Samsung Venture Investment Company invests in patient care coordination platform, joining investors including Hearst Business Media.

General Electric invests undisclosed amount in Israeli cyber-security startup.

KDDI Open Innovation Fund, the corporate venturing unit of Japan telecommunications group KDDI and venture capital firm Global Brain, has invested an undisclosed amount of funding in Japan-based flash sales e-commerce site Monoco.

KDDI, the corporate venturing unit of Japan telecommunications group KDDI, has set its sights on Nanapi, a consumer information sharing site that boasts 60 million monthly page views. The latest round was worth $2.7m and brings the start-ups funding to date to $6.1m.

Asia electronics group Samsung is looking to gain greater control of the organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, technology as consumers favour thinner screens in smartphones and TV sets. It is hoping to get a piece of that market through a pending acquisition through its affiliate Cheil Industries, also known as Samsung Chemical, of German organic light-emitting diode (OLED) technology developer Novaled.

Electronic design automation company raises further funds from previous strategic investors.

Publishing platform for remixing content raises seed funding from Ingram Content Group.

AbbVie participates in follow-on series B funding for gene therapy company AuraSense Therapeutics.

Robert Bosch Venture Capital and SanDisk Ventures invest in $11m financing round for Pebbles Interfaces, developer of gesture-based interaction with digital devices.