Espresso Logic's first reactive logic programming based database backend merits seed funding in the amount of USD1.6 million from renowned Silicon Valley angel investors such as Inventus Capital.

A total of USD6 million in capital was provided by Guggenheim Partners for CardCash for growth financing purposes.

The maiden fund of India's Kedaara Capital had reached a total amount of USD540 million. Kedaara Capital of India, which was co-founded by the former head for India of Singapore's Temasek Holdings, recently announced the accumulation of USD540 million for its maiden fund.

Choose Energy's newly minted CEO Kerry Cooper would lead the company to new markets with new capital infusion from its latest Series B funding round.

Under US GAAP rules, a twice over value increase per share between the third quarters of 2012 and 2013 for Apollo Global Management LLC.

Artiman Ventures unusual investment strategy has been successful as it provides seed investment fund for firms.

Royal Oak Recycling is the business name of V&M Corporation and the firm was recently acquired by Rizzo Environmental Services Inc.

Essilor International paid USD21.50 per share for Costa purchase. Essilor International would be purchasing sunglass maker Costa at the approximated price of USS270 million.

Field specific information would be received by farmers from DuPont Pioneer The agricultural seed unit of DuPont, DuPont Pioneer, announced last Friday it had aligned with Deere & Co, the farm machinery company to compete against rival Monsanto in providing enhanced 'precision agriculture' analysis with the goal of maximizing crop production.

China Cinda Asset Management would be listing its shares in Hong Kong with a projected share volume sale of USD2 billion.

Progress Energy Canada, the Canadian unit of Malaysia's state owned oil firm Petronas, purchases stake in Montney field.

An announcement made last Thursday of a realignment in priority drug research projects prompted Citi analyst to advise shareholders of a possible interest divestment in diabetes drug joint venture between Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca.

The credit card business unit of Dubai Group was acquired by First Gulf Bank. CORRECTION: Corrections made on acquisition parties. First Gulf Bank, which is based in Abu Dhabi, announced the finalization of its acquisition of Dubai First.

Two of the most active banks in the Gulf region, Standard Chartered and Citigroup Inc have decided not to support Etisalat's loan for the acquisition of Maroc Telecom.

The assets it owns in Argentina as well as towers in Italy and Brazil are but some of the assets seeking Telecom Italia seeks to unload.

By raising USD875 million on its market debut, Numericable recorded th biggest IPO in the French market for the past four years.

Jut's big data software applications was the basis for the highly successful Series B financing round at USD20 million.

Lime&Tonic raises EUR1.0 million in angel investments for its funding round. Digital concierge service provider Lime&Tonic announced the closure of its Angel round of funding.

Coresytems raises USD15.5 million in its Series A funding round. Mobile cloud field service firm Coresystems recently announced the receipt of pledges amounting to CHF14 million or USD15.

A working capital facility was made available by Black Pearl Capital Fund for Ennovar's production.

TPG will be the new home of funds commitment professional Jennifer Morais. TPG would be joined by Jennifer Morais, a funds commitment professional. Prior to her employment at TPG, she worked at the Canada Pension and Investment Board.

A USD12 million fund infusion was received by Channel 1Q for it use to accelerate its development. The central marketplace for retailers and manufacturers, Channel IQ announced the raising of USD12 milion from Drive Capital.

Biopharmaceutical firm Aerpio Therapeutics Inc closes Series A funding round extension worth USD9 million.

After raising USD 18.2 million, Surefire Medical announced the completion of its Series B funding. Commercial stage medical device company, Surefire Medical Inc, develops innovative infusion systems for procedures determined as minimally invasive and direct to target intervention.

Blumberg Capital raises USD150 million with its venture capital seed fund. In an announcement, Blumberg Capital said it had closed Blumberg Capital III.

Great Portland Estates Plc and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority share half of London West End Development.

Deutsche Bank AG, Societe Generale SA and Harvest Global Investments now have China linked ETFs available.

The latest takeover bid was submitted by BNP Paribas SA for BGZ Bank in the Polish market that had seen mega million takeover deals in its banking industry.

Due to high costs of operations and low returns, Woolworths opts to close down stores in Nigeria. Woolworths Holdings Ltd. , the food and clothing retailer from South Africa, announced plans for the closure of three of its stores located in Nigeria.

Due to net income decline, the world's biggest reinsurer Munich Re would do a share buyback program to be completed by April 30, 2014.