As part of the investment of undisclosed size, MorphoSys said it had preferred rights to exclusively license the Lanthio peptide technology for drug discovery.

Intel Capital invests in first Spanish deal.

Vordel raised money from Intel Capital before selling to Axway.

As well as investing in YouScribe, Iris, which is backed by local corporations France Telecom and Publicis and Saudi Telecom, sold Human Inference to Neopost.

Sheffield spin-out Magnomatics raises $4m for its magnetic gear technology.

SETsquared-backed TopicLogic wins at UK's Discovering Start-Ups 2012 competition.