GetNinjas, a Brazilian local services marketplace start-up, closes $3m series A round backed by new investor Otto Capital.

Kennington joins EIC Ventures in $5m series A round for wastewater technology business.

Ouya originally raised money via crowdsourcing platform Kickstarter before its latest round with Nvidia.

CEO of software company Salesforce.com reveals his latest investment: Brandcast.

GME German Medical Engineering raises $1.3m in series A fundraising, bringing in BayBG as a new investor.

YJ Capital, the corporate venturing unit of Yahoo Japan, sees increasing value in the Japanese web and mobile application market with a recent investment into Fastmedia's Yappli product, which hopes to make App Store applications seemless and more user-friendly.

Japanese corporate fund, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, has linked up in a reported $5m co-investment deal with advertising agency Digital Advertising Consortium, to take advantage of one of the latest retail and social media apps to be launched on the Japanese market, Origami.

Alongside UPS in the A round were venture capital firms.