Healthy snack home delivery service raises $8.5m series A funding with participation of new investor Softbank Capital.

Mishaal Alireza, co-founder of Saudi Arabian trading group Alireza Holding Co, has led a $2m series A investment in live mobile video app Hang w/

Web hosting company invests $600,000 in provider of cloud-based code editor for software developers.

Smart radio app raises $5.4m series A funding from investors including Google Ventures.

MTI invested from its UMIP Premier Fund (UPF) alongside investment from the University of Oxford and a number of private investors.

Money Forward, a Japan-based payments platform, has raised Y102.6m ($1m) from a consortium of undisclosed angel investors and WIT Corporation, a research institute founded by the local Waseda University.

Algenetix was incubated by Kapyon Ventures, which also has PhytaGro, the sister company of ZeaKal, in its portfolio and was set up by Han Chen, a former investment manager at Finistere.