Venture capital firms 5AM Ventures and Canaan Partners co-led the $23m A round for Novira Therapeutics.

Memory storage provider Nutanix raises $33m series C round with backing from Battery Ventures, Lightspeed Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and Goldman Sachs.

Ornim Medical closes $20m in its series B round from OrbiMed Advisors and General Electric.

Yext sells its primary business Felix to IAC's CityGrid Media for around $30m as it concentrates on a new service.

Enterprise application start-up Magnet Systems attracts $35.4m Series B investment from smartphone manufacturer HTC, after the firm takes a $40m loss on cloud-gaming service OnLive.

Power Heart Consortium, a Korean private equity group, invested in Cleveland Heart, which is a joint venture between Cleveland Clinic and medical technology company TransWorld Medical Devices.

Alongside Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC) in the growth equity funding were venture capital firms Draper Fisher Jurvetson, DFJ-Growth and Greenstreet Partners.

Biotech firm Regulus announces alliances with AstraZeneca and Biogen Idec.

Founded by Dr. Mark Pruzanski in 2002, Intercept had previously raised about $45m from private investors, including Italy-based Genextra, US-based venture capital firm Visium and Jafco Life Science Investment, which raised about a quarter of its latest near Y240bn ($3bn) fund from corporations.