Last year, Bitbar, which provides the Testdroid platform, raised an undisclosed amount in its seed round from Seed Fund Vera and five angels, including Frederic Lardieg, then a principal at corporate venturing unit Vodafone Ventures before his move to VC firm Octopus.

Elsevier has acquired Mendeley, a cloud-based research management and social collaboration platform for between a reported $69m -$100m

Plain Vanilla, a publisher of social trivia games, has raised $2.4m in an A round of funding from backers which include Greycroft Partners, Tencent, BOLDStart Ventures, IDG Ventures, CrunchFund, Mesa Global and Riot Games.

Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund and Novartis Venture Funds back AMP's A round.

BIVF is also an investor in the Inserm Transfert Initiative.

Ubiquisys had raised about $62m.

Unilever Ventures raises $450m, as first reported in our April magazine, as part of a profile of Unilever Ventures, which we named the most influential consumer sector unit in corporate venturing.

GenSight Biologics, a ophthalmic therapeutics using gene therapy, has raised $41.8m in series A funding from backers Novartis Venture Fund, Abingworth LLP, Versant Ventures and Index Ventures.