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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001493152-20-000299
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	8-K
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		2
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20200107
ITEM INFORMATION:		Other Events
ITEM INFORMATION:		Financial Statements and Exhibits
FILED AS OF DATE:		20200107
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20200107

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			theMaven, Inc.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000894871
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	CABLE & OTHER PAY TELEVISION SERVICES [4841]
		IRS NUMBER:				680232575
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		8-K
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-12471
		FILM NUMBER:		20512538

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1500 FOURTH AVENUE, SUITE 200
		CITY:			SEATTLE
		STATE:			WA
		ZIP:			98101
		BUSINESS PHONE:		775-600-2765

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1500 FOURTH AVENUE, SUITE 200
		CITY:			SEATTLE
		STATE:			WA
		ZIP:			98101

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	THEMAVEN, INC.
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20161209

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	INTEGRATED SURGICAL SYSTEMS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19960725
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PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE<BR>
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934</B></FONT></P>

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INC.</U></B></FONT></P>



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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933
(&sect;230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Act of 1934 (&sect;240.12b-2 of this chapter)</FONT></P>

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an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for
complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. [&nbsp;&nbsp;]</FONT></P>

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                                         8.01</B></FONT></TD><TD STYLE="text-align: justify; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>Other
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">TheMaven,
Inc., announced that its preliminary numbers indicate the company outperformed its financial forecasts for 2019, including the
Q4 dramatic transitions of Sports Illustrated and TheStreet. Maven generated more than $45 million in revenue for Q4, leaving
more cash in the treasury than anticipated in its most recent financing.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Financial
and digital metrics improved quickly and materially for Sports Illustrated, in particular, after Maven replaced SI&rsquo;s senior
management team and implemented dramatic changes in editorial strategy for both print and digital, tech platform, sales approach,
print format, video strategy, headcount and expense discipline. Significant growth was led by SI&rsquo;s new team network, which
brought 5.6 million unique users to SI during the month of December. These changes have helped deliver strong financial and operating
results quickly, positioning Maven and SI for continued growth into 2020.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Preliminary
numbers also indicate Maven has exceeded its plan for 2019 revenue and EBITDA*, while Maven re-confirmed its recent forecast**
of generating $20 million of EBITDA (earnings) on $160 million of revenue for 2020. Maven&rsquo;s business was launched two years
ago and today, Maven&rsquo;s nine-figure business features more than 300 premium media partners, such as History, Ski Magazine,
Biography, Yoga Journal, Fashionista, Rachael Ray, Maxim, Oxygen, and MTO News, in addition to Sports Illustrated and TheStreet,
combining for roughly 30% of Maven&rsquo;s audience reach.</FONT></P>

<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">TheStreet&rsquo;s
revenue, subscription sales, traffic and operating margin are climbing as well, after introducing Maven&rsquo;s tech, distribution,
sales platform and operational efficiencies.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&ldquo;We
are pleased by the positive results,&rdquo; Maven founder James Heckman said. &ldquo;Similar to our 2018 restructuring initiatives,
we quickly forced many difficult, and sometimes traumatic changes, which we deemed necessary to transition SI&rsquo;s business
back to a trusted and growing heritage brand. We will continue to be true to our business model and are extremely proud to be
operating a profitable and growing business in times like these, with best in class content and technology as its backbone.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Maven
anticipates that in 2020 it will have more than $27 million in operational savings at Sports Illustrated, compared to 2018. Those
include significant changes in print frequency and circulation, while improving the size, weight and quality of the magazine,
whose first issue under its new format will launch in February. The company also expects $5 million in savings from efficiencies
related to Maven&rsquo;s digital infrastructure and $7 million by consolidating duplicative operating costs. Maven&rsquo;s recent
acquisitions now leverage a finance and accounting organization capable of supporting a now considerably larger public company,
and a sophisticated consumer subscription marketing enterprise to drive digital subscriptions across TheStreet, Sports Illustrated
and all &ldquo;mavens,&rdquo; as well as improving the SI print subscription business.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&ldquo;Since
our initial investment, Maven&rsquo;s team has exceeded our expectations in every way,&rdquo; said Bryant Riley, Chairman and
CEO of B. Riley Financial, the largest investor in Maven. &ldquo;Any time an industry undergoes the type of structural transformations
seen in today&rsquo;s media landscape, extremely challenging decisions need to be made. Maven has remained steadfast in their
business model, allowing them to execute on these decisions with results that speak for themselves. We look forward to continuing
to assist them in growing their platform, which we view as in the early innings of an impressive growth trajectory.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Notable
improvement in SI metrics under Maven already include year-to-year increases of 7.4% in unique users (29 million in December 2019
vs 27 million in 2018); 32% in sessions, 24.5% in sessions per user, and 50% in average time spent on page. SI.com saw a 300%
page-load speed improvement after moving to Maven&rsquo;s platform (October 2019 vs September 2019). Average session time on SI
team sites was 4 minutes, 34 seconds in December.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">&ldquo;Overnight,
Sports Illustrated&rsquo;s digital offering was revived,&rdquo; explained SI&rsquo;s new Co-Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Hunt. &ldquo;The
new platform and technology dramatically improved the user experience. Our user growth, content offering and diversity of experiences
across web, mobile and video will help change the landscape for sports fans.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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strategic changes at Sports Illustrated include a shift to real-time digital news, and a coming expansion of digital video. In
print, Maven is making significant investments in top-tier journalists to produce more impact-focused and investigative long form
stories. Clearing the way for these changes, Maven eliminated SI&rsquo;s &ldquo;print-news&rdquo; department and halted its long-form
video strategy, which had been suffering significant financial losses.</FONT></P>

