DreamIt Ventures has also enrolled 15 companies for its fifth accelerator programme (its fourth in Philadelphia).

The start-up, which seeks to reward customers who save their money, has secured seed funding.

The newly-founded app development start-up has secured seed financing from Net Capital Partners and a selection of angels.

The semiconductor conglomerate invests in a mix of old and new companies.

The Vietnam corporate venturing unit of the US publisher was joined by Germany-based e-commerce investor Rebate Networks and Russian peer Ru-net backing the Vietnam-based retailer.

The corporate venturing unit of US-based technology company Google seals its latest in a busy run of seed deals, backing a company launched last month which was looking for angel funding.

Global Corporate Venturing lists the venture backers of this year's and last year's winners of the entrepreneurial competition run by the US corporate.

The mobile application company, which monitors radiation from mobile handsets, has picked up seed funding from a range of investors.