Smart lock and virtual key maker August raises $8m in series A funding led by Maveron.

Online shopping club Westwing receives backing from German retailer Tengelmann with ambitions for it to lead the 'Home and Living' retail sector.

Oslo spin-out Elliptic Labs partners with Edinburgh-based Wolfson Microelectronics on gesture-based electronics.

MIT-linked startup LittleBits lands $11.1m from a number of venture backers for toy electronics.

Rakuten, a Japanese electronic commerce and Internet company, has led a SGD$1m ($800,000) seed round of funding for Carousell, a Singapore consumer-to-consumer app for iOS and Android.

Edtech startup Kidaptive raises $10.1m in series B backed by animation studio Prana Studios, Stanford-StartX Fund and others.