The telecommunications company will provide the majority of the funding for Enabling Change, a Singapore-based incubator for technology to help the disabled.

University hospitals in the US trial home-use wearable technology to track pregnancies.

Proximus, the mobile subsidiary of telecommunications company Belgacom, invested in the startup alongside Catholic University of Louvain's spin-out fund.

Singapore Press Holdings, Plug and Play and Infocomm Investments have formed a media and technology-focused accelerator programme that will begin in mid-2015.

The customer support software provider has now raised more than $80m over the past year, with Google Capital funding both recent rounds.

A company set up by university graduates that aims to make household tasks requiring a serviceman in India easier to manage has raised R75m ($1.2m) in seed funding