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Twitter is investing 'at least $10m' in the latest fund to be raised by Betaworks, an early investor in two companies it has acquired in the past.

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The social media data collector has now raised $180m altogether, after Credit Suisse and Fidelity both made strategic investments in its series D round.

Paul Ark (Polapat Arkkrapridi) has joined SCB Ventures, the fintech investment arm of Siam Commercial Bank, as head of venture capital.

Publishing platform Medium boosted its total funding to more than $130m in a GV-backed round that reportedly valued it at $600m.

Tracy Isacke, managing director at Silicon Valley Bank, looks to the future of startups.

The venture capital (VC) industry is booming, especially in the technology space. Corporations are participating in this trend by establishing their own internal investment organisations. These corporate venture capitalists (CVCs), also known as strategic investors or corporates, are investing in tech startups alongside traditional financial VCs. In fact, according to the Global Corporate Venturing, over […]

Qualcomm is set to exit driverless vehicle technology company Cruise Automation, which had raised $18m in financing, in a $1bn acquisition by General Motors.

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The social media curation platform has received additional funding from Inkef Capital to boost its Singapore Press Holdings-backed series A round to $7m.

The quality of an organisation is reflected by the quality of its questions and a number of the most storied venture investors, such as Michael Moritz from Sequoia Capital, started out as journalists. Sarah Milstein also began her journey towards corporate venturing by first climbing her way up through the journalist ranks at O’Reilly Media. […]

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Less than 18 months after co-founding Google Ventures Europe as a general partner, Eze Vidra is leaving Google Ventures and parent company Alphabet.

US-based social media management platform SocialFlow has secured $7.5m in a series C round that included telecommunicaions and internet firm Softbank, TechCrunch reported yesterday. Investment firm Gefinor Capital led the round, which also included venture capital firms Cayuga Venture Partners, Fairhaven Capital and Rand Capital. SocialFlow helps companies manage their social media profiles through a […]

AOL-owned fund BBG Ventures has contributed to a round for premium recipe delivery service Din, which recently expanded from San Francisco to Los Angeles.

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Jessica Verrilli has left Google Ventures after less than six months as a partner to rejoin Twitter, where she will be senior director of corporate development and strategy.

Google-backed Amino specialises in launching mobile communities apps focused on a specific topic and has created 41 such apps to date.