Penn State spin-out Strategic Polymer Sciences secures $8m series B and name change to Novasentis.

Cisco has invested $6m in the Jordan-focussed Badia Impact Fund, in its first close including investments from the European Investment Bank and Jordan's King Abdullah Fund for Development.

Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital has reinvested in Canadian wastewater treatment company Axine Water Technologies in a series A deal worth $5.6m, making it the largest water and wastewater series A financing in North America in the past year and one of the largest internationally in the last two years.

Japan Asia Investment Corporation (JAIC) and Nippon Venture Capital Corp (NVCC) have led a $9.2m series D round of funding for Regimmune, a Japanese biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialisation of immune regulatory therapeutics to treat life-threatening and debilitating conditions, including allergies, auto-immune diseases and transplantation.