Robert Bosch Venture Capital leads further $4m investment in Scottish tech company Pyreos, for it to launch human, touchless gesture products.

Icelandic games studio Plain Vanilla, maker of QuizUp, raises $22m series B funding led by Tencent and Sequoia Capital, with backers including IDG Ventures.

Leandre Ibar Penaba talks to Erik Van der Kleij, head of technology accelerator Level39, located in the One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf.

University College Dublin big data spin-out Logentries receives innovation award to complete an ambitious 2013.

UK-based early stage investor Mercia announces third SEIS fund to target emerging firms, including spin-outs.

Green Biologics has closed its B round at $25m following investment from Sofinnova and Swire, and will now focus on it commercialisation efforts.

DataSift, a social data platform which enables companies to aggregate, filter and extract insights from social networks, has raised $42m in series C funding.