Financial

OnDeck, which uses big data to lend to small businesses, has raised almost $100m in equity from investors including SAP and Google.

The mobile payment platform developer, whose existing investors include Intel and SAP, has already begun talks with investors over the remainder of the round.

Exit numbers in October were high thanks to the KRW 10 trillion ($9.4bn) merger of online messaging company Kakao, and internet portal Daum Communications, both based in South Korea.

Spotlight on the tech transfer successes of Austria

Spotlight on the small yet mighty technology powerhouse of Estonia.

Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in clean-tech.

In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Boris Battistini and Martin Haemmig review and analyse the latest trends

The Germany-based fund was launched last month with a brief to invest in the most promising fin-tech companies atearly stage before contributing follow-on funding as its portfolio companies grow.

An interview with Lance Liu, investment manager of Ping An Ventures, one of the three investment platforms for Ping An Ventures.