Details of the unit's investments in Inrix, PrecisionHawk, Avegant, Reno Sub-Systems and Prelert have emerged over the past two days.

Oxford spin-out Fuel3D, developing 3D scanners, brings its series A to $9.1m following additional investment from Chimera Partners.

Cambridge life sciences spin-out Epigenetix raises $5.5m in series A.

The video analytics company has raised $7m in an Advance-backed late-stage round that boosted its overall funding too over $70m.

Online sports network Whistle Sports is the third US company to receive funding from UK-based BSkyB in the space of just over a month.

Orbium and Sberbank both contributed to the anti-fraud software developer's series B round, which will support its international expansion.

SoftBank followed up a $1.4m seed investment in the mathematics learning company last year by leading its series A round this time around.

SoftBank led the on-demand hair and beauty service's $7m series A round, raised as it prepares to expand across the US.

Digital marketing platform creator Lytics has now secured $9.2m in total funding after Comcast's corporate venturing unit joined its investors.