EverFi had previously raised $11m in September 2010.

By email former Vodafone Ventures head Barry said he was also doing some consulting work in Australia.

US-based café chain Starbucks made a big splash in corporate venturing sealing a $25m deal to invest in fast-growing US-based financial payments company Square, founded by Jack Dorsey, also a founder of social network Twitter. Starbucks chief Howard Schultz will be joining Square’s board in a sign of how seriously Starbucks is taking the investment. […]

Mobile payments start-up Square has attracted a $25m Series D investment from US-based coffee retailer Starbucks.

Private equity investor Suhail Rizvi is leading the latest round for the Visa-backed mobile payments company, according to news provider New York Times that cites sources familiar with the deal.

Fab, a US-based consumer products sales site, has raised $105m in its series C round froma  consortium including overseas corporations’ corporate venturing units. Russia-based internet company Ru-Net’s ru-Net Technology Partners for US investments and Japan-based phone operator NTT’s DoCoMo Capital corporate venturing unit, were joined by venture capital firms Atomico, which led the C round, […]

Caltech and Pennsylvania back on-line teaching company Coursera, which just won the praise of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

The Bing Fund's general manager is Rahul Sood, who set up VoodooPC, which was sold to Hewlett Packard in 2006.

Drawing on decades of experience in patent litigation, the author outlines intellectual property (IP) as a venture white space by summarising the important trends shaping IP markets and identifying key disruptions on the horizon from new IP businesses.

Shape has also recruited former Google 'click fraud czar,' Shuman Ghosemajumder.

Inaugural Global Corporate Venturing Tech Scout Challenge sees 15 finallists who will meet more than 40 corporate venturing units with at least an aggregate $5bn of venture assets under management.

Below is the list of speakers and challengers for the 2012 Tech Scout day on May 14 in London

Capital prospects for accelerated venture growth.

The Facebook initial public offering, therefore, will be a testament to Microsoft's ability to see strategic issues and ways to remain relevant to these nascent entrepreneurs in a way few, if any other tech company bar IBM, have been able to emulate.

The exact size of Microsoft's stake is outlined in the social network's latest regulatory filing.

News provider VentureBeat said actor Will Smith's Overbook Entertainment and rapper Jay-Z's Roc Nation, along with singer Shakira, skateboarder Rob Dyrdek, soccer star Gerard Pique, Skull Candy chairman Jeff Kear, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, ShoeDazzle founder Brian Lee and Omniture founder Josh James have all invested or partnered with Viddy.

What is the next big thing in venture capital?" Whenever I see a venture capitalist, I ask this question, but none of them gives me a satisfying answer. I will share my answer here and hope that this will stimulate others to comment with different point of view.

Media company Hearst Corporation takes a 20% stake in the UK-based design intelligence company, and separately one of its corporate venturing unit's portfolio companies raises a $20m round.

Google Ventures entrepreneur-in-residence Craig Walker is separately looking at returning to his VoIP roots when he founded the company which becam Google Voice.

The image interactivity platform has pulled in $10.7m in a Nokia-led round, also backed by Google Ventures, as it unveils an image app store on its website.