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Capital MatchPoint, owned by NuQuest Inc. in Atlanta, connects entrepreneurs in search of funding with thousands of investors who use the site. A limited free version works like a classified ad: Business owners complete a data sheet, which is posted as a listing for potential investors to view. (Investors have their own listings on the site that entrepreneurs can peruse.)
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The service also includes access to a resource library that includes information about developing business plans, negotiating and other topics. A standard subscription plan, which runs $99 a month, uses an algorithm to match business owners with investors. Status updates let business owners know how many investors reviewed their profile and who is interested.
NuQuest says it verifies the investors' identities and makes sure they have the funds to meet certain Securities and Exchange Commission rules for these types of investments.
For Immediate Release: NuQuest Inc., | Capital MatchPoint.com Signs Agreement with Attune Inc. to Implement Intelligent Web Enterprise System that Assists Small to Mid-Cap Business Funding
May 10, 2011, NuQuest Inc., an Atlanta-based business development firm serving investors and capital seekers worldwide, today announced the signing of a business collaboration / partner agreement with Attune Inc. of Atlanta, GA, a leading-edge global provider of seamless, end-to-end internet software solutions with a team that has built world-wide information systems.
The agreement allows for immediate implementation of Attune’s proprietary Intelligent Web Based Enterprise System that provides NuQuest Inc.’s Capital MatchPoint web portal, www.capitalmatchpoint.com, the ability to rapidly scale up its internal business processes, while delivering an advanced version of its “Artificial Intelligence”, (AI), platform to its fast growing list of registered clientele on the Capital MatchPoint. The agreement calls for an equity position in NuQuest Inc. and an undisclosed royalty on certain revenue components.
The Capital MatchPoint business model automates a web-based social network and e-commerce system to aggregate business entrepreneurs seeking capital with professional funding sources worldwide creating a hyper-efficient marketplace. This “Investor Centric” web portal allows all types of investors including private equity, venture capital and commercial lenders to log in and in real time electronically locate specific types of prospects for funding from the growing base of capital seekers.
The first product enhancement will be a Business Plan and Data Sheet “Scoring” module to rate, score and assess a client’s overall funding readiness on a standardized intelligent system. By amassing information gleaned from their business plans and ancillary information, the data is scored for completeness, quality and quantity and combined with the rules determined by the Attune intelligent technology. Thus, the investor will be able to review a wealth of new statistical and analytical information designed to aid their assessment of further involvement. The application will be available early third quarter, 2011.
R. K. (Ken) Honeyman, President and CEO of NuQuest, Inc. | The Capital MatchPoint explains, “With the advent of this partnering and collaboration with Attune Inc., The Capital MatchPoint can now implement a full array of market-ready products which will expand our company revenues exponentially. Clients on both sides of the NuQuest business model will benefit immensely with these products designed to make the business of locating capital easier and more cost effective with emphasis on improved ROI. The capital seekers can position themselves far more visibly to attract funding and expand by having their data scored and forwarded to potential investors that utilize The Capital MatchPoint. The investment community, on the other hand, will be able to assess the capital seeker’s business knowing they have been screened on a standardized basis, which will greatly enhance their ability to locate and fund investment prospects.”
Mr. Honeyman continued, “The Capital MatchPoint has grown dramatically to date as a result of the proprietary matching algorithms that make the site a compelling force in the investment industry. The Attune information system addresses scalability of all the internal operations for not only NuQuest Inc., but also the hundreds of client companies that use the Capital MatchPoint to efficiently seek capital. This adds accretive valuation to the parent, NuQuest Inc., as we prepare for an eventual public event.”
Paul Harrison, CEO of Attune Inc. states, “It is both exciting and worthwhile to provide an information solution to help expand and support NuQuest Inc. and the Capital MatchPoint. Since entrepreneurs and larger growth oriented companies provide much of the economic opportunity and jobs in the United States today, this collaboration is timely and can be a new paradigm in the investment process. Attune believes that the Capital MatchPoint, through our intelligent web enterprise system, will deliver a unique and successful array of products and services for the financial services industry via the Capital MatchPoint.”
About NuQuest Inc.
NuQuest, Inc. is a business development and consulting practice located in Atlanta, Georgia. NuQuest Inc.’s principals visualized, built and launched the Capital MatchPoint web portal to access capital sources as fast and efficiently as possible for potential capital seekers to meet with potential professional funding sources.
Apart from other services, NuQuest Inc. assists companies seeking capital in early and mid-stage by providing business planning, networking, vendors, financing and buyout options so they may harvest a return through its proprietary AVSTM (Assessment / Valuation / Structure) business consultancy platform. This platform enables companies to assess their capital needs, gain an understanding of their business value and its sensitivity to key market variables, structure a fair offering that achieves the objective of entrepreneur and investor alike and packages that offering complete with all necessary documents and presentation materials so that is ready for presentation to investors.
About Attune, Inc.
Attune, Inc. is an advanced software and information services company located in Atlanta, Georgia that provides an intelligent web enterprise system and information solutions through its Attune System. The Attune System applies “Artificial Intelligence” and an array of business processes to manage massive information data points and provide decision support based on these transactions. The Attune System can be easily configured and tuned to meet highly specialized market and customer needs by delivering web based information solutions to the expanding social networks, business-to-business networks, and organizations in general that need to adapt, automate, and monitor information processes from the web-site throughout the enterprise for improved results.
