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Two Shields Investments PLC
16 December 2019
16 December 2019
Two Shields Investments plc
("TSI", or the "Company")
BrandShield and BRANDIT Announce Partnership in providing Online
Threat Hunting and Brand Protection services
Two Shields Investments plc, the AIM quoted investment company
with a strategy to build a high-quality portfolio of investments in
fast growing and scalable digital and technology enabled
businesses, is pleased to reproduce the following announcement
issued from BrandShield Limited ("BrandShield") in relation to a
commercial partnership with BRANDIT.
"BrandShield and BRANDIT today announced a partnership providing
Online Threat Hunting services to the European market to enable a
new layer of protection for leading brands and enterprises.
Leveraging BrandShield's unique AI-Powered technology and
BRANDIT's established expertise and presence enable leading brands
to enjoy a holistic solution to the ever-changing online threats
space.
The joint proposition enables leading European enterprises to
enjoy a wide range of services from domain names management,
monitoring and takedowns of online counterfeit sales, fighting
social phishing and detecting impersonations to companies and
executives.
With global advancements in technology and communication, online
counterfeiting has become a big problem. Research and Markets' 2018
Global Brand Counterfeiting Report revealed that businesses around
the world lost $323 billion in sales due to online counterfeit
sales in 2017. Assuming a similar growth pattern, that number could
reach almost $500 billion in 2020. Online scams, executive
impersonation and social phishing is using same technology and
creating an even bigger damage to corporates.
Yoav Keren, CEO & Co-Founder of BrandShield said:
"In today's market, enterprises expect their partners to provide
a full solution to fit various online threats scenarios". "Together
with BRANDIT, we believe we can provide a holistic solution to such
threats. Over the years BRANDIT has gained acknowledgment and
recognition as a thought leader and as an authority in its
respected expertise. We are proud to complete its set of
capabilities to provide a full Brand Protection and Anti-phishing
solution to Medium and large enterprises in the European market.
BRANDIT has a different philosophy than the rest of its industry,
with a more consultancy focused approach, providing customized
advice on all levels of companies in regards to Brand Protection
both online and offline. Therefore BRANDIT is a natural partner for
BrandShield, with a great synergy that will help in distributing
our technology to its customers."
Jesper Knudsen, CEO & Founder of BRANDIT said:
"The online threat space is evolving fast; we can see a
convergence of threats used by online fraudsters and
counterfeiters. Our customers demand a better level of protection
and are looking for the best possible technology. There are a lot
of different tools out there, but after assessing the markets we
found that BrandShield fits our clients' needs the best.
BrandShield addresses this challenge by bringing a totally
different level of detection and automation to this market plus a
very agile mindset to improving their technology. We are proud to
partner with BrandShield and be able to provide our customers a
complete solution to fight the "new-era" of online threats."
TSI has an 11.34% holding in BrandShield with an additional
$800,000 subscription to a Convertible Loan Note (CLN). It also
holds an option to invest a further $1,000,000 by way of CLN on the
same terms. As previously announced by TSI, BrandShield intends on
its own public listing on a London Exchange in the early part of
2020, a process that TSI is actively assisting them with.
Andrew Lawley, Chairman TSI said:
This partnership with BRANDIT is fantastic evidence of
BrandShield's cutting edge technology and commercial appeal.
Recognition from such a leading and well respected authority
such as BRANDIT further supports the view that BrandShield is
reaching a real inflection point in scale, commercial success and
valuation. By opening up this new route to market, with access to
BRANDIT's growing client base, it will add further momentum to
BrandShield's trajectory to deliver significant growth in its
Annual Recurring Revenue figures for a further successive year.
As BrandShield seeks to achieve its own listing in early 2020,
this news could not have come at a better time.
This announcement contains inside information for the purposes
of article 7 of the Market Abuse Regulation (eu) 596/2014
For further information please visit https://twoshields.co.uk/
or contact:
Andrew Lawley Two Shields Investments Tel: +44 (0)20 3143
plc 8300
Spark Advisory Partners
Neil Baldwin / Andrew Limited
Emmott (Nominated Adviser) +44 (0) 20 3368 3554
Turner Pope Investments
(TPI) Ltd
Andy Thacker (Brokers) +44 (0) 20 3621 4120
Notes to Editors:
Two Shields Investments plc, the AIM quoted investment company
with a strategy to build a portfolio of high-quality investments in
fast growing, scalable digital and technology enabled businesses,
including those in the cyber security, e-commerce services and
consumer sectors. The Company has appointed an experienced Board of
Directors with a proven pedigree in the origination, acquisition,
development & sale of projects and creating value for
shareholders. The investment mandate covers unquoted and quoted
businesses, as well as direct project investment. Where appropriate
the Board will apply its extensive combined experience to directly
support investee businesses achieve their growth potential.
About BrandShield:
BrandShield provides a solution from brand protection to online
threat hunting. BrandShield detects online threats and takes them
down. BrandShield developed the most advanced AI and big-data based
technology that monitors the web for counterfeits, fraud, social
phishing, executive impersonation and brand abuse, and
automatically analyzes the potential threats based on content,
web-metrics and many other data points of the different items.
Takedowns are then performed by an expert enforcement team
compromised from licensed attorneys with experience in IP law.
Among BrandShield's customers are blue-chip client base including
Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies.
About BRANDIT:
BRANDIT is a leading 'Strategic Domain Consultancy' headquarterd
in Switzerland with offices in Germany, the Netherlands, Malta and
Denmark. The Company has been recognized and won awards globally as
one of the leading firms in the sector. Home to a family of experts
with many years of experience with domain names, trademarks and
legal counselling - from law firms, global brands, domain name
consultancies and registries - BRANDIT provides holistic domain
name, trademark and legal consultancy, strategy, protection and
enforcement solution tailored to its clients' and partners'
specific needs. It helps design and implement practically viable
strategies for brands by combining the extensive knowledge of its
experts in their respective fields. Having the best reputation in
the industry has been its goal since BRANDIT was founded in
2011.
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