Vesalius has provided $4.7m to Forendo Pharma, whose existing shareholders also include Karolinska Development, Novartis, Novo and Merck Group.

News streaming app developer Haystack TV raised $2m from investors including Stanford-StartX Fund and appliances manufacturer Vestel to prepare for an expansion into Europe.

University of Washington spinout TwinStrand has now raised a total of $8.4m in equity and debt to develop its DNA sequencing technology.

KTH foot scanner technology spinout Volumental has secured cash from Forward VC, Walerud Ventures and Moor Capital after previously closing a seed round in 2014.

DataChemist has spun out from Trinity College Dublin with support from University Bridge Fund to commercialise an analytics platform for disorganised data.

RXQ Compounding, backed by Ohio Innovation Fund, has added $3.6m in series A funding from Advantage Capital to its coffers.