Kursverdoppelung bei Actua Corporation (vorm. Internet Capital)

GovDelivery Just Hit 100 Million Users. Here's How.

Nov 18, 2015 Tania Anderson, Bisnow DC

GovDelivery's annual revenue is growing at an clip of 20% to 40%, and it just reached 100 million users. Who knew government information could be so compelling?


                                                                                                                                                                         The St. Paul, MN-based company’s software is used by over 1,000 state, local, federal and international governments to send text, email and social media blasts to its citizens on everything from which streets have been plowed to the latest toy recalls. CMO Steve Ressler (above) says hitting 100 million users is significant given that it’s government information and hovering around the same amount of people who use Pinterest.


 

https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/tech/...million-users-52574  

"CMO Steve Ressler (above) says hitting 100 million users is significant given that it’s government information and hovering around the same amount of people who use Pinterest."  

the share-price must $24.75

Slalesforce has by 50 Billion market-cap and estimated 6.65 Billion revenuues about 7.5-times-revenues. If the estimated 134 million revenues of Actua were valued with 7.5-times-revenues, the market-cap of Actua must be 1,007 Million = $24.75/share,

Both companies has similar growth of revenues.
 

Wachstumsmäßig halt da Actua mit:

http://www.it-times.de/news/...-24-prozent-ausblick-angehoben-114435/  

One of the four core-companies of Actua = Govdelivery: Revenue Growth = 29% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014

Digital communications and marketing platform that enables public sector organizations to effectively reach
citizens and drive action

Important metrics:*
• • New Signings: Closed 63 new deals in Q3 2015; new signings
included six large program opportunities and more than 20 upsells
(learning, texting, open data solutions)
• Total Customers: Serving 1,000+ federal, state, local and UK
government agencies reaching over 90 million citizen subscribers
• Pipeline: 15% higher than at the end of Q3 2014
• TAM: $1 billion
• Competitive Moat: 90+ million citizen subscribers create a network
effect, significantly expanding reach and audience for each customer
• Operating cash flow positive for 2015
• Annual subscription revenue model
* As of 9/30/15 unless otherwise noted


One of the four core-companies of Actua = Bolt: Revenue Growth = 16% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014 and significantly improved operating losses in Q3

Provides a multi-channel, multi-carrier software platform that enables insurance distributors to retain and grow revenue through a comprehensive insurance solution

Important metrics:*
• Revenue Growth: 16% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014
• New Signings: Closed one new customer in Q3 (previously announced in
Q2) and saw continued roll-out and broader utilization of the platform with
all three of its largest customers
• Carriers on Platform: 77
• Total Customers: Three top ten carriers, Citizens Insurance (State of
Florida), 2,100 independent agents, four alternative distribution partners
• Pipeline: 12 potential deals are in the pipeline, three of which are in the
final contracting stages
• TAM: Multi-billion $$
• Added an additional $150 million of premiums on the platform, bringing the
total premiums to $1.3 billion at quarter-end
• Competitive Moat: Platform is integrated into 77 of the largest insurance
carriers and has 3,600 carrier connections which creates the largest source
of insurance flow for direct carriers, agents, agencies and alternative
insurance distributors
• • Multi-year/multi-million dollar contracts
* As of 9/30/15 unless otherwise noted Less


One of the four core-companies of Actua = Foliodynamix: Revenue Growth 15% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014 and a Multi-billion $$ Total Addressing Market

Enables the delivery of client-centric, innovative, scalable,
wealth management solutions through secure, cloud-based,
fully integrated, advisory products and services
Important Metrics:*
• Revenue Growth: 15% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014
• New Signings: Signed five new customers in Q3, and one subsequent to
quarter end, deals were a mix of small-to-medium size (five and six-figures
annually); a large seven-figure a year RIA platform. These additions bring the
total number of new deals signed in 2015 to 22.
• Total Customers: More than 200 banks, brokerage firms and large RIAs
• Pipeline: Continued to build in terms of quantity and velocity through pipeline;
seeing strong interest from banking, broker dealer and RIA markets
• TAM:• Competitive Moat: Comprehensive, client-centric technology platform with
integrated proprietary advisory products
• Operating cash flow positive for 2015
• Multi-year/multi-million dollar contracts
• More than 97,000 advisors and users
• $4.4 billion in regulatory assets under management
*As of 9/30/15 unless otherwise noted Le Less


One of the four core-companies of Actua = VelocityEHS: Revenue Growth: 34% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014

