Carla Faraguna

Shares is an online investment platform offering stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies. Headquartered in Paris, it was founded by Benjamin Chemla, Harjas Singh and François Ruty.

Shares was founded in April 2021 by Benjamin Chemla, Harjas Singh and François Ruty. In April 2022, Shares was officially launched in the UK. In May, the app was the second most downloaded financial app on the UK App Store. A few months later, Shares reached 150,000 active users.In October 2022, it was announced that Serena and Venus Williams had become brand ambassadors. In November 2022, Shares announced a collaboration with Ed Westwick for its first advertising campaign.In March 2023, Shares continued its European expansion and launched in Belgium and Poland, offering 66 cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polkadot and Dogecoin. In June 2023, Shares became the first French fintech to obtain the PSAN (Provider of Services on Digital Assets) and PSI (Provider of Investment Services) authorisations, as an investment firm, issued respectively by the Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR). In July 2023, Shares launched its waitlist in France ahead of its product launch in late summer 2023.

In August 2021, Shares raised a $10 million seed round. The list of investors includes Valar Ventures (Peter Thiel's fund), Singular, Global Founders Capital, and Red Sea Ventures.In March 2022, Shares successfully closed a $40 million in Series A, from Valar Ventures, Singular and Global Founders Capital. In July, Shares announced a $40 million Series B funding round led by Valar Ventures.

Shares is a multi-asset investment platform allowing users to invest in stocks, exchange-traded funds and cryptocurrencies via an app. Users can follow and engage with other investors’ investing activity in real time, as well as share and consume content in an in-app community.

Keka (commonly known as Keka HR) is a software company specializing in cloud based HR management software and payroll automation.Keka also has offices in Singapore, and Seattle, Washington.It was founded by Vijay Yalamanchili, current CEO, on July 21, 2014. The company is headquartered in Hyderabad, with subsidiaries in Singapore and the US.

Keka was established in 2014 in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. In 2015, the company entered the Indian HR market and the same year, won the HYSEA Hottest Startups Award. In 2017, the company reached 100 customers.By 2019 Keka surpassed $1 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the company increased its sales sevenfold.By 2021 Keka served 5,500 customers, recording an ARR of $6.5 million and managing payroll for 3.2 million employees. The company also raised $1.6 million through Recur Club.In 2022 Keka secured India's largest Series A funding of $57 million from West Bridge Capital.On May 20, 2023, the company organized the badminton event "SHUTTLERS" to commemorate International HR Day.

Keka operates in the software industry, specializing in providing business services, particularly in the field of HR technology, payroll automation, recruiting, leave, attendance and performance management.Keka's headquarters is located in Madhapur, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, with offices located in Singapore and Seattle, Washington. Keka currently serves clients in 150 countries.

Excelacom, Inc. is an American multinational company specializing in consulting and technology solutions for communications and media providers. Its prominent software products include the Century suite of telecom business software, that enables clients to manage their data and technology infrastructure, and streamline their business processes to deliver their products and services to customers. Excelacom provides consulting to various telecommunication companies such as Charter Communications, Comcast, Verizon Communications, etc.Excelacom was founded in the year 2000, and is headquartered in Reston, Virginia in the United States. It has offices in North America and Europe, and a technology center in India. It is a partner of Amazon Web Services in providing technology solutions.

= Consulting =

Excelacom's consulting services to its clients cover various areas of telecommunications, including software development, quality assurance / testing of hardware and software, data analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence / machine learning, etc. Excelacom provides contractors / consultants at various levels, specializing in many fields. The consulting business covers technology, agile software development lifecycle, business transformation, and other services.

= Solutions =

Excelacom's product offering for its clients includes the Century suite of telecom software. It provides a unified view of customer and infrastructure data for managing orders, quotes, and contracts, along with the rollout and provisioning of products and services for both mass-market and complex enterprise offerings and bundles. It includes AI-enabled OSS/BSS with automated service and order orchestration, configure, price and quote, customer relationship management, and enterprise product catalog.

= Locations =

Excelacom has a presence in the following locations:United States:

Reston, Virginia (head office)

Denver, Colorado

Los Angeles, California

Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaOther:

Toronto, Canada

Mexico City, Mexico

San Juan, Puerto Rico

London, United Kingdom

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Munich, Germany

Prague, Czech Republic

Chennai, India (technology development center).

