Regional report: Germany

UK-based internet-of-things technology startups Callsign, RazorSecure, Iotic Labs and Senseye have become the latest to secure funding from Reply's advanced incubator.

The company's corporate venturing unit contributed almost half of the $25.5m in series C funding raised by Airborne Oil and Gas, which is also backed by Shell, Chevron and Evonik.

Deutsche Telekom-backed 9Flats and Rocket Internet-backed Wimdu are set to merge and will form an online accommodation platform with an estimated 500,000 listings.

Cancer care group Helsinn has put $50m into a corporate venturing unit called Helsinn Investment Fund that will target early-stage companies.

The upscale bedding provider took its total funding to more than $22m with $18.3m in series B funding from investors including Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund.

Crispr Therapeutics, a gene editing drug developer backed by Bayer, Vertex, Celgene and GlaxoSmithKline, has set the terms for an offering on Nasdaq.

Minima is based on technology, which which makes digital computing as much as 20-times more energy efficient than current technology, spun out from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Aalto University and the University of Turku.