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Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Wheelwell Named Finalist at 2019 Red Herring Top 100 North America

Wheelwell has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring's Top 100 North America award, one of the technology industry's most prestigious prizes awarded to disruptive startups on a rapid growth trajectory. Finalists for the award are among the continent's brightest and most innovative private ventures.

Wheelwell's place among North America's tech elite was chosen by Red Herring's editorial team during a months-long process that evaluated the company using more than 20 criteria, including disruptive impact, proof of concept, financial performance, market footprint, and quality of management.

"We are delighted to have been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring Top 100 North American award, and to be recognized as an innovative business at a time when innovation is intrinsically linked to investor value," said Wheelwell CEO Peter J. Nielsen. "Backed by some of the top social-commerce investors, Wheelwell is building a fast track into a $117 billion market by applying advanced technology to become a node for connecting car enthusiasts with community, expertise, and products."

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"Selecting finalists for this year's Top 100 has proved more difficult than ever," said Alex Vieux, publisher and chairman of Red Herring. "North America has been tech's beating heart for years, but never have I seen such an exciting, disruptive and innovative generation as we have in 2019."

For over two decades, Red Herring's team has seen through the tech sector's hype to select brands that have become industry benchmarks. Previous Top 100 finalists have included Alibaba, Facebook, Google, Skype, SuperCell, Spotify, Twitter, and YouTube. Click here to read the latest news.

The Top 100 North America has become not only a springboard for some of tech's biggest names, but a valued and trusted tool for the venture capitalists, experts and analysts who predict trends at the industry's sharpest edge.

"Wheelwell fully deserves its place among our finalists, and I've every confidence it will make a significant impact in the tech world," added Vieux.

Finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Top 100 North America conference in Pasadena, May 13-15, 2019. The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony on the evening of May 15 at the event.

About Wheelwell
Wheelwell is the first and largest social commerce company for the automotive market. Venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco, the Wheelwell team consists of former employees of Apple, eBay, Nextdoor, Twitter, AutoAnything, MotorTrend, and Volvo — all united on a mission to help car enthusiasts easily find and buy the very best products for their cars. For more information, visit wheelwell.com.

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ETA Makes it Easy to Find Technical Training

ETA® International recently added a new page to its website that features various industry training partners to help job seekers and those wishing to advance in their electronics-related careers. With the new Training Provider page on the ETA website, prospective students and young professionals will be able to find the industry training they need to get started in electronics-related industries and to help seasoned professionals add additional skills and credentials towards attaining their career aspirations.

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ETA tests and certifies thousands of technicians and industry specialists each year with over 90 accredited and industry-recognized certifications. Students and young professionals look to ETA for guidance in finding expert training and selecting the appropriate provider. ETA makes this training information readily accessible in an easy-to-read format that is searchable by ETA certification program areas, including:

With over 10,000 unique visitors to the ETA website each month, imagine the increased exposure training providers can have for absolutely free! ETA's website reaches individuals who are looking for additional training to help them fulfill their career goals. To add a company or school training provider listing for free, please send ETA your logo, a 100-word training description, and a website link. If the school or training provider is already ETA-approved and has had its curriculum reviewed by industry subject matter experts, ETA will include that information as well.

ETA's website audience is comprised of students and young professionals in the electronics and related industries who are searching for training to get started in lucrative careers available in electronics-related industries or reach their advanced career goals. Premium packages are also available to training providers who want to increase their exposure. An ETA banner ad will help attract them to find those services. Banner ads cost only $300 for one month, $250 each for three months, or only $200 each for six months. To upgrade a school or company training provider services listing, please call ETA at 800-288-3824 or email at eta(at)eta-i(dot)org.

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About ETA – Since 1978, ETA has delivered over 200,000 certification examinations successfully. Widely recognized and frequently used in worker job selection, hiring processes, pay increases, and advancements, ETA certifications are often required as companies bid on contracts. ETA's certifications are personal and travel with the individual, regardless of employment or status change and measure competencies of persons, not products or vendors. All ETA certifications are accredited through the International Certification Accreditation Council (ICAC) and align with the ISO-17024 standard. http://www.eta-i.org

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Monday, May 13, 2019

KittySensations, The Young Start-up Designing and Manufacturing Handmade Accessories for Cat Lovers Around the World

KittySensations is a young start-up designing and manufacturing handmade accessories for cat lovers around the world.

The idea for their feline pieces came from their founder who was barely able to see her cat in a past job. To feel closer to her sweetheart while being away, the founder designed and manufactured her first cat necklace herself. The sense of identity and joy she got from the piece led to the idea of making these accessories for other cat owners as well. Based on initial feedback from friends and relatives, the first few jewellery pieces were picked for the website launch in 2017.

