VTT spinout TactoTek has attracted $5.9m in funding from Ascend Capital Partners.

The ocular biotech spinout was has received cash from backers including the VTC Innovation Fund as it prepares to take its dry eye syndrome treatment through clinical testing.

UT Horizon Fund has returned for a $7m series A for GenXComm, having also contributed to a $1.5m seed round in June this year.

QBE Insurance and Starr Companies have joined CIC to invest in Cytora as it prepares to launch a risk assessment engine for property and casualty insurance.

The ocular device spinout hopes to rapidly develop portable devices for eye testing powered by artificial intelligence software.

MyDoc is preparing the ground for its enterprise healthcare platform to launch in Asian markets like Sri Lanka or Hong Kong.

Touchstone Innovations has co-led a $6.75m series A round for edtech developer Sam Labs after it pumped $2.9m into the business in May 2016.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners has returned to back a series B round for Dynamic Biosensors, a spinout from Technical University of Munich.

The cash will help the company develop technology that allows machines to learn new tasks after they have received instructions through a virtual reality headset.