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:
Boston Therapeutics Inc. (OTCQB: BTHE) – Boston Therapeutics, headquartered in Manchester, NH, is a leader in the field of designing drugs using complex carbohydrates. The company's product pipeline is focused on developing and commercializing therapeutic molecules for diabetes, including: BTI-320, a non-systemic chewable compound designed to reduce post-meal glucose elevation, and IPOXYN, an injectable anti-necrosis drug specifically designed to treat lower limb ischemia, and SUGARDOWN(R), an OTC dietary supplement designed to lower post meal sugar spike.
Ems Find, Inc. (OTCQB: EMSF) – Ems Find develops and markets a B2B & B2C on-demand mobile platform, designed to connect the health care providers and consumers to a network of medical transport companies throughout the United States and Canada.
The platform enables users (hospitals, medical offices, nursing homes, home care agencies and other medical providers) and the public to schedule medical transportation in timely and efficient way based on the type of medical transportation which best fits each patient's needs.
Ems Find’s platform is available on any smart device such as smart phone, tablet or laptop. Software is available in iOS, Android and Desktop versions and allows users to connect in real time to local and nearby pre-screened medical transportation companies wherever the medical transports are needed and fit the medical, logistical and financial criteria.
Grandparents.com, Inc. (OTCQB: GPCM) – Grandparents.com owns and operates the Grandparents.com website. As a membership organization and social media community, the company connects grandparents, seniors, and boomers to differentiated, discounted products and services. Its services are geared to the approximately 70 million grandparents in the U.S., but its audience also includes "boomers" and seniors that are not grandparents. The company’s website offers content on health and well-being, relationships and finances as well as other topics such as recipes and travel tips. Its business model is to provide group discount benefits for a small membership fee. It believes that its website is one of the leading online communities for its market and is the premier social media platform targeting active, involved grandparents.
Icon Vapor, Inc. (OTCQB: ICNV) – Icon Vapor is an electronic cigarette company headquartered in San Diego, California, that designs, markets and sells electronic cigarettes, cigars, cartomizers and related accessories under the Icon Vapor brand. It has commercially launched its Icon Vapor products which are now being sold online.
Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTCQB: LWLG) – Lightwave Logic is a development stage company that is nearing commercialization of a portfolio of organic, nonlinear electro-optical and all-optical polymers (plastic) which have the ability to alter light waves for various optical applications. Initial use of this material is for the conversion of digital information into light pulses at speeds that are orders of magnitude faster than conventional materials, which are based on the nonlinear capabilities of inorganic materials.
In addition to developing materials for integration into customer contemplated designs, the company is using these advanced materials as the basis for a series of proprietary, advanced integrated optical devices and sub-systems that have broad application in telecommunications, data communications and optical computing for applications in both military and commercial markets.
Pershing Gold Corporation (OTCQB: PGLC) – Pershing Gold is an emerging Nevada gold producer on a fast-track to re-open the Relief Canyon Mine, which includes three open-pit mines and a state-of-the-art, fully permitted and constructed heap-leach processing facility. Pershing Gold is currently permitted to resume mining at Relief Canyon under the existing Plan of Operations.
Pershing Gold's landholdings cover approximately 25,000 acres that include the Relief Canyon Mine asset and lands surrounding the mine in all directions. This land package provides Pershing Gold with the opportunity to expand the Relief Canyon Mine deposit and to explore and make new discoveries on nearby lands. The company is currently traded on the OTCQB marketplace and has submitted an application to up-list to the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Pershing Gold’s key asset, the Relief Canyon Mine and processing facility, includes three open-pit mines and a state-of-the-art, fully permitted and operational heap leach facility.
The plant has the capacity to process gold bearing solutions from the leaching of 8 million tons of ore per year. The leach pad is now permitted to hold 21 million tons and can be readily expanded. The facility is ideally situated to process ore from future discoveries of satellite deposits.
Pershing Gold is currently permitted to resume mining at Relief Canyon under the existing Plan of Operations. Permit expansion above the water table is targeted for 2016.
Smoofi, Inc. (OTCQB: SMFI) – SmooFi plans to be an online marketplace for services that includes service requestors and service providers. Service requestors (people requesting a service) name their own price, date and time for any service. A service requestor can also select qualifying criteria such as number of reviews or review rankings of a service provider. The first service provider who can provide that service, on that date, at that time and meets the service ranking requirements will get the project. No bidding, no waiting a week for an auction to close, no shifting through bidders.
Technovative Group, Inc. (OTCQB: TEHG)
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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