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"Since the start of the calendar year, Sentiance has added 25 new clients, a significant acceleration from 2018 client win levels. Of these new clients, 23 are Proof of Concepts and two have moved into roll out stage. These clients are predominantly in the automotive, health, insurance, banking and entertainment industries, and include Autoliv, Uber, Careem, Absa, InsureApp and Trov. Given the sensitive nature of Sentiance's client partnerships and the type of disruptive service options currently being developed, many of Sentiance's client relationships and initiatives remain at present strictly confidential."
https://www.nexexchange.com/announcements?newsid=4349568
Chris Akers comment on twitter:
SENTIANCE POWERS AUTOLIV SAFETY SCORE - Sentiance.
This is very significant news and a great boost for High Growth Capital plc to be renamed MESH Holdings plc tomorrow at the AGM
Antwerp/New York – May 14, 2019 Sentiance is happy to announce the partnership with Autoliv Inc., the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems. Leveraging amongst others Sentiance’s platform, Autoliv has launched its Safety Score application. Autoliv Safety Score is created to help ride-sharing companies, insurers, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) derive a unique understanding of an individual’s safe-driving patterns and provide a framework for coaching and improving safe-driving habits, in order to save more lives in every day traffic.
As part of the solution, Autoliv’s Safety Score uses Sentiance’s motion intelligence SDK to monitor the movement of a driver’s mobile device and gain certain insights into their driving events. The events are then further processed and validated through Autoliv safety knowledge, providing the user with a personalized 3-digit safe driver score. Drivers with higher scores exhibit more safe-driving behaviors over an array of data points including turning, acceleration, braking, speed, and distractions.
“We have established a great working relationship with Sentiance,” says Christoffer Malm, Autoliv Director of Digital Business and Mobility. “Many insurers, ride hail companies and car OEMs need a full end-to-end solution. The combination of the Sentiance underlying technology with Autoliv’s proprietary safety algorithms is a great fit, allowing to create very use case specific solutions which also take into account geographical and cultural fine-tuning.”
Sentiance’s insights allow companies to better understand the context of a driver, helping them more accurately predict risk profiles. Through its proprietary platform, Sentiance leverages sensor data to identify driver’s patterns and behaviors to help companies to assess different factors of safe driving.
Autoliv, Inc. is the worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, and through its subsidiaries develops and manufactures automotive safety systems for all major automotive manufacturers in the world. Together with its joint ventures, Autoliv has more than 66,000 employees in 27 countries. In addition, the Company has 12 technical centers around the world, with 19 test tracks. The Company’s shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: ALV) and its Swedish Depository Receipts on Nasdaq Stockholm (ALIVsdb). For more information about Autoliv, please visit company website www.autoliv.com
The Company is pleased to announce that Mark De Smedt, CEO of HGC, has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Sentiance N.V., with immediate effect. HGC currently has a 15% holding in Sentiance N.V. and the potential to increase this holding to up to a majority stake, should it exercise the Acquisition Option described in the Company's announcement of 12 April 2019.
Jens Zimmermann, Chairman of HGC, commented: "The appointment of Mark will allow for greater connectivity between the two organisations as the Company implements its strategic objective to create and operate a mutually reinforcing network of complementary proprietary technology and content assets."
she gonna blow
Driver profiling is one of the core functionalities of the Sentiance platform, and increasing passenger satisfaction by improving their driver's skills for a "ride hailing company" is one of the application examples illustrated in the following article: https://www.sentiance.com/2019/03/29/driving-score/
Keeping this in mind, have a look at the following post by Ali Nawab,on the same day he joined the Toronto office ("Really excited to be part of the @sentiance team in Canada. @kiwidotai and @sentiance share a common vision of the future and we look forward to driving real value") in which he shares his thoughts on Uber:
https://anawab.com/uber-and-my-thoughts/
A disclaimer is added: "this post is my personal view, and does not reflect the opinion of any any company I may be affiliated with in the past or present. It’s definitely not investment advice, please Do Your Own Research"
HOWEVER, it's either a Freudian slip or I'm reading too much into this but surely the most telling remark is:
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"Their new CEO seems like the sort of guy I’d like to go work for, which bodes well as I look at the future of the business."
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Roll on the AGM next week, name change and hopefully news soon of the company taking up their option to acquire a majority stake in Sentiance.
Great article posted by Chris Akers on twitter:
Our research on the impact of AI on the UK economy shows the primary contributor to the UK's economic gains between 2017 and 2030 will come from AI-driven consumer product enhancements and automation of routine tasks – accounting for £232bn.
https://www.pwc.co.uk/issues/connected-intelligence/artificial-intelligence.html
Bring on the majority stake in Sentiance!!!
HGC's vision is to incubate and unite emerging technology brands that are conceived to provide people with more meaningful experiences. In order to support this strategy, the Company is pleased to announce the following initiatives.
Anne Stratford, Chief Legal & Commercial Officer Anne has 20 years' experience in the financial services sector. She spent three years post qualification as a solicitor with Slaughter and May, before moving in-house with Cantor Fitzgerald, where she was ultimately appointed Chief Operating Officer of the retail derivatives division. She held this position for five years through the challenges of the global financial crisis and the following period of intense regulatory change and scrutiny.
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Tom Vandendooren, Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer Tom joins the Company from Sentiance N.V. where he has been Chief Business Development Officer since 2016, focused on the Asia market. Prior to Sentiance, Tom held a number of senior commercial positions across a variety of industries and technology sectors, in both international corporate and start-up companies. Before joining Sentiance, Tom spent 11 years with Microsoft as regional business group lead in respect of multiple product lines.
