Financial

Whirlpool and Roush have joined backers including Ford, Meijer, Dow, Kellogg, CMS Energy and DTE Energy for the venture capital fund's $79m second fund.

Tracy Isacke, Silicon Valley Bank, discusses what the future holds for commerce.

Deal Analysis for February

With the slow recovery from the financial crisis and divestiture strategies undertaken by some big players, 2014 was marked by numerous exits by corporate investors in the industrials sector.

The fast-growing neighbourhood-based social network, backed by Comcast and Google, has now raised $210m in total as it prepares to monetise elements of the service.

Online credit rating service Wecash has closed its series B round at $20m, boosting its total funding to $26.6m.

Citi-backed electronic coupon and voucher company Linkable plans to double its staff using the cash, which took its overall funding above the $50m mark.

The advertising commerce platform has secured $7m from backers including research and technology transfer company Innova.

Visa, an investor in TrialPay's $40m series C round in 2012, is set to buy the company and integrate its marketing platform into its own product offering.

The payment services provider will invest up to $95,000 to establish joint venture projects with successful applicants.