Nokia's investment nearly doubles previous funding for SponsorPay.

Merck last year agreed to invest C$100m over five years in research and development in Quebec, a province of Canada, and has provided nearly $7m to AmorChem, a Canada-based life sciences venture capital fund.

ThingWorx raises $5m from Safeguard Scientifics.

CashStar launched with $4m in March 2009 after incubation by Coupons, a US-based provider of consumer-printed coupons, and has raised $5m for its series B round from venture capital firm Passport Capital and media-focused investment bank Allen.

In a regulatory filing, CalciMedica said it had raised $9.2m. Two-thirds of this money is released following a clinical milestone for its CM2489 once-daily oral therapeutic for patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis.

SEB Ventures led the round for Mobile Tag alongside XAnge Private Equity, the corporate venturing unit of France's main post office, and investment firm Alven Capital.

Deutsche Telekom's T-Venture corporate venturing unit joins the consortium for Cooliris just three months after Sebastian Blum moves to work there.

Venture capital firms New Venture Partners, which specializes in intellectual property (IP)-related spin outs, Summerhill Venture Partners, which span out from local phone operator Bell Canada in 2007, and the Business Development Bank of Canada through its BDC Venture Capital unit provided the A round to Blinq Networks.

Including options, Trifork can buy 12% of NoSQL database vendor Basho Technologies.

Dutch healthcare investor Jonghoud International and Industrial Bank of Taiwan Management's Boston Life Science fund are new investors in To-BBB's $5.5m B round, alongside existing investors Aescap Venture and Antea Participaties.