Environmental, Health and Safety compliance platform
that enables organizations to meet stringent
and costly OSHA requirements
Important Metrics:*
• Revenue Growth: 34% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014
• New Signings: Added 577 new customers in Q3 2015, KMI added
14 new customers in Q3 (same number signed in first half of 2015)
• Total Customers: More than 11,000 companies; protecting more
than 8 million employees in U.S. and Canada
• Pipeline: Growth is slightly ahead of revenue growth and is skewed
towards large platform customers; seeing significant pipeline
momentum across the board, with cross-sell team seeing increased
activity
• TAM: $3 billion
• Competitive Moat: Database of almost 9 million material safety data
sheets is a comprehensive web-based library that ensures 100%
compliance for companies and continues to expand as new
customers come onto the platform
• Operating cash flow positive for 2015
• 3-year subscription revenue model
* As of 9/30/15 unless otherwise noted
Note: MSDSonline rebranded to VelocityEHS in September 2015

Quelle: actua.com

 

letzten Monaten jedenfalls nicht nachvollziehen.  

Bolt
Bolt offers a cloud-based platform that, through its unique product and technology connectivity, is changing the way insurance is sold. The platform provides:
• large commercial and personal property and casualty insurance carrier-agencies with a means to enable all of their captive agents to meet the needs of
their customers by giving them instant access to a wide range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products from a variety of
other prominent carriers;
• independent commercial and personal property and casualty insurance agents with a means to meet the needs of their customers by giving them instant
access to a wide range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products from a variety of prominent carriers;
• non-traditional sellers of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products with a means to meet the needs of their customers by
giving them instant access to a cloud-based distribution network and a wide range of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products
from a variety of prominent carriers; and
• commercial and personal property and casualty insurance carriers with a variety of additional distribution channels that foster a richer flow of business
across their commercial and personal property and casualty insurance product lines.
Bolt is able to provide its platform-subscriber customers and partners, which include large insurance carrier-agencies, independent insurance agents and other
insurance-based organizations, with access to a wide array of commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products through its agency appointments
from various prominent insurance carriers. Any loss by Bolt of one or more of these agency appointments or one or more of its large platform customers would
have a negative impact on Bolt’s business, financial results and condition, but Bolt does not have any agency appointment or customer the loss of which would
have a materially adverse financial impact on our vertical cloud business as a whole. Bolt’s platform customers pay both subscription and transaction-based fees
(commissions) for use of its platform; the insurance carriers whose products are sold on the platform pay Bolt on a commissions basis for products sold. Bolt sells
the periodic (usually multi-year) platform subscriptions to its customers and establishes and manages its carrier agency relationships directly through its internal
sales team. In addition to the revenue Bolt derives from providing access to its platform, Bolt also operates as an independent insurance agency and sells
commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products directly to consumers online through its platform; those sales represent a relatively small
percentage of Bolt’s business.
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The insurance intermediary business is highly competitive, and numerous firms, some of which have substantially greater financial and other resources, name
recognition and market presence than Bolt, actively compete with Bolt for customers and insurance markets. Competition in the insurance business is largely based
on innovation, quality of service and price. A number of insurance companies directly sell insurance, primarily to individuals, and do not pay commissions to thirdparty
agents and brokers. In addition, the cloud has increasingly become a source for the direct placement of personal business lines. We believe that Bolt’s unique
platform and the product and technology connectivity that it offers allows Bolt to compete in the insurance market. During the nine months ended September 30,
2015, Bolt spent approximately $3.5 million on research and development activities.
As of September 30, 2015 , Bolt had 202 employees, six of whom were part-time employees.
 

