Alopexx Oncology will develop DI-Leu16-IL2, which Provenance had licensed from Germany-based Merck in March 2009.

Although the two investors were undisclosed in Trada's regulatory filing, the company has as directors Rich Miner, managing partner of corporate venturing unit Google Ventures, and Seth Levine, managing director of venture capital firm Foundry Group.

Alongside Tata through its Innovations Fund in the Vortex Engineering round, which is trying to raise R500m, were repeat backers Aavishkaar, a venture philanthropy firm, Bamboo Finance and Venture East.

Alongside Comcast Ventures in the $6m series B round were venture capital firms Interwest Partners and Blumberg Capital, and angel investor Raymond Tonsing.

AOL through its corporate venturing unit AOL Ventures joined publisher the New York Times Company, venture capital firm True Ventures, and angel investors Scott Kurnit (chief executive of AdKeeper) and Howard Lindzon (chief executive of StockTwits) in backing Appssavvy.

Peter Thomson is the founder and sole investor behind Thomvest Ventures and is co-chairman of the Woodbridge Company that owns a majority of media group Thomson Reuters.

McGraw-Hill and Hearst-backed search driven media company Skyword has closed a $6m round with the Cox Media Group as investor.

The UK-listed telecoms company leads a $9.2m round in the Israel-based fuel cell developer .

The cloud automation software company has taken its funding to nearly $16m after a series C round, with Google, Cisco and VMware joining as investors.