PEER-TO-PEER development loans platform Blend Network has secured £10m of funding from private investors.  The late-seed round of financing was backed by investors including Cyrus Ardalan, former vice chair of Barclays and current chair of OakNorth Bank and Citigroup Global Markets, the family office of Publicis Group chairman Maurice Levy and Jean-Phillipe Blochet, co-founder of hedge fund Brevan Howard.  The London-based firm said on Monday that the oversubscribed funding round comprises a combination of equity, to scale up the business, and commitments to lend via the platform.