Venture capital presenters: The Florida Venture Forum said Monday that it has selected 19 companies to present at the 20th annual Florida Venture Capital Conference, to be held at the Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Hollywood on Feb. 3-4. The companies will make 12-minute presentations to a group of venture capitalists, private equity investors, angel investors, investment bankers, financial companies, service providers and entrepreneurs.

Among the companies: Miami-based Papatel, a mobile-advertising platform offering personalized and location-based advertising reaching Hispanics and other immigrant populations of developed countries; and Fort Lauderdale-based Gladinet, which provides a cloud storage access platform. For more information, visit www.floridaventureforum.org

About Papatel
Papatel is the comprehensive solution for Mobile Advertising, Consumer Intelligence and Direct Marketing to communities of immigrants in developed countries with patented multi-platform advertising technology. Based in Miami, FL, the company currently has over 100,000 users in its first full-year of operations in Florida alone, and is rapidly expanding nationwide.

About CP Capital Securities
CP Capital Securities, www.cpcapital.com, is an institutionally focused investment banking group focused on the corporate-finance needs of Florida-based companies, as well as early-stage technology companies nationally. The focus of the CPCS Investment Banking Services group is pre-revenue and early-stage technology companies across most industries.

For more information regarding Papatel, please contact Jack Karabees at 305.702.5538 jack.karabees@cpcapital.com or visit www.papatel.com.

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MIAMI, Florida – December 6, 2010 – YellowPepper, the leading mobile financial services company in Latin America and the Caribbean, announced today that it received the “CP Capital Inflection Venture Prize” during the Americas Venture Capital Conference held in Miami on the 17th and 18th of November 2010.

The prize recognized YellowPepper as a Latin American company with a proven track record poised at its inflection point for exponential growth in its target markets as its business plan takes flight.

YellowPepper received a US$10,000 in-kind award of investment banking and fundraising services from CP Capital Securities, designed specifically to prepare the Company for presentation to the institutional venture capital community.

“We are delighted to be recognized with this award which will help further unleash the mobile banking revolution in Latin America and the Caribbean by providing an open platform that partners with banks, mobile network operators, merchants and consumers to enhance the quality of life and business opportunity for all stakeholders in the region through innovative mobile financial solutions”, said Serge Elkiner, President and Founder of YellowPepper.

Jack Karabees, Managing Director of Corporate Finance at CP Capital Securities stated: “We believe that the mobile-advertising, mobile-payment and mobile-finance spaces are the most rapidly expanding markets within technology generally and mobile technology, as well as globally. YellowPepper simply exemplifies the model and the trend. We are very pleased to support them.”

Fifteen companies had been selected as finalists for the innovation award and presented their respective business plans to the Conference Program Committee, competing for three different prizes.

About YellowPepper
Founded in 2004, YellowPepper with over 2 million users is positioned to lead the mobile banking/mobile wallet space in Latin America. YellowPepper’s unique open-architecture platform allows banks, mobile network operators, merchants and consumers to access its network, providing the foundation for a robust payment ecosystem. As of today, the Company is currently operating in eight countries, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Haiti and Panama.

About CP Capital Securities
CP Capital Group is an integrated financial services company whose primary focus and reason for being is to develop and nurture long-term, highly personalized relationships with each and every investor. With a dedication to excellence and unrivaled flexibility and freedom, CP Capital Group’s offerings span from stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, to corporate finance, mortgage financing and real estate.

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The primary goal of the new website is to provide an improved online experience for the firm’s clients by leveraging new web technologies. Additionally, the new website will support the recent rollout of new services–including an innovative card services program.

The site launch is part of a multi-phase upgrade project which will include the implementation of a Spanish version of the website as well as dynamic market data publishing resources in subsequent phases.

MIAMI, Florida – November 23, 2010 – Papatel, a comprehensive solution for Hispanic Mobile Advertising, Consumer Intelligence and Direct Marketing, was selected from over 70 submissions from innovative ventures doing business in Latin America as one of 15 companies to present at the first Americas Venture Capital Conference (www.AmericasVCConference.com), November 17-18 at Florida International University in Miami, Florida.

“With over 100,000 users in our first full-year of operations, we recognize that market response clearly supports both our B2C and B2B business models, as well as the demand in the B2C space for lower-cost financial and telecommunications services to the immigrant communities in the United States and worldwide. We look forward to continuing to execute on that strategy and achieving several well-defined milestones in 2010 and 2011,” said CEO, Enrique Baiz. He further states that, “We also believe that the VC Americas Conference registration numbers reflect the strong demand for new and innovative B2B technologies, especially in the Hispanic and Mobile and direct marketing arenas.”

The Americas Venture Capital Conference, sponsored by Florida International University’s Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center, is the first conference of its kind with a specific focus on Latin American ventures to be presented in Miami, the hub of Latin American commerce. Keynote speakers include Gustavo A. Cisneros, chairman of the Cisneros Group of Companies; R. Marcelo Claure, founder, chairman, president and CEO, Brightstar Corporation; Constancio Larguia, founder and CEO, Weemba, and co-founder, Patagon.com; and Don Browne, president, Telemundo Communications Group, Inc.

Jack Karabees, Managing Director of Corporate Finance at CP Capital Securities stated that, “We believe that Papatel is an excellent example of why the mobile-advertising, mobile-finance and mobile-commerce spaces are the most rapidly expanding markets within technology and globally.”

In addition to presenting to venture capitalists and other investors, Papatel will have the opportunity to compete for one of three awards, with a total value of $35,000 that will be presented to the most innovative companies.

About Papatel
Papatel is the comprehensive solution for Mobile Advertising, Consumer Intelligence and Direct Marketing to communities of immigrants in developed countries with patented multi-platform advertising technology. Based in Miami, FL, the company currently has over 100,000 users in Florida alone in its first full-year of operations, and is rapidly expanding nationwide. For more information, visit www.papatel.com

About CP Capital Securities
CP Capital Securities, www.cpcapital.com, is an institutionally focused investment banking group focused on the corporate-finance needs of Florida-based companies, as well as early-stage technology companies nationally. Principals have extensive experience in both the placement of debt and equity securities, primarily for growth purposes, merger & acquisition target establishment and execution, and the purchase and sale of company assets. The focus of the CPCS Investment Banking Services group is pre-revenue and early-stage technology companies across most industries.

For information regarding this event or CP Capital Securities, please contact Rafael Bonafonte at 866.596.5500 or rafael.bonafonte@cpcapital.com.

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