VelocityEHS
VelocityEHS offers an integrated platform of cloud-based solutions that help companies manage a variety of global environmental, health and safety regulatory
compliance requirements. VelocityEHS’ products and services help businesses create safer work environments by identifying, managing and reducing potential
workplace and environmental hazards that save time, lower costs and reduce the risk and liability associated with meeting compliance (particularly U.S.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)) requirements.
VelocityEHS’ customers, which include large and mid-market North American businesses in a wide variety of industries (including healthcare, manufacturing,
education, construction, hospitality and technology, among many others), access the company’s applications through the cloud on a periodic (usually multi-year)
subscription basis; VelocityEHS sells the periodic subscriptions directly to its customers through its internal sales team.
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VelocityEHS’ principal products are currently its HQ Account and HQ RegXR Account applications. Both of these cloud-based applications provide customers
with the ability to track, manage and report on the hazardous chemicals contained in their workplaces, with the HQ RegXR application containing additional
regulatory reporting functionality. Specifically, the applications provide businesses with:
• 24/7 access to the industry’s leading database of chemical safety data sheets, which ensures that their safety data sheet libraries are complete, up-todate
and OSHA-compliant;
• user-friendly tools that enable compliance with a variety of hazard communication requirements, such as chemical labeling, safe chemical handling
and more (with the HQ RegXR Account application featuring a sophisticated regulatory cross-referencing engine);
• robust chemical management tools, including chemical mapping features, which significantly increase control over the location, status and risks
associated with the chemicals at their facilities;
• mobile-enabled functionality and chemical inventory scanning technology, which allow on-the-spot access to chemical inventory information via
mobile devices; and
• quick ROI and low cost of ownership, as they eliminate time-consuming, manual administrative tasks.
VelocityEHS offers a number of customer services to support its HQ Account and HQ RegXR Account applications, such as customer training, safety data sheet
authoring and compiling/indexing of customers’ online safety data sheet libraries; those services are sold to customers on a project fee basis.
Additionally, in part through its acquisition of KMI, VelocityEHS offers a comprehensive suite of cloud-based EH&S tools that allow customers to gain visibility
into, and control risk at, their companies in the areas of incident management, audit and inspection training, compliance management, risk analysis, greenhouse gas
reporting and sustainability metrics and reporting.
VelocityEHS has close to 11,100 customers; 75% are platform customers, and none of which accounts for a material portion of the company’s annual revenues.
The market for EH&S software is fragmented and competitive. When selling its applications and services to large organizations, VelocityEHS faces competition
from both large horizontal/multi-industry software companies that offer EH&S modules and smaller software companies focused solely on EH&S markets; some
of these software companies provide cloud-based software solutions, while others offer only traditional, on-premise software solutions. In the large enterprise
EH&S market, VelocityEHS often competes with incumbent vendors, many of which have more name recognition and financial and other resources than
VelocityEHS. In the mid-market, VelocityEHS competes sometimes with smaller software companies but more often with home-grown (often manual/offline)
solutions that current and prospective customers may develop. We believe that VelocityEHS’ unparalleled proprietary database, which contains over 8.8 million
safety data sheets, along with its cloud-based, EH&S-focused technology, its sales and marketing expertise and its deep EH&S and regulatory domain knowledge,
provides VelocityEHS with a strong competitive position relative to both large and small companies offering competing EH&S software solutions. During the nine
months ended September 30, 2015, VelocityEHS spent approximately $4.4 million on research and development initiatives.
As of September 30, 2015 , VelocityEHS had 322 employees, three of whom were part-time employees.
 

As of the date of this Report, the following businesses are included in our vertical cloud (venture) segment:

InstaMed Holdings, Inc. (“InstaMed”)
InstaMed operates a cloud-based healthcare payments network focused exclusively on healthcare providers, payers and patients. With its bank partners, InstaMed
moves billions of dollars and information on its single, integrated network, connecting thousands of hospitals, practices and payers, and millions of patients for
business. InstaMed’s innovative private cloud technology transforms the healthcare payment process by delivering new levels of payment assurance, simplicity,
convenience and cost savings to the healthcare industry.

Parchment Inc. (“Parchment”)
Parchment is a leader in education credentials technology, allowing learners, educators and employers to collect, analyze, use and share credentials in simple and
secure ways. Parchment’s cloud-based software offering is a transcript exchange and intelligence platform that enables the secure, rapid exchange of electronic
transcripts and other student records among schools, universities, state education agencies and individuals. Through parchment.com, students can research colleges
and discover their chances of admission, see how they compare with peers, get college recommendations and send official transcripts when they are ready to apply.  

http://www.instamed.com/  

Spezialgebiete

healthcare payments network, healthcare revenue cycle management, clearinghouse transactions, payment processing, patient payments, ERA / EFT, identity verification, eligibility, patient portal, claims settlement, healthcare gateway

Branche

Krankenhaus & Gesundheitsbereich


Unternehmensgröße

51-200 Mitarbeiter

 

InstaMed stands out as an operator of a single proprietary network that can handle both healthcare and payment transactions. Reinforcing this unique attribute is InstaMed’s compliance to both PCI and EHNAC standards.

