In February last year, Versartis raised $21m in its series B round from a company including drugs group Amunix.

Janrain, a US-based user management platform for social websites, has raised $33m from a consortium including software provider Salesforce.

Alongside Citi Ventures and Qualcomm Ventures in the C round were venture capital firms True Ventures, which led the consortium, Sutter Hill, Fontinalis Partners and RockPort Capital Partners.

Expedia joined travel expense software provider Concur Technologies and former executives Rich Barton and Erik Blanchford in US-based hotel search engine Room 77's $30.3m series C round.

Astute Medical, a US-based provider of laboratory tests and backed by Johnson & Johnson Development and Kaiser Permanente Ventures, has raised $500,000.

New backers emerge in the $36m Series C round into digital media company Maker Studios, led by Time Warner, which receives a portion of the revenues derived from a network of amateur videos.

Northgate Capital, which is majority owned by India-based financial services group Religare Enterprises, backs video marketing company TubeMogul, after deals backing US-based social data company DataSift in November and US-based IT infrastructure company Scale Computing in October.