Kursverdoppelung bei Actua Corporation (vorm. Internet Capital)

Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act by a vote of 403-12 - A seamless electronic chemical management solution can be a powerful tool for doing this

25 May House Passes Sweeping Chemical Bill Revising TSCA Regulation of Asbestos, BPA, More

Posted at 14:45h in Blog, EHS News by skenemore

As reported in the New York Times late yesterday, the U.S. House has approved the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act by a vote of 403-12. The bill is poised to require an unprecedented analysis of many hazardous chemicals to determine their safety and environmental impacts. It would set new exposure standards for asbestos, styrene, formaldehyde, BPA, and other widely-used chemicals that have not seen adjustment to their regulation since the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act.

The Act also speaks to the ability of states to regulate chemicals with standards that go above and beyond federal rules. Under the Act, state chemical regulations in place on or before April 22, 2016 would not be able to be overridden by a federal law. Further, the Act also allows states to continue to develop their own regulations concurrent to the development of new federal rules.

The legislation is expected to be swiftly approved by the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Obama. According to some sources, this could happen as soon as next week.

For EHS professionals preparing for the changes this bill would surely bring, a great first step can be to review your use of hazardous chemicals, and revisit the feasibility of replacing them with safer options or eliminating them entirely. A seamless electronic chemical management solution can be a powerful tool for doing this, allowing businesses to easily visualize exactly what chemicals they have, and in what quantities and locations, and easily search for less-hazardous chemicals that may be acceptable replacements for more dangerous ones.

Quelle: VelocityEHS
 

sollte die Überschrift im letzten Posting sein.  

http://www.statista.com/statistics/477702/...vendor-revenue-forecast/  

http://wealthmanagement.com/business-planning/...tform-and-beat-robos  

Ultimately, independent advisors who focus on capturing lower account balance client relationships among millennials, as well as the "Main Street America" segment of the retail financial advice marketplace, on a cost-scalable basis and fee-based context, will not only survive — They'll find that their best days are yet to come.  

The future of the TAMP wealth management model couldn’t be brighter
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The future of the TAMP wealth management model couldn’t be brighter. TAMPs reflect everything that will move the advisory profession forward; they are the true “win-win-win” solution.

The client benefits as they get better investment solutions. They will come to understand that, by using the TAMP model, their advisor is taking the long-term, holistic approach to managing their wealth. The wealth management firm gains through a standardized and in¬tegrated approach that lowers liability exposure and costs. The ad¬visor now wins because he or she sits on the same side of the table with the client, picking the best managers for the client’s specific situation.

stateofthemarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/americas_best_ta­mps_2015.pdf
 

http://stateofthemarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/...est_tamps_2015.pdf

Die Zahlen für den Marktführer Envestnet und Foliodynamix sehen hier wesentlich schlechter aus als in meinen anderen geposteten Darstellungen. ich vermute, dass das mit unterschiedlichen Marktabgrenzungen zusammenhängt.

Dass ich den Erwerb von Foliodynamix für 200 Millionen skeptisch gesehen habe, habe ich ja in vielen Postings dargelegt, obwohl ich mir inzwischen nicht ganz sicher bin, ob ich mich da auf lange Sicht nicht geirrt haben könnte. Absoluter Unsinn ist meines Erachtens aber, dass Actua dafür mit wesentlich mehr als diesen 200 Millionen abgestraft wurde, obwohl beispielsweise VelocityEHS und Govdleivery hervorragend laufen und sich auch bnei Bolt die Lage gebessert hat.  

"Twilio is not profitable — the company reported a loss of $35.5 million on $166.9 million in revenue for the full year last year. This compares with a loss of $26.8 million on $88.8 million in revenue for the year before. In the first quarter of this year, Twilio lost $6.5 million on $59.3 million in revenue."

Quelle. tech-crunch  

Durchklicken:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/will-twilio-ipo-reopen-tech-window/


Und wäre nach Eurer Meinung vergleichsweise Actua wert, wenn Twillio auf eine Marktkapitalisierung von einer Milliarde käme?  