- Bank Technology News – Red Gillen, Celent

The ability to use the InstaMed Go app with our mobile devices has helped us to significantly increase front office collections by accepting payments at all points of patient interaction. Instead of asking a patient to go to another desk to pay, staff can collect payments using iPads during bedside discharge. Since patients have more places and opportunities to pay, we are collecting more payments during patient visits and ensuring the patient responsibility is paid. Additionally, the ability to access payment information and reporting tools from my iPad is wonderful because I’m constantly traveling between our various locations – regardless of where I am, I can check the balance for the day or access real-time reports.

- Debby Essex, Director of Admissions, Aspen Valley Hospital

Quelle: #6561  



 

Unternehmen:

http://www.parchment.com/  

laut Linkedin größer als ich früher vermutet habe:


Parchment is the leader in education credentials technology, allowing learners, educators and employers to collect, analyze and share credentials in simple and secure ways. More than 3 million people and 8,300 schools and universities have used Parchment to exchange more than 13 million transcripts and other credentials online. Founded in 2003, Parchment Inc. is headquartered in Scottsdale, AZ, with offices in Roseville, CA, Denver, CO, Grand Rapids, MI and Washington, DC.



Spezialgebiete

Credential Management, Software as a Service (SaaS), Education Technology, Higher Education eTranscript Exchange, K12 eTranscript Exchange

Webseite

http://www.parchment.com


Branche

Computer-Software


Typ

In Privatbesitz


Hauptsitz

6263 North Scottsdale Road Suite 330 Scottsdale, AZ 85250 Vereinigte Staaten


Unternehmensgröße

51-200 Mitarbeiter


Gründungsdatum

2003

 

This is the time of year when college rankings proliferate to capture the attention of a new crop of high-school seniors searching for the right campus. In recent months, I’ve written about two fairly new entrants to the rankings game that are worth checking out for their unique methodology, Money magazine and LinkedIn.

Now another set of rankings has arrived this month that approaches the question of where to go to college based on the choices real students make: which institutions do students pick when they have been accepted to more than one institution?

These rankings come from Parchment, which processes transcripts for high-school students applying to college. It analyzed more than 150,000 admissions acceptances that some 86,000 seniors from the Class of 2015 received from 700 colleges and universities. The company then assigned points to institutions based on the decisions students made when they had a choice among multiple colleges.
 

http://www.parchment.com/blog/...ry-member-network-in-north-carolina/  

Dollar Umsatz - allerdings wissen wir nicht, wie hoch der Anteil von Actua ist, zunubdest habe ich da noch nie ein konkrete Prozentzahl gefunden.

InstaMed of Philadelphia powers a single, integrated network in its private cloud that processes tens of billions of dollars in payments and other transactions for more than 200,000 health care providers nationwide. InstaMed supports health care clearinghouse, eligibility, estimation, patient and payer payment and patient billing transactions, which enables payers to disburse payments at a lower cost with fewer incidents of fraud, and gives patients a simple, convenient and secure way to pay. Company revenues grew from $3.8 million in 2009 to more than $10 million in 2011, or 167 percent.

http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/...ia-100-no-32-instamed.html  

lieber gewesen als der Kauf von Folidynamix:

http://www.greensheet.com/emagazine.php?issue_number=150502  

The ability of consumers to pay their medical bills using mobile devices is a win-win for patients and providers. Mobile devices and apps give consumers unprecedented flexibility and convenience to transact business while on the go.

Should the mobile payments market remain fragmented, healthcare organizations and payment services providers will either have to accommodate numerous platforms or select one, as InstaMed did last April when it announced it would add support for Apple Pay. In 2011, mobile payments made up 2 percent of InstaMed’s payments from consumers. In 2015, close to 20 percent of all consumer payments were coming from a mobile device.


http://www.revenuecycleinsights.com/news/...ents-seeing-strong-growth  

Officials at colleges that have made the switch said digital transcripts are cheaper and more efficient than paper versions. Those savings can benefit both students and institutions.

“This is a revolution in the way we do things,” said Tammi Coble, the registrar at Cateret Community College, which is located in Morehead City, North Carolina.

Cateret recently signed on with Parchment. The company handles student requests for transcripts as well as their distribution. The college paid for an initial contract with Parchment but does not pay a recurring fee to the company. And Coble and her colleagues no longer have to touch transcripts or track down students to bill them for the documents.

Student accounts with Parchment are free. And they can stack all their credentials with the company’s transcript exchange.

