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VIDEO – Marble $MRBL.ca $MRBLF Financial #Fintech App Uses Artificial Intelligence To Nurse Canadians Finances Back To Health $MOS.ca $MOGO.ca $CTZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 6:16 PM on Monday, February 15th, 2021

Almost everybody reading this knows about and even uses wearables for their physical health and wellness. From Apple Watch to FitBit, these wearables monitor everything from physical activity to heart rates and even sleep patterns to determine if you are living a healthy lifestyle and recommend how to achieve one. They monitor, analyze and recommend your best course of action. 

Marble Financial $MRBL $MRBLF does the exact same thing for your financial health and wellness. $MRBL is a Fintech company utilizing the power of Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Machine Learning to help Canadians manage and improve their financial wellness. Make no mistake about it, $MRBL isn’t a glorified credit score service. It is an ingenious platform that tells you: 

  • When to pay bills (not just the due date)
  • How much to pay (not just the minimum)
  • Which debts to prioritize
  • … and so much more

MyMarble is so good that it was selected as 1of 5 finalists for the Consumer Lending Platform of the Year Category at the Canadian Lenders Association 2020 Leaders in Lending Awards, presented by BMO. 

THE RESULT?

An incredible ROI (Return On Investment) for MyMarbl users who increase their credit score in months, leading to better interest rates on their credit cards, car loans or mortgages – resulting in HUGE savings for the rest of their lives.

Moreover, for those in SERIOUS financial health distress, use of MyMarbl for just a few months can mean the difference in even getting a loan in the first place. 

Finally, MyMarbl is even a great tool for those who have good credit but have room enough to improve and save serious money on their credit instruments.

HOW BIG OF A PROBLEM IS THIS?

It is a serious problem that #COVID19 has only made worse:

  • 50% Of Canadians Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck
  • For Every $1 of income, carrying $1.71 in debt

Clearly, Canadians are in serious need of financial health and wellness. Unfortunately, the worse your financial condition, the less likely you’re going to get professional financial guidance from professionals who focus on the other 50% of the market. $MRBL couldn’t be coming along at a better time for Canadians – and soon to be for Americans with $MRBL announcing plans to be in the United States this year.

GREAT BUSINESS MODEL

What investors will really like about the $MRBL business model is that it has 2 powerful elements:

  • Business To Consumer (B2C) – This is an obvious one given the nature of the product.  $MRBL provides consumers with a freemium model (free model with good tools; paid model $29.99/month for the full suite)
  • Business To Business (B2B) – This isn’t an obvious one but it is ingenious because financial professionals and institutions lose opportunities when a customer doesn’t have adequate credit.  Rather than losing the customer, putting them on MyMarbl helps rehabilitate a rejected customer’s credit and turns them into a full customer months later  

This overview is only the tip of the iceberg about Marble Financial, a disruptive technology company using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to improve the financial health and wellness of people who need it the most.

Watch this great interview with CEO Karim Nanji to learn everything you need to know about $MRBL and where it is going.

@Novamind_Inc $NM.ca Weekly Roundup $RVV.ca $MMED $PSYC.ca $FTRP.ca $CMPS $NUMI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:39 AM on Saturday, February 13th, 2021

A weekly summary of Novamind news and media

FEATURES February 7, 2021

Novamind’s Dr. Reid Robison on Building a Network for Psychedelic Medicine

With years of experience studying and administering ketamine, Dr. Robison discusses psychedelic infrastructure and the change it can create

FEATURES February 7, 2021

Therapy with Substance

There are millions of people who have been diagnosed with a mental health issue that are resistant to the current range of available treatments.

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Novamind Announces Strategic Investment in Bionomics to Support PTSD Clinical Trial

February 11, 2021

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Novamind is a leading mental health company enabling safe access to psychedelic medicine through a network of clinics, retreats, and clinical research sites. Novamind provides ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and other novel treatments through its network of Cedar Psychiatry clinics and operates Cedar Clinical Research, a contract research organization specialized in clinical trials and evidence-based research for psychedelic medicine. Both Cedar Psychiatry and Cedar Clinical Research are wholly-owned subsidiaries of Novamind. For more information on how Novamind is enhancing mental wellness and guiding people through their entire healing journey, visit www.novamind.ca

VIDEO – Predictiv AI $PAI.ca $INOTF Is Already Commercializing Artificial Intelligence Driven Thermal Scanners With 62 Orders and 6 Channel Partners

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:22 PM on Friday, February 12th, 2021

Our thesis at AGORACOM is that small cap disruptive technology companies are going to create 3X more wealth this decade than the last 3 decades combined, thanks to the convergence of powerful tech such as Artificial Intelligence, IoT sensors and so on.  

