Gerako, AI Partners and several insurance providers have backed Butterfly Venture Fund III, which will invest in seed-stage Nordic-based startups.

Unmanned vehicle-based delivery service Starship Technologies has raised $17.2m in a seed round led by Daimler, a strategic partner since September.

Italian wireless broadband provider Linkem has secured $106m from backers including existing backer Leucadia, which held a 56% stake as of the end of 2015.

The peer-to-peer lending marketplace has now raised more than $370m in equity funding, with Rocket Internet joining its latest round as a new investor.

Oxford spinout Oxsonics and its sister company Orthoson have attracted $11.4m from backers including Oxford University.

The mobile payment technology producer has added $63m to the $67m it raised in an Intel Capital-backed series D round in 2015, at a flat $500m valuation.

The deal marks the first time that Alta Innovations has made a commitment through its Spinout Investment Fund.

Numbrs, the bank account management platform launched by Centralway and backed by ProSiebenSat.1, has raised $55m in an Investment Corporation of Dubai-backed round.