Black Swan Data – a data science and consumer behaviour prediction company – has closed an $18.5 million growth fundraise led by Oxx, a venture capital firm that backs Europe’s most promising B2B SaaS companies, with participation from existing investor AlbionVC. The funding will be invested in developing more advanced

US middle-market private equity firm Vestar Capital Partners has sold Mercury Healthcare, a technology and data analytics company, to WebMD Health Corp, an Internet Brands company and a leader in health information services for consumers, physicians and other healthcare professionals. Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.    The

Trinsic, the leading infrastructure for building user-controlled identity products, has secured $8.5 million in a  seed funding round led by Georgian. Jon Gelsey (Founding CEO, Auth0), Frederic Kerrest (Executive Vice Chairman, Co-founder & COO, Okta), Kickstart Seed Fund, Founder’s Co-op, Osage Venture Partners, Forward VC, and a dozen additional angel

SFC Capital, one of the UK’s most active seed-stage investors, has received a further £5 million commitment from British Business Investments to invest into innovative early-stage businesses across the UK regions. This new commitment – part of its Regional Angels Programme, designed to reduce regional imbalances in access to early-stage equity

The Riverside Company, a global private equity investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has made a non-control investment in Apollo Interactive (Apollo). Founded in 1995, Apollo is a tech-enabled lead generation provider that delivers its customers leads of high-intent consumers who are actively searching online for

Pembroke VCT, a venture capital trust focused on backing early-stage businesses led by exceptional founders and management teams, has invested in My Expert Midwife, a midwife-founded brand for pregnancy, birth and beyond. The £2 million fundraise was led by Pembroke, who invested £1.5 million alongside existing shareholders and angel investors. 

Ophelos, a, AI technology firm and pending B-corp focused on the debt resolution process in the UK, has raised £5 million in a seed funding round led by AlbionVC.   Contributions were also made by Vast Ventures, an early investor in Coinbase and Tala, regulatory and public policy experts Form

Foresight Group (Foresight), a listed private equity and infrastructure investment manager, has made a £600,000 growth capital investment in Lillicoco Limited (Lillicoco), using equity finance from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). Lillicoco is an e-tailer of women’s affordable luxury antique jewellery, including rings, bracelets, necklaces and pendants – ranging

Claira (www.claira.io), a document intelligence fintech, has secured a strategic investment from Citi Spread Products Investment Technologies (SPRINT), the strategic investing arm of the bank’s Global Spread Products division.