Amnon Bar-Lev, the president of network security software company Check Point Software Technologies joins affiliate fund of Greylock Ventures, Greylock Israel Partners, and Norwest Venture participating in a $12m first round of funding for software design storage company ScaleIO.

Medtronic is one of two strategic investors backing MC10's technology, which makes it is easier to twist, stretch and expand integrated circuits, which can be used inside or on the human body.

Lundbeckfond Ventures and SR one co-lead a $17m Series A round into US-based River Vision Development Corp, a company managed under contract with Narrow River for developing the drug RV001

MedImmune Ventures and CVF co-lead a $19m Series C into US-based medical device company Cerapedics.

US-based Cerulean Pharma, a nanopharmaceutical company backed by Lilly Ventures, raises $13m from a consortium of previous backers, bringing the total raised by the drug company to $80m.

Vorwerk Ventures participates in a $10m round of funding for UK-based recipe subscription service HelloFresh.

Novartis, via its Novartis Venture Funds, participates in a $11m Series A round for cancer treatment company Galera Therapeutics.

US-based Epic Sciences, a biotech and cancer diagnostics company, raises $13m in Series B financing.

US-based Quanterix, a maker of diagnostic tests, closes its Series C round at $18.5m, a round which included a $15m equity stake from multinational biotechnology company BioMerieux.

US-based financial services firm Morgan Stanley has led a $15.3m Series E round for US-based NanoString Technologies, a spin out of Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology.