Foxconn was among the investors in a $35m second tranche of a round also backed by Aviva Ventures which now stands at $50m.

Roche Venture Fund and Chiesi Ventures returned for a $25m round that lifted the orphan disease therapy developer's total funding to more than $51m.

ASR Insurances and KLP are among the limited partners in Forbion IV, which will invest in biopharmaceutical companies across Europe and North America.

GM&C Life Sciences Fund has stumped up an unspecified sum for Manchester digital health app spinout Clin-e-cal, which creates apps focused on respiratory conditions.

Linköping solar cell manufacturing spinout Epishine has received money from backers including LiU Holding arm after previously securing backing from Chalmers Ventures.

Lund University spinout Xenergic has been backed by LU Holding to deliver power-saving technology for computer memory circuits.

Insurance firm Axa is among those backing ETH Zurich authentication technology spinout Futurae Technologies, which will use the capital for market expansion.

Meatable has secured the backing of a range of VC investors to commercialise a cultured hamburger based on Cambridge and Stanford patents.

Cambridge Enterprise, CIC and Parkwalk have returned to back locational data technology spinout PervasID as the business targets further growth in healthcare, retail and security.

The MIT industrial modelling tool spinout received commitments from Innogy and Shell to drive further adoption of its products in the energy sector.