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.

Citrix's Startup Accelerator fund, the early stage investment unit of Citrix Systems, has invested $250,000 in in US-based cloud startup company AppEnsure.

Employees of the US-based social network will be given the opportunity to work on new ideas for up to three months.

Google Ventures has invested in a $1.5m seed funding for US-based real estate technology company HomeLight.

Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president, strategic and emerging business development, Microsoft, said: "The Imagine Cup Grants will help students evolve a great idea for addressing a societal issue into a real-world business."

Qualcomm has led a $1.8m round of seed funding into Y Combinator-backed Plivo, a voice and messaging applications platform.

Nokia and Microsoft-backed incubator AppCampus announces it has invested $1.7m of its $23.4m total in over 60 start-ups.

Globe Telecom invests $100,000 in Kalibrr, a startup aimed at capitalising on growth in the Philippines's offshore outsourcing sector.