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Novarica: U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Market Slowly Warming to Online Sales

November 4, 2015

insurance on computer keyboard online distribution online salesFew carriers in the U.S. small commercial insurance market are relying on direct online sales right now. But the number is growing, and it could become quite large within the next five years, Novarica concluded in a new briefing.

The use of direct and online sales started small and went large in the personal lines sector, and Novarica said the same thing is set to happen for the small commercial investment.
 

http://www.carriermanagement.com/news/2015/11/04/147410.htm  

http://finance.yahoo.com/mbview/threadview/...&tls=la%2Cd%2C0%2C3  

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5N PLUS, INC.
SPECIALTY METAL AND CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING

ADVANCED DRAINAGE SYSTEMS, INC.
MANUFACTURING, DRAINAGE SYSTEMS

ALINTA ENERGY
POWER GENERATION

AMCOL INTERNATIONAL
BASIC MATERIALS & MINING

ASHLAND INC.
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING

ATLANTIC POWER CORPORATION
POWER GENERATION

BARNES GROUP INC.
AEROSPACE

BELLATRIX EXPLORATION LTD.
OIL & GAS

BRAMBLES
PALLET & DISTRIBUTION SERVICES

CALFRAC WELL SERVICES LTD.
OIL & GAS

CASTLETON COMMODITIES INTERNATIONAL LLC
OIL & GAS

CITY OF IPSWICH
GOVERNMENT

CLH PIPELINE SYSTEM LTD.
OIL & GAS

COBALT INTERNATIONAL ENERGY, INC.
OIL & GAS

CRESCENT POINT ENERGY CORP.
OIL & GAS

CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS
BIOTECHNOLOGY

THE DAVID J. JOSEPH COMPANY
METAL RECYCLING

DELAWARE NORTH COMPANIES, INC.
HOSPITALITY AND FOOD SERVICE

DRESSER-RAND
EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING

EASTMAN CHEMICAL COMPANY
SPECIALTY CHEMICALS

ELLWOOD GROUP, INC.
SPECIALTY METAL MANUFACTURING

EMBER RESOURCES
OIL & GAS

ENCANA CORPORATION
OIL & GAS

ENERPLUS CORP.
OIL & GAS

EMERSON PROCESS MANAGEMENT
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING

FMC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
OIL & GAS

FORESTAR
OIL & GAS AND REAL ESTATE

FRESENIUS KABI AG
MEDICAL DEVICES

HYDRO ONE BRAMPTON
UTILITIES

INSINKERATOR
MANUFACTURING

IREX CORPORATION
CONSTRUCTION

ISS
FACILITY SERVICES
IXOM
CHEMICAL

JOY GLOBAL INC.
MINING EQUIPMENT

KAL TIRE
TIRE DISTRIBUTION & RETAIL

KONE CORP.
ELEVATORS & ESCALATORS

LIBERTY DIVERSIFIED INTERNATIONAL
MANUFACTURING

LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION (LIFETECH)
BIOTECHNOLOGY

LIGHTSTREAM RESOURCES LTD
OIL & GAS

THE MARTIN-BROWER COMPANY
DISTRIBUTION

MERICHEM
REFINERY SERVICES

THE MERISOL COMPANY
SPECIALTY CHEMICALS

METHANEX CORPORATION
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING

NORDION
BIOTECHNOLOGY
OCI
CHEMICAL MANUFACTURING

THE OIL AND PIPELINES AGENCY
OIL & GAS

OSRAM GMBH.
LIGHTING

OSUM
OIL & GAS

OWENS CORNING

PLAINS ALL AMERICAN PIPELINE, LP
OIL & GAS

PLAINS MIDSTREAM CANADA
OIL & GAS

PRINCESS YACHTS INTERNATIONAL PLC
YACHT MANUFACTURER

QEP RESOURCES, INC.
OIL & GAS

RECALL, INC.
RECORDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES

OCKWOOL GROUP
MANUFACTURING

SIMS GROUP
METAL RECYCLING

SOUTHERN MARYLAND ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE
UTILITIES

STERIGENICS INTERNATIONAL LLC
BIOTECH

TESORO CORPORATION
OIL & GAS

TESTAMERICA LABORATORIES, INC.
ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES

