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Data platform provider GridGain has raised $15m in series B capital, three years after it closed an initial $10m in series B funding.

Gree, Digital Garage and Publicis have exited the Singapore-based messaging app developer, acquired by Google to help launch its regional office in the city-state.

The mobile marketing technology provider has now raised $13.5m altogether from investors also including Vodafone.

Orix Capital has supplied $10m in equity funding to workspace technology provider RES, which plans to invest in emerging markets growth.

Comcast was among the investors in a Goldman Sachs-led round that took the big data visualisation company's total funding to $47m.

Insurance Australia Group aims to set up a direct investment unit that will operate under its innovation division, IAG Ventures.

Jigsaw will take over from Google think tank Google Ideas and will incubate companies concentrating on information access and online security.

Android security app developer Mobi Magic raised the cash in a round co-led by Qihoo 360, the cybersecurity company that contributed to $80m of funding for it last year.

Load balancing technology provider Kemp, backed by investors including Orix, has raised $6m in equity funding according to a securities filing.

Series A backer Cisco returned for the real-time network control software developer's series B round, which will support global growth.

KPMG's corporate venturing unit led Label Insight's series B round, which included Dunhummby and which took the product data provider's total funding to $14m.