News provider TechCrunch said Apps Foundry had in aggregate raised S$4.3m since its launch in 2010.

Venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners led the A round, which also included Google chairman Eric Schmidt's investment fund Innovation Endeavors and media group New York Times Company.

Tech news media company Lid and customer relationship solution developer Repica are two of the first companies to join Docomo's incubator programme.

Last year, Bitbar, which provides the Testdroid platform, raised an undisclosed amount in its seed round from Seed Fund Vera and five angels, including Frederic Lardieg, then a principal at corporate venturing unit Vodafone Ventures before his move to VC firm Octopus.

Panviva has raised $4m in series B funding from SBI Jefferies Asia Fund.

Plain Vanilla, a publisher of social trivia games, has raised $2.4m in an A round of funding from backers which include Greycroft Partners, Tencent, BOLDStart Ventures, IDG Ventures, CrunchFund, Mesa Global and Riot Games.

Coinsetter said it would "soon be launching a levered forex trading platform for Bitcoin that enables people to make levered trades on margin and short the Bitcoin market".

Alongside DT's T-Venture in the round was local venture capital firm Innovation Works and angel investors.

Alongside RSE Ventures, which is chaired and co-founded by Dolphins owner Ross, was venture capital firm Trilogy Equity Partners.

Cleave extends A round by $10m.