The speciality chemicals developer will celebrate the launch of its first enzyme-manufactured chemical product, a grapefruit flavour and scent, during 2018.

ADCendo will develop a single oncology therapy combining antibodies with cytotoxic drugs used during chemotherapy.

The industrial 3D printing platform developer has received funding in a round featuring investment vehicles for Trumpf and Eos.

Alibaba has led a $27m tranche that doubled MariaDB's series C round to $54m and took its overall funding to $93m.

Topas has closed its series A round at nearly $21m, following a $4.6m extension that will be used to advance potential autoimmune disease therapies towards clinical trials.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners has taken part in a $12m series A round for 3YourMind, an additive manufacturing spinout of Technical University of Berlin.

The digital heating installation platform, which is backed by Eon and Rocket Internet, has secured $24.3m from a consortium including Vorwerk and Eneco.

International financial transfer platforms TransferWise and Remitly each announced nine-figure rounds last week, highlighting the growth of the sector.

The two institutions have chosen 16 cybersecurity teams from Israel and Germany to receive almost three months of training.