Gridle, a finalist at the Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge 2013, has raised R1m ($16,300) in seed funding.

Flashnotes.com, a student-to-student study material marketplace, has raised $3.6m Series A funding led by Stage 1 Ventures and including SoftBank Capital

Confide, a US-based company that enables confidential messaging on smart phones, has closed $1.9m in seed financing led by WGI Group and including Google Ventures and CrunchFund.

Jaguar Animal Health, headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Napo Pharmaceuticals, has closed its series A funding round led by BioVeda China Fund with an investment of $2m.

Docurated, a US-based company that provides online document productivity tools, has closed a $3.75m series A financing round led by Rogers Venture Partners.

Tapastic, an online platform and community for web comics, has raised $2m in series A funding led by Daum Communications.

Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit owned by search engine company Google, has co-invested with Spark Labs Global Ventures in a $3m funding round for The Orange Chef, which has developed clever connectable kitchen products for home use.

Telus Health, the healthcare arm of Canadian mobile operator Telus, has made a strategic investment worth $3m in PatientSafe Solutions, a producer of mobile hospital workflow systems.