= See also =

Telecommunications

Charter Communications

Comcast

Verizon Communications

Dish Network

= References =

Arctic7 is a video game developer based in Austin, Texas. It was founded by a trio of former EA developers Igor Efremov, Mark Rizzo, Alan Van Slyke.

On February 16, 2022, it was announced that Igor Efremov, Mark Rizzo, and Alan Van Slyke; a trio of former EA developers had left to form their own studio Arctic7. The headquarters to be located in Austin Texas. A month later, Arctic had secured a $2 million seed round of investment led by VC firm Grishin Robotics to fund the AAA vision. The company then opened a new development studio in Montenegro in June 2022. Choosing former Sperasoft production director, Kedhrin Gonzalez to be the new studio head.In March 2023, The company appointed John Burns as chief commercial officer and Felix Jorge as chief communication officer. Later that month it had acquired two studios; Star Fort Games and Narwhal Studios with the aim to expand business operations in gaming and into media production. Few months later in August, the company announced another studio opening this time in Barcelona, Spain.

David Pearson is a British physicist and computer scientist. He has first-class degrees in physics and theoretical physics from London University, Imperial College of Science and Technology, Royal College of Science and in computer science from the University of Cambridge, where he did his PhD postgraduate research in computational fluid dynamics and the resolution of time-based three-dimensional matrices of second-order partial differential equation sets, on the Ferranti Atlas and English Electric KDF9 in collaboration with the Met Office.

He was the first of his family to attend university. Whilst still at university, he also performed early work for British Steel in the use of high frequency oscillators in the measurement of surface roughness in a continuous strip steel rolling mill in order to enable high quality continuous enameling. He is an Associate of the Royal College of Science. He joined International Computers Limited in 1968 and became Head of Software Engineering.

In 1977 he joined Bell-Northern Research in Ottawa and Palo Alto California and became Director of Advanced Development.

In 1981 he joined the ranks of the early-80s hitech entrepreneurs and became the co-founder and President of Orcatech, one of the world's first intelligent graphics workstation companies which he took public on the TSX. Later he joined a European venture capital consortium to strengthen some of their young investments. He then went on to become the founding Chief Executive of the Strathclyde Institute in Glasgow, Scotland, Senior Director of Scottish Enterprise and Chief Executive for the economic development agency for Norfolk and Waveney. Before moving back to Canada, he spent three years as Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Industrial Society, later to become the Work Foundation think tank. He has Canadian and British citizenships.

In designing the initial architecture of the CADES environment, Pearson looked to parallels with the leading hardware computer-aided design systems of the time, even attempting the use of graphics in the design process. CADES was one of the first effective software engineering environments to be used for the development of large-scale software. After 30 years, the system was still in use by Fujitsu to maintain the ICL operating system.

At the end of 1977, Pearson moved to Bell-Northern Research Laboratories in Ottawa, Canada, and became Director of the laboratory's Advanced Development teams in Palo Alto, Raleigh NC and Ottawa. Whilst at BNR his primary focus was on leading research programmes working on heuristic design and development technologies for Northern Telecom digital communications products.His key research programmes included artificial intelligence techniques applied to dense electronic designs, a virtual graphics machine global standard, software engineering techniques for high-performance Digital Multiplex System products, and computer-aided design strategies for locally intelligent products.

During this time he was a science and technology adviser to the Canadian government and served as a member of the Science and Engineering Research Council for Canada.

In 1981, with a small number of BNR colleagues, Pearson left to found Orcatech Inc. one of the first companies specialising in the design and development of raster-based high resolution intelligent graphics workstations for the computer-aided engineering market. In the early 1980s, the availability of bit-slice and 16-bit microprocessors started to revolutionise personal computing and high resolution computer graphics terminals which now increasingly became intelligent, semi-standalone and standalone workstations. Graphics and application processing were increasingly migrated to the intelligence in the workstation or PC rather than continuing to rely on central mainframe and mini-computers. Pearson and his colleagues recognized the opportunity these microprocessors offered to graphics technology over the old technologies of storage tube and refresh vector graphics arrangements Orcatech was at the leading edge of what is now recognized as modern high resolution computer graphics. The Orca 3000 was based on Motorola 68000 and AMD bit-slice processors and had Unix as its operating system. It was targeted squarely at the sophisticated end of the design engineering sector and included General Motors, Nortel, Douglas Cardinal, architect, Boeing and Lockheed as clients

