Silicon Valley Bank provides $9m in venture debt to Picochip, a UK-based supplier of computer chips.

Vodafone Ventures joined venture capital firms Sequoia Capital, Softbank Capital, and Novel TMT Ventures in the B round for GameGround, its first deal in the social gaming sector.

Venture capital firm North Bridge Venture Partners led the $8m round in CoolPlanetBioFuels as a repeat investor with GE Energy Financial Services also participating.

Media-focused investment bank Allen & Company leads D round consortium for ConnectEdu, a US-based provider of online college and career planning tools.

New York-listed Wyndham joins venture capital firms Clearstone Venture Partners and Mission Ventures in backing LeisureLink's $9m C round.

BP has joined venture capital firms VantagePoint and Sustainable Technologies Fund in the extended $6m round of funding for REAC Fuel.

Mig33 said it was modeled on social networking peers, such as Gree and China's Tencent, but was targeting emerging markets in Indonesia, India and South Africa with $8.9m series C round.

Corporate Finance Associates, a local investment bank, advised on the $5.5m investment in Electronica Machine Tools by IFCI.

WPP's Digital subsidiary says it is making the corporate venturing investment in Buddy Media to improve the process by which its clients access Facebook.