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Online estate agent Yopa has closed a $26m funding round backed by return investors Daily Mail and General Trust and Savills.
Legal & General has co-led a $20m series B round for Salary Finance, a financial wellbeing platform for employees.
GV has contributed to a series B round for Evox Therapeutics, a spinout of University of Oxford whose existing shareholders include Oxford Sciences Innovation.
Eight researchers from Cambridge have raised a $129m patient capital fund that has attracted limited partners including Aviva.
Rocket Internet-backed peer-to-peer lender Funding Circle plans to raise $385m in an initial public offering in which private investor Anders Povlsen is set to purchase a 10% stake.
Channel 4-backed digital magazine platform Readly has added $11.7m to its coffers thanks to commitments from two new investors, Swedbank Robur and Zouk Capital.
Lidar technology developer Blickfeld has secured a $5.7m extension from investors including Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners to bring its seed round to $10m.
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