Alongside BeCitizen, Cobepa and La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild, BeCapital has commitments from mostly European families with industrial backgrounds.

Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI) and T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's corporate venturing, invested alongside venture capital fund Neuhaus Partners, which had backed Content Fleet since last year division of technology service provider Getanet.

Inge's investors included Siemens Venture Capital, the corporate venturing unit of local conglomerate Siemens, and venture capital firms BayTech Venture Capital, Emerald Technology Ventures, Entrepreneurs Fund, Stone Fund and Taprogge.

The academic platform has gained series A financing as it looks to stretch its service across Europe.

The social media monitoring service has pulled in series A funding from Credit Agricole at the same time as it acquires American competitor ReviewAnalyst.

The Russian government, through its Skolkovo initiative, has given $5m in grant money to the firm to carry on its oncological research.

DailyDeal has become the second deal-a-day site acquired by Google in as many months, as it seeks to expand its own service.

Andy Gregory and Marion Bernard have joined the fund as regional directors.