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VendAsta Raises $ 8.25 Million in Funding from Vanedge Capital and BDC Venture Capital











Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (PRWEB) March 18, 2013

VendAsta Technologies, the industry leading provider of white label digital brand management solutions, is raising $ 8.25 million in funding from Vanedge Capital and BDC Venture Capital. The new round of funding will help VendAsta accelerate platform development to meet partner demand for new features and tools, and provide additional support.

“For any business, digital fragmentation creates acute challenges in managing local brand reputation. The various channels that businesses must monitor and engage are seemingly endless. VendAsta’s platform closes the loop for businesses, supplying them with tools to succeed in the digital world,” says Jed Williams, Senior Analyst at BIA/Kelsey.

VendAsta launched its Reputation Management platform in 2011, and within two years the company has grown to become one of the largest Reputation Management providers in the world. Together, its channel partners include eight of the top ten newspaper companies in the United States, as well as large pure play digital agencies, Internet Yellow Pages, and other independent digital and SEO agencies that provide Reputation Management to over 100,000 local small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

“VendAsta Technologies has done an excellent job partnering with top tier media companies across North America,” said V. Paul Lee, Managing Partner at Vanedge Capital. “Customer calls revealed VendAsta is agile, responsive, and delivers what they have promised. We have been told multiple times that VendAsta is a top vendor.” Robert Simon, Senior Managing Partner at BDC Venture Capital added that “the SMB market has been, to a large degree, untapped. We see VendAsta growing to be a very significant company.”

“We have built a white label reputation platform that allows businesses to monitor, manage and build their brand,” said Brendan King, CEO of VendAsta. “With these tools, our partners — whether large newspapers and yellow page companies, or small traditional and digital agencies — can be up and running in days and on the street selling products, backed by a full suite of prescriptive sales and marketing materials. This funding will allow us to accelerate the development of new products and maintain our culture of continual improvement.”

VendAsta’s platform currently includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Social Marketing, Presence Builder, and Concierge tools to help local businesses build their online brands. As an example, an agency that manages digital marketing for a local restaurant can keep track of the reviews the restaurant gets on relevant websites, generate tasks to respond to these reviews on the client’s behalf, ensure all the listings about the restaurant are accurate, and identify new leads by monitoring relevant chatter on social media — all from one common white label Business Centre. For its larger partners, VendAsta offers a suite of API-based services that can integrate this data directly into their platforms.

Interested parties can request demos of VendAsta’s solutions by going to http://www.VendAsta.com.

About VendAsta

VendAsta Technologies is a leader in digital marketing and brand management solutions for small to mid-sized local businesses. VendAsta provides white label solutions to media companies that work directly with local businesses, including online directional media companies, newspapers, broadcasters, SEO services, certified marketing representatives, web hosting providers, and interactive agencies. VendAsta’s reputation and presence management platform includes Reputation Monitoring, Brand Analytics, Presence Builder, Social Marketing lead generation tools and Concierge CRM platforms to help manage and sell digital products. Today, over 10,000 digital sales representatives across 250 media organizations provide VendAsta powered solutions to local businesses. For more information, visit http://www.vendasta.com.

About Vanedge Capital

Vanedge Capital is a Vancouver BC based venture capital fund focused on investments in interactive entertainment, digital media and infrastructure software businesses. The fund managers have extensive experience and relationships in this sector, and have built and led world class companies in video games, cloud storage and enterprise software, among others. For more information, visit http://www.vanedgecapital.com, or contact info(at)vanedgecapital(dot)com.

About BDC Venture Capital

BDC Venture Capital is the largest Canadian venture capital firm with more than $ 1 billion in current and planned investments with direct investment funds focused on innovative IT, health and energy/clean technology companies. The BDC IT Venture Fund is a $ 150 million fund with partners in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and San Francisco. Investments are typically early stage companies in the enterprise, Internet or mobile sectors. The IT Fund has invested in many successful companies including Radian6 (acquired by Salesforce), Opalis (acquired by Microsoft), Bycast (acquired by NetApp) and Q1 Labs (acquired by IBM). More at http://www.bdc.ca/vc or on Twitter @BDC_VC.

Press Contacts

VendAsta Technologies

Jeff Tomlin, Vice President, Marketing

(306) 220-2721 | jtomlin(at)vendasta(dot)com

Vanedge Capital

Amy Rae, Principal

(604) 351-7110 | http://www.vanedgecapital.com

BDC Venture Capital

Rober Simon, Managing Partner

(415) 509-3001 | http://www.BDC.ca























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Superior Venture Corp. Subsidiary, Ilustrato Pictures Ltd. Signs Development Deal With Successful Chinese Film Studio, Hairun Pictures











London, England (PRWEB) November 29, 2012

Superior Venture Corp. (“Superior” or “the Company”) (OTCQB:SVEN) through its wholly owned subsidiary Ilustrato Pictures (“Ilustrato”), signed a co-development agreement with successful Chinese film studio Hairun Pictures for the two companies to co-create and co-develop feature films for both the domestic Chinese market, and the oversea international market.

Superior Venture President and CEO, Brian Hammond appeared on stage at the 2nd Beijing International Film Festival with the Chairman of Hairun Pictures, Mr. Liu Yanming for the official signing.

