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.

Zencoder, a US-based encoder of videos which search engine Google has on its website a portfolio company, has raised $2m.

Alongside Google Ventures and its employees Don Dodge and Paige Craig, were venture capital firms 500 Startups, Lerer Ventures, Lightbank, Charles River Ventures, and angel investors Max Ventilla, David Cohen, and David Tisch and Mitch Kapor.