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The Nav.it app is a science-backed platform improving financial capability that is available both directly to consumers and through employee wellness programs. Nav.it’s behavior-based product architecture uses proprietary models to coach towards lasting behavior change automatically.

Using the best techniques in behavioral science, behavioral economics, and AI-driven technology, Nav.it has created an app and integrated platform designed to improve financial wellness for people, no matter where they come from or what their background is.

The New Frontiers (TNF) joins Stena Group and Bright Ventures, among others, in Nav.it’s latest funding round, backing this exciting all-female founded and managed startup.

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Doconomy (www.doconomy.com) – the leading climate technology startup helping banks, brands, and consumers to better understand and reduce their environmental impact – has acquired Stockholm-based financial wellbeing fintech Dreams Technology (www.dreamstech.com), the B2B arm of Dreams AB, one of TNF’s portfolio investments. This marks the first deal of its kind to bridge the unique intersection of behavioural economics and climate impact.

Under the acquisition, Doconomy will incorporate Dreams Technology’s proprietary platform – which leverages behavioural science to deliver radical new ways to boost banking customers’ digital engagement and financial wellbeing – to its suite of leading environmental impact measurement tools. This will enable Doconomy to offer its existing banks and financial institution partners an extended behavioural science-driven product portfolio that will include modules for climate smart savings, debt management, and investments.

TNF Venture Partner and Chairman of Dreams AB, Francisco Arcilla, comments: “This awesome combination of Doconomy’s experts in climate impact with the behavioural economics talent of Dreams Technology is set to deliver an exciting offering that promotes financial wellbeing while encouraging sustainable consumption choices, effectuating climate action at scale.”

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TNF has joined a number of other institutions, including US based Sage Hill Capital, as investors in CSX’s recent £2.5m Seed round. TNF is increasingly focused on the sustainable technology sector and determined to make its own strong commitments to more effective and properly measurable carbon reduction.   

 
CSX is aiming to transform the market in carbon trading and offsets with a tradeable carbon asset bank made up of localised Nature Based Solutions fully measured and audited by its proprietary technology platform. The company will introduce a new level of integrity to the carbon market, ensuring that corporates invest in projects that deliver a real, measurable return to the planet. CSX has partnered with leading universities to develop a unique auditing capability using the latest technologies including drones and LIDAR to monitor its projects.

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Connected to autonomous stations, the Equip app allows users to borrow sports equipment, then play or participate in leisure activities without having to carry anything around, right where they need it – at venues across the globe.

Putting the emphasis on sharing rather than ownership allows Equip to be part of the global responsibility we have in the face of socioeconomic inequality and the protection of the environment. Equip stations are also autonomous thanks to their solar panels, and can be installed and checked remotely without limitations.

Today, this startup is in full expansion in the United States, Spain, Italy, France and their native Switzerland, where the business seeks to accelerate its deployment at a communal level.

Since mid-July 2022, Decathlon Switzerland has made a commitment alongside Equip to provide quality sports and leisure equipment directly at the places of practice.

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Sysmosoft eSignature solution, Let’s Sign, is used by many highly regulated industries such as Financial Services, Governments and Education. It is currently deployed across hundreds of organizations and supports millions of transactions every year that are legally binding under Swiss and European laws.

TNF’s Chief Financial Officer, Victoria Voyteshonok, comments: “Sysmosoft and SwissSign make for a great partnership. Together they can now offer a comprehensive set of solutions to all businesses where confidentiality, privacy and security are critical.”

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 TNF (The New Frontiers) believes that Metaphysiks’ MetaTouch opens the door to the holy grail of experiential technologies. 

MetaTouch is the culmination of over a decade of cutting-edge research in the laboratories of world-leading neuroscientist Olaf Blanke, professor at EPFL, who is also Metaphysiks’ co-founder and Chief Scientist, and with whom TNF’s founder Erkin Bek continues to collaborate extensively towards building and expanding immersive experiences. 

TNF led the funding round and was joined by numerous prominent and strategic investors including Logitech, Tej Tadi (founder of Mindmaze), All Here (a Swiss lifestyle company that collaborates closely with EPFL) and several other international investors.

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