Why?  The costs to develop, deploy and scale new applications powered by these new technologies have come down to a point where small cap companies can compete head to head with just about anybody.  In fact, their size makes them more nimble and able to pivot into emerging trends much quicker than most tech giants.

Which companies will actually succeed in delivering is a determination you have to make.  But one company to consider is Predictiv AI (PAI:TSXV / INOTF:OTCQB), whose proprietary artificial intelligence and machine learning platform provides predictive and prescriptive solutions in the public safety sector.

In layman’s terms, PAI uses AI and Machine learning to create solutions that can predict danger.

For example, the Company’s Thermal Pass Fever Detection System was recently used at a Carolina Panthers NFL game.  Watch this short video to see it in action. Highlights of the system include:

  • 24 medical grade sensors
  • 1,200 readings per second
  • 1 person / second

As you can imagine, Thermal Pass can be used for almost any high-traffic location you can think of.  But the big question is …. will anybody actually use it?  Because truth be told 99% of us are not in a position to be able to assess how any AI solutions of any company stack up against the competition. The only thing we can rely on is AGORACOM’s favourite metric – 3rd party acceptance.  In short, if your product is good, people will want it.

By that measure, PAI is off to a great start with:

  • Orders for 62 units of ThermalPass since commercial launch in October.  Impressive.
  • Orders include hospitals, long-term care facilities, prisons and public schools.  More impressive
  • 6 channel partners.  This is really impressive because channel partners don’t waste their valuable time and resources with products they don’t think they can sell 

3rd party acceptance at this early stage – CHECK 

Watch our interview with Michael Lende in which we do a deep dive into PAI tech, products and future plans.

CLIENT FEATURE: Novamind $NM.ca Leaders In #Psychedelic Medicine $RVV.ca $MMED $PSYC.ca $FTRP.ca $CMPS $NUMI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:44 AM on Friday, February 12th, 2021

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Why Novamind?

  • Building the infrastructure required for a regulated psychedelics industry
  • Rapidly expanding a network of outpatient mental health clinics and research sites
  • Provides ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and Spravato™ (esketamine) treatments;
    • Ketamine treatment volume grew 90% from 2019 to 2020
    • During the same period, total Spravato™ treatments rose 400%
  • Positioned to facilitate MDMA and psilocybin therapy post-FDA approval
  • Specializing in psychedelic-assisted treatment protocols
  • Building centers of excellence for future approved psychedelic treatments
  • Approximately CAN$1,900,000 in 2019 revenue
  • Strong insider ownership (32.3%) 

Yaron Conforti, CEO of Novamind Featured On Cheddar News

Novamind is focused on 3 pillars:

FULL DISCLOSURE: Novamind is an advertising client of AGORA Internet Relations Corp.

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ThreeD Capital Inc. $IDK.ca $IDKFF Makes $300,000 Investment Into Carl Data Solutions Inc. $CRL.ca $IP.ca $IPNFF $PKK.ca $PKKFF $MTRX $RACMF

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:42 AM on Friday, February 12th, 2021
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  • Announced a $300,000 investment in Carl Data Solutions Inc. (CSE: CRL) (OTCQB: CDTAF), an Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) company that provides next generation collection, storage, and analytics solutions for data-centric organizations
  • Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO of ThreeD Capital stated, “We are very impressed with the technology that Carl has developed that offers real world insights across industries in terms of capturing and analyzing meaningful data and providing predictive analytics, which organizations and cities can act upon. This has tremendous implication for the environment, cost-savings, and organizational and governmental efficiencies.

TORONTO, Feb. 12, 2021- ThreeD Capital Inc. (“ThreeD” or the “Company”) (CSE:IDK) (OTCQB:IDKFF), a Canadian-based venture capital firm focused on opportunistic investments in companies in the junior resources and disruptive technologies sectors, is pleased to announce a $300,000 investment in Carl Data Solutions Inc. (“Carl”) (CSE: CRL) (OTCQB: CDTAF), an Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) company that provides next generation collection, storage, and analytics solutions for data-centric organizations.

The Company has acquired 2,000,000 units (the “Units”) at a price of $0.15 per Unit for aggregate proceeds of $300,000. Each Unit consists of one (1) common share of Carl (a “Common Share”) and one Common Share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”), exercisable at a price of $0.25 per Warrant. The Warrants will expire two (2) years from the date of issuance.

Sheldon Inwentash, Chairman and CEO of ThreeD Capital stated, “We are very impressed with the technology that Carl has developed that offers real world insights across industries in terms of capturing and analyzing meaningful data and providing predictive analytics, which organizations and cities can act upon. This has tremendous implication for the environment, cost-savings, and organizational and governmental efficiencies.