Since then, KittySensations has gradually expanded their inventory, now offering feline bracelets, rings, earrings and keychains in addition to necklaces. A major milestone was the introduction of a personalized collection in 2018, which allows the customers to engrave a personal message or image on a piece of their choice. This way, the recipient receives an entirely unique piece featuring what is most important to her.

Carefully made by hand with experienced craftmanship, each and every Kittysensations piece comes with a 10-year product warranty. Some of their products, mainly the personalized ones, take up to five days to make and go through several quality checks to make sure they are absolutely perfect when they arrive. Gently packed and sent out from multiple production centres all over the world, the cat accessories are then on their way to one of over 2000 happy customers.

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At the foundation of KittySensations' values lies the mission to create something meaningful for people who love and appreciate cats. Every member of the company is devoted to fulfilling this mission in hopes of gifting cat people something they will cherish for a lifetime.

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Lightbox Announces Acquisitions Of Real Capital Markets And Digital Map Products

Advancing its mission to empower decision makers through every step of the real estate workflow, LightBox today announced the acquisition of two leading companies.

RCM and DMP join LightBox, a company whose objective is to provide real estate professionals with greater transparency, efficiency and insight at every decision point. LightBox was formed in 2018 when technology investment firms Silver Lake and Battery Ventures acquired EDR, the leading provider of environmental due diligence information. The EDR, Collateral360 and RIMS platforms are workflow software solutions for due diligence, appraisals and compliance. With RCM and DMP, LightBox adds important marketplace and location intelligence capabilities to its integrated set of solutions.

"We are very excited to add the new capabilities and talented teams from RCM and DMP to LightBox. We believe with the right intelligence, workflow software, industry data and analytics, the real estate decision-making process can be exponentially improved," said Eric Frank, Chief Executive Officer of LightBox. "We're partnering with our clients to connect key segments of the ecosystem – banks, brokers, environmental firms, land developers, builders, appraisers, buyers and more – to the right real estate technology, tools, information and to each other."

Steve Shanahan, Executive Managing Director of RCM, added, "LightBox is the ideal platform for RCM's clients and employees, as we continue to invest aggressively in the breadth and depth of our solutions. LightBox's experience and relationships with various constituencies across the real estate technology landscape will only accelerate our strategy and product roadmap."

Jim Skurzynski, Founder and CEO of DMP, commented, "We know from our long history of collaboration with EDR, a respected LightBox brand, that joining LightBox is a terrific opportunity to take DMP to the next level for clients and employees. As part of LightBox, DMP's cloud-based location intelligence solutions like LandVision and our SpatialStream web service/API will play even more important roles in the real estate marketplace and beyond."

LightBox CEO Eric Frank concluded, "Through significant organic investment and acquisitions, we're combining respected brands, innovative technologies and meaningful industry data to serve a blue-chip real estate client base. We'll continue to evaluate future opportunities that will help us expand our ability to deliver much needed transparency, efficiency and insights for our clients."

Terms of the transactions were not disclosed. DMP was backed by Silversmith Capital Partners, a Boston-based growth equity firm.

RCM was represented by investment bank GCA. DMP was represented by Raymond James & Associates. The RCM transaction has already closed. DMP is expected to close in the coming weeks, subject to certain customary conditions.

About LightBox
LightBox is a leading provider of due diligence, risk management, location intelligence, marketing and workflow solutions that enable decision making for 50,000 CRE brokers, 1,100 banks and lenders, 2,000 appraisal firms, and 5,000 environmental consulting and engineering firms, with more than $470 million in services awarded and almost 28 years serving the CRE lending industry. By combining proven brands with new core business capabilities, the company is creating new solutions to facilitate transparency, efficiency and insight for real estate. Established in 2018 and backed by Silver Lake and Battery Ventures, the company's brands now include EDR, RIMS, Collateral 360, Real Capital Markets and Digital Map Products. Learn more at http://www.lightboxre.com.

About Real Capital Markets
Real Capital Markets (RCM) is the global marketplace for buying and selling CRE. RCM increases the speed, exposure, and security of CRE sales through its streamlined online platform. Solutions include integrated property marketing, transaction management, and business intelligence tools to unify broker-level and firm-level data and work flows. RCM has executed over 65,000 assignments with total consideration in excess of $2.3 trillion. Approximately 50% of all U.S. commercial assets sold, over $10 million, are brought to market using RCM's online marketplace annually. Learn more at http://www.rcm1.com.

