Denmark-based Novo, which has as one of the largest and most influential corporate venturing units by Global Corporate Venturing in June, is one of two co-leaders in diabetes company Reata's $78m investment round.

Eight venture investors commit another $20m to Nereus a decade after its first round to take the total raised so far to nearly $150m.

Pacific Biosciences raises $50m in sixth round of funding by bringing in Nasdaq-listed healthcare diagnostic company Gen-Probe.

Samsung and Intel back UK-based PicoChip's $20m sixth funding round.

Anulex Technologies gains strategic investor for fifth round of funding.

CardioMems, a developer of wireless medical pressure sensors previously backed by US-based healthcare company Medtronic, has raised $37.9m in its seventh round of funding.

Zend Technologies, a US-based provider of software for developing and deploying hypertext preprocessor (PHP) applications to produce dynamic websites, has raised $9m in its sixth round of funding.