Vorwerk Ventures participates in a $10m round of funding for UK-based recipe subscription service HelloFresh.

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.

Nike launches the Nike+ Accelerator, powered by start-up accelerator TechStars, to encourage Nike+ innovation.

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.

Chinese-based 360buy, a DST Global-backed online retailer of consumer electronics, reportedly raises $400m in a round which values the e-commerce site at $7.3bn

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.

US-based advertising company Mojiva raises $7m from previous investors Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, Cross Creek Capital, Forbes Media and Shamrock Capital Advisors.

Google Ventures leads a first round of financing of $1.2m into US-based marketing start-up TrueLens

Alternative asset manage AGC Equity Partners, via m8 Capital, leads an $85m round of financing into US-based Evernote, an online digital memo service backed by NTT Docomo.