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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Loanpal, America’s number one point-of-sale payment platform for sustainable home solutions, today announced its first external investment round of more than $800 million led by NEA and WestCap Group, as well as Brookfield Asset Management, Riverstone Holdings and private investors. As part of the transaction, which closed in 2020, Scott Sandell, Managing General Partner at NEA, and Laurence Tosi, Managing Partner of WestCap Group, have joined the company’s board of directors.

«We are solving big world problems with industry-leading technology that makes it easier for everyone to live a more sustainable lifestyle,» said Hayes Barnard, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Loanpal. «Everything on our platform is available as a convenient ‘buy now, pay later’ solution to help homeowners swiftly install smart home upgrades. The mission is to scale an easier deployment of carbon reducing products that benefit the planet, while empowering more Americans to work in mission-driven jobs.»

Loanpal’s proprietary point-of-sale payment platform equips businesses with the fast and frictionless digital tools they need to deploy sustainable home solutions at scale. The technology removes cost barriers for homeowners by providing flexible payment options and creates an efficient channel for financial institutions to deploy their capital in high-performing environmental, social and governance (ESG) assets. Loanpal has provided approximately $5.8 billion of capital for solar and other home efficiency products since 2018, empowering more than 175,000 families to upgrade their homes with modern, sustainable technologies. The platform is accessed by more than 12,000 sales professionals, supporting more than 20,000 clean energy jobs across the United States.

«Loanpal’s commerce platform puts sustainable home solutions within easy reach for homeowners, while creating tens of thousands of jobs and slashing carbon emissions in the process,» said Scott Sandell, Managing General Partner, NEA. «As with any market transformation, the path to sustainability requires a compelling value proposition and Loanpal’s offering squarely hits the mark. It’s one of the best businesses I’ve seen in my career, addressing a critical need for our planet, and I’m thrilled to support this team and its mission.»

«We believe this is just the beginning of a world-changing movement to empower homeowners through access to sustainable energy solutions,» said Laurence Tosi, Founder and Managing Partner, WestCap. «The Loanpal culture and mission reflects a passion for protecting our planet, enabling installers and helping homeowners easily adopt renewable energy technologies.»

About Loanpal
Loanpal is the nation’s number one point-of-sale payment platform for sustainable home solutions. The company is committed to delivering a technology-enabled lending experience that is simple, fast and frictionless, resulting in instant approvals at the point of sale. Loanpal’s technology is being utilized by over 12,000 sales professionals to deploy approximately $5.8 billion of capital for solar and other home efficiency products through its platform since 2018, empowering more than 175,000 families with the flexibility to buy now and pay over time.

Loanpal is a proud partner of GivePower, a 501c3 corporation, whose mission is to build and deploy solar-powered clean water and energy systems to communities in need around the world, currently serving 450,000 people in 19 countries. To learn more about Loanpal, visit, follow and connect with us at loanpal.com, @loanpal, and Linkedin.

About NEA
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. With nearly $24 billion in cumulative committed capital since the firm’s founding in 1977, NEA invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company’s lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm’s long track record of successful investing includes more than 230 portfolio company IPOs and more than 390 mergers and acquisitions. www.nea.com.

About WestCap Group
The WestCap Group is a growth equity firm founded by Laurence A. Tosi, who, together with the WestCap team, have founded, capitalized, and operated tech-enabled, asset-light marketplaces for over 20 years. With over $2 billion of assets under management, WestCap has made notable investments in technology businesses such as StubHub, Addepar, Bolt, Hopper, iCapital, Skillz and Sonder. To learn more about WestCap, please visit WestCap.com.

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VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – Angold Resources Ltd. (TSXV: AAU) (FRA: 13L1)  («Angold» or the «Company») is pleased to announce that it has completed surface testing, a structural review and an outline of drill targets on the Iron Butte Project, located in the Battle Mountain Trend of northern Nevada. With these new insights the Company has extended new drill targets along the range-front for over 1.3km from the Red Ridge Zone to the North Zone and toward the Company’s newly staked, 100% owned, Elephant Head claims. The Company is planning to commence drilling in the next few months.

