UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

 

Form 10-K

 

xAnnual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2013

or

 

¨TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from _____________________ to ____________________

 

Commission File No. 0-11576

 

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.®
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

New York   13-3119827
(State or Other Jurisdiction   (I.R.S. Employer
of Incorporation or Organization)   Identification No.)

 

1450 Broadway, 24th Floor, New York, New York 10018
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant's telephone number, including area code     (212) 582-0900

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

 

Title of Each Class   Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
     
Common Stock, $.01 par value   Nasdaq Global Market

 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:

 

None
(Title of Class)

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.

¨ Yes      þ No

 

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.

¨ Yes      þ No

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.

þ Yes      ¨ No

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate website, if any, every Interactive Data file required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).

¨ Yes      ¨ No

 

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.

¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of "large accelerated filer," "accelerated filer" and "smaller reporting company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):

 

Large accelerated filer ¨   Accelerated filer þ
Non-accelerated filer ¨   Smaller reporting company ¨

 

(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Act).

¨ Yes      þ No

 

The aggregate market value of the common stock held by non-affiliates of Registrant as of June 30, 2013 was $93,555,611 based on the last sale price as quoted by the Nasdaq Global Market on such date (only officers and directors are considered affiliates for this calculation).

 

As of March 14, 2014, the registrant had 31,197,438 shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share, outstanding.

 

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE   INCORPORATED AT
     
Harris & Harris Group, Inc. Proxy Statement for the   Part III, Items 10, 11,
2014 Annual Meeting of Shareholders   12, 13 and 14

 

 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

    Page
PART I    
     
Item 1. Business 1
Item 1A. Risk Factors 16
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 34
Item 2. Properties 35
Item 3. Legal Proceedings 35
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 35
     
PART II    
     
Item 5. Market For Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities 36
Item 6. Selected Financial Data 39
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations 40
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk 89
Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 92
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure 163
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 163
Item 9B. Other Information 163
     
PART III    
     
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 164
Item 11. Executive Compensation 164
Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters 164
Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence 164
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 165
     
PART IV    
     
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statements Schedules 166
     
Signatures 169
     
Exhibit Index 171

 

 
 

 

PART I

 

Item 1.Business.

 

Harris & Harris Group, Inc.® (the "Company," "us," "our," and "we"), is an internally managed venture capital company that builds transformative companies from disruptive science. We have elected to be regulated as a business development company ("BDC") under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (the "1940 Act"). For tax purposes, we have elected to be treated as a regulated investment company ("RIC") under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. We were incorporated under the laws of the state of New York in August 1981. Our investment objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation by making venture capital investments. Generation of current income is a secondary objective. We define venture capital investments as the money and resources made available to privately held and publicly traded small businesses that we believe have exceptional growth potential. Our investment approach is comprised of a patient examination of available opportunities, thorough due diligence and close involvement with management of our portfolio companies. As a venture capital company, we invest in and offer managerial assistance to our portfolio companies, many of which, in our opinion, have significant potential for growth. We are overseen by our Board of Directors and managed by our officers and have no external investment advisor.

 

In our Letter to Shareholders dated October 8, 2013, we noted that our investment focus over the coming years will have two characteristics: 1) it will be early stage, where our focus will be on founding, incubating and building transformative companies from disruptive science and 2) it will be focused on BIOLOGY+. We define our investment focus of BIOLOGY+ as investments in interdisciplinary life science companies where biology innovation is intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. We focus on this intersection because we believe interdisciplinary innovation will be required in order to address many of the life science challenges of the future. As of December 31, 2013, 59 percent of the value of our venture capital portfolio is invested in BIOLOGY+ companies. Since 2008, 79 percent of our initial investments have been in BIOLOGY+ companies.

 

Prior to our focus on BIOLOGY+, since 2002, we have made venture capital investments in science-enabled companies, particularly those that are commercializing or integrating products enabled by nanotechnology or microsystems. This investment focus is not a fundamental policy and, accordingly, may be changed without shareholder approval, although we have stated that we intend to give shareholders at least 60 days prior notice of any change in our nanotechnology focus.

 

To date, all of our BIOLOGY+ companies have also been commercializing or integrating products enabled by nanotechnology. At this time, we are expanding our investment focus within the area of BIOLOGY+ and may make investments that are not enabled at the nanoscale or microscale. We will not make BIOLOGY+ investments that are not also nanotechnology or microsystems investments for 60 days from receipt of this Annual Report. Our focus on BIOLOGY+ is not a fundamental policy, and we will not be required to give notice to shareholders prior to making a change from this focus.

 

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We have demonstrated that we have the ability to discover, diligence, invest, build and realize gains in transformative companies built from disruptive science. We spend a tremendous amount of time with these companies, often playing managerial roles in the earliest stages of their development. Our technical knowledge is important at this stage. Our success in building management teams and focusing on key market opportunities is critical at this stage. As these companies develop, we continue to invest in them, and we invite other investors with complementary skill-sets to invest and add value. In many of these companies, there is a round of capital that has an asymmetrical or outsized return potential compared to other rounds. By being in the companies early, and by recognizing this opportunity, we believe we have the potential to deliver outsized returns even though the investment time period may be long. We also believe we have an investment thesis and an interdisciplinary team that are difficult to replicate and give us a competitive advantage.

 

As of December 31, 2013, our venture capital portfolio comprised 75.1 percent of our total assets, our cash and U.S. Treasury holdings comprised 22.0 percent of our total assets, and other assets comprised the remaining 2.9 percent of our total assets. As of December 31, 2013, we had no debt outstanding.

 

Neither our investments, nor an investment in us, is intended to constitute a balanced investment program. We expect to be risk seeking rather than risk averse in our investment approach. To such end, we reserve the fullest possible freedom of action, subject to our certificate of incorporation, applicable law and regulations, and policy statements contained herein. There is no assurance that our investment objectives will be achieved.

 

We expect to invest a substantial portion of our assets in securities that we consider to be private venture capital equity investments. These private venture capital equity investments usually do not pay interest or dividends and typically are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale that may adversely affect the liquidity and marketability of such securities. Some of our convertible bridge notes may result in payment-in-kind ("PIK") interest. We do not limit our investments to any particular industries or categories of investments enabled by nanotechnology and microsystems. Our securities investments may consist of private, public or governmental issuers of any type, subject to the restrictions imposed on us as a BDC under the 1940 Act. Subject to the diversification requirements applicable to a RIC, we may commit all of our assets to only a few investments.

 

We currently invest our capital directly into portfolio companies. We may in the future seek to invest our capital alongside capital from other investors through investment funds that we control. Such funds could provide benefits to us including 1) the generation of income from management fees; 2) the potential to participate economically in the returns on the funds invested above and beyond the returns generated from investment of our capital; 3) the ability for us to increase the amount of capital under our control invested per portfolio company and 4) in cases where we may partner with one or more corporations, we gain access to market intelligence and distribution and manufacturing expertise that complements our expertise in identifying disruptive innovations and building companies.

 

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Achievement of our investment objective is dependent upon the judgment of a team of four professional, full-time members of management, all of whom are designated as Managing Directors: Douglas W. Jamison, Daniel B. Wolfe, Alexei A. Andreev and Misti Ushio. This team collectively has expertise in venture capital investing, intellectual property and science and technology. There can be no assurance that a suitable replacement could be found for any of our officers upon their retirement, resignation, inability to act on our behalf, or death.

 

Subject to continuing to meet the compliance tests applicable to BDCs under the 1940 Act, there are no limitations on the types of securities or other assets in which we may invest. Investments may include the following:

 

·Venture capital investments, whether in corporate, partnership or other form, including small businesses;

 

·Equity, equity-related securities (including warrants and options) and debt with equity features from either private or public issuers;

 

·Debt obligations of all types having varying terms with respect to security or credit support, subordination, purchase price, interest payments and maturity;

 

·Foreign securities;

 

·Intellectual property or patents or research and development in technology or product development that may lead to patents or other marketable technology; and

 

·Miscellaneous investments.

 

Investments and Strategies

 

The following is a summary description of the types of assets in which we may invest, the investment strategies we may use and the attendant risks associated with our investments and strategies.

 

Venture Capital Investments

 

We define venture capital as the money and resources made available to privately held and publicly traded small businesses that we believe have exceptional growth potential.  These businesses can range in stage from pre-revenue to generating positive cash flow. Substantially all of our long-term venture capital investments are in thinly capitalized, unproven, small companies focused on commercializing risky technologies. These businesses also tend to lack management depth, to have limited or no history of operations and to have not attained profitability. Because of the speculative nature of these investments, these securities have a significantly greater risk of loss than traditional investment securities. Some of our venture capital investments will never realize their potential, and some will be unprofitable or result in complete loss of our investment. Some of our venture capital investments will build successful companies but will not provide a return to us.

 

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We may own 100 percent of the securities of a small business for a period of time and may control the company for a substantial period. Small businesses are more vulnerable to adverse business or economic developments than better-capitalized companies. Small businesses generally have limited product lines, markets and/or financial resources. Publicly traded small businesses and those with small market capitalizations are not well known to the investing public and are generally subject to high volatility, to general movements in markets, to perceptions of potential growth and/or the potential for bankruptcy.

 

In connection with our venture capital investments, we may participate in providing a variety of services to our portfolio companies, including the following:

 

·recruiting management;

 

·formulating operating strategies;

 

·formulating intellectual property strategies;

 

·assisting in financial planning;

 

·providing management in the initial start-up stages;

 

·introducing corporate and development partners; and

 

·establishing corporate goals.

 

We may assist in raising additional capital for these companies from other potential investors and may subordinate our own investment to that of other investors. We typically find it necessary or appropriate to provide additional capital of our own in rounds of financing subsequent to our initial investment. We may introduce these companies to potential joint venture partners, suppliers and customers. In addition, we may assist in establishing relationships with investment bankers and other professionals. We may also assist management of our investee companies with strategy and execution of merger and acquisition ("M&A") transactions. While we do not currently derive income from these companies for the performance of any of the above services, we may seek to do so in the future.

 

We may control, be represented on, or have observer rights on the board of directors of a portfolio company through one or more of our officers or directors, who may also serve as officers of the portfolio company. We indemnify our officers and directors for serving on the boards of directors or as officers of portfolio companies, which exposes us to additional risks. Particularly during the early stages of an investment, we may, in rare instances, in effect be conducting the operations of the portfolio company. As an early-stage company emerges from the developmental stage with greater management depth and experience, we expect that our role in the portfolio company’s day-to-day operations will diminish. Our goal is to assist each company in establishing its own independent capitalization, management and board of directors. We expect to be able to reduce our involvement in those small businesses that become successful, as well as in those small businesses that fail.

 

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Equity, Equity-Related Securities and Debt with Equity Features

 

We may invest in equity, equity-related securities and debt with equity features. These securities include common stock or units, preferred stock or units, debt instruments convertible into common or preferred stock or units, limited partnership interests, other beneficial ownership interests and warrants, options or other rights to acquire or agreements to sell any of the foregoing.

 

We primarily make investments in companies with operating histories that are unprofitable or marginally profitable, that have negative net worth, or that are involved in bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings. These investments would involve businesses that management believes have potential for rapid growth through the infusion of additional capital and management assistance. In addition, we may make investments in connection with the acquisition or divestiture of companies or divisions of companies. There is a significantly greater risk of loss with these types of securities than is the case with traditional investment securities.

 

Warrants, options and convertible or exchangeable securities generally give the investor the right to acquire specified equity securities of an issuer at a specified price during a specified period or on a specified date. Warrants and options fluctuate in value in relation to the value of the underlying security and the remaining life of the warrant or option, while convertible or exchangeable securities fluctuate in value both in relation to the intrinsic value of the security without the conversion or exchange feature and in relation to the value of the conversion or exchange feature, which is like a warrant or option. When we invest in these securities, we incur the risk that the option feature will expire worthless, thereby either eliminating or diminishing the value of our investment.

 

Most of our current portfolio company investments are in the equity securities of private companies. Investments in equity securities of private companies often involve securities that are restricted as to sale and cannot be sold in the open market without registration under the Securities Act of 1933 or pursuant to a specific exemption from these registrations. Opportunities for sale are more limited than in the case of marketable securities, although these investments may be purchased at more advantageous prices and may offer attractive investment opportunities. Even if one of our portfolio companies completes an initial public offering ("IPO"), we are typically subject to a lock-up agreement for 180 days, and the stock price may decline substantially before we are free to sell or enter into contracts to sell these shares. These lock-up restrictions apply to us and our shares of the portfolio company owned prior to the IPO and may include shares purchased by us in an IPO. These restrictions generally include provisions that stipulate that we are not permitted to offer, pledge or sell our shares, including selling covered call options on our shares, prior to the expiration of the lock-up period.  We are also prohibited from entering into new securities lending arrangements for these securities during the lock-up period.

 

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We may employ an option strategy of writing (selling) covered call options or purchasing put options on one or more of our public portfolio companies once any restrictions and/or lock-up periods expire. Call options are contracts representing the right to purchase a common stock at a specified price (the "strike price") at a specified future date (the "expiration date"). Selling a covered call option represents an obligation to sell a specified number of shares of common stock at a strike price by an expiration date if the stock achieves the strike price and if it is called. A call option whose strike price is above the current price of the underlying stock is called "out-of-the-money." A call option whose strike price is below the current price of the underlying stock is called "in-the-money." When stocks in the portfolio rise, call options that were out-of-the-money when written may become in-the-money, thereby increasing the likelihood that they could be exercised, and we would be forced to sell the stock. While this may be desirable in some instances, we may minimize undesirable option assignments by repurchasing the call options prior to expiration, generating a gain or loss in the options. If the options were not to be repurchased, the option holder could exercise its rights and buy the stock from us at the strike price if the stock traded at a higher price than the strike price. We will only "sell" or "write" options on common stocks held in our portfolio. We will not sell "naked" call options, i.e., options representing more shares of the stock than are held in the portfolio. For conventional listed call options, the options’ expiration dates are commonly up to nine months from the date the call options are first listed for trading. Longer-term call options can have expiration dates up to three years from the date of listing. We currently expect the majority of written call options to have expirations of equal to or less than one year from the date the call option is first listed for trading.

 

We may also purchase put options as a method of limiting the downside risk that the price per share of these companies may decrease substantially from current levels. A put option gives its holder the right to sell a specified number of shares of a specific security at a specific price (known as the exercise strike price) by a certain date. The buyer of a put option is betting that the price of the security will decrease before the option expires. The risk for us as the option holder is that the option expires unexercised, and we would have lost the money spent on buying the option.

 

We may utilize instruments such as forward contracts, currency options and interest rate swaps, caps, collars and floors to seek to hedge against fluctuations in the relative values of our portfolio positions from changes in market conditions, currency exchange rates and market interest rates. Hedging against a decline in the values of our portfolio positions does not eliminate the possibility of fluctuations in the values of such positions or prevent losses if the values of such positions decline. However, such hedging can establish other positions designed to gain from those same developments, thereby offsetting the decline in the value of such portfolio positions.

 

We may also invest in publicly traded securities of whatever nature, including relatively small, emerging growth companies that management believes have long-term growth potential. These investments may be through open-market transactions or through private placements in publicly traded companies ("PIPEs"). Securities purchased in PIPE transactions are typically subject to a lock-up agreement for 180 days, or are issued as unregistered securities that are not freely tradable for at least six months.

 

Even if we have registration rights to make our investments in privately held and publicly traded companies more marketable, a considerable amount of time may elapse between a decision to sell or register the securities for sale and the time when we are able to sell the securities. The prices obtainable upon sale may be adversely affected by market conditions, by the level of average trading volume of the underlying stock as compared with the position offered for sale or negative conditions affecting the issuer during the intervening time. We may elect to hold formerly restricted securities after they have become freely marketable, either because they remain relatively illiquid or because we believe that they may appreciate in value. During this holding period, the value of these securities may decline and be especially volatile. If we need funds for investment or working capital purposes, we might need to sell marketable securities at disadvantageous times or prices.

 

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Debt Investments

 

We may hold debt securities, including in privately held and thinly traded public companies, for income and as a reserve pending more speculative investments. Debt obligations may include U.S. government and agency securities, commercial paper, bankers’ acceptances, receivables or other asset-based financing, notes, bonds, debentures, or other debt obligations of any nature and repurchase agreements related to these securities. These obligations may have varying terms with respect to security or credit support, subordination, purchase price, interest payment and length of time to maturity from private, public or governmental issuers of any type located anywhere in the world. We may invest in debt obligations of companies with operating histories that are unprofitable or marginally profitable, that have negative net worth or are involved in bankruptcy or reorganization proceedings, or that are start-up or development-stage small businesses. In addition, we may participate in the acquisition or divestiture of companies or divisions of companies through issuance or receipt of debt obligations. As of December 31, 2013, the debt obligations held in our portfolio consisted of convertible bridge notes, secured non-convertible notes, senior secured debt, and senior secured non-convertible debt through participation agreements. The convertible bridge notes generally do not generate cash payments to us, nor are they held for that purpose. Our convertible bridge notes and the interest accrued thereon are generally held for the purpose of potential conversion into equity at a future date.

 

Our investments in debt obligations may be of varying quality, including non-rated, unsecured, highly speculative debt investments with limited marketability. Investments in lower-rated and non-rated securities, commonly referred to as "junk bonds," including our non-convertible debt investments, are subject to special risks, including a greater risk of loss of principal and non-payment of interest. Generally, lower-rated and non-rated securities offer a higher return potential than higher-rated securities, but involve greater volatility of price and greater risk of loss of income and principal, including the possibility of default or bankruptcy of the issuers of these securities. Lower-rated securities and comparable non-rated securities will likely have large uncertainties or major risk exposure to adverse economic conditions and are predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s capacity to pay interest and repay principal in accordance with the terms of the obligation. In addition, issuers of lower-rated securities and comparable non-rated securities are often highly leveraged and may not have more traditional methods of financing available to them; therefore, their ability to service their debt obligations during an economic downturn or during sustained periods of rising interest rates may be impaired. The risk of loss owing to default by these issuers is significantly greater because lower-rated securities and comparable non-rated securities generally are unsecured and frequently are subordinated to the prior payment of senior indebtedness. We may incur additional expenses to the extent that we are required to seek recovery upon a default in the payment of principal or interest on our portfolio holdings. In addition, many of the companies in which we invest have limited cash flows and no income, which may limit our ability to recover in the event of a default.

 

The markets in which lower-rated securities or comparable non-rated securities are traded generally are more limited than those in which higher-rated securities are traded. The existence of limited markets for these securities may restrict our ability to obtain accurate market quotations for the purposes of valuing lower-rated or non-rated securities and calculating net asset value or to sell securities at their fair value. The market values of lower-rated and non-rated securities also tend to be more sensitive to individual corporate developments and changes in economic conditions than higher-rated securities. The occurrence of adverse conditions and uncertainties to issuers of lower-rated securities would likely reduce the value of lower-rated or non-rated securities held by us, with a commensurate effect on the value of our shares, when applicable.

 

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The market values of investments in debt securities that carry no equity conversion rights usually reflect yields generally available on securities of similar quality and type at the time purchased. When interest rates decline, the market value of a debt portfolio already invested at higher yields can be expected to rise if the securities are protected against early call. Similarly, when interest rates increase, the market value of a debt portfolio already invested at lower yields can be expected to decline. Deterioration in credit quality also generally causes a decline in market value of the security, while an improvement in credit quality generally leads to increased value.

 

Foreign Securities

 

We may make investments in securities of issuers whose principal operations are conducted outside the United States, and whose earnings and securities are stated in foreign currency. In order to maintain our status as a BDC, our investments in non-qualifying assets, including the securities of companies organized outside the United States, would be limited to 30 percent of our assets, because under the 1940 Act, we must generally invest at least 70 percent of our assets in "qualifying assets," which exclude securities of foreign companies.

 

In comparison with otherwise comparable investments in securities of U.S. issuers, currency exchange risk of securities of foreign issuers is a significant variable. The value of these investments to us will vary with the relation of the currency in which they are denominated to the U.S. dollar, as well as with intrinsic elements of value such as credit risk, interest rates and performance of the issuer. Investments in foreign securities also involve risks relating to economic and political developments, including nationalization, expropriation of assets, currency exchange freezes and local recession. Securities of many foreign issuers are less liquid and more volatile than those of comparable U.S. issuers. Interest and dividend income and capital gains on our foreign securities may be subject to withholding and other taxes that may not be recoverable by us. We may seek to hedge all or part of the currency risk of our investments in foreign securities through the use of futures, options and forward currency purchases or sales.

 

Intellectual Property

 

We believe there is a role for organizations that can assist in technology transfer. Scientists and institutions that develop and patent intellectual property perceive the need for and rewards of entrepreneurial commercialization of their inventions.

