Real estate firm City Developments has made a strategic investment in the short-term apartment rental platform, taking a 20% stake.

Rapyuta, a cloud-connected robot developer spun out of ETH Zurich, has secured $10m in a series A round led by existing investor SBI Holdings.

Cloud-connected robot developer Rapyuta has secured $10m in a series A round led by existing investor SBI Holdings.

Boehringer Ingelheim was among the investors as the RNA therapeutics developer reached the final close of a round it began raising in 2014.

Home energy use detection company Sense has raised $14m in a round co-led by corporate venturing unit Shell Technology Ventures and Energy Impact Partners.

Intel-backed marketing analytics developer SmartZip has attracted $12m in debt financing led by a subsidiary of financial services firm Orix USA.

The digital identity verification service, backed by Citi and acquired by Centana Growth Partners in May following a bankruptcy filing, has raised $15m in funding.

The Stanford spinout is working on technology that enables the real-time mapping of the brain and has now secured a total of $11.5m in funding.

Petnet has raised series A funding from investors including pet product retailer Petco, which will now carry the company's personalised pet feeding technology in its stores.