The US-based search engine backs the seed round of mobile and social application developer Nettle, which has been running for less than a year.

The Scholastic-backed browser company has attracted additional funding from previous investors, to coincide with the launch of its new search engine.

The SAP-backed small loans company has extended its series C round, attracting investment from SF Capital.

SingTel Innov8's investment in energy management software company Sentilla takes its overall funding to more than $15m.

The social gaming start-up becomes the latest online company to get funding from Google.

US-based file sharing company Minus has raised the funds less than a year after it was founded.

Wouter Jonk, managing director of SET Venture Partners, an independent firm with local utility Delta as a limited partner, has become a board member of NGenTec.

The deal with Mantex comes three months after RWE Innogy founded Innogy Venture Capital as a subsidiary company to formalise its corporate venturing activities begun in 2008.