Hill-Rom and Wells Fargo have co-led the medical monitoring device maker's latest round, taking its total funding to almost $140m.

Alexandria Real Estate Equities and Continental Grain Company have backed the first close of the Syngenta-backed agricultural bioprocessing platform's latest round.

The Cisco and Deutsche Telekom-backed video advertising software provider has received capital from Goldman Sachs that it described as pre-IPO funding.

Existing investor Camber Creek returned for a round that increased the total raised by the property appraisal software provider to $19m.

Vorwerk Ventures returned to reinvest in the smart luggage developer as part of an $11.4m round that also featured Project A and Milano Investment Partners.

ETH Zurich spinouts lifted their total funding haul to $173.3m from $123.1m in 2017.

PetaGene hopes its data compression technology will aid the genomic sequencing industry.

NUI Galway-linked businesses to have secured backing last year include kidney reflux test spinout Kite Medical and medical implant developer Loci Orthopaedics.

Proceeds from the Alexandria Real Estate Equities-backed series B round will advance the company's development of progenitor cell-related medicines for hearing loss.

NantCell received the funding at a $4bn valuation, giving existing investor Celgene a 2.8% stake in the cancer immunotherapy developer.