Samsung Venture Investment Corporation joins $5m B funding for education platform.

Education payments service raises $6.4m series B funding.

US-based education materials provider Follett Corporation partners with Atrium Capital to fund early stage education and technology companies.

Navitas Capital, backed by Johnson Controls, leads $12.2m financing for energy efficiency company.

Skanska-Inertech IT infrastructure partnership reported to have established $60m spinout.

Corporate venturing units YJ Capital, Cyber Agent, KDDI and Mitsubishi join $3m investment in Skype-based English language education business Rarejob.

Gree Ventures has led an undisclosed series A round of Indonesia-based UrbanIndo.

Rebright Partners, the Japan-based incubator and mentoring fund led by serial entrepreneur and VC professional Takeshi Ebihara, is investing the firm's latest fund in consumer-focused mobile and internet start-ups in south-east Asia's more burgeoning technology markets.

Globis Capital Partners, the corporate venturing unit of Japan-based global corporate management education business, and GMO Venture Partners, the corporate venturing unit of Japan GMO Internet Group, both see a growth trend in crowdsourcing or outsourcing of designers, engineers and IT specialists in their local market of Japan. Their latest $2.9m seed investment in Japan-based Lancers illustrates that trend.