Mobile marketing platform Carnival Labs raises $2.4m finance from investors including Google Ventures.

Carnival Labs, a New Zealand and US-based mobile marketing platform, announced on 30 August that it had closed a $2.4m seed financing round co-led by seed stage venture capital firm Lerer Ventures and angel investor Gary Vaynerchuk, with participation by Google Ventures, the corporate venturing division of internet search firm Google, venture capital firms Flybridge Capital Partners and Bowery Capital, and angel investors David Tisch (BoxGroup), Jos White and Michael Lazerow.

Carnival Labs will use the investment to scale its…