Cloud-based tax compliance company Avalara has raised $96m in a new round that takes its total funding to more than $300m.

Mobile banking startup Zero has raised $2.5m in a seed round of funding led by ENIAC Ventures. New Enterprise Associates, Nyca Partners, Lightbank and Middleland Capital also participated.

London PropTech startup Bricklane.com has raised ?1.3m in seed funding. The pre-launch investment comes from UK online property portal Zoopla and LocalGlobal.

Equity crowdfunding firm OurCrowd has raised $72m in Series C funding. The round investors are undisclosed.

Pay-per-mile car insurance firm Metromile has landed $103.5m in a Series D round of funding. The capital comes from Canadian insurer Intact Financial and China Pacific Insurance (CPIC).

The US largest bank by assets, JP Morgan is investing in Los Angeles FinTech company InvestCloud and partnering with it to deploy customised dashboards to investors.

Entrepreneur-focused challenger bank OakNorth is proving just how big an impact these digital-only alternatives could have on traditional banking by breaking even in its first year on the market.

Credit card management app U51.com is the latest Chinese FinTech startups to land a $1bn-plus valuation as the company announces its $310m Series C round.

The InsurTech space continues to excite investors with the largest funding round raised in Europe to date just being picked up by FinanceFox.

Peer-to-peer lender FirstP2P has raised $70m in its Series C round of funding from CCB International and San Shan Capital Partners.