Crowdfunding and media company Patreon has raised $15m in a series A round featuring UTA and CAA to enable more artists to make money from their work.

Real estate crowdfunding platform Fundrise has added more capital to its Renren-backed series A round, which now stands at $38m.

Adaptimmune, which focuses on the use of T-cell therapy to treat cancer and infectious diseases, has completed a huge series A round to expand its clinical trials.

Biometric authentification company Bionym has secured $14m from a series A round backed by Salesforce.com and MasterCard.

Silarus Therapeutics and Thyritiope Biosciences are the second and third companies to emerge from the firms' $495m life sciences incubation partnership.

Cancer diagnostics company Inivata, which works with technology spun-out from Cancer Research UK, has received $6m in its first external venture round.

Enterprise goals platform Betterworks has raised $15.5m in a second tranche of series A funding from Formation 8, Kleiner Perkins, AME Cloud Ventures and Pejman Mar Ventures.

Google was among the investors for the share trading service's $13m series A round, which follows a $3m seed round from December.