Stamped, a consumer review website for restaurants, has launched its mobile device application after backing from search engine Google's corporate venturing unit and Bain Capital Ventures, an independent venture capital firm affiliated to management consultants Bain & Company.

UK-based medical foundation Wellcome Trust, and US peer Michael J Fox Foundation, along with Dutch state-backed Agentschap, provided the money to help Sapiens develop its technology for treating Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.

All other current investors participated in the third financing extension, including venture capital firms SV Life Sciences, Clarus Ventures and Advanced Technology Ventures.

Freecultr, an online apparel start-up launched two weeks earlier.

AOL through its corporate venturing unit AOL Ventures joined publisher the New York Times Company, venture capital firm True Ventures, and angel investors Scott Kurnit (chief executive of AdKeeper) and Howard Lindzon (chief executive of StockTwits) in backing Appssavvy.

IDG Ventures has backed SurDoc, which launched this month to use the Unstructured Operation Markup Language (UOML) global standard on how to process any information that can be printed on paper.

Peter Thomson is the founder and sole investor behind Thomvest Ventures and is co-chairman of the Woodbridge Company that owns a majority of media group Thomson Reuters.

The Beijing-based IDG Capital Partners corporate venturing unit has invested in Razer, which makes computer game peripherals, such as keyboards and mice, and $10m in software application provider BlueSprig that launched its first products in October.

China-based IT service provider Neusoft reaffirms its partnership with the mobile tech developer in a new round of funding.

BestVendor, provider of a work application website, has raised $3m in a series A round partially funded by Softbank Capital.