Online language program Best Teacher has raised $530,000 in a round of funding from GMO Venture Partners and SMBC Venture Capital.

Discount perks platform AnyPerk has raised $1.4m in series A funding from Digital Garage, Ben Lewis, Michael Liou, CyberAgentVenture and Shogo Kawada.

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.

Omni Water Solutions, a portfolio firm of the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), raises a $4m venture round led by Austin Ventures.

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.

Medical start-up NovoPedics, founded by University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey academics, raises $500k for knee repair.