In 1986 Pearson moved back to the UK to become the first Chief Executive of the Strathclyde Institute, a research and consultancy company focusing on computer-based design and manufacturing systems and based in Glasgow, Scotland. In establishing the Institute, Pearson's partners were the University of Strathclyde, the Scottish Development Agency, Hewlett Packard, Group Bull and Honeywell. During his six years as Chief Executive, the Institute advised some of the world’s leading companies in the computer-based production of computers, jet engine manufacture, automotive assembly, food and beverage processing, chemicals and pharmaceuticals. He was also the author of one of the definitive guides to Computer Integrated Manufacturing, published by the Financial Times. Concurrently, Pearson was also Professor in Management at Strathclyde University in Glasgow and a government adviser on company startup policy, seed funding.

Dihydroxyamine (or Azanediol) is an inorganic compound and hypothetical compound with the formula (HO)2NH. This compound is hypothetically formed by reprotonation of its tautomer, azinic acid (ONH2OH).

SkillPointe is an American career exploration platform that supports in-demand skilled trades.

The platform was created in 2020 by Todd Wilson, who spent 15 years as the chief financial officer of NASCAR.Wilson has said he started Skillpointe to help reshape public perception of skilled trades as “an opportunity, not a stereotype.”

Skillpointe helps introduce users to skills-based careers, connects them with nearby training programs, and shares job openings.Skillpointe focuses on skills-based careers that are in high demand, have high earnings potential, and require a relatively low amount of training.SkillPointe coordinates a national database of more than 50,000 training programs from community colleges, trade programs and technical schools. The site also aggregates more than 300,000 active job openings.SkillPointe focuses on careers that can be attained through trade school, apprenticeship, earn-and-learn programs, certifications and community college degrees.

The SkillPointe Foundation, the nonprofit arm of SkillPointe, has raised more than $2 million and funded more than 650 scholarships nationwide.

Solagran Limited is an Australian pharmaceutical company which has developed a range of biologically active therapeutic substances derived from the live elements of green needles of the species of conifer tree known as Bioeffectives.

Solagran brings together a significant history [1]. Research into Bioeffectives has been undertaken for a period of approximately 80 years involving more than 3.5 million PhD. and DSc. research hours (encompassing 74 PhD.s and 80 DSc.s), making it arguably the most substantial botanicals research program ever undertaken. The extent of the effort is evidenced by the fact that the company's intellectual property encompasses 22 patents [2].

The Bioeffectives story began in Russia in the early 1930s. Intrigued by the vitality of conifer trees that remain disease free in temperature extremes ranging from ± 40 degrees Celsius, and in daylight of between 2 and 22 hours per day, a scientific team at the St Petersburg Forest Technical Academy began its investigation into the composition of the conifer tree needles. They discovered that, in conifer trees just as in our own bodies, specific combinations of compounds are responsible for health and vital functions.

During World War II, a precursor to Bioeffective A, one of the company's Bioeffectives, was approved by the Russian Surgeon General for use by the military and civilian population as a multivitamin, anti-bacterial wound-healing substance. According to Solagran, it also helped save many lives during the 900-day siege of Leningrad (now St Petersburg).

Over the following decades, new products were developed and trialled in leading Russian and European institutions for medical, cosmetic, agricultural and veterinary applications. Between 1950 and 1975, several Bioeffectives were entered into the Russian Pharmacopoeia and used on a national scale. Bioeffectives were also used with great success to treat people exposed to radiation as a result of the Chernobyl disaster.

In 1990, one of the leaders of the research effort in the Soviet Union, Dr Vagif Soultanov, now Executive Chairman of Solagran, went to Australia to work at their Government's peak scientific body, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, as part of an inter-government scientific exchange programme.

In 1995, the Australian company Solagran was formed to fund the ongoing R&D effort. In 1998, ownership of all intellectual property associated with Bioeffectives was transferred to Solagran. After over three decades of working in the pharmaceutical industry Solagrans managing director gave his position to his brother in-law after the passing of his wife.

The company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 2003. Since then, in conjunction with the St Petersburg Forest Technical Academy, Solagran has completed a large number of pre-clinical and clinical trials.

Solagran was a public company. Its shares are widely owned.

Solagran (stock code:SLA) was listed on the ASX. Its securities were also traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (stock code: SLA.F).

In contrast to conventional pharmaceuticals, Bioeffectives display multifaceted therapeutic activity. To date, successful clinical trials have been conducted with respect to a number of medical conditions including liver diseases, neurological disorders, gastrointestinal problems, and colds and flu, to name just a few.

