OTC Markets Group Welcomes Newly Verified OTCQB Companies – April 29

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of Open, Transparent and Connected financial marketplaces, today announced the following companies are verified for trading on the OTCQB® Venture Marketplace: 

4Licensing Corp. (OTCQB: FOUR) - 4Licensing Corporation (4LC) is a licensing company specializing in youth oriented and specialty markets.  Through its subsidiaries, 4LC licenses merchandising rights to popular children’s television series, properties and product concepts, builds brands through licensing, develops ideas and concepts for licensing, and plans to forge new licensing relationships in the sports industry, as well as developing private label goods to be sold to retail or directly to consumers. 

Fennec Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (TSX: FRX; OTCQB: FENCF) – Fennec Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing sodium thiosulfate (STS), a chemo-protectant against hearing loss associated with platinum-based chemotherapy. 

Legacy Education Alliance, Inc. (OTCQB: LEAI) – Legacy Education Alliance provides educational training seminars, conferences, and services primarily in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.  It offers comprehensive instruction and mentoring, primarily on the topics of real estate and financial instruments investing through its Rich Dad Education brand, which is based on the teachings of Robert Kiyosaki.  The company provides Rich Dad Learn to be Rich, which focuses on real estate training; and Rich Dad Stock Success that concentrates on financial instruments training.  It also offers various training programs that include Real Options Masters to help investors increase their knowledge on how to use stock options; The Independent Woman to help women increase their financial intelligence; Building Wealth, which offers a curriculum focused on real estate; Making Money from Property with Martin Roberts, a real estate curriculum focused on property auctions; and Teach Me To Trade, a curriculum focused on financial instrument trading strategies using software and specific teaching techniques.  In addition, the company provides Women in Wealth, which teaches women with financial education; Robbie Fowler’s Property Academy that offers a real estate curriculum focused on buy-to-lease; and Brick Buy Brick, a curriculum focused on real estate.  It delivers its through various channels, including live courses, online trainings, coaching, mentoring programs, and multi-media products that impart skills and knowledge in real estate investing, financial instrument investing, entrepreneurship, and personal finance.  Legacy Education Alliance was founded in 1992 and is based in Cape Coral, Florida. 

N-Viro International Corp. (OTCQB: NVIC) – N-Viro International, founded in 1993, is an alternative energy manufacturing company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio, USA.  It specializes in the process of converting bio-organics (ex. wastewater residuals, livestock manure, food waste, pulp and paper sludge) thereby diverting these resources from landfill disposal to produce a patented alternative energy product know as N-Viro Fuel.  Its two products, N-Viro Soil and N-Viro Fuel, are manufactured through a conversion process that is patent protected. 

Nutritional High Intl Inc. (CSE: NHL; OTCQB: SPLIF) – Nutritional High is primarily focused on developing, acquiring and designing products and brands in the marijuana-infused edible products and oil extracts sectors for medical and adult recreational use.  The company works exclusively in U.S. states where such activity is permitted and regulated by state law, through entities which hold a valid license to produce marijuana-infused edible products and to distribute, and dispense marijuana products.  The company is establishing operations in the State of Colorado in conjunction with a licensed operator, a medical marijuana dispensary in Illinois, and is working towards acquiring 51% of a New Mexican operation. 

Omnitek Engineering Corp. (OTCQB: OMTK) – Omnitek Engineering develops and sells proprietary diesel-to-natural gas conversion systems and complementary products, including new natural gas engines that utilize the company's technology -- providing global customers with innovative alternative energy and emissions control solutions that are sustainable and affordable.

Patent Properties, Inc. (OTCQB: PPRO) – Patent Properties and Subsidiaries, a Delaware corporation, has two distinct lines of businesses.  It develops and commercializes its unique portfolio of intellectual property assets through its licensing and enforcement operations and more recently in early 2015 it launched the United States Patent Utility™ whereby the company uses proprietary Big Data software to connect the global stockpile of technology improvements and technical experts, represented by the U.S. patent database, with businesses that can put them into commercial uses that help them compete and grow.

TriStar Wellness Solutions Inc. (OTCQB: TWSI) – TriStar Wellness Solutions (TWSI) is a consumer health and wellness company that targets opportunities in the advanced wound care marketplace.  It owns and operates HemCon Medical Technologies, Inc. an established medical device company.  The technologies and products that it offers directly to the healthcare marketplace must be highly efficacious and economically competitive.  The combination of efficacy and empowered outcomes that push the cost curve downward will ensure our success with the consumer and yield superior returns for our stakeholders.

Virtual Piggy, Inc. (OTCQB: VPIG) - Virtual Piggy offers an online service that enables parents to control their children's spending.  The service allows parents to determine who may contribute to their child's online account and how much the child may spend per transaction and over time.  Virtual Piggy will send parents alerts and reports patterns.

Z Holdings Group, Inc. (OTCQB: ZHLD) – Z Holdings has no present operations or revenues and its current activities are related to seeking new business opportunities, including seeking acquisitions or joint ventures with private companies wishing to take their businesses into the public arena.  With the company’s assistance and shareholder base, a private company will be able to accelerate its plans to introduce edgy, disruptive, and/or innovative technologies to the global market. 

Zivo Bioscience, Inc. (OTCQB: ZIVO) – Zivo Bioscience is a Michigan-based biotechnology company engaged: 1) in the investigation of the health benefits of bioactive compounds derived from its proprietary algal cultures, and the development of natural bioactive compounds for use as dietary supplements and food ingredients, as well as potential candidates for future medicinal and pharmaceutical applications in humans and animals, focused on autoimmune modulation and 2) developing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling tests that the company believes will allow people to optimize their health and identify future health risks. 

U.S. investors can find current financial disclosure and Real-Time Level 2 quotes for these companies on www.otcmarkets.com. 

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