About Digital Map Products
Digital Map Products (DMP), based in Irvine, Calif., is a leading provider of cloud-based location intelligence solutions helping more than 350,000 business and government users across North America to make confident, data-driven decisions. DMP's Location Intelligence Platform offers map-based real estate applications including LandVision™, API access to mapping technology and location data via SpatialStream,® U.S. nationwide parcel and property data via SmartParcels®, and Canadian address points through CanMap®, all supported by a professional services team offering consulting and GIS data services. Today, the company's location intelligence platform is used by four out of the six top real estate websites, four out of the top five commercial brokerage firms, all 10 of the top home builder brands, more than 200 government agencies, and four of the largest gas and electric utility companies. DMP serves a global customer base with offices in the United States and Canada. For more information, visit http://www.digmap.com.

About Silver Lake
Silver Lake is the global leader in technology investing, with over $43 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital and a team of approximately 100 investment and value creation professionals located in Silicon Valley, New York, London and Hong Kong. Silver Lake's portfolio of investments collectively generates more than $210 billion of revenue annually and employs 370,000 people globally. For more information about Silver Lake and its entire portfolio, please visit http://www.silverlake.com.

About Battery Ventures
Battery strives to invest in cutting-edge, category-defining businesses in markets including software and services, Web infrastructure, consumer Internet, mobile and industrial technologies. Founded in 1983, the firm backs companies at stages ranging from seed to private equity and invests globally from offices in Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, London, Israel and New York. Follow the firm on Twitter @BatteryVentures, visit our website at http://www.battery.com and find a full list of Battery's portfolio companies here.

About C-III Capital Partners LLC
C-III Capital Partners LLC is a leading real estate investment management and commercial property services company engaged in a broad range of activities. C-III and its subsidiaries manage approximately $9.3 billion in funds and structured product vehicles that focus on commercial real estate equity and debt investments. As one of the largest special servicers of commercial mortgage backed securities in the U.S., C-III utilizes its real estate expertise to resolve defaulted CMBS loans and has resolved $52.7 billion since inception. In addition, since its founding in 2010, C-III has originated $10.6 billion in commercial mortgages. Through U.S. Residential, its wholly-owned subsidiary, C-III manages over 20,000 multifamily units nationwide. With the NAI Global brand also owned by C-III, the company's member firms have more than 375 offices worldwide, with over 7,000 professionals, with annual transaction volume over $20 billion. C-III is headquartered in Irving, TX, and has additional offices in New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Greenville, SC, and Nashville, TN.

About Silversmith Capital Partners
Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $1.1 billion of capital under management. Silversmith's mission is to partner with and support the best entrepreneurs in growing profitable technology and healthcare companies. The firm seeks to invest $15 million to $75 million per company. Representative investments include ActiveCampaign, Centauri Health Solutions, Digital Map Products, Impact, LifeStance Health, MediQuant, Nordic Consulting Partners, and Validity. The partners have over six decades of collective investing experience and have served on the boards of numerous successful growth companies including Ability Network, Dealer.com, Liazon, Liberty Dialysis, MedHOK, Net Health, Passport Health, SurveyMonkey, and Yapstone. For more information, visit http://www.silversmithcapital.com.

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Author Offers Glimpse into Future of Artificial Intelligence in Suspenseful, Humorous Sci-Fi Story

Longtime writer Deanna Sparrow has published her exciting, futuristic science fiction book that speculates on the forthcoming nature of artificial intelligence and its applications within families and society and explores how behaviors are learned and passed on from parents to children – and, yet more interestingly, to robots.

"The Thinkers" is set in the very near future and unfurls the quirky tale of Winthrop, a family bot who has mirrored the behaviors of those around him and manifested himself into an intelligent, comical and often intolerable character. Johnathan, a 15-year-old robotics prodigy, is asked to fix Winthrop's unsightly "bugs" before the robot is forced to be retired from the home and family he has cherished and loved for years.

Programmed to be a progressive thinker, Winthrop feels that his only solution is to run away from home in search of the answer to his seemingly volatile emotional experiences. Ultimately, Johnathan's mettle is put to the test, and he must utilize his extensive skills, parents' fully stocked robotics lab and lessons he's learned from church, the Bible and his faith to repair Winthrop.

"I wrote this book to start our young people thinking about their future and encourage them to plant that seed of curiosity within their parents, too," Sparrow said. "It is crucial that we become selective about how much of our lives are dependent upon artificial intelligence, and this book is kind of a cautionary tale about that – albeit, an entertaining one."

"The Thinkers"
By Deanna Sparrow
ISBN: 978-1-5245-5399-9 (softcover); 978-1-5245-5398-2 (e-book)
Available through Xlibris, Barnes & Noble and Amazon

About the author
Deanna Sparrow has wanted to be a writer since the third grade. After settling down with her family, horses and beloved pets in her 30s, Sparrow pursued her writing goals by taking a course with the Institute of Children's Literature, which provided her with the tools needed to create, edit and publish a 12-page newspaper for 25 years at her place of work. Today, most of her creative writing ventures originate from her dreams. Sparrow is a South Jersey native, and she currently resides in Vineland, N.J. To learn more, please visit http://www.deannasparrow.com.

