International venture capital roundup: mobile shines [VIDEO]

Today's venture capital rounds lead to tomorrow's IPOs. The market is off to an interesting start this year, with mobile picking up funding, as well as an interesting email start-up in France. Let's take a look at three deals that were just announced:

1. Jumio: this mobile and online payment company just picked up $25.5 mn, adding to the $6.5 mn it raised back in March. You know who participated in that first round? Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook. The technology is pretty interesting: it uses cameras (webcams and smartphone cameras) to read credit cards. It sounds like this could give Square some competition, especially if JPM)" href="http://www.insideipo.com/tag/jp-morgan">JP Morgan Chase's phone-based check deposit app gains momentum and gets people comfortable with phone-photo financial transactions.

Source: TechCrunch

2. StrikeAd: this mobile advertising start-up has picked up £2 mn in its second round of financing. The round, from venture capital firm DFJ Esprit, will be used to help the company, based in London and New York, grow internationally. Its first round came from German venture capital firm eValue in February 2011.

Source: TechCrunch

3. Kwaga: based in Paris, Kwaga's goal is to improve email through semantic technology. The company just raised its Series A round, bringing in $1.55 mn from ‘unnamed private investors,' according to TechCrunch.

Source: TechCrunch

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