Angold’s CEO, Mr. Adrian Rothwell, stated: «With historically long intercepts and excellent grades, a deep, intact oxide zone, as well as a total 1,544 hectares of prospective ground and new results demonstrating mineralized structures up to ~30m thick, Iron Butte continues to exhibit evidence of a large system. Excellent potential exists to increase the size of the deposit and historic resource with infill, lateral and deeper drilling.»

Figure 1. Claim Map of the Iron Butte (yellow) and Elephant Head Claims (green)

NEW DRILL TARGETS

Geologic mapping at Iron Butte has produced a new structural understanding, resulting in numerous new drill targets.

Newly identified structural intersections at Iron Butte allow targeted expansion of the historic resource on the project. There is excellent potential to expand the size of the historic resource by testing areas beyond the currently defined mineralization and by completing infill holes where drilling was too widely spaced to be classified as a resource.

Three target areas are being evaluated for drilling (Figure 2). First, in the Red Ridge resource area, seven structural intersections project below the extent of drilled mineralization and were not fully tested by the historic drilling. Second, a prominent intersection in the North Zone has not been drilled at depth. And third, the gap between Red Ridge and the North Zone contains six structural intersections that have not been adequately drill tested.

Figure 2. Map of structural intersections to be targeted during drilling. Also shown are grade shells of the historic resources on the project.

DRILL PROGRAM

Angold has developed a 2,500-meter drill program to target these structural intersections for higher grade and increased tonnage, infill between historic drill holes, to verify historic data for future use in resource calculations, and to extend mineralization along strike. This program may be expanded pending favorable initial results. The next step will be permitting a Notice of Intent to Explore with the Bureau of Land Management.

STRUCTURAL MAPPING

The Company has completed an initial program of geologic mapping and rock sampling at Iron Butte. The area overlying the historic resource on the project was mapped, focusing on mineralization, alteration, and particularly structural geology of the large mineralized system. The mapping revealed a series of large overlapping quartz veins up to ~30 meters thick, stretching 1.3 km along strike (Figure 3). Most of these large quartz veins have not been previously mapped. The structures are cored by intense silicification accompanying gold mineralization, are zoned outward to clay alteration, and display textures typical of epithermal gold deposits (Figures 4 and 5). Thirty-seven surface rock samples have been submitted for gold assay and multi-element analyses. Samples will also be subjected to hyperspectral analysis to identify alteration minerals.

The large quartz veins and the surrounding alteration were drilled by previous operators, resulting in the historic resource on the project. However, the new structural understanding presents drill targets that remain untested. In addition to identifying new large quartz veins, the detailed structural mapping revealed previously unidentified structural intersections in the mineralization. It is the intersections of veins that often form fluid pathways in gold deposits, tending to form higher grades and larger volumes of mineralization.

Figure 3. View to the southwest along the Iron Butte mineralized system, showing the series of intersecting large quartz veins and alteration zones.

Figure 4. Banded epithermal quartz vein with bladed calcite, typical of epithermal gold deposits. 

Figure 5. Quartz veining and intense silicification in porphyritic dike host rock. 

HISTORIC HIGHLIGHTED DRILL RESULTS

Gold mineralization has been encountered in drilling over an area of 1.3 x 2.9 km, and surface mineralization and alteration indicate additional untested targets within the Company’s claims.

Highlighted Intercepts from Historic Drilling (1980 to 2009):

GEOLOGY

Gold-silver mineralization is believed to be controlled by a series of north-south, north-northeast and east-west structures that host silicification and epithermal quartz-pyrite-gold-silver mineralization within Pennsylvanian to Permian siltstones and argillites of the Cedars Sequence and Tertiary felsic volcanic rocks. Mineralization is completely oxidized from surface up to 175 metres depth and continues as sulphides to depths beyond 250 metres. Mineralization is also disseminated between veins, silicified structures and brecciated zones, and can occur as silicified breccia zones at the contact between volcanic and underlying sedimentary rocks. Mineralization is thought to be epithermal in nature with some similarities to sediment hosted Carlin type gold systems with jasperoids and opaline silica present.

Qualified Person
David Smith, CPG, the VP Global Exploration for Angold and a Qualified Person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101, is responsible for supervising the exploration programs at Angold’s projects and has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release.