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

http://www.capterra.com/ehs-management-software/  

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/...m-venture-partners#/entity  

. VideoAmp

$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
 

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

StackIQ Raises $6M

San Diego-based StackIQ, which develops IT automation tools for the enterprise, has raised $6M in a Series B funding round, according to the company. The new funding came from Grayhawk Capital, Keshif Ventures, DLA Piper, and OurCrowd, as well as Anthem Venture Partners and Avalon Ventures. The company said the new funding will go toward scaling sales and marketing. StackIQ develops IT automation software for deploying big data and cloud applications on Hadoop. The company is led by Tim McIntire.
 

Steve Dunlap, president and COO of FolioDynamix, noted, "Our team of research professionals worked closely with hand-picked investment managers to put the most optimal, innovative solution in place for Voya Financial Advisors

Voya Financial Launches Wealth Portfolios Product, Expanding Advisory Program

WINDSOR, Conn., May 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Voya Financial, Inc. (VOYA), announced today that its retail broker-dealer and registered investment advisor Voya Financial Advisors, Inc., has launched the Voya Wealth Portfolios product, the latest addition to its suite of turnkey offerings available on the firm's WealthSolutions wealth management platform. As a result of this new advisory-focused solution, financial advisors affiliated with Voya Financial Advisors now have access to leading fund families and the ability to provide a best-in-class team approach to constructing investment portfolios. This strategy is focused on finding the right asset allocation mix to match a client's individual financial needs and risk tolerance.

The Voya Wealth Portfolios product supports the firm's ongoing commitment to strengthen its advisory business, which grew by 30 percent during 2015. The new offering also provides an opportunity for advisors to deliver holistic support that can help clients get ready to retire better by planning, investing and protecting their savings. This reinforces Voya's efforts to further expand its advisory business.

"The introduction of Voya Wealth Portfolios provides an added opportunity for our advisors to focus on what matters most — deepening client relationships, building holistic financial plans and running their businesses," said Tom Halloran, president of Voya Financial Advisors. "As a leading broker-dealer and investment advisor in the industry, it's important that we arm our advisors with the right solutions to help their clients plan and feel confident about their future. In doing this, we are also positioning ourselves to be successful in the new regulatory environment while supporting our vision to be America's Retirement Company™.

Quelle: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...hes-wealth-portfolios-133000317.html

 

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Voya Financial, Inc. (VOYA), helps Americans plan, invest and protect their savings — to get ready to retire better. Serving the financial needs of approximately 13 million individual and institutional customers in the United States, Voya is a Fortune 500 company that had $11 billion in revenue in 2015. The company had $458 billion in total assets under management and administration as of March 31, 2016. With a clear mission to make a secure financial future possible — one person, one family, one institution at a time — Voya's vision is to be America's Retirement Company™. The company is equally committed to conducting business in a way that is socially, environmentally, economically and ethically responsible — Voya has been recognized as one of the 2016 World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute, and as one of the Top Green Companies in the U.S., by Newsweek magazine.  

Engaging Tomorrow's Customer - Don't Leave it to Change

May 25, 2016

Customer_of_Tomorrow.jpgIn the present market, meeting customer expectations can seem like a roll of the dice, but the continuous evolution of today’s consumer isn’t happening by chance. Retail giants are setting customer expectations and the insurance industry’s typically steady approach has left them lagging behind and unable to immediately meet the standards being created by new market entrants.

In an effort to win customer favor today, insurers are driving toward digital distribution, but to keep up and excel, it’s equally important to have a sense for the customer of tomorrow. So how does an insurer already behind in the roulette of customer expectations position themselves for the future? With the right digital distribution platform, success is a good bet

Quelle: Bolt
 

Softbank versilbert Alibaba-Anteile

Der japanische Mobilfunkkonzern SoftBank will sich von Aktien des chinesischen Online-Händlers Alibaba im Wert von mindestens 7,9 Milliarden Dollar trennen. Nach der Veräußerung wird Softbank noch mit rund 28 Prozent an Alibaba beteiligt und einer der größten Eigner sein.
 

