Also in the seed round were venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and InterWest Partners, angel networks SV Angel, Start Fund and Y Combinator and angels.

Flotype, a US-based company providing real-time messaging services for mobile applications, has raised $1.4m from a consortium including sales software provider Salesforce.

Also in the seed round were venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners and InterWest Partners, angel networks SV Angel, Start Fund and Y Combinator and angels Yuri Milner, Karl Jacob, Marcy Simon, Matt Ocko, Paul Buchheit, Peter Secor, Philip Etyan and Zack Bogue.

James Mawson

James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.