The Ceres Agritech Knowledge Exchange has secured $28m and will exploit research from the universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Hertfordshire, Lincoln and Reading.

IHS Markit and Leucadia National both invested in collateral management platform developer CloudMargin, which will use the cash for sales, marketing and product development.

Wireless charging terminal developer Chargifi, whose past investors include Intel Capital, raised the cash in a Hewlett Packard Enterprise-backed round.

University of Birmingham will lead a connected system of incubators after Midlands Innovation secured a $7.1m award from Research England.

Shibuya Corporation and Shinsei Bank joined existing investors in the liver disease therapy developer to buy $11.5m in convertible bonds.

Returning investor CNP Assurances contributed to a $28.4m round led by Index Ventures that increased the health insurance startup's total funding to $45m.

Satt IDF Innov has licenced research at Institut Cochin and Institut Pierre-Louis to SkinDemic, which will now commercialise a treatment for acne and Kaposi's sarcoma.

TU Wien spinout Cogvis has developed a contactless sensor that predicts when a person might fall and is aimed at the elderly care sector.

Fonterra Ventures and Ringier Digital Ventures both took part in a $27.1m round for the nutritional product brand.