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:
Affirmative Insurance Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: AFFM) – Affirmative Insurance Holdings is a provider of non-standard personal automobile insurance policies for individual consumers in targeted geographic markets. It was incorporated in Delaware in June 1998 and completed an initial public offering of its common stock in July 2004.
Non-standard personal automobile insurance policies provide coverage to drivers who find it difficult to obtain insurance from standard automobile insurance companies due to their lack of prior insurance, age, driving record, limited financial resources or other factors. Non-standard personal automobile insurance policies generally require higher premiums than standard automobile insurance policies for comparable coverage.
Affirmative’s subsidiaries include insurance companies licensed to write insurance policies in 39 states, two underwriting agencies and a service company. It is party to an agreement with an unaffiliated underwriting agency that distributes its policies in the state of California. It also distributes and services non-standard insurance policies underwritten by a Texas county mutual insurance company. Prior to the sale of its retail agency distribution business on September 30, 2013, it also provided premium financing services and distributed third-party insurance products and services. It is currently distributing insurance policies through approximately 5,000 independent agents or brokers including the retail agency stores sold on September 30, 2013. It currently operates in seven states (Louisiana, Texas, California, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri). It discontinued writing business in South Carolina in 2012.
Agritek Holdings, Inc. (OTCQB: AGTK) – Agritek Holdings, a fully reporting company and pioneer within the medicinal marijuana space, provides innovative patient and agricultural solutions and seeks to be the leader in compassionate care technology for the medicinal marijuana industry. Agritek Holdings provides real estate management and health and wellness product lines including through its wholly owned subsidiary Agritek Venture Holdings Inc. Agritek does not directly grow, harvest, or distribute or sell cannabis or any substances that violate or contravene United States law or the Controlled Substances Act, nor does it intend to do so in the future.
Cell Source, Inc. (OTCQB: CLCS) – Cell Source is currently conducting research and development activities in order to facilitate the transition of the patent technology we license from the laboratory to clinical trials. Its planned principal operations are the development and commercialization of new cell therapy products focused on treatment of blood cancers, nonmalignant blood disorders and organ transplantations.
Data Storage Corp. (OTCQB: DTST) – Data Storage Corporation (DSC) is a cloud storage and recovery, cloud computing and Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, focused on data protection and business continuity solutions that assist organizations with protecting their data, minimizing downtime, ensuring regulatory compliance and recovering and restoring information within their expectations. Through its SAS 70 Type II data centers and by leveraging leading technologies, DSC delivers and supports a broad range of premium solutions to insure business continuity and disaster recovery. Clients save time and money, gain more control and better access to their data and enable the highest level of security for that data. The company's solutions include: offsite data protection and recovery services, High Availability replication services, email compliance solutions for e-discovery, continuous data protection, data de-duplication and virtualized system recovery. DSC provides solutions and subscription type services to business, government, education, financial services and healthcare industries.
EFactor Group Corp. (OTCQB: EFCT) – EFactor is the parent of EFactor.com, the world's largest niche social network for entrepreneurs which provides its members with the people, tools, marketing and expertise to succeed and make real, trustworthy and lasting connections. At the core of EFactor is a strong algorithm that allows members to not only connect with a lot of people, but with the right people. In addition, EFactor provides knowledge, funding access and resources to reduce business costs, delivered through a unique mix of online social networking and offline domestic and international events. EFactor has over one million members in 222 territories across 240 industries. It is incorporated and headquartered in San Francisco.
EFactor Corp. is also the parent company to a number of subsidiary service organizations each of which adds value to EFactor's members such as EQmentor, a company that delivers matching software for mentors to find the best mentees.
Empire Global Gaming Inc. (OTCQB: EPGG)
Energy Telecom, Inc. (OTCQB: ENRG) – Energy Telecom possesses multiple U.S. and foreign patents and its mission is to monetize the global utility patent portfolio with claims covering nearly all features of Intelligent Eyewear (IE) in the pipeline from major technology providers.
hopTo Inc. (OTCQB: HPTO) – hopTo is an innovator of a unique mobile productivity workspace platform. The hopTo mobile solution delivers an unparalleled user experience without compromising enterprise security. hopTo brings a new standard of mobile productivity by enabling individuals to search, access, create, edit and share content from their mobile devices, efficiently and effectively, by leveraging any combination of on-premise or cloud stored content, documents and data as well as enterprise applications.
hopTo Work touch enables Windows apps for mobile devices with the rich user interface that users demand - with NO CODING required.
In addition to hopTo, the company also sells a family of products under the brand name GO-Global, which is a software application publishing business. GO-Global is an application access solution for use and/or resale by independent software vendors ("ISVs"), corporate enterprises, governmental and educational institutions, and others, who wish to take advantage of cross-platform remote access and Web-enabled access to their existing software applications, as well as those who are deploying secure, private cloud environments.
Investview Inc. (OTCQB: INVU) – Investview is a diversified financial services company providing its customers with a plethora of services and opportunities through its operating subsidiaries and partners: Vickery Brown LLC, SAFE MANAGEMENT LLC and Investment Tools & Training LLC.
Premier Biomedical Inc. (OTCQB: BIEI) – Premier Biomedical has acquired exclusive licenses for patent-pending medications/medical procedures to develop cures for a significant number of the most debilitating and often fatal illnesses affecting mankind: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), clinical depression, Alzheimer's disease, blood sepsis, atherosclerosis and cancer. The company has developed an aggressive timetable to advance the development of these breakthrough technologies through laboratory, hospital, and clinical trials. It has also initiated the development of potential patient trial application lists. It has a management team with extensive experience and contacts in the medical/pharmaceutical fields as well as a demonstrated track record of launching new business ventures in a competitive environment. The company’s extensive contacts in the medical/pharmaceutical industries will ensure that new developments will achieve maximum visibility and exposure to the market. Transparency and accountability will continue to be ensured via regular issuance of technical progress reports, financials, and investor relations reports to maintain investor enthusiasm.
ProAmerica Bank (CA) (OTCQB: PMRA) – PROAMERICA BANK was formed to serve the Los Angeles business community and ultimately to become the leading financial services provider of Latino entrepreneurs. As the first Latino-formed business bank to debut in downtown Los Angeles in the past 30 years, PROAMERICA BANK is dedicated to building family wealth by empowering entrepreneurs with the requisite financial services and capital infusion for the success of their small to mid-size businesses.
Tikcro Technologies Ltd. (OTCQB: TIKRF) – Tikcro’s business activity is to support early stage development in growth areas, with a focus on biotechnology projects originated in Israeli academic centers. The company is currently engaged with development of certain antibodies selected and verified in pre-clinical trials with a focus on antibodies binding to cancer immune checkpoints.
United Cannabis Corp. (OTCQB: CNAB) – United Cannabis Corporation provides consulting services, proprietary products and licenses its intellectual property to businesses in the cannabis industry. It owns distinct intellectual property relating to the legalized growth, production, manufacture, marketing, management, utilization and distribution of medical and recreational marijuana and marijuana infused products.
Wells Financial Corp. (OTCQB: WEFP) – Wells Financial is a bank holding company. Its primary asset is Wells Federal Bank, a community oriented, Minnesota State chartered bank with eight locations in southern Minnesota.
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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