Plain Vanilla, the developer of mobile trivia game QuizUp, has received $7.5m in financing from Glo Mobile, which joins backers including Tencent, IDG and Riot Games.

Search engine optimisation service Botify secured $7.2m in a round featuring corporate-backed Idinvest Partners and VC firm Ventech.

The Samsung-backed natural language learning technology provider secured the money in a series A round featuring Emerillion Capital and Nautilus Ventures.

In May 2014, Rakuten led a $1m seed round for ESTmob.

In February, Alice today announced a $3 million seed round led by Tishman Realty Principles, NeueHouse Founders, 645 Ventures, and the founders of Seamless.

InTurn, which runs an online service enabling businesses to sell excess stock to each other, has now raised more than $13m since it was founded.

Bertelsmann led the e-commerce services provider's series A round, while Beenext, Nirvana Venture Advisors and 500 Startups all returned.

Virtual reality software developer Envelop VR has completed a series A round that featured a $1.5m investment by corporate venturing unit GV.