 

Our form of investment may be:

 

·funding research and development in the development of a technology;

 

·obtaining licensing rights to intellectual property or patents;

 

·acquiring intellectual property or patents; or

 

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·forming and funding companies or joint ventures to commercialize further intellectual property.

 

Income from our investments in intellectual property or its development may take the form of participation in licensing or royalty income, fee income, or some other form of remuneration. In order to satisfy RIC requirements, these investments will normally be held in an entity taxable as a corporation. Investment in developmental intellectual property rights involves a high degree of risk that can result in the loss of our entire investment as well as additional risks, including uncertainties as to the valuation of an investment and potential difficulty in liquidating an investment. Further, investments in intellectual property generally require investor patience, as investment return may be realized only after or over a long period. At some point during the commercialization of a technology, our investment may be transformed into ownership of securities of a small business, as discussed under "Venture Capital Investments" above.

 

Borrowing and Margin Transactions

 

We may from time to time borrow money or obtain credit by any lawful means from banks, lending institutions, other entities or individuals, in negotiated transactions. We may issue, publicly or privately, bonds, debentures or notes, in series or otherwise, with interest rates and other terms and provisions, including conversion rights, on a secured or unsecured basis, for any purpose, up to the maximum amounts and percentages permitted for BDCs under the 1940 Act. The 1940 Act currently prohibits us from borrowing any money or issuing any other senior securities (including preferred stock but excluding temporary borrowings of up to five percent of our assets), if after giving effect to the borrowing or issuance, the value of our total assets less liabilities not constituting senior securities would be less than 200 percent of our senior securities. We may pledge assets to secure any borrowings. As of December 31, 2013, we had no debt.

 

On September 30, 2013, the Company entered into a $20,000,000 Multi-Draw Term Loan Facility Credit Agreement, by and among the Company, as borrower, Orix Corporate Capital, Inc., as administrative agent and the other lenders party thereto from time to time, which provides for a multi-draw credit facility (the "Loan Facility") that may be used by the Company to fund investments in portfolio companies. We have pledged our assets to secure any borrowings. As of December 31, 2013, we had no borrowings outstanding.

 

A primary purpose of our borrowing power is for leverage and to increase our ability to acquire larger positions in our investments while maintaining a substantial balance of cash on our balance sheet. As discussed in more detail below in "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," we believe we need a strong balance sheet to have access to the best deal flow. Borrowings for leverage accentuate any increase or decrease in the market value of our investments and thus our net asset value. Because any decline in the net asset value of our investments will be borne first by holders of common stock, the effect of leverage in a declining market would be a greater decrease in net asset value applicable to the common stock than if we were not leveraged. Any decrease would likely be reflected in a decline in the market price of our common stock. To the extent the income derived from assets acquired with borrowed funds exceeds the interest and other expenses associated with borrowing, our total income will be greater than if borrowings were not used. Conversely, if the income from assets is not sufficient to cover the borrowing costs, our total income will be less than if borrowings were not used. If our current income is not sufficient to meet our borrowing costs (repayment of principal and interest), we might have to liquidate some or all of our investments when it may be disadvantageous to do so. Our borrowings for the purpose of buying most liquid equity securities will be subject to the margin rules, which require excess liquid collateral marked to market daily. If we are unable to post sufficient collateral, we will be required to sell securities to remain in compliance with the margin rules. These sales might be at disadvantageous times or prices.

 

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Portfolio Company Turnover

 

Changes with respect to portfolio companies will be made as our management considers necessary in seeking to achieve our investment objectives. The rate of portfolio turnover will not be treated as a limiting or relevant factor considered by management when making portfolio changes.

 

Although we expect that many of our investments will be relatively long term in nature, we may make changes in our particular portfolio holdings whenever it is considered that an investment no longer has substantial growth potential or has reached its anticipated level of performance, or (especially when cash is not otherwise available) that another investment appears to have a relatively greater opportunity for capital appreciation. We may also make general portfolio changes to increase our cash to position us in a defensive posture. We may make portfolio changes without regard to the length of time we have held an investment, or whether a sale results in profit or loss, or whether a purchase results in the reacquisition of an investment that we may have only recently sold. Our investments in privately held small businesses are illiquid, which limits portfolio turnover. The portfolio turnover rate may vary greatly during a year as well as from year to year and may also be affected by cash requirements.

 

Competition

 

Numerous companies and individuals are engaged in the venture capital business, and such business is intensely competitive. We believe our corporate structure permits public market investors to participate in venture capital and to participate in the commercialization of science-related breakthroughs while many of the leading companies are still private. We also believe our corporate structure permits greater liquidity and better transparency than other venture capital businesses. We believe that we have invested in more science-enabled small businesses than any publicly traded venture capital firm. We believe we have assembled a team of investment professionals that, in addition to a proven track record of successful venture capital investing, have scientific and intellectual property expertise that is relevant to investing in science-related breakthroughs. Nevertheless, many of our competitors have significantly greater financial and other resources than we do and are, therefore, in certain respects, in a better position than we are to obtain access to attractive venture capital investments. There can be no assurance that we will be able to compete against these venture capital businesses for attractive investments, particularly in capital-intensive companies.

 

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Regulation

 

The Small Business Investment Incentive Act of 1980 added the provisions of the 1940 Act applicable only to BDCs. BDCs are a special type of investment company. After a company files its election to be treated as a BDC, it may not withdraw its election without first obtaining the approval of holders of a majority of its outstanding voting securities. The following is a brief description of the 1940 Act provisions applicable to BDCs, qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the 1940 Act and the rules issued thereunder by the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").

 

Generally, to be eligible to elect BDC status, a company must primarily engage in the business of furnishing capital and making significant managerial assistance available to companies that do not have ready access to capital through conventional financial channels. Such companies that satisfy certain additional criteria described below are termed "eligible portfolio companies." In general, in order to qualify as a BDC, a company must: (i) be a domestic company; (ii) have registered a class of its securities pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"); (iii) operate for the purpose of investing in the securities of certain types of portfolio companies, including early-stage or emerging companies and businesses suffering or just recovering from financial distress (see following paragraph); (iv) make available significant managerial assistance to such portfolio companies; and (v) file a proper notice of election with the SEC.

 

An eligible portfolio company generally is a domestic company that is not an investment company or a company excluded from investment company status pursuant to exclusions for certain types of financial companies (such as brokerage firms, banks, insurance companies and investment banking firms) and that: (i) has a fully diluted market capitalization of less than $250 million and has a class of equity securities listed on a national securities exchange, (ii) does not have a class of securities listed on a national securities exchange, or (iii) is controlled by the BDC by itself or together with others (control under the 1940 Act is presumed to exist where a person owns at least 25 percent of the outstanding voting securities of the portfolio company) and has a representative on the Board of Directors of such company.

 

As with other companies regulated by the 1940 Act, a BDC must adhere to certain substantive regulatory requirements. A majority of the directors must be persons who are not interested persons, as that term is defined in the 1940 Act. Additionally, we are required to provide and maintain a bond issued by a reputable fidelity insurance company to protect the BDC. Furthermore, as a BDC, we are prohibited from protecting any director or officer against any liability to us or our shareholders arising from willful malfeasance, bad faith, gross negligence or reckless disregard of the duties involved in the conduct of such person's office. We may be periodically examined by the SEC for compliance with the 1940 Act.

 

The 1940 Act provides that we may not make an investment in non-qualifying assets unless at the time at least 70 percent of the value of our total assets (measured as of the date of our most recently filed financial statements) consists of qualifying assets. Qualifying assets include: (i) securities of eligible portfolio companies; (ii) securities of certain companies that were eligible portfolio companies at the time we initially acquired their securities and in which we retain a substantial interest; (iii) securities of certain controlled companies; (iv) securities of certain bankrupt, insolvent or distressed companies; (v) securities received in exchange for or distributed in or with respect to any of the foregoing; and (vi) cash items, U.S. government and agency securities and high quality short-term debt. The SEC has adopted a rule permitting a BDC to invest its cash in certain money market funds. The 1940 Act also places restrictions on the nature of the transactions in which, and the persons from whom, securities can be purchased in some instances in order for the securities to be considered qualifying assets.

 

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We are permitted by the 1940 Act, under specified conditions, to issue multiple classes of debt and a single class of preferred stock if our asset coverage, as defined in the 1940 Act, is at least 200 percent after the issuance of the debt or the preferred stock (i.e., such senior securities may not be in excess of our net assets). Under specific conditions, we are also permitted by the 1940 Act to issue warrants.

 

Except under certain conditions, we may sell our securities at a price that is below the prevailing net asset value per share only during the 12-month period after (i) a majority of our directors and our disinterested directors have determined that such sale would be in the best interest of us and our shareholders and (ii) the holders of a majority of our outstanding voting securities and the holders of a majority of our voting securities held by persons who are not affiliated persons of ours approve our ability to make such issuances. A majority of the disinterested directors must determine in good faith that the price of the securities being sold is not less than a price which closely approximates the market value of the securities, less any distribution discount or commission.

 

Certain transactions involving certain closely related persons of the Company, including its directors, officers and employees, may require the prior approval of the SEC. However, the 1940 Act ordinarily does not restrict transactions between us and our portfolio companies.

 

We have adopted a code of ethics pursuant to Rule 17j-1 under the 1940 Act that establishes procedures for personal investments and restricts certain personal securities transactions. Personnel subject to the code may invest in securities for their personal investment accounts, including securities that may be purchased or held by us, so long as such investments are made in accordance with the code's requirements.

 

Tax Status

 

We have elected to be treated as a RIC, taxable under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code"), for federal income tax purposes. In general, a RIC is not taxable on its income or gains to the extent it distributes such income or gains to its shareholders. In order to qualify for favorable RIC tax treatment, we must, in general, (1) annually derive at least 90 percent of our gross income from dividends, interest and gains from the sale of securities and similar sources (the "Income Source Rule"); (2) quarterly meet certain investment asset diversification requirements (the "Asset Diversification Rule"); and (3) annually distribute at least 90 percent of our investment company taxable income as a dividend (the "Income Distribution Rule"). Any taxable investment company income not distributed will be subject to corporate level tax. Any taxable investment company income distributed generally will be taxable to shareholders as dividend income.

 

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In addition to the requirement that we must annually distribute at least 90 percent of our investment company taxable income, we may either distribute or retain our realized net capital gains from investments, but any net capital gains not distributed may be subject to corporate level tax. Any net capital gains distributed generally will be taxable to shareholders as long-term capital gains.

 

In lieu of actually distributing our realized net capital gains, we as a RIC may retain all or part of our net capital gains and elect to be deemed to have made a distribution of the retained portion to our shareholders under the "designated undistributed capital gain" rules of the Code. We currently intend to retain and so designate all of our net capital gains. In this case, the "deemed dividend" generally is taxable to our shareholders as long-term capital gains. Although we pay tax at the corporate rate on the amount deemed to have been distributed, our shareholders receive a tax credit equal to their proportionate share of the tax paid and an increase in the tax basis of their shares by the amount per share retained by us.

 

To the extent that we declare a deemed dividend, each shareholder will receive an IRS Form 2439 that will reflect each shareholder's receipt of the deemed dividend income and a tax credit equal to each shareholder's proportionate share of the tax paid by us. This tax credit, which is paid at the corporate rate, is often credited at a higher rate than the actual tax due by a shareholder on the deemed dividend income. The "residual" credit can be used by the shareholder to offset other taxes due in that year or to generate a tax refund to the shareholder. Tax exempt investors may file for a refund.

 

The following simplified examples illustrate the tax treatment under Subchapter M of the Code for us and our individual shareholders with regard to three possible distribution alternatives, assuming a net capital gain of $1.00 per share, consisting entirely of sales of non-real property assets held for more than 12 months.

 

Under Alternative A: 100 percent of net capital gain declared as a cash dividend and distributed to shareholders:

 

1.    No federal taxation at the Company level.

 

2.    Taxable shareholders receive a $1.00 per share dividend and pay federal tax at a rate not in excess of 15 percent* or $.15 per share, retaining $.85 per share.

 

3.    Non-taxable shareholders that file a federal tax return receive a $1.00 per share dividend and pay no federal tax, retaining $1.00 per share.

 

Under Alternative B (Current Tax Structure Employed): 100 percent of net capital gain retained by the Company and designated as "undistributed capital gain" or deemed dividend:

 

1.    The Company pays a corporate-level federal income tax of 35 percent on the undistributed gain or $.35 per share and retains 65 percent of the gain or $.65 per share.

 

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2.    Taxable shareholders increase their cost basis in their stock by $.65 per share. They pay federal capital gains tax at a rate not in excess of 15 percent* on 100 percent of the undistributed gain of $1.00 per share or $.15 per share in tax. Offsetting this tax, shareholders receive a tax credit equal to 35 percent of the undistributed gain or $.35 per share.

 

3.    Non-taxable shareholders that file a federal tax return receive a tax refund equal to $.35 per share.

 

*Assumes all capital gains qualify for long-term rates of 15 percent, which may increase for gains realized after December 31, 2013.

 

Under Alternative C: 100 percent of net capital gain retained by the Company, with no designated undistributed capital gain or deemed dividend:

 

1.    The Company pays a corporate-level federal income tax of 35 percent on the retained gain or $.35 per share plus an excise tax of four percent of $.98 per share, or about $.04 per share.

 

2.    There is no tax consequence at the shareholder level.

 

Although we may retain income and gains subject to the limitations described above (including paying corporate level tax on such amounts), we could be subject to an additional four percent excise tax if we fail to distribute 98 percent of our "regulated investment company ordinary income" and 98.2 percent of our "capital gain net income" for the relevant determination period.

 

As noted above, in order to qualify as a RIC, we must satisfy the Asset Diversification Rule each quarter. Because of the specialized nature of our investment portfolio, in some years we have been able to satisfy the diversification requirements under Subchapter M of the Code primarily as a result of receiving certification from the SEC under the Code with respect to each taxable year beginning after 1998 that we were "principally engaged in the furnishing of capital to other corporations which are principally engaged in the development or exploitation of inventions, technological improvements, new processes, or products not previously generally available" for such year.

 

Although we received SEC certifications for 1999-2012, there can be no assurance that we will receive such certification for subsequent years (to the extent we need additional certifications as a result of changes in our portfolio). We intend to apply for certification for 2013. If we require, but fail to obtain, the SEC certification for a taxable year, we may fail to qualify as a RIC for such year. We also will fail to qualify for favorable RIC tax treatment for a taxable year if we do not satisfy the Income Source Rule or Income Distribution Rule for such year. In the event we do not satisfy the Income Source Rule, the Asset Diversification Rule and the Income Distribution Rule for any taxable year, we will be subject to federal tax with respect to all of our taxable income, whether or not distributed. In addition, all our distributions to shareholders in that situation generally will be taxable as ordinary dividends.

 

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Although we currently intend to qualify as a RIC for each taxable year, under certain circumstances we may choose to take action with respect to one or more taxable years to ensure that we would be taxed under Subchapter C of the Code (rather than Subchapter M) for such year or years. Additionally, our ownership percentages in our portfolio have grown over the last several years, which make it more difficult to pass certain RIC diversification tests when companies in our portfolio are successful and we want to invest more capital in those companies to increase our investment returns. As long as the aggregate values of our non-qualifying assets remain below 50 percent of total assets, we will continue to qualify as a RIC. Rather than selling portfolio companies that are performing well in order to pass our RIC diversification tests, we may opt instead not to qualify as a RIC. We will choose to take such action only if we believe that the result of the action will benefit us and our shareholders.

 

Subsidiaries

 

H&H Ventures Management, Inc.SM ("Ventures"), formerly Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc.SM, is a 100 percent wholly owned subsidiary of the Company and is consolidated in our financial statements. Ventures is a partner in Harris Partners I, L.P.SM, and is taxed as a C Corporation. Harris Partners I, L.P., is a limited partnership and has historically owned our interests in partnership investments. The partners of Harris Partners I, L.P., are Ventures (sole general partner) and the Company (sole limited partner). Ventures, as the sole general partner, consolidates Harris Partners I, L.P.

 

Available Information

 

Additional information about us, including our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, are available as soon as reasonably practicable free of charge on our website at www.HHVC.com. Information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and you should not consider that information to be part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

You may read and copy any materials we file with the SEC at the SEC's Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, DC 20549. You may obtain information regarding the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330.

 

Employees

 

As of December 31, 2013, we employed 11 full-time employees and two part-time employees. We believe our relations with our employees are generally good.

 

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Item 1A. Risk Factors.

 

Investing in our common stock involves significant risks relating to our business and investment objective. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below before you purchase any shares of our common stock. These risks and uncertainties are not the only ones we face. Unknown additional risks and uncertainties, or ones that we currently consider immaterial, may also impair our business. If any of these risks or uncertainties materialize, our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected. In this event, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose all or part of your investment.

 

Risks related to our investments.

 

Approximately 38 percent of the net asset value attributable to our equity-focused venture capital investment portfolio, or 27.4 percent of our net asset value, as of December 31, 2013, is concentrated in Adesto Technologies Corporation, Metabolon, Inc., and Molecular Imprints, Inc.

 

At December 31, 2013, we valued our investment in Adesto Technologies, which had a historical cost to us of $10,482,417, at $14,701,448, our investment in Metabolon, which had a historical cost to us of $7,224,999, at $10,699,204, and our investment in Molecular Imprints, which had a historical cost to us of $4,406,595, at $8,278,943, which collectively represent 38 percent of the net asset value attributable to our equity-focused venture capital investment portfolio, excluding our rights to potential future milestone payments from the sale of BioVex to Amgen, or 27.4 percent of our net asset value. 

 

Any downturn in the business outlook and/or substantial changes in the funding requirements of Adesto Technologies or Metabolon could have a significant effect on the value of our current investments in those companies, and the overall value of our portfolio, and could have a significant adverse effect on the value of our common stock.

 

The difficult venture capital investment and capital market climates for the types of companies in which we invest could increase the non-performance risk for our portfolio companies.

 

While the public markets and corporate growth are improving, unemployment remains high, and there are global instabilities, including sovereign debt issues and the potential for future inflation. Even with signs of economic improvement, the availability of capital for venture capital firms and early-stage companies, particularly for capital-intensive, science-enabled, small businesses such as the ones in which we invest, continues to be limited. Historically, difficult venture environments have resulted in a higher than normal number of small businesses not receiving financing and being subsequently closed down with a loss to venture investors, and other small businesses receiving financing but at significantly lower valuations than the preceding financing rounds. This issue is compounded by the fact that many existing venture capital firms have few remaining years of investment and available capital owing to the finite lifetime of the funds managed by these firms. Additionally, even if a firm were able to raise a new fund, commonly new funds are not permitted to invest with old funds in existing investments. As such, improvements in the liquidity environment for venture-backed companies through IPOs and M&A transactions and the currently improving public markets in general may not translate to an increase in the available capital to venture-backed companies, particularly those that have investments from funds that are in the latter stage of life unless such improvements continue for some time into the future. Further, many of our portfolio companies receive non-dilutive funding through government contracts and grants. Reductions in government spending could have a direct and significant reduction in our portfolio companies' contract or grant awards. Such reductions can also result in reduced budgets at research facilities, which would reduce the volume of products they could potentially purchase from our portfolio companies.

 

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We believe that these factors continue to introduce significant non-performance risk for our portfolio companies that need to raise additional capital or that require substantial amounts of capital to execute on their business plans. We define non-performance as the risk that the price per share (or implied valuation of a portfolio company) or the effective yield of a debt security of a portfolio company, as applicable, does not appropriately represent the risk that a portfolio company that requires or seeks to raise additional capital will be: (a) unable to raise capital, will need to be shut down and will not return our invested capital; or (b) able to raise capital, but at a valuation significantly lower than the implied post-money valuation of the most recent round of financing. In these circumstances, the portfolio company could be recapitalized at a valuation significantly lower than the post-money valuation implied by our valuation method, sold at a loss to our investment or shut down. In addition, significant changes in the capital markets, including periods of extreme volatility and disruption, have had, and may in the future have, a negative effect on the valuations of our investments and on the potential for liquidity events involving our investments. We believe further that the long-term effects of the difficult venture capital investment and difficult, but improving, liquidity environments will continue to affect negatively the fundraising ability of some small businesses regardless of near-term improvements in the overall global economy and public markets.

 

Changes in valuations of early-stage small businesses tend to be more volatile than changes in prices of established, more mature securities.

