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Kirk Morgan, Actua - CFO: It's a great question. We acquired two businesses in small business in 2016; one taxes in the texting area and one in the learning area. As you really see on the slide, I don't know the number of the slide, but really it does a good job illustrating the GovDelivery platform now, where we have learning, we have the GovDelivery messaging system, we have data all key development. And when you think about where we were when we bought the business, acquired the business years ago, really it was just GovDelivery. It does -- GovDelivery messaging platform and now we've added learning and data to it. So, we think - to build out what we think is a very robust platform where we have the ability to cross our - to our customer base and marketing service.
So, I think from a new tuck-in perspective, by and large will be holding 2016 and focused on making sure we've integrated properly and I think we're well on the way there. And more importantly continue to drive cross-sell and up-sells. And we saw real progress in Q4 and that momentum has continued into Q1 and we really we expect that for the rest of this year.
• By Mark Hoover
• Jul 28, 2015
GovDelivery has acquired the Textizen mobile messaging platform as part of the company’s effort to meet increased demand for mobile messaging with government organizations.
Financial terms were not disclosed.
Textizen is a platform that allows the government to reach the public via mobile messaging to promote citizen action, engagement and behavior change.
The acquisition will offer a new level of interactivity to its government customers, GovDelivery said in a release.
Textizen scaled a solution for Code of America’s Incubator program that showed measurable results in public participation, human services and youth outreach.
“The city was looking for ways to engage [those] who wouldn’t typically come to a two hour public meeting,” said Michelle Lee, Textizen co-founder. “It is part of a larger trend where today’s government understands that people want to connect with them but aren’t necessarily able to do it in the traditional channel.”
The two companies were introduced by an executive at the Code for America organization and began a partnership prior to the acquisition, Lee said.
The entire Textizen team will be joining GovDelivery following the acquisition.
“Over the next six months, we’ll be focusing specifically on the Texizen platform. Beyond that, we can see a lot of opportunities for [both entities] in terms of using different channels and different media to connect government and citizens,” Lee told Washington Technology.
washingtontechnology/articles/2015/07/28/govdelivery-textizen-acquisition.aspx
Increased funding and exits — accelerating growth and scale
From early stage funding to completed exit strategies, today’s civic tech companies have more funding opportunities than ever. A growing number of acquisitions are proving that civic tech is a viable field, attracting real interest from investors and entrenched companies.
A prime example of this kind of investment in civic tech comes from GovDelivery, the 15-year-old digital communication platform for government. Recognizing over the last several years the need for more cloud-based, user-centered tools, the company acquired NuCivic and Textizen in an effort to create more points of access between citizens and government.
These types of acquisitions will enable GovDelivery to deploy civic tech that better fits government and citizen needs. And combining forces with civic tech startups is part of a strategy that propelled the company to its strongest year ever in 2015, with 100 million subscribers and an estimated record revenue of $35 million.
techcrunch/2016/02/07/impact-investment-and-demand-three-pillars-for-civic-tech-success/
The government Web traffic provider GovDelivery purchases the Drupal-based open data startup NüCivic to enhance its SaaS offerings.
BY JASON SHUEH / DECEMBER 17, 2014
A new acquisition by the government traffic driver GovDelivery hopes to marry open data with its suite of communication services.
On Dec. 17, the St. Paul, Minn., company GovDelivery announced it acquired the open data platform provider NüCivic — a deal strategized to complement its notification and engagement platform that relies heavily on email, text messaging and social media for its more than 1,000 government clients and network of more than 70 million users worldwide. While financial details were not disclosed, GovDelivery’s CEO and Co-founder Scott Burns said interest stemmed from open data’s rising pull in government and NüCivic’s development expertise in Drupal, an open source website content management system embraced by many city and state departments.
“We were just extraordinarily impressed with Andrew and his team’s vision for taking the use of Drupal to the next level by building powerful applications on top of it that governments could take advantage of for managing open data and collaboration,” Burns said.
Despite the ownership change, NüCivic will keep its leadership and continue services under former CEO Andrew Hoppin. Through the partnership, intentions are to expand the company’s presence in the public sector with NuCivic’s trademark suite of SaaS products, as the company is known for its open data management tools and platforms for app stores and civic hackathons.
Hoppin said the company had initially considered raising capital to grow business independently, but after talks with Burns, it was clear expansion would be quickened with access to GovDelivery’s clients, more than 100 of which have sites already built with Drupal. In addition, he said GovDelivery’s background in procurement made the offer mutually beneficial.
