Fosun has invested $13.3m in Naga Group, the developer of a social trading platform, and will help the company expand into Asia.

Amadeus Capital Partners has added $2m to the $13m raised by the Beenos-backed online payment technology provider in January, taking its total funding to $24m.

SpyBiotech has been spun out of University of Oxford with $5m in seed capital led by Oxford Sciences Innovation and participation from GV.

Novartis is set to exit heart valve replacement maker Symetis after Boston Scientific agreed a cash purchase less than two weeks after the company filed to go public.

Grocery e-commerce company Picnic has raised cash in a round led by SHV Holdings' NPM Capital subsidiary and will use the funding to expand across the Netherlands.

Financial services firm Capitec Bank has made a strategic investment in consumer finance provider Creamfinance, leading a $22.9m series B round.

The industrial and consumer product maker has launched a corporate venturing arm called Henkel Ventures and expects to commit about $160m to the unit.

Tengelmann has supported a $16.2m round for insurance technology developer Ottonova, which previously attracted capital from another corporate, Vorwerk.