Portola said it had raised $317.3m in convertible preferred stock from its investors and $167m in license fees from Biogen, Merck, Novartis, BMS and Pfizer.

Founded in 2006, Mashery has raised at least $34.7m across about five rounds from consortia including Cisco.

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

Ubiquisys had raised about $62m.

LinkedIn is paying $9m in cash and the rest in its shares for Pulse.

Lanxess invested $10m at $28.49 per share as part of BioAmber's $30m series C round.

Avago said the acquisition of CyOptics would help its fibre optics product portfolio for emerging 40G and 100G enterprise and data centre applications. Last year, CyOptics had net sales of $210m, up 21% from 2011.

Cisco Systems has acquired Austria-based SolveDirect for a undisclosed amount.

Company floats 4.75 million shares at $17 each to raise $80.75m.

Cloud provider VMWare also reportedly seeded the company according to news provider ReadWriteWeb.