The US-based business research company helps China business networking company Ushi to a reported $4.5m in total.

Krishna Neshwant, a Google Ventures partner who is joining the DNA cloud computing company's board, says he is compelled by the company's vision of "revolutionising bioinformatics".

The monetisation software specialist has pulled in $12m of series B funding from investors including Innovacom, a venture fund partially-owned by France Telecom.

The Google-backed chain of eye hospitals has raised additional funding, from venture capital investors Helion and Nexus and is looking to expand.

D2, part of NTT Docomo, has made a second investment in the Microsoft and Itochu-backed mobile media company Affle.

Medical device company NxThera has raised a second round of series B funding from a combination of corporates and venture capital investors.

The mobile payments company has closed two rounds of funding this year with participation from investors including credit card company Visa.

Non-profit research partnership the Structural Genomics Consortium adds Pfizer and Eli Lilly to its consortium as it closes a funding round worth nearly $50m.