Solexel lists as one of its investors Spirox Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of the eponymous Taiwan-based technology distributor

Communications group WPP is joined in the round backing the mobile advertising company by a large institutional investor and various venture firms.

Intel Capital is joined bacing the Russia-based e-commerce company by Acton Capital Partners, the former corporate venturing unit of Hubert Burda Media, development agency the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as well as venture firms Accel Partners and Balderton Capital.

Imperial Innovations and the University of Oxford join a group of corporates and venture firms backing the medical diagnostic company.

US-based materials company the Dow Chemical Company and the corporate venturing unit of US-based healthcare group Kaiser Permanente back the medical diagnostic company.

Fashion companies Conde Nast and LVMH and media, fashion and sports business IMG back the US-based fashion website's series C.

New York Stock Exchange-listed materials science company DuPont backs materials company Nanocomp Technologies' series C round.

The Japan-based information technology solutions provider owned by Japan-based company Nippon Steel, backs the Ireland-based transaction management software company alongside firms like Balderton Capital