Civil Maps, a startup working on autonomous car mapping technology, has raised $6.6m in a seed round that will fund product development.

The Edinburgh spinout, which uses LED light to wirelessly transmit data, has attracted series B capital from a consortium led by Temasek, the investment arm of Singapore's government.

The food contamination risk assessment platform, spun out of Yale, has raised money in a series A round that included strategic partners Packers Sanitation Services and Metabiota.

Scottish Investment Bank invests in Strathclyde spinout Mironid's $5.7m series A to support its therapy for degenerative kidney disease, major inflammatory disease and cancer.

Hitachi Chemical and Inabata have formed strategic partnerships with Silatronix as well as investing as part of a round that took the company's total funding to almost $14m.

Imperial Innovations furthers its commitment to Featurespace, a behavioural analytics spinout of Cambridge, by investing in the company for the third time.

Samsung and Bosch took part in the series A round, which boosted the digital camera technology spinout's overall funding to $8m.

The company has revealed a $9m series A round closed in December 2015 that included $3m in convertible seed financing.

Utrecht Holdings participated in a round that will support the cancer immunotherapy spinout as it looks to advance a leukaemia candidate into clinical testing.