Jim O’Neill, Duncan Johnson and Russell Schofield-Bezer will lead the investment company set up by the universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield.

Swisscom and Hitachi-backed genomic data technology provider Sophia has filed to go public following some $250m in venture funding.

Nationwide helped the open finance business raise $18m which will be used to boost expansion in Europe and accelerate its growth across the wealth, insurance and retail spaces.

Q&A with Oliver Finch, investor, Maersk Growth

H&M, Bestseller, Adidas and Sateri helped the regenerated textile fibre business raise new funding, which will be used to boost its expansion and build a new production facility.

Santander’s independent venture capital spinoff has led a series B round for byrd, which increased the business’ total funding to $30.8m.

Eli Lilly has agreed to make an equity investment in Mina Therapeutics after approving a research collaboration with the saRNA drug developer earlier this year.

On-demand logistics provider Pickupp hiked its overall funding to $15m while SK Chemicals added to the $67m already raised by drug discovery technology producer Standigm.

The social networking platform operator unveiled a $300,000 micro fund targeting female entrepreneurs and other underrepresented startup founders.

GV helped geometric search technology developer Physna raise $56m while multiple corporates took part in a round nearly doubling study app developer Mathpresso's total funding to $105m.