Post-production film company Park Road Post Production joins Peter Thiel-backed Valar Ventures investing in a $2m Series B round for New Zealand-based Booktrack, software which adds music and audio to e-books and is now backed by Warehouse founder Sir Stephen Tindall.

The investment arm of Investitionsbank Berlin, the ProFIT finance programme, invests $1.3m into Adspert, an automated software programme by Bidmanagement, which is backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments.

China-based HuaXiang Group makes its first investment in Israel, by investing $2.5m into Israel Electric Corporation backed 3GSolar Photovoltaics, a solar panel manufacturer.

Japan-based internet company Asahi Net invests in a seed round of funding for Japan-based mobile tech start-up Fuller.

German-based biotech start-up Ayoxxa Biosystems closes a $3.4m Series A round, which is led by Wellington Partners Venture Capital.

The corporate-backed state venture fund, which raised nearly $380m for the first close of its second venture fund in October last year, is in late-stage talks with one company started outside Germany, after securing the ability to invest overseas as part of the new fund.

Biotechnology company Sharklet Technologies has received $2m in Series B funding from Altria Ventures in exchange for a 12.5% stake in the company.

Singapore Telecommunications's corporate venturing unit, SingTel Innov8, participates in a $570k round of seed funding, which was led by TNF Ventures, for web travel booking start-up Flocations.

Concur invests $2m into Evature, a provider of natural-language search capabilities for online travel, reportedly via its newly formed $150m Concur Perfect Trip Fund.