Education startup Top Hat Monocle adds $1.1m follow-on to $8m series A.

Suneight Investment, the venture unit of the eponymous holding company conglomerate, has invested Y50m ($550,000) in Revolver, which sells digital content.

Foundation Venture, affiliated with New Jersey Health Foundation, announces backing for life sciences research firm MentiNova.

Foundation has committed up to $500,000 to advance this research and development to MentiNova.

Kaizen, a private equity fund focused on the education sector led the B round.

JSR Micro formed a partnership with Capstone in November 2011 to provide its lithium ion battery to Capstone, which provides wireless water meters.