Consumer lender Goeasy has acquired a minority stake in instalment financing provider PayBright in return for $25.5m alongside a strategic partnership deal.

Finance automation platform developer AppZen, backed at seed stage by Bloomberg and Mastercard, has now secured $102m altogether.

Citi Ventures and MassMutual Ventures co-led financial services software developer Even Financial's latest round, doubling its total funding to $50m.

Norwest Venture Partners alumni Amit Garg and Sanjay Rao have formed a venture firm called Tau Ventures, Garg having also spent time at Samsung Next.

Freight services portal Loadsmart has now raised more than $53m in total, having secured new funding from investors including Ports America and Maersk Growth.

AgFunder and Wilbur-Ellis subsidiary Cavallo Ventures both invested in farm management technology developer FieldIn to take its overall funding to about $16m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Harvard spinout Platelet BioGenesis has added $26m in series A1 financing to its coffers thanks to a consortium co-led by Ziff Capital Partners and Qiming Venture Partners USA.

SAP, Salesforce and Comcast swere among the investors for a round bringing enterprise data protection software developer BigID's overall funding to $96m.

The Ikea, Sumitomo and The Andersons-backed pest control product supplier has closed new funding, in a round led by Ospraie Ag Science.