“Growing a big-, significant-scale business in the public sector is hard, it’s a complicated thing, you have to know your way around procurement and you have to know how to deal with the fact governments sometimes take a good long while to pay your bills,” Hoppin said. “GovDelivery has such a phenomenal track record of building a fantastic business and serving governments at scale.”
Burns said another strategic benefit to its citizen engagement services comes through retention. Previously, the functions of GovDelivery were isolated to driving traffic to government websites — such clients including notable organizations such as the IRS, FEMA and U.S. Small Business Administration. Now, through the open data services, the company has an additional measure of control to retain traffic after it arrives.
“After we drive traffic back into a website, we can make sure that experience is really positive and robust and more integrated into what we do,” Burns said.
govtech/products/GovDelivery-Acquires-NuCivic-to-add-open-data-to-its-Engagement-Tools.html
Actua Corporation (ACTA) -NasdaqGS Watchlist
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VelocityEHS Strengthens Its EHS Platform with the Acquisition of Ergonomics Software
February 29, 2016 8:30 AM
GlobeNewswire
CHICAGO, Feb. 29, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VelocityEHS, the leading cloud environmental, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability software provider, announced today that it is adding an ergonomic solution to its comprehensive EHS platform with the acquisition of ErgoAdvocate, a web-based system that empowers employees to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. With musculoskeletal disorders reported as some of the most common and costly work-related injuries, nearly every employer faces risks associated with ergonomic injuries suffered by its staff. The VelocityEHS Ergonomics solution provides expert online assessment and training so businesses can reach more employees at a lower cost than traditional consulting programs and decrease the expenses associated with worker injury.
According to OSHA, the total cost to an employer for just one cumulative trauma injury averages $82,305; additionally the typical Fortune 1,000 Company pays $1.3 million for every 1,000 employees in costs resulting from preventable ergonomics injuries. Ergonomics focuses on mitigating these costs by helping workers lessen muscle fatigue, increase productivity and reduce the number and severity of work-related musculoskeletal injuries. The VelocityEHS Ergonomics solution helps employers of all sizes reduce work related musculoskeletal disorders by identifying problems, providing training, and assisting employees in self-correcting issues.
Autor: Tim Kanning, Redakteur in der Wirtschaft (vorgestern in der FAZ)
Inzwischen gibt es laut der Studie 19 Fintechs in der Welt, die mit einer Milliarde Dollar und mehr bewertet werden und somit zu den sogenannten Einhörnern zählen. Am höchsten bewertet sind zwei chinesische Fintechs, Lu.com mit 10 Milliarden Dollar und Zhong An Insurance mit 8 Milliarden. Den dritten Platz teilen sich mit jeweils 5 Milliarden Dollar die beiden amerikanischen Anbieter Stripe und Social Finance. Letzterer wurde gerade auch in Deutschland bekannt, weil der frühere Deutsche-Bank-Chef Anshu Jain dort als Berater anfängt.
SoFi, an online lender started in 2011, attracted $1 billion (£720 million) of investor money last year, valuing it at more than $4 billion and making it one of the biggest financial technology companies in the world.
It processes about $8 billion in loans a year.
Jain will start as a senior advisor to SoFi, and will likely take a seat on the company's board in the coming months, according to Bloomberg.
Sofi founder Mike Cagney told Business Insider last year the company, which specialises in refinancing student loans, could start a wealth management arm, pushing its valuation beyond $30 billion.
http://www.businessinsider.in/...ech-startup/articleshow/51191223.cms
http://www.wsj.com/articles/...lender-sofi-to-file-for-ipo-1412654408
Wenn man weiß, dass Foliodynamix, in 2015 mindestens 35 Millionen Umsatz geschafft haben dürfte, also etwas mehr als ein Achtel, wurde sich daraus nach Adam Riese ein Wert von 625 Millionen für Foliodynamix ableiten lassen, wenn man 5 Milliarden durch 8 teilt. Immerhin bezahlte Actua vor ca. 18 Monaten auch schon 200 Millionen für Foliodanymix und dürfte inzwischen weit mehr als 50 Millionen wieder abgeschrieben habe - da könnten erhebliche Stille Reserven gebildet worden sein.
