The rest of the 100 (in alphabetical order by company): Meredith Finn, Salesforce Ventures

Viacom has acquired online marketing agency WhoSay, allowing investors including Comcast, Tencent and Amazon to exit.

Corporate-backed deals tracked by GCV Analytics in November numbered 215, significantly higher than the 186 funding rounds in the same month last year. Investment value also increased by 84% to $8.05bn – up from $4.37bn in November 2016. The deal count in November was even more drastically higher compared with the 147 recorded in October […]

Lam, a GCV Powerlist 2016 winner, founded the Time Warner Investments group in 2003 and invested more than $325m in 54 companies before leaving earlier this year.

Qualcomm and Harman-backed Navdy has contacted potential creditors as part of a bankruptcy process known as General Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors.

Danone Manifesto Ventures has invested in bottled ocean water brand Kona Deep in its fifth deal since launching in September last year.

Christina Heggie and Ajay Sharma have been promoted to investment principal roles at JetBlue Technology Ventures.

Sector focus: Financial services

Snap has acquired Metamarkets, an analytics technology developer backed by AOL Ventures, for a sub-$100m amount.

Alphabet's GV, unit has participated in a series A round for Fauna, a US big data platform developer founded by ex-Twitter employees in 2012.

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Build sports car Use that money to build an affordable car While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options This was the short version of the master plan that Elon Musk posted on Tesla’s website on August 2 2006. The intention of the master plan was to illustrate how seemingly separate and […]

Just as Netscape’s IPO marked the real kick-off for the internet era, 2017 will be the starting gun for broad involvement of venture, hedge funds, and eventually average consumers in cryptocurrencies and related protocols and assets. The recent run up in cryptocurrency valuations has caused a sudden and profound renewal of interest by entrepreneurs and […]

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Raine Group and Temasek have reportedly acquired a majority stake in beleaguered, Twitter and Chernin Group-backed music streaming platform SoundCloud.

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Twitter-backed music streaming service SoundCloud is reportedly in advanced talks to sell a majority stake to the two to alleviate financial struggles.

Yusuf Bashir has resigned as managing director of Infosys Innovation Fund, the $500m corporate venturing fund formed by Infosys, after two years at the helm.

General Electric pitches itself as an innovation hub. Amazon brought us many new ideas about retailing. Google, well, any company that thought about bringing the world the internet through hot air balloons obviously thinks outside the box. Amazon has changed how almost every consumer product is sold. Facebook has reinvented communication. What do these companies […]

Jake Knapp, the GV design partner that developed the Design Sprint process, has left the unit after five years to become a full-time writer.