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The Unit Powers ParUp Golf Launch – Harnessing Tech, Community, and Social Betting

Founded by two betting industry stalwarts, ParUp Golf brings an eclectic range of exciting features to transform the amateur golf experience, with social betting set to launch in the next phase
The Unit, a leader in product design and development for sports betting and iGaming, is helping shake up the amateur golfing world by delivering the game-changing ParUp Golf app, after being chosen as ParUp Golf’s app development partner.
The launch is set to disrupt and streamline the logistical demands of organising and participating in recreational golf; the app will also introduce social betting features, gamifying the group golf UX, in future iterations of its rollout.
Free to download on the App Store and Google Play, ParUp Golf is designed to help small groups of friends or larger golfing societies manage and elevate their golf-day experience. By creating a digital clubhouse for scheduling and monitoring their rounds of golf, this agile control centre is now fostering more excitement and deeper engagement both before and during the round.
Users can log into the app to make use of a number of features that add to the entertainment, including:
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Live Leaderboards: See real-time scoring for both individual and team events during the round to crystallise positional awareness and fuel the battle for bragging rights;
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Digital Scorecards: An easy-to-use scoring system with minimal clicks for a best-in-class user-experience;
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Schedule Group Events: Organise events at more than 39,000 golf courses worldwide;
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Share & Invite Members: Seamlessly send an event link to ensure group members can join instantly in just one click;
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Highlight Key Event Details: Share event times, costs, prizes and other key information, plus track attendance and payments;
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Multi-Round Series Scoring: Track multi-round series leaderboards for weekend trips or season-long events;
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Team Formats & Side Games: Track longest drive and nearest-the-pin competitions, offering players a fun way to interact on golf days;
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Play Friendly Rounds: Set up casual rounds with friends anytime.
ParUp Golf is the latest product from two industry stalwarts. Ian Lowther is a former Head of Brand Marketing for Betway, and has also worked in senior leadership roles for Betfair, BetVictor and Ladbrokes. While his co-founder, Andy Dymock, also has an extensive background in gaming, having worked in senior management roles at Ladbrokes, BetVictor and The Ritz Club London. Dymock’s most recent role was with the German industry giant Merkur.
The application has been fully developed by The Unit, demonstrating its ability to create and execute robust, scalable platforms. Accordingly, ParUp Golf is another successful example of The Unit’s nous in creating native iOS and Android applications tailored to the specific needs of a client to enhance engagement, user experience and monetisation potential.
In a future phase of the launch, ParUp Golf will unveil a peer-to-peer betting feature, where players will be able to seamlessly place bets against each other within the app, with the winners of a specific side or social game taking their cut of any pooled prize pot.
Paddy Casey, Co-founder at The Unit, said: “We are very proud to have played our part in bringing ParUp Golf to market. It’s an innovative and incredibly useful platform that will add more excitement and gamification to the recreational, social golf experience.
“While The Unit is primarily associated with sports betting and iGaming, the production of the ParUp Golf app as a sports app in its first iteration is proof of how we can diversify and adapt our offering to different domains, formats and game types.
“Custom mobile app development is a key part of our core offering, and we are thrilled to be able to bring that expertise to the world of golf. We wish Ian, Andy and their team all the best with ParUp Golf and we’re very excited to see how it will grow in the coming years.”
Ian Lowther said: “We have launched ParUp Golf with the aim of making recreational group golf easier to manage and more fun to play. By partnering with The Unit, we have given ourselves the best possible chance of success.
“The technology provided by The Unit allows ParUp to create and maintain a more inclusive, more interactive, and more memorable golfing journey – via high-quality, easy-to-use reliable tech.
Andy Dymock said: “We will keep working with The Unit as we continue to grow. And with our background in sports betting, we are perfectly positioned to introduce social betting features into an upcoming phase of our launch. This will be one of several new features still to come, so watch this space!”
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Team Heretics integrates Chiliz directly onto its platform, transforms engagement and loyalty

Team Heretics transforms engagement and loyalty by integrating Chiliz infrastructure directly onto its platform
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Team Heretics first partnered with Chiliz to launch a $TH Fan Token on Socios.com in May 2020
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The Spanish esports giant is now advancing its Web3 foothold, by launching a Chiliz Chain powered digital asset wallet in its official store and a loyalty programme powered by Chiliz’s Web3 infrastructure
Team Heretics, the renowned esports club, makes a twofold strategic move towards the future of fan engagement: it becomes the first team in its sector to natively integrate a blockchain wallet into its official store, and alongside this, unveils the launch of a new and ambitious loyalty programme. Chiliz, the leading provider of blockchain solutions for the sports and entertainment industry, powers both developments.
