Tokn, a community platform for small businesses to drive new customers has announced a partnership with Zencommerce India, emerging SaaS platform to enable eCommerce operations to help small businesses to grow and protect in wake of COVID-19 pandemic. 

Small businesses including local and independent online retailers have suffered heavily in current times due to pandemic situation. Falling sales and customers, small businesses are looking more than ever to adopt digital technology and foster collaboration to sustain their communities.

Tokn AI-driven community platform helps small businesses support each other and drive great new customers. It current currently serves 650+ businesses across 3 cities. More than 4000+ merchants already use Zencommerce business-friendly online store platform to drive millions of consumers.

With this partnership, Tokn and Zencommerce India will enable a multitude of options for every small business (SME's). The partnership will see the launch of collaborated product suite enabling online-offline delivery of products/services, driving new gift card sales and bringing more great customers without any upfront costs.

In these tough times, consumers will also be able to support their favorite retailers by buying gift cards, referring their friends, family and using them whenever they want.

Commenting on this partnership Mr Ankur Goel, CEO, Zencommerce India Pvt. Ltd said, "We have been helping businesses get digital ready and with current times it is an absolute necessity for small businesses to be available online. With this partnership, we will be able to drive more revenues and future proof small businesses to stay afloat during tough times."

Raghav Soni, CEO, Tokn commented further, "Our mission has always been to grow and protect small businesses and support communities. Never has been community push so strong then at the current moment. We are eager to deploy our community platform and expertise to do our part in helping small businesses survive this challenging period. This partnership thus leverages online-offline advantages for small businesses to come together and help each other."

About Tokn:
Tokn (www.tokn.in) is the first AI-powered community commerce platform built for millions of independent Mainstreet and online businesses to come together and connect them with million mobile first consumers. Tokn guarantees businesses get discovered when they join the invite-only community and thank their best customers in turn supporting other community businesses.

About Zencommerce:
Zencommerce (www.zencommerce.in) India provides businesses with SaaS platform to start their online e-commerce venture instantly. Zencommerce platform is very user-friendly and an ideal solution for those who want to quickly and professionally set up their online store for buy & sell activity that too on there on own domain name within 1 day. Zencommerce has tie-ups with premium payment gateway companies and logistics companies which enables payment system on merchants website in just a few hours. The company is a leader in the domestic e-commerce market by catering to over 4000+ stores from micro to large trading companies operating locally and internationally. The platform has received awards for best E-commerce Platform for consecutive 3 years and also recently in February 2020 received award for 'The Most Affordable E-commerce Software'.

The 261-lot auction has a start time of 10:30 am EDT. The full catalog is up and online now, on Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Many categories are represented.

Westport, CT, USA, April 22, 2020 -- Bob Dylan’s handwritten and signed lyrics to the classic rock song Like a Rolling Stone, a superb document signed by the British physicist Sir Isaac Newton, and discharge papers for a teenage soldier who lived to be 100 signed by George Washington are just a few of the highlights in University Archives’ next online-only auction, slated for Wednesday, May 6th.

Telephone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Folks can visit the website and browse the full color catalog now, at www.UniversityArchives.com.

The auction is packed with rare books, manuscripts, relics and more, many of them signed by history’s brightest luminaries. Presidential items span the administrations of George Washington through George H.W. Bush (including 11 lots pertaining to Abraham Lincoln); Civil War and slavery (including Grant and Lee); and foreign (Vladimir Lenin, Napoleon, Catherine II and many others).

The literary category will feature Part 3 of items from the legendary Beat writer Jack Kerouac’s estate plus items from Ernest Hemingway, Samuel Clemens, Eugene O’Neill and others. Science and space will include Newton, Charles Darwin, Thomas Edison and the Apollo and Gemini missions.

Nearly 50 lots comprise Part 2 of the Forbes Collection – items from multimillionaire magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes (1919-1990) and his sons, including a dazzling array of foreign and presidential pieces. A group of King George III’s Acts of Parliament (1766-1775) including one of the Townshend Acts and several punitive Acts, illustrate life in the American colonies on the eve of the Revolution.

Bob Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone was voted the number one rock ‘n’ roll song of all time by the readers of Rolling Stone magazine in 2004. The lyrics to the song, handwritten by Dylan on a single 8 ½ by 11-inch sheet plus his signature, have been authenticated by Dylan’s manager, Jeff Rosen. The lot has an estimate of $75,000-$85,000.