Carl Data Solutions provides tools to model and predict the impact of environmental events. Using Carl’s cloud based core IT platform, Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, purpose built hardware arrays and custom data collection networks, Carl delivers end to end solutions for Industry and Government. Carl Data Solutions has invested millions of dollars into creating a technology that revolutionizes the way industries extract value from their data. Carl’s technology is now widely deployed by both Industry and Government to automate and organize data collection, storage and analysis. The demand for smart scalable solutions is growing rapidly with the explosion of new data from IoT devices. Carl is succeeding at answering the call for new ways to access and make sense of enormous amounts of data through Carl’s unique and disruptive technology.

Read More: https://agoracom.com/ir/threedcapital/forums/discussion/topics/755251-threed-capital-inc-makes-300-000-investment-into-carl-data-solutions-inc/messages/2303421#message

VIDEO – AGORACOM Beyond The Expert Welcomes Venture Capitalist Leigh Hughes To Discuss Mountain Valley MD $MVMD, Valeo Pharma $VPH $VPHIF and Xphyto Therapeutics $XPHY $XPHYF

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 6:36 PM on Thursday, February 11th, 2021

AGORACOM followers have given us great feedback on our hit series “Beyond The Press Release” (BTPR) in which we speak with small cap CEO’s about important press releases in greater depth and, quite frankly, in layman’s terms for investors to truly understand their significance.  

Nowhere is this more important than in the world of disruptive technologies, biotech and pharma.  Each of these industries share two distinct traits:

  • The possibility for explosive growth with disruptive new products
  • Difficulty in conveying disruptive new products that, by their nature, have never been seen before by investors.

Whereas BTPR tells these stories from the side of small cap public companies, Beyond The Expert (BTE) tells these stories from the perspective of experts on these topics – and we couldn’t think of anyone better to start off this series than Leigh Hughes.  

Leigh is a Venture Capitalist who I’ve personally watched conduct incredible due diligence and invest into many small cap companies that have generated incredible returns over 12-18 month periods.    

Leigh is so good at what he does that many global private equity funds and institutions take his call and often follow him into investments he chooses to make.  Moreover, he serves as an advisor to several small cap companies.

If you ever wanted to truly learn how to become a great small cap investor, it doesn’t get much better than this.  

Without further adieu, watch this great interview with Leigh Hughes and make sure to provide us with your feedback via comments on Twitter, YouTube or wherever you may be watching or listening.

VIDEO – Loncor Resources $LN How Great Is Loncor? Their JV With #Barrick $ABX Is Their 2nd Best Asset $RSG $NGT.to $GOLD $NEM $TECK.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 6:00 PM on Thursday, February 11th, 2021
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When you have a billion dollar major scouring your land for a major gold discovery in excess of 5 million ounces, most juniors would find little motivation to continue their own exploration. 

Not Loncor. Loncor has the goods on their JV partner Barrick to the sum of 3.7 million ounces and counting; outside of the JV. They plan on growing ounces through drilling and have 5 million ounces in their sights. Right around the threshold for what Barrick is looking for and currently outside of their reach.  

If that isn’t enough to grab your attention, Newmont Owns 6% , Resolute Owns 26% and CEO Arnold Kondrat Owns 27%  

Tune in to discover why their JV with Barrick is their 2nd best asset, making Loncor the SmallCap Exploration company to own.

VIDEO – Universal PropTech $UPI Has Generated $35,000,000+ In Revenues Over Past 3 Years – But Chief Growth Officer Carnevale Sets Up For Big Growth In 2021 $AAT.ca $LPS.ca $EGT.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 5:29 PM on Thursday, February 11th, 2021

As the name implies “PropTech” is a combination of two words and stands for “property technology.”  As simple as that is, the implementation and importance of PropTech is anything but, which is why many companies are trying to capitalize on the rapidly growing paradigm shift, while Universal PropTech (UPI:TSXV) is actually delivering healthy building solutions developers, owners and operators across Canada.

More than just lip service, UPI clients include

  • Federal Government facilities for over 40 years
  • Manulife
  • Brookfield
  • Billy Bishop Airport
  • University of Toronto
  • …. and many more

As a result, UPI has generated $35,000,000+ in revenue over the past 3 year – a number most small cap companies would be very happy with.  But newly appointed Chief Growth Officer, Frank Carnevale sees a much bigger opportunity by winning exclusive licenses and partnerships with providers of great products that can significantly grow company revenues. 

