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US-based Epic Sciences, a biotech and cancer diagnostics company, raises $13m in Series B financing.

Playnery, a Korean social game development studio secures $3.7m in funding led by Japanese corporate venturing unit, SoftBank Ventures, with backing from semiconductor company Qualcomm.

An Irish corporate venturing foray by Nasdaq-listed Semtech Corporation, follows the semiconductor company making its largest acquisition in its 52 year history earlier this year.

Israel Corporation, the Israel-based holding company, has led part of a planned $100m investment into US and Israel-based electric car company Better Place, a company which operate a network of stations to recharge the batteries of electric cars.

BMW i Ventures has made another investment in mobility services with an investment into US-based app-maker Embark.

Google bought Canada-based mail delivery service BufferBox from Google Ventures for an undisclosed amount.

The deal showcases a number of important trends in healthcare: no venture capital (VC) firms were invited to invest, how far a company can get without selling equity and that while the investor universe has globalized all roads still often lead to the US.

Corporate Venturing Network Group leader hails from Alps vista.

On track for global dominance.