Closed Loop Ventures, which manages a $100m social impact fund backed by several retail and consumer goods companies, has invested $3m in GreenMantra.

Spun out of Boston University by Allied Minds in December last year, Signature Medical has secured $2.5m in series A funding from investors including Bose.

The spinout of Heriot-Watt University has secured $1.3m in its latest funding round, which featured a mix of existing and new investors.

Lightox, Horizon: Therapeutic Microbubbles and StrataStem are among the companies that will receive support from the North of England Life Sciences Accelerator.

IP Group has participated in a $1.7m funding round for Eight19, a solar panel technology spinout of the Cambridge-backed Advanced Photovoltaic Research Accelerator.

The accelerator will focus on health and fitness technologies and is being support by Johns Hopkins University, University Maryland and others.

Datatron, which has developed a platform that allows companies to gain insight into complex historical and real-time datasets, has raised money from investors such as StartX.

NYU Ventures has contributed to a $1.5m seed round for Vidcode, co-founded by an alumna from the university.