The integration of the blockchain wallet into Team Heretics’ e-commerce platform is a major technical advancement, enabling fans to connect their wallets securely and directly, while managing ownership of their $TH Fan Tokens. This functionality is the cornerstone upon which Team Heretics will build innovative and personalised digital and real-world experiences for those supporters who hold this asset.
Building on this technological foundation, Team Heretics is developing an innovative and dynamic loyalty programme. This programme will utilise the club’s Fan Tokens as the primary vehicle to unlock membership tiers, exclusive rewards, early access to products, special discounts, and new ways to participate and interact with the club. The objective is to go beyond traditional utility and create an ecosystem where fan loyalty and commitment are continuously recognised and rewarded within Heretics’ own universe.
“Together with Chiliz, we’ve been working on finding ways to empower our community by exploring the emerging areas of technology. With this new program, in 2025, we’re taking a leap forward in how we connect with and value our community compared to what we’ve done with Chiliz in the past — evolving the experience so that being a token holder truly grants access to exclusive experiences and a say in certain day-to-day decisions at Team Heretics. We want our fans to feel that being active in the community comes with rewards, and with Chiliz, we’ll keep working on that better than ever,” said Alejandro Marcos, CMO of Team Heretics.
What does this mean for the future of sport?
This twofold announcement underscores Chiliz’s and Team Heretics’ vision for the potential of Web3 in sport and entertainment. Having already dived into this type of engagement by letting their community choose elements such as their Superliga name or the design of their official flag with their Fan Tokens, the wallet integration is now the gateway to deeper engagement, while the loyalty programme is the strategy that capitalises on that connection.
“This integration is much more than a new feature; it’s the manifestation of our vision at Chiliz for the future of fan engagement in Web3,” states Alexandre Dreyfus, CEO of Chiliz. “We are demonstrating how blockchain technology enables clubs, like Team Heretics, to build versatile, multidisciplinary, and direct experiences with their communities, using their own channels.”
The Web3 Advantage: Beyond the traditional model
Fundamentally, Chiliz’s Web3 infrastructure provides the necessary flexibility, security, and autonomy for Fan Tokens to act as genuine digital assets, whose utility can be integrated and exploited to their full potential by each club. This takes fan engagement to a new level of personalisation and control, managed directly by the club, helping them to take the reins of their fan experience and build their own ecosystems.
This initiative with Team Heretics is a clear example of hyper-personalisation, adapting Chiliz’s infrastructure to the club’s specific language and objectives. This sets a precedent that, in the near future, other clubs might follow regardless of whether or not they are digital natives.
An autonomous ecosystem for greater loyalty
With these advancements, Team Heretics and Chiliz – as a pioneering company with collaborations with teams of the calibre of FC Barcelona, Paris Saint-Germain, Atlético de Madrid, Manchester City, Juventus, and Inter Milan, among others – propose a model where blockchain technology serves as a catalyst for a closer, more participatory relationship between the club and its fans.
The foundations are being laid for a future where supporters are not mere spectators, but active participants in the life and development of the club, through loyalty programmes that truly understand and reward their passion.
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Xanada Investments Reveals Strategic Backing of Sweepium, Targeting the U.S. Sweepstakes Landscape

Xanada Investments, a leading ideological investment fund focused on the iGaming sector, has officially revealed its early-stage investment in Sweepium, a breakthrough B2B platform and game aggregator redefining how sweepstakes casino brands launch, operate, and scale in the U.S. market.
The decision to invest in Sweepium was driven by a clear alignment of vision: a bold team building real sweepstakes infrastructure for an underserved and fast-growing segment, while providing a serious competitive advantage to existing platforms.
Purpose-built for the complexities of the U.S. regulatory landscape, Sweepium delivers a fully integrated, turnkey platform that includes a bank-approved payment architecture, CRM, customer support, content management, game aggregation, and promotional tools. Its standout capability — its bank-approved payment system — the first of its kind in the U.S. sweepstakes sector — enabling operators to process transactions with institutional-grade compliance and reliability.
Over the past year, Xanada’s support extended far beyond capital. Acting as strategic advisors and active mentors, the fund worked closely with the Sweepium team to strengthen their operational and go-to-market strategy to accelerate brand onboarding and commercial traction.
