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InstaMed previously raised $6m in September 2010 to take its then-total to $22m.

The challenge of managing a diverse set of strategic LPs is an area of increasing importance to many venture capital firms.

"We plan to hire an additional 500 employees in 2012 to meet our growth targets."

In April 2010, L2C raised an undisclosed amount from venture capital firm QED Investors and McGovern Enterprises.

The "PayPal Japan" joint venture is expected to be led by Japan-based technology company Softbank's Hiroaki Kitano.

The corporate venturing groups were certainly impressed by the watchman in this case, as they voted Hijazi's company the "most investable" among the 15 finallists at the competition, held in partnership with American Security Challgenge.

Corporates plan for electric car future.

This year, in all bar one of the awards, Global Corporate Venturing selected a shortlist and the winner was selected by the magazine's advisory board at the end of March. Editor James Mawson chose the lifetime achievement award.

JPMorgan's chief executive of investment banking Jes Staley has joined the advisory firms operating committee as a non-voting observer.

This article, the second of two, contains ideas for successful corporate venturing drawn from my experience in operations in corporate companies, start-ups providing products and services to corpo-rates and corporate venture capital investing with an oil major. This article deals with obstacles and failure signals.