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HomeAway's flotation will be managed by investment banks Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, according to its regulatory filing.

Venture capital (VC) firm Emergence Capital led the B round in VigLink as a new investor and was joined by Google Ventures and VC firm First Round Capital. VigLink has now raised $7.3m since it started.

News provider TechCrunch said MediaMath's investors in the latest round would be medical device maker Safeguard Scientific and venture capital firms QED, European Founders Fund and SJS.

Alongside Google Ventures and SalesForce in backing HubSpot's $32m D round were venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners and Scale Venture Partners.

Alongside Baidu in backing Anjuke's $50m C round, was venture capital firm Matrix Partners China.

Rockfish Brand Ventures will provide 10 start-ups with capital over the next one to two years, as well as technology and marketing support with the aim of improving the marketing return on investment of its clients.

There were 72 new rounds of funding and 12 exits through trade sales or flotations last month, according to Global Corporate Venturing.

Yola, formerly known as Synthasite, has raised $25m from Reinet, according to its Facebook page.

Colin Blaydon and Fred Wainwright, professors, Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University, draw from proceedings of the National Venture Capital Association Corporate Venture Summit in November 2010 and written up by the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University.

US-listed chemicals company Dow is an old hand with new tricks when it comes to corporate venturing by moving its strategy towards strategic rather than financial goals.

The other members of the consortium besides Google Ventures in backing WeatherBill were media-focused investment banks Allen & Company and Code Advisors and venture capital firms Khosla Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures, First Round Capital and Atomico.