Illumio a stealth start-up backed by US network equipment manufacture Juniper Networks and venture capital firm Andreessen Horrowitz, concludes an initial series series A round of financing.

As well as raising an undisclosed amount in series C funding, US-based Green Plug has also appointed Kevin Jones to the position of chief scientist.

The Verso Spin-off Fund, which had NSN as its first limited partner in May, has provided initial funding to Boftel.

NSN said it would continue to support the M2M activities of Cumulocity.

Samsung Venture Investment Corporation (SVIC) provided an undisclosed amount to be used to advance research and development to further improve global data distribution technologies and mobile application data management.