Anthem Ventures, Greycroft Venture Partners and NEA have led the seed funding round of mobile game start-up Scopely for the continuing development of its line of mobile games.

Signal information crowd-sourcing company OpenSignal has received $1.3m in seed funding from O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, Passion Capital and Qualcomm Ventures for its signal-strength map app

CrunchFund, which was set up with the backing of technology company AOL, helps YourMechanic raise $1.8m.

US virtual computing provider Citrix invests an undisclosed sum in Cupertino based cloud software provider CumuLogic.

The corporate venturing unit of Google leads the first round of funding for Turntable.fm chief executive's internet music start-up, DJZ.

Corporate venturing fuels early-stage explosion.

Free web platform's public launch coincided with the announcement of secured seed funding

The B round for the mobile analytics provider, which entered IBM's SmartCamp programme, was backed by venture firms Polaris Venture Partners, New York Angels, LaunchPad Venture group and Hub Angels.

IBM hosts an event to promote entrepreneurship in Africa, as part of its wider SmartCamp early stage programme.