The efficacious nature of Bioeffectives is at odds with conventional medicine. Mainstream pharmacology dictates that the active ingredient should be a single molecule, or small number of molecules. Side-effects are an accepted consequence of potency. In fact, pharmacologists speak of efficacy to side-effect ratios. The fact that Bioeffectives display such a high degree of efficacy, while causing few if any side-effects, is anathema to the industry.

Bioeffectives variously contain compounds known as polyprenols, long-chain isoprenoid alcohols that play a vital role in cell metabolism. Polyprenols are similar to compounds found in the cells of humans and animals known as dolichols. Research indicates that ingested polyprenols are metabolised by human and animal liver into dolichols which then take part in the dolichol phosphate cycle, which is why Bioeffectives are so easily assimilated by humans and animals, and have such high efficacy and low toxicity.

The isolation of Bioeffectives involves patented extraction technology. The process uses a soft extraction procedure that enables the polyprenols to be extracted without destroying their biologically active properties.

The manufacture of Bioeffectives is a key component of Solagran's intellectual property.

Solagran products are manufactured by SibEX, a specialist manufacturer of plant-based extracts headquartered in Tomsk in central Siberia. The facility is the world's first and, at this stage, only commercial polyprenols manufacturing facility [3].

The following Solagran products are commercialised:

Ropren has been the subject of extensive trials to determine its efficacy and safety in the treatment of liver disease [4]. In 2007, Ropren was approved by the Russian Ministry of Health for entry into the Russian Pharmacopoeia as an effective treatment for liver disease[5]. As such, it is the only natural medication of Russian origin to be registered in Russia for over 20 years.

The trials in Russia also showed that Ropren had wider application than liver disease. This included the ability to normalise immune response and normalise cholesterol levels, as well as alleviate the symptoms of neurodegenerative disorders (including Alzheimer's disease[6], Parkinson's disease), alcoholism [7], drug addiction and depression. A trial conducted at the Brain Sciences Institute at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, reported in 2006, confirmed certain neurocognitive effects of Ropren identified previously in Russia [8].

Solagran was awarded a Manufacturing License in 2008 [9]. In January 2010, the company received from the Russian Health Control Authority a Pharmaceutical Wholesale Distribution License. Commercial sales of Ropren in Russia for the treatment of a number of liver diseases commenced in February 2010 [10].

Approximately 50 human clinical trials in relation to Bioeffective A have so far been conducted in Russia at various prestigious scientific institutions including the St. Petersburg S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy and the St. Petersburg Scientific Research Institute of Radiation Hygiene.

No side-effects from the use of Bioeffective A were evident, except for six cases of individual intolerance when it was applied topically in concentrations well above that required for therapeutic efficacy to elicit an adverse reaction.

A 2006 review by Dr Vladimir G. Bespalov of the N.N. Petrov State Scientific Institute of Oncology presented the results of studies of CGNC and CGNC-based products as used in various fields of medicine.[11]

Bioeffective A has been listed on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods since 2006 [12].

Current major studies into Bioeffective A are being undertaken in conjunction with:

N.N. Petrov State Scientific Institute of Oncology at the Russian Ministry of Health in St. Petersburg

Skvortsova-Stephanova Psychiatric Hospital in St. Petersburg

Pasteur Institute in St. PetersburgIn conjunction with both the Pasteur Institute and the N.N. Petrov Institute of Oncology, Solagran is currently undertaking a series of phased multi-centre clinical trials aimed at achieving full pharmaceutical registration of Bioeffective A in Europe.

Bioeffective A has been available for purchase and use in both Australia and New Zealand since 2007 as Bioeffective A 320 capsules.

Solagran Limited. Annual Report 2009

Solagran Limited. Annual Report 2008

Solagran Limited. Annual Report 2007

Solagran Limited. Annual Report 2006

RM Research Pty Ltd. Solagran Limited research report (October 2007)

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SYNERGY SCIENCE: Solagran and Bioeffectives [13]

Mashroom Ltd is an online lettings service and parent company of Tepilo.com and Emoov.co.uk. Founded in 2018, it purchased Emoov & Tepilo to complement its online lettings platform in 2019.

Mashroom was founded by Stepan Dobrovolskiy in February 2018. In March 2018, Tepilo was sold to Emoov and became a subsidiary of Emoov. Emoov subsequently went into administration in December 2018. The Emoov brand was acquired by Mashroom Ltd. in December 2018.