TOROMONT CAT
MACHINERY

TRIMAS CORPORATION
MANUFACTURING

UNITED ENERGY PAKISTAN LTD.
OIL & GAS

UPPER PENINSULA POWER COMPANY
POWER GENERATION

UFA LTD.
RETAIL

THE VALSPAR CORPORATION
PAINT & COATINGS

VIA RAIL CANADA INC.
TRANSPORTATION

VICROADS
TRANSPORTATION/INFRASTRUCTURE

WAJAX CORPORATION
INDUSTRIAL DISTRIBUTION

WATCO COMPANIES, LLC
TRANSPORTATION

WHEELABRATOR TECHNOLOGIES
ENERGY

WPX ENERGY
OIL & GAS

 

Google Compare and the Future of Insurance Distribution: Everything You Need to Know - Tom Hammond, EVP, Insurance Operations at Bolt:

Tom concluded the summit by summarizing the myriad of pressures driving change within the industry and how Bolt is helping Insurers maneuver amid these pressures to provide a better way for consumers to choose and buy insurance. He also discussed Bolt as a Platform for Google Compare that can provide an easy on-ramp to leverage the benefits of this new channel with the least risk. Carriers can expect minimal or no IT involvement, no contract or integration directly with Google, and can retain full control of their flow while knowing exactly who is looking for each of their products. Tom’s portion concluded with a list of important questions carriers should evaluate amid this challenging landscape, including:
1. What are your gaps with distribution changes that have already occurred over the last six months? (Are you enabled to have a broad reach of channels, do you have the people to support these changes, what are end customers asking for, can you always say yes to your customers?)
2. How are you meeting your end customer’s changing product needs?
3. What is the 20% you can do today to get 80% of the impact immediately? And what does this mean for you?
4. How can you accelerate your position in the next 12 to 18 months to gain momentum?
If you are unsure about the answers to any or some of these questions and/or thinking about Google Compare and how you will profit from it, Bolt can help you. Less
 

-Poftfolios

$15 million, November 11

Investors: RTL Group, Anthem Venture Partners, Simon Equity Partners, Third Wave Capital, Wavemaker Partners, and ZenShin Capital

Bio: VideoAmp is a platform built from the ground up to buy, optimize and measure video ads across television, mobile and desktop. Founded by Ross McCray & Dave Gullo in 2014, VideoAmp is headquartered in Santa Monica.

News: Rhys Noelke, RTL's senior vice president of strategy, will join VideoAmp's board of directors. The large European entertainment conglomerate's involvement will assumably boost VideoAmp's global presence  

Anthem Venture owning 5,860,201 shares of Ture Car = by share-price of $9.66 of today a value of $57 million

Shares Beneficially
Owned Prior to the
Offering

Shares Beneficially
Owned After the
Offering

Name of Beneficial Owner

Shares

Percentage

Shares

Percentage


5% Stockholders:


Entities affiliated with United Services Automobile Association(1)
17,065,692 25.19 17,065,692 22.59

Entities affiliated with Capricorn Investment Group(2)
10,082,829 14.88 10,082,829 13.35

Entities affiliated with Upfront Ventures(3)
9,585,332 14.15 9,585,332 12.69

Scott Painter(4)
10,313,426 13.46 10,313,426 12.22

Entities affiliated with Anthem Ventures(5)
5,860,201 8.65 5,860,201 7.76

Vulcan Capital Growth Equity LLC(6)
5,777,441 8.44 5,777,441 7.58
 

Current Opportunities

CLIENT SERVICES

◾Implementation Consultant – SAINT PAUL, MN

◾Digital Engagement Strategist – Washington, D.C

FINANCE

◾Senior Accountant – Saint Paul, MN

GOVLOOP

◾Sales Specialist, GovLoop Media – Washington, D.C.

◾Client Success Specialist – Washington, D.C.

◾Events Coordinator – Washington, D.C.

MARKETING

◾Marketing Communications Fellow – Saint Paul, MN

◾Product Marketing Manager – SAINT PAUL, MN

◾Market Development Strategist (Federal) – Washington, D.C.

SALES

◾Sales and Marketing Assistant – Washington, D.C.

◾Manager, Lead Generation – Washington, D.C.

◾Sales Operations Specialist – SAINT PAUL, MN

◾Vice President, State and Local Government Sales – Washington, D.C., New York City, Sacramento, or Austin

◾Client Solutions Executive – Washington, D.C.

