UNC-Chapel Hill spinout Falcon Therapeutics has raised a seed round from unnamed backers.

The University of Hong Kong spinout is working on AI-based language processing for call centres to optimise the analysis of their phone records.

The Swansea University spinout secured equity funding from Swansea Innovations and the Development Bank of Wales to develop energy harvesting technologies.

The company is working on treatments for breast cancer and solid tumours, based on research at University of Toronto and the Centre for the Commercialization of Antibodies and Biologics.

Samsung Ventures has invested $1m in robotics vision technology developer Perceptin, which has revealed $11m in total funding.

The artificial intelligence developer has secured seed capital of undisclosed size to commercialise its AI-based neural network platform.