The Company has also granted 200,000 stock options to a consultant of the Company, in accordance with the provisions of its stock option plan. Each stock option is exercisable at $0.40 per common share for a term of two years and vest immediately.

About Angold
Angold is an exploration and development company targeting large-scale mineral systems in the proven districts of the Maricunga, Nevada and Ontario. Angold owns a 100% interest in the Dorado, Cordillera and South Bay-Uchi projects, and certain claims that append the optioned Iron Butte project.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF ANGOLD RESOURCES LTD.

«Adrian Rothwell»
Chief Executive Officer

Further information on Angold can be found on the Company’s website at www.angoldresources.com and at www.sedar.com or by contacting the Company by email at investors@angoldresources.com or by telephone at (866) 852 8719.

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward Looking Statements: This news release contains forward-looking statements and forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable securities laws. These statements relate to future events or future performance and includes expectations of the resumption of trading of the Company’s common shares on the Exchange. All statements other than statements of historical fact may be forward-looking statements or information. Forward-looking statements and information are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as «appear», «seek», «anticipate», «plan», «continue», «estimate», «approximate», «expect», «may», «will», «project», «predict», «potential», «targeting», «intend», «could», «might», «should», «believe», «would» and similar expressions. Forward-looking statements and information are provided for the purpose of providing information about the current expectations and plans of management of the Company relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such statements and information may not be appropriate for other purposes, such as making investment decisions. Since forward-looking statements and information address future events and conditions, by their very nature they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors and risks. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements, timelines and information contained in this news release.

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — As COVID-19 continues to impact every aspect of the healthcare and financial sectors, consumers around the country are confronting an uncertain economic climate while also addressing some familiar challenges—including the ever-increasing cost of prescription drugs. According to new data released today from Rx Savings Solutions, the market-leading tool for pharmacy transparency, 67% of consumers feel a lack of control over their prescription drug costs.

In a first-of-its-kind survey of 700 American consumers—all of whom use prescription drugs—Rx Savings Solutions examined the intersection of COVID-19 and prescription drug affordability and offers key insight into how people are making decisions on important healthcare matters. According to the survey, most respondents (74%) are still seeing their prescription drug costs rise—or remain at the same high levels. With that stat expected to trend upwards into 2021, 29% say they will use a price transparency tool, 24% will talk to their healthcare provider about lower-cost alternatives, and 22% say they will switch or continue to use home delivery services.

Serving more than 8 million members nationwide, Rx Savings Solutions’ clinical technology contains over 30,000 unique and dose-adjusted prescription drug suggestions, used to drive proven savings results for clients and their members, including 42 FORTUNE 500 leading companies. Using an online portal or mobile app, Rx Savings Solutions members can submit a new prescription request to their provider with one click. On average, members who switch to a lower-cost drug save $45 out of pocket, per fill.

Among other key findings, Rx Savings Solutions found that of all the ways people are changing their behavior in response to the pandemic, 46% switched to mail-order or 90-day fills due to COVID-19 and to reduce their prescription costs. One in four skipped doses or rationed their fills. Thirty-one percent experienced a medication that was out of stock at the pharmacy and 17% experienced a delay in their mail-order prescription delivery.

In 2020, Rx Savings Solutions analyzed 69 million member prescription claims, finding almost $2 billion in addressable prescription drug savings. Of that savings opportunity, about 22% is out-of-pocket opportunity for the consumer.  

«Last year was one like no other. But amid all the uncertainty, we found an opportunity to engage with consumers around the country and get their insight on some important topics that impact their health as well as their bottom lines,» said Michael Rea, a clinical pharmacist who founded and currently leads Rx Savings Solutions. «We can certainly empathize with the confusion and helplessness so many people feel when filling their prescriptions—it’s our goal to ease that pain. With our solution, members are in the driver’s seat when they’re shopping for medications.» 

When asked who should be responsible for lowering the cost of prescription drugs, survey respondents were largely split—41% to 40%—looking either to the government or pharmaceutical companies.

