Services

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.

Question of whether senior management can invest counter-cyclically and stay the course if the investment thesis remains true even if economic conditions turn sour.

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.

True Ventures and Index Ventures have led the venture round for organic coffee company Blue Bottle Coffee.

Raine Group leads two US startups through late stage venture rounds as it oversees Japanese telecommunications giant Softbank's takeover of Sprint Nextel.

China-based gaming portal and downloads site YY.com is seeking a US initial public offering [IPO] after filing its F-1 with the SEC on Monday, and is looking to raise $100m in the offering.

The Germany-based mobile web services developer wins backing from a consortium including T-Venture, the corporate venturing unit of Germany-based phone operator Deutsche Telekom.

Google Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners have led a $10m A round of ride-share start-up SideCar.