Michael Kogeler, SVP Technology & Operations Michael joins the Company from Intralot S.A., a global leader in the gaming industry, where he was the Group COO responsible for global operations, the technology roadmap and the overall business growth strategy. Before Intralot, Michael worked for over 14 years at Microsoft where he held various executive international management and business strategy roles. His 26 years of overall professional experience also include working for companies like McKinsey & Company, KPMG and IBM Consulting. Michael brings a wealth of experience in building operations at a global scale and driving partnerships in fast-growing, emerging technologies and content driven businesses.
Manjit Ram, Interim Finance Director Manjit joins the Company with immediate effect, initially on an interim basis until the end of calendar 2019. Manjit has extensive capital markets, accounting and treasury function experience. Previously Manjit worked for 16 years at Man Financial, followed by a period as Head of Foreign Exchange and Treasury at SocGen Corporate and Investment Banking in London. Manjit is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA).
Follows last weeks appointment of Mike Power " is currently Chief Operations Officer, Technology & Operations at the Development Bank of Singapore Limited (DBS), one of Asia's largest banking groups. Mike leads the ongoing digital transformation within DBS across a team of 2,000+ dedicated members. DBS is recognised by global industry peers as having one of the most comprehensive digital transformation programmes for a bank, encompassing being digital to the core, journey thinking, culture change, and a methodology to quantify the financial i
Thanks Wolveraim. Looks like the upward momentum has returned - AGM a week tomorrow will be interesting.
I live overseas so will not be attending, but I would be grateful if anyone who does posts a brief summary!
Download the app "Journeys". You can experience it a bit for yourself.
Applied behavioral science article posted on website yesterday:
https://www.sentiance.com/2019/04/29/behavioral-science/
Robert Johan Henri Bonnier
Telecoms services provider
Age 29; valued at £11m
If you have ever used the freephone service Scoot to find a telephone number, rather than paying directory inquiries, you have indirectly contributed to the wealth of Robert Johan Henri Bonnier.
The Dutch-born British resident is chief executive of Freepages, the company which owns Scoot. It was valued at £200m by the Alternative Investment Market two years ago, making Bonnier - the man with the vision and, most importantly, the shares - worth at least £10m. He has eight other directorships related to the Freepages group.
Bonnier and his fellow executives stand to make themselves even richer: they are currently negotiating the possibility of swapping share options worth £10.8m which have yet to realise their value for options that are already showing a £2.85m profit.
The existing share options were issued in 1997 'in lieu of high salaries and bonuses that these key individuals could demand' but 'are no longer providing a sufficient incentive'. Bonnier could make as much as £2.5m within the next three years.
It will appeal to his entrepreneurial spirit, which first emerged at 14 when he started dabbling in the Amsterdam stock market. His original stake was a £600 compensation cheque for a botched operation after he broke his fingers playing football. He was immediately hooked: 'I was fascinated by corporate news from an early age. It wasn't the money side - it was what makes a business run and how people build companies,' he says.
School holidays were spent working on the Amsterdam stock exchange; his degree in business administration from Schiller International University was followed by three years in corporate finance at Swiss Bank Corporation in London. In London he met Chris Akers, who went on to become chairman of Leeds United. Akers introduced him to Nigel Robertson, one of a trio of businessmen who had come up with the idea of a freephone directory but needed backers. Bonnier became chief operating officer and has overseen the dramatic growth of the company.
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Dutch publisher VNU increased its stake in Scoot's Dutch and French operations to 75 percent in an £8 million deal in December; Bonnier claims that Scoot will be bigger than Yellow Pages.
https://suite.endole.co.uk/insight/company/11867509-rrnb-capital-ltd
Interesting his name comes up under RRNB Capital and he has links to Akers
In London he met Chris Akers, who went on to become chairman of Leeds United. Akers introduced him to Nigel Robertson, one of a trio of businessmen who had come up with the idea of a freephone directory but needed backers. Bonnier became chief operating officer and has overseen the dramatic growth of the company.
If this comes of NEX
and gets a LSE main market listing I reckon it will fly
could be coming
Something big building up here - additional warrants at 2.5p. (Just like the Bonniers 2.5p and 6p warrants)
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Funds being accumulated to acquire majority stake in Sentiance. AGM 15th May
How refreshing to see large stakeholders pay a significant premium to current price upon placement!
Hi All, if you get a chance, check out the linked in profile of Toon Vanparys (Sentiance CEO) and specifically the link to a driver profiling article posted a few weeks ago on the company blog . I couldn't help but notice that one of the 'likes' is by Thomas Bauters whose responsibilities at Burger King include:
"central group buying strategies, supplier base design, negotiations, group benchmarking and volume leveraging"
A highly tenuous connection, but in light of MacDonalds recently proposed acquisition (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47722259) of AI start-up - Dynamic Yield - for $300m, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that their biggest competitor is likely to follow suit... Just idle speculation, so feel free to shoot me down in flames. Or a flame grilled whopper ??
Definitely! The increased exposure that the main market provides and media attention generated by a listing will be massive for the company. Especially as they've recently increased their holdings in AI specialist Sentiance. It's a red hot sector and it wouldn't surprise me if Sentiance achieve a $1bn valuation in the not too distant future...
and if you're right that move to the main market will open HASH up to more investors too, there's a fair few who are unable to trade NEX stocks.
Appointment of WHL suggests HASH are seeking a main market listing. Should generate a fair bit of media attention and underpin current momentum
igh Growth Capital PLC
18 April 2019
18 April 2019
High Growth Capital plc
Appointment of NEX Corporate Advisor and Broker
High Growth Capital plc is pleased to announce that it has appointed Whitman Howard Limited as its NEX Corporate Advisor and Broker with immediate effect.
The Directors of HGC accept responsibility for this announcement.
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why the sudden jump in price?
being hoovered up ,all want to have a slice
really? realistic?
Big buy just shown ,we may do very well out of these .