Airware is a graduate of both Lemnos Labs and Y Combinator incubators.

The other investors beyond AOL included venture capital firms Cloud Capital Partners and Acceleprise Ventures and angel investors

US-based biopharmaceutical company raises Series A financing from investors including Novartis Venture Funds.

French biopharmaceutical company Transgene invests in antibody start-up

Appurify previously raised $1.75m in its seed round last year.

AlephCloud is one of six start-ups to be selected for Orange Fab, a technology accelerator program managed by Orange Silicon Valley, a subsidiary of France Telecom.

Walter Greenblatt & Associates (member FINRA, SIPC), a life-science focused investment bank, served as the financial adviser to Callidus Biopharma in both transactions.

The amount of the investment was undisclosed.