InSilico Genomics offers academics and industry the ability to compare their data on parts of the human genome with public datasets.

The other investors beyond AOL included venture capital firms Cloud Capital Partners and Acceleprise Ventures and angel investors

Advance Publications subsidiary leads investment in news-discovery, people-tracker.

Appurify previously raised $1.75m in its seed round last year.

AlephCloud is one of six start-ups to be selected for Orange Fab, a technology accelerator program managed by Orange Silicon Valley, a subsidiary of France Telecom.

Better Place had by then raised a total of $850m in funding. $111m was raised in a Series A in 2007 led by Lend Lease Ventures

Augmented reality apps platform technology developer raises $3.2m while talking to corporates.