Relay is joined in the A round by venture firms Hummer Winblad, Lightspeed Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Illuminate Ventures, Resolute.VC, Common Angels, and various angels.

US-based Jibe Mobile, a cloud platform for app developers, closes an $8.3m round of financing led by the venture capital arm of mobile company Vodafone, Vodafone Ventures.

Google donates $5m to the WWF as part of its Global Impact Awards fund to help the organisation combat poaching by implementing a sophisticated monitoring technology.

The corporate venturing unit of Samsung makes a strategic investment of $5m into US-based shopping enabled entertainment platform Delivery Agent.

Intel Capital co-leads a $6.3m round of funding with Atlantic Bridge Partners into UK-based mobile analytics company Swrve.

Digimarc Corp acquires US-based Attributor Corp, backed by US media company Turner Broadcasting, for a reported $5.6m.

US-based energy efficiency provider Powerit closes a $5.5m Series C round led by Black Coral Capital.

Google Ventures invests in a $9m A round for Silicon Valley-based data analysis start-up ClearStory Data.

Drug company Merck continues its spending via its Global Health Innovation Fund, with a $6m investment into US-based biomedical informatics company Remedy Informatics.

Intel Capital is a long-term backer of Ireland-based digital power company Powervation.