Venture firm I2BF Global Ventures is managing the resources, water, and agriculture nanotech fund.

The Series B round comes after BioData has grown its subscriber base to more than 40,000 researchers.

SAP Ventures and Comcast Ventures were joined in the round by venture firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which led the fundraising, as well as venture firms Accel Partners and a large unnamed institutional investor.

The digital postal mail services company takes its total raised to $28m in its third round of funding.

The enterprise cloud company backed by Salesforce and SAP's corporate venturing unit expands to Europe.

The video camera company's technology is being developed for the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, an In-Q-Tel customer agency.

Alongside Nokia Growth Capital in the series D round were venture capital firms, including Northgate Capital.

Google Ventures is reportedly joined backing the insurance programme for farmers by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures, Atomico, Glynn Capital and Western Technology Investment.

Germany-based media company Bertelsmann and the university venturing fund it recently backed have joined venture firms Kapor Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Greylock Partners backing the on-line university network.