LiveSafe, which has created a personal safety smartphone app, has raised $6.5m, with media company IAC the biggest investor.

Avazu, a China-based digital advertising platform, has raised $48m in a series A round featuring several undisclosed corporate investors.

Clever, which has received funding from Google's corporate venturing fund Google Ventures, has boosted its total investment to $13.4m

The Google-backed technology recruitment marketplace has now raised $17.7m in the space of just over a year.

Eli Lilly and Company has invested an undisclosed amount of funding in Audion Therapeutics, a Netherlands company developing a treatment for sensorineural hearing loss, as part of a series A round.

Solar system installer SolarCity has co-led a $7m round for Off-Grid, which provides off-grid solar power to Tanzania.

The California-based developer of educational robots raised $8m in a round backed by VC firms Madrona and Charles River.