 

Investments in early- and mid-stage small businesses may be inherently more volatile than investments in more mature businesses. Such immature businesses are inherently fragile and easily affected by both internal and external forces. Our investee companies can lose much or all of their value suddenly in response to an internal or external adverse event. Conversely, these immature small businesses can gain suddenly in value in response to an internal or external positive development. Moreover, because of the lack of daily pricing mechanisms of our privately held companies, our ownership interests in such investments are generally valued only at quarterly intervals by our Valuation Committee. Thus, changes in valuations from one valuation point to another may be larger than changes in valuations of marketable securities that are revalued in the marketplace much more frequently, in some highly liquid cases, virtually continuously. Although we carefully monitor each of our portfolio companies, information pertinent to our portfolio companies is not always known immediately by us, and, therefore, its availability for use in determining value may not always coincide with the timeframe of our valuations required by the federal securities laws.

 

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As of December 31, 2013, our shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., which trades on an OTC exchange, were valued using the closing price at the end of the quarter as required by the 1940 Act. In quarters prior to June 30, 2013, these shares were fair valued by our Board of Directors owing to our determination that there was not an active market as of the dates of valuation. If in future quarters, shares of Champions Oncology do not continue to trade in an active market as of the dates of valuation, the value of our shares could be materially different.

 

Additionally, we may price or invest in rounds at lower valuations than prior rounds of financing and/or previously reported valuations in order to receive more favorable terms, such as increased ownership percentages or liquidation preferences, which may result in decreased valuations in the interim. These decreases could be material.

 

The average length of time from founding to a liquidity event is at historical highs, which could result in companies remaining in our portfolio longer, leading to lower returns, write-downs and write-offs.

 

Beginning in about 2001, many fewer venture capital-backed companies per annum have been able to complete IPOs than in the years of the previous decade.  On average, more capital and more time than in previous decades are required for companies to reach these liquidity events. This trend has and may continue to lead to companies remaining longer in our portfolio as illiquid, privately held entities that may require additional funding.  In the best case, such stagnation would dampen returns, and in the worst case, could lead to write-downs and write-offs as some companies run short of cash and have to accept lower valuations in private financings or are not able to access additional capital at all.  The difficult venture capital climate is also causing some venture capital firms to change their investment strategies. Accordingly, some venture capital firms are reducing funding of their portfolio companies, making it more difficult for such companies to access capital and to fulfill their potential. In some cases this leads to write-downs and write-offs of such companies by other venture capital firms, such as ourselves, who are co-investors in such companies.

 

Investing in small, privately held and publicly traded companies involves a high degree of risk and is highly speculative.

 

We have invested a substantial portion of our assets in privately held companies, the securities of which are inherently illiquid. We may also seek to invest in publicly traded small businesses that we believe have exceptional growth potential. Although these companies are publicly traded, their stock may not trade at high volumes, and prices can be volatile, which may restrict our ability to sell our positions. These privately held and publicly traded small businesses tend to lack management depth, to have limited or no history of operations and to not have attained profitability. Companies commercializing products enabled by disruptive science are especially risky, involving scientific, technological and commercialization risks. Because of the speculative nature of these investments, these securities have a significantly greater risk of loss than traditional investment securities. Some of our venture capital investments are likely to be complete losses or unprofitable, and some will never realize their potential. We have been and will continue to be risk seeking rather than risk averse in our approach to venture capital and other investments. Neither our investments nor an investment in our common stock is intended to constitute a balanced investment program.

 

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We have historically invested in sectors including life sciences, energy and electronics that are subject to specific risks related to each industry.

 

We have historically invested the three largest portions of our portfolio in life sciences, energy and electronics companies. All of our life sciences investments can be characterized as BIOLOGY+ companies, which we refer to as investments in interdisciplinary life science companies where biology innovation is intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. Our focus for new investments will be in companies focused on BIOLOGY+, which often operate in life science-related industries and markets.

 

Our life sciences portfolio consists of companies that commercialize and integrate products in life sciences-related industries, including biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics and medical devices. There are risks in investing in companies that target life sciences-related industries, including, but not limited to, the uncertainty of timing and results of clinical trials to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of products; failure to obtain any required regulatory approval of products; failure to develop manufacturing processes that meet regulatory standards; competition, in particular from companies that develop rival products; and the ability to protect proprietary technology. Adverse developments in any of these areas may adversely affect the value of our life sciences portfolio.

 

This life sciences industry is dominated by large multinational corporations with substantial greater financial and technical resources than generally will be available to the portfolio companies. Such large corporations may be better able to adapt to the challenges presented by continuing rapid and major scientific, regulatory and technological changes as well as related changes in governmental and third-party reimbursement policies.

 

Within the life sciences industry, the development of products generally is a costly and time-consuming process. Many highly promising products ultimately fail to prove to be safe and effective. There can be no assurance that the research or product development efforts of the portfolio companies or those of their collaborative partners will be successfully completed, that specific products can be manufactured in adequate quantities at an acceptable cost and with appropriate quality, or that such products can be successfully marketed or achieve customer acceptance. There can be no assurance that a product will be relevant and/or be competitive with products from other companies following the costly, time-consuming process of its development.

 

The research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of products developed by some life sciences companies are subject to extensive regulation by numerous government authorities in the United States and other countries. There can be no assurance that products developed by the portfolio companies will ever be approved by such governmental authorities.

 

Many life sciences portfolio companies will depend heavily upon intellectual property for their competitive position. There can be no assurance that the portfolio companies will be able to obtain patents for key inventions. Moreover, within the life sciences industry, patent challenges are frequent. Even if patents held by the portfolio companies are upheld, any challenges thereto may be costly and distracting to the portfolio companies’ management.

 

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Some of the life sciences portfolio companies will be at least partially dependent for their success upon governmental and third-party reimbursement policies that are under constant review and are subject to change at any time. Any such change could adversely affect the viability of one or more portfolio companies.

 

We will continue to make follow-on investments in our energy companies. Additionally, our current and future BIOLOGY+ portfolio companies may address needs in energy-related industries and markets. Our energy portfolio consists of companies that commercialize and integrate products targeted at energy-related markets. There are risks in investing in companies that target energy-related markets, including the rapid and sometimes dramatic price fluctuations of commodities, particularly oil and sugar, and of public equities, the reliance on the capital and debt markets to finance large capital outlays, change in climate, including climate-related regulations, and the dependence on government subsidies to be cost-competitive with non-renewable or energy-efficient solutions. For example, the attractiveness of alternative methods for the production of biobutanol and biodiesel can be adversely affected by a decrease in the demand or price of oil.  Adverse developments in this market may significantly affect the value of our energy portfolio, and thus our venture capital portfolio as a whole.

 

We will continue to make follow-on investments in our electronics companies. Additionally, our current and future BIOLOGY+ portfolio companies may address needs in electronics-related industries and markets. Our electronics portfolio consists of companies that commercialize and integrate products targeted at electronics-related markets. There are risks in investing in companies that target electronics-related markets, including rapid and sometimes dramatic price erosion of products, the reliance on capital and debt markets to finance large capital outlays, including fabrication facilities, the reliance on partners outside of the United States, particularly in Asia, and inherent cyclicality of the electronics market in general. Additionally, electronics-related companies are currently out of favor with many venture capital firms. Therefore, access to capital may be difficult or impossible for companies in our portfolio that are pursuing these markets.

 

The three main industry sectors around which our investments have developed are all capital intensive.

 

The industry sectors where we have historically made investments, life sciences, energy and electronics, are all capital intensive. Currently, financing for capital-intensive companies remains difficult. In some successful companies, we believe we may need to invest more than we currently have planned to invest in these companies. There can be no assurance that we will have the capital necessary to make such investments. In addition, investing greater than planned amounts in our portfolio companies could limit our ability to pursue new investments and fund follow-on investments. Both of these situations could cause us to miss investment opportunities or limit our ability to protect existing investments from dilution or other actions or events that would decrease the value and potential return from these investments.

 

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Our Board of Directors may change our investment objective, operating policies and strategies without prior notice or shareholder approval, the effects of which may be adverse.

 

We have historically made venture capital investments exclusively in companies commercializing or integrating products enabled by nanotechnology or microsystems. We recently announced the refinement of our investment focus for new investments in BIOLOGY+ companies. We define BIOLOGY+ as investments in interdisciplinary life science companies where biology innovation is intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. To date, all of our BIOLOGY+ companies have also been commercializing or integrating products enabled by nanotechnology. This nanotechnology investment focus was not a fundamental policy. We have given notice with this Annual Report that we are expanding our investment focus within the area of BIOLOGY+ and may make investments in companies that are not commercializing or integrating products enabled by nanotechnology or microsystems. Our focus on BIOLOGY+ is not a fundamental policy, and we will not be required to give notice to shareholders prior to making a change from this focus.

 

Our Board of Directors has the authority to modify or waive our investment objective, current operating policies, investment criteria and strategies without prior notice and without shareholder approval. We cannot predict the effect any changes to our current operating policies, investment criteria and strategies would have on our business, net asset value, operating results and the value of our stock. However, the effects might be adverse, which could negatively impact our ability to pay you dividends and cause you to lose all or part of your investments.

 

We invest in illiquid securities and may not be able to dispose of them when it is advantageous to do so, or ever.

 

Most of our investments are or will be equity, equity-linked, or debt securities acquired directly from small businesses. These securities are generally subject to restrictions on resale or otherwise have no established trading market. The illiquidity of most of our portfolio of securities may adversely affect our ability to dispose of these securities at times when it may be advantageous for us to liquidate these investments. We may never be able to dispose of these securities.

 

In addition, we are typically subject to lock-up provisions that prohibit us from selling our investments into the public market for specified periods of time after IPOs. After a portfolio company completes an IPO, its shares are generally subject to lock-up restrictions for a period of time.  These lock-up restrictions apply to us and our shares of the portfolio company, potentially including any shares purchased by us in the IPO, and generally include provisions that stipulate that we are not permitted to offer, pledge or sell our shares, including selling covered call options on our shares, prior to the expiration of the lock-up period.  We are also prohibited from entering into securities lending arrangements for these securities during the lock-up period. The market price of securities that we hold may decline substantially before we are able to sell these securities.

 

Successful portfolio companies do not always result in positive investment returns.

 

Depending on the amount and timing of our investments in our portfolio companies, even if a portfolio company is ultimately successful, the returns on our investment in such portfolio company may not be positive. Our portfolio companies often receive capital from venture capitalists and/or other investors in rounds of financing. Depending on the amount of capital that it takes to operate a company until it either becomes cash flow positive or seeks to exit through an IPO or M&A transaction, each round of financing may have different terms, including liquidation preferences and control over company decisions. Depending on which rounds of financings the Company participates in and the terms of the last round of financing, the investment returns for any particular round may be higher or lower than others. Furthermore, our portfolio companies often require more capital than originally expected, and the ultimate value of those companies at realization may not be greater than the capital invested. Each of these scenarios and others could lead to a realized loss on an investment in an ultimately successful company.

 

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Our investments in debt securities of portfolio companies may be extremely risky, and we could lose all or part of our investments.

 

A portfolio company’s failure to satisfy financial or operating covenants imposed by us or other lenders could lead to defaults and, potentially, termination of its loans and foreclosure on its assets, which could trigger cross-defaults under other agreements and jeopardize our portfolio company’s ability to meet its obligations under the debt securities that we hold. We may incur expenses to the extent necessary to seek recovery upon default or to negotiate new terms with a defaulting portfolio company. In addition, if a portfolio company goes bankrupt, even though we may have structured our interest as senior debt, depending on the facts and circumstances, including the extent to which we actually provided significant "managerial assistance" to that portfolio company, a bankruptcy court might recharacterize our debt holding and subordinate all or a portion of our claim to that of another creditor.

 

When we make an investment in a secured debt instrument of a portfolio company, we generally take a security interest in the available assets of the portfolio company, including the equity interests of its subsidiaries, which we expect to help mitigate the risk that we will not be repaid. However, there is a risk that the collateral securing our loans may decrease in value over time, may be difficult to sell in a timely manner, may be difficult to appraise and may fluctuate in value based upon the success of the business and market conditions, including as a result of the inability of the portfolio company to raise additional capital, and, in some circumstances, our lien could be subordinated to claims of other creditors. In addition, deterioration in a portfolio company’s financial condition and prospects, including its inability to raise additional capital, may be accompanied by deterioration in the value of the collateral for the loan. Consequently, the fact that a loan is secured does not guarantee that we will receive principal and interest payments according to the loan’s terms, or at all, or that we will be able to collect on the loan should we be forced to enforce our remedies.

 

To the extent we use debt to finance our investments, changes in interest rates could affect our cost of capital and net investment income.

 

To the extent we borrow money to make investments, our net investment income will depend, in part, upon the difference between the rate at which we borrow funds and the return from invested funds. As a result, we can offer no assurance that a significant change in market interest rates will not have a material adverse effect on our net investment income in the event we use debt to finance our investments. In periods of rising interest rates, our cost of funds could increase, which could reduce our net investment income. In addition, an increase in interest rates would make it more expensive to use debt to finance our investments. As a result, a significant increase in market interest rates could increase our cost of capital, which would reduce our net investment income. A decrease in market interest rates may adversely impact our returns on our cash invested in treasury securities, which would reduce our net investment income and cash available to fund operations. We may also use the proceeds from borrowings to invest in non-income-producing investments. Under this scenario, we would incur costs associated with the borrowings without any income to offset those costs until such investment is monetized. It is possible we may not be able to cover the costs of such borrowings from the returns on those investments.

 

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On September 30, 2013, the Company entered into the Loan Facility, which is a multi-draw credit facility that may be used by the Company to fund investments in portfolio companies. The Loan Facility requires payment of an unused commitment fee of one percent per annum on any unused borrowings. Borrowings under the Loan Facility bear interest at 10 percent per annum in cash. The Company has the option to have interest accrue at a rate of 13.5 percent per annum if the Company decides not to pay interest in cash when due. The Company currently plans to pay interest in cash if and when any borrowings are outstanding. As of December 31, 2013, there were no borrowings outstanding.

 

Our portfolio companies may incur debt that ranks senior to our investments in such companies.

 

We may make investments in our portfolio companies in the form of bridge notes that typically convert into preferred stock issued in the next round of financing of that portfolio company or other forms of convertible and non-convertible debt securities. Our portfolio companies usually have, or may be permitted to incur, other debt that ranks senior to the debt securities in which we invest. By their terms, debt instruments may provide that the holders are entitled to receive payment of interest and principal on or before the dates on which we are entitled to receive payments on the debt securities in which we invest. Also, in the case of insolvency, liquidation, dissolution, reorganization or bankruptcy of a portfolio company, holders of debt instruments ranking senior to our investment in that portfolio company would typically be entitled to receive payment in full before we receive any distribution in respect of our investment. After repaying such senior creditors, such portfolio company may not have any remaining assets to use for repaying its obligations to us. In addition, in companies where we have made investments in the form of bridge notes or other debt securities, we may also have investments in equity in the form of preferred shares. In some cases, a bankruptcy court may subordinate our bridge notes and/or other debt securities to debt holders that do not have equity in the portfolio company. 

 

Our portfolio companies face risks associated with international sales.

 

We anticipate that certain of our portfolio companies could generate revenue from international sales. Risks associated with these potential future sales include:

 

·Political and economic instability;

 

·Export controls and other trade restrictions;

 

·Changes in legal and regulatory requirements;

 

·U.S. and foreign government policy changes affecting the markets for the technologies;

 

·Changes in tax laws and tariffs;

 

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·Convertibility and transferability of international currencies; and

 

·International currency exchange rate fluctuations.

 

The effect of global climate change may impact our operations and the operations of our portfolio companies.

 

There may be evidence of global climate change. Climate change creates physical and financial risk, and some of our portfolio companies may be adversely affected by climate change. For example, the needs of customers of energy companies vary with weather conditions, primarily temperature and humidity. To the extent weather conditions are affected by climate change, energy use could increase or decrease depending on the duration and magnitude of any changes. Increases in the cost of energy could adversely affect the cost of operations of our portfolio companies if the use of energy products or services is material to their business. A decrease in energy use owing to weather changes may affect some of our portfolio companies’ financial condition through decreased revenues. Extreme weather conditions in general may disrupt our operations and the operations of our portfolio companies and require more system backups and redundancies, adding to costs, and can contribute to increased system stresses, including service interruptions.

 

Risks related to our Company and an investment in our securities.

 

Our business may be adversely affected by the small size of our market capitalization.

 

Changes in regulations of the financial industry have adversely affected coverage of small capitalization companies such as ours by financial analysts. A number of analysts that have covered us in the past are no longer able to continue to do so owing to changes in employment, to restrictions on the size of companies they are allowed to cover and/or their firms have shut down operations. An inability to attract analyst coverage may adversely affect the liquidity of our stock and our ability to raise capital from investors, particularly institutional investors. Our inability to access the capital markets on favorable terms, or at all, may adversely affect our future financial performance. The inability to obtain adequate financing could force us to seek debt financing, self-fund strategic initiatives or even forgo certain opportunities, which in turn could potentially harm our current and future performance.

 

Because there is generally no established market in which to value our investments, our Valuation Committee’s value determinations may differ materially from the values that a ready market or third party would attribute to these investments.

 

There is generally no public market for the private equity securities in which we invest. Pursuant to the requirements of the 1940 Act, we value all of the privately held equity and debt securities in our portfolio at fair value as determined in good faith by the Valuation Committee, a committee made up of all of the independent members of our Board of Directors, pursuant to Valuation Procedures established by the Board of Directors. Determining fair value requires that judgment be applied to the specific facts and circumstances of each portfolio investment pursuant to specified valuation principles and processes. We are required by the 1940 Act to value specifically each individual investment on a quarterly basis and record unrealized depreciation for an investment that we believe has become impaired. Conversely, we must record unrealized appreciation if we believe that a security has appreciated in value. Our valuations, although stated as a precise number, are necessarily within a range of values that vary depending on the significance attributed to the various factors being considered.

 

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We currently use the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model to determine the fair value of warrants held in our portfolio. Option pricing models, including the Black-Scholes-Merton model, require the use of subjective input assumptions, including expected volatility, expected life, expected dividend rate, and expected risk-free rate of return. In the Black-Scholes-Merton model, variations in the expected volatility or expected term assumptions have a significant impact on fair value. Because the securities underlying the warrants in our portfolio are not publicly traded, many of the required input assumptions are more difficult to estimate than they would be if a public market for the underlying securities existed.

 

Without a readily ascertainable market value and because of the inherent uncertainty of valuation, the fair value that we assign to our investments may differ from the values that would have been used had an efficient market existed for the investments, and the difference could be material. Any changes in fair value are recorded in our Consolidated Statement of Operations as a change in the "Net (decrease) increase in unrealized appreciation on investments."

 

In the venture capital industry, even when a portfolio of early-stage, high-technology venture capital investments proves to be profitable over the portfolio's lifetime, it is common for the portfolio's value to undergo a so-called "J-curve" valuation pattern. This means that when reflected on a graph, the portfolio’s valuation would appear in the shape of the letter "J," declining from the initial valuation prior to increasing in valuation. This J-curve valuation pattern results from write-downs and write-offs of portfolio investments that appear to be unsuccessful, prior to write-ups for portfolio investments that prove to be successful. Because early-stage small businesses typically have negative cash flow and are by their nature inherently fragile, a valuation process can more readily substantiate a loss of value than an increase in value. Even if our venture capital investments prove to be profitable in the long run, such J-curve valuation patterns could have a significant adverse effect on our net asset value per share and the value of our common stock in the interim. Over time, as we continue to make additional investments, this J-curve pattern may be less relevant for our portfolio as a whole, because the individual J-curves for each investment, or series of investments, may overlap with previous investments at different stages of their J-curves.

 

We expect to continue to experience material write-downs of securities of portfolio companies.

 

Write-downs of securities of our privately held companies have always been a by-product and risk of our business. We expect to continue to experience material write-downs of securities of privately held portfolio companies. Write-downs of such companies occur at all stages of their development. Such write-downs may increase in dollar terms, frequency and as a percentage of our net asset value as our dollar investment activity in privately held companies continues to increase, and the number of such holdings in our portfolio continues to grow. As the average size of each of our investments increases, the average size of our write-downs may also increase.

 

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Unfavorable regulatory changes could impair our ability to engage in liquidity events and dampen our returns.

 

We rely on the ability to generate realized returns on our investments through liquidity events such as IPOs and M&A transactions.

 

When companies in which we have invested as private entities complete IPOs of their securities, these newly issued securities are by definition unseasoned issues. Unseasoned issues tend to be highly volatile and have uncertain liquidity, which may negatively affect their price. In addition, we are typically subject to lock-up provisions that prohibit us from selling our investments into the public market for specified periods of time after IPOs. The market price of securities that we hold may decline substantially before we are able to sell these securities. Government reforms that affect the trading of securities in the United States have made market-making activities by broker-dealers less profitable, which has caused broker-dealers to reduce their market-making activities, thereby making the market for unseasoned stocks less liquid than they might be otherwise.

