Softline Venture Partners, the corporate venturing unit of the Softline Group, launches e-commerce focused spin-off, Videobaker.

The digital unit of India-based media company The Times of India Group joins a syndicate which also includes The Washington Post Company, Docomo, VTB Capital and RTP Ventures.

The Germany-based comparision website reportedly secures an investment from 500 Startups' Dave McClure, taking it to nearly $1m raised, according to TechCrunch.

IDG and Bertelsmann Asia unit reportedly looking to up investment in China-based luxury website Secoo next year.

The Germany-based fashion internet retailer backed by the former corporate venturing unit of Germany-based media company Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group details its financing as it reveals other milestones after being started a year and a half ago.

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.

Institutional Ventures Partners leads a $50m D round into US-based One Kings Lane, a flash sales site for the home market, in a round also backed by US-based media company Scripps Networks Interactive.

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.

Summit Partners has invested $26m in Malaysia-based e-commerce website Lazada, created by Rocket Internet, and backed by investors including JP Morgan.