The Game On fund will provide cash for indie game developers looking to monetise their games.

The company's corporate venturing fund will direct the investments from the fund, which will target startups operating in the mobile internet space.

The mobile messaging service will target game developers as part of a corporate strategy to expand its game publishing business.

Adapt Low Carbon Group and Tsukuba Technology Seed will be investing in agricultural innovation.

Venture fund Lerer Hippeau has secured investment from Cinitrifuse, a Cincinnati state-backed organisation backed by Duke Energy and Procter & Gamble.

The fund, which will have a budget of under $10m, will involve the messaging service making seed investments in partnership with venture firm Collaborative Fund.

76 venture capital funds from the US raised the combined amount.

The firm, backed by a host of Japanese corporates, has raised almost half of the $59m it has targeted for the second fund - three times the size of its first.

The senior living services company's venture unit will invest up to $1m a time from the fund, raised in partnership with investment bank Ziegler.

The accelerator, backed by partners including Shui On, is targeting $5m to follow on from a $1.5m fund raised in 2012.