Welltok, a company that uses game mechanics, social networks and IBM supercomputer Watson to encourage healthy behavior, has raised $12 million from Hearst Health Ventures and Catholic Health Initiatives, Tim Hay reports for Dow Jones VentureWire. This year Welltok will commercially roll out a concierge service called CafeWell, where Watson will field health-related questions from users and offer advice.

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500 Startups, a prolific seed investment firm and startup incubator, switched gears to focus on international and non-institutional LPs after hitting resistance from U.S. institutional investors, founder Dave McClure told VentureWire.

Sofinnova Ventures has added former InterMune CEO Daniel G. Welch as an executive partner to help it evaluate opportunities as it deploys a new $500 million life sciences fund.

Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based growth-equity investor, is out raising its ninth fund and has rounded up more than $2 billion so far, according to regulatory filings.

Rethink Robotics has captured $26.6 million in growth funding from GE Ventures, Goldman Sachs and other investors as the Boston startup aims to create an army of easy-to-train, affordable robots.

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Google Capital Invests in Indian Online Real Estate Startup. An investment arm of search giant Google is betting that India’s online real-estate market is set to boom, the WSJ’s Newley Purnell reports. Google Capital is providing fresh funding to CommonFloor, a Bangalore-based startup that allows users to list and search for residential properties. The startup previously raised a total of $50 million from investors Tiger Global Management and Accel India. It’s the third investment in Asia for Google Capital, which launched in February.

Payments Business Will Bypass Banks, Says Adyen Boss. Fast-growing payments startup Adyen recently secured $250 million from investors who valued the Amsterdam-based startup at $1.5 billion. Pieter van der Does, Adyen co-founder and CEO, has no doubt that the payments business will increasingly bypass banks. In fact, he’s counting on it, reports the WSJ’s Robin Van Daalen.

Is This the Best-Performing VC Fund Ever? A limited partner in Lowercase Ventures Fund I, an $8.4 million seed fund that closed back in 2010, leaked some documents to Fortune that suggest it may be the most successful fund ever, at least from a return-multiple perspective.

S.F. Political Icon Willie Brown Joins Startup’s Board. Global Blood Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the treatment of severe blood disorders, appointed Willie L. Brown, Jr., former mayor of San Francisco and speaker of the California State Assembly, to its board of directors. The company’s lead drug candidate is focused on sickle-cell disease, and in a news release Brown noted the disease’s effects on the African American community.

Bitcoin’s Shakeout Phase. Commenting about a slide deck from CoinDesk that showed 2014 was a tough year for bitcoin, Union Square Ventures’ Fred Wilson says we are witnessing a transition from one phase of the technology to another–and we are well into the shakeout.

Write to Zoran Basich at zoran.basich@wsj.com. Follow him on Twitter at @zoranbasich