Details of the unit's investments in Inrix, PrecisionHawk, Avegant, Reno Sub-Systems and Prelert have emerged over the past two days.

Hepatitis treatment developer Myr raised the cash from High-Tech Gruenderfonds, which previously invested in 2011, and Russian government-backed Maxwell Biotech Fund.

Cloud infrastructure company Joyent has secured $15m in a series E round backed by Intel, bringing the total raised by the company to over $120m.

The office furniture supplier was among the backers for LiquidSpace's $14m series C round, which boosted its overall funding to about $27m.

Rabobank-backed firm Anterra invested $4m to boost the series C funding raised by Vestaron, which produces pesticides from spider venom, to $14m.

Spain-based Spotcap, which extends financing to small businesses, raised the funds from corporates Holtzbrinck and Access.

Atlas Venture led the series A round.

Discount ticket-seller ScoreBig has raised $18m in a series D round led by Hearst Ventures, bringing the total raised by the company to over $50m.

Cloud-storage company SwiftStack has raised $16m in a series B round from investors including UMC, bringing the total raised by the company to $23.6m.

The Verizon and Salesforce-backed push notification service has boosted its series D round to $37.1m after closing a second tranche.