If enough employees accept the tender offer to hit the $80m limit, BlackRock will own just less than 1% of Twitter, according to news provider Financial Times.

US-based Shape Security has raised $20m in Series B funding led by Venrock and with participation from return backers Google Ventures.

Nine of the 10 possible IPOs this year identified by news provider CNN has corporate venturing backing.

The pair of corporate venturing units outlined a 2012 that sees them converging in annual investment pace, although the long-established Intel Capital, which has invested more than $10bn in its history is understandably more active in realisation activity than Google Ventures, which was set up in 2009.

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The deal is unusually personalised for a chief executive of a major company, with Schultz himself sitting on the board of Square.

The pull of Charles Searle and South Africa-based media group Naspers is evidenced by how Silicon Valley heayweights are prepared to attend the group’s strategy meetings. Naspers’ corporate venturing unit, Myriad International Holdings (MIH), could be forgiven for being little known in the epicentre of global venture capital but its attraction is perhaps heightened because […]

More specifically, why are there hardly any twenty-year-old wunderkind entrepreneurs in China?

Fab, a US-based consumer products sales site, has extended its series C round by  $15m with Russia-based investors joining the syndicate. VTB Capital, the venture investment unit of Russian bank VTB, and Phenomen Ventures, a venture firm founded by Dmitry Falkovich, an early investor in internet services provider Mail.ru, provided the $15m, according to news […]

Switchfly, a US-based SaaS (Software as a Service) online travel service provider has raised $2.8 million in new Series C funding backed by Thayer Ventures.

US-based mobile payments specialist Square has acquired New York design firm 80/20 which specialises in interface design.

Perhaps one should be perusing the marriage updates section of old media dealmaking, instead of harping on about those venerable old things that have died?

The company secures big series D, which had corporate backing from coffee shop Starbucks and US bank Citigroup's corporate venturing unit.

Much as the world’s athletes impressed with their vigour in London’s Olympics this year, corporate venturing executives demonstrated their tenacity this summer with a marked spike in dealmaking in August. Global Corporate Venturing tracked 103 investments in corporate venturing-backed companies in August worth $1.8bn, up significantly against the 81 deals worth $1.3bn in July. It […]

Corporate venturing fuels early-stage explosion.

Media in motion as change in the sector encourages a spate of dealmaking and corporate venturing unit launches on the back of a series of large flotations.

There is a saying that by aiming for the stars you might miss but still hit the moon. However, if the people connected to Russia-based internet services group Mail.ru ever thought about this they would regard it as unduly pessimistic. Their own development in creating a business that dominates the Russian-language internet market has also […]

The twitter app developer is backed by cloud-computing company Salesforce and SoftBank Capital.

Fashion retailer Twice raises $4m in a venture round that includes AOL-backed venture firm CrunchFund, SV Angel, IA Ventures, and others.

"Twitter with a voice" company Bubble Motion, which is backed by Singapore Telecommunications's corporate venturing unit, raises $5m series E round from JAFCO.