NexTech To Buy $2million in Bitcoin With Treasury
December 29 2020 - 6:30AM
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Vancouver B.C., CANADA -- New York, NY --
December 29th, 2020 -- InvestorsHub NewsWire
-- NexTech AR Solutions (NexTech) (OTCQB:
NEXCF) (CSE:
NTAR) (FSE: N29), a leading provider of virtual and augmented
reality (AR) experience technologies and services for eCommerce,
education, conferences and events today announced that it plans to
make an initial investment of $2million in Bitcoin and may add more
in 2021.
Nextech CEO Evan
Gappelberg comments “Our investment in bitcoin is part of our new
capital diversification and allocation strategy, with the intent to
maximize long-term value for our shareholders,” He continues “This
initial investment reflects our belief that bitcoin, is a long term
store of value and an attractive investment asset with more
long-term appreciation potential than holding cash which is
currently yielding 0.06%. Bitcoin is a digital version of gold
which has a total market capitalization of $10trillion versus
Bitcoins total market capitalization of only $500billion. We
think that as part of the digital transformation a paradigm shift
to digital gold is underway and that as Bitcoin is seen more and
more as a store of value, just like gold, it will catch up to
gold.”
In 2020 there has been
a new and accelerating widespread adoption of Bitcoin by mainstream
financial institutions such as; Guggenheim
Partners $530million, Mass
Mutual $100million,
Square, Inc. (SQ)
NYSE $50million and
the $1billion investment
by Microstrategy NASDAQ: MSTR, the
company feels that as the widespread adoption of Bitcoin continues,
the timing is right for this
move.
Recent Company Highlights in
2020:
December 21, 2020:
Nextech CEO Evan
Gappelberg buys 250,000 shares his fifth purchase in 2020 continues
to increase his position.
Company hires executives from major technology
companies including; Oracle, IBM, SAP, Cisco to support its
ambitious Asia Pacific and Japan product
rollout
December 15,
2020: Nextech
announced that it has received
conditional approval to list its common shares with the NEO
Exchange (“NEO”). Final approval is subject to the
Company fulfilling all of NEO’s listing requirements. Subject to
final approval by NEO, NexTech’s common shares are expected to be
listed on NEO on January 5, 2021.
December 11,
2020: Expanded into
China and Hired Steven Seet, as its Senior Director, Asia Pacific.
In his new role, Seet will utilize his vast network and industry
experience to support NexTech with its rapid expansion into Asia’s
MICE industry, which according to Allied Market research is valued
at $229 billion.
December 9th,
2020:
Announced the launch of a new
collaborative streaming solution with AI and AR enhancements, that
integrates with its existing Virtual Experience Platform (VEP) and
its ARitize SaaS offerings. NexTech will also offer the streaming
platform ‘ARoom’, as a stand-alone service externally similar to
Zoom, increasing the company's revenue potential for
2021.
December 8th,
2020: Announced that
the Canadian Society of Nephrology
(CSN) has chosen
NexTech AR’s Virtual Experience Platform (VEP) to host its 2021
Annual General Meeting, taking place May
10-13.
December 3rd,
2020: Company
announced that it has achieved a
record-breaking 315% increase in Black
Friday sales year-over-year across it’s AR eCommerce platform. With
2020 being a year dominated by coronavirus, shoppers have shown
that they will embrace the convenience and safety of online shopping more than
ever.
December 2nd,
2020: Company
announced the creation of its new Artificial Intelligence (AI)
division. Through a dedicated initial team of three AI experts
focused on enhancing NexTech’s AI capabilities, the company aims to
gain a competitive edge and create new portfolio offerings to
complement its AR; streamlining operations for clients while
tapping into a market that is expected to surpass $300 billion in
revenues by 2024.
December 1st,
2020: The company
entered into seven additional strategic channel partnerships
bringing the total for the Asia Pacific region to eight. These
partner agreements support both the $35B e-learning market and $229B MICE industries, two target sectors that NexTech is
focusing on in the Asia Pacific market
expansion.
November
23rd, 2020: The company acquired hybrid event management
platform, Map Dynamics. The company's self-serve hybrid virtual events
platform supports live video, chat, networking, and analytics,
reporting for associations, conferences, trade shows, webinars,
summits, forums, workshops, events. It helps organizers create,
host, and manage live events for 100,000+ attendees both online and
in its branded native event
app.
To learn more about
NexTech, please click here.
About NexTech AR
NexTech is one of the leaders in the rapidly
growing Augmented Reality
market, estimated to grow
from USD $10.7B in 2019 and projected to reach USD $72.7B by 2024
according to Markets & Markets Research; it is expected to grow
at a CAGR of 46.6% from 2019 to
2024.
The company is pursuing four
verticals:
Virtual Experience Platform:
An
advanced Augmented Reality and Video Learning Experience Platform
for Events, is a SaaS video platform that integrates Interactive
Video, Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality in one secure
platform to allow enterprises the ability to create the world’s
most engaging virtual event management and learning experiences.
Automated closed captions and translations to over 64
languages. According
to Grandview Research
the global virtual events market in 2020 is $90B and expected to
reach more than $400B by 2027, growing at a 23%
CAGR. With
NexTech’s Virtual Conference Platform having augmented reality, AI,
end-to-end encryption and built in language translation for 64
languages, the company is well positioned to rapidly take market
share as the growth accelerates globally.
ARitize™ For eCommerce: The company launched its SaaS platform for webAR
in eCommerce early in 2019. NexTech has a ‘full funnel’ end-to-end
eCommerce solution for the AR industry including its Aritize360 app
for 3D product capture, 3D/AR ads, its Aritize white label app it’s
‘Try it On’ technology for online apparel, 3D and 360-degree
product views, and ‘one click buy’.
ARitize™ 3D/AR Advertising Platform:
Launched in Q1 2020 the ad platform
will be the industry's first end-to-end solution whereby the
company will leverage its 3D asset creation into 3D/AR ads. In
2019, according to IDC, global advertising spend will be about $725
billion.
ARitize™ Hollywood
Studios: The studio is in
development producing immersive content using 360 video, and
augmented reality as the primary display
platform.
To learn more, please follow us on
Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook, or visit our website: https://www.nextechar.com.
For further information, please
contact:
Evan Gappelberg
Chief Executive Officer
info@nextechar.com
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