«One thing that remains consistent, even with the backdrop of a pandemic, is healthcare costs are still going up. It’s more clear now than ever—people want to know their options when managing their prescription drugs,» added Rea.

For a full copy of 2020 Consumer Insights, please visit: https://rxsavingssolutions.com/consumer-insights

About Rx Savings Solutions 
Founded by a former retail pharmacist, Rx Savings Solutions works on behalf of health plans and self-insured employers to help their members reduce out-of-pocket prescription costs and the plan’s pharmacy spend. The solution layers on top of an existing pharmacy benefit and analyzes individual claims to identify and present cost-saving alternatives to each member.

Whenever savings opportunities are found, members are proactively notified through preferred communication channels. They engage with the solution through a personal online portal, mobile app and live, concierge member support provided by certified pharmacy technicians. Rx Savings Solutions currently serves more than 8 million members nationwide. For more information, visit rxsavingssolutions.com or follow them on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Contact:
Cecile Fradkin
S&C Public Relations Inc.
646-941-9139 
media@rxsavingsllc.com

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NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — For the first time, tech brands accounted for all five top companies on the third annual Brand Pressure Index released today by strategic consulting firm High Lantern Group.

The HLG Brand Pressure Index provides a comprehensive measure of social issues at the forefront of public discourse with the greatest impact on corporate brands, as prioritized by a universe of 3,500 leading activists, influencers and political figures. The analysis spans 6 million tweets in 2020 in association with 350 top social issues and their intersection with 1,000 corporate brands.

Key insights include:

• Big Tech is the #1 industry facing pressure on social issues. Exposure continues to rise year over year, with tech brands targeted on a host of issues, including antitrust, disinformation, consumer privacy and racial equality.
• Racial equality is the #1 issue impacting corporate reputation, with a 175% increase in corporate mentions by leading public actors in 2020 over 2019. Climate change dropped from the #1 issue to the #2 issue.
• COVID drives surge in labor issues. Workplace safety jumped 134% in 2020. Labor issues account for 8 of the top 15 issues associated with the pandemic.
• Brand pressure continues to rise. Overall issue-related brand exposure against businesses increased 4% in 2019 and 3% again in 2020, cementing public expectations for corporations to lead on social – and increasingly, political – issues in 2021.

«2021 will be Big Tech’s high-water mark in terms of the industry’s exposure to society’s priorities,» said Rob Gluck, Managing Partner of High Lantern Group. «Our research shows how brand strength correlates directly to higher societal expectations. The best companies use this relevance to deepen their engagement, establish leadership and build competitive advantage.»

Read our full analysis here.

High Lantern Group is a strategic consulting firm that specializes in business leadership and reputation in the public arena. The Brand Pressure Index is powered by HLG’s proprietary data analytics engine, which tracks more than 3,500 top issue-shaping activists, opinion leaders and policymakers – and leverages natural language processing to identify the issues most likely to shape public dialogue and corporate reputation. For more information about our firm and services, please visit us at highlanterngroup.com.

 

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FRISCO, Texas, Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — CarSeatRecycling, the nation’s leading child safety seat recycling service provider, proudly announced today that it is Clek’s exclusive child passenger safety seat recycling service provider in the United States.

More than 10 million child safety seats are sold in the U.S. every year, however, almost 90% of them will end up being landfilled or incinerated because of a lack of affordable and convenient recycling solutions.

The partnership between both companies will make it easier for consumers to recycle their broken or expired car seats, regardless of the seat size or brand, by making the service virtually free. Consumers who purchase a recycling service on carseatrecycling.com will receive a single use coupon of equal value to be redeemed on any item purchased on Clekinc.com.

«We are delighted to partner with Clek, who is such an innovative and forward-looking organization. Very few companies are committed to doing the right thing. Clek not only provides a sustainable end-of-life program for the products they manufacture, they also forge partnerships across the supply chain to ensure that their competitor’s products are safely recycled as well.» said Vanessa Lépice, CarSeatRecycling VP of Marketing.

«For the past 8 years, we have offered our customers a car seat recycling program. The program allowed Clek consumers to return their end-of-life seats back to Canada for disassembly and recycling.» Said  Christopher Lumley, Clek’s Founder and Chief Executive Officer. «This strategic partnership with CarSeatRecycling allows us to further reduce our ecological footprint by providing domestic recycling services in the United States.»