Mashroom - Lettings Service

Rekky is a social media platform that aggregates users’ photos and check-ins from Instagram, Facebook and Foursquare to provide users with venue recommendations based on where their friends have been. It is currently only available on iOS. Users log in with their social media accounts and their content will automatically pull from the sources.

Users can also follow “tastemakers”. The platform currently includes The New Potato, Camille Becerra, Harley Viera-Newton and The Misshapes.The app has been called competition for Yelp and has been described as a cross between Instagram and Foursquare.

EnergyCS is a Monrovia, California-based company specializing in integration and controls for high-energy, large format batteries. The company provides battery management systems for lithium-ion batteries and other advance energy storage technologies and is active in the electric vehicle and stationary energy storage space.

EnergyCS is also a pioneer in the area of PHEV (Plug-in hybrid Electric Vehicles). The company produced the first lithium-ion powered plug-in Prius.

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Maid to Clean is a green cleaning service company based in Alexandria, Virginia. It was founded in 1996 by Cinderella Bermudez.Maid to Clean is known for using environmentally friendly practices in both residential and commercial cleaning. It operates primarily in the Northern Virginia and Washington metropolitan area.

Maid to Clean was founded in 1996 by Cinderella Bermudez as Cinderella Services.During the COVID-19 pandemic, the company temporarily suspended operations and sent its staff home. Before the pandemic, the company had a clientele of over 200 and owned its primary assets. Despite the halt in services, some clients continued their payments.By June 2020, the company resumed operations with an initial staff of 35, expanding to 40 by August. Bermudez, along with her management team, guided the company's transition during this period.Maid to Clean is affiliated with Cleaning For A Reason and Association of Residential Cleaning Services International.

CoFluent Design is a supplier of electronic system-level (ESL) modeling and simulation software. CoFluent is headquartered in Nantes, France, and has sales offices in Paris, France, San Jose, California, and Tokyo, Japan.

Original CoFluent technology development was initiated by the Ecole polytechnique of the University of Nantes in France by Professor Jean-Paul Calvez and his research team. The technology represents 20 years of research on a methodology for the design of electronic systems called MCSE (French for Méthodologie de Conception de Systèmes Electroniques), which is in the public domain .In 2003, CoFluent was spun off as an independent company.In 2007, CoFluent raised funds from venture capital firms. CoFluent Design key people include CEO, Stephane Leclercq, and Director, Vincent Perrier.

CoFluent Design provides system modeling and simulation solutions that enable embedded system and chip designers to imagine and validate new concepts and architectures.

In 2011, CoFluent Design was acquired by Intel. Under the terms of the acquisition, CoFluent Studio has also become the property of Intel. All CoFluent employees have also been picked up by Intel and will continue to provide customer support.

CoFluent Studio is a visual model-driven engineering (MDE) software for modeling and simulating complex multi-core hardware/software systems. Graphical input is based on the MCSE notations, a domain-specific language (DSL) for describing electronic system behavioral and architectural models with time and performance properties. MCSE is very similar to the MARTE unified modeling language (UML) profile and SysML. CoFluent Studio generates transaction-level modeling SystemC code for early architecture exploration and performance analysis. It is based on the Eclipse modeling framework (EMF) technology.

CoFluent Reader is a free CoFluent model viewer and simulation player.

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Pacific Century Regional Developments Limited is a Singapore-based company owned by Hong Kong's Richard Li, son of Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka Shing.

PCRD Limited focus is a telecommunications services provider, as well as sales and services activities. It is also involved in:

investment and development of properties

technology-related businesses (Internet and interactive multimedia services)

computer, engineering and other technical services, and hotel operations

PCRD operates in across Asia, in the following countries:

Singapore

Pacific Century Regional Developments

Hong Kong

PCCW

Hong Kong Telecom

CSL Mobile

Netvigator

Now TV

Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited

HK Television Entertainment (ViuTV)

FWD Life Insurance Company (Bermuda) Limited

PineBridge Investments

Japan

Four Seasons Hotel Tokyo at Marunouchi

China

Vietnam

India

Chairman - Richard Li Tzar Kai

Chief Financial Officer - Peter Anthony Allen

Secretary - Jeslyn Heng Fook Pyng

PCRD Profile of Pacific Century Regional Development Ltd from Business.com