The Tango messaging platform has closed a $280m (£169m) round of funding led by Alibaba Group, investing $215m, with a further $65m from previous investors.

Tango offers free cross-platform video, voice and texting over 3G, 4G and wifi. It has 200m registered users, doubling over the past year, and monthly active users have now reached 70m. Since rolling out social networking features in July 2013, the companys says its daily engagement has doubled.

Users can share songs thanks to a music integration with Spotify that went live in October, with hundreds of millions of songs shared to date. They can can also play games live with their contacts across iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Blackberry, Kindle Fire and PC.

Califonia-based Tango has raised a total of $367m in VC financing since it was founded in 2009, from the likes of Access Industries, DFJ, Qualcomm Ventures, Toms Capital and Translink Capital, Bill Tai, Shimon Weintraub, Jerry Yang and Alex Zubillaga.

Tango is available in 14 languages and has members in more than 224 countries.