Ant Financial-backed Citybox has received series A capital from a host of venture capital firms to fund deployment of 5,000 retail terminals by mid-2018.

HowStuffWorks has been spun out from System1, raising $15m in a series A round led by Raine Group.

RTL, which previously took part in a $15m series A has returned for the series B round and was joined by fellow corporate Mediaocean.

Susquehanna International Group is among a consortium of backers that have supplied a total of $30m in angel and series A capital for Abcfintech.

O'Reilly Media-backed Qadium has obtained $40m in funding from a consortium led by Institutional Venture Partners.

The University of Oxford spinout has filed for an $86.25m initial public offering in the US just three years after being founded.

The commercialisation firm has secured the approval of more than 90% of shareholders required to force a hostile takeover of Touchstone Innovations.

WME Ventures has returned for a $12.6m series A round in Ollie, a pet food delivery service that previously closed a $4.4m seed round reportedly also involving the talent agency.