Amalyst, spun-out of University College London, has received funding from venture firm Midven and UCL Business for hydrogen fuel cell tech.

Twenty four young French companies pitched to panels of investors at iX Paris 2013, including representatives from corporate venture capital units of France-based phone company Orange, US-based semi-conductor maker Qualcomm and German-based media group Holtzbrinck.

Reed Elsevier Ventures returns for $10m series B financing of big data platform.

WPP Ventures and Docomo Capital invest in $4.4m funding round for mobile microblogging service.

Hub:raum sets up for Israeli technology-intensive seed stage start-ups