Harvard life sciences spin-out Macrolide secures $22m at launch.

Toronto medtech spin-out ChipCare secures $5m in series A round.

The network infrastructure company's IDG-backed series A round will enable it to expand its sales and marketing efforts as well as hire more engineers.

The advertising commerce platform has secured $7m from backers including research and technology transfer company Innova.

Intel Capital has co-led a series A round for the motorcycle helmet maker, which celebrated a $2.4m crowdfunding campaign last year.

Video technology spin-out Vidku raises $17m to support development of its Flipgrid tool.

Japan-based Cyfuse Biomedical raises 1.4 billion yen ($12m) to support the development of 3D printing technology which can produce human tissue.

Vectorious, which is developing an implant-based cardiac monitoring system, has raised $5m and will look to begin the first trials for the device soon.