DheeYantra has raised an undisclosed sum from investors including Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad to build out its NLP software for native Indian vernaculars.

Epic Conjoint, This is Seaweed and Travacoin have spun into NovaUCD, the innovation hub at University College Dublin, with a view of raising $8.7m within two years.

The pet sitting and dog walking service, which counts Petco as an investor, raised the funding together with $30m of debt financing.

StartX-backed food delivery platform Farm Hill has been snapped up by Eat Club for an undisclosed sum, enabling the latter to strengthen its market presence around San Francisco.

Lennar Corporation and Realogy Holdings both contributed to a round that boosted the digital notarisation service's total funding to $31m.

Fitness activity access service GymLib has received $11.8m in a Sodexo-backed round that is its second in less than a year.