Alongside Itochu Technology Ventures in the round were venture capital firms Digital Garage, and Suneight Investment.

Talus Holdings, a local media holding company principally owned by GSO Capital Partners, an affiliate of New York-listed private equity equity firm Blackstone, invested in LocalVox for strategic and financial reasons as LocalVox has more than 20 publisher partners.

Private equity group Apax Partners and Comverse Technology, a provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and content services, sold Starhome to Fortissimo.

AtTask customers include Global 2000 brands, such as Nike, Cisco, ABC, ESPN, 3M and Trek.

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.

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.

Music service 7digital has received $10m in funding to help expand its new B2B platform.

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.

Google Ventures has participated in a $6m Series A for social e-commerce website TopFloor.