Calastone is an independent, cross-border transaction network for the mutual fund industry. The company is the largest global funds transaction network, connecting many of the world’s leading financial organisations.

Their mission is to make funds accessible to everyone by reducing the frictional cost of trading. They use smart technology solutions and industry collaboration to lower operational risk and enhance client profitability through digitisation and automation.

Over 1,700 customers in 40 countries and territories benefit from Calastone’s services, processing over 9 million messages and £170 billion of transactions each month.

Crowdcube is one of the UK’s most successful investment crowdfunding platforms, having raised more than £50m for over 180 businesses from a 125,000-strong crowd of registered investors. 2014 saw the successful launch of Crowdcube Mini-Bonds and the Crowdcube Venture Fund, Crowdcube is the only crowdfunding platform and the largest partner to be appointed to the Government-backed London Co-Investment Fund.

Currencycloud acts for businesses to provide cheaper, more streamlined FX and cross-border payments services. Founded in 2012, processes in the business processes in excess of $10B in payments every year, across more than 40 currencies in 212 countries. The firm has on-boarded around 250 cents, including brokers, tier-2 banks, payment service providers and marketplace operators.

DueDil aggregates public data on companies from a variety of databases, then uses it to create new metrics to indicate how solvent or successful the business is. It is the largest source of free private company information in the UK and Ireland. DueDil data powered the new Investec Mid-market Index of 24,000 mid-sized UK companies.

eToro created the first global market place for people to trade currencies, commodities, indices and CFD stocks online and today has over 4.5 million users in more than 170 countries. In February, eToro signed a joint venture agreement with SBerbank to provide its social trading services to Russian investors.