Corporates McKesson and Medidata Solutions came on board to help life sciences cloud analytics platform Shyft Analytics' overall funding to $31.5m.

Shyft Analytics, a US-based provider of cloud analytics software for the life sciences industry, raised $12.5m in series B funding yesterday from investors including corporates McKesson Corporation and Medidata Solutions.

Healthcare IT and services provider McKesson, which invested through its McKesson Ventures unit, and cloud-based clinical research software producer Medidata were joined by growth equity firm Health Enterprise Partners and venture capital fund Milestone Venture Partners.

Shyft has built a cloud data management and analytics platform that helps life sciences…