Acronis updates its partner programme once again to accommodate loyal partners by offering financial aid and benefits, sport collaboration, and more

 ESG investing has been gaining increased momentum, especially in the investment  sector. Last May, the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“USS”), the UK’s largest private pension scheme,  announced an ambition to become net zero for carbon for its investments by 2050 if not before. Today, USS  Investment Management, its wholly-owned investment arm, is introducing a climate “tilt” to a portion of the  Global Developed Markets Equity component of the Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution funds held by the  scheme.

Growth Capital Ventures has led a £150,000 seed investment round into n-gage.io, an innovative technology company transforming the way audiences engage and experience leisure, visitor, and sporting attractions.

The funds will be used to drive the development of the technology forward and support n-gage.io’s market entry strategy. The funds are in addition to £150,000 worth of resource provided by Growth Capital Ventures through its GCV Labs venture builder division.

Nutanix has announced the UK-specific findings of its fourth global Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures enterprise progress with cloud adoption. The research showed that more than half of UK respondents (53%) said that multicloud was their most commonly used IT environment, substantially more than the rest of the EMEA region and globally.

·         New investment secured as the London-based fintech aims to quadruple lending

·         Unprecedented demand sees SME funding more than double from pre-COVID levels

365 Business Finance has successfully completed a £55m debt and equity raise, as the fintech lender aims to quadruple its lending to SMEs over the next two years.

Effective data governance has never been so important. Organisations around the globe are now hugely reliant on information – but if they can’t trust the data they hold, they won’t be able to make game-changing decisions that create benefits for customers. That’s where technology can help.

SoftPOS is an application developed by Nexi, Europe's PayTech company operating in high-growth, attractive European markets and technologically advanced countries, now introduced for the business clients of UniCredit Bank. With SoftPOS, users can offer the possibility of card payment to their customers, using their mobile phones as a terminal. 

• The solution enables businesses to use real-time current account data to verify income in minutes rather than days.
• Through open banking technology, incoming payments are categorised to give a clear view of income streams over more than 12 months
• The UK launch follows the successful rollout of Tink’s Income Check in seven European countries

●      The pre-seed and seed focused firm, originally founded by successful founders from the region, is on a mission to help grow the technology industry in South Eastern Europe by investing in the next generation of entrepreneurs.