Citigroup has led a $20m series A1 round for Behavox, a developer of people analytics software for the financial services industry.

Alibaba led the round as part of a deal that will give it access to NVXL's computing acceleration platform.

The chatbot developer has secured $8.3m in a series A round that included CreditEase, less than a year after closing $3m in funding.

UnitedMasters has emerged from stealth, revealing $70m in funding from investors including Alphabet and 20th Century Fox.

Senior-focused hardware and software developer Halove Technology has raised $31.7m in a round featuring We Doctor Group.

Touchstone Innovations has co-led a $6.75m series A round for edtech developer Sam Labs after it pumped $2.9m into the business in May 2016.

Providence Health & Services and Kaiser Permanente have formed part of care management platform Collective Medical's $47.5m series A round.

Financial data processor Crux Informatics has secured $10m in a series A round led by a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs.

The cash will be used for a recruitment drive as QCI begins to ramp up the development of modules that could eventually be used for general purpose quantum computing.