CONTACT: Ken Honeyman
ken@capitalmatchpoint.com
(770) 883-4801
This news release may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these statements are meant to convey to the public the company's progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent management's opinion. While management believes such representation to be true and accurate based on the information available to the company, actual results may differ materially from those described. The company's operations and business prospects are always subject to risks and uncertainties.
NuQuest Inc. / The Capital MatchPoint Announces the Appointment of Randy Shipley, Chief Operating Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 30, 2010, NuQuest Inc., an Atlanta-based business development firm and majority owner/developer of the Capital MatchPoint, today announced the appointment of Randy Shipley as Chief Operating Officer. “NuQuest’s management team has been enhanced significantly with the addition of Mr. Shipley and certainly puts the Company in a favorable position as we continue to move forward with our ambitious initiatives. His experience in business development and particularly in the social networking market space gives NuQuest Inc. and the Capital MatchPoint a huge leg up on our competitors,” stated R.K. (Ken) Honeyman, President of NuQuest Inc.
“The Capital MatchPoint contains the perfect technology to enhance not only our core competencies but can be integrated into adjunct additions, which we’ll be developing with Randy’s guidance. The whole point of seeking future growth using these applications can be accretive to the value of NuQuest Inc., and I’m excited to have him join our ranks at this critical growth point,” Mr. Honeyman continued. Mr. Shipley has an extensive group of industry contacts that mesh well with additional business spheres that the Capital MatchPoint can serve. These companies can utilize the Capital MatchPoint’s technology and make their own revenue generators become more efficient. The technology can be used to match disparate market spaces: collectibles, real estate, luxury items, health care, etc. Mr. Shipley’s will integrate the Capital MatchPoint’s matching technology to build their social networks resulting in the monetization of these networks.
About Randy Shipley Mr. Shipley has over 30 years of sales and executive management experience providing leading edge technologies spanning services, software, outsourcing and equipment to Fortune 500 companies, broadcast television networks, internet backbone providers and the cable television industry. As the corporate officer in charge of sales, business development and marketing for Carrier Access, Mr. Shipley successfully grew revenues from less than $5 million a quarter pre-IPO stage to growth of over $40 million per quarter in less than two years with a market cap on the NASDAQ of over $2 billion. Mr. Shipley was recruited to run sales and business development for early stage start-up companies funded by venture capital firms including Kleiner Perkins, Norwest, Battery Partners and others. Mr. Shipley founded and created Trends Publishing in 2007 which focused on hyper marketing to targeted affluent communities via local social media networks. He was instrumental in the successful launch of Affluence.org, a web based social network for wealthy users.
About NuQuest Inc. NuQuest, Inc. is a business development and consulting practice located in Atlanta, Georgia. The NuQuest Capital MatchPoint web portal was built to access capital sources as fast and efficiently as possible. The Company offers the Capital MatchPoint as an investor-centric website that allows private investors to profile their capital investment requirements and electronically locate companies from our database of proprietary corporate capital seekers. In addition, NuQuest Inc. assists companies seeking capital in early and mid-stage by providing business planning, networking, vendors, financing, and public shells or buyout options to harvest a return through its proprietary AVSTM business consultancy platform.
CONTACT: Ken Honeyman
(770) 433-8250
This news release may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these statements are meant to convey to the public the company's progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent management's opinion. While management believes such representation to be true and accurate based on the information available to the company, actual results may differ materially from those described. The company's operations and business prospects are always subject to risks and uncertainties.
NuQuest Inc. |The Capital MatchPoint Announces Accomplished Milestones and Updates to the Capital MatchPoint
February 16, 2010, NuQuest Inc., an Atlanta-based business development firm, today announced a large number of timelines that have been met and the according deliverables have been accretive to The Capital MatchPoint’s success.
“Since we’ve overhauled the web portal in the third quarter of 2009, I’m pleased to announce that our web traffic has increased exponentially, our page visits and views have steadily shown a significant percentage improvement, in some cases as much as 200%. The amount of gross monies available for investment has increased by nearly $800 million, our number of investors has improved by 25% over the past 90 days, so understandably, we’re thrilled,” stated R.K. (Ken) Honeyman, President of NuQuest Inc.
“Additionally I attribute this to having a professional, dedicated team of web engineers from Mediacurrent that have really put The Capital MatchPoint on the internet map we’ve been fortunate to continue to improve the site by adding Karenworx, a leading copy and graphics design company. The new content and design has already paid dividends to our traffic increase. The site will have a new appearance soon to give it an updated look that will rival our competition," Mr. Honeyman continued.
“The capital markets whom we serve, have taken notice as well. NuQuest Inc. has engaged Source Capital Group Inc. at a critical inflexion point of change in our company's history. As our bankers, Source Capital provides us ancillary services and introductions to Industry partners not to mention a capital infusion. This comes at a time when The Capital MatchPoint must continue its growth curve as the money raised will be dedicated to expansion and internal growth,” Honeyman said.
CONTACT:
Ken Honeyman
(770) 883-4801
Dave Dambro
(941) 462-2728
This news release may contain forward-looking statements made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these statements are meant to convey to the public the company's progress, business opportunities and growth prospects, readers are cautioned that such forward-looking statements represent management's opinion. While management believes such representation to be true and accurate based on the information available to the company, actual results may differ materially from those described. The company's operations and business prospects are always subject to risks and uncertainties.