The latest 10 investments by Intel Capital are split geographically between the US, China, India, South Korea and Brazil, and include an investment in US-based content sharing company Box, which recently raised $125m.

The Techsparks India 2011 winner, Capillary Technologies, has closed its Series A round raising $15.m led by Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and with investment from Qualcomm's corporate venturing unit.

"There's a whole world of innovation out there outside of social media. It's a huge growth area, but we're investing a lot of money in life sciences," said Google Ventures managing partner William Maris to news provider CNBC.

Moment.me's amalgamation app for social content receives financial support from Singapore Telecommunications.

Sports coaching app maker Ubersense concludes a seed round raising $1.1m from Google's corporate venturing unit, ex-Olympian turned investor Ty Danco and venture capital firms Atlas Venture and Boston Seed Capital.

Comcast Ventures and DCM have participated in a $13m Series A round of Skype TV-calling start-up company Tely Labs.

F. Hoffmann La Roche was joined backing Ccam Biotherapeutics by Arkin Holdings, a drug specialist and manufacturer.

Google Ventures is heading the Series A funding of online ad campaign creation website Republic Project.

Telefonica Ventures and Caixa Capital TIC back the service which connects mobile phone users to taxi dispatch centres.

Qualcomm Ventures reportedly backs South Korea-based telecom software developer IntelRa and China-based web browser MoboTap.