Datatron, which has developed a platform that allows companies to gain insight into complex historical and real-time datasets, has raised money from investors such as StartX.

NYU Ventures has contributed to a $1.5m seed round for Vidcode, co-founded by an alumna from the university.

Safran Corporate Ventures joined the fibre optic technology developer's existing investors for a $5.7m round that will support international sales.

Priscila Bala, formerly a director at Yale Entrepreneurial Institute, has joined Octopus Ventures.

Gencove has developed a genetic testing program that enables users to access services such as genome sequencing without requiring access to a lab themselves.

The Washington State University spinout has raised nearly $7m so far for the round, which has a target size of $16m.

E-Scape Bio, a spinout of Gladstone Institutes, has achieved a final close of its series A thanks to commitments from Osage University Partners and several corporates.

The semiconductor manufacturing component maker secured $23.5m, with Samsung Ventures, JSR Corporation, Aliad, Applied Ventures and Intel Capital all investing.

Osage University Partners has taken part in a funding round for Lastline, a cybersecurity technology developer based on research at multi-university initiative iSecLab.

The immune system-based cybersecurity software spinout based on University of Cambridge research has now raised about $180m in total.