BaseKit, a UK-based service for designers of websites, has raised $6.5m in its series B round.
The UK-based National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta), which is publicly-funded but about to become a charity and quasi-corporate venturer, invested in the B round along with venture capital firms Nauta Capital and Eden Ventures.
BaseKit has raised a combined $10m in the past year and will open offices in Barcelona, Sao Paolo, Mexico, Buenos Aires and San Francisco.
Matthew Mead, managing director of investments at Nesta, said: "Basekit has an incredibly strong offering which has the potential to take advantage of a huge global market. It’s a great example of the sort of technology-based innovation that the UK excels at."