 

In addition, the structural changes in the public markets that currently value near-term cash flows and predictable revenues versus long-term prospects for growth, and the regulatory burden imposed on publicly traded companies by governments worldwide, have reduced the appetite for some of our portfolio companies to pursue IPOs or other steps that would increase the liquidity of our ownership in these portfolio companies. This trend may lengthen the time that our portfolio companies remain as privately held entities in our portfolio, and our returns on these investments may be dampened by the need or choice to seek monetization of such illiquid assets.

 

An inability to generate realized returns on our investments could negatively affect our liquidity, our reinvestment rate in new and follow-on investments and the value of our investment portfolio.

 

We are subject to risks associated with our strategy of increasing assets under management by raising third-party funds to manage.

 

We have announced our strategy to grow assets under management by raising one or more third-party funds to manage. It is possible that we will invest our capital alongside or through these funds in portfolio companies. There is no assurance when and if we will be able to raise such fund(s) or, if raised, whether they will be successful.

 

Our executive officers and employees, in their capacity as the investment advisor of a fund, may manage other investment funds in the same or a related line of business as we do. Accordingly, they may have obligations to such other entities, the fulfillment of which obligations may not be in the best interests of us or our shareholders.

 

Our shares of common stock are trading at a discount from net asset value and may continue do so in the future.

 

Shares of closed-end investment companies have frequently traded at a market price that is less than the net asset value that is attributable to those shares. In part as a result of adverse economic conditions and increasing pressure within the financial sector of which we are a part, our common stock traded below our net asset value per share during some periods in 2010 and consistently throughout 2011 through 2013. Our common stock may continue to trade at a discount to net asset value in the future. The possibility that our shares of common stock may trade at a discount from net asset value over the long term is separate and distinct from the risk that our net asset value will decrease. We cannot predict whether shares of our common stock will trade above, at, or below our net asset value. On December 31, 2013, our stock closed at $2.98 per share, a discount of $0.95, or 24.2 percent, to our net asset value per share of $3.93 as of December 31, 2013. On March 13, 2014, our stock closed at $3.76 per share, a discount of $0.17, or 4.3 percent, to our net asset value per share as of December 31, 2013.

 

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Because we do not choose investments based on a strategy of diversification, nor do we rebalance the portfolio should one or more investments increase in value substantially relative to the rest of the portfolio, the value of our portfolio is subject to greater volatility than the value of companies with more broadly diversified investments.

 

We do not choose investments based on a strategy of diversification. We also do not rebalance the portfolio should one of our portfolio companies increase in value substantially relative to the rest of the portfolio.  Therefore, the value of our portfolio may be more vulnerable to events affecting a single sector or industry and, therefore, subject to greater volatility than a company that follows a diversification strategy. Accordingly, an investment in our common stock may present greater risk to you than an investment in a diversified company.

 

We are dependent upon key management personnel for future success, and may not be able to retain them.

 

None of our employees are subject to employment agreements. Our ability to attract and retain personnel with the requisite credentials, experience and skills will depend on several factors including, but not limited to, our ability to offer competitive wages, benefits and professional growth opportunities. Many of the entities with which we will compete for experienced personnel, including investment funds (such as venture capital funds) and traditional financial services companies, will have greater resources than us.

 

We are dependent upon the diligence and skill of our senior management and other key advisors for the selection, structuring, closing and monitoring of our investments. We utilize lawyers, and we utilize outside consultants to assist us in conducting due diligence when evaluating potential investments. There is generally no publicly available information about the companies in which we invest, and we rely significantly on the diligence of our employees and advisors to obtain information in connection with our investment decisions. Our future success, to a significant extent, depends on the continued service and coordination of our senior management team. The departure of any of our senior management or key advisors could materially adversely affect our ability to implement our business strategy. We do not maintain for our benefit any key-man life insurance on any of our officers or employees.

 

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Our failure to make follow-on investments in our portfolio companies could impair the value of our portfolio.

 

Following an initial investment in a portfolio company, we may make additional investments in that portfolio company as "follow-on" investments, in order to: (1) increase or maintain in whole or in part our ownership percentage; (2) exercise warrants, options or convertible securities that were acquired in the original or subsequent financing; or (3) attempt to preserve or enhance the value of our investment.

 

We may elect not to make follow-on investments or lack sufficient funds to make such investments. We have the discretion to make any follow-on investments, subject to the availability of capital resources. The failure to make a follow-on investment may, in some circumstances, jeopardize the continued viability of a portfolio company and our initial investment, or may result in a missed opportunity for us to increase our participation in a successful operation, or may cause us to lose some or all preferred rights pursuant to "pay-to-play" provisions that have become common in venture capital transactions. These provisions require proportionate investment in subsequent rounds of financing in order to preserve preferred rights such as anti-dilution protection, liquidation preferences and preemptive rights to invest in future rounds of financing. Even if we have sufficient capital to make a desired follow-on investment, we may elect not to make a follow-on investment because we may not want to increase our concentration of risk, because we prefer other opportunities or because we are inhibited by compliance with BDC requirements or the desire to maintain our tax status.

 

Bank borrowing or the issuance of debt securities or preferred stock by us, to fund investments in portfolio companies or to fund our operating expenses, would make our total return to common shareholders more volatile.

 

Use of debt or preferred stock as a source of capital entails two primary risks. The first is the risk of leverage, which is the use of debt to increase the pool of capital available for investment purposes. The use of debt leverages our available common equity capital, magnifying the impact on net asset value of changes in the value of our investment portfolio. For example, a BDC that uses 33 percent leverage (that is, $50 of leverage per $100 of common equity) will show a 1.5 percent increase or decline in net asset value for each one percent increase or decline in the value of its total assets. The second risk is that the cost of debt or preferred stock financing may exceed the return on the assets the proceeds are used to acquire, thereby diminishing rather than enhancing the return to common shareholders. If we issue preferred shares or debt, the common shareholders would bear the cost of this leverage. To the extent that we utilize debt or preferred stock financing for any purpose, these two risks would likely make our total return to common shareholders more volatile. In addition, we might be required to sell investments, in order to meet dividend, interest or principal payments, when it might be disadvantageous for us to do so.

 

As provided in the 1940 Act and subject to some exceptions, we can issue debt or preferred stock so long as our total assets immediately after the issuance, less some ordinary course liabilities, exceed 200 percent of the sum of the debt and any preferred stock outstanding. The debt or preferred stock may be convertible in accordance with SEC guidelines, which might permit us to obtain leverage at more attractive rates. The requirement under the 1940 Act to pay, in full, dividends on preferred shares or interest on debt before any dividends may be paid on our common stock means that dividends on our common stock from earnings may be reduced or eliminated. An inability to pay dividends on our common stock could conceivably result in our ceasing to qualify as a RIC under the Code, which would, in most circumstances, be materially adverse to the holders of our common stock.

 

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As of December 31, 2013, we had no debt outstanding pursuant to the Loan Facility, and we did not have any preferred stock outstanding.

 

If we are unable to comply with the covenants or restrictions of the Loan Facility, our business could be materially adversely affected.

 

The Loan Facility contains certain affirmative and negative covenants, including without limitation: (a) maintenance of certain minimum liquidity requirements; (b) maintenance of an eligible asset leverage ratio of not less than 4.0:1.0; (c) limitations on liens; (d) limitations on the incurrence of additional indebtedness; and (e) limitations on structural changes, mergers and disposition of assets (other than in the normal course of our business activities). Complying with these restrictions may prevent the Company from taking actions that we believe would help it to grow its business or are otherwise consistent with its investment objective. These restrictions could also limit the Company's ability to plan for or react to market conditions or meet extraordinary capital needs or otherwise restrict corporate activities. For example, these restrictions, as currently in effect, would prohibit the Company from, or subject it to limitations on, incurring any additional indebtedness, which would include issuing any debt securities and buying back shares of the Company’s stock.

 

The breach of any of the covenants or restrictions, unless cured within the applicable grace period, would result in a default under the Loan Facility that would permit the lenders thereunder to declare all amounts outstanding to be due and payable. Because the Loan Facility is secured by all the assets of the Company, in such an event, the Company may be forced to sell assets to repay such indebtedness. As a result, any default could cause the Company to sell portfolio company securities at a time that may not be advantageous and could have serious consequences to our financial condition. The Company may not be granted waivers or amendments to the Loan Facility if, for any reason, it is unable to comply with it, and the Company may not be able to refinance the Loan Facility on terms acceptable to it, or at all.

 

We may expose ourselves to risks if we engage in hedging transactions.

 

If we engage in hedging transactions, we may expose ourselves to risks associated with such transactions. We may utilize instruments such as forward contracts, currency options and interest rate swaps, caps, collars and floors to seek to hedge against fluctuations in the relative values of our portfolio positions from changes in market conditions, currency exchange rates and market interest rates. Hedging against a decline in the values of our portfolio positions does not eliminate the possibility of fluctuations in the values of such positions or prevent losses if the values of such positions decline. However, such hedging can establish other positions designed to gain from those same developments, thereby offsetting the decline in the value of such portfolio positions. Such hedging transactions may also limit the opportunity for gain if the values of the underlying portfolio positions should increase. It may not be possible to hedge against an exchange rate or interest rate fluctuation that is so generally anticipated that we are not able to enter into a hedging transaction at an acceptable price. Moreover, for a variety of reasons, we may not seek to establish a perfect correlation between such hedging instruments and the portfolio holdings being hedged. Any such imperfect correlation may prevent us from achieving the intended hedge and expose us to risk of loss. In addition, it may not be possible to hedge fully or perfectly against currency fluctuations affecting the value of securities denominated in non-U.S. currencies because the value of those securities is likely to fluctuate as a result of factors not related to currency fluctuations.

 

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We are authorized to issue preferred stock, which would convey special rights and privileges to its owners senior to those of common stock shareholders.

 

We are currently authorized to issue up to 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock, under terms and conditions determined by our Board of Directors. These shares would have a preference over our common stock with respect to dividends and liquidation. The statutory class voting rights of any preferred shares we would issue could make it more difficult for us to take some actions that might, in the future, be proposed by the Board and/or holders of common stock, such as a merger, exchange of securities, liquidation or alteration of the rights of a class of our securities, if these actions were perceived by the holders of the preferred shares as not in their best interests. The issuance of preferred shares convertible into shares of common stock might also reduce the net income and net asset value per share of our common stock upon conversion.

 

Loss of status as a RIC could reduce our net asset value and distributable income.

 

We have elected to qualify, have qualified and currently intend to continue to qualify as a RIC under the Code. As a RIC, we do not have to pay federal income taxes on our income (including realized gains) that is distributed to our shareholders. Accordingly, we are not permitted under accounting rules to establish reserves for taxes on our unrealized capital gains. If we failed to qualify for RIC status in 2013 or beyond, we would be taxed in the same manner as an ordinary corporation and distributions to our shareholders would not be deductible in computing our taxable income, which could materially adversely impact the amount of cash available for distribution to our shareholders. In addition, to the extent that we had unrealized appreciation, we would have to establish reserves for taxes, which would reduce our net asset value, accordingly. To qualify again to be taxed as a RIC in a subsequent year, we would be required to distribute to our shareholders our earnings and profits attributable to non-RIC years, reduced by an interest charge on 50 percent of such earnings and profits, which charge would be payable by us to the IRS. In addition, if we failed to qualify as a RIC for a period greater than two taxable years, then, in order to qualify as a RIC in a subsequent year, we would be required to elect to recognize and pay tax on any net built-in gain in our assets (the excess of aggregate gain, including items of income, over aggregate loss that would have been realized if we had sold our assets to an unrelated party for fair market value) or, alternatively, be subject to taxation on such built-in gain recognized for a period of 10 years.

 

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We may elect not to be treated as a RIC if we are not able to qualify as a RIC in any given year.

 

In order to qualify for the special treatment accorded to RICs, we must meet certain income source, asset diversification and annual distribution requirements. Recent changes in our business, including our strategy of taking larger positions in our portfolio companies and increased holding periods to exit through IPOs or M&A transactions, have created more risk specifically relating to the asset diversification requirements of maintaining our special tax status. To qualify as a RIC, we must meet certain asset diversification requirements at the end of each quarter of our taxable year. Failure to meet these tests in any year may result in the loss of RIC status. Because our ownership percentages in our portfolio have grown over the last several years, we have at least three companies with significant valuations that are not qualifying assets for the purpose of the RIC test. As long as the aggregate values of our non-qualifying assets remain below 50 percent of total assets, we will continue to qualify as a RIC. It becomes more difficult to pass this test when companies in our portfolio are successful and we want to invest more capital in those companies to increase our investment returns. Rather than selling portfolio companies that are performing well in order to pass our RIC diversification tests, we may opt instead to not qualify as a RIC. If we fail to qualify for special tax treatment accorded to RICs for failure of our RIC diversification tests, or for any other reason, we will be subject to corporate-level income tax on our income.

 

A deemed dividend election would affect the value of our stock.

 

If we, as a RIC, decide to make a deemed distribution of realized net capital gains and retain the net realized capital gains for any taxable year, also referred to as a deemed dividend, we would have to establish appropriate reserves for taxes that we would have to pay on behalf of shareholders. It is possible that establishing reserves for taxes could have a material adverse effect on the value of our common stock. Additionally, if we decide to make a deemed distribution and changes in tax law occur that would increase the dividend tax rates for individuals and corporations, the net benefit to shareholders from a deemed distribution could be adversely affected. Such changes, therefore, could reduce the overall benefit to our shareholders from our status as a RIC.

 

We operate in a heavily regulated environment, and changes to, or non-compliance with, regulations and laws could harm our business.

 

We are subject to substantive SEC regulations as a BDC. Securities and tax laws and regulations governing our activities may change in ways adverse to our and our shareholders’ interests, and interpretations of these laws and regulations may change with unpredictable consequences. Any change in the laws or regulations that govern our business could have an adverse impact on us or on our operations. Changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance, valuation, public disclosure and market regulation, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the Dodd Frank Act, new SEC regulations, new federal accounting standards and Nasdaq Stock Market rules, create additional expense and uncertainty for publicly traded companies in general, and for BDCs in particular. These new or changed laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations in many cases because of their lack of specificity, and as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time, which may well result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices.

 

We are committed to maintaining high standards of corporate governance and public disclosure. As a result, our efforts to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards have and will continue to result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new or changed laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies, our reputation may be harmed. This increased regulatory burden is causing us to incur significant additional expenses and is time consuming for our management, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial performance.

 

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Market prices of our common stock will continue to be volatile.

 

We expect that the market price of our common stock price will continue to be volatile. The price of the common stock may be higher or lower than the price you pay for your shares, depending on many factors, some of which are beyond our control and may not be directly related to our operating performance. These factors include the following:

 

stock market and capital markets conditions;

 

internal developments in our Company with respect to our personnel, financial condition and compliance with all applicable regulations;

 

announcements regarding any of our portfolio companies;

 

announcements regarding developments in the nanotechnology, energy, electronics or healthcare-related fields in general;

 

environmental and health concerns regarding nanotechnology, whether real or perceptual;

 

announcements regarding government funding and initiatives related to the development of nanotechnology, energy, electronics or healthcare-related products;

 

a mismatch between the long-term nature of our business and the short-term focus of many investors;

 

significant volatility in the market price and trading volume of securities of RICs, BDCs or other financial services companies;

 

changes in regulatory policies or tax guidelines with respect to RICs or BDCs; general economic conditions and trends; and/or

 

departures of key personnel.

 

We will not have control over many of these factors, but expect that our stock price may be influenced by them. As a result, our stock price may be volatile, and you may lose all or part of your investment. In the past, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, securities class action litigation has often been brought against that company. Due to the potential volatility of our stock price, we may therefore be the target of securities litigation in the future. Securities litigation could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention and resources from our business.

 

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Quarterly results fluctuate and are not indicative of future quarterly performance.

 

Our quarterly operating results fluctuate as a result of a number of factors. These factors include, among others, variations in and the timing of the recognition of realized and unrealized gains or losses, the degree to which we and our portfolio companies encounter competition in our markets and general economic and capital markets conditions. As a result of these factors, results for any one quarter should not be relied upon as being indicative of performance in future quarters.

 

Investment in foreign securities could result in additional risks.

 

We may invest in foreign securities, and we currently have one investment in a foreign security. When we invest in securities of foreign issuers, we may be subject to risks not usually associated with owning securities of U.S. issuers. These risks can include fluctuations in foreign currencies, foreign currency exchange controls, social, political and economic instability, differences in securities regulation and trading, expropriation or nationalization of assets and foreign taxation issues. In addition, changes in government administrations or economic or monetary policies in the United States or abroad could result in appreciation or depreciation of our securities and could favorably or unfavorably affect our operations. It may also be more difficult to obtain and enforce a judgment against a foreign issuer. Any foreign investments made by us must be made in compliance with U.S. and foreign currency restrictions and tax laws restricting the amounts and types of foreign investments.

 

Although most of our investments are denominated in U.S. dollars, our investments that are denominated in a foreign currency are subject to the risk that the value of a particular currency may change in relation to the U.S. dollar, in which currency we maintain financial statements and valuations. Among the factors that may affect currency values are trade balances, the level of short-term interest rates, differences in relative values of similar assets in different currencies, long-term opportunities for investment and capital appreciation and political developments.

 

Investing in our stock is highly speculative and an investor could lose some or all of the amount invested.

 

Our investment objective and strategies result in a high degree of risk in our investments and may result in losses in the value of our investment portfolio. Our investments in small businesses are highly speculative and, therefore, an investor in our common stock may lose his or her entire investment. The value of our common stock may decline and may be affected by numerous market conditions, which could result in the loss of some or all of the amount invested in our common stock. The securities markets frequently experience extreme price and volume fluctuations that affect market prices for securities of companies in general, and technology and very small capitalization companies in particular. Because of our focus on the technology and very small capitalization sectors, and because we are a very small capitalization company ourselves, our stock price is especially likely to be affected by these market conditions. General economic conditions, and general conditions in nanotechnology and in the semiconductor and information technology, life sciences, materials science and other high-technology industries, including energy, may also affect the price of our common stock.

 

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Our strategy of writing covered calls and buying put options on public portfolio company securities held by us could result in us receiving a lower return for such investments than if we had not employed such strategy.

 

There are several risks associated with transactions in options on securities. For example, there are significant differences between the securities and options markets that could result in an imperfect correlation between these markets, causing a given transaction not to achieve its objectives. A decision as to whether, when and how to use options involves the exercise of skill and judgment, and even a well-conceived transaction may be unsuccessful to some degree because of market behavior or unexpected events. As the writer of a covered call option, the Company forgoes, during the option’s life, the opportunity to profit from increases in the market value of the security covering the call option above the sum of the premium and the strike price of the call, but has retained the risk of loss should the price of the underlying security decline. The writer of an option has no control over the time when it may be required to fulfill its obligation as a writer of the option. Once an option writer has received an exercise notice, it cannot effect a closing purchase transaction in order to terminate its obligation under the option and must deliver the underlying security at the exercise price.

 

As the buyer of a put option, we may incur losses if the price per share of the underlying stock to that option is above the strike price of the put option at the time of expiration, which would result in our put option expiring without value. Such expiration would reduce our overall returns on our investment in those publicly traded securities once they are sold.

 

The Board of Directors intends to grant restricted stock pursuant to the Company's Equity Incentive Plan. These equity awards may have a dilutive effect on existing shareholders.

 

In accordance with the Company’s Equity Incentive Plan, the Company’s Board of Directors plans to grant equity awards in the form of restricted stock from time to time for up to 10 percent of the total shares of stock issued and outstanding. Issuance of shares of restricted stock results in existing shareholders owning a smaller percentage of the shares outstanding.

 

You have no right to require us to repurchase your shares.

 

You do not have the right to require us to repurchase your shares of common stock.

 

Future sales of our common stock in the public market could cause our stock price to fall.

 

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in offerings, such as follow-on public offerings, registered direct or PIPE transactions, or rights offerings, or the perception that these sales might occur, could depress the market price of our common stock and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities.

 

Item 1B.Unresolved Staff Comments.

 

None.

 

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Item 2.Properties.

 

The Company maintains its offices at 1450 Broadway, New York, New York 10018, where it leases approximately 6,900 square feet of office space pursuant to a lease agreement expiring on December 31, 2019. (See "Note 11. Commitments and Contingencies" contained in "Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.")

 

We believe that our office facilities are suitable and adequate for our business as it is contemplated to be conducted.

 

Item 3.Legal Proceedings.

 

The Company is not currently a party to any legal proceedings.

 

Item 4.Mine Safety Disclosures.

 

Not applicable.

