Woodford Investment Management increases its stake in Imperial innovations to 21% with a $16m investment.

Existing shareholder Zalando increased its stake in the fashion e-commerce network, contributing an undisclosed amount to its latest funding round.

Marshall Group is set to exit gas sensor technology producer CMOS after the agreement of an acquisition by AMS.

Finance for Business North East invests $173,000 in Hexislab, a company using machine learning to identify compounds for skincare.

Phomera Technologies unlocks an industrial process to replicate the colour-changing properties of butterfly wings.

Music streaming service SoundCloud secured the funding as part of a $100m series E round it is raising at a $700m valuation.

Investment firm Gilde Healthcare has closed its latest fund, which features Royal Philips as cornerstone investor and Johnson & Johnson as a limited partner.

Imperial Innovations furthers its commitment to Featurespace, a behavioural analytics spinout of Cambridge, by investing in the company for the third time.

Imperial Innovations exits its investment in Imperial College London spinout Alkion Biopharma, selling its shares to chemical company Evonik Industries.

The reinsurance firm has taken part in a $23.6m round for fintech company builder FinLeap that was closed at a $136m post-money valuation.