Madras spinout HyperVerge has secured seed funding from a range of venture capital firms to expand into the US.

The startup fund has already backed Cambridge spinout BMLL and hopes to fundraise more money and add other spinouts to its portfolio.

GE Ventures has become the founding sponsor of a $20m Pittsburgh-based accelerator aimed at startups developing robotics technologies.

Legend Star, a corporate investment unit owned by Legend Holdings, was among the investors backing the drone operating system's first funding round.

The human resources automation company has raised $1.5m in seed funding, becoming the first startup to be backed by Recruit's HR Technology Fund.

Human resources company Slogan has joined forces with investment fund Coent to co-invest in seed-stage startups out of a $1.3m fund.