CoTweet, a startup whose software is behind many high-profile corporate Twitter accounts, has raised $1.1 million in a first round of funding. Investors include Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Maples Investments, and Freestyle Capital. The company’s platform provides multiple tools for corporate Twitter users, including the…

Mobile video streaming service Qik has raised just under $5.5 million in funding, according to an SEC filing, which the company has confirmed. This round’s backers include Quest Venture Partners, CampVentures, and private investors. The Redwood City, Calif.-based startup raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Marc Andreessen and Ben…

Tel Aviv-based mobile startup MobiApp has raised between $700,000 and $800,000 in a round of funding from Maayan Venture Capital. The Office of the Chief Scientist (a division of Israel’s Ministry of Industry and Trade) also invested as part of a government-sponsored tech incubation program. MobiApps’ core product, Mingle, is…

Secretive mobile analytics startup Ground Truth, which recently hired former Qpass president Sterling Wilson as its CEO, has raised $2.62 million in a venture round, according to a regulatory filing. The filing does not list the venture capital firms that participated in the funding, although Steamboat Ventures managing director Beau…

Palo Alto, Calif.-based Bling Nation, a mobile payments company, has raised $8 million in a first round of capital. The company has raised a total of $13.3 million, including a seed round. Investors in the round include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meck and CampVentures.  Founded in 2007, Bling Nation says its…

It’s been two years since Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) first started selling applications for the iPhone through the App store. In that time, investors have flocked to the opportunity, pumping slightly more than $100 million into 17 companies. The figures are being reported today by “the ChubbyBrain database,” which keeps a…

Every time you hit the “r” instead of the “t,” and accidentally type “thsnks” instead of “thanks,” you probably wonder why someone isn’t working on a better solution for entering text on a mobile phone? Well, actually, someone is. Swype has been quietly trying to fine-tune the keyboard for seven…

Sense Networks, which describes itself as a company that “indexes the real world using real-time and historic location data for predictive analytics,” has raised $6 million in funding. Venturebeat.com, citing an unnamed source, reports that semiconductor giant Intel (NSDQ: INTC) led the deal, after beating out Sequoia, who wanted Sense…

Israeli smartphone ad network Toda!Cell has raised $1 million in its first round of funding led by Israeli VC AfterDox which describes itself as a group of angel Investors, made up of present and former execs from Amdocs (NYSE: DOX), the mobile technology provider.

Mobile, it seems, remains one of the few bright spots in venture capital. Bob Borchers has left his post as Apple’s senior director of worldwide product marketing for the iPhone to join venture capital firm Opus Capital as a general partner,  the WSJ.com reports. The 43-year-old Borchers, who first arrived…

Swedish mobile payment and security solutions provider Accumulate has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Sweden’s Sixth Swedish National Pension Fund, ArcticStartup reports. (The Sixth AP fund, as it’s also known, is a Swedish state fund for long-term risk capital, which invests in small and medium-sized growth companies.)

Social media payment platform oneTXT, which aims to offer social nets and other entertainment companies an alternative payments processing method to the likes of Paypal using their mobile phones, has raised $2 million in its first round of funding, the company announced today. The start-up said that it differed from…

T-Mobile USA confirmed details about its latest Google phone today that will hit the market in August. Along with it, they partnered with Santa Monica, Calif.-based Geodelic, which developed the “Sherpa” application for the T-Mobile’s myTouch coming out in August. Release. Geodelic also issued a release today, unveiling the company…

Can an app be grown into a venture-scale business? Though some VCs, including Android-founder turned Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Ventures head Rich Miner is skeptical, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers continues to believe its entirely possible, the WSJ.com reports. Kleiner partner Matt Murphy told app developers at an event jointly sponsored…

AdWhirl, which helps iPhone application developers tap into multiple ad networks, has raised $1 million to expand its platform to other platforms, such as Android, Blackberry, and Palm (NSDQ: PALM).

Singapore-based mobile marketing firm i-Pop has raised $5 million in a first round of funding. The round was led by Mingly Corporation Singapore, with participation by Infocomm Investments, a fully owned subsidiary of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). I-Pop, which was founded in 2002, will use the funds…

Intel’s investment arm Intel (NSDQ: INTC) Capital has invested $43 million (¥4.15 billion yen) into UQ Communications, a Japan-based WiMax mobile services provider. The company said it would use the money to continue expanding its UQ WiMax service in Japan, and said it hoped to provide WiMax coverage to 90…

UPDATE: Mobile analytics company has raised $1 million in its first round of funding, according to a regulatory filing picked up by Reuters. Previously, the amount was not disclosed. Original Post: Mobile analytics company Motally has completed its first round of funding, which was led by BlueRun Ventures and joined…

French startup Goojet has raised 6 million euros (US$8.5 million) in second round funding. The round included existing investors Partech International, Elaia Partners and IRDI-ICSO, and new investor VC firm Orkos Capital. Goojet offers a free application/portal with icons that represent your favorite apps, websites and services, which has tailored…