Hexcel has now provided more than $25m of strategic funding for thermoplastic parts producer Oxford Performance Materials, which will now expand manufacturing capacity.

Rakuten and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance have invested in Folio, which is developing a robo-advisor investment platform, bringing its overall funding to almost $19m.

Touchstone Innovations has co-led the series A round for Apcintex, a spinout of Cambridge University that is working on a treatment for haemophilia.

The Diageo-backed restaurant table booking and management platform has now raised a total of $27m and has expanded to the whole of the US.

GE Ventures has taken part in a round sized at about $14m, taking the manufacturing services platform's total funding to $23m.

Online wealth management platform WealthSimple has added extra funding from the financial services firm as it expands from Canada to the US.

In addition to investing, Invenergy, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Macquarie Group all intend to begin using Aquilon Energy Services' energy transaction settlement platform.

Axel Springer has taken part in the latest round for digital reportage and long-form media platform Ozy Media, after investing $20m in 2014.

Mastercard led a round for the payment card management platform that included fellow strategic partners Regions Financial, Synchrony Financial and RRE Ventures.

Intel-backed digital engagement technology developer CafeX Communications has raised $18m in a Rakuten-led round, taking its overall funding to $50m.