The liver helps regulate one of medical sciences' four humours in the blood and Royal Society Enterprise Fund has backed OrganOx.

The factory will cost RMB1bn, according to news provider Shanghai Securities News, citing a company filing between Jiangsu Aucksun Metal has linked up its RMB30m ($5m) Dingshun Venture Capital subsidiary.

South Africa-based technology platform Personera has raised $1.4m in its series A round from quasi-corporate venturing unit Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa.

TuneUp raised $4.3m in September from IDG and venture capital firm KPG Ventures and has raised $8.5m in aggregate since 2007, including the latest $2m.

T-Venture joins Yellow&Blue Investment Management, the corporate venturing unit of local power group Eon's Nuon subsidiary, state-backed bank KfW, company and government-backed early-stage investor High-Tech Gruunderfonds, and Siegmund Beteiligungsgesellschaft in Cuculus.

Joining Henrijette Richter, investment director at Novo, in the seed round is venture capital firm Sunstone Capital.

Barack Obama will have to decide after Huawei declined to sell on 3Leaf assets as part of a recommendation by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

In two rounds in 2008, Tela raised more than $5.5m from corporate venturing units from Cadence Design Systems; KT Venture Group, the investment partner of KLA-Tencor; Qualcomm Ventures; Intel Capital; and venture capital firms AsiaTech Management, Sand Hill Finance Company and Teton Capital Company.

SironRX spun out from Juventas Therapeutics and licenses products from its parent and Cleveland Clinic and will use the $500,000 seed money to initiate a phase II clinical study of its lead product.

Local training company Giant Associates was part of the investment consortium along with angels and venture capital firm E-Synergy in AirPos.