Brightpearl

Brightpearl has been shortlisted for a National Award as they make the shortlist for 'Multi-Channel Technology Vendor of the Year' at the 13th annual Retail Systems Awards. The award is for work with Natural Baby Shower, recognising technology excellence and innovation within the retail sector.

In further award-related news, Brightpearl CEO Derek O'Carroll has been shortlisted for the 2018 Digital Masters Awards, for the CEO of the Year category. He has been chosen by his peers for outstanding leadership. The winners will be announced at the ceremony which is taking place on Tuesday 26th June at the V&A Museum, London.

Vizolution

Vizolution celebrated the official launch of their North American operation. The launch featured at the LendIt conference and Expo in San Francisco.

Vizolution has made it onto the FT 1000 Fastest Growing European companies - ranking 318.

Panaseer

Panaseer has been selected to take part in the Spring ’18 cohort of the SwiftScale programme, in collaboration with Macquarie Group. Participation in the SwiftScale programme is by invitation or referral only, and SwiftScale scaleups are best-in-class, revenue-generating with large enterprise clients and the resources and ambition to scale.

The programme aims to match scaleups with SwiftScale executives who are typically decision-makers or gatekeepers FTSE 100 & Fortune Global 500 companies.

Idio

Idio has completely overhauled and rebranded its website to Idio.ai in line with its move to become a Demand Orchestration platform for B2B businesses that want to deliver "1:1 relevance at enterprise scale".

ProFinda

On April 25th, ProFinda ran a webinar on 'The Insiders Guide To Transforming Your Digital Community In A GDPR World' - available to watch here.

ProFinda were nominated In the Digital Technology Leaders Awards, ProFinda is nominated in three categories for the: Digital Service Company of the Year, Development Team of the Year and Machine Learning / AI Project of the Year. More details here.

Triptease

The return of the Direct Booking Summit

Hundreds of hoteliers with one mission - to drive the Direct Booking Movement forward. This year Triptease will be in Amsterdam on June 27 and 28 and Dallas on September 19 and 20, 2018. The inaugural Asia-Pacific edition will take place in Singapore in early 2019.

Infographic: New tools to increase direct bookings

We've wrapped all the product updates we released in Q1 into an infographic to bring everyone is up to speed on the latest functionality - from PCI compliant card collection to self-service image messages and a brand new Insights dashboard.

Webinar: Spotlight on... AB testing

As A/B test providers to some of the world’s largest hotel groups, Triptease is uniquely positioned to comment on the risks and rewards of A/B testing on hotel websites. Triptease founder and Chief Tease Charlie Osmond took a look at the subject in their latest webinar.

NewVoiceMedia

NewVoiceMedia feature in the 2018 Inc 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in Europe.

In other news, the company has won the internet telephony product of the year award.

Tradeshift

Tradeshift’s Gert Sylvest and Bancor’s Galia Benartzi sign on for TC Sessions: Blockchain in July.

The company feature in SFC briefing under the author Graham Brock and excitingly has won the 'Best B2B Payments Platform award' with FinTech Breakthrough Award. This year they had over 3,000 nominations, and winners in other categories include JP Morgan Chase, Paypal, Mastercard, Experian, Quicken, Western Union and TD Ameritrade.

Kisanhub

Kisanhub named as a UK agritech startup to watch by Techworld

Last week, Toby was in Paris with the Department for International Trade, presenting to the French AgTech Industry.