Sara Armbruster, vice-president of corporate strategy and workspace futures at Steelcase, said: "Many of our biggest customers are undertaking a real estate transformation and our investment in LiquidSpace reflects how critically important alternate space is to enable this change."

In 2011, Movable Ink raised $1.3m in its A round.

Intel Capital-backed translation business Gengo raises $12m series B, taking its total fundraising to $21m.

Nissei Capital, the corporate venturing unit of Japan's Nippon Life Insurance Company, will be putting its networking skills to the test with its news investment in Sansan, a digital business card content management application designer. GMO Partners returned for the series B round, which was valued at $5m.

News provider TechCrunch said search engine provider Google was not the strategic investor.

Alongside Intel Capital in the round were online data storage company VMware and venture capital firms.

Daryle Doden, chief executive of Ambassador Enterprises, said: "Bookshout is eliminating the guesswork and building tools that let content creators take control of their audience."