Cool Planet Energy Systems, a US-based green fuels producer backed by energy producers Exelon and NRG Energy, industrial conglomerate General Electric, internet company Google and petroleum producers BP, Concord Energy and ConocoPhilips, received an undisclosed sum on Wednesday in a round co-led by Northbridge Venture Partners and Yung’s Enterprise. The company had raised more than […]

Bindi Karia, who joined Silicon Valley Bank from Microsoft in 2013 to head its accelerator activities, has left to seek new entrepreneurial challenges.

There is significant continuity at Google Ventures for the founding team of 2010, as it begins its Alphabet adventure.

Search engine provider Google tends to deal in superlatives. Even its name is derived from a googol, the large number 10100; that is, the digit 1 followed by 100 zeroes. Its corporate venturing units tend to operate with similar supreme ambition and building an impressive track record of investing and selling its portfolio companies – […]

The Comcast and Chernin Group-backed online media aggregator has revealed $50m in new equity capital, increasing its total funding to more than $210m.

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Peter Read has left corporate venturing unit Google Ventures a year after helping to launch its $100m European investment arm.

The Walt Disney-backed accelerator, run in co-operation with Techstars, has announced the 10 startups that will make up its second class.

Sony Pictures Television, the TV production division of Sony, has paid a reported $100m for a 51% stake in the Latin America-focused digital advertising network.

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The venue management company has received $9m from investors including Twitter, Live Nation and Aruba Networks.

Maker Media plans to use the O'Reilly Media-backed funding round to help build out its content.

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Jessica Verrilli, who was instrumental in Twitter's acquisitions of Vine and Periscope among others, is set to join Google Ventures as a partner.

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The developer of business communications platform Alcatraz has attracted $28m in new funding from investors including Credit Suisse.

Medtech startup Color Genomics secures $15m series A for genetic testing kits.

Cyanogen, the US-based developer of a mobile operating system, revealed yesterday that contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn was among the investors in the $80m series C round it closed in March. The round was led by investment firm Premji Invest and included internet portal Tencent, semiconductor technology producer Qualcomm, microblogging platform Twitter, telecommunications companies Telefónica and […]

Cyanogen, the US-based developer of a mobile operating system, revealed yesterday that contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn was among the investors in the $80m series C round it closed in March. The round was led by investment firm Premji Invest and included internet portal Tencent, semiconductor technology producer Qualcomm, microblogging platform Twitter, telecommunications companies Telefónica and […]

Twitter revealed in its earnings report that it spent a combined $86.6m to acquire William Morris Endeavor-backed Niche and Periscope earlier this year.