Details of the unit's investments in Inrix, PrecisionHawk, Avegant, Reno Sub-Systems and Prelert have emerged over the past two days.

Car lending platform PPzuche.com has raised $60m in a series B round featuring IDG Capital Partners that will be invested in market expansion.

Quanta has raised $43m in a series B round for the launch of its advanced haemodialysis system, bringing the total raised by the company to $57.3m.

Stratoscale, a software company for data centres, has attracted $32m in a series B round which involved Intel, Cisco and SanDisk.

Online sports network Whistle Sports is the third US company to receive funding from UK-based BSkyB in the space of just over a month.

Orbium and Sberbank both contributed to the anti-fraud software developer's series B round, which will support its international expansion.

Cloud-storage company SwiftStack has raised $16m in a series B round from investors including UMC, bringing the total raised by the company to $23.6m.