Broadcaster Sky also participated in a $14.5m round for the video processing company, which previously received funding from Disney-backed Steamboat Ventures.

Mitsui Sumitomo, Dentsu, GMO and Sourcenext all contributed to the online accounting service's series B round, raised just over a year after its series A.

The female-focused media site has now raised $27m in total, after Time Warner invested in the company for a third time.

Google Ventures, which led Adelphic's 2012 series A round, reinvested in the mobile advertising company as it prepares to expand in Europe and Asia.

Qiagen has joined the investors in diagnostic testing company Protagen, the month after the two signed a collaboration agreement.

Groupon-backed on-demand home services provider Serviz has raised $12.5m in its second funding round this year.

Novartis has taken a 12.8% stake in pharmaceutical company BiolineRx as part of a partnership agreement.