Advertising technology company Affle is launching a $3.3m corporate venturing fund to back mobile advertising entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region.

Affle, a Singapore and India-based mobile and digital advertising technology company whose strategic investors include mobile advertising company D2C, software company Microsoft, general trading company Itochu and media conglomerate Bennett, Coleman & Co, is launching M2X, a corporate venturing fund.

The fund will amount to INR 20 crores ($3.3m) for its first year and launches on 1 October 2013.  According to Affle, M2X has been established as a “mobile advertising & entrepreneurship development fund aimed at boosting the mobile ad…