Best Buy Capital backs US-based mobile phone sales service Dashwire.

Siemens Venture Capital partner named on CoreLab Partners' board.

News provider TechCrunch said CivicScience raised $1.2m from marketing research company, NPD Group, national polling company ALR, and angel investor Kevin McClatchy.

Pontifax is chaired by Eli Hurvitz, chairman of local generic drugs maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and has invested $1m in StimatixGI.

Liquidia previously raised more than $41m, including a $25m series C round in April from New York-listed clinical research organisation PPD and venture capital firms Canaan Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Morningside Venture Investments, Pappas Ventures and Firelake Capital.

New York City-based SeedStart Media 2011 is a summer programme for start-up companies in digital content, e-commerce, advertising infrastructure and mobile technology.

Harshul Sanghi, managing director of Motorola Mobility Ventures, said: "Moblyng was an early adopter of Android and is an industry leader in using HTML5 to bring cross-platform social gaming experiences to mobile devices."

1366 said it had raised $28.4m in total by adding GE Energy Financial Services, a division of US-listed industrial conglomerate General Electric, and venture capital (VC) firm VantagePoint Venture Partners to its previous consortium.

The winners of Saint-Gobain's third global innovation competition will also work with its Nova External Venturing team.