Ilustrato Pictures and Hairun Pictures were presented with an award by Mr. Liu Wei, Beijing’s Municipal Party Committee Member, Municipal Publicity Minister and Vice-Mayor, Mr. Tong Gang, head of state Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) for having the “Most Significant Deal” of this year’s Beijing International Film Festival.

Brian Hammond, Company President and CEO of Superior Venture Corp. commented, “We are very pleased to be working with Hairun Pictures on this co-development and co-creation deal. It’s a perfect fit between our two companies and opens the door to tremendous opportunities for us both. Hairun Pictures is firmly established in the Chinese motion picture industry and our collaboration is expected to result in significant revenues to our Company and some very successful projects.”

Officials responsible for the Beijing Festival announced that there was an 88.7% increase over the previous year in the total value of deals signed at the event, totaling over 5.2 billion Yuan or US $ 837 million all tolled.

About Superior Venture Corp.

Superior Venture Corp. is a US based public company. Its wholly owned subsidiary, Ilustrato Pictures Ltd. is an international motion picture development and production company seeking to co-create feature film projects with Chinese film companies. All of its projects are financed, produced and distributed in partnership with domestic Chinese companies. Ilustrato Pictures has developed extensive infrastructure and distribution networks in China –the fastest growing and most dynamic movie market in the world.

For more information see http://www.superiorventurecorp.com

Contact:

Investor Relations

Tel: +44 (0) 207 543 7720

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Information

This press release may contain certain “forward-looking statements” relating to the business of Superior Venture Corp.. All statements, other than statements of historical fact included herein are “forward-looking statements” including statements regarding the advantages of Superior Venture’s products and services, anticipated advantages resulting from the merger, whether funding anticipated from completing the merger will result in successful completion and development of the film development component of the business and its market acceptance, the business strategy, plans and objectives of the Company and Ilustrato Pictures Ltd.; and any other statements of non-historical information. These forward-looking statements are often identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believes,” “expects”, “intended” or similar expressions, involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable, they do involve assumptions, risks and uncertainties, and these expectations may prove to be incorrect. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company’s actual results and ultimate corporate actions could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including the perception of investors of the newly merged company and their willingness to fund this newly public company, the demand for films and film development, new products and services developed by other companies, market share garnered by competitors, ability to maintain customer and vendor relationships, and those factors discussed in the Company’s periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its website (http://www.sec.gov), among other factors. All forward-looking statements attributable to the Company or persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Other than as required under the securities laws, the Company does not assume a duty to update these forward-looking statements.
























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Argea’s New White Paper on Assessing Outsourcing Readiness in Mid-Marketplace Organizations Published On the internet at Outsourcing Venture










Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) August 11, 2005 -

Argea nowadays announced the publication of Assessing Outsourcing Readiness in Mid-Market Firms in Outsourcing Venture’s particular on-line section on solving mid-marketplace challenges in outsourcing (http://www.outsourcingvenutre.com/midmarket). The white paper addresses the key elements of achieving organizational readiness in mid-market place firms for onshore, nearshore or offshore outsourcing. The paper is the most current in a continuous series devoted to outsourcing in mid-industry companies that Argea publishes in the print magazine and online portal of Outsourcing Venture, formerly identified as OutsourcingCentral.com.

There is growing evidence that most businesses have 1 or a lot more serious defects in their outsourcing implementation and management that are preventing them from attaining the full positive aspects which outsourcing is designed to deliver. Ram Iyer, CEO of Argea, said, “These defects are normally brought on by a poor state of readiness to begin outsourcing. In most circumstances, skill, resource and expertise shortages are to blame and these are specially typical in mid-market place companies. With the correct guidance, however, these companies can meet and even exceed the outsourcing performance of bigger firms.”

Businesses in this market sector have been usually underserved, each by outsourcing providers and specialist advisors that can successfully guide them by way of the outsourcing lifecycle. Mid-sized firms face at least a dozen special challenges compared to bigger enterprises and it takes specialized understanding to aid these businesses to successfully adopt and use outsourcing as a competitive tool.

“While outsourcing can uniquely solve company challenges and develop competitive advantage, it comes with risks. The info presented in Argea’s Outsourcing Readiness white paper presents essential risk-mitigation data and tactics for effectively achieving anticipated return on investment,” stated Kathleen Goolsby, editor of Outsourcing Venture magazine.

Outsourcing Venture is devoted to delivering insight into outsourcing and is committed to bringing the most timely and informative intelligence to the outsourcing community. Additionally, the company’s leaders are keen to transfer essential outsourcing knowledge and competency into the mid-market, which has been overlooked in outsourcing education. “We are pleased to have Argea as an alliance partner and proud to publish another Argea paper with strategic content material that is exactly what buyers of outsourcing services need to have to know,” stated Paul Grim, founder and publisher of Outsourcing Venture’s magazine and on-line portal.

About Argea

Argea’s Mission is to assist US-based businesses turn out to be more globally competitive by intelligently selecting and collaboratively integrating global resources and technologies to drive organization efficiency. Argea takes a practitioner-based approach to outsourcing, mainly making use of outsourcing practitioners with encounter at Fortune1000 firms that have firsthand knowledge of the nuances of profitable outsourcing. Argea supplies consulting and outsourcing management services across the outsourcing lifecycle. To uncover out how Argea can aid your enterprise, please visit our site at http://www.argea.com/ or email info@argea.com.

Make contact with:

Lee Swindall

608-987-1450

lswindall@argea.com

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