◾Sales Engineer – Washington, DC

◾Territory Representative, State and Local Government - Eastern US – Eastern US

◾Federal Account Manager – WASHINGTON, DC

TECHNOLOGY

◾Quality Assurance Engineer – SAINT PAUL, MN

◾Software Engineer – Saint Paul, MN; San Francisco, CA; New Jersey
 

More than 40 million revenues in 2015 and now 360 employees - By 8-times-revenues like the cloud-competitor Salesforce, which has as a lower growth-rate than the 37% of Velocity, alone this one of for core-companies would have a value of 320 Million -together with 80 Million cash more than the complete market-cap of Local Corp of today.

Revenue has increased about 35 percent annually in recent years and was more than $32 million in 2014, CEO Trout said. He declined to provide estimated 2015 revenue.

chicagobusiness/realestate/...art-space-to-velocityehs

But we know the growth-rate of revenues from last presentation – and the result will be revenues of more than 40 million in 2016:

VelocityEHS: Revenue Growth: 34% in Q3 2015 compared to Q3 2014 (Note: MSDSonline rebranded to VelocityEHS in September 2015)

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
 

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/28/...-more-valuable-in-the-enterprise/  

"However, with the advent of the SaaS model, the tables have turned. Focusing on niche verticals or specific functional areas may be one of the most successful strategies of the enterprise cloud software era. While there are still a few providers for whom the “all-things-to-all-people” approach is quite successful (Microsoft, Oracle), the vast majority of successful cloud solution providers have struck gold by picking one thing and doing it extremely well. Mass customization by vertical or functional slice with a purpose-built solution that meets your customer’s unique needs is becoming the new key to success in the software industry."  

http://finance.yahoo.com/mbview/threadview/...amp;tls=la%2Cd%2C4%2C3#  

8:55 am ET
May 6, 2015

Deborah Gage

MkII Ventures Focusing on Layer, Raising Fund to Back Layer Apps

By
Deborah Gage
 
MkII Ventures, a micro-VC firm founded by San Francisco investor Ron Palmeri, has decided to focus on a single portfolio company, Layer Inc., and is raising a fund through AngelList to invest in Layer apps.

Ron Palmeri
Mr. Palmeri has become chief executive of Layer, which lets developers add messaging functions to any app, and the Layer Fund so far has $500,000 committed by Bloomberg Beta along with undisclosed commitments from several other investors.

“It’s like what Amazon did with CPUs and disks and (Amazon Web Services)–you can deliver communications or messaging as a service,” Mr. Palmeri said. “Messaging is becoming the predominant interaction model, and it’s a pretty safe commentary on how apps are going.”

Mr. Palmeri launched MkII Ventures toward the end of 2010 after he helped dismantle his previous firm, Minor Ventures, which was forced to shut down after its founder and limited partner, Halsey Minor, became financially over-extended.

Mr. Palmeri bankrolled MkII Ventures himself at first and then raised an evergreen fund of about $10 million from investors including Pacific Partners, SV Angel and Michael Arrington’s Crunchfund.

The plan was to create one or two technology companies a year, working with a team and a concept, and imagining products, he told Dow Jones VentureWire in 2013, but Layer has enough promise that MkII Ventures is now focused solely on building the one company, he said.

Layer raised a $14.5 million Series A round last year and has a partnership with the photo storage and sharing site Photobucket.com Inc. But the company’s messaging infrastructure could be used by any app developer, Mr. Palmeri said, and Layer envisions developers “who want to control their own destiny” creating their own messaging networks, which can include chat, voice and video.

The Layer Fund is a way to give small teams of developers access to capital, perhaps $50,000 or $100,000, “at a key point in the company’s growth,” Mr. Palmeri said.

MkII Ventures Partner Allison Messner, who also heads communications at Layer, will be managing the Layer Fund and helping Layer developer teams with communication and marketing, she said. Developers are invited to apply for funding, and those who are selected can participate in demo day that is scheduled for June 24.

Bloomberg Beta head Roy Bahat, whose firm has invested in MkII Ventures, the Layer Fund and Layer, said Bloomberg backs the strategy.

Founder-led studios like MkII Ventures may have a plan to create multiple things, he said, “but if one ends up as a potential unicorn, you lean into that thing. Part of the game is knowing when to abandon the playbook and pursue the opportunity to be unique. That’s what all startups are about.”

Other investors in the Layer Fund include Anthem Venture Partners, Data Collective, Crunchfund, Promus Ventures, SV Angel and entrepreneur Jean Pigozzi.
 

Layer is an Anthem Venture-company
06/05/15


MkII Ventures, a micro-VC firm founded by San Francisco investor Ron Palmeri, has decided to focus on a single portfolio company, Layer Inc., and is raising a fund through AngelList to invest in Layer apps.