A Conservative Evangelical Response to Progressive Christianity

With his extensive background in theology, Dan Jensen offers the conservative Evangelical community a no-nonsense assessment of the growing and aggressive progressive Christian movement in his book "A False Kind of Christianity."

The book is primarily written for lay conservative evangelicals and especially for American conservative evangelical pastors who are not scholars. Jensen provides two chapters of personal testimony, a short overview of the history behind the progressive Christian movement, and a summary of the teachings of the movement. Be alert to the latest news.

"I am convinced that the church is on the precipice of a far greater controversy that took place with the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy during the early 20th century," said Jensen. "I was inspired to write this book after many years of debating with progressive Christians in many different venues and from seeing the havoc that they are beginning to wreak."

"A False Kind of Christianity" supports the conclusion that the progressive Christian is lacking a biblical foundation. Jensen makes it clear why this movement must be countered by conservative Evangelicals.

"A False Kind of Christianity: A Conservative Evangelical Refutation of Progressive Christianity"
By Dan Jensen
ISBN: 9781512785159 (softcover); 9781512785142 (hardcover); 9781512785135 (eBook)
Available at the WestBow Press Online Bookstore, Amazon and Barnes & Noble

About the author
Dan Jensen graduated from Bethany College with a BA in Social Science and a minor in Biblical/Theological Studies. He later earned his first master's degree from Reformed Theological Seminary and a Th.M. in Systematic Theology from the University of Aberdeen. Until very recently, Jensen was heavily involved in ministry work and, for a period during this time, was an ordained minister with the Evangelical Church Alliance. He labored in ministry work for around 16 years before deciding to focus on his calling as a theologian. Jensen currently resides in St. George, Utah with his four children. To learn more, please visit http://www.dan-j-jensen.com.

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American IRA Discusses Investing in Mobile Home Parks with a Self-Directed IRA

With the freedom afforded to investors with a Self-Directed IRA, a number of different assets can be included in a retirement portfolio. But one investment type that not many retirement investors consider, according to a recent post at American IRA: a mobile home park.

"You may never have thought about investing in mobile home parks," writes the post, published at American IRA's site at http://www.AmericanIRA.com. But it points out that the Self-Directed IRA can be a powerful tool for diversifying a portfolio into alternative assets such as real estate. An investment in a mobile home park would mean separating some retirement money out of the traditional investments of funds and in the stock market, which adds another layer of security with the right investment.

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According to the article, the advances of a mobile home park investment include low cost to purchase, high demand for mobile homes, and the high potential for profits. The article also notes that these parks have a high cap rate, at roughly 7-12%.

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"The goal with this piece was to introduce people to the idea of a different asset," said Jim Hitt, CEO of American IRA. "Not only are mobile home parks an interesting opportunity for any investor, but for someone using a Self-Directed IRA, the possibility of using a retirement account for this type of investment can be intriguing for a number of reasons, including tax benefits."

The post went on to list additional reasons that mobile home parks can be valuable income-generators, including loyal tenants and low overall turnover in multi-family properties. And with low maintenance costs, such an investment would not be a drain on the pocketbook.

"People hear the term 'mobile home park' and they have too many assumptions already," said Jim Hitt. "But if you are open-minded to a wide variety of assets and asset classes, as those with a Self-Directed IRA generally are, then it opens up a whole new world of investment possibilities."

For more information about investing in a Self-Directed IRA, visit the blog at http://www.AmericanIRA.com as well as additional guides available on the site. For more information about American IRA, call 866-7500-IRA.

"About:
American IRA, LLC was established in 2004 by Jim Hitt, CEO in Asheville, NC.
The mission of American IRA is to provide the highest level of customer service in the self-directed retirement industry. Jim Hitt and his team have grown the company to over $400 million in assets under administration by educating the public that their Self-Directed IRA account can invest in a variety of assets such as real estate, private lending, limited liability companies, precious metals and much more.

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As a Self-Directed IRA administrator, they are a neutral third party. They do not make any recommendations to any person or entity associated with investments of any type (including financial representatives, investment promoters or companies, or employees, agents or representatives associated with these firms). They are not responsible for and are not bound by any statements, representations, warranties or agreements made by any such person or entity and do not provide any recommendation on the quality profitability or reputability of any investment, individual or company. The term "they" refers to American IRA, located in Asheville and Charlotte, NC."