Canadia’s Strategic Innovation Fund has invested $37.6m in the fusion power technology developer, which had previously raised more than $83m from investors including Cenovus.

Leiden University has backed a series A round co-led by Evonik and VisVires New Protein.

Oxford spinout Argonaut Therapeutics has received $2.6m from JW Pharmaceuticals in return for a 25% stake.

Acera Surgical, a spinout of Washington University in St Louis, has raised an initial $5.1m out of a targeted $10m.

Virtualisation technology provider Scale Computing has reached the $21.2m Lenovo-led first close of a round expected to close at $34.8m.

Prosiebensat.1's SevenVentures unit joined fellow existing investors Vattenfall and Rocket Internet to invest $11.3m in smart home product supplier Tink.

Dentsu Ventures participated as a new investor, as food safety technology developer Clear Labs closed a series B2 round that took its funding to $45m in total.

The electric vehicle rental service followed a $47m round in March with a $43.2m series B1 round that was led by Bojiang Capital and backed by Itochu.

Peer-to-peer lending marketplace PeopleFund scored $11m in a series B round led by Kakao's mobile payment subsidiary that also featured Dayli Financial Group.

Fujifilm, Olympus and TechMatrix were among the participants in a round that boosted medical imaging technology provider LPixel's funding to $35m altogether.