The funding round was led by Downing Ventures with participation from existing investors BGF and Beringea.
"At Firefly, our ambition is to supercharge the school experience, so every student can reach their potential. This investment will enable us to move more quickly towards empowering teachers, students and parents, adding to the hundreds of thousands using the tool every day."
Beringea led the investment alongside Downing Ventures and returning backers.
"These are exciting times for Exonar. To receive significant backing from Beringea and Downing Ventures reinforces our belief that the Exonar platform has a significant role to play in enterprise-level data discovery and management. We have a clear vision for future development and the investment will enable us to further enhance our product, enabling our customers to meet current and future data demands such as GDPR and CCPA swiftly, simply and at scale."
Beringea led the £9m investment to help the Manchester-based company expand its engineering and sales teams.
"The world of banking and financial management has changed and continues to do so at pace. Legislation, customer demand and rapid advances in technology, mean the choice of banking and financial services providers available to finance and treasury teams, especially those looking to transform their operations, is greater than ever before."
Smedvig Capital led the Series B round with participation from Beringea and Revolt Ventures.
"We have been following Poq for a long time and have watched their blue-chip client list and top-quality team grow at a fantastic pace. We are very excited to join Oyvind, Michael and the rest of the Poq team as they continue building the clear category leader in the fast-growing app commerce space."
Beringea leads a £1.8m Series A round into search marketing analytics firm DeepCrawl.
"We’ve matured considerably as a company over the past 12 months. We completely overhauled the platform, rebuilding it from the ground up without reusing a single line of code from version 1.0. That’s set us up to provide our customers with even more innovative features – including a major release this month – which is a vital foundation for our own continued growth. Beringea’s investment provides the support we need to achieve that."