Twitter is acquiring mobile advertising exchange MoPub in an all-stock deal worth around $350m.

Media groups have pursued corporate venturing enthusiastically as the sectors in which they operate have been transformed by technological change. As we demonstrate in our forthcoming special report on the media industry, which is sponsored by US-based law firm Baker Botts and is out later this month, groups are using their investments in start-ups to keep tabs on how the production of content is changing, […]

The finding of a survey by US-based recruitment consultant J Thelander Consulting in partnership with the Corporate Venture and Innovation Initiative that corporate venturing unit leaders earn just under $500,000 should not alarm, even though it is less than comparable venture peers.

Fung Capital USA, a venture capital fund affiliated with Li & Fung Ltd, has led a $10m series A round for a US-based start-up that is racking up tens of millions of dollars in added sales for its clients, which include large brands and e-commerce companies.

Humboldt spin-out Tame tunes up ahead of public launch.

EdgeCast, a US-based content delivery network, has secured $54m in D series funding round, led by private equity firm Performance Equity Management (PEM), with follow-on participation from the company’s existing investors, venture capital firm Menlo Ventures and Steamboat Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of US media company The Walt Disney Company. The D funding comprised […]

Riskive, a US-based cybersecurity software startup, has secured $2.2m in seed funding from Genacast Ventures (a seed fund formed in partnership between serial entrepreneur Gil Beyda and with Comcast Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of entertainment and cable communications company Comcast Corporation, to invest in technology-centric internet start-ups), venture capital firm Core Capital and a […]

Esplorio, an online travel platform, has launched out of the University of Oxford. Developed at the University’s Isis Software Incubator, part of Oxford’s commercialisation unit Isis Innovations, the platform allows users to collate memories of travels with a few clicks of a mouse. Esplorio intergrates with Facebook, Twitter, Google and other social networks to pull […]

Web business CRM start-up raises $6m led by Social+Capital Partnership

Swiss drugs firm funds London-based self-expression platform.

Coffee chain Starbucks caught the mood when it invested $25m in US-based mobile payments company Square as part of a strategic tie-up and this year’s winner of the Global Corporate Venturing Award for Large Investment. The deal was a rare step into corporate venturing by Starbucks, but this did not restrain the ambition of the […]

News of the proposed acquisition have boosted shares in Nasdaq-listed AutoNavi by more than 30% since the start of May and stand at about $14.77 per share.

Digg spin-out Wefollow snaps up Aol spin-out about.me.

The deal makes DST the second biggest investor in the incubator after Swedish Investment AB Kinnevik, whose $1.34bn was provided directly and through its Millicom subsidiary, East-West Digital News, our syndicate partners for Russia report.

A look at the largest deals in the quarter, including the $700m round of private equity funding for China-based e-commerce site 360Buy, as eye-catchingly large Asia deals continue to be a staple of our coverage.

In February last year, venture capital firm RezVen Partners led the $4.4m A round in StyleHaul.

In an increasingly global venture capital landscape, corporate venturing has a
unique part to play in turning the great potential offered by these transformations
into value for their corporate parents, write Boris Battistini, research associate, ETH Zurich, and Martin Haemmig, adjunct professor CeTIM at UniBW Munich and Leiden University.

News provider Fortune said DST's Alexander Tamas was setting up a venture capital firm called Vy Capital, named for an aviation term that refers to the best speed of climb.

Last month there were 68 investments worth $1.2bn, compared with 97 investments worth $1.9bn in January last year and 61 worth $996m in December.

In January last year, Time Warner Investments, the corporate venturing fund representing media conglomerate Time Warner, led a $12m series B round for US-based social TV analytics firm Bluefin Labs.