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This is a brief list of companies that we have investment or other interests in at this time
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TGRiese & Associates helps make brands work better. For over 15 years Tracey Riese has personally directed teams to work with client boards and senior management to:
- Define a clear and compelling brand position
- Communicate brand messages consistently and convincingly
- Align people and practices with brand position
- Establish the company's leadership as the voice and face of the brand
- Put brand strategy into action
www.tgriese.com |
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urban living interiors provides an end-to-end designer service to homeowners and property development and management companies: designing, developing and installing everything from individual pieces of furniture to the furnishing requirements of complete homes
urban living furniture provides designer furniture and furnishings direct to the homeowner at unbeatable prices.
www.urbanlivingfurniture.co.uk |
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eWise is a global provider of innovative electronic payment and personal financial management solutions that benefit banks and their customers. It offers banks entirely new revenue streams and increased loyalty from customers who now have a faster, easier way to make secure payments and manage their finances online from their bank accounts. eWise has two product offerings:
- PayWithMyBank (www.paywithmybank.com) in the US allows any consumer to pay on a merchant or biller's website directly from their bank account by entering their bank account login and password - no card details to enter, no new account to create, no sensitive personal information communicated to third parties. Merchants, charities, government bodies and billers receive low cost payments with guarenteed good funds.
- eWise Money Manager (www.ewisemoneymanager.com) supports some of the world's top financial institutions with branded personal financial management and account aggregation platforms for their online banking customers. The industry leading solution, eWise Money Manager boasts low impact, risk free integration and implementation.
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Zopa is the worlds first person-to-person social lending site,where people meet to lend and borrow money. In doing so:
- Lenders get great returns
- Borrowers get low cost loans
- No banks get in the way
www.zopa.com |
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Parago is a leading US promotional services company. Driven by integrity, service, leadership and innovation, Parago has
become one of the fastest growing companies in the Prepaid Card market providing end to end solutions to clients in :
- Rebates:
- Incentives:
- Channel incentives
- Employee/Sales incentives
- Promotions:
- Gift Card
- Purchase Promotions
www.parago.com |
6. Pursway |
Pursway is a deep data analytics company enabling targeted, scalable and measurable word-of-mouth marketing programs that increase marketing return on investment. Pursway’s PIVO index ranks key influencers who influence others to try, buy, use and develop loyalty to products and services. Like a FICO score indicates an individual’s credit worthiness, a PIVO score indicates the influence an individual has on others, with different PIVO scores for different topics reflecting different levels of influence a single individual has on restaurants, financial services, automotive, electronics or other purchase and loyalty decisions of others.
www.pursway.com |
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Relay provides a comprehensive end to end text messaging platform and solution set, allowing enterprises to create a dialogue with their customers on a device that is always on their person -their mobile phone - using text, the mode that is increasingly the preferred and most relevant, timely and responsive communication form for many. Relay allows consumers to positively opt-in, to ensure that the messages they receive are both important to them and from valid and approved service providers and ensures that all regulatory requirements for text communication are met.
www.relaynetwork.com |
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Opera Solutions is a global management consulting firm using data and analytics to deliver rapid, sustained profit growth to the world’s premier companies. With a global talent pool, Opera uses advanced data structuring capabilities and higher-order analytics to unleash the power of a client's data reserves. This, coupled with a commitment to end-to-end execution and change management captures the profit benefits and sustains them over time. Areas of specialization:
- Procurement Optimization:
- Goods and Services
- People
- Credit and Risk Optimization
- New Customer optimization
- Credit management
- Collections management
- Customer Life Time Value optimization:
- New Customer acquisition
- Customer loyalty
- Customer service
- Cross-sell
- Pricing
www.operasolutions.com |
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China Risk Finance is a major provider of Person-to-Person Lending Services in China, operating:
- A major Wealth Management Network allowing wealthy consumers to invest their funds at high rates of return.
- Multi-city person-to-person sales forces generating and servicing credit worthy consumers who need short, medium or longer term loans at competitive rates
- A best-in-class risk management operation ensuring that loans are approved and priced in a way that meets the needs of lenders, investors and shareholders.
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Appsolute Media develops and supports interactive Web, iPhone and TV applications that engage and entertain consumers and business clients, providing corporations, among other things:
- End-to-end website development services
- iPhone applications
- Games and quizzes
www.appsolutemedia.com |
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YourGrocer is an online grocery warehouse providing delivery of popular grocery, household and office supply items at incredible prices to residences and small businesses in the greater New York area.
www.yourgrocer.com |
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NextJump is the premier provider of personalized consumer-based rewards and loyalty programs targeting customers, employees and members with outstanding, and frequently outrageous financial benefits in ways that meet the needs of partner Merchants, Corporations and Institutions worldwide.
www.nextjump.com |
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PayOff.com is a place where people can come to fund their dreams. PayOff allows people to understand their full financial position today and everyday; establish a "dream" and set a series of financial goals and milestones to achieve that dream; learn and develop strategies to better manage their money; use a series of tools, products and services provided by partners and special awards to fund the dream; and to share the dream with others.
www.payoff.com |
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Shanghai Harvest Network Technology
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Shanghai Harvest Network Technology is the leading distributor and technology innovator of mobile pre-paid cards in China. Harvest currently operates in Shanghai, Guangdong, and Shandong and distributes pre-paid cards for China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom.
www.harvestnetwork.net |
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