Mobile commerce app Curbside has raised $8m in an O'Reilly Media-backed series A round that brought the total raised by the company to $9.5m.

Fablic, the maker of flea market app Fril, has raised $9.2m from investors including online recipe provider Cookpad and game developer Colopl.

WiserTogether has raised $9m in a series B round that featured Merck's corporate venturing unit, and which will be used to scale its operations.

Cancer diagnostics company Inivata, which works with technology spun-out from Cancer Research UK, has received $6m in its first external venture round.

Online learning company EdCast has raised $6m in a series A funding in a round featuring Softbank Capital.

Placemeter, which uses data sourced from real world sensors as a basis for predictive analysis, has now raised almost $8m in total.

Men's shoe producer Jack Erwin has now raised $11m altogether, after Brown Shoe Company joined its existing investor base.

MGB Biopharma, established to develop a new class of anti-infective medicines, has raised the cash in a round which included the Scottish Investment Bank.

Unilever Ventures has joined existing backer MMC Ventures in backing recipe box delivery service Gousto, which has raised $8.3m in series A funding.