The partly printed and partly handwritten one-page document signed by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is dated July 13, 1720 and is regarding his investment in the ill-fated South Seas Company just prior to its collapse. The piece, with a red wax seal, is signed “Isaac Newton” (est. $35,000-$40,000).

On June 8, 1783, then-General George Washington signed a discharge document for Private Daniel Davis (1750-1851), releasing the soldier from military service. The lot should achieve $10,000-$12,000.

Staying in the category, a carte de visite portrait photograph of Abraham Lincoln dated Aug. 9, 1863 – signed by the president (as “A. Lincoln”) and authenticated, slabbed and graded Mint 9 by PSA – should bring $55,000-$60,000; while a rare Rev War letter written and signed by Thomas Jefferson (as “Th. Jefferson”), dated Aug. 7, 1779, in which he sets command of “battalions to be raised for defence (sic) of the Western frontier”, carries a pre-sale estimate of $15,000-$17,000.

Other presidential material – from FDR, JFK, Lincoln, Jackson, Reagan and others – is sure to be of interest. Included is a 21-page original corrected draft of an article written by Harry S. Truman that appeared in a 1958 issue of Look Magazine, in which Truman demands respect for the office of the presidency, praising Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson and both Roosevelts, while criticizing Fillmore, Taylor, Pierce and Harrison as mediocre. The lot is expected to make $2,000-$2,400.

Not forgetting the First Ladies, University Archives is also offering rare, collectible pieces from Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, Caroline Fillmore, Julia Grant, Jackie Kennedy and others.

Jack Kerouac fans will be thrilled to see the latest treasures from the Beat writer’s estate, Part 3, including almost 50 lots of Kerouac’s apparel, books and beloved possessions. This installment will contain Kerouac’s mailbox from his home in Florida; his much-loved crucifix with rosary bead fragment; the wedding band he presented to his third wife, Stella; and original photographs.

Other memorable Kerouac will items include his personal tobacco pouch, Panama hat, velvet slippers, Catholic religious icon, Buddhist or Hindu silver ceremonial cup and kitschy 1960s entertainment accessories. Books are estate stamped and sealed; other items will be accompanied by estate certification signed by John Shen-Sampas, executor of the Kerouac estate by descent.

One interesting Kerouac item added to the auction is a four-page letter handwritten and signed by him, dated Oct. 26, 1954 and addressed to Robert Lax (1915-2000), Kerouac’s friend, fellow writer and a Catholic. The letter explores Christianity, Buddhism, spirituality, philosophy and linguistics and mentions Kerouac’s upcoming book, Some of the Dharma (est. $15,000-$16,000).

Early American lots include a rare Peter Force engraving of the Declaration of Independence, printed in 1848 with remarkably exact renditions of the signers’ hands, one of perhaps as few as 500 copies issued (est. $14,000-$16,000); a John Hancock signed 1776 soldier’s commission for a man who served with Nathan Hale (est. $10,000-$12,000); and a Paul Revere signed receipt for silver tankards commissioned from a Massachusetts church (est. $10,000-$12,000).

The phenomenal Civil War subcategory includes six lots of Robert E. Lee items, including a single-page letter written and signed by Confederate General Robert E. Lee, dated Jan. 17, 1862, to Lee’s relative Shirley Carter Turner, regarding his defense of Charleston, S.C., estimated to fetch $12,000-$14,000; five lots of Ulysses S. Grant; and items pertaining to J.E.B. Stuart, James Longstreet, Jubal Early, Abner Doubleday, Daniel Ruggles, and Mary Surratt. Of the nine lots of Slavery-related material, the most significant are an autograph letter signed by Harriet Beecher Stowe regarding abolition and an early Virginia runaway slave poster.

A letter written and signed by Russian leader Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924), penned between the failed revolution of 1905 and the successful revolution of 1917, while he was in exile in Berlin, Germany, has a pre-sale estimate of $50,000-$60,000. Also, World War II lot pertaining to The Big Three at Yalta (Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin), including a currency note signed by all three men and a photo signed by FDR and others in Hawaii, should finish at $12,000-$15,000.

A two-page letter written and signed by Albert Einstein from Gatow, Germany, dated Jan. 5, 1929, regarding his United Field Theory (“I have been brooding and calculating almost all of my days and half the nights”), should reach $40,000-$45,000. Also, a one-page letter typewritten and signed by Oskar Schindler (of “Schindler’s List” fame), in German, dated Jan. 8, 1962, saying how proud he was to have saved the people on the list, is expected to garner $14,000-$16,000.

