Lightox, Horizon: Therapeutic Microbubbles and StrataStem are among the companies that will receive support from the North of England Life Sciences Accelerator.

Datatron, which has developed a platform that allows companies to gain insight into complex historical and real-time datasets, has raised money from investors such as StartX.

NYU Ventures has contributed to a $1.5m seed round for Vidcode, co-founded by an alumna from the university.

Gencove has developed a genetic testing program that enables users to access services such as genome sequencing without requiring access to a lab themselves.

Carmaker Toyota's research division has put $100m into a unit called Toyota AI Ventures and disclosed its first three portfolio companies.

Brandless, the developer of an online budget supermarket, has emerged from stealth with $50m, $35m of which came in a recently closed series B round.

Huazhu Hotels has co-led a funding round with IDG Capital, two years after the two co-founded the apartment rental service.