 

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PART II

 

Item 5.Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

 

Market Information

 

Our common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol "TINY." The following table sets forth the range of the high and low sales price of the Company's shares during each quarter of the last two fiscal years and the closing share price as a percentage of net asset value, as reported by Nasdaq Global Market. The quarterly stock prices quoted represent interdealer quotations and do not include markups, markdowns or commissions.

 

   Market Price   Net Asset Value
("NAV") Per
Share at End of
   Premium or (Discount) as
a % of NAV
 
Quarter Ended  High   Low   Period   High   Low 
                     
March 31, 2013  $3.94   $3.35   $4.11    (4.1)%   (18.5)%
June 30, 2013  $3.70   $3.01   $4.24    (12.7)%   (29.0)%
September 30, 2013  $3.23   $2.95   $4.18    (22.7)%   (29.4)%
December 31, 2013  $3.26   $2.95   $3.93    (17.0)%   (24.9)%
                          
March 31, 2012  $4.70   $3.44   $4.89    (3.9)%   (29.7)%
June 30, 2012  $4.47   $2.98   $4.88    (8.4)%   (38.9)%
September 30, 2012  $4.25   $3.53   $4.78    (11.1)%   (26.2)%
December 31, 2012  $3.97   $3.05   $4.13    (3.9)%   (26.2)%

 

Shares of BDCs may trade at a market price that is less than the value of the net assets attributable to those shares. The possibility that our shares of common stock will trade at premiums that are unsustainable over the long term or at a discount from net asset value is separate and distinct from the risk that our net asset value will decrease. Historically, our shares of common stock have traded at times at a discount and at other times at a premium to net asset value.  For the last two years, our stock has generally traded at a discount to net asset value. The last reported price for our common stock on December 31, 2013, was $2.98 per share, which was a 24.2 percent discount to our net asset value of $3.93 as of December 31, 2013. 

 

Shareholders

 

As of March 12, 2014, there were approximately 124 holders of record and approximately 14,515 beneficial owners of the Company's common stock.

 

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Dividends

 

We did not pay a cash dividend or declare a deemed dividend for 2013 or 2012. For more information about deemed dividends, please refer to the discussion under "Tax Status."

 

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

 

EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION

As of December 31, 2013

 

   

Number of securities

to be issued upon

exercise of out-

standing options,

warrants and rights(1)

 

Weighted-average

exercise price of

outstanding options,

warrants and rights

 

Number of securities

remaining available for

future issuance under

equity compensation

plans (excluding

securities reflected in

Column (a))

             
Plan Category   (a)   (b)   (c)
             
Equity compensation plans approved by
security holders
  1,425,372   $ 9.77   (2)
             
Equity compensation plans not approved by
security holders
  -   -   -
             
TOTAL   1,425,372   $ 9.77   (2)

 

(1) Represents shares subject to options.

 

(2) The Amended and Restated Harris & Harris Group, Inc. 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Stock Plan") permits the issuance of stock options and restricted stock in an aggregate amount of up to 20 percent of our issued and outstanding common stock (the “Plan Maximum Shares”) as of the effective date of the Stock Plan (June 7, 2012).  Under the Stock Plan, all of the Plan Maximum Shares are available for grants of stock options, and half of the Plan Maximum Shares (up to 10 percent of our issued and outstanding common stock as of the effective date of the Stock Plan) is available for grants of restricted stock.  As of December 31, 2013, there were 3,270,230 shares remaining available for issuance under the Stock Plan, 1,595,542 of which were available for grant in the form of restricted stock.  If any shares subject to an award granted under the Stock Plan are forfeited, cancelled, exchanged or surrendered, or if an award terminates or expires without a distribution of shares, those shares will again be available for awards under the Stock Plan.

 

Performance Graph

 

The graph below compares the cumulative five-year total return of holders of the Company's common stock with the cumulative total returns of the Nasdaq Composite index and the Nasdaq Financial index. We chose broader indices for comparison because we make investments in multiple industries, and we do not believe there is an appropriate index of companies with an investment strategy similar to our own with which to compare the return on our common stock. The graph assumes that the value of the investment in the Company's common stock and in each of the indexes (including reinvestment of dividends) was $100 on December 31, 2008, and tracks it through December 31, 2013.

 

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COMPARISON OF 5 YEAR CUMULATIVE TOTAL RETURN*
Among Harris & Harris Group, Inc., the NASDAQ Composite Index, and the NASDAQ Financial Index

 

 

 

*$100 invested on 12/31/08 in stock or index, including reinvestment of dividends for the indices. We declared no dividends during the timeframe covered by this chart. Fiscal year ending December 31.

 

   12/08   12/09   12/10   12/11   12/12   12/13 
                         
Harris & Harris Group, Inc.   100.00    115.70    110.89    87.59    83.54    75.44 
NASDAQ Composite   100.00    144.88    170.58    171.30    199.99    283.39 
NASDAQ Financial   100.00    101.25    114.79    104.03    121.38    168.93 

 

The stock price performance included in this graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.

 

Source: Research Data Group, Inc.

 

Stock Transfer Agent

 

American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, 59 Maiden Lane, New York, New York 10038 (Telephone 800-937-5449, Attention: Mr. Paul O'Leary) serves as our transfer agent. Certificates to be transferred should be mailed directly to the transfer agent, preferably by registered mail.

 

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Item 6. Selected Financial Data.

 

The information below was derived from the audited Consolidated Financial Statements included in this report and in previous annual reports filed with the SEC. This information should be read in conjunction with those Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data and the notes thereto. These historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected in the future.

 

Financial Position as of December 31:

 

   2013   2012   2011   2010   2009 
                     
Total assets  $125,063,946   $131,990,250   $150,343,653   $149,289,168   $136,109,101 
                          
Total liabilities  $2,362,371   $3,553,476   $4,645,246   $2,435,256   $1,950,843 
                          
Net assets1  $122,701,575   $128,436,774   $145,698,407   $146,853,912   $134,158,258 
                          
Net asset value per outstanding share  $3.93   $4.13   $4.70   $4.76   $4.35 
                          
Cash dividends paid  $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00 
                          
Cash dividends paid per outstanding share  $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00 
                          
Shares outstanding, end of year1   31,197,438    31,116,881    31,000,601    30,878,164    30,859,593 

 

Operating Data for Year Ended December 31:

 

   2013   2012   2011   2010   2009 
                     
Total investment income  $470,902   $722,227   $702,765   $446,038   $247,848 
                          
Total expenses2  $8,493,108   $9,525,570   $9,041,130   $8,001,845   $9,009,063 
                          
Net operating loss  $(8,022,206)  $(8,803,343)  $(8,338,365)  $(7,555,807)  $(8,761,215)
                          
Total tax expense (benefit)  $27,994   $15,236   $6,922   $4,461   $(753)
                          
Net realized gain (loss) income
from investments
  $18,516,268   $2,406,433   $2,449,705   $(3,740,518)  $(11,105,577)
                          
Net (decrease) increase in unrealized
appreciation on investments
  $(18,283,020)  $(13,589,990)  $2,347,297   $21,883,175   $19,718,327 
                          
Net (decrease) increase in net assets
resulting from operations
  $(7,788,958)  $(19,986,900)  $(3,541,363)  $10,586,850   $(148,465)
                          
(Decrease) increase in net assets
resulting from operations per
average outstanding share
  $(0.25)  $(0.65)  $(0.12)  $0.34   $(0.01)

  

1 We completed offerings of our common stock as follows: 0 shares in each of 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010; and 4,887,500 shares in 2009.

 

2 Included in total expenses is non-cash, stock-based compensation expense of $1,249,756 in 2013; $2,928,943 in 2012; $1,894,800 in 2011; $2,088,091 in 2010; and $3,089,520 in 2009.

 

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Item 7.Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

 

The information contained in this section should be read in conjunction with the Company's 2013 Consolidated Financial Statements and notes thereto.

 

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

 

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on current expectations, estimates and projections about the Company, our current and prospective portfolio investments, our industry, our beliefs, and our assumptions. Words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "will," "may," "continue," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "would," "could," "should," "targets," "projects," and variations of these words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report involve risks and uncertainties, including statements as to:

 

our future operating results;

 

our business prospects and the prospects of our portfolio companies;

 

the impact of investments that we expect to make;

 

our contractual arrangements and relationships with third parties;

 

the dependence of our future success on the general economy and its impact on the industries in which we invest;

 

the ability of our portfolio companies to achieve their objectives;

 

our expected financings and investments;

 

the adequacy of our cash resources and working capital; and

 

the timing of cash flows, if any, from the operations and/or monetization of our positions in our portfolio companies.

 

These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements, including without limitation:

 

an economic downturn could impair our portfolio companies’ ability to continue to operate, which could lead to the loss of some or all of our investments in such portfolio companies;

 

a contraction of available credit and/or an inability to access the equity markets could impair our investment activities;

 

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interest rate volatility could adversely affect our results, particularly if we elect to use leverage as a material part of our investment strategy;

 

currency fluctuations could adversely affect the results of our investments in foreign companies, particularly to the extent that we receive payments denominated in foreign currency rather than U.S. dollars; and

 

the risks, uncertainties and other factors we identify in "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other filings with the SEC.

 

Although we believe that the assumptions on which these forward-looking statements are based are reasonable, any of those assumptions could prove to be inaccurate, and as a result, the forward-looking statements based on those assumptions also could be inaccurate. Important assumptions include our ability to originate new investments, certain margins and levels of profitability and the availability of additional capital. In light of these and other uncertainties, the inclusion of a projection or forward-looking statement in this Annual Report on Form 10-K should not be regarded as a representation by us that our plans and objectives will be achieved. These risks and uncertainties include those described or identified in "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which apply only as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

Background and Overview

 

We incorporated under the laws of the state of New York in August 1981. In 1983, we completed an IPO. In 1984, we divested all of our assets except Otisville BioTech, Inc., and became a financial services company with the investment in Otisville as the initial focus of our business activity.

 

In 1992, we registered as an investment company under the 1940 Act, commencing operations as a closed-end, non-diversified investment company. In 1995, we elected to become a BDC subject to the provisions of Sections 55 through 65 of the 1940 Act.

 

We believe we provide five core benefits to our shareholders. First, we are an established firm with a positive track record of investing in venture capital-backed companies as further discussed in "Investments and Current Investment Pace" on page 56. Second, we provide shareholders with access to disruptive science-enabled companies, particularly ones that are enabled by BIOLOGY+, that would otherwise be difficult to access or inaccessible for most current and potential shareholders. Third, we have an existing portfolio of companies at varying stages of maturity that provide for a potential pipeline of investment returns over time. Fourth, we are able to invest opportunistically in a range of types of securities to take advantage of market inefficiencies. Fifth, we provide access to venture capital investments in a vehicle that, unlike private venture capital firms, has permanent capital, is transparent and is liquid.

 

We build transformative companies from disruptive science. We make venture capital investments in companies enabled by multidisciplinary, disruptive science. We define venture capital investments as the money and resources made available to privately held and publicly traded small businesses with exceptional growth potential.

 

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In 2002, we focused our efforts investing in companies that were enabled at the micro and nanoscale. Many of the disruptive scientific breakthroughs that are the basis of the transformative companies we build occur at the nanoscale. This focus permitted the Company to become a leader investing in this emerging space. Additionally, our interdisciplinary scientific backgrounds led us to identify interesting breakthroughs that were occurring ever more often at the intersection of different scientific disciplines.

 

Two things have become clear to us over the past five years. First, many of the most interesting scientific breakthroughs are occurring at the intersection of different scientific disciplines, usually with biology as one of these disciplines. Two, companies that intersect with healthcare or the life sciences are yielding increased venture capital returns. In our own portfolio, companies in the life science sector have outperformed portfolio companies in the electronics and energy sectors significantly since 2002. Thus, beginning in 2008, the majority of our investments have been in companies that we define as BIOLOGY+, which refers to investments in interdisciplinary life science companies where biology innovation is intersecting with innovations in areas such as electronics, physics, materials science, chemistry, information technology, engineering and mathematics. We expect our future investments to be within the category of BIOLOGY+.

 

 

 

Our business model is simple. We help build transformative companies by being the first investors, building value in these companies over a multi-year period, realizing returns from our investments through acquisitions or IPOs, and reinvesting some of the returns on our investments into new portfolio companies that can drive future growth. We believe our evergreen structure is a competitive advantage over traditional, time-limited venture capital private partnerships as most of those entities do not have permanent capital to invest in portfolio companies. We believe we are a unique company with our focus on being actively involved investors in the formation and building of early-stage companies founded on disruptive science as a liquid, publicly traded company.

 

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As of December 31, 2013, we had 26 equity-focused companies in our portfolio that have yet to complete liquidity events (e.g., IPOs or M&A transactions). This does not include 1) our publicly traded shares of Solazyme, Inc., and Champions Oncology, Inc.; 2) the three venture debt deals, GEO Semiconductor Inc., Nano Terra, Inc., and OHSO Clean, Inc.; and 3) our rights to milestone payments from Amgen, Inc., and Laird Technologies, Inc. As of December 31, 2013, we valued our 26 privately held equity-focused companies at $83,253,216. Including the companies referenced above, we valued our total venture capital portfolio at $93,899,459 as of December 31, 2013. At December 31, 2013, from first dollar in, the average and median holding periods for the 26 privately held equity-focused investments were 5.9 years and 6.6 years, respectively. Historically, as measured from first dollar in to last dollar out, the average and median holding periods for the 69 investments we have exited were 4.3 years and 3.4 years, respectively.

 

Our execution strategy over the next five years has four parts: 1) Realize returns to increase shareholder value; 2) Invest for growth to increase shareholder value; 3) Partner to more effectively create value; and 4) Return value to our shareholders.

 

Realize

 

"Realize" refers to realizing value in our venture capital portfolio. Since our investment in Otisville in 1983 through December 31, 2013, we have made a total of 97 equity-focused venture capital investments. We have completely exited 69 of these 97 investments and partially exited through the sale of shares and/or the sale of call options covered by shares of two of these 97 investments, recognizing aggregate net realized gains of $87,074,096 on invested capital of $112,767,360, or 1.77 times invested capital. For the securities of the 26 companies in our equity-focused portfolio held at December 31, 2013, we have net unrealized depreciation of $25,441,468 on invested capital of $108,694,684. We have aggregate net realized gains offset by unrealized depreciation for our 26 equity-focused investments of $61,632,628 on invested capital of $221,462,044.

 

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The amount of net realized gains includes:

 

·$29,018,645 in payments received from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., to Amgen, Inc., the sale of Innovalight, Inc., to DuPont, the sale of Crystal IS, Inc., to Asahi Kasei Group and the sale of Xradia, Inc., to Carl Zeiss AG. We had invested a total of $15,383,299 in these four portfolio companies;

 

·Realized gains of $16,672,268 from the sale of shares of Solazyme, Inc., on invested capital of $5,047,632. In addition, we generated $1,525,531 in realized gains on our sale and/or purchase of written call option and put option contracts covered by our shares of Solazyme, Inc.;

 

·Realized gains of $92,529 from the sale of shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., on invested capital of $145,154; and

 

·Realized loss of $4,839,811, including call options, on our investment in NeoPhotonics Corporation on invested capital of $7,299,590.

 

The aggregate net realized gains and the cumulative invested capital do not reflect the cost or value of our shares of Solazyme, Inc., and Champions Oncology, Inc., that we owned as of December 31, 2013, or the premiums received on open option contracts of Solazyme of $112,382. The aggregate net realized gains also do not include potential escrow payments from the sale of Xradia, Inc., to Carl Zeiss AG or potential milestone payments that could occur as part of the acquisition of BioVex Group, Inc., by Amgen, Inc., or the acquisition of Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., by Laird Technologies, Inc., at points in time in the future as of December 31, 2013. The aggregate net realized gains also do not include the proceeds due to be received at the close, upon release from escrow and upon achievement of certain milestones related to the acquisition of the semiconductor manufacturing-related business of Molecular Imprints that was announced in the first quarter of 2014 and is expected to close during the first half of 2014. If these amounts were included as of December 31, 2013, our aggregate net realized gains and cumulative invested capital would be $109,615,410 and $117,570,520, respectively.

 

Recent and Potential Liquidity Events From Our Portfolio as of December 31, 2013

 

On July 12, 2013, Carl Zeiss AG completed its acquisition of Xradia, Inc., and on July 19, 2013, we received our initial payment of $12,838,244. As of December 31, 2013, additional proceeds of $2,374,827 were held in escrow to be released in whole, or in part, in January and July of 2014. On January 12, 2014, we received the first escrow payment of $1,235,312. If the remaining amount held in escrow is released, we would receive an additional $1,139,515, but there can be no assurance as to how much of this amount we will ultimately realize. As of December 31, 2013, we valued the funds held in escrow from the sale of Xradia at $1,786,390.

 

On October 31, 2013, Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc. sold a substantial portion of its assets, including the use of its corporate name, to Corden Pharma International US Inc.  The remaining assets formed a new company, SynGlyco, Inc., of which we continue to own shares. SynGlyco may receive future royalty payments based upon certain sales targets and other terms of the Corden acquisition.

 

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As of December 31, 2013, we valued potential milestone payments from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., at $3,489,433. If all the remaining milestone payments were to be paid by Amgen, Inc., we would receive $9,526,393. We have not received any milestone payments as of December 31, 2013, and there can be no assurance as to the timing and how much of this amount we will ultimately realize in the future, if any. As of December 31, 2013, we valued potential milestone payments from the sale of Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., to Laird Technologies, Inc., at $0.

 

Our companies often plan for and/or begin the process of pursuing potential sales and/or IPOs of those companies by hiring bankers and/or advisors to attempt to pursue such liquidity events. We consider these efforts to be in the ordinary course of business for those companies until the potential and timing of a transaction become tangible through events such as acceptance of letters of intent to acquire a company and/or the beginning of a road show to pursue an IPO.

 

During the fourth quarter of 2013, Molecular Imprints, Inc., and Canon, Inc., of Japan began drafting definitive documents for the acquisition of the semiconductor manufacturing-related business of Molecular Imprints. The definitive documents for this transaction were signed in February of 2014, and the transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2014, subject to government approvals. Upon closing, we expect to receive approximately $7.0 million in proceeds from the sale, including amounts to be held in escrow. We could receive an additional $1.7 million upon the achievement of certain milestones. We will also obtain ownership in a new company created from the non-semiconductor manufacturing-related business of Molecular Imprints.

 

On February 27, 2014, the board of directors of Contour Energy Systems, Inc., adopted a plan of complete liquidation and dissolution. Following the sale of Contour Energy's assets and settlement of its liabilities, any remaining proceeds will be distributed to its shareholders. At December 31, 2013, we valued our investment in Contour Energy at $90,844.

 

Strategy for Managing Publicly Traded Positions

 

Our equity-focused portfolio companies may seek to raise capital and provide liquidity to shareholders through IPOs. It is generally rare that pre-IPO investors are afforded the ability to sell a portion of shares owned in the IPO. These pre-IPO shares, and sometimes shares purchased in the IPO by us, are often subject to lock-up provisions that prevent the sale of those shares, options against those shares or other transactions associated with those shares until expiration of the lock-up period, which is often 180 days from the date of the IPO. We commonly plan to hold our shares of our publicly traded portfolio companies following the expiration of the lock-up restrictions if we believe that the prospects for future growth of the portfolio company and the underlying value of our shares are as great or greater than other opportunities we are currently encountering. We believe we are able to make such assessments using our extensive knowledge of the companies having actively worked with them and their management teams over multiple years as pre-IPO investors. As such, we may hold our shares of publicly traded portfolio companies for extended periods of time from the date of IPO. That said, we may also elect to sell our shares of publicly traded companies before such growth has occurred if we believe there are better growth opportunities for that capital or if we require that capital to make other investments and/or to fund operations of the Company.

 

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Following the expiration of the lock-up restrictions, we may pursue the sale of call options covered by our ownership of shares in our publicly traded portfolio companies. The Company will only "sell" or "write" options on common stocks held in the Company's portfolio. We will not sell "naked" call options, i.e., options representing more shares of the stock than are held in the portfolio. These call options give the buyer the right to purchase our stock at a given price, the "strike price," prior to a specific date, the "expiration date." A call option whose strike price is above the current price of the underlying stock is called "out-of-the-money." A call option whose strike price is below the current price of the underlying stock is called "in-the-money." When stocks in the portfolio rise, call options that were out-of-the-money when written may become in-the-money, thereby increasing the likelihood that they could be exercised, and we would be forced to sell the stock. The opposite would occur for an in-the-money option that would become out-of-the-money if the stock were to fall below the strike price of the option. We have used and currently plan to continue to use both in-the-money and out-of-the-money options as part of our strategy for managing our ownership in publicly traded portfolio companies.

