,000 round of seed funding from business angels.

Mail.ru had been a prior investor in Group alongside its former parent Digital Sky Technologies (DST) before its UK listing in November. However, while DST has reinvested in the $950m round, Mail.ru has not, Groupon said.

Zeo's regulatory filing said it planned a $15.4m round but gains $12.3m from consortium including Best Buy.

Intelligent Energy shows it has the power to push forward in renewable energy with its fuel cells for multiple transport and other purposes.

GM Ventures was launched in June 2010 and will be judged to what extent technology it invests in is part of the company's next generation of vehicles.

TNT cuts corporate venturing unit Logispring with court filings showing rare insights into the process.

Global Corporate Venturing's list of most influential corporate venturing units in the transport and logistics sector.

Sweden uses state money to fund joint venture with Saab.

Analysis of corporate venturing activity in the transport and logistics sector.

A national success story has emerged in the 50 years following the Korean War and a foretaste of the changes to potentially come in other parts of the world.

Gloom lifts a little for independent venture capital firms and chief executives, with confidence rising round the world.