Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) and T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's corporate venturing, invested alongside venture capital fund Neuhaus Partners, which had backed Content Fleet since last year division of technology service provider Getanet.

This Joyful Frog Digital Incubator - Innov8 2012 Bootcamp is a 100-day programme which will give digital start-ups S$15,000 and mentorship from industry executives plus access to mobile markets and investors across Asia.

The academic platform has gained series A financing as it looks to stretch its service across Europe.

DreamIt Ventures has also enrolled 15 companies for its fifth accelerator programme (its fourth in Philadelphia).

K2MediaLabs, Nasdaq-listed publisher THQ, Reed Elsevier Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous UK-listed publisher, and Suffolk Holdings, an investment, development and advisory company established to promote interactive business in educational and social media and medical technology, provided $1.5m.

Other investors in the round included venture capital firms US Venture Partners and WI Harper Group, with participation from Google chairman Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors venture capital firm.

Kevin Brown, a partner at REV, is on Intelligize's board, according to its regulatory filing.

Celladon has previously raised $61m in its first three rounds of funding, Xconomy said.