Rockfish joins angel investors Bullet Time Ventures, i2A Fund and Hyde Park Angels, which provided more than $1m to Tap.me in January.

Venture capital firms Sierra Ventures and Mission Ventures joined Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, the Asian unit of Sumitomo's Strategic Venture Investment division, in the round.

Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital India Advisors has also invested $5m in Sourcebits' first round as well as IDG Ventures India Advisors. Sourcebits will use the money to set up its US development centre.

IDG Ventures (San Francisco) and IDG Capital Partners (China), two corporate venturing units of US publisher International Data Group, co-led the round for Funzio.

H Lundbeck, Takeda Pharmaceutical and Shire back Naurex.

Footballer Ronaldo and WPP own 45% of his new company with business partner Marcus Buaiz the remainder, according to news provider Financial Times (FT).

SingTel Innov8 money will help Stream Media's develop its payment platform, MoVend, for online games published by UK-based Hyperbees and China's GoodTeam Studios.

Novo joins venture capital firms SV Life Sciences, HBM BioCapital, HBM BioVentures, BioMedInvest and VI Partners that had backed its CHF13.5m first close of the A round in November.

Rick Wilson, chief executive of Cobalt, said: "In addition to the generous financial support provided by the Whittemore Collection, we now have the world's most experienced builder of biomass-based businesses on our board supporting us in developing our global enterprise."

TC Meenakshisundaram and Hemir Doshi of IDG Ventures, which is raising its second India-focused fund, will join the board of Agile.