Oxsensis has raised a £3m (€3.3m) funding round from Carbon Trust Investments and existing investors Albion Ventures, Seven Spires Investments, Frog Capital, the Rainbow Seed Fund and several private investors.

DFJ Esprit has appointed Mikko Suonenlahti as a senior adviser. Suonenlahti will focus on investments in business-to-business and business-to-consumer software, as well as medtech, bio-IT and energy efficiency.

Creandum, the venture and growth capital firm focusing on the Nordic region, has appointed former Balderton man Johan Brenner.

Bayern Kapital has backed SurgicEye, an intraoperative imaging and navigated tumour surgery business, with a seven-digit series A financing round.

AGF Private Equity has led a €13.1m investment in biopharmaceutical company Genticel, formerly known as BT Pharma.

Bridges Ventures has led an investment alongside Carbon Trust Investments in AeroThermal Group, a Dorset-based developer of an innovative autoclave-based steam-treatment technology for waste.

Existing investors Accel Partners and Highland Capital Partners have made an equity investment in online used car retailer Autoquake.com as part of a £6m (€6.6m) round of funding. Kreos Capital provided a debt package as part of the deal.

The Capital for Enterprise Fund (CfE Fund), jointly managed by Maven Capital Partners, has made an investment of up to £1.4m (€1.5m) in Applied Language Solutions (ALS), a UK-based language services provider.

Team Europe Ventures has launched a €6m fund to focus on internet and mobile internet start-ups.

The Chandos Fund, managed by YFM Private Equity, has backed the £2m (€2.2m) investment in Intamac System, a platform provider for next-generation networked and connected home services.