Alongside Martlet in the round for Neul were individuals investor network Cambridge Angels and venture capital firms DFJ Esprit and IQ Capital.

Various Scandinavian corporate angel investors are backing the Finnish music service, which is confident it can change the way we browse for content online.

George Heinrich, chief executive of Foundation Venture Capital Group, said: "The link between gum disease and cardiovascular disease is strong enough for us to consider that Dr Fine's [Affineti founder Daniel Fine who is also a professor and chair at Department of Oral Biology at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Dental School] research will impact health on many levels."

General Electric backs 10 companies and awards five with $100,000 each.

UK-based quasi-public organization National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta), Global Corporate Venturing and Kauffman Fellows identify main US and European accelerators and incubators.

Core Mobile said it was part of the Citrix Startup Accelerator Program with funding from Citrix and working out of its offices in Santa Clara, California, and would be raising venture capital in October.

Inkef Capital, a quasi-corporate venturing joint venture between pension funds ABP and Omers, has led the $1.5m seed round for Wave Accounting, a Canada-based creator of free online accounting software for small businesses.

Blink's technology is based on research carried out by the founding scientists Facundo Batista, at Cancer Research UK's London Research Institute in collaboration with Vincenzo Cerundolo at the University of Oxford.

Alongside Google Ventures in the seed round for Smarterer, which launched in October, were angel investors.