Google Ventures portfolio company HubSpot reveals why entrepreneurs rate the corporate venturing unit so highly.

In April, Visa provided an undisclosed amount to Square and has been joined by venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers led the round, and was joined by hedge fund Tiger Global Management and peers Sequoia Capital and Khosla Ventures.

Alongside CompuCredit in backing Prosper were venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Crosslink Capital, Accel Partners, Omidyar Network, TomorrowVentures, QED Investors and Volition Capital.

Through its UberSocial, Echofon and Twidroyd applications, UberMedia's user base has grown to more than 5,000,000 users in just more than a year, representing 13% of all traffic on the Twitter platform.

Banks maintain historical rates to invest in private comapnies and then advise on their flotations.

This hot-house atmosphere for a few great businesses and others clinging on for high valuations at listing means its harder for patient, longer-term capital to be efficiently invested in businesses for the overall health of the economy. In such conditions, insiders and intermediaries reap the benefits.

BlueRun also participated in 140's first $2m round, which also included angel investors.

The strategic corporate venturing investment in Square came 12 months after Visa linked up with DeviceFidelity to launch its version, In2Pay, of Square's service.

We Own It Summit aims to break down barriers for women in high-growth entrepreneurship taking place on 9 - 10 June at Imperial College, London.

Japan-based internet holding company Softbank led the A round for SocialFlow, and the consortium also included SocialFlow's incubator, Betaworks and AOL Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of US media group AOL.

News providers TechCrunch and Fortune said JP Morgan (JPM) already had a stake in Twitter after committing to Chris Sacca's, an early Twitter angel investor and adviser, $1bn secondaries fund.

David Teten, chief executive of Teten Advisors, with Chris Farmer, venture partner at General Catalyst Partners, make five recommendations to improve the volume and relevance of dealflow.

Intellectual property and a good reputation are the currencies for collaboration to work

Twitpay provides payment software for social media platforms and also added venture capital firm TomorrowVentures to its investor consortium alongside CompuCredit, which spun off its micro-payments units in the UK and US in mid-2009.

News provider New York Times said Goldman had invested $450m in Facebook, and Digital Sky Technologies (DST), a Russia-based investment firm backed by corporate venturing units run by Naspers and Tencent, invested $50m.

Companies increase amounts and role in entrepreneurial investment syndicates and new and existing units prepare for further growth.

Facebook's increasing dominance poses for Google and other internet-focused companies a sort of Facebook versus Rest of Web (RoW) challenge.

Analysis of the importance of lending to venture-backed companies.