Over the past year it has doubled in size to 380 employees and snatched investments that value it at $5 billion, up from $3.5 billion a year earlier. (Recently public Square is worth $4 billion.) Once a U.S.-only service that had to beg for an audience with a bank, Stripe has expanded to 23 countries and is routinely striking partnerships with the likes of Visa V +2.01%, Apple AAPL +1.05% Pay and Alibaba . Facebook FB +1.95%, Twitter TWTR +1.20% and Pinterest have chosen Stripe to power their e-commerce efforts, and traditional retailers like Best Buy BBY -0.70% and Saks Fifth Avenue picked Stripe for their forays into mobile. Slack recently turned over its payments to Stripe after ditching a rival product.
Stripe is private and won’t disclose revenue. While most of its hundreds of thousands of paying customers are relatively small, a handful of its best-known clients–Lyft, Shopify, Kickstarter, Postmates and Wish–process tens of billions in payments combined, much of it through Stripe. Industry sources put Stripe’s payment volume at about $20 billion a year. For every transaction it processes, Stripe in the U.S. gets a swipe fee of 2.9% plus 30 cents, roughly the same as other payment firms such as Square, though large customers get volume discounts. That would peg Stripe’s revenue at more than $450 million. The company says that 27% of Americans will have bought something through Stripe in the past year, a big bump from just 3.8% two years ago. Still, the Collisons
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Einen gewissen Wert, der im zweistelligen Millionenbereich liegen dürfte, hat diese Beteiligung schon.
BOLT® Solutions, Inc. Continues Focus on Powering Insurers with 21st Century Distribution Capabilities, Resulting in Company’s Strong Growth Momentum
NEW YORK (March 08, 2016) – BOLT® Solutions, Inc. (www.boltinc.com), the leading distribution platform to the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, today announced its continued strong growth in all aspects of the business and the industry’s adoption of the BOLT Platform. Ending 2015 with both strong revenue growth and market momentum, BOLT Solutions remains focused on its goal to enable insurers to successfully deliver products and service through the consumer’s channel of choice.
The expanding use of the BOLT Platform over the past two years has been staggering with premium driven through the platform growing from $200,000 to $1.3 billion. The number of users during the same timeframe increased from 1,600 to almost 48,000 today, translating to close to 3,000% growth, with new business sold via the platform increasing 2,000%.
BOLT’s success and market momentum is strong evidence the company’s investment in establishing and driving the digital channels market has been time and money well spent in helping insurers successfully redefine distribution models and best serve today’s consumers and small businesses.
To support the company’s growing market footprint and the business volume flowing through the BOLT Platform, BOLT continued to expand and mature its operation in 2015 with a 20% increase in sales staff and the expansion of the executive team with the addition of Kathleen Garlasco as senior vice president of enterprise marketing. More recently, Scott Van Slyck has joined as executive vice president of enterprise sales. BOLT has also continued its strong investment in the platform, adding new features such as mobile capabilities.
Eric Gewirtzman BOLT® Solutions, Inc. CEO, commented, "In the past two years, we have enjoyed a great growth trajectory at BOLT, but the most gratifying achievement has been seeing the insurance market's strong adoption of the BOLT Platform to offer consumers their preferred purchasing and servicing channels. We are also seeing rapidly increasing market interest in our approach to integrating traditional and digital distribution channels."
Gewirtzman added, "We appreciate the insurance carriers who have chosen BOLT as a trusted partner and look forward to continuing to work with them and future customers to further refine their respective distribution capabilities and market reach."
To support the company’s growing market footprint and the business volume flowing through the BOLT Platform, BOLT continued to expand and mature its operation in 2015 with a 20% increase in sales staff and the expansion of the executive team with the addition of Kathleen Garlasco as senior vice president of enterprise marketing. More recently, Scott Van Slyck has joined as executive vice president of enterprise sales. BOLT has also continued its strong investment in the platform, adding new features such as mobile capabilities.
Eric Gewirtzman BOLT® Solutions, Inc. CEO, commented, "In the past two years, we have enjoyed a great growth trajectory at BOLT, but the most gratifying achievement has been seeing the insurance market's strong adoption of the BOLT Platform to offer consumers their preferred purchasing and servicing channels. We are also seeing rapidly increasing market interest in our approach to integrating traditional and digital distribution channels."
Gewirtzman added, "We appreciate the insurance carriers who have chosen BOLT as a trusted partner and look forward to continuing to work with them and future customers to further refine their respective distribution capabilities and market reach."
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