Robert Bosch Venture Capital, Samsung Catalyst Fund and Dell Technologies Capital backed an Atomico-led round that doubled the machine intelligence startup's total funding.

The spinout of Heriot-Watt University has secured $1.3m in its latest funding round, which featured a mix of existing and new investors.

Scheer Holding has acquired a minority stake in Fanomena, which develops specialised software for the event organisers.

Lightox, Horizon: Therapeutic Microbubbles and StrataStem are among the companies that will receive support from the North of England Life Sciences Accelerator.

IP Group has upped its bid for Touchstone to $640m and gained the approval of Imperial College London, making a takeover more likely.

The battle robot developer has secured $7.5m in a Qualcomm Ventures-backed round that will support commercialisation of its lead product, MekaMon.

IP Group has participated in a $1.7m funding round for Eight19, a solar panel technology spinout of the Cambridge-backed Advanced Photovoltaic Research Accelerator.

Bitflux, a spinout of Technical University of Munich, has acquired for research at the institution relating to electric motors.