Parchment charges institutions for the outsourced transcript processing. And students typically pay a small amount -- ranging from $3 to $10 -- to institutions to have digital transcripts distributed, printed and mailed. Colleges often use that revenue to help offset the Parchment fee.

“We do not determine if and how much an institution charges the students, though our fee to them may influence what they decide to charge students,” a spokeswoman for the company said via email. “There is always a cost associated with processing a transcript, whether paper or electronic. And all institutions manage those costs differently.”

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/01/21/...naged-outside-firms
 

November 23rd, 2015

OSHA Increases Fines for the First Time in 25 Years

The following blog post was originally published by Actua company, VelocityEHS (formerly MSDSonline). The post looks at a new act that will significantly increase fines for OSHA violations by no later than August 1, 2016. While the exact timing of this new law is unknown, one thing is clear: keeping workplaces safe is more important than ever to OSHA and solutions like those provided by VelocityEHS are helping companies stay compliant as regulations become increasingly more onerous.

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With an amendment to the new budget signed into law earlier this month by President Obama, OSHA is poised to make up for lost time in its ability to level fines that will punish and deter violators. A provision in the new budget called the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 will allow OSHA to increase the current maximum limit for fines by about 80%, and to then annually increase the limit on fines to keep pace with inflation. This move seems designed to compensate for the “freeze” on financial penalty increases that had been in place for the last 25 years. (OSHA had previously been limited by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 which prevented it from increasing penalties.)

According to the act, the new fine increases must take place by August 1 of next year, though they can be implemented sooner if OSHA chooses.

The new act does include a potential exception to the increases, noting that OSHA is allowed to forego following the enhanced financial guidelines if “increasing the civil monetary penalty by the otherwise required amount will have a negative economic impact [on America]” or “the social costs of increasing the civil monetary penalty by the otherwise required amount outweigh the benefits.” Obviously, this language will give OSHA considerable latitude to apply these fines as they see fit.

With recent pushback against OSHA’s attempts to strengthen everything from enforcement protocols on joint-employer worksites to PELs for silica dust, the approval of this massive increase in penalties comes as a surprise to some. The Wall Street Journal went as far as to hint that legislators may not have even been aware of the new act, calling it “little-noticed” and reporting that many in the industry “were caught by surprise by the new mandate.” Others characterized the legislation a “Trojan horse” snuck into the budget.

Source: actua.com
 

BOLT Solutions Continues to Strengthen Sales Team in Response to Market Demand for the BOLT Platform

Insurance industry veterans Shannon Helms and Warren Gardner join as managing directors of sales

NEW YORK, NY – November 24, 2015 – BOLT Solutions, Inc. provider of the leading online distribution and customer support platform to the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, today announced the addition of Shannon Helms and Warren Gardner to the company’s sales management team. Both seasoned insurance industry veterans, Helms and Gardner join as managing directors of sales reporting to Eric Gewirtzman, CEO. These key additions to the sales team will enable BOLT to continue its rapid response to the growing market demand for the BOLT Platform and the industry’s increasing appetite for direct distribution solutions.

Quelle: actua.com
 

her ist:

Remember: Blackboard was an excellent Investment of Internet Capital (now Actua).  

New Alliance between SunGard K-12 Education and Parchment Helps Schools Securely Transmit Electronic Academic Credentials
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Website ImageLeading software and technical services provider, SunGard K-12 Education, has selected Parchment as its premier provider for the transmission of electronic academic credentials, including transcripts. This new alliance will allow the almost 1,400 public school districts and charter schools using SunGard K-12’s eSchoolPLUS student information system to gain peace of mind as they help their students securely share key academic achievements with community colleges, four-year public and private colleges and universities, trade schools, and employers.

SunGard K-12 Education’s eSchoolPLUS, an industry-recognized solution for managing student data, helps educational stakeholders—students, school administrators, district staff, teachers, parents, and board members—easily manage and immediately access the summary and detailed student information they need, when they need it. At a time when schools and districts are being asked to share increasing amounts of data, eSchoolPLUS, which is built on a solid foundation of reliable and advanced technology, helps make organizing and disseminating information simple.

A high school transcript marks the first in a series of academic credentials students earn over the course of their lives. Leveraging this hard-earned credential to access future opportunities, including a postsecondary education or a career, can create significant value. The ability to send this credential safely and securely through an electronic medium is how students expect the transaction to occur.