The audio technology company emerges with $750,000 of angel funding less than a year after entering the incubator.

The craft e-commerce website raises funds from Germany-based media group Hubert Burda Media as well as venture firms Union Square Ventures, Accel Partners, and Index Ventures.

Innovacorp's Greg Phipps said the graduate job hunter-targeted site bridges a gap between the professional networking of LinkedIn and the "purely social networking of Facebook".

LVMH's Asian corporate venturing unit has its eye on hooking up with a big Chinese wedding photography business.

Japan-based internet retailer Rakuten joins Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners, and FirstMark Capital, backing the fast-growing social network

The mobile app for seating diners was developed by Firespotter Labs, an incubator backed by Google Ventures, and set up by Craig Walker, a former entrepreneur in residence at the search engine's corporate venturing unit.

Google eyes $30m investment in the movie-style gaming company at a $190m valuation, as Google Ventures-backed location-based mobile app company Echoecho raises $750,000.

The corporate venturing unit of Disney is joined by Norwest Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Voyager Capital backing the company.

Paul Musselman, formerly of Intel Capital and IBM's corporate development team, takes the top role at the language learning start-up, which spun off from Carnegie Mellon University.

Loyalty software company Points International is joined backing another loyalty software developer by the venture unit of Canada pension fund Omers and Mars, an Ontario government fund.