Click has secured financing in a round led by Sanofi Ventures as it develops digital medicines for conditions including depression, insomnia and chronic pain.

Cosmetics-focused retail software provider Pekon has raised $13.3m in an Alibaba-led round backed by existing investor LightHouse Capital Management.

Nucor has become a minority shareholder in Notre Dame chrome plating spinout Trion Coatings and will build the spinout’s first manufacturing facility at its own base in Indiana.

Existing investor Consensys returned for a $52.5m round that will help the crypto-to-dollar lender expand into new areas.

UMCG spinout CC Diagnostics has been backed by Carduso Capital as it moves closer to the launch of its cervical cancer screening technology.

The Groningen spinout is developing antibiotics that could help overcome increasing bacterial resistance to existing drugs.

Customer engagement software provider SessionM has completed a $23.8m round featuring existing backer Salesforce Ventures, taking its total funding to $97m.

RXQ has been backed by Ohio Innovation Fund as it prepares to build beyond its current location at the Ohio University Innovation Center.

Azafaros has licensed intellectual property from Leiden University and Amsterdam UMC's Academic Medical Centre to target lysosomal storage disorders.