(A) PLAN OF OPERATION
The Company made forty-seven investments in the year ended on
The Company expects to continue raising funds to cover operating expenses and to continue new portfolio and follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies on an ongoing basis as it continues efforts to become effective as a "1940 Act" investment company. Once effective, the Company plans to engage an investment banker and list on the NASDAQ exchange.
(B) RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Revenue: The Company depends on the emergence of liquidity situations to realize
its investments in portfolio companies but does not have any ability to
influence such events. During the years ended
Banking and professional fees: The Company incurred banking and professional
fees of
Other operating expenses: The Company incurred operating expenses of
The Company did not experience any management fees or interest expense in either years.
For the years ended
(C) LIQUIDITY
The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that we will
continue as a going concern. We have experienced recurring negative cash flows
from operations resulting in a deficit of
As of the date of this filing, the Company had approximately
At
As a BDC, the Company will be required to comply with certain regulatory
requirements. The Company also intends to elect to be treated for
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The Company expects to continue raising funds to cover operating expenses and to continue new portfolio and follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies on an ongoing basis as it continues efforts to become effective as a "40 Act" investment company. Once effective, the Company plans to engage an investment banker and list on the NASDAQ exchange. To continue to fund operations, we will need to raise additional capital. We may obtain additional financing in the future through the issuance of our common stock, through other equity or debt financings, or other means. We may not be able to raise such additional capital on terms acceptable to us, if at all, and if there were any failure to raise capital when needed, or on attractive terms, we could be forced to reduce, delay or eliminate our investment activities or make reductions in spending, extend payment terms with suppliers, or liquidate or grant rights to our assets where possible. Any of these activities could materially harm our business, results of operations, or future prospects. There is no assurance that we can ever be profitable or generate sufficient cash flow from investment activities.
Cash from operating activities:
The Company's net cash outflow from operations for the years ended
Cash from investing activities:
The Company did not have any cash flow from investing activities for the years
ended
Cash from financing activities:
The Company's net cash inflow from financing activities for the years ended
(D ) SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The Company's financial statements are prepared in accordance with
The Company's financial statements are prepared using the specialized accounting principles of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946, Financial Services-Investment Companies (ASC Topic 946). In accordance with this specialized accounting guidance, the Company recognizes and carries all of its investments at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in earnings. Additionally, the Company will not apply consolidation or equity method of accounting to its investments. The Company carries its liabilities at amounts payable, net of unamortized premiums or discounts. The Company does not currently plan to elect to carry its liabilities at fair value. Net assets are calculated as the carrying amounts of assets, including the fair value of investments, less the carrying amounts of its liabilities.
The financial information associated with the
REVENUE RECOGNITION
The Company generates realized gains or losses in its net assets from the sale of complete or partial investments following a mergers or acquisitions ("M&A") transaction or restructuring or from the revaluation of portfolio company investments to recognize changes in their value, either upwards or downwards. As a minority, early-stage investor, the Company does not have the ability to manage the timing or acceptance of liquidity events that will realize its investments, nor the ability to predict when they may happen, although as a general guideline, it would expect such events to occur approximately four years after its investments are made. Realized gains or losses on the sale of investments, or upon the determination that an investment balance, or portion thereof, is not recoverable, are calculated using the specific identification method. The Company measures realized gains or losses by calculating the difference between the net proceeds from the repayment or sale and the amortized cost basis of the investment. Net change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation reflects the change in the fair values of the Company's portfolio investments during the reporting period, including any reversal of previously recorded unrealized appreciation or depreciation when gains or losses are realized. The Company is in regular contact with the management of its portfolio investment companies to provide a basis for valuation changes or impairment reviews.
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USE OF ESTIMATES
In preparing financial statements, management is required to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and revenues and expenses during the period presented. Actual results may differ from these estimates.
Significant estimates during the fiscal year ended
INVESTMENTS AND VALUATION OF INVESTMENTS AT FAIR VALUE
The Company reviews the performance of its investments based on available
information, including management reports, press releases, web site
announcements and progress reports, third party equity updates, management
interviews and, where accessible, financial reports, to determine their current
and future potential value and liquidity. In the event that Management considers
the value of an investment to be impaired, the carrying value of the investment
will be written down by an impairment charge to reflect Management's estimated
valuation. The Company recognized impairment of one of its investments which was
written down by
The Company adopted
Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. Fair value is an exchange price notion under which fair value is the price in an orderly transaction between market participants to sell an asset or transfer a liability in the market in which the reporting entity would transact for the asset or liability.
The Company has established procedures to estimate the fair value of its investments which the Company's board of directors has reviewed and approved. The Company will use observable market data to estimate the fair value of investments to the extent that market data is available. In the absence of quoted market prices in active markets, or quoted market prices for similar assets or in markets that are not active, the Company will use the valuation methodologies described below with unobservable data based on the best available information in the circumstances, which incorporates the Company's assumptions about the factors that a market participant would use to value the asset.
For investments for which quoted market prices are not available, which will comprise most of our investment portfolio, fair value will be estimated by using the income, market, or back-solve approach. The income approach is based on the assumption that value is created by the expectation of future benefits discounted to a current value and the fair value estimate is the amount an investor would be willing to pay to receive those future benefits. The market approach compares recent comparable transactions to the investment. The back solve method involves comparing available data over a period of time and inferring a new valuation based on changes from a known starting point, for example the cost of an investment. Adjustments are made for any dissimilarity between the comparable transactions and the investments. These valuation methodologies involve a significant degree of judgment on the part of our management and board.
In determining the appropriate fair value of an investment using these approaches, the most significant information and assumption may include, as applicable: available current market data, including relevant and applicable comparable market transactions, applicable market yields and multiples, security covenants, call protection provisions, information rights, the nature and realizable value of any collateral, the investment's ability to make payments, its earnings and discounted cash flows, the markets in which the company does business, comparisons of financial ratios of peer companies that are public, merger and acquisition comparables, the principal market and enterprise values, environmental factors, among other factors.
The estimated fair values will not necessarily represent the amounts that may be ultimately realized due to the occurrence or nonoccurrence of future circumstances that cannot be reasonably determined. Because of the inherent uncertainty of the valuation of the investments, the estimate of fair values may differ significantly from the value that would have been used had a broader market for the investments existed.
The authoritative accounting guidance prioritizes the use of market-based inputs over entity-specific inputs and establishes a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation. The three levels of valuation hierarchy are defined as follows:
Level 1: Observable inputs such as quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
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Level 2: Observable market-based inputs or unobservable inputs that are corroborated by market data
Level 3: Unobservable inputs for which there is little or no market data, which require the use of the reporting entity's own assumptions. Most of the Company's investments are Level 3.
Critical accounting policies and practices are the policies that are both most
important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results, and require
management's most difficult, subjective, or complex judgments, often as a result
of the need to make estimates about the effects of matters that are inherently
uncertain. These include estimates of the fair value of our Level 3 investments
and other estimates that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities
as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts
of certain revenues and expenses during the reporting period. It is likely that
changes in these estimates will occur in the near term. Our estimates are
inherently subjective in nature and actual results could differ materially from
such estimates. See "Note 1 - Significant Accounting Policies" to our
consolidated financial statements as of
(E ) OFF-BALANCE SHEET ARRANGEMENT
None.
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