Services

Hertz has acquired a 20% stake in Car and a seat on its board in return for the acquisition of all of Hertz's business in China.

Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners led the A round, which also included Google chairman Eric Schmidt's investment fund Innovation Endeavors and media group New York Times Company.

Colorado State University launches spin-off job-matching platform Jobzology.

US-based Tealium has raised $15.6m in a series C round from Tenaya Capital, Battery Ventures and Presidio Ventures.

Online insurance portal Policybazaar.com has raised $5m in series B funding with involvement from return backers Info Edge and Intel Capital.

SavingStar, an online grocery saving service, has raised $9.1m in its fourth round of funding in a round led by Edenred.

Technology company Demandbase has raised $15m in series D financing led by return backers Scale Venture Partners and with continued involvement from Adobe.

Marin Software has raised $105m in its IPO pricing 7.5 million shares at $14 per share. Original plans offered 7 million shares at between $11 and $13.

This is an analysis of the ten most active units and has attached the main data of our new quarterly reports, the first of which, a 12-page special, can be seen in full, in this month's magazine.

The corporate venturing unit of Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has made plans to increase its assets under management with its latest $450m fund from its parent, Global Corporate Venturing can reveal.

Modern consumer corporations generally continue to pump out the kind of products that the world population simply cannot stop buying. Yet these industries, which have been brutally competitive, as well as profitable, since ancient times, are being transformed by a rapidly growing world population, where consumer spending power is truly globalising.