Services

Recruit Incubation Partners has acquired a stake in Net Marketing for Y112m ($1.3m) from existing investors.

YJ Capital, Yahoo Japan's Y1bn corporate venture fund, has made its first investment participating in a Y120m round of funding for Raksul.inc

Social game developer Donuts has acquired Social Lunch, a website operated by SyncLunch, a year and four months since its launch.

Seed accelerator SunBridge Global Ventures has invested in US-based Language Cloud through the SunBridge Startups programme.

Sadara, a Palestine-focused investment firm, invests $1m into Souktel, a mobile tech venture, via a fund backed by Google and Cisco.

Bright Capital Digital invests $3.5m in Russian based Fotoshkola.net, an online training resource for amateur photographers.

Ward Howell sets up its Talent Equity Venture Fund to invest in start-ups valued at up to $5m, working on geographically scalable professional training and HR projects.

Concur makes its latest investment via its recently formed $150m Concur Perfect Trip Fund by leading a $9m B round into US-based data-driven pricing and merchandising Nor1.

Media company Discovery Communications says the investment is one of the "strategic growth opportunities in select investments in the next generation knowledge space."

If the InSightec deal ends up being a stellar exit for GE a few years from now, it would surely make an interesting case study for how spin-offs can successfully value for their parent corporate, while minimising risk of the parent while it sees how the technological roll out pans out.