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Arvind Sodhani, head of Intel Capital, talked to Toby Lewis, editor of Global Corporate Venturing, at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium in May.

Belgium-based bank KBC has launched an incubator alongside five partners, including Accenture, to offer business space and support for local tech startups.

Lanxness took a majority stake in Evocatal, and joined existing investors including High-Tech Gruenderfonds in backing the enzymes producer.

The shopping app company, which raised $50m last Friday, is just one of several companies using personalisation and curation to drive increased use and monetisation.

Nokia Growth Partners backed UCWeb in 2010 because it believed UCWeb was a strong company, yet this required the unit to invest in a company potentially competitive to a goal of its sponsor and sole limited partner.

The distributed energy company raised the growth funding in a round that included the corporate venture capital units of Siemens and Total.

The cleantech-focused Emerald Cleantech Fund III added three more corporate LPs in Suncor, Ecolab and SK as it approaches $100m.

Uber's $1.2bn series D round has demonstrated again the excitement surrounding the mobility sector at present, and the ride sharing market in particular.

There was a surge of deals in May as investment activity picked up from corporate venturing groups across many sectors.