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approaches were implemented at TheStreet, moving operations and technology to Maven&rsquo;s &ldquo;shared coalition infrastructure.&rdquo;
TheStreet&rsquo;s video, subscription and accounting teams are now leveraged by all Maven coalition partners, including Sports
Illustrated, after their recent turn-around of those two businesses for TheStreet.</FONT></P>

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supplement our financial results prepared under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, we have used non-GAAP measures
including Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization, or EBITDA. We believe that the use of non-GAAP measures
are helpful in understanding our past performance and are intended to aid in evaluating our potential future results. The presentation
of non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to our GAAP results and are not intended to be considered in isolation or
as a substitute for financial information prepared or presented in accordance with GAAP.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">EBITDA,
or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, is a measure of a company&rsquo;s overall financial performance
and is used as an alternative to simple earnings or net income. EBITDA, strips out the cost of capital investments like property,
plant, and equipment. We use EBITDA as we believe it is a more precise measure of the company&rsquo;s performance since it is
able to show earnings before the influence of accounting and financial deductions.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; background-color: white"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">**filed
October 7, 2019, with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Form 8-K report</FONT></P>

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    <TD STYLE="font: 11pt/107% Calibri, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%"><B>Financial Statements and Exhibits.</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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Exhibits</FONT></P>

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    No.</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">99.1</FONT></TD>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><A HREF="ex99-1.htm"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Press release dated January 7, 2020.</FONT></A></TD></TR>
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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: center"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><B>SIGNATURES</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.</FONT></P>

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    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><B>THEMAVEN, INC.</B></FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Dated:
    January 7, 2020</FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">By:
    </FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="border-bottom: Black 1.5pt solid; font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt"><I>/s/
    Doug Smith</I></FONT></TD></TR>
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    </FONT></TD>
    <TD STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt">Doug
    Smith</FONT></TD></TR>
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    </FONT></TD>
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Updates Strong 2019 Financial Performance, Reiterates Guidance for 2020</B></FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><I>Maven
platform integration, distribution, cost savings and new editorial strategies drove improved metrics across all properties, including
Sports Illustrated and TheStreet</I></FONT></P>

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January 7, 2020 - Preliminary numbers indicate that <U>Maven</U> (<U>MVEN</U>) outperformed financial forecasts for 2019, including
Q4 during dramatic transitions of <U>Sports Illustrated</U> and <U>TheStreet</U>, the company announced today. Maven generated
more than $45 million in revenue for the quarter, leaving more cash in the treasury than anticipated in its most recent financing.</FONT></P>

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and digital metrics improved quickly and materially for Sports Illustrated, in particular, after Maven replaced SI&rsquo;s senior
management team and implemented dramatic changes in editorial strategy for both print and digital, tech platform, sales approach,
print format, video strategy, headcount and expense discipline. Significant growth was led by SI&rsquo;s new team network, which
brought 5.6 million unique users to SI during the month of December. These changes have helped deliver strong financial and operating
results quickly, positioning Maven and SI for continued growth into 2020.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">Preliminary
numbers also indicate Maven has exceeded its plan for 2019 revenue and EBITDA*, while Maven re-confirmed its recent forecast**
of generating $20 million of EBITDA (earnings) on $160 million of revenue for 2020. Maven&rsquo;s business was launched two years
ago and today, Maven&rsquo;s nine-figure business features more than 300 premium media partners, such as <U>History</U>, <U>Ski
Magazine</U>, <U>Biography</U>, <U>Yoga Journal</U>, <U>Fashionista</U>, <U>Rachael Ray</U>, <U>Maxim</U>, <U>Oxygen</U>, and
<U>MTO News</U>, in addition to Sports Illustrated and TheStreet, combining for roughly 30% of Maven&rsquo;s audience reach.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">TheStreet&rsquo;s
revenue, subscription sales, traffic and operating margin are climbing as well, after introducing Maven&rsquo;s tech, distribution,
sales platform and operational efficiencies.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">&ldquo;We
are pleased by the positive results,&rdquo; Maven founder James Heckman said. &ldquo;Similar to our 2018 restructuring initiatives,
we quickly forced many difficult, and sometimes traumatic changes, which we deemed necessary to transition SI&rsquo;s business
back to a trusted and growing heritage brand. We will continue to be true to our business model and are extremely proud to be
operating a profitable and growing business in times like these, with best in class content and technology as its backbone.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">Maven
anticipates that in 2020 it will have more than $27 million in operational savings at Sports Illustrated, compared to 2018. Those
include significant changes in print frequency and circulation, while improving the size, weight and quality of the magazine,
whose first issue under its new format will launch in February. The company also expects $5 million in savings from efficiencies
related to Maven&rsquo;s digital infrastructure and $7 million by consolidating duplicative operating costs. Maven&rsquo;s recent
acquisitions now leverage a finance and accounting organization capable of supporting a now considerably larger public company,
and a sophisticated consumer subscription marketing enterprise to drive digital subscriptions across TheStreet, Sports Illustrated
and all &ldquo;mavens,&rdquo; as well as improving the SI print subscription business.</FONT></P>

