Dixa, the Copenhagen and London-based startup that offers a customer service platform delivering the best customer and agent experiences, has closed $36 million in Series B funding. Leading the round is Notion Capital. 

Blackfinch has led a funding round of over £1m in Edozo which closed in December 2019. Founded in 2016, the London-based firm’s mission is to make property research and valuation more efficient and accurate. Edozo offers a combined maps and data platform which delivers efficient and accurate solutions for hundreds of commercial property consultancies across the UK, including many of the largest brands in the sector.

Rimilia, the leading SaaS-based fintech company, today announced it has secured $15 million in growth funding. This funding round includes participation from existing investors and partners Eight Roads Ventures and Kennet Partners, and Silicon Valley Bank. It brings the total amount raised by Rimilia to $40 million. This new capital will be used to drive continued product innovation, invest in new talent, and fuel the company’s global expansion.

Healthcare investment vehicle Impel Healthcare Catalyst has made an additional seven figure investment into its portfolio business Trio Healthcare.

The funding will be used to fast-track the development of Trio’s production facility at its state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Skipton, Yorkshire, ahead of the anticipated launch of a world’s first product for the ostomy market later this year.

A new University of Liverpool spin out company, CageCapture, has secured £300k funding from Innovate UK to take forward technology to remove toxic pollutants from the air.

CageCapture has been formed to commercialise a new cage-based material invented by Dr Ming Liu and Professor Andrew Cooper at the University of Liverpool's Materials Innovation Factory.

Foresight Group has made a £500,000 growth capital investment into Selazar Limited, a logistics management software business, set to open a new base in Leicestershire.

The investment has been made using finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) and is part of a £1 million funding round led by Foresight and supported by Invest Co-Fund NI and private angel investors.

Informatics Ventures, which has been supporting technology entrepreneurs since 2008, has announced the cohort of 50 high-growth data-driven companies that will pitch to UK and international investors at its flagship EIE20 event on Thursday 23rd April in Edinburgh.  

The Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF) has appointed a new fund manager and made £40 million available to invest in the region’s small businesses.

Appointed to address regional demand for alternative debt finance options, The FSE Group will manage the £40 million debt fund, with the capability to invest between £100k and £1.5 million in businesses based in the West Midlands and East & South East Midlands.

Unigestion, the independent specialist asset manager, has launched Unigestion Secondary V, its latest secondary private equity fund. The strategy of the fund will be to target small, non-auctioned secondary deals below EUR 50m, focusing on portfolios of high quality companies at attractive valuations.

BGF-backed Kids Planet has raised new funds to support its next growth phase and has acquired North West-based Kids Allowed in a deal which makes it the UK’s third biggest nursery group. 

Brand management platform Frontify has raised a $22.3 million Series B funding round led by the EQT Ventures fund with participation from existing investors, including Blossom Capital, Datartis Ventures and Thomas Dübendorfer, Tenderloin Ventures, and Myke Näf. The funding will be used for global expansion, particularly across North America and Europe, alongside continued product innovation in the company’s movement to trailblaze the brand management category; an increasingly critical tool for building long-term business and brand value.

A rapidly growing healthtech start-up on a mission to solve the NHS staffing crisis and bring flexible working to thousands of clinicians has secured £3m in a funding round led by Praetura Ventures. The round included additional backing from BMJ, the publisher behind The BMJ, and some existing angel investors. 

Patchwork, which has offices in London, Manchester and Liverpool, was founded by NHS doctors Anas Nader and Jing Ouyang in 2016 to help hospitals fill vacant shifts more cost-effectively and to stem the tide of clinicians leaving the health service due to poor work-life balance.