Cancer treatment developer Raze Therapeutics has secured $24m from a series A round that included Novartis and Astellas' corporate venturing arm, Astellas Venture Management.

Mobile payment service Inventorum is set to further develop its product with $5.1m in series A funding provided by investors including High-Tech Gruenderfonds.

Leiden spin-out Mimetas secures investment from Dutch venture capitalists.

ASU spin-out Thync secures funding from Khosla Ventures.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation becomes the latest investor in the biotech with $5m.

CrunchFund-backed BloomNation, an online marketplace for florists, has raised $5.6m in series A funding, bringing the total raised by the company to $7m.

Drug therapeutics developer Avidity NanoMedicines has raised $6m in an EMS-backed series A round, adding to the $9m the company raised in February.

Mobile commerce app Curbside has raised $8m in an O'Reilly Media-backed series A round that brought the total raised by the company to $9.5m.

Location tracking device manufacturer Tile has revealed it has raised $13m across two rounds from backers including Tencent to fund the release of an Android app.