CyberAgent Ventures, Archetype and GMO Payment Gateway buy convertible notes in API hosting site FluxFlex.

Alaska launches snow-fighting spin-out CFT Solutions.

SOWISO, an edtech software spin-out from the Eindhoven University of Technology, receives backing from software developer WoodWing.

GoKomplain, a new startup from the University of Oxford, looks to crowdsource the art of the complaint.

Monsanto acquires Duke University spin-out GrassRoots Biotechnology for undisclosed amount.

Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation and Atlas Venture back biotechnology, neuroscience startup.

Globe Telecom's venturing unit, Kickstart ventures, has created a partnership with Australia incubator Pollenizer to back entrepreneurs in the Philippines, where many solution-based ventures have yet to be explored.

India pharmaceutical sales company, Cipla, is setting up an incubator unit to access the latest market trends across new geographic markets.