The newly formed Sodexo Ventures joined existing backer Orange Digital Ventures to help the point-of-sale software developer expand internationally.

Cisco Investments has added to the $23m in series B funding the customer support technology provider raised from backers including Microsoft, Salesforce and Intel in June.

Emotional intelligence technology developer Cogito secured a re-up from Salesforce Ventures just one year after it closed a $5.5m series A backed by the unit.

Existing investor Bloomberg Beta came back to invest in the data science platform developer, after contributing to a $3m round last year.

Cloud computing technology developer AllMobilize had raised $10m in a June 2015 series B round that featured IDG Capital Partners.

Joint development partner Panasonic joined investors including Daiwa and SBI for a round that will take the laundry folding robot through to the commercialisation stage.

The online education provider, a graduate of software provider Microsoft's Beijing accelerator and a portfolio company of the Fosun-backed Kinzon Capital, raised the funds across series B and B+ rounds.

Astremedia, Channel 4 and ad-for-equity vehicle German Media Pool VC all participated as new investors, lifting the HR marketplace's total funding to $30m.