For more information about Clek’s commitment to environmental protection visit https://clekinc.com/recycling , and for more information about how to recycle your old car seat, visit carseatrecycling.com.

About CarSeatRecycling

CarSeatRecycling, an 1GNITE Solutions company, is a national provider of child safety seat recycling services. CarSeatRecycling offers convenient mail-back programs to help consumers  recycle their old car seats nationwide and delivers plug-and-play collection events to retailers, municipalities, and selected manufacturers. To recycle your old car seats, visit carseatrecycling.com.

About Clek

Clek is a Canadian-based manufacturer of award-winning child passenger safety seats that combine safety with ease-of-use and modern style. Born out of the world’s largest, most diversified automotive supplier, Clek offers the superior design, engineering best practices, world-class manufacturing, and craftsmanship found in luxury automotive seating today. Clek produces a series of innovative child passenger safety seat products and accessories. www.clekinc.ca or www.clekinc.com 

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MORRISTOWN, N.J., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S., accounting for 1 in 4 deaths.¹ Hispanics are disproportionately affected, with 49% of males and 42.6% of females suffering from cardiovascular disease².  Other chronic conditions more prevalent among Hispanics include:

• Diabetes — Using data from 2013 to 2016, 15.1% of male Hispanics and 14.1% of females have diagnosed diabetes.³
• Obesity — 80.8% of males and 77.8% of females were overweight or obese (vs 69.9% of adults over age of 20)⁴

These statistics, among others, highlight the need to provide culturally and linguistically relevant primary care health services to minorities and underserved communities, including migrants, to help prevent and manage these chronic conditions.

Hoy Health, a digital health company, is using its innovative primary care platform to provide access to affordable, quality and linguistically relevant primary care services to underserved communities and is incorporating American Heart Association science-based health management plans, called CarePlans.

The American Heart Association has defined ideal cardiovascular health based on seven risk factors, Life’s Simple 7®, that people can improve through lifestyle changes: smoking status, physical activity, weight, diet, blood glucose, cholesterol, and blood pressure. The Association’s CarePlans present actions people can take to improve their Life’s Simple 7 factors and are designed so that any person can work toward improved health. The actions are not expensive or difficult and even modest improvements to these factors can make a big difference.

«The Center aims to expand usage of the Associations science-based CarePlans, so it’s incredibly encouraging to see Hoy Health leveraging best-in-class science from the American Heart Association with the aim of improving health education and health engagement,» said Patrick Wayte, senior vice president of the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology & Innovation.

Hoy Health has joined the American Heart Association Center for Health Technology and Innovation Innovators’ Network, which is focused on building and fostering health technology relationships to develop innovative and scalable solutions.

«We are very proud of our collaboration with the American Heart Association Center. This is a critical step to provide a more robust, stronger, and evidence-based offering to all our patients that we hope will result in better outcomes for the communities we serve,» said Mario Anglada, CEO of Hoy Health

About Hoy Health
Hoy Health, LLC is a first-of-its-kind health-tech digital platform that provides a comprehensive and integrated bilingual healthcare support ecosystem to medically underserved patients, offering solutions related to medication access, medication adherence, telehealth and chronic condition management programs. Hoy Health was named by FierceHealthcare as one of the top «Fierce 15» health companies of 2019, and was a finalist in Established’s StartUp of the Year 2020 competition. Visit http://www.HoyHealth.com.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jose Aguilar
Chief Strategy Officer
289531@email4pr.com 
973 307 7764

 

1. CDC.gov sep 8, 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
2. 2020 Heart Disease & Stroke Statistical Update Fact Sheet Hispanics/Latinos & Cardiovascular Diseases. ICD-9 390 to 459; ICD/10 I00 to I99
3. 2020 Heart Disease & Stroke Statistical Update Fact Sheet Hispanics/Latinos & Cardiovascular Diseases. ICD-9 250; ICD-10 E10 to E14
4. 2020 Heart Disease & Stroke Statistical Update Fact Sheet Hispanics/Latinos & Cardiovascular Diseases

 

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