Today, Sweepium is live with multiple operators, supports integrations with over 50 game providers, and enables new clients to launch in just 8–10 weeks from contract to first processed payment — a speed and standard unmatched in the space.
“From day one, Sweepium showed both clarity of vision and precision in execution,” said Vladimir Malakchi, CEO & Managing Partner at Xanada Investments. “Our decision to invest was driven not only by the unique positioning of the platform but by the team’s operational discipline and long-term thinking. Over the past year, we’ve worked closely with Sweepium to evolve their business infrastructure, guide strategic decisions, and help unlock market growth — and the results speak for themselves.”
Daniel Mitton, Founder & CEO of Sweepium, commented: “Partnering with Xanada Investments brought more than capital — it brought strategy, structure, and scale. Their team helped us align operations with long-term growth goals, navigate licensing, and open doors commercially. With Xanada’s support, we’ve accelerated our market readiness and laid the groundwork for sustainable expansion.”
As Sweepium enters its next phase of growth, the company is focused on expanding its partner base, deepening product capabilities, and continuing to lead in compliance-first innovation within the U.S. sweepstakes space.
About Xanada Investments
Xanada Investments is an ideological investment fund targeting PreSeed, Seed, and Series A funding rounds for innovative projects and leaders in the iGaming industry. With a focus on long-term success, Xanada is committed to providing not only capital but also strategic guidance and support to help businesses scale quickly and efficiently.
About Sweepium
Sweepium is a B2B platform and game aggregator enabling the launch of sweepstakes casino brands under a white-label model. The company supports over 80 game providers, offers full operational setup, and is the first provider of bank-approved white-label payments for sweepstakes in the U.S. market.
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Hop on the Wealth Bus: N1 Partners heading to iGB Live London 2025

The stand is designed to be more than just a place to visit — it’s a lively lounge where you can grab a drink, chat with the team, and explore real ways to scale your affiliate profits against the backdrop of a bus stop-style design.
N1 Puzzle Promo: Your road to the helicopter prize
N1 Partners is tying the Wealth Bus theme into its N1 PUZZLE Promo — the campaign that’s literally driving our partners toward a brand-new Robinson R22 Beta II helicopter.
Here’s how it works:
- 1 puzzle piece for every 10 FTDs from SEO traffic
- 1 puzzle piece for every 40 FTDs from PPC and ASO
- 1 puzzle piece for every 100 FTDs from FB and other channels (social media, SMS, Email, UAC, In-App)
The more puzzle pieces you collect, the closer you get to taking home the helicopter. And since London is one of the key stops on this journey, N1 Partners will showcase exactly how affiliate traffic can help drive progress toward the prize.
Of course, it’s not just about the final prize. N1 Partners is already running two mini-lotteries (April–July and Sept–Nov) packed with luxury prizes — and everyone wins something. Whether you’re driving PPC, SEO, or social traffic, you can turn volume and speed into puzzle pieces and prizes.
What’s on board at Booth J50
The stand will offer plenty of engaging activities for visitors:
- Bar — visitors can grab a drink and connect with the N1 Partners team.
- Puzzle Collection merch drop — every item gives you +1 puzzle piece in the promo. Plus, each merch owner enters a special giveaway: a custom hoodie, an iPhone 17 Pro Max, and a branded case.
- Plinko-style game — everyone wins! Grab a guaranteed prize right at the booth.
- Meet the N1 Partners team — the team will be on hand to answer questions and show how to boost your current promo results and earnings.
Why meet N1 Partners in London
N1 Partners has been driving affiliate success for over 7 years, with 12+ licensed casino and betting brands and top deals across Tier‑1 markets.
Here’s what the program offers:
- CPA up to €650
- RevShare up to 45% + NNCO
- Hybrid deals
- No shave, no delays, guaranteed payouts
At Booth J50, N1 Partners will be ready to talk about real business — no fluff. If you run SEO, PPC, FB, or any other traffic, we’ll show you how to turn it into bigger profits with our offers.
N1 Partners stands for reliability, honesty, and speed — and we’re always open to new partners who are ready to scale.
Let’s meet in London!
Attendees can visit N1 Partners at Booth J50 during iGB Live London on July 2–3.
Hop on the Wealth Bus, grab exclusive merch (get an extra Puzzle Piece with it) — and discover how to boost your affiliate marketing performance with N1 Partners.
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