The mobile app company which allows users to analyse things they see with their phones reportedly secures seed funding after launching last summer, ahead of an expected series A round.

Payman Saebi, general manager of ventures at UK-based logistics company Royal Mail Group, has left to work at local phone operator BT as head of strategy.

Seacor Marine has invested an undisclosed amount in Windcat Workboats, a UK and Netherlands-based operator of wind farm utility vessels.

Of deals by the top companies in the sector, 140 were at the preclinical development stage, with an average of $22.9m invested, followed by 39 investments at phase I, 34 at phase II and 13 at phase III, although the average amounts invested increased by stage.

Credit Suisse invested in the Swiss based mobile technology company through its SFr100m ($110m) corporate venturing fund SVC-Ltd for Risk Capital for SMEs.

NanoHoldings' network of universities and scientists, most of them with physics backgrounds, means other innovations that show promise could be further developed outside of the company and eventually co-financed through DSM Venturing or possibly acquired by DSM.

Ritz had effectively been responsible for n?w business development at Swisscom and also in charge of its corporate venturing unit, Swisscom Ventures headed by Dominique Megret.

RTI, Sistema's subsidiary specializing in innovative and high-tech sectors, has committed the money to the fund, which will back participating companies at Skolkovo during 2012 to 2015.

UK-based medical foundation Wellcome Trust, and US peer Michael J Fox Foundation, along with Dutch state-backed Agentschap, provided the money to help Sapiens develop its technology for treating Parkinson's disease and other brain disorders.