Intel Capital backs a $10.3m round of a US-based wireless connectivity company and takes warrants in a UK-based chip company, with a long and storied past.

Sanofi helps launch genome research company in the latest tie-up between a big pharmaceutical company and the venture industry.

Trapit's regulatory filing said the company had raised $5.8m from 24 investors last month and about $4m in 2010.

News provider Financial Times (FT) said UK-based Sandpit and Germany-based German Media Pool had both struck a deal each.

Contently , a US-based platform for journalists and publishers to broker stories, has raised $2m from a consortium including Consigliere Brand Capital, which offers marketing and has an investment fund joint venture with the fragrance entrepreneurs behind Zig Capital.

Neuroscience specialist H. Lundbeck has invested in Ossianix, developer of a treatment platform for problems linked to the central nervous system.

The social video advertising platform, already profitable, has raised $25m which it will use to expand its activities internationally.

The social networking start-up, still in stealth mode, has gained $2.7m to add to a seed round supported by Google and Crunchfund.

The data analysis software company has raised $1.5m from backers including Reed Elsevier.