SemiSouth has now raised more than $50m of equity and over $30m of federal grants and contracts after Power Integrations', a US-based provider of high-voltage integrated circuits, investment.

Lilly Ventures and Amgen Ventures join consortium investing $36.5m in healthcare company Sutro Biopharma.

Time Warner Investments-backed Meebo raises again the $25m it received in 2008.

Motorola Ventures splits team to invest an undisclosed amount on behalf of Motorola Mobility in BlackArrow, a US-based provider of video advertising.

Lilly Ventures acts as lead investor for Cerulean Pharma's $24m C round.

Ipsen, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson join consortium for UK-based biotech company Syntaxin.

Venture capital firm MPM Capital leads $20m series B round for Aires Pharmaceuticals as Novartis takes licensing option.

Google-backed 23andMe gains Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation as a new investor.

Panasonic pays $21.15 per share in a private placement having been a supplier of batteries to Tesla.

The additional $3.5m from the consortium comes with an agreement by Cisco to use Apptio's technology.