text: Software company Decisyon has closed its series A round at $15m led by investment firm Axel Johnson.
  Vizury Interactive has raised $9m in its Series B funding led by corporate venturing unit Nokia Growth Partners.
  Google Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of search engine provider Google, has participated in a $3m seed funding round for US-based Clever, an educational software provider. The round also saw Clever funded by micro-venture capital firm SV Angel, venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, and angel investors Mike Maples, Jeff Clavier, Mitch Kapor, Ashton Kutcher, John… Continue reading Clever receives top marks from Google
  The VGF Emerging Market Growth I fund has more than $200m commited and will target mid-sized companies in resource efficiency, consumer sustainability and renewable energy sectors in Russia, Turkey and central and eastern Europe (CEE).
  Novo Ventures and Novartis Venture Funds, which invest on behalf of Denmark-based Novo and Switzerland-based Novartis respectively, co-led the A round.
  Philip Morris Investments, the corporate venturing unit of the cigarette maker, owns 40% of Medicago and last month said the vaccine maker would pay $700,000 for the licenses.
  Investment in Nasuni now totals $43m for the three rounds.
  Sonia Sahney Nagar, formerly a senior product manager at online retailer Amazon, is chief executive of Pickie and a co-founder alongside Abhijit Rao and Ryan Weber.
  Both HTGF and Fraunhofer Venture had previously invested in ConWeaver in 2010.
  QuantiaMD has disclosed no prior funding rounds.
  Llamasoft, a US-based provider of supply chain design software and services, has raised $6.1m in its series A round from a consortium including local sportswear provider Nike. Alongside Nike’s corporate venturing unit in the A round were venture capital firms MK Capital, venture capital firm MK Capital, Augment Ventures and First Step Fund. Donald Hicks,… Continue reading Nike runs into Llamasoft
  Amit Narayan, director of Stanford’s Smart Grid program and a visiting professor at the university, and Shiva Swaminathan, a senior resource planner at City of Palo Alto Utilities, formed AutoGrid last year.
  Alongside Salesforce as co-leads of the B round were venture capital firms Birchmere Ventures and Rincon Venture Partners, while Innovation Works and FF Venture Capital also participated.
  Principia Biopharma, a US-based biopharmaceutical company focused on autoimmune diseases and cancer, has received $12.5m in its second trache of a series A round from a consortium including drugs company GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) corporate venturing unit. Alongside GSK’s SR One, which has partner Simeon George on Principia’s board, in the round were venture capital firms New… Continue reading GSK treats Principia Biopharma