3D printed orthotic company, Sols, gains $1.75m in seed funding led by Lux Capital.

Rise Labs, creators of a nutrition and lifestyle coaching smart phone app, has raised $2.3m in funding led by Floodgate with participation from Google Ventures.

US-based Transcriptic, a Google-backed provider of automated scientific services, has raised an additional $2.8m in financing led by IA Ventures.

Noom, a US-based health and fitness application company, has raised $7m in series A funding led by RRE Venures and including Qualcomm.

Jaguar Animal Health, headquartered in San Francisco and backed by Napo Pharmaceuticals, has closed its series A funding round led by BioVeda China Fund with an investment of $2m.

UniQure, a gene-therapy company based in The Netherlands, has closed its initial public offering which raised $91.8m by selling 5.4 million shares of common stock.

Lundbeck's corporate venturing unit has co-led company's series A round, and the funds will be used to develop the pipeline for its two lead treatment options.

Merck Serono and GlaxoSmithKline have both invested in a $15m round for the biopharmaceutical company, which is focusing its treatments on the Chinese market.

Intel's corporate venturing unit has invested a reported $15m in OrCam Technologies, which is developing special eyeglasses to help the blind.

The biopharmaceutical company, which has investors including the corporate venturing subsidiaries of GlaxoSmithKline and MedImmune, has secured $50m from its initial public offering.