 

We may also purchase put options as a method of limiting the downside risk that the price per share of these companies may decrease substantially from current levels. A put option gives its holder the right to sell a specified number of shares of a specific security at a specific price (known as the exercise strike price) by a certain date. The buyer of a put option is betting that the price of the security will decrease before the option expires. The risk for us as the option holder is that the option expires unexercised, and we have lost the money spent on buying the option.

 

For conventional listed call options, the options' expiration dates are commonly up to nine months from the date the call options are first listed for trading. Longer-term call options can have expiration dates up to three years from the date of listing. We currently expect the majority of written call options to be ones with expirations of equal to or shorter than one year from the date the call option is first listed for trading.

 

We believe this strategy of selling covered call options on our publicly traded portfolio companies provides at least three benefits:

 

1)We receive payment of a premium in cash at the time of the sale of the call option. The amount of the premium received is negotiated between the buyer and us and is influenced generally by the market price of the underlying stock, the volatility of the stock and the length of time between the date of sale of the call option and the expiration date. If the option expires out-of-the-money, we retain the premium as a gain on our investment.

 

2)If the option is exercised, it enables the monetization of the stock held by us in an orderly transaction that yields known returns. Our publicly traded portfolio companies currently trade at small average daily volumes of shares compared with our positions in these companies. As such, a decision by us to sell a portion or all of our shares in these companies in the public markets through brokers could negatively affect the price at which we would be able to sell these shares and, therefore, our ultimate returns. The sale of a call option sets a price at which our shares would sell if the option is exercised, which negates the potential impact of illiquidity or other market dynamics on our returns from the sale of these shares. That said, it also sets an upper limit for the proceeds we would receive in such sale. We plan to enter into such contracts at a price per share and in a timeframe that we would be willing to sell those shares. While we may repurchase call options when advantageous to us, we commonly do not sell call options with the expectation that we will repurchase them at a future date.

 

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3)The sale of options may help generate interest and liquidity in the stock of our publicly traded portfolio companies. Current market dynamics make it difficult for small capitalization stocks to attract interest from institutional and retail investors. This difficulty leads to low average trading volumes and low liquidity options for existing shareholders. We believe the sale of call options may aid in increasing the interest and liquidity in the stock of these companies and may be beneficial to our future potential returns on these investments.

 

During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, our strategy for managing our publicly traded positions has generated $605,145 in net cash proceeds from premiums on call options sold and put options purchased of Solazyme, Inc. We added $8,177,311 in proceeds, net of commission, to our primary liquidity resulting from options called that were covered by a portion of our shares of Solazyme. We also sold shares of Solazyme in open market transactions for proceeds, net of commission, of $7,635,615. The net increase in our primary liquidity from these transactions was $16,418,071. Through December 31, 2013, we have generated $2,349,979 in net cash premiums on call options sold and put options purchased of Solazyme since the company completed an IPO in May 2011. We have sold a total of 2,136,315 shares of Solazyme since its IPO for net proceeds, after commission, of $20,992,976 or an average sale price of $9.83 per share. Including premiums from call and put options, the average sale price for these shares was $10.93 per share. Our cost basis in Solazyme is $2.36 per share.

 

As of December 31, 2013, we had 150,000 shares of our remaining 167,834 shares of Solazyme under the following option contracts:

 

No. of Shares   Expiration Date  Strike Price 
           
 150,000   March 22, 2014   $12.50 

 

During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we sold 193,539 shares of our position in Champions Oncology, Inc., in open market transactions for net proceeds, after commission, of $237,684 or an average sale price of $1.23 per share. Our cost basis in Champions is $0.75 per share.

 

During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we sold the remaining 50,807 shares of our position in NeoPhotonics Corporation. We no longer own any shares of NeoPhotonics. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we received $252,042 in proceeds, net of commission, from the sale of NeoPhotonics shares. We also received proceeds of $24,146 from call option premiums on shares of NeoPhotonics. Since its IPO, the sale of our 450,907 shares of NeoPhotonics generated net proceeds of $2,239,809, or an average sale price, net of commission, of $4.97 per share. Including premiums from call options, the average sale price for these shares was $5.45 per share. Our cost basis in NeoPhotonics was $16.19 per share.

 

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These increases in primary liquidity are important for our efforts to continue to fund existing and new portfolio companies that could generate future investment returns.

 

Maturity of Current Equity-Focused Venture Capital Portfolio

 

There are three main drivers of our potential growth in value over the next five years. First, we have a larger portfolio of more mature companies than we have had historically. Second, we believe the quality of our existing portfolio is stronger than it has been historically. Third, we own larger percentages of the companies in the existing portfolio than we have owned historically.

 

Our equity-focused venture capital portfolio is comprised of companies at varying maturities facing different types of risks. We have defined these levels of maturity and sources of risk as: 1) Early Stage/Technology Risk, 2) Mid Stage/Market Risk and 3) Late Stage/Execution Risk. Early-stage companies have a high degree of technical, market and execution risk, which is typical of initial investments by venture capital firms, including us. Mid-stage companies are those that have overcome most of the technical risk associated with their products and are now focused on addressing the market acceptance for their products. Late-stage companies are those that have determined there is a market for their products, and they are now focused on sales execution and scale. Late-stage, life sciences companies are typically generating revenue from the commercial sale of one or more products or, in the case of therapeutic or medical device-focused life sciences companies, are in Phase III Clinical Trials, which are the pivotal trials before a possible FDA approval and commercial launch of a product.

 

Our current portfolio is comprised of BIOLOGY+ and other companies at varying stages of maturity in a diverse set of industries. As our portfolio companies mature, we seek to invest in new early- and mid-stage companies that may mature into mid- and late-stage companies. This continuous progression creates a pipeline of investment maturities that may lead to future sources of positive contributions to net asset value per share as these companies mature and potentially experience liquidity and exit events. Our pipeline of investment maturities for the 24 equity-focused companies in our portfolio that have yet to complete liquidity events (e.g., IPOs or M&A transactions) and are not in the process of being shut down are shown in the figure below.

 

 

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We expect some of our portfolio companies to transition between stages of maturity over time. This transition may be forward if the company is maturing and is successfully executing its business plan or may be backward if the company is not successfully executing its business plan or decides to change its business plan substantially from its original plan. Transitions backward may be accompanied by an increase in non-performance risk, which reduces valuation. We discuss non-performance risk and its implications on value below in the section titled "Valuation of Investments."

 

During the fourth quarter of 2013, we did not transition the stage categorization of any of our portfolio companies. We classified our new investment, ProMuc, Inc., as an early-stage company.

 

As of December 31, 2013, we held securities in Molecular Imprints, Inc., a late-stage company. As discussed on page 45, Molecular Imprints agreed to be acquired by Canon, Inc., in the first quarter of 2014. We will retain ownership in a new company created from the non-semiconductor manufacturing business of Molecular Imprints. We currently plan to categorize this new company as a mid-stage company once it is created.

 

Portfolio Company Revenue

 

We aggregate the revenues of our equity-focused portfolio companies on an annual basis and report these aggregated amounts for the prior three calendar years. These revenues include contributions solely from those equity-focused portfolio companies that have yet to complete liquidity events (e.g., IPOs, up-listings, or M&A transactions) and are not in the process of being shut down as of December 31, 2013. This approach enables the comparison of aggregate revenues for our portfolio as of the end of a given year with those generated by the same set of companies in prior years. As such, the total revenues in a given historical year will fluctuate owing to the change of the composition of our equity-focused portfolio companies.

 

We had 20 of our 24 companies in our equity-focused venture capital portfolio as of December 31, 2013, that generate revenues ranging from nominal to significant from commercial sales of products and/or services, from commercial partnerships and/or from government grants. The following table lists the aggregate revenues and change between years for these 24 portfolio companies in 2011, 2012 and 2013, grouped by stage of development, as of December 31, 2013, and in total.

 

   2013 Aggregate
Revenue
($ Million)
   2012 Aggregate
Revenue 
($ Million)
   Change in
Revenues from
2012 to 2013
   2011 Aggregate
Revenue 
($ Million)
   Change in Revenues
from 2011 to 2012
 
                     
Early Stage  $2.6   $2.1    24%  $0.3    602%
Mid Stage   17.6    25.9    (32%)   12.9    101%
Late Stage   251.3    160.6    56%   135.9    18%
Total  $271.5   $188.5    44%  $149.1    26%
                          
Combined Mid and
Late Stage
  $268.9   $186.6    44%  $148.8    25%

 

The revenue amounts listed in the table above include revenues generated by our portfolio companies in the years reported, but do not include revenues from acquired businesses prior to the consummation of those transactions.

 

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As of December 31, 2013, we had one equity-focused portfolio company, Solazyme, Inc., that remained in our portfolio of investments following an IPO in 2011. Solazyme had revenues in 2013, 2012 and 2011 of $39.8 million, $44.1 million and $38.9 million, respectively.

 

We note that the revenues of our mid-stage companies and those of Solazyme, Inc., decreased from 2012 to 2013. This decrease is related primarily to a transition of the source of revenues from government grants and contracts to the sale of products. We believe such transitions are often positive developments for companies even if they result in short-term decreases in revenues.

 

Ownership of our Portfolio Companies

 

By studying our portfolio in greater detail, it is evident to us that potential returns from approximately half of the companies in our portfolio could be the real drivers of net asset value growth over the coming years. These companies include ones in which we have substantial ownership and ones where we believe the potential value at exit is substantial. The table below provides some additional detail on our ownership of the 24 equity-focused companies in our portfolio that have yet to complete liquidity events (e.g., IPOs or M&A transactions) and are not in the process of being shut down.

 

 

 

Portfolio Company

 

 

Voting Ownership Range

 

 

Enumeral Biomedical Corp.

> 20%
HzO, Inc.
ProMuc, Inc.
SynGlyco, Inc.

Ultora, Inc.

 

 

EchoPixel, Inc.

15-20%
Senova Systems, Inc.

SiOnyx, Inc.

 

 

ABSMaterials, Inc.

10-15%
Adesto Technologies Corp.
Metabolon, Inc.
OpGen, Inc.

Produced Water Absorbents, Inc.

 

 

AgBiome, L.L.C.

 

5-10%

 

Bridgelux, Inc.

2.5-5%
Cambrios Technologies Corp.
Champions Oncology, Inc.
D-Wave Systems, Inc.
Ensemble Therapeutics Corp.
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.
Molecular Imprints, Inc.

Nantero, Inc.

 

 

Cobalt Technologies, Inc.

<2.5%

Nanosys, Inc.

 

 

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In previous communications with shareholders, we have discussed how we are managing our portfolio, feeding the "fat hogs" and starving the "lean hogs" to maximize our value at exit. Many of the leaner hogs have experienced write-downs in valuation, and we have de-emphasized them in terms of the time allocation of our team. These steps allow us to focus our time and capital on the companies we believe will be the drivers of our growth. This increases the risk and potential loss of invested capital in these portfolio companies, but it also may increase the potential returns if they are successful. We currently believe companies like D-Wave Systems, Inc., Metabolon, Inc., Adesto Technologies Corporation, HzO, Inc., Produced Water Absorbents, Inc., Ultora, Inc., AgBiome, LLC, Senova Systems, Inc., and Echopixel, Inc., have the potential to be real drivers of growth in our portfolio in the coming years.

 

Level of Involvement in Our Portfolio Companies

 

The 1940 Act requires that BDCs offer to "make available significant managerial assistance" to portfolio companies. We are actively involved with our portfolio companies through membership on boards of directors, as observers to the boards of directors and/or through frequent communication with management. As of December 31, 2013, we held at least one board seat or observer rights on 21 of our 26 equity-focused portfolio companies that have yet to complete a liquidity event or an uplisting to a national exchange (80.8 percent).

 

We may hold two or more board seats in early-stage portfolio companies or those in which we have significant ownership. We may transition off of the board of directors to an observer role as our portfolio companies raise additional capital from new investors, as they mature or as they are able to attract independent members who have relevant industry experience and contacts. We also typically step off the board of directors upon the completion of an IPO. Our observer rights at board of directors meetings commonly cease when companies complete an IPO. We have not held a board seat or observer rights at Solazyme, Inc., since it completed its IPO in May of 2011, or an observer seat at Champions Oncology since August of 2013.

 

We may be involved actively in the formation and development of business strategies of our earliest stage portfolio companies. This involvement may include hiring management, licensing intellectual property, securing space and raising additional capital. We also provide managerial assistance to late-stage companies looking for potential exit opportunities by leveraging our relationships with the banking and investment community and our knowledge and experience in running a micro-capitalization publicly traded business.

 

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Investment Objective and Strategy

 

Our principal investment objective is to achieve long-term capital appreciation by making equity-focused venture capital investments in companies that we believe have exceptional growth potential. Therefore, a significant portion of our current venture capital investment portfolio provides little or no income in the form of dividends or interest. Current income is a secondary investment objective. We seek to reach the point where future growth is financed through reinvestment of our capital gains from our venture capital investments and where current income offsets significant portions of our annual expenses during periods of time between realizations of capital gains on our investments. We also plan to implement a strategy to grow assets under management and generate current income by raising one or more third-party funds to manage. It is possible that we will invest our capital alongside or through these funds in portfolio companies. These funds may be focused on specific sectors, such as life sciences, energy and electronics, that are enabled by scientific breakthroughs, including BIOLOGY+. There is no assurance when and if we will be able to raise such fund(s) or, if raised, whether they will be successful.

 

We have discretion in the investment of our capital to achieve our objectives. Our venture capital investments are made primarily in equity-related securities of companies that can range in stage from pre-revenue to generating positive cash flow. These businesses tend to be thinly capitalized, unproven, small companies that lack management depth, have little or no history of operations and are developing unproven technologies. These businesses may be privately held or publicly traded. We historically have invested in equity securities of these companies that are generally illiquid owing to restrictions on resale and to the lack of an established trading market. We refer to our portfolio of investments in equity and equity-related securities in sections of the Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations ("MD&A") as our "equity-focused" portfolio of investments. We have historically, from time to time, taken advantage of opportunities to generate near-term cash flow by investing in non-convertible debt securities of small businesses. These businesses tend to be generating cash or have near-term visibility to reaching positive cash flow. We refer to our portfolio of investments in non-convertible debt in sections of the MD&A as our "venture debt" portfolio of investments.

 

We are both early-stage and long-term investors. We seek to identify investment opportunities in industries and markets that will be growth opportunities three to seven years from the date of our initial investment. We expect to invest capital in these companies at multiple points in time subsequent to our initial investment. We refer to such investments as "follow-on" investments. Our efforts to identify and predict future growth industries and markets rely on patient and extensive due diligence in innovations developed at universities and corporate and government research laboratories, and the examination of macroeconomic and microeconomic trends and industry dynamics. We believe it is the early identification of and investments in these growth opportunities that will lead to investment returns for our shareholders, growth of our net assets, and capital for us to invest in tomorrow’s growth opportunities.

 

Despite rapidly expanding research and development budgets, publications and patents covering life sciences, the number of early-stage venture capitalists investing in science-enabled companies has decreased substantially. This has resulted in decreased competition for attractive investment opportunities and increased attractive pricing available to investors in those opportunities.

 

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* Includes data through September 1, 2011.

Source: Lux Research, Inc.

 

According to data from Lux Research, between 2006 and 2011, seed/Series A venture capital investments, as a percentage of all financings in the type of investments made by us, fell from a high of 33 percent to approximately 11 percent. Owing to financial conditions, many venture capital firms have substantially reduced or ceased completely participation in the financing of early-stage, companies, particularly in the industry sectors in which we invest. Many of these firms are now focused on financing later stage, and/or, in the case of life sciences-related companies, therapeutics-focused, clinical-stage companies.

 

Despite this shift to later-stage investing, over the previous decade, research by Palo Alto Venture Science, a venture capital firm that employs analytical models for investing in early-stage companies, showed that the risk of later-stage investing is not significantly less than early-stage investing. Over the previous decade, there was a 49 percent failure rate in early rounds yielding a 2.8 times money multiple versus a 45 percent failure rate in later rounds yielding a 1.3 times multiple. We believe the money multiple will increase as more funds have exited early-stage investing.

 

The shift of many venture capital firms away from early-stage investing has created opportunity for us. We believe our ability to bring early-stage financing and strong corporate partnering early in the development process could be perceived as valuable by potential portfolio companies and may be of particular benefit in investment opportunities that become competitive. We also believe that corporate involvement is evolving to become more critical for the success of early-stage companies in the years ahead.

 

We have always been involved with founding, incubating and building transformative companies from disruptive science. In fact, we have been the first institutional investor or syndicate of first institutional investors in two-thirds of the companies we have invested in since our founding. Our involvement may include hiring management, licensing intellectual property, securing space and raising additional capital. We also provide managerial assistance to late-stage companies looking for potential exit opportunities by leveraging our relationships with the banking and investment community and our knowledge and experience in running a micro-capitalization publicly traded business.

 

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Beginning in 2008, the majority of our investments have been in companies that we define as BIOLOGY+.

 

 

 

The table below discusses how certain of our portfolio companies have teamed innovations in biology with innovations in engineering, physics, electronics, IT, mathematics and material sciences. In the case of Enumeral Biomedical Corp., this combination enables the ability to interrogate cells at the single cell scale in unique ways for the first time. In the case of Molecular Imprints, Inc., the combination enables personal genomics by using a new form of semiconductor lithography to perform genomic sequencing using silicon wafers. This increases the speed and reduces the cost of large-scale sequencing. In the case of D-Wave Systems, Inc., its quantum computer can be used to solve very complex protein folding problems to enable new therapeutic approaches.

 

 

 

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Currently, we plan to focus all our efforts on building new companies enabled by our BIOLOGY+ thesis. We believe areas such as 1) personalized genomics, 2) novel therapeutics for cancer, and 3) 3D non-invasive imaging and diagnostics, as well as applications in agriculture, industrial biotechnology, water, functional foods and personal health will all be influenced by innovations in BIOLOGY+.

 

 

There are very few people and very few venture capital firms still in existence that have the expertise to find, incubate and build these types of companies. The disruptive science comes from leading laboratories at premier research institutions. It takes time, experience and often partnerships with leading, global scientific companies to bring the technology to market. Our team, with scientific backgrounds in chemistry, biochemical engineering, physics, genetics and material science, is uniquely qualified to identify, diligence and invest in these opportunities.

 

Growth in Ownership of Portfolio Companies

 

The chart below depicts the change in our ownership of our portfolio companies from 2001 through 2013 as our assets have increased. Our fully diluted, investment-weighted average ownership has increased from approximately five percent for initial investments made between 2001 and 2004 to approximately 14 percent for initial investments made between 2009 and 2013. This increasing ownership, which we have noted in previous shareholder communications, gives us more control over these companies to potentially affect outcomes beneficial to the Company. Over the coming five years, as companies where our initial investment was made between 2005 and the present continue to mature and exit, we believe our increased levels of ownership have the potential to provide greater returns than our historical investments.

 

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Our goal with our new investments is to have even greater ownership at the time of the realization of our return than we have had historically for all of the reasons discussed above.

 

Investments and Current Investment Pace

 

The following is a summary of our initial and follow-on equity-focused investments from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2013. We consider a "round led" to be a round where we were the new investor or the leader of a group of investors in an investee company. Typically, but not always, the lead investor negotiates the price and terms of the deal with the investee company.

 

 

Investments in Our Equity-Focused Portfolio of Investments
in Privately Held and Publicly Traded Companies
 
   2009   2010   2011   2012   2013 
Total Incremental Investments  $12,334,051   $9,560,721   $17,688,903   $15,141,941   $18,076,288 
No. of New Investments   2    3    4    2    2 
No. of Follow-On Investment Rounds   29    27    31    26    37 
No. of Rounds Led   5    5    4    3    9 
Average Dollar Amount – Initial  $174,812   $117,069   $1,339,744   $1,407,500   $550,001 
Average Dollar Amount – Follow-On  $413,256   $341,093   $397,740   $474,113   $449,359 

 

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In 2013, we made two new investments. In both cases, we took ownership positions that are more meaningful than we had done historically. This is consistent with our plans for future investments as discussed above.

 

In June of 2013, we invested $750,000 in EchoPixel, Inc., and currently own between 15-20 percent of the voting securities of the company. We also have a seat on the board of directors of the company. EchoPixel is a data visualization company striving to provide better analytic tools for data analysis in life science and healthcare applications by "amplifying human expertise with machine learning." The seed-stage, California-based company has been developing a set of algorithms and software tools to visualize and analyze data generated by magnetic resonance imaging, computational tomography scanners, x-ray microscopes, and other analytical tools. The company currently has working prototypes of visualization stations. It is in the process of developing data analysis protocols with several leading hospitals including Stanford, Cleveland Clinic, UCSF, and Charles River Labs. The approach is broadly applicable to hospital diagnostic-surgery production workflow as well as training and education.

