Littleblackdress.co.uk, the fashion business of Alesha Dixon has has closed a fourth funding round and has now raised a total of £2.5m. The latest cash injection will be used for job creation and further expansion.

Ocean Polymers, a British recycling technology company, has announced 

FloodFlash, an insurtech startup that offers a new way for customers to insure previously uninsurable flood risk, has raised £1.9m in seed funding from LocalGlobe, Pentech Ventures and InsurTech Gateway.

UK holiday park operator Coppergreen has acquired Kenwick Park Golf Hotel and Spa and Lodge Park in Lincolnshire and Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, doubling the size of its portfolio.

The UK’s largest online car repair marketplace, WhoCanFixMyCar.com, has secured £4 million from investors including Shell Ventures, Sir Trevor Chinn, Active Partners and Venrex Investment Management. The marketplace currently has 11,500 garages registered to the site, has processed over 1 million repair requests from UK drivers and receives 60,000 new job requests every month from drivers.

YFM Equity Partners has backed the MBO of DSP Database Managed Services, a leading provider of database and data platform managed services. One of the fastest growing implementation partners for Oracle Database Cloud, with a similar pedigree in Microsoft Azure, DSP is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of Data Platform support & consulting services, whether on-premise, in-the-cloud or hybrid.

High-growth Miss Group, a web hosting company, has received a £6.4m investment from BGF to accelerate its international expansion strategy. 

Bowmark Capital, the mid-market private equity firm, has sold Nexus Vehicle Rental (Nexus), the UK’s leading corporate vehicle rental provider, to Phoenix Equity Partners for £142m.  The investment generated a return for Bowmark-managed funds of over 3x cost. Established in 1999, Nexus connects vehicle rental companies with corporate customers via a proprietary online booking and rental management system.

Richard di Benedetto, the current President of Aetna International, one of the world’s largest health benefits businesses, has been appointed as a director and non-executive chairman of Mercia Fund Managers investment Braintrain2020.

Molson Construction Equipment, the UK’s largest distributor of capital equipment, has received a £6.3m investment from BGF to support its growth strategy. Headquartered in Bristol, Molson will use the investment to build a new national parts centre and additional depots across the UK.   Founded in 1996 by Jonathan Wilson and Robin Powell, the business provides sales and aftersales services for heavy construction equipment – such as excavators, material handlers, crushers and loaders – to the construction, quarrying and waste management industries.

TransferMate, a leading cross-border B2B payments technology solution, is delighted to announce today a €21 million investment from ING Group N.V., one of Europe’s leading banks, for a small minority equity stake in the Company.

The Berlin-based startup Grover, which offers pay-as-you-go subscriptions as an alternative to technology product ownership, has raised €37 million in Series A funding, one of the largest Series A rounds in Europe.