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our initial investment, Maven&rsquo;s team has exceeded our expectations in every way,&rdquo; said Bryant Riley, Chairman and
CEO of B. Riley Financial, the largest investor in Maven. &ldquo;Any time an industry undergoes the type of structural transformations
seen in today&rsquo;s media landscape, extremely challenging decisions need to be made. Maven has remained steadfast in their
business model, allowing them to execute on these decisions with results that speak for themselves. We look forward to continuing
to assist them in growing their platform, which we view as in the early innings of an impressive growth trajectory.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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improvement in SI metrics under Maven already include year-to-year increases of 7.4% in unique users (29 million in December 2019
vs 27 million in 2018); 32% in sessions, 24.5% in sessions per user, and 50% in average time spent on page. SI.com saw a 300%
page-load speed improvement after moving to Maven&rsquo;s platform (October 2019 vs September 2019). Average session time on SI
team sites was 4 minutes, 34 seconds in December.</FONT></P>

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Sports Illustrated&rsquo;s digital offering was revived,&rdquo; explained SI&rsquo;s new Co-Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Hunt. &ldquo;The
new platform and technology dramatically improved the user experience. Our user growth, content offering and diversity of experiences
across web, mobile and video will help change the landscape for sports fans.&rdquo;</FONT></P>

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strategic changes at Sports Illustrated include a shift to real-time digital news, and a coming expansion of digital video. In
print, Maven is making significant investments in top-tier journalists to produce more impact-focused and investigative long form
stories. Clearing the way for these changes, Maven eliminated SI&rsquo;s &ldquo;print-news&rdquo; department and halted its long-form
video strategy, which had been suffering significant financial losses.</FONT></P>

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approaches were implemented at TheStreet, moving operations and technology to Maven&rsquo;s &ldquo;shared coalition infrastructure.&rdquo;
TheStreet&rsquo;s video, subscription and accounting teams are now leveraged by all Maven coalition partners, including Sports
Illustrated, after their recent turn-around of those two businesses for <I>TheStreet</I>.</FONT></P>

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<P STYLE="font: 10pt Times New Roman, Times, Serif; margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0; text-align: justify"><FONT STYLE="font-family: Times New Roman, Times, Serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000">*To
supplement our financial results prepared under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, we have used non-GAAP measures
including Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization, or EBITDA. We believe that the use of non-GAAP measures
are helpful in understanding our past performance and are intended to aid in evaluating our potential future results. The presentation
of non-GAAP measures should be considered in addition to our GAAP results and are not intended to be considered in isolation or
as a substitute for financial information prepared or presented in accordance with GAAP.</FONT></P>

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or earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization, is a measure of a company&rsquo;s overall financial performance
and is used as an alternative to simple earnings or net income. EBITDA, strips out the cost of capital investments like property,
plant, and equipment. We use EBITDA as we believe it is a more precise measure of the company&rsquo;s performance since it is
able to show earnings before the influence of accounting and financial deductions.</FONT></P>

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October 7, 2019 with the Securities and Exchange Commission as a Form 8-K report</FONT></P>

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Maven</B></FONT></P>

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(<U>maven.io</U>) is a <U>coalition of Mavens</U>, from individual thought-leaders to world-leading independent publishers, operating
on a shared digital publishing, monetization and distribution platform, unified under a single media brand. Based in Seattle,
Maven is publicly traded under the ticker symbol <U>MVEN</U>.</FONT></P>

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inquiries: <U>press@maven.io</U></FONT></P>

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relations: <U>ir@maven.io</U> or 415-309-0230</FONT></P>

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