True Ventures and Index Ventures have led the venture round for organic coffee company Blue Bottle Coffee.

The Germany-based mobile web services developer wins backing from a consortium including T-Venture, the corporate venturing unit of Germany-based phone operator Deutsche Telekom.

Corporate venturing unit Shire Strategic Investment has led the latest investment in biotech company Promedior. They close their D round at $24.5m

US-based Genocea Biosciences has raised $30m in Series C capital from a joint venture syndicate including Polaris Venture Partners and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Germany-based biotech Affimed Therapeutics has closed it's Series D round, led by return backers Novo Nordisk, at $20m.

In-Q-Tel, the quasi-corporate venturing unit of the CiA and Amazon's founder have led the fifth round of funding of quantum computing company D-Wave Systems.

US-based biotech company Celgene collaborates with MedImmune Ventures-backed VentiRx Pharmaceuticals on development of cancer immunotherapies in blood, receiving options to both acquire equity as well as buy the company.

GaN power start-up company Transphorm, backed by Google Ventures, closes its Series E round at $35m led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan and Nihon Inter Electronics Company.