Lumens, a South Korea- listed maker of light-emitting diodes, has bought 6.9% of Feelux, the listed South Korean lighting parts maker with a market capitalisation of Krw40bn ($36m).

Takeda has snapped up US vaccine development company LigoCyte for $60m cash plus possible future earnouts.

Medical technology company Medtronic has acquired orthopaedic device manufacturer Kanghui Holdings for $816m.

The company has renamed its corporate venturing unit Volvo Group Venture Capital, headed by Johan Carlsson (pictured), to reflect its broadened mandate, which includes being able to make acquisitions and take majority stakes.

SingTel's corporate venturing unit leads the $1m Series A for cloud-based media platform QVIVO.

Sateesh Andra, who led investments for Draper Fisher Jurvetson has joined VenturEast and will spearhead VenturEast's technology focused Tenet Fund.

The latest 10 investments by Intel Capital are split geographically between the US, China, India, South Korea and Brazil, and include an investment in US-based content sharing company Box, which recently raised $125m.

Moment.me's amalgamation app for social content receives financial support from Singapore Telecommunications.