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FanVestor™ – the First Patented Fan-Sourced Fundraising Platform that is SEC Compliant – Wins “Crowdfunding Innovation Award” in 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Awards Program
FanVestor, the first of its kind fan-engagement marketplace to enable fan-sourced fundraising for sports, music, and entertainment celebrity brands, announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Crowdfunding Innovation Award” in the 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by FinTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global FinTech market today.
FanVestor is the first of its kind fan engagement marketplace, enabling fans to become equity partners with their favorite celebrity brands in the sports, entertainment and media industries.
“In short,” Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) Michael Golomb says, “we have developed robust technology that will be used to facilitate bona fide securities offerings in a 1 Trillion Dollar market. Our technology will permit qualified retail investors to participate in institutional quality funding opportunities in the sports and entertainment sector to enable the management of commercially oriented fan engagement marketplaces for celebrity Brands. Our business model creates heightened engagement among fans, talent and sports franchises, introduces new investment opportunities for professionally managed capital markets and allows us to unlock the potential of our technology assets. We have an experienced management team of seasoned entrepreneurs, technologists and advisors with numerous key industry partnerships.”
Celebrity brands, film studios, sports and music stars can now raise capital utilizing SEC compliant financial instruments (with associated perks for fans) for any number of projects, whether it be for a new celebrity clothing line, a new concert tour, or an album. Fans now have the ability to be an investment partner with their favorite celebrity and reap the rewards.
“FanVestor is completely redefining what it means to be a fan,” said Founder and CEO, Michael Golomb. “Imagine if you could partner with your favorite celebrity or professional athlete. What if you could be a part owner in your favorite sports team or music group? Have access to limited perks and experiences from your favorite star? Now you can. With our patented technology, our platform provides access to exclusive brand projects like never before. We are absolutely thrilled to receive this industry recognition from FinTech Breakthrough for our innovative approach to a combined fan engagement and investment experience.”
The FinTech Breakthrough Awards is the premier awards program founded to recognize the FinTech innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Banking, Personal Finance, Lending, Payments, Investments, RegTech, InsurTech and many more. The 2020 FinTech Breakthrough Award program attracted more than 3,750 nominations from across the globe.
“FanVestor embodies the spirit of the FinTech Breakthrough Awards with a completely new market approach, with compelling new technology that provides fans at all economic levels an opportunity to financially participate in their favorite brand’s projects,” said James Johnson, Managing Director of FinTech Breakthrough. “This platform is truly a first-of-its-kind to provide SEC compliant equity capital raises and takes the crowdfunding model to the next level. We are proud to recognize the Company with our 2020 FinTech Breakthrough ‘Crowdfunding Innovation Award.’”
In addition to crowdfunding, FanVestor allows fans to participate in exclusive opportunities such as music tours, albums, charitable events, movie productions, new TV shows, sports stadiums, and many more limited events. The FanVestor platform is a commercially viable and institutionally credible fin-tech platform, utilizing the latest Distributed Ledger Technology (“DLT”), Machine Learning, and Big Data technologies.
Traditional capital markets, like Nasdaq and NYSE, have long provided companies with capital for projects and liquidity for investors. FanVestor provides new routes for accessing the potential value in underserved markets.
SOURCE FanVestor
LONDON, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Inspired Thinking Group (ITG), the AI-enabled, agile content business, has announced a strategic partnership with creative intelligence startup Sundogs, leveraging AI to deliver greater creative performance for its global clients.
The partnership harnesses Sundogs’ deep expertise in AI-driven consumer understanding, combining AI with data and creative capabilities to see inside ads and maximize creative performance. This methodology directly feeds and influences ITG’s own AI-enabled, agile content model.
Joining forces with Sundogs empowers ITG to know what content to create to resonate most effectively with different audience segments, on different channels, and in different markets — ensuring that content is crafted to maximize creative performance, from the point of production.
“This feels like a very natural meeting of our two companies, given Sundogs’ unique ability to enhance creative effectiveness through AI, which marries perfectly with our own AI-enabled, agile content model,” said Andrew Swinand, ITG CEO. “Partnering with Sundogs makes us better and smarter in the way we craft content, equipping our clients with a deeper understanding of their audience, and the ability to deliver intelligent creative campaigns at speed — with each asset tailored to meet the requirements of every possible customer interaction.”
Already working with global clients such as Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), PUMA, KFC and more, ITG’s partnership with Sundogs will uncover new opportunities for creative effectiveness, including the development of a scoring system to identify assets most likely to drive performance, and enhanced templates for content automation through its Gartner-recognized Storyteq platform.
Storyteq was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for both Content Marketing Platforms and Digital Asset Management — the only vendor worldwide to be recognized as a Leader in both categories.
Ben Jones, Sundogs CEO & Founder, commented, “What’s happening inside of video content is the new frontier of performance. We know more about how people take in information, what moves them, and what creates lasting business impact than ever before. Making sure that is applied at scale and speed is what makes this partnership with ITG so exciting.”
About Inspired Thinking Group (ITG)
ITG is the leading Halo content partner to businesses around the world. It eliminates marketing complexity and delivers AI-enabled, agile content at speed and scale to drive business growth and reduce marketing costs. Clients include Heineken, Microsoft, Samsung, Haleon, KFC, John Lewis Partnership and more. ITG employs over 2,000 people throughout its global offices and its Storyteq platform is recognized by Gartner as a global Leader.
