McCann-backed thetime and other angel investors stump up $3m seed funding for cloud services developer Garantia Data

The investment came a month after D2 Communications, a mobile advertising and marketing subsidiary of NTT and media group Dentsu, bought 350 new shares from Alfredcore.

Alongside NTT in the round were financial conglomerate Mizuho Capital and venture capital firm Venture Now.

Cerego Japan provides iKnow! for enterprises and education institutions.

NTT Investment Partners, a corporate venturing unit of Japan-based phone operator Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), has invested $1m in Synerchip, which helps connect video and voice devices and raised $10.5m last year.

NTT Investment Partners, a corporate venturing unit of Japan-based phone operator Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT), has invested Y38m ($500,000) in cloud service provider Nihon Gigei.

Migo mainly provides digital services including software development, hardware engineering, content acquisition, infrastructure deployment and mobile ecosystems in Taiwan and Philippines.