Chris Witkowsky

Middle Peak Medical, a development stage medical device company, has raised an additional $3 million in a second closing of its over-subscribed Series A funding round. The funding round now totals $11 million. Additional Series A investors include BioMedInvest II and Edwards LifeSciences. Lead investors Wellington Partners and Seventure Partners added to their first close investment, which also included High-Tech Gruenderfonds.

Social media marketing platform Tiger Pistol has closed on $1 million funding round from Australian venture fund rampersand and existing shareholders. The company has provided a Facebook promotions platform for small businesses over the last 15 months, with several thousand small business users in more than 100 countries.

GROUNDFLOOR, a real estate crowdfunding startup based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has closed a first round of funding led by Bandwidth Labs and the American Underground. The company connects independent real estate entrepreneurs with early-stage loans funded online by investors. The funding will allow GROUNDFLOOR to bring a series of pilot projects to market later this year and early 2014.

The Center for Innovative Technology's CIT GAP Funds has closed an investment in SL8Z, a global marketplace for crowdsourced recruiting. SL8Z's marketplace connects employers who are recruiting professional and executive level positions to a handpicked community of experienced recruiting professionals. CIT GAP Funds is a family of seed- and early-stage investment funds focusing on near-equity and equity investments in Virginia-based high-growth technology, life sciences and clean tech companies.

F-star, an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company, has formed F-star Alpha with €9.4 million in Series A funding from Atlas Ventures, Aescap Venture, TVM Capital, SR One, MP Healthcare Venture Management and MS Ventures. F-star Alpha has been granted exclusive license to a range of oncology assets.

Arcturus Therapeutics, which develops technologies for the treatment of rare orphan diseases, has secured $5 million in Series A funding from a group of high net worth individuals from Canada, Japan and the U.S. The funding will allow Arcturus to nominate its first clinical candidate in 2014 and recruit employees to expand operations.

Chukong Technologies, an international mobile entertainment company, has received $50 million in a Series D funding round led by New Horizon Capital, a China-focused private equity fund. Other investors include existing investors GGV Capital, Sequoia Capital, Steamboat Ventures and Northern Light. The Series D round brings total funding to $83 million to date.

Sutter Hill Ventures has made a seed round investment of $3 million in Boxer, which is developing ways to expand the capabilities of email on mobile devices. Boxer has executed integrations with Box, Dropbox, LinkedIn and Facebook.

AppLift, a mobile games marketing platform, has received an additional $7 million from Prime Ventures, which invested an initial $13 million. The total invested is now $20 million. AppLift also has hired former Rocket Internet managing directors Hendrik Harren and Stephen Chung. Harren joins as managing director and chief operating officer in Berlin, while Chung has become a managing director for Asia.

FIELDS, a Shanghai-based online grocer, has raised $5 million in a Series A funding round led by ClearVue Partners, which targets consumer businesses in the Greater China region. FIELDS was founded in 2009.