Image Credit: Kinvey Facebook pageThe people at Kinvey, a startup with a cloud service for constructing and running mobile applications, have watched competitors get acquired, one after another. Now some key investors are placing bets on the startup in a $10.8 million round Kinvey is announcing today. NTT Docomo Ventures and Verizon Ventures are leading the round, acknowledging the notion that “mobile is driving the adoption of cloud in enterprises,” Kinvey chief executive, Sravish Sridhar, said in an interview with VentureBeat.