Travee, a Japan-based travel website that enables visitors to book tours with local residents, obtained an undisclosed amount of seed funding from CyberAgent Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of internet company CyberAgent, and Will Group Incubate Fund, backed by human resources firm Will Group.
Japan-based edtech Arcterus raised a $1m seed round from Dentsu Digital Holdings, a corporate venturing subsidiary of marketing firm Dentsu, as well as Startia and Bon Angels. Arcterus operates a smartphone app which enables students to share lesson notes with other users. The company was previously bootstrapped with a $567,000 investment by founder Goichiro Arai.
Venture capital firm Principia has led a €3m ($3.4m) series A round for Italy-based medical devices maker Wise. Corporate and government-backed investment fundHigh-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF), Atlante Seed, B-to-V Partners, Atlante Ventures, F3F and Antares all contributed to the round. Wise previously obtained €1m in seed funding from HTGF, Atlante Seeds, Agite and B-to-V.
US-based Tute Genomics, a cloud-based genomic analytics platform, received $3.9m for the second tranche of its series A round. Internet company Tencent backed the round alongside Intermountain Healthcare and Healthbox. In December 2014, Eurovestech, Peak Ventures and angel investors provided a $2.3m first tranche. In January 2014, Wilmington Pharmatech, Salt Lake Life Sciences Angels, Peak Ventures, Park City Angel Network, and angels investors invested $1.5m in seed funding, on top of $300,000 secured through AngelList.