Scottish Equity Partners portfolio compnay Insightful Science, a  leading software provider serving the global life sciences community, has entered into a transaction to acquire Dotmatics, an industry leading cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform.

An e-commerce software business which allows retailers to sell through multiple online channels has undergone a management buy-in led by an award-winning business leader.

Elizabeth Gooch MBE will now take on the role of CEO of Expandly. The deal, which also gives the Milton Keynes-based business access to £750,000 investment to support its further growth, was backed by a group of private investors; as well as existing investor the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF); and the government’s Future Fund.

Deepbridge Capital investee company, VoxSmart Ltd., a global leader in communications surveillance, has successfully closed a $25 Million growth equity financing round

Sellforte, an AI-powered marketing optimization platform, has raised €4 million in funding led by Sonae IM, with Bonnier Ventures and Icebreaker.vc also participating in the round. The company will use the capital to hire new talent to scale R&D on its product offering and further expand its operations internationally.

Biomedical startup Adapttech has raised £2 million in a new venture capital funding round. The round was supported by existing investors including the MEIF Proof of Concept & Early Stage Fund, which is managed by Mercia and part of the Midlands Engine Investment Fund;  Bionova Capital (formerly Hovione Capital), as well as new investors including ACF Investors, Wealth Club and Wren Capital.

Arbolus, the expert knowledge platform is delivering the future of work through innovative tools to support the knowledge sharing process and has raised $6m investment, led by Fuel Ventures, in order to scale the platform to serve large enterprises, consultancies and investment firms.

QVentures has invested in Kortext, the UK’s leading B2B2C digital learning platform. QVentures joins the £9 million Series A funding round led by dmg Ventures, and brought investment from several private investors including a Family Office to add strategic value to Kortext. Kortext’s platform allows discovery and access to over two million key digital textbooks from over 4,000 publishers in one easy to use content and learning platform. The Kortext platform is being used by universities across the world from South Africa to Vietnam, Oman to India.

Signal Capital Partners Limited, the London-based private asset management firm, has held a final closing for a new €900m fund targeting European credit and real estate special situations investments.

Memory innovator Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies Ltd has closed a £1.35m seed funding round led by investors UCL Technology Fund and IP Group plc.

The funding will enable Intrinsic to disrupt the $60bn non-volatile memory market by partnering with leading semiconductor research foundry, imec in Belgium, to develop prototypes of its proprietary non-volatile memory devices using industry standard ‘complementary metal oxide semiconductor' (CMOS) processing on 300mm silicon wafers.

BGF has completed a £5.7 million investment in Source BMX, the world’s leading omni-channel BMX retailer. The funding will be used to grow the company’s e-commerce offering and fast-track international expansion plans.

Source BMX was founded by brothers Rich and Marc Moore in 2003 and has grown to offer the largest selection of BMX bikes, parts and accessories anywhere on the market, sold direct to consumers via its website.

Enthuse, the donations, fundraising and events platform, has secured £3.5m investment in its Series A funding round led by Praetura Ventures, the venture capital fund that targets early-stage businesses in high-growth sectors. Co-investors included a consortium of existing investors to the business. This brings the total funding raised by Enthuse to £7.5 million.

Bowmark Capital has agreed to sell its stake in Oxford International Education Group, the leading international education provider, as part of two simultaneous transactions – the sale of the company’s schools division to Nord Anglia Education, and the sale of its university partnerships, online learning and languages business to a management buy-out, backed by THI Investments.