Raptor Ventures led the series A round which was joined by talent agency The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency and various venture firms.

Crispin Leick, managing director of Innogy Venture Capital, says: "Enercast addresses a fundamental problem of renewable energies. Fluctuations in the feed in of wind and solar electricity lead to a burden on the grids and ultimately to a level of insecurity with regard to the supply of electricity. The more reliable forecast data is available, the better renewables can be integrated into existing grids and thus into the electricity market. "

CrunchFund joined in the seed round by venture firms including Greylock Discovery Fund, FF Angel, True Ventures and Start Fund/DST.

Bertelsmann was reportedly joined in the A round by venture firms Resolute.vc, Lerer Ventures, RRE, Polaris Ventures and 500 Startups,

The Facebook branding company is the first graduate from the JFDI-Innov8 2012 Boot Camp, an incubator backed by Singtel's corporate venturing unit, to receive external funding.

Skycross, a US-based developer of wireless radio antenna backed by the corporate venturing units of Japan-based phone operator NTT and US-based semiconductor company Intel, raises $3.5m in debt.

The venture firm backed by Alstom, Solvay Rhodia and Schneider Electric invest in the France-based light emitting diode company.

Qualcomm Ventures announced the news but provided no further details of investors.