Alongside Google Ventures, were venture capital firms Rincon, which led the seed round, SoftTech, Crosslink and Morado and angel investor Matt Coffin.

Alongside Google Ventures, were venture capital firms Radar Partners, True Ventures, Social+Capital Partnership, Webb Investment Network and Founders Fund Angels and other angel investors including Dave Jeske, David Helfrich, Harris Barton and Ed Vilandrie.

The biopharmaceutical company which is a spin-out from the University of Bath relocates to the North-East of England.

Gobi, which is backed by strategic investors including IBM, McGraw-Hill, Nokia Growth Partners, NTT DoCoMo, and others, backs the Singapore-headquartered games cloud company.

St Louis University's alumni's Billiken Angels Network backs a photo sharing company set up by one of the US-based university's graduates.

James Golubieski, president of Foundation Venture Capital Group, says it invested in GeneAssess because a gene it has identified appears to be found in breast cancer, but also shows potential for other cancers.

Procter & Gamble loans Jeff Weedman, vice president of global business development, to the local venture capital project called Cintrifuse for two years.