Osage University Partners and Mints, a University of Michigan venture fund, both invest in Psikick.

Games making hub Finland, land of high-profile games studios Supercell and Rovio, has attracted a free-to-play Helsinki-based startup named Next Games.

Blogging platform Medium has raised $25m in series A funding from investors including Google Ventures, to help with expansion and infrastructure scaling.

OpenSesame, a provider of online training courses, has raised $8m in a series A funding led by Partech Ventures.

Matrix Partners India and Axis Bank have provided an undisclosed amount of series B funding for Mswipe, a company offering cost-effective mobile phone point of sale solutions.

US-based Transcriptic, a Google-backed provider of automated scientific services, has raised an additional $2.8m in financing led by IA Ventures.