PetaGene hopes its data compression technology will aid the genomic sequencing industry.

NUI Galway-linked businesses to have secured backing last year include kidney reflux test spinout Kite Medical and medical implant developer Loci Orthopaedics.

Celgene and Evotec both invested in Exscientia, as the automated drug discovery services provider added Roche to its roster of development partners.

Big data technology developer GeoSpock more than doubled its overall funding to $24.5m in a $12.8m round co-led by Mitsui Fudosan.

Biontech, a spinout of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, has received $91.5m in funding as part of the extension of a deal to develop a cancer immunotherapy candidate with Sanofi.

Cambridge big data analytics spinout GeoSpock has now raised $24.5m from investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital and Parkwalk Advisors.

Spun out of Tübingen, Justus Liebig University Gießen and Münster, Atriva Therapeutics has raised an initial $1.4m to progress next-generation antiviral drugs for conditions including influenza.

Intel Capital and Tengelmann Ventures are set to exit data processing technology developer Data Artisans, having backed its $6.3m series A round.

The genomic testing platform developer has now raised some $140m, eight years after being co-founded in EPFL's Innovation Park by researchers from EMBL, Stanford and Geneva University.

Celgene and Evotec have put capital into Exscientia as the Dundee-founded automated drug discovery services provider added Roche to its roster of development partners.