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HERNDON, VA -- (Marketwired) -- 10/20/14 -- HC2 Holdings, Inc. ("HC2") (OTCQB: HCHC) announced today the acquisition of a minority interest in NerVve Technologies through the purchase of $5 million in Series A-1 Preferred Stock.

NerVve is changing the way that video and imagery is exploited for intelligence, insight, and action. NerVve extracts relevant information from raw pixel data in video and imagery, allowing users to search tremendous volumes of video and imagery for any object, sign, logo or pattern at extreme speeds. NerVve's groundbreaking product, the NerVve Visual Search Solution (NVSS), is a very high speed visual search engine, capable of searching pixels just like they are text on web-pages.

Philip A. Falcone, HC2's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "We are thrilled to lead the Series A-1 investment in NerVve, a company with breakthrough technology for visual search applicable to multiple vertical markets. We look forward to working with NerVve's management team and employees, and accelerating the development of NerVve's market-leading visual search engine."

"HC2's partnership will significantly accelerate NerVve's ability to advance the development of enhanced visual search capabilities and aggressively pursue revenue-enhancing opportunities for our customers in Media & Entertainment, Digital Online, Social Media and Government. As NerVve broadens its reach to serve added commercial markets, HC2's involvement and relationships will facilitate market entry and rapidly increase the speed of development of all areas of the business," said Thomas E. Slowe, NerVve's Chief Executive Officer.

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About HC2

HC2 operates as a holding company of operating subsidiaries primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. HC2 owns 89% of Schuff, the largest steel fabrication and erection company in the United States. HC2 owns 95% of Global Marine Systems Limited, which is the leading independent provider of engineering and underwater services, responding to the subsea cable installation, maintenance and burial requirements of its world-wide customer base. HC2's indirectly wholly owned subsidiary PTGi International Carrier Services, Inc. is one of the leading international wholesale service providers to fixed and mobile network operators worldwide. HC2 owns a majority interest in ANG Holding, Inc., a premier retailer of natural gas motor fuel in the Northeast. HC2's indirectly wholly owned subsidiary Genovel Orthopedics, Inc. is researching the development of innovative products to treat early osteoarthritis of the knee. Founded in 1994, HC2 is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. For more information, visit: www.HC2.com.

About NerVve

NerVve was developed to address the core needs of organizations seeking to exploit massive amounts of unstructured visual information (video, images and other 2 dimensional raster data) through the use of a proprietary, high speed visual search engine. NerVve's technology is used to automatically search live or pre-recorded video, images, or tiled imagery to find objects contained within the images and video enabling detection and analysis of the most relevant items at very high speeds for our customers in the Intelligence Community, Media & Entertainment, and Social Media. For more information visit us at: www.NerVveTechnologies.com