VelocityEHS is the largest and fastest growing EHS software provider with a comprehensive cloud-based EHS management software platform
VelocityEHS Takes Top Honors in ISHN Readers’ Choice Awards
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CHICAGO, June 01, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- VelocityEHS, the leading cloud environment, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability software provider, today announced it was awarded top honors in two categories in the Industrial Safety & Hygiene News (ISHN) 2016 Readers’ Choice Awards. Readers selected the VelocityEHS software platform, which includes a comprehensive suite of easy-to-use EHS products, as the winner in the EHS Management Software category, while the company’s MSDSonline brand HQ/HQ RegXR MSDS/chemical inventory product won the top spot in the MSDS Management category.

In 2015, two EHS industry SaaS software leaders, MSDSonline and KMI, joined forces and formed VelocityEHS, a new kind of software company that is making enterprise-level EHS management functionality accessible and affordable to businesses of all sizes. Today, VelocityEHS is the largest and fastest growing EHS software provider with a comprehensive cloud-based EHS management software platform that helps businesses solve complex EHS business challenges in simple ways.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...takes-top-honors-ishn-123000823.html  

Velocity is ready for a 400 million-IPO in 2017 or a sale in 2016 or 2017

I believe, that revenues of 75 million in 2017 are realistic numbers. That are by 5-times-revenues, which are lower than by competitors, a valuation of 325 million - higher than the complete market-cap of Actua today.

Revenues of VelocityEHS in 2016 will reach about 65 million

"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

And we know the growth-rate of revenues of 36% in 2015 from last presentation – and the result will be revenues of about 43.5 million in 2015. And by the same growth-rate in 2016 = 59.1 Million (without smaller aquisations).

The Year 2015 for VelocityEHS (from last presentation) - Important Metrics
• Revenue Growth: 36% for 2015 compared to 2014
• New Signings: Added 2,200 customers; More than 11,500 companies, representing over half of the Fortune 1000: 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 more than 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  

Versteht sich Actua noch als Inkubator, der Unternehmen nach einem Erreichen einer Entwicklungsstufe verkauft?

Oder ist man ausschließlich Cloud-Plattform-Betreiber in diversen Nischen, der beim Betrieb unterschiedlicher Nischen-Plattformen auf Synergieeffekte setzt?  

Salesforce Agrees to Buy Demandware for $2.8B – That are about 10-times-revenues

Demandware, Inc. (DWRE)
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Income Statement
Quarterly Data
All numbers in thousands
Period Ending Mar 31, 2016 Dec 31, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 Jun 30, 2015
Total Revenue 67,080 75,563 57,582 53,858
Cost of Revenue 20,559 19,239 16,896 16,287
Gross Profit 46,521 56,324 40,686 37,571

Operating Expenses
Research Development 19,075 18,030 17,125 16,504
Selling General and Administrative 39,044 37,915 35,292 41,217

Operating Income or Loss (11,598) 379 (11,731) (20,150)
 

If the 160 million revenues of Acuta were valued like Demandware, the market-cap of Actua must be 1.6 billion = $43/share  

FolioDynamix Releases 8.0, Focused on the Advisor Experience

New user interface enhances advisory productivity as a part of one of the industry’s most powerful end-to-end wealth management solutions

. NEW YORK, June 02, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FolioDynamix, a leading provider of wealth management technology and advisory services, has announced the launch of FolioDynamix 8.0. The new FolioDynamix 8.0 features clean, easy-to-navigate screens, accessible from a central dashboard with a system of alerts and triggers that allows advisors to harness powerful trading and rebalancing tools.

“In building and launching 8.0, our approach was to look at the solution from an advisor’s perspective,” says Jonathan Ferrara, head of product management at FolioDynamix. “We wanted to package the powerful technology that is the foundation of our platform into an advisor experience focused on efficiency and improved transparency. The result is that advisors can quickly review key information, make investment decisions, and ultimately, have more time to meet with clients.”

Source: Actua
 

für 2016 aus dem letzten Guidance verteilen könnten:

VelocityEHS = 65 Million

Govdelivery = 45 Million

Foliodynamic = 35 Million

Bolt = 15 Million