Alongside Salesforce as co-leads of the B round were venture capital firms Birchmere Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners, while Innovation Works and FF Venture Capital also participated.

CI's investment was part of a $6.6m series A round also involving venture capital firms EJ Funds (affiliated with EJ Financial Enterprises), Kuzari Group and Advantage Capital Partners, Yale University, and angel investors.

SingTel Innov8 has led the Series A round of funding for mobile social network service Guanxi.me that locates and finds relative people and places.

Video advertising company Selectable Media receives $2m in Series A funding from Avalon Ventures.

Omnivore's two latest investments are R5crore ($1m) in agri-tech start-up FrontalRain and an undisclosed amount for agricultural equipment firm Khedut Agro.

The three Flat6Labs incubees now funded by Vodafone Ventures Egypt are: online supermarket Estery; taxi booking service Ogra and television applications developer GyroLabs.

Mainport, which invests on behalf of fund investors like KLM, Rabobank, Schiphol and Delft University of Technology and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), backs the airborne wind energy company.

Intel Capital leads $4m A round for Russia-based service marketplace backed by Runa Capital, a Moscow based international venture fund.