Financial

In total, Prosper has raised $95m. In June 2011, CompuCredit, a Nasdaq-listed financing company, reinvested in a consortium providing $17.2m to Prosper.

Media group Disney is understood to have scaled back its financial commitment to its corporate venturing affiliate, Steamboat Ventures, after strong performance in its portfolio caused the fund to be closed relatively early.

Alongside PayPal in the B round were venture capital firms Core Capital Partners and RRE Ventures and angel investor David Frankel, who seeded Olo and is now managing partner at Founder Collective.

BBVA has also disclosed its first deals by commiting to two venture capital funds and as part of a $4.05m series B round for SaveUp.

Qiwi, which is named after the Kiwi bird, will invest up to $1m in each start-up.

American Express-backed Radius Intelligence, a US provider of a data technology company platform for B2B marketers to find customers, raised $13m in a series B funding. American Express is an existing investor in the company. The company has raised $28.2m to date.

Facebook and Google's search competition seen through the prism of SurveyMonkey's $444m deal.

BillFloat previously raised $4.5m in it's A round in July 2010 from a consortium including PayPal.

A new study by Switzerland-based business school ETH Zurich in collaboration with US-based consultancy firm Bain & Company which partly uses Global Corporate Venturing data, finds more than three quarters of corporate venturing units transform their parents.