Lundbeck's corporate venturing unit has co-led company's series A round, and the funds will be used to develop the pipeline for its two lead treatment options.

Merck Serono and GlaxoSmithKline have both invested in a $15m round for the biopharmaceutical company, which is focusing its treatments on the Chinese market.

Intel's corporate venturing unit has invested a reported $15m in OrCam Technologies, which is developing special eyeglasses to help the blind.

Embrane, a provider of app-centric network services, has now raised $41m in total, after Cisco and Sumitomo subsidiary Presidio Ventures both invested in its series C.

Clever, which has received funding from Google's corporate venturing fund Google Ventures, has boosted its total investment to $13.4m

Bank-backed BGF has taken a minority stake in TCC, which provides consultancy services to the UK's financial services industry.

The Google-backed technology recruitment marketplace has now raised $17.7m in the space of just over a year.

The semiconductor maker has welcome the corporate backers to an investor base previously restricted to venture capital firms, and has now raised $33.4m.

Data security firm Verdasys has taken its overall funding past $65m with a round backed by GE Pension Trust