 

In December of 2013, we made a $350,001 investment in ProMuc, Inc. We are the founding investor in ProMuc. The Company owns 100 percent of ProMuc as of December 31, 2013, and has two seats on the board of directors of the company. ProMuc brings together the expertise of Prof. Katharina Ribbeck at MIT, a leading researcher on mucin biology, and the carbohydrate chemistry technology of Corden Pharma to focus on the development of synthetic mucins for lubrication and antimicrobial applications. A better understanding of mucins has the potential to allow us to design better biomimetic materials for a wide variety of commercial applications, including lubricants, food additives, anti-microbial coatings and anti-cancer vaccines.

 

Industry Sectors of Investment

 

We generally classify our investments in one of three industry sectors: Life Sciences, Energy and Electronics. The interdisciplinary nature of science-based inventions enables our portfolio companies to address needs in multiple sectors rather than being confined to addressing needs in one sector. As such, many of our companies can adjust their business foci to address needs in a secondary sector should opportunities in the company’s primary sector decrease in number or magnitude.

 

We classify companies in our life sciences portfolio as those that address problems in life sciences-related industries, including biotechnology, agriculture, advanced materials and chemicals, diagnostics, healthcare, bioprocessing, water, industrial biotechnology, food, nutrition and energy. We classify companies that address life science-related problems as a primary or secondary sector as BIOLOGY+. With our focus on investing in BIOLOGY+ companies, we expect that the number of companies addressing life science-related industries as a primary focus will grow, while those that address electronics and energy-related sectors as a primary focus will decline. That said, we expect these companies may address electronics and energy-related sectors as a secondary sector given the interdisciplinary nature of BIOLOGY+ companies.

 

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We classify companies in our energy portfolio as those that seek to improve performance, productivity or efficiency, and to reduce environmental impact, waste, cost, energy consumption or raw materials. Energy is a term used commonly to describe products and processes that solve global problems related to resource constraints. The term, "cleantech," is also used commonly in a similar manner.

 

We classify companies in our electronics portfolio as those that address problems in electronics-related industries, including semiconductors, telecommunications and data communications, metrology and test and measurement.

 

Importance of Availability of Liquid Capital

 

Private venture capital funds are structured commonly as limited partnerships with a committed level of capital and finite lifetime. Capital is "called" from limited partners to make investments and pay for expenses of running the firm at various points within the lifetime of the fund. For each initial investment, the fund must reserve additional capital for follow-on investments at later stages of the life of the portfolio companies. These follow-on investments are required because often portfolio companies in areas in which we invest, whether privately held or publicly traded, operate with negative cash flow for lengthy periods of time. In general, the cumulative total of initial invested capital and reserves cannot exceed the committed level of capital of the fund.

 

Our strategy for investing capital is similar to this approach in some respects. We make initial investments in privately held and publicly traded companies and project the amount of capital that may be required should the company mature successfully. These projections, equivalent to the reserves of private venture capital funds, are reviewed weekly by management, are updated frequently and are a component of the data that guide our decisions on whether to make new and follow-on investments. As a publicly traded, internally managed venture capital company, our cash used to make investments and pay expenses is held by us and not called from external sources when needed. Accordingly, it is crucial that we operate the company with a substantial balance of liquid capital for this reason and for four additional reasons.

 

1)We manage the company and our investment criteria and pace such that our projected needs for capital to make new and follow-on investments do not exceed the total of our liquid investments. Although we use best efforts to predict when this capital will be required for use in new and follow-on investments, we cannot predict with certainty the timing for these investments. We would be unable to make new or follow-on investments in our portfolio companies without having substantial liquid resources of capital available to us.

 

2)Venture capital firms traditionally invest beside other venture capital firms in a process called syndication. The size of the fund and the amount of capital reserves available to syndicate partners is often an attribute that potential co-investors consider when deciding on syndicate partners. As we do not have committed capital from limited partners, we believe we must have adequate available liquid capital on our balance sheet to be able to have access to high-quality deal flow.

 

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3)We rarely commit the total amount of cumulative capital intended for investment in any portfolio company at one point in time. Instead, our investments consist of multiple rounds of financing of a given portfolio company, in which we typically participate if we believe that the merits of such an investment outweigh the risks. We also commonly have preemptive rights to invest additional capital in our privately held portfolio companies. These rights are useful to protect and potentially increase the value of our positions in our portfolio companies as they mature. Commonly, the terms of such financings in privately held companies also include penalties for those investors that do not invest in these subsequent rounds of financing. Without available capital at the time of investment, our ownership in the company would be subject to these penalties that can lead to a partial or complete loss of the capital invested prior to that round of financing.

 

4)We may have the opportunity to increase ownership in late rounds of financing in some of our most mature companies. Many private venture capital funds that invested in these companies are reaching the end of the term associated with their limited partnerships. This issue may limit the available capital to these funds for follow-on investments, and the ability to take advantage of potentially valuable terms given to those who have investable capital. Having permanent, liquid capital available for investment and access to the capital markets allows us to take advantage of these opportunities as they arise.

 

We have historically stated, "While we currently do not believe we will need to access the public markets for additional equity capital, we may explore non-dilutive ways to have access to additional capital if and when opportunities present themselves." Towards that end, on September 30, 2013, we secured the $20,000,000 Loan Facility from Orix Corporate Capital, Inc. This Loan Facility replaces the $10,000,000 facility we secured from TD Bank in February of 2011. Orix Corporate Capital is a diversified financial conglomerate with substantial assets that has extensive experience working with venture capital firms and venture capital-backed companies through its Orix Ventures unit. We believe this knowledge, combined with the quality of our portfolio companies and our investments in those companies, enabled us to obtain a credit facility secured, in part, by our portfolio of primarily privately held portfolio companies versus solely the cash security of our prior credit facility.

 

We believe the Loan Facility is beneficial for three primary reasons. First, we currently believe our existing portfolio of mid- and late-stage companies will generate meaningful returns in the next two-to-three years. That said, the exact timing of these realizations is uncertain. We currently believe our strong balance sheet of liquid assets (that is, cash, U.S. Treasury securities and publicly traded securities) combined with this facility will allow us time and capital resources to realize these meaningful returns without materially compromising the rate of deployment of capital into investment opportunities that have the potential to build value for us.

 

Second, as we have said historically, there are a substantial number of investment opportunities in existing and new portfolio companies that we believe have the potential to build value through increasing our future returns on investment. The Loan Facility expands our financial resources for making such investments without resulting in dilution to our shareholders through the issuance of additional shares of our common stock.

 

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Third, the Loan Facility establishes a relationship between us and Orix Corporate Capital that could be beneficial to our portfolio companies, and thus us, in the future. Many of our portfolio companies secure lines of credit and other forms of access to capital. Orix Corporate Capital has the resources and capability to address many of these needs. We believe the combination of the financial and other resources of each of our firms will be a powerful collaboration that helps to build value in our portfolio companies, and thus value for us.

 

Our Sources of Liquid Capital

 

The sources of liquidity that we use to make our investments are classified as primary and secondary liquidity. As of December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our total primary and secondary liquidity was $33,643,980 and $38,231,691, respectively. We do not include funds available from our credit facility as primary or secondary liquidity. We believe it is important to examine both our primary and secondary liquidity when assessing the strength of our balance sheet and our future investment capabilities.

 

Primary liquidity is comprised of cash, U.S. government securities and certain receivables. As of December 31, 2013, we held $8,538,548 in cash, $18,999,810 in U.S. government securities and $534,826 in certain receivables. As of December 31, 2012, we held $13,998,880 in U.S. government securities, and we had an additional $8,379,111 in cash.

 

On January 24, 2013, the Company received payment of its portion of the proceeds held in escrow from DuPont’s acquisition of Innovalight, Inc., totaling $949,469. On April 4, 2013, the Company received payment of its portion of the proceeds held in escrow from Asahi Kasei's acquisition of Crystal IS, Inc., totaling $273,361. On July 19, 2013, the Company received its initial payment from Carl Zeiss' acquisition of Xradia, Inc., totaling $12,838,244. These payments immediately added to our primary liquidity. Additional proceeds of $2,374,827 from Carl Zeiss' acquisition of Xradia were held in escrow as of December 31, 2013. Funds totaling $1,235,312 from the Xradia transaction were released in January of 2014, which will add to our primary liquidity in the first quarter. The remaining funds held in escrow from the Xradia transaction will be released in July of 2014, net of any settlement of indemnity claims and expenses related to the transaction. If and when these amounts held in escrow are released, those funds would add to our primarily liquidity. Payments upon achieving milestones of the BioVex Group, Inc., sale would also add to our primary liquidity in future quarters if these milestones are achieved successfully. The probability-adjusted value of the future milestone payments for the sale of BioVex, as determined at the end of each fiscal quarter, is included as an asset on our Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities and will be included in primary liquidity only if and when payment is received for achievement of the milestones. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we sold 1,629,956 shares of our investment in Solazyme, Inc., under written call option contracts and open market sales. We received $15,812,926 in net proceeds from these transactions. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we sold 193,539 shares of our investment in Champions Oncology, Inc., in open market sales. We received $237,684 in net proceeds from these transactions. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we sold the remaining 50,807 shares of our investment in NeoPhotonics Corporation under written call option contracts and open market sales. We received $252,042 in net proceeds from these transactions. The proceeds received from these transactions added to our primary liquidity. We also have the Loan Facility with Orix Corporate Capital, which we can draw on to increase liquidity. As of December 31, 2013, we had no outstanding debt relating to this Loan Facility.

 

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Our secondary liquidity is comprised of the stock of publicly traded companies. Although these companies are publicly traded, their stock may not trade at high volumes and prices may be volatile, which may restrict our ability to sell our positions at any given time. As of December 31, 2013, our secondary liquidity was $5,570,796. Solazyme, Inc., accounts for $1,827,712 of this amount based on its closing price as of December 31, 2013. If our option contracts are called at their strike prices, we would receive proceeds of $1,875,000. The common stock of Champions Oncology, Inc., accounts for $3,719,582 of the total amount of secondary liquidity based on its closing price as of December 31, 2013. As of December 31, 2012, our secondary liquidity was $15,770,488. NeoPhotonics and Solazyme accounted for $14,422,261 of this amount based on the closing price of each company as of December 31, 2012. Champions Oncology accounted for $1,348,227 of the total amount of secondary liquidity. All of our public securities were freely tradable as of December 31, 2013. A decision to sell our shares would result in the cash received from the sale of these assets being included in primary liquidity. Until that time, we will continue to include the value of our shares of our publicly traded portfolio companies in secondary liquidity unless the average trading volume of each company reaches sufficient levels for us to monetize our stock in such companies over a short period of time.

 

Partner

 

As the structure of the public markets has changed over the last decade, the time and dollars required to build transformative companies has increased. Scale and manufacturing expertise is now critical to get to a successful outcome. We believe this expertise is best accomplished by partnering with corporations at earlier stages in the development of the enterprise. Proper partnering can lead to more capital efficient businesses that provide better returns for investors.

 

 

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We bring technology platforms and expertise in company building. Our corporate partners bring expertise in scale and manufacturing and access to end markets. We are currently executing on our partnering strategy in two ways. First, we are partnering with corporations as syndicate partners investing in and working with to build early-stage companies. A syndicate of financial investors besides key strategic corporations from the very first round of capital is becoming more common in our investments. Over three-fourths of our portfolio companies have significant corporate partnerships or investments, and most developed these relationships in the early-stages of development of those companies.

 

 

Second, we are focused on strategically partnering with corporations to manage their capital besides ours. Such a relationship could provide us with intelligence and complementary knowledge that could add to our competitive advantage identifying and building companies enabled by disruptive science, particularly BIOLOGY+. In addition, we will benefit by managing third-party capital, which yields more capital for us to invest in building these companies and reducing reliance on identification of sources of capital from other investors. There is no assurance we will be successful in securing these partnerships.

 

Return

 

Our plan for returning value to shareholders has three steps. Step one of our return plan was implemented over the past five years. It includes investing in early-stage companies where we believe we can own greater than 10 percent of the company at exit with invested capital of between $5 million and $10 million in each company.

 

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Step two is our focus on BIOLOGY+. Our best investment returns over the past 10 years have come from companies that have businesses intersecting with the life sciences. We are now focusing our efforts on BIOLOGY+, as we believe the future returns for companies commercializing technologies that sell into the life science markets will be greater than those focused on other markets we have invested in historically. Since 2008, approximately 77 percent of our new initial investments have been in companies that fit our BIOLOGY+ investment thesis. This percentage will increase over the coming years. That said, we note that past performance may not be indicative of future performance.

 

Step three is our partnering efforts. We continue to pursue strategies to increase the return profile of early-stage investing, and to reduce the cost profile so that it shifts to a profile more representative of the venture capital industry of 15 to 20 years ago. We believe this will require an environment for doing early-stage investing that includes working with corporate partners earlier in the development of these companies to 1) ascertain if there is demand for the company’s technology/products and 2) to help these start-ups prepare for scale and manufacturing in a way that permits seamless adoption by industry and the consumer. This is the basis of our partnership strategy.

 

We believe that execution of these three steps will generate meaningful returns for shareholders over the coming years. We are focused on increasing value for shareholders through growing net asset value per share, and we believe we may have an opportunity to reduce the number of shares outstanding and provide deemed dividends as well as cash dividends as we execute on this strategy.

 

Current Business Environment

 

The fourth quarter of 2013 ended with increases in value in the public market indices. These increases coincided with a slight decrease in the number of IPOs and a decrease in M&A transactions. That said, fundraising by venture capital firms continued to be challenging and concentrated to a small number of funds. These dynamics continue to lead to a difficult fundraising environment for venture-backed companies, particularly those in the middle stages of development and those focused on sectors in which we invest.

 

Twenty-four venture-backed companies raised $5.3 billion through IPOs in the fourth quarter of 2013, which marks the first time since 2004 with three consecutive quarters of 20+ venture-backed IPOs, according to Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association ("NVCA"). Eighteen of the 24 were U.S.-based companies. It is also an increase in venture-backed IPOs as compared with the third quarter of 2012 (10 IPOs). For the full year, there were 82 venture-backed IPOs, which was the highest total since 2007. For the fourth quarter of 2013, 81 venture-backed M&A deals were reported, which is a decrease from the third quarter of 2013 (107 reported), and a decrease from the third quarter of 2012 (125 reported). For the full year, there were 377 acquisitions of venture-backed companies, which is the slowest since 2009.

 

Forty-eight U.S. venture capital funds raised $4.9 billion in the fourth quarter of 2013, according to Thomson Reuters and the NVCA. Compared with the third quarter of 2013, this is a 12 percent increase in the amount of capital raised (up from $4.3 billion), but a decrease in the number of funds (down from 61). Venture firms raised $16.7 billion from 185 funds in 2013. The amount raised through 2013 represents a 15 percent decline from the amount raised in 2012 ($19.6 billion) and a decrease in the number of funds (208 in 2012). Of the 48 funds that were raised, 14 were new funds. For the year, 53 new venture capital funds raised $1.5 billion, which is 25 percent fewer funds and 11 percent fewer dollars raised than 2012.

 

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Historically, difficult venture environments have resulted in a higher than normal number of companies not receiving financing and being subsequently closed down with a loss to venture investors, and other companies receiving financing but at significantly lower valuations than the preceding financing rounds. This issue is compounded by the fact that many existing venture capital firms have few remaining years of investment and available capital owing to the finite lifetime of the funds managed by these firms. Additionally, even if a firm were able to raise a new fund, commonly venture capital firms are not permitted to invest new funds in existing investments. This limitation of available capital can lead to fractured syndicates of investors. A fractured syndicate can result in a portfolio company being unable to raise additional capital to fund operations; this issue is especially acute in capital-intensive sectors that are enabled by science-related innovations, such as life sciences, energy and electronics, which are generally not in favor among venture capital firms. The result of these difficulties is that the portfolio company may be forced to sell before reaching its full potential or be shut down entirely if the remaining investors cannot financially support the company. As such, improvements in the exit environment for venture-backed companies through IPOs and M&A transactions may not translate to an increase in the available capital to venture-backed companies, particularly those that have investments from funds that are in the latter stage of life unless the markets improve for some time into the future.

 

Our overall goal remains unchanged. We want to maintain our leadership position in investing in science-enabled and BIOLOGY+ companies and increase our net asset value per share outstanding. The current environment for venture capital financings continues to favor those firms that have capital to invest regardless of the stage of the investee company. We continue to finance our new and follow-on equity and convertible debt investments from our cash reserves held in bank accounts. We may in the future invest borrowed capital to take advantage of opportunities that we believe will return greater than the cost of such borrowed capital. We have historically held, and may in the future again hold, our cash in U.S. Treasury securities. We believe the current status of the venture capital industry and the current economic climate provide opportunities to invest this capital at historically low valuations and under favorable terms in equity and convertible debt of new and existing privately held and publicly traded companies.

 

Valuation of Investments

 

We value our privately held venture capital investments each quarter as determined in good faith by our Valuation Committee, a committee of all the independent directors, within guidelines established by our Board of Directors in accordance with the 1940 Act. See "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments" contained in "Consolidated Financial Statements" for additional information.

 

The values of privately held, venture capital-backed companies are inherently more difficult to determine than those of publicly traded companies at any single point in time because securities of these types of companies are not actively traded. We believe, perhaps even more than in the past, that illiquidity, and the perception of illiquidity, can affect value. Management believes further that the long-term effects of the difficult venture capital market and difficult exit environments will continue to affect negatively the fundraising ability of weak companies regardless of near-term improvements in the overall global economy and public markets and that these factors can also affect value.

 

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We note that while the valuations of our privately held, venture capital-backed companies may decrease, sometimes substantially, such decrease may facilitate an increase in our ownership of the overall company in conjunction with a follow-on investment in such company. In these cases, the ultimate return on our overall invested capital could be greater than it would have been without such interim decrease in valuation.

 

In each of the years in the period of 2009 through 2013, excluding our rights to milestone payments, we recorded the following gross write-ups in privately held securities as a percentage of net assets at the beginning of the year ("BOY"), gross write-downs in privately held securities as a percentage of net assets at the beginning of the year, and change in value of private portfolio securities as a percentage of net assets at the beginning of the year.

 

 

Gross Write-Ups and Write-Downs of the Privately Held Portfolio
 
   2009   2010   2011   2012   2013 
Net Asset Value, BOY  $109,531,113   $134,158,258   $146,853,912   $145,698,407   $128,436,774 
                          
Gross Write-Downs During Year  $(12,845,574)  $(11,391,367)  $(11,375,661)  $(19,604,046)  $(19,089,816)
                          
Gross Write-Ups During Year  $21,631,864   $30,051,847   $11,997,991   $14,099,904   $10,218,994 
                          
Gross Write-Downs as a Percentage of
Net Asset Value, BOY
   (11.7)%   (8.5)%   (7.8)%   (13.5)%   (14.9)%
                          
Gross Write-Ups as a Percentage of Net  
Asset Value, BOY
   19.7%   22.4%   8.2%   9.7%   8.0%
                          
Net Change as a Percentage of Net Asset
Value, BOY
   8.0%   13.9%   0.4%   (3.8)%   (6.9)%

 

From December 31, 2012, to December 31, 2013, the value of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio, including our rights to potential future milestone payments from the sales of BioVex Group, Inc., and Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., decreased by $13,691,268, from $106,004,713 to $92,313,445. The sale of Xradia, Inc., to Carl Zeiss AG in the third quarter of 2013 accounted for a substantial portion of this decrease, as Xradia was no longer a portfolio company as of December 31, 2013.

 

Not including our rights to potential future milestone payments from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., the sale of Xradia, Inc., to Carl Zeiss AG and the sale of our shares of NeoPhotonics Corporation, our equity-focused portfolio companies decreased in value by $1,184,651. This decrease was primarily owing to 1) net decreases in the valuations of Solazyme, Inc., and Champions Oncology, Inc., and sales of a portion of our shares of these companies of $9,908,060, offset by net cash proceeds to us of $16,050,610 that are not included in the valuation of Solazyme and Champions Oncology as of December 31, 2013, and 2) a net decrease in value owing to a net increase in discounts for non-performance risk of $13,306,583. These changes were offset by 1) follow-on investments of $17,726,288 and 2) a net increase in value owing to the terms and pricing of new rounds of financing of $4,522,947. The remaining component of the change in the value of our equity-focused portfolio companies of $219,243 was primarily owing to net decreases in the value of warrants, currency fluctuations and net interest on convertible bridge notes.

 

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We note that our Valuation Committee and ultimately our Board of Directors take into account multiple sources of quantitative and qualitative inputs to determine the value of our privately held portfolio companies and our publicly traded portfolio companies whose values are not derived solely from the closing price on the last day of the quarter.

 

We also note that our Valuation Committee does not set the value of Solazyme, Inc., our freely tradable publicly traded portfolio company, or the value of our shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., which trades on an OTC exchange.