About Sundogs
Sundogs was founded by Ben Jones, who pioneered creative guidance as the founder of Unskippable Labs at Google, and entrepreneur Jonathan Savitch, who brought rich content to flight shopping at Routehappy, and acquired by ATPCO. Leveraging the power of creative storytelling, data, and AI, Sundogs delivers outstanding creative, backed by its team of Cannes-winning creatives, leading data scientists, and content strategists.
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STOCKHOLM, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Between 24 March 2025 and 28 March 2025 EQT AB (LEI code 213800U7P9GOIRKCTB34) (“EQT”) has repurchased in total 571,000 own ordinary shares (ISIN: SE0012853455).
The repurchases form part of the repurchase program of a maximum of 4,931,018 own ordinary shares for a total maximum amount of SEK 2,500,000,000 that EQT announced on 11 March 2025. The repurchase program, which runs between 12 March 2025 and 16 May 2025, is being carried out in accordance with the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 and the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 2016/1052.
EQT ordinary shares have been repurchased as follows:
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Date: |
Aggregated volume (number of shares): |
Weighted average share price per day (SEK): |
Aggregated transaction value (SEK):
|
|
24 March 2025 |
106,000 |
331.7656
|
35,167,153.60
|
|
25 March 2025 |
110,000 |
328.5135
|
36,136,485.00
|
|
26 March 2025 |
115,000 |
321.9059
|
37,019,178.50
|
|
27 March 2025 |
115,000 |
311.4573
|
35,817,589.50
|
|
28 March 2025 |
125,000 |
313.7998
|
39,224,975.00 |
|
Total accumulated over week 13 |
571,000 |
321.1303
|
183,365,381.60
|
|
Total accumulated during the repurchase program |
1,440,966 |
317.4781
|
457,475,190.19
|
All acquisitions have been carried out on Nasdaq Stockholm by Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB on behalf of EQT.
Following the above acquisitions and as of 28 March 2025, the number of shares in EQT, including EQT’s holding of own shares is set out in the table below.
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Ordinary shares |
Class C shares1
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Total
|
|
|
Number of issued shares2 |
1,241,510,911 |
496,056
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1,242,006,967
|
|
Number of shares owned by EQT AB3 |
61,365,157 |
–
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61,365,157
|
|
Number of outstanding shares |
1,180,145,754 |
496,056
|
1,180,641,810
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1) Carry one tenth (1/10) of a vote
2) Total number of shares in EQT AB, i.e. including the number of shares owned by EQT AB
3) EQT AB shares owned by EQT AB are not entitled to dividends or carry votes at shareholders’ meetings
A full breakdown of the transactions is attached to this announcement.
Contact
Olof Svensson, Head of Shareholder Relations, +46 72 989 09 15
EQT Press Office, press@eqtpartners.com, +46 8 506 55 334
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https://news.cision.com/eqt/r/repurchases-of-shares-by-eqt-ab-during-week-13–2025,c4128158
The following files are available for download:
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https://mb.cision.com/Main/87/4128158/3357232.pdf |
EQT Transactions 20250324 to 20250328 |
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EQT AB Group |
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PANAMA CITY, March 31, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — K9 Finance DAO, the leading liquid staking platform and largest validator on the Shiba Inu Layer-2 blockchain, Shibarium, is joining the Google Cloud for Startups Program, which will allow it to utilize Google Cloud credits and access Google Cloud’s infrastructure and technologies.. This will power the development of critical infrastructure on Shibarium by enhancing the ecosystem’s scalability, security, and liquidity through innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) solutions. Additionally, K9 Finance DAO’s membership in the Google for Startups Cloud Program will support the creation of AI-powered DAO governance and operational tools, such as an AI agent to streamline community participation, further strengthening K9 DAO’s role in the Shiba Inu ecosystem.
“We’re honored to join the Google for Startups Cloud Program,” said Buzz, K9 DAO lead. “This accelerates our mission to bring advanced decentralized finance tools to Shibarium’s infrastructure. It also gives significant room to innovate in the AI sector for the Shiba Inu community.”
K9 Finance DAO enables users to stake their BONE tokens, receiving liquid tokens in return that unlock a range of DeFi opportunities while keeping assets accessible.
As the largest validator on Shibarium, K9 Finance DAO secures the network with over 2.5 million BONE tokens delegated to its validator, maintaining a perfect 100% uptime, according to Shibarium’s validator data. This leadership role reinforces Shibarium’s decentralization and reliability. Additionally, K9 Finance holds the highest Total Value Locked (TVL) on Shibarium, currently at $1.31 million, as reported by DeFiLlama and https://defillama.com/chain/Shibarium, highlighting its dominance in the ecosystem’s DeFi landscape.
K9 DAO has also open-sourced all Shibarium blockchain data using Google’s BigQuery to give further transparency to the ecosystem and give future builders the tools they require to create a decentralized financial future within the Shib Inu community.
About K9 Finance DAO
K9 Finance DAO is the official liquid staking platform and largest validator on Shibarium, committed to advancing DeFi within the Shiba Inu ecosystem. By allowing BONE holders to stake their tokens, earn rewards, and participate in governance with liquid assets, K9 Finance drives innovation and strengthens Shibarium’s infrastructure. Learn more at https://www.k9finance.com.
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