And that’s exactly what he has done.  In the month of FEBRUARY alone, UPI has announced:

 Agreement with LuminUltra Technologies to Provide SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Surface Testing

Channel Partnership with SensorSuite Inc. to Deliver AI Building Automation for MURBs and Non-BAS Customers

Exclusive Distributor Agreement for Eastern Canada for Canadian-Made Air Sanitization Solutions

How significant are these announcements and what do they mean to the Company’s growth?  

Watch our interview with CGO Carnevale to learn about these and where UPI is going.

POET Technologies $PTK.ca $POETF Completes C$15 Million Private Placement

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:17 AM on Thursday, February 11th, 2021

  • Completed its previously announced brokered private placement (the “Placement”) of 14,706,000 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of $0.85 per Unit (the “Issue Price”) for gross proceeds of approximately $12.5 million.
  • Founder and former chairman of Origin House, Marc Lustig was the lead participant in the Placement.

TORONTO, Feb. 11, 2021 — POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (TSX Venture: PTK; OTCQX: POETF), the designer and developer of the POET Optical Interposer™ and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the data center and tele-communication markets, announces that it has completed its previously announced brokered private placement (the “Placement”) of 14,706,000 units of the Company (the “Units”) at a price of $0.85 per Unit (the “Issue Price”) for gross proceeds of approximately $12.5 million. Founder and former chairman of Origin House, Marc Lustig was the lead participant in the Placement.

Cormark Securities Inc. acted as lead agent together with a syndicate of agents that included IBK Capital Corp. and PI Financial Corp. (collectively, the “Agents”). The Agents exercised in full an option (the “Agents’ Option”) for the purchase of an additional 2,941,200 Units on the same terms. Gross proceeds from the exercise of the Agents’ Option were approximately $2.5 million bringing the aggregate proceeds raised from the Placement to approximately $15.0 million from the issuance of the cumulative 17,647,200 Units.

Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a “Common Share”) and one Common Share purchase warrant (a “Warrant”). Each Warrant entitles the holder to purchase one additional Common Share at a price of $1.15 per Common Share for a period of 24 months from the issuance date thereof. The Warrants are subject to an accelerated expiry, exercisable at the option of the Company, if, on or following the date that is four months and one day after the date of issuance of the Units and prior to the expiry date of the Warrants, the daily volume weighted average trading price of the Common Shares exceeds $2.30 for ten consecutive trading days. The Issue Price represents a discount of 5.5% of the volume weighted average trading price of the Common Shares on the TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV”) for the 5 trading days ended immediately prior to the announcement of the Placement on January 26, 2021.

Read more: https://agoracom.com/ir/POETTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/755177-poet-technologies-completes-c-15-million-private-placement/messages/2303234#message

Binovi $VISN.ca $BNVIF Partners with European Reseller Sport-Orthese to Commercialize Binovi Hardware $EYPT $KALA $PTON $WELL.ca $DOC.ca $DOCRF

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:11 AM on Thursday, February 11th, 2021
  • Announced that it has expanded its global reseller network with a partnership with Sport-Orthèse ( www.sport-orthese.com ), activating its country-specific scalable business model.
  • This move demonstrates Binovi’s ongoing efforts to optimize its revenue opportunities within its global strategy.

Toronto, New York – February 11, 2020 – Binovi Technologies Corp., (Binovi) (TSXV:VISN ) | ( OTC:BNVIF ) | ( GR:2EYA) today announces that it has expanded its global reseller network with a partnership with Sport-Orthèse ( www.sport-orthese.com ), activating its country-specific scalable business model. This move demonstrates Binovi’s ongoing efforts to optimize its revenue opportunities within its global strategy.

“As Binovi continues to successfully implement its global reseller partnerships, we remain dedicated to serving our consumers more personally and investing in the company’s long-term growth opportunities. In working with Sport-Orthèse, we’re signalling our dedication to our European clientele and furthering our goal for continued success on the continent” said Adam Cegielski, Binovi Founder + CEO.

Binovi remains firmly committed to serving users through its global partners with best-in-class product innovations and customer service while leveraging partnerships to support sustainable, profitable growth world-wide. In addition to this new connection to the EU, the Company will continue to work with existing distribution partner Bernell Corporation in the United States.

“We continue to broaden our customer base and aim to provide the best possible experience, especially with respect to working with customers in their native language whenever possible. Sport-Orthèse has the reach and capabilities to ensure Binovi is well represented in the European market,” commented Binovi Executive Chairman Terry Booth.

Read more: https://agoracom.com/ir/BinoviTechnologies/forums/discussion/topics/755170-binovi-partners-with-european-reseller-sport-orthese-to-commercialize-binovi-hardware/messages/2303213#message