US-based mobile payments specialist Square has acquired New York design firm 80/20 which specialises in interface design.

Boston Scientific Corporation acquires pioneer firm in coronary artery disease treatment, Bridgepoint Medical, for an undisclosed sum in a bid to beef up their cardiology portfolio.

Vodafone Ventures-backed robotics company Evolution Robotics sells to rival iRobot for $74m.

Venture capital firm Mayfield invested R40 crore ($7m) in Centum in June 2010 and was a shareholder alongside Bharti.

Holtzbrinck Digital Strategy, a division of Georg von Holtzbrinck formerly known as Holtzbrinck Networks, owned 43.9% of Allesklar, with the remainder being sold by the founding Stegger family.

Alongside Physic in the seed round were VC peers Founders Fund, TomorrowVentures, Altos Health Management and Kapor Capital, and angel investors.

A123 has been a corporate venturing investor in its customer, Fisker Automotive, but its battery malfunctioned in a test for the electric car maker and so its sales have fallen this year partly as a result and it needed to raise money.