Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 14 | Page 31

LATEST INTELLIGENCE UK FinTech business lender, MarketInvoice, has announced it has raised £26m in new equity funding. This Series-B funding round was led by Barclays and FinTech fund, Santander InnoVentures, with significant participation from European venture fund, Northzone, an existing investor in the company. Technology credit fund, Viola Credit, which also participated in the equity round, will provide a debt facility of up to £30m to help scale the MarketInvoice business loans solution that sits alongside its core invoice finance solutions. GERMANY Vodafone Germany has chosen Metrological to bring integrated apps and premium over-the-top (OTT) content to the GigaTV platform. GigaTV users will have access to a wide variety of premium OTT services as well as niche content and localised apps, integrated directly into the GigaTV UI, through the Metrological application platform. Metrological enables operators to offer OTT content without leaving the TV experience. Metrological’s back-office gives Vodafone Germany the ability to anticipate the changing content preferences of its TV viewers instantly and efficiently. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 31