A Fresno Mining Company stock certificate signed by Samuel Clemens (author Mark Twain’s real name), one of only three known (and the only one available), dated May 19, 1863 and signed as “Sam. L. Clemens”, should realize $30,000-$35,000.

University Archives is happy and honored to be able to make a generous donation to Feeding America, a non-profit organization administering to over 200 food banks across America. The contribution was made possible by the success of the March sale and the already significant interest in the May sale. “Considering Feeding America’s 4-star rating from Charity Navigator, the independent charity evaluator, and with over 98 percent of its monetary donations earmarked for food, we are confident that these contributions will go far,” said John Reznikoff, the president of University Archives.

For more information about University Archives and the Wednesday, May 6th online-only auction, please visit www.universityarchives.com. For phone bidding, please call 203-454-0111.

About University Archives:
University Archives has become world-renowned as a go-to source for rare items of this kind. It is actively seeking quality material for future auctions, presenting a rare opportunity for sellers. Anyone who has a single item or a collection that may be a fit for a future University Archives auction may call John Reznikoff at 203-454-0111, or email him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. University Archives was founded in 1979, as a division of University Stamp Company, by John Reznikoff, who started collecting stamps and coins in 1968, while in the third grade. Industry-wide, Reznikoff is considered the leading authenticity expert for manuscripts and documents. He consults with law enforcement, dealers, auction houses and both major authentication companies. For more information, visit www.universityarchives.com.

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San Francisco-based private financial group engaged by Denmark-based market-disruptive online food delivery and takeout firm as lead placement agent for convertible note offering.

San Francisco, California, USA., April 21, 2020 - US Capital Global Securities LLC, an affiliate of US Capital Global, is offering to eligible investors a €2 million investment opportunity in Takeout Group. Founded in 2001, Takeout Group provides end-to-end ordering and dispatching white-label platforms and aggregation sites for thousands of participating restaurants across Europe. Takeout Group’s mission is to help grow individual restaurant brands by offering lower cost delivery services and providing client information back to those restaurants.
 

With offices in San Francisco and London, US Capital Global is a full-service private financial group with an established track record in providing corporate finance and asset management. All securities are offered by the group through its registered broker-dealer affiliate, US Capital Global Securities LLC.

Thomas Cort Hansen, CEO and co-founder of Takeout Group, said: “We are exceedingly pleased to be continuing our partnership with US Capital Global. After US Capital Global’s excellent demonstration of speed and professionalism in providing the first tranche of our funding, we feel especially confident moving forward. US Capital Global’s assistance with this multi-million Euro convertible note capitalization will support our continued 90% year-on-year growth in number of orders handled by our platform and our ongoing international expansion through the launch of significant partnerships in the UK, Ireland, and Spain.”

“It’s an honor to be serving Takeout Group as its lead placement agent on this €2 million convertible note offering,” said Charles Towle, CEO at US Capital Global Securities. “We are especially pleased to support a socially positive impact enterprise like Takeout Group, which has an ethos of building community and supporting small businesses by reducing costs. Having successfully closed the first tranche of this multi-million Euro convertible note for the company, which was funded by our affiliate, US Capital Global Business Credit Income Fund, the opportunity to participate in this $2 million investment in Takeout Group is now open to eligible investors.”

About Takeout Group
Founded in 2001 and based in Denmark, Takeout Group provides a range of innovative SaaS technologies for individual restaurants, multi-store chains, and franchises to market and sell their products online under their own brand name, as well as manage their logistics. Allowing restaurants to manage their own brands helps them grow. Takeout Group currently operates in eight international marketplaces, processing orders worth more than €15 million annually. The company has been recognized by Børsens Gazelle for its exceptional growth and is the winner of several mobile app awards. www.takeoutgroup.com

About US Capital Global
US Capital Global Securities LLC is the FINRA-registered broker-dealer division of US Capital Global that acts as placement agent for growth-stage companies, projects, and investment funds. Since 1998, the US Capital Global team has been committed to providing small and lower middle market businesses and investors with sophisticated debt, equity, and investment opportunities usually available only to larger middle market companies and institutional investors, using the latest FinTech and RegTech innovation. US Capital Global manages direct investment funds and provides wealth management and capital raise services.

To learn more about US Capital Global Securities or this investment opportunity, email Charles Towle, CEO, at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call +1 415-889-1010.

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