Massachusetts-backed Isis Pharmaceuticals receives $3.5m milestone payment from Biogen for battle against spinal muscular atrophy.

Qualcomm Ventures leads series A round in mobile game publisher Playdek.

Partech International, the Franco-American venture capital firm backed by Edenred, the French employee benefits services provider, participates in $3.2m round for Racktivity.

Comcast Ventures, the corporate venturing division of the eponymous US-based cable and telecommunications corporation, participates in seed round for ElectNext.

GetNinjas, a Brazilian local services marketplace start-up, closes $3m series A round backed by new investor Otto Capital.

Sara Armbruster, vice-president of corporate strategy and workspace futures at Steelcase, said: "Many of our biggest customers are undertaking a real estate transformation and our investment in LiquidSpace reflects how critically important alternate space is to enable this change."

In 2011, Movable Ink raised $1.3m in its A round.

Mobile video startup Incoming spins-out from Australia-based NICTA with AU$1.1m ($1.12m) seed financing.