The fund is leading an $8 million round for MobiMate, an company that makes an app called WorldMate. It helps frequent travelers by keeping track of delayed flights, guiding them to hotels and suggesting restaurants.

The following list includes venture capital and other investments into wireless companies announced during the past week. The value of the investment is included when available.

Recipients Digby, Buzzd, and WorldMate are expected to build applications that will show up on RIM's application store next March.

The BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million venture capital fund focusing on BlackBerry application development, has made investments in buzzed, Digby, and WorldMate. buzzd, a location-sensitive city guide and social network for mobile devices, has raised $3.2 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing with BlackBerry Partners Fund, Greycroft Partners, Monitor Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures....

The BlackBerry Partners Fund LP, announced  that the Fund has invested in buzzd, Digby and WorldMate.   buzzd, a location-sensitive city guide and social network for mobile devices, has raised $3.2 million in a Series A Preferred Stock financing with BlackBerry Partners Fund, Greycroft Partners, Monitor Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures.          ...

BlackBerry Partners Fund, the $150 million venture capital fund started earlier this year to promote applications and services for RIM's BlackBerry device, today announced it had invested in the following firms: Buzzd--a location-sensitive city guide that uses GPS. Buzzd raised $3.2 million in Series A financing from BlackBerry Partners, Greycroft Partners, Monitor Ventures and Qualcomm Ventu...

The BlackBerry Partners Fund (BPF) is a $150 million venture capital fund formed with one goal in mind: to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms. The fund announced yesterday that it has made investments in buzzd, Digby and WorldMate. Congrats to all involved… No doubt it is a huge

The BlackBerry Partners Fund, a $150 million venture capital fund formed to focus on applications and services for the BlackBerry and other mobile platforms, announced today that the Fund has made investments in buzzd, Digby and WorldMate. “Since its inception this past May, the BlackBerry Partners Fund has had the opportunity to review thousands of

Big news breaking from the always exciting crew over at the BlackBerry Partners Fund. Following up a busy week where they announced the winners of the BBDC BlackBerry Developer Challenge (Poynt, Strands and BlackBerry Cool 15 winner Nobex) and made two-the-spot offers to BlackBerry Cool 15 presenters Smrtguard and BeamBerry, the Partners fund has announced investment in three more BlackBerry devel...

WorldMate has announced that they now have over a million S60 users of their free (and optionally paid for) service. I've included the brief press release below, also partly because the company promises that the next generation of their software, WorldMate Live, is 'currently in development'. The 'Live' version incorporates social elements such as itinerary sharing and con...