Entrepreneurs Fund’s EF Investments and Bayern Kapital contributed to a round that increased Würzburg-founded traumatic brain injury drug developer Vasopharm’s total to above $57.8m.

Parkwalk Advisors has led a funding round for University of Cambridge's graphene technology business Paragraf, which will use the money to increase its headcount.

Node is developing artificial intelligence technology that helps companies identify business opportunities and has raised $16m from MS&AD, JetBlue and others.

Quantum computing technology spinout IQM Finland’s scientific operation is helmed by the professor who launched Aalto University’s quantum computing devices group.

Returning investor Singtel Innov8 took part in the round together with Kickstart Ventures, allowing Igloohome to bolster its research and development budget.

Coinbase, Ripple and Ideo took part in the $12.1m series A round, which will go towards the launch of Near's decentralised application development platform.

JD.com took part in the Fosun-led round, which will enable the parent-focused content platform to expand its e-commerce business.

Fidelity International has provided more than $11m to the skills trading platform operator backed by Sumitomo Mitsui, Nippon Life and Voyage Group.

Mesmer has emerged out of stealth with a $15m series A round led by Intel Capital to launch an AI platform that automatically detects bugs in software.

VTC Innovation Fund contributed to a series B round for weather forecasting satellite constellation developer PlanetIQ, with the cash set to help it launch 20 microsatellites by 2021.