This feature rounds up venture capital news and highlights larger deal coverage already published.

* TriEye Ltd., an Israel-based developer of shortwave infrared sensing technology, obtained US$17 million in series A financing led by Intel Capital. Other round participants include Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. co-founder Marius Nacht and current backer Grove Ventures Capital. TriEye collected US$3.0 million in a seed funding round in June 2018.

* A £10 million series A funding round for Yu Life Ltd., a London-based life insurance company, was led by funds managed by Creandum AB, with participation from MMC Ventures Ltd. and Notion Capital Partners LLP, as well as existing investors Anthemis Exponential Ventures, RGAx LLC and OurCrowd Ltd. Yulife raised £3.0 million in venture capital in November 2018.

* Digital Alpha Advisors LLC led a $7.7 million series A round for cloud data protection company Jetstream Software Inc. New investor Illuminate Ventures also joined the round, alongside the company's private and institutional seed backers.

Additional coverage

Report: Indian eyewear retailer Lenskart in US$350M funding talks with SoftBank

Retail startup Trax in talks for US$100M funding round

Chinese drug developer Allist Pharmaceuticals gets 1.18B yuan in financing

Unless otherwise noted, historical funding data is sourced from the S&P Global Market Intelligence platform.