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In 2011, Movable Ink raised $1.3m in its A round.

This is our first quarterly look at the European corporate venturing market.

Wider corporate venturing activity continued to be robust, although the month was down on prior periods. In April there were 64 investments worth $885m, 93 investments worth $1.6bn in the same period last year, and 78 investments worth $905m in March.

My trip to the Munich Network in March painted an interesting portrait of an innovative region.

Shellye Archambeau, chief executive at MetricStream, said: "This strategic investment led by Goldman Sachs will further enable us to accelerate our innovation and market leadership."

OATV also recently invested in PeerJ, an open access publisher of scholarly articles.

MirriAd, which describes itself as a digital brand integration specialist, raised the capital to expand its infrastructure including broadcast, cable and satellite facilities in India and other Asian markets.

As corporations become increasingly open to external innovation and many of their own executives become angel investors themselves, there is a great opportunity to help the nascent start-ups.

Online language program Best Teacher has raised $530,000 in a round of funding from GMO Venture Partners and SMBC Venture Capital.