Mr. Palmeri has become chief executive of Layer, which lets developers add messaging functions to any app, and the Layer Fund so far has $500,000 committed by Bloomberg Beta along with undisclosed commitments from several other investors.

“It’s like what Amazon did with CPUs and disks and (Amazon Web Services)–you can deliver communications or messaging as a service,” Mr. Palmeri said. “Messaging is becoming the predominant interaction model, and it’s a pretty safe commentary on how apps are going.”

Mr. Palmeri launched MkII Ventures toward the end of 2010 after he helped dismantle his previous firm, Minor Ventures, which was forced to shut down after its founder, Halsey Minor, became financially over-extended.

Mr. Palmeri bankrolled MkII Ventures himself at first and then raised an evergreen fund of about $10 million from investors including Pacific Partners, SV Angel and Michael Arrington’s Crunchfund.

The plan was to create one or two technology companies a year, working with a team and a concept, and imagining products, he told Dow Jones VentureWire in 2013, but Layer has enough promise that MkII Ventures is now focused solely on building the one company, he said.

Layer raised a $14.5 million Series A round last year and has a partnership with the photo storage and sharing site Photobucket. But the company’s messaging infrastructure could be used by any app developer, Mr. Palmeri said, and Layer envisions developers “who want to control their own destiny” creating their own messaging networks, which can include chat, voice and video.

The Layer Fund is a way to give small teams of developers access to capital, perhaps $50,000 or $100,000, “at a key point in the company’s growth,”  

Janrain makes it easy to know your customers and personalize every interaction. Our Customer Identity Management Platform helps companies build a unified view of their customers across all devices by collecting accurate customer profile data to power personalized marketing. The platform encompasses social login, registration, customer profile data storage, customer insights, single sign-on, and engagement. Janrain powers customer identity management for brands like Pfizer, AMC, Samsung, Whole Foods, Fox News, Philips, Marvel, Mattel and Dr. Pepper.

Founded in 2005, Janrain is based in Portland, Oregon, with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, and Redwood City, California.  

from 134 million in 2015 after my estimates.

This is a growth-rate of 30% - after my estimate 23% organic growth and 7% growth from small tuck-in-aquisitions.
 

only 2.45-times-reveues.

 

LAS VEGAS, NV – June 8, 2015 - From the IASA Annual Educational Conference and Business Show, BOLT Solutions, Inc. (www.boltinc.com), provider of the leading online sales and client support platform to the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, today announced its “Bolt Google Connect” program for insurers interested in participating in Google Compare.  The new program is designed to enable insurers to quickly and easily participate in Google Compare with minimal cost, no risk, and no long-term commitment.

Since the introduction of Google Compare Auto Insurance (google.com/compare/autoinsurance) many in the insurance industry have become interested in evaluating Google Compare as a possible new distribution option.   By leveraging the Bolt Platform, insurers are able to participate in Google Compare and determine how best it may fit into their product and distribution strategy.  With no long-term contract and with minimal cost or risk, insurers can properly assess the efficacy of this new and important distribution opportunity.

Commenting on the new program, Bolt’s Executive Vice President of sales and marketing, Tim Attia said, “Google Compare is a great example of how the insurance industry continues to transform distribution to address changing consumer behavior. Working with Google and our carrier partners, we believe we have designed the optimum opportunity with our Bolt Google Connect for carriers to participate in Google Compare while controlling flow and appetite. By providing an on-ramp that minimizes the risk, cost and time associated with joining Google Compare, we can help our interested carrier partners gain access to and evaluate this critical new development in insurance distribution.”
 

Now 2.34-times-revenues and 80 Million cash.  

Interset provides a highly intelligent and accurate insider and targeted outsider threat detection solution that unlocks the power of behavioral analytics, machine learning and big data to provide the fastest, most flexible and affordable way for IT teams of all sizes to protect their intellectual property and sensitive data. Utilizing agentless data collectors, lightweight endpoint sensors, advanced behavioral analytics and an intuitive user interface, Interset provides unparalleled visibility to threats and attacks across the enterprise, enabling early attack detection and actionable forensic intelligence without false positives or white noise. Interset solutions are deployed to protect critical data across the manufacturing, life sciences, hi-tech, finance, government, aerospace & defense and securities brokerage industries. For more information, visit www.interset.com

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wo Actua 9% hält:

http://anthemvp.com/anthem_company/
 

a lot of shares shares yesterday and didn't sleep like often in the past by the repurchase of shares.