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Yappn Partners With Hong Kong Based Ventris Capital to Expand Its Business Reach Throughout Asia
Yappn Partners With Hong Kong Based Ventris Capital to Expand Its Business Reach Throughout Asia.
About this update from Yappn Corporation
[{"type":"text","content":"\nNEW YORK, Sept. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yappn Corp. (\"Yappn\" or \"Company\") (OTCQB:YPPN), a leader in real-time language technology and translation services, is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Ventris Capital Advisors (\"Ventris Capital\") to increase its reach in Asia.\n\n\tWith strong ties to over 300 investors and corporations predominantly from the Asia Pacific region including China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Korea and Australia, Ventris Capital, led by Co-Founder Tyler Doherty, intends to continue to expand Yappn's presence in the media, Ecommerce, customer care and brand messaging sectors throughout Asia.\n\n\tTyler Doherty states: \"There are over 16 languages spoken in the Asian region and many different dialects for those languages. Yappn's platform is game-changing for businesses that want to globalize without incurring the heavy localization costs. We have already identified many companies which would benefit greatly from Yappn's real-time language and translation services that are simple and elegant and at a fraction of the cost compared to many people based services currently out in the market.\"\n\n\tTyler began his career at BMO Nesbitt Burns in Vancouver and prior to moving to Asia, he was a Vice-President at a private equity /family office based in Vancouver focused on investments in Chinese SMEs. His previous posts also include founder of Inishowen Partners, a boutique cross-border financial advisory firm which was responsible for investor relations and business development before being merged into Ventris Capital. Prior to founding Inishowen Partners, Tyler spent a year working at a Hong Kong publicly-listed company in the retail sector.\n\n\tDavid Lucatch, CEO stated: \"We are excited to have Ventris Capital to help support our sales efforts in Asia and consider this another valuable introduction by Winterberry Investments. Real-time language services is a huge growth opportunity throughout the region and as Yappn focuses on client acquisition, having a solid presence throughout the Asian region will support our sales expansion. Ventris Capital has strong ties with brands throughout Asia and they will help us identify the companies best suited to benefit from our Ecommerce, customer care and social language services applications.\"\n\n\tFor more informatio...