Bloomberg Beta invested in a round which will fund Primer's NLP product development for the government and commercial sectors.

Primer, a US-based developer of natural language processing (NLP) software, secured $110m yesterday in a series C round featuring Bloomberg Beta, the venture capital firm sponsored by media group Bloomberg.

The round was led by Addition and included fellow VC firm J2 Ventures, investment firms Steadfast Capital and Sands Capital, and Crumpton Ventures, the investment group founded by Henry Crumpton, former deputy director of the CIA’s Mission Center for Counterterrorism.

Existing backers including VC firms Amplify Partners, Lux Capital, Data…