Search engine optimisation service Botify secured $7.2m in a round featuring corporate-backed Idinvest Partners and VC firm Ventech.

GV exited the voice messaging app developer, which had raised $1.8m in 2014, and which Spotify acquired alongside Ireland-based social network Soundwave.

Johnson and Johnson reinvested in Inivata, which will use the series A funding to advance its cancer diagnostics platform through clinical studies.

Imperial College London, UCL and Cambridge University have joined forces with three pharmaceutical firms to form the Apollo Therapeutics Fund.

AstraZeneca, GSK and Johnson & Johnson have joined forces with the tech transfer offices of three universities to form the Apollo Therapeutics Fund.

The Publicis90 platform (www.publicis90.com) will be open for submissions until February 28.

The launch of the Excellence and Impact 2020 strategy plots the course for Limerick University to increase the number of spinouts created at the university.

IP Group's unaudited accounts for 2015 show a $285m increase in the fair value of its portfolio, making 2015 the firm's most financially successful year to date.