Venture capital firms Volcano Capital, Crocker Capital and Aphelion Capital co-led the deal, and were joined by peer Windy City.

Venture capital firms Volcano Capital, Crocker Capital and Aphelion Capital co-led the deal, and were joined by peer Windy City.

The series B round has also seen Cloudant's existing investors In-Q-Tel, Avalon Ventures and Samsung Venture Investment Corporation increase their shares in the company.

Japan-based online learning service startup Mana.bo has raised Y38m ($374,000) in seed funding from several investors including CyberAgent Ventures, according to a Ventures News report.

Newspaper reports are estimating the latest series B round to be in the region of at least Y100m ($1m).

US affiliate of Russia-based IT investment conglomerate Ru-Net backs real time big data processing business again.

In April 2010, NTT Investment Partners, a corporate venturing unit of the Japan-based phone operator Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, made a $2m equity investment in Ubitus after the companies entered a strategic alliance the year before.