Drumbi, which the accelerator backed in August last year, has secured a $2m A round.

Paul Musselman, formerly of Intel Capital and IBM's corporate development team, takes the top role at the language learning start-up, which spun off from Carnegie Mellon University.

Loyalty software company Points International is joined backing another loyalty software developer by the venture unit of Canada pension fund Omers and Mars, an Ontario government fund.

Paul Musselman, formerly of Intel Capital and IBM's corporate development team, takes the top role at the language learning start-up.

The US-based online marketplace for crafted good is reportedly backed again by Google Ventures in the latest round.

Vungle is at least the third graduate from incubator AngelPad to receive backing from both AOL Ventures and Google Ventures.

The Google Ventures-backed local deals company has raised its A round led by Spark Ventures, after sealing seed backing in 2010 from Google Ventures and Spark.

CSU Ventures, Colorado State's university venturing unit, seals a partnership to commercialise its researhc with The Innovation Center of the Rockies.

Baekeland II Fund, the investment fund of Ghent University backs the Belgium-based instrumentation company.

The Germany-based dog food company is backed in a seed deal, by the state-backed fund supported by industrial groups.