 

We define non-performance as the risk that the price per share (or implied valuation of a portfolio company) or the effective yield of a debt security of a portfolio company, as applicable, does not appropriately represent the risk that a portfolio company that requires or seeks to raise additional capital will be  (a) unable to raise capital, will need to be shut down and will not return our invested capital; or (b) able to raise capital, but at a valuation significantly lower than the implied post-money valuation.  Our best estimates of non-performance risk of our portfolio companies during 2013 are included in the valuation of the companies as of December 31, 2013. In the future, as these companies receive terms for additional financings or if they are unable to receive additional financing and, therefore, proceed with sales or shutdowns of the business, we expect the contribution of the discount for non-performance risk to vary in importance in determining the fair values of our securities of these companies. Changes in discounts for non-performance risk could positively or negatively affect the value of our portfolio companies in future quarters. As of December 31, 2013, non-performance risk was a significant factor in determining the values of six of our 26 equity-focused portfolio companies and warrants of Champions Oncology, Inc., that are fair valued by our Board of Directors. These six companies accounted for approximately $17.8 million, or 20 percent, of the total value of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio, not including our rights to milestone payments from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., to Amgen, Inc. As of December 31, 2012, non-performance risk was a significant factor in determining the values of nine of our 27 equity-focused portfolio companies that are fair valued by our Board of Directors. These nine companies accounted for approximately $34.6 million, or 33.7 percent, of the total value of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio, not including our rights to milestone payments from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., to Amgen, Inc., or our rights to milestone payments from the sale of Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., to Laird Technologies, Inc.

 

We also note that our valuation of our securities of Molecular Imprints, Inc., includes $4,043,381 that is ascribed to a non-convertible bridge note. The principal plus interest of this note of $1,386,669 was repaid in full in the third quarter of 2011. The remaining value results from a liquidation preference that survived the repayment of the note and, as currently written and contemplated by the terms of the acquisition of Molecular Imprints by Canon, will pay the Company $4,044,450. Our value of this portion of our securities of Molecular Imprints as of December 31, 2013, reflects the terms of the acquisition agreement that was signed in the first quarter of 2014 and is expected to close in the first half of 2014.

 

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As of December 31, 2013, our top ten investments by value accounted for approximately 75 percent of the value of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio.

 

 

Results of Operations

 

We present the financial results of our operations utilizing accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") for investment companies. On this basis, the principal measure of our financial performance during any period is the net increase (decrease) in our net assets resulting from our operating activities, which is the sum of the following three elements:

 

Net Operating Income (Loss) - the difference between our income from interest, dividends, and fees and our operating expenses.

 

Net Realized Gain (Loss) on Investments - the difference between the net proceeds of sales of portfolio securities and their stated cost, plus income from interests in limited liability companies.

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation on Investments - the net unrealized change in the value of our investment portfolio.

 

Owing to the structure and objectives of our business, we generally expect to experience net operating losses and seek to generate increases in our net assets from operations through the long-term appreciation and monetization of our venture capital investments. We have relied, and continue to rely, primarily on proceeds from sales of investments, rather than on investment income, to defray a significant portion of our operating expenses. Because such sales are unpredictable, we attempt to maintain adequate working capital to provide for fiscal periods when there are no such sales.

 

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The potential for, or occurrence of, inflation could result in rising interest rates for government-backed debt.  We may also invest in both short- and long-term U.S. government and agency securities. To the extent that we invest in short- and long-term U.S. government and agency securities, changes in interest rates result in changes in the value of these obligations that result in an increase or decrease of our net asset value. The level of interest rate risk exposure at any given point in time depends on the market environment, the expectations of future price and market movements, and the quantity and duration of long-term U.S. government and agency securities held by the Company, and it will vary from period to period. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our average holdings of U.S. government securities were $18,353,323 and $3,884,228, respectively.

 

Comparison of Years Ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011

 

During the years ended December 31, 2013, December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, we had net decreases in net assets resulting from operations of $7,788,958, $19,986,900 and $3,541,363, respectively.

 

Investment Income and Expenses:

 

During the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011, we had net operating losses of $8,022,206, $8,803,343, and $8,338,365, respectively. The variation in these results is primarily owing to the changes in investment income and operating expenses, including non-cash expense included in salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation of $1,249,756 in 2013, $2,928,943 in 2012, and $1,894,800 in 2011. The decrease in non-cash, stock-based compensation expense in 2013 is primarily owing to a decrease in compensation expense associated with the stock option awards, offset by an increase in compensation expense for restricted stock. During the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011, total investment income was $470,902, $722,227, and $702,765, respectively. During the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011, total operating expenses were $8,493,108, $9,525,570, and $9,041,130, respectively.

 

During 2013, as compared with 2012, investment income decreased from $722,227 to $470,902, reflecting a net decrease in interest income from convertible bridge notes, non-convertible promissory notes, subordinated and senior secured debt. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we accrued net bridge note interest of $67,781, as compared with $235,806 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2012. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, our average holdings of U.S. government securities were $18,353,323 as compared with $3,884,228 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, primarily owing to reinvestment of the proceeds received from the sales of Xradia, Inc., and shares of Solazyme, Inc. The average yield on our U.S. government securities for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, and 2012, was 0.03 and 0.10 percent, respectively.

 

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Operating expenses, including non-cash, stock-based compensation expenses, were $8,493,108 and $9,525,570 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively. The decrease in operating expenses for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, was primarily owing to decreases in salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense, administration and operations expense, rent expense and directors' fees and expenses, offset by increases in professional fees, interest and other debt expense and custody fees. Salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense decreased by $1,230,042, or 18.7 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012, primarily as a result of a decrease in non-cash stock-based compensation expense of $1,679,187 associated with the Stock Plan and a decrease of $406,780 in the projected benefit obligation expense accrual for medical and pension retirement benefits, offset by increases in bonus accruals and salaries of employees owing to cost of living adjustments and costs associated with increases in salary for three of our employees who were promoted in 2013 from their positions in 2012. While the non-cash, stock-based compensation expense for the Stock Plan increased our operating expenses by $1,249,756, this increase was offset by a corresponding increase to our additional paid-in capital, resulting in no net impact to our net asset value. Administration and operations expense decreased by $47,159, or 4.4 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012, primarily as a result of decreases in costs associated with investor outreach expenses, general office and administration expenses, and timing differences related to certain accrued expenses, offset by increases in managing directors' travel-related expenses. We did not hold a Meet the Portfolio Day during the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with costs of approximately $37,668 associated with such an event in the comparable period in 2012. Rent expense decreased by $32,299, or 7.9 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012. Our rent expense of $376,360 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, includes $392,335 of rent paid in cash, net of $15,975 non-cash rent expense, credits and abatements that we recognize on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Our rent paid in cash of $392,335 includes $13,924 of real estate tax escalation charges on our corporate headquarters located at 1450 Broadway in New York City. Directors' fees and expenses decreased by $50,907, or 17.2 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012, primarily owing to a smaller Board of Directors in 2013.

 

Professional fees increased by $254,024, or 25.4 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012, primarily as a result of an increase in certain legal fees related to establishing our Loan Facility, offset by a decrease in consulting and accounting fees. Interest and other debt expense increased by $68,295, or 141.9 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012, primarily as a result of non-utilization fees associated with our loan facility with Orix Corporate Capital, Inc. Custody fees increased by $9,109, or 18.5 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, as compared with December 31, 2012.

 

During 2012, as compared with 2011, investment income increased from $702,765 to $722,227, reflecting an increase in interest income from non-convertible promissory notes, subordinated and senior secured debt, and senior secured debt through a participation agreement, offset by a decrease in interest income from convertible bridge notes and a decrease in our average holdings of U.S. government securities. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, we accrued net bridge note interest of $235,806, as compared with $368,479 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2011. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, our average holdings of U.S. government securities were $3,884,228, as compared with $24,295,971 during the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, primarily owing to the decrease in yield available over the durations of maturities in which we were willing to invest and the availability of fully FDIC insured demand deposit bank accounts. The average yield on our U.S. government securities for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, and 2011, was 0.10 percent and 0.08 percent, respectively.

 

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Operating expenses, including non-cash, stock-based compensation expenses, were $9,525,570 and $9,041,130 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, respectively. The increase in operating expenses for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, as compared with the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, was primarily owing to increases in salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense, administration and operations expense and rent expense, offset by decreases in professional fees, directors' fees and expenses and custody fees. Salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation expense increased by $610,527, or 10.2 percent, through December 31, 2012, as compared with December 31, 2011, primarily as a result of an increase in non-cash expense of $1,034,143 associated with the Stock Plan. In May 2012, the executive officers of the Company voluntarily cancelled all of their outstanding stock options for no consideration. This resulted in a one-time charge of $1,365,242 to recognize all of the previously unrecognized compensation cost related to these options. While the non-cash, stock-based compensation expense for the Stock Plan increased our operating expenses by $2,928,943, this increase was offset by a corresponding increase to our additional paid-in capital, resulting in no net impact to our net asset value. We also had increases in salaries of employees owing to cost of living adjustments and costs associated with the hiring of one full-time employee and two part-time employees, offset by a decrease in year-end employee bonus expense of $425,000 and a decrease of $415,854 in the projected benefit obligation expense accrual for medical retirement benefits. Administration and operations expense increased by $33,914, or 3.2 percent, through December 31, 2012, as compared with December 31, 2011, primarily as a result of increases in expenses associated with investor outreach expenses and costs of approximately $37,898 related to Meet the Portfolio Day. We did not hold a Meet the Portfolio Day during the comparable period in 2011. Rent expense increased by $32,172, or 8.5 percent, for the period ended December 31, 2012, as compared with the twelve months ended December 31, 2011. Our rent expense of $408,659 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, includes $418,662 of rent paid in cash, net of $10,003 non-cash rent expense, credits and abatements that we recognize on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Our rent paid in cash of $418,662 includes $9,320 of real estate tax escalation charges on our corporate headquarters located at 1450 Broadway in New York City. Professional fees decreased by $154,362, or 13.4 percent, through December 31, 2012, as compared with December 31, 2011, primarily as a result of decreases in certain legal and consulting fees associated with investor outreach and marketing efforts, offset by an increase in accounting fees. Directors' fees and expenses decreased by $43,440, or 12.8 percent, through December 31, 2012, as compared with December 31, 2011, primarily owing to the retirement of two members of our Board of Directors in 2012. Custody fees decreased by $12,989, or 20.8 percent, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, as compared with December 31, 2011, owing to the lower fees charged by our new custodian, Union Bank.

 

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Realized Income and Losses from Investments:

 

During the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, we realized net gains on investments of $18,516,268, $2,406,433 and $2,449,705, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, we realized gains from investments, before taxes, of $18,544,262, $2,421,669 and $2,456,627, respectively. Income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011 was $27,994, $15,236, $6,922, respectively.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013, we realized net gains of $18,544,262, consisting primarily of a net realized gain on our investment in Xradia, Inc., of $10,624,634, a realized gain of $12,570,595 on the sale of 1,629,956 shares of Solazyme, Inc., of which 884,800 shares were called subject to the terms of written call option contracts, a realized gain of $148,729 on our escrow payment from the sale of Crystal IS, Inc., a realized gain of $105,313 on the early repayments of the senior secured and subordinated secured debt by GEO Semiconductor, Inc., and a realized gain of $92,529 on the sale of 193,539 shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., offset by a realized loss on the value of our investment in Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., of $4,384,762, a realized loss of $540,106 on the sale of 50,807 shares of NeoPhotonics Corporation, of which 50,800 shares were called subject to the terms of written call option contracts, a realized loss of $282 on the repurchase and expiration of certain Solazyme and NeoPhotonics written call option contracts, and a realized loss of $72,209 on the expiration of certain Solazyme purchased put option contracts. At December 31, 2013, we still owned 3,099,651 and 167,834 shares of Champions Oncology and Solazyme, respectively. At December 31, 2013, we did not hold any shares of NeoPhotonics.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2012, we realized net gains of $2,421,669, consisting primarily of a realized gain of $4,101,673 on the sale of 506,359 shares of Solazyme, Inc., including the sale of 324,000 shares that were called subject to the terms of call option contracts and a realized gain of $1,605,907 on the repurchase and expiration of certain Solazyme and NeoPhotonics Corporation written call option contracts, offset by a realized loss of $4,307,592 on the sale of 400,100 shares of NeoPhotonics that were called subject to the terms of call option contracts. At December 31, 2012, we still owned 1,797,790 shares of Solazyme and 50,807 shares of NeoPhotonics. We had a realized gain of $464,485 on our escrow payment from the sale of Innovalight, Inc., in 2011. We also had realized gains on our escrow payments from the sales of BioVex Group, Inc., and Crystal IS, Inc.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2011, we realized net gains of $2,456,627, consisting primarily of realized gains on our investments in BioVex Group, Inc., of $7,508,365, Crystal IS, Inc., of $120,668, and in Siluria Technologies, Inc., of $25,000, offset by realized losses on our investments in Innovalight, Inc., of $664,880, Molecular Imprints, Inc., of $93,405, Polatis, Inc., of $2,018,278, PolyRemedy, Inc., of $204,206, Questech Corporation of $1,966,591, and in TetraVitae Bioscience, Inc., of $250,000. The realized loss in Molecular Imprints, Inc., was owing to the cashless exercise of the warrant to purchase shares of preferred stock upon its expiration. The cashless exercise resulted in an increase in our ownership of preferred shares as of December 31, 2011.

 

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Net Unrealized Appreciation and Depreciation of Portfolio Securities:

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013, net unrealized depreciation on total investments increased by $18,283,020.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2012, net unrealized appreciation on total investments decreased by $13,589,990.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2011, net unrealized appreciation on total investments increased by $2,347,297.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013, net unrealized depreciation on our venture capital investments increased by $18,281,703, from net unrealized depreciation of $3,748,631 at December 31, 2012, to net unrealized depreciation of $22,030,334 at December 31, 2013, owing primarily to a decrease in unrealized appreciation of $8,303,684 on our investment in Xradia, Inc., resulting from realized gains on the sale of its securities and a decrease in unrealized appreciation of $8,451,603 on our investment in Solazyme, Inc., resulting from realized gains on the partial sale of its securities. We also had write-downs in the valuations of the following portfolio company investments:

 

Investment  Amount of Write-Down 
      
SiOnyx, Inc.   4,014,690 
Contour Energy Systems, Inc.   3,746,352 
OpGen, Inc.   3,260,000 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   2,259,495 
Kovio, Inc.   1,771,912 
Enumeral Biomedical Corp.   1,443,004 
Ultora, Inc.   885,042 
SynGlyco, Inc.   655,935 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   295,132 
Senova Systems, Inc.   292,887 
GEO Semiconductor, Inc.   65,507 
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc.   28,170 
D-Wave Systems, Inc.   177 

 

The write-downs for the year ended December 31, 2013, were offset by write-ups in the valuations of the following portfolio company investments:

 

Investment  Amount of Write-Up 
     
Metabolon, Inc.   3,376,119 
Champions Oncology, Inc.   2,340,011 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   1,429,780 
Molecular Imprints, Inc.   1,317,999 
HzO, Inc.   1,225,523 
Bridgelux, Inc.   865,062 
Cambrios Technologies Corporation   854,586 
AgBiome, LLC   500,000 
ABSMaterials, Inc.   384,017 
Nanosys, Inc.   178,329 
Adesto Technologies Corporation   34,542 
OhSo Clean, Inc.   33,302 
NanoTerra, Inc.   19,735 

 

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We had an increase in unrealized appreciation of $4,384,762 on our investment in Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., owing to a realized loss on the sale of its securities.

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation of $88,699 on the rights to milestone payments from Amgen, Inc.’s acquisition of BioVex Group, Inc.

 

We had a decrease in unrealized appreciation of $371,513 on our investment in D-Wave Systems, Inc., owing to foreign currency translation.

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation of $530,934 on our investment in NeoPhotonics Corporation owing to realized losses on the sale of its securities.

 

Unrealized appreciation on our U.S. government securities portfolio decreased from unrealized appreciation of $2,744 at December 31, 2012, to $45 at December 31, 2013.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2012, net unrealized appreciation on our venture capital investments decreased by $13,480,234, from net unrealized appreciation of $9,731,603 at December 31, 2011, to net unrealized depreciation of $3,748,631 at December 31, 2012, owing primarily to decreases in the valuations of the following portfolio company investments:

 

Investment  Amount of Write-Down 
     
Solazyme, Inc.   6,524,259 
Bridgelux, Inc.   6,121,656 
Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc.   4,330,723 
Kovio, Inc.   1,721,913 
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.   1,524,629 
ABSMaterials, Inc.   1,434,082 
Contour Energy Systems, Inc.   1,279,064 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   1,172,892 
HzO, Inc.   732,651 
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc.   721,830 
Champions Oncology, Inc.   625,107 
Senova Systems, Inc.   441,363 
Cambrios Technologies Corporation   54,040 
SiOnyx, Inc.   50,342 
NanoTerra, Inc.   18,861 

 

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The write-downs for the year ended December 31, 2012, were offset by write-ups in the valuations of the following portfolio company investments:

 

Investment  Amount of Write-Up 
     
Xradia, Inc.   5,324,907 
Nanosys, Inc.   2,453,186 
Adesto Technologies Corporation   2,393,372 
Nantero, Inc.   1,210,298 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   1,077,795 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   823,029 
NeoPhotonics Corporation   563,061 
D-Wave Systems, Inc.   450,972 
Enumeral Biomedical Corp.   215,342 
GEO Semiconductor, Inc.   16,335 
OHSO Clean, Inc.   10,742 
Metabolon, Inc.   22 

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation of $37,943 on the rights to milestone payments from Amgen, Inc.’s acquisition of BioVex Group, Inc.

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation owing to foreign currency translation of $123,904 on our investment in D-Wave Systems, Inc.

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation of $4,141,035 on our investment in NeoPhotonics Corporation owing to realized losses on the sale of its securities.

 

We had a decrease in unrealized appreciation of $5,568,765 on our investment in Solazyme, Inc., owing to realized gains on the sale of its securities.

 

Unrealized appreciation on our U.S. government securities portfolio increased from unrealized appreciation of $0 at December 31, 2011, to $2,744 at December 31, 2012.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2011, net unrealized appreciation on our venture capital investments increased by $2,228,565, from net unrealized appreciation of $7,503,038 at December 31, 2010, to net unrealized appreciation of $9,731,603 at December 31, 2011, owing primarily to increases in the valuations of the following portfolio company investments:

 

Investment  Amount of Write-Up 
     
Solazyme, Inc.  $4,193,551 
Molecular Imprints, Inc.   2,988,447 
Bridgelux, Inc.   2,201,705 
Metabolon, Inc.   1,979,920 
Adesto Technologies Corporation   1,571,117 
ABSMaterials, Inc.   1,125,000 
Cambrios Technologies Corporation   754,344 
Kovio, Inc.   620,397 
HzO, Inc.   563,577 
GEO Semiconductor, Inc.   86,583 
Enumeral Biomedical Corp.   83,333 
NanoTerra, Inc.   23,568 

 

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The write-ups for the year ended December 31, 2011, were offset by write-downs of the following portfolio company investments:

 

Investment  Amount of Write-Down 
     
NeoPhotonics Corporation  $2,734,461 
Xradia, Inc.   2,300,249 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   2,033,591 
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.   1,869,902 
Nanosys, Inc.   1,450,495 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   1,075,003 
Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc.   952,303 
Nantero, Inc.   561,602 
Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc.   550,657 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   246,482 
Contour Energy Systems, Inc.   206,118 
D-Wave Systems, Inc.   67,877 
Champions Oncology, Inc.   26,666 
SiOnyx, Inc.   8,189 

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation for Innovalight, Inc., of $1,489,110, Molecular Imprints, Inc., of $121,527, Polatis, Inc., of $2,018,288, PolyRemedy, Inc., of $312,313, Questech Corporation of $1,632,310, and TetraVitae Bioscience, Inc., of $250,000, owing to realized losses on the sale of these securities. The realized loss on our investment in Molecular Imprints, Inc., was owing to the exercise of certain warrants on December 31, 2011.

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation for Crystal IS, Inc., of $1,746,837 owing to a realized gain on the sale of its securities.

 

We had an increase in unrealized appreciation of $71,041 on the rights to milestone payments from Amgen from its acquisition of BioVex in the first quarter of 2011.

 

We had a decrease in unrealized appreciation for BioVex of $7,467,615, which resulted from a realized gain on the sale of its securities.

 

We had a decrease in unrealized appreciation owing to foreign currency translation of $53,193 on our investment in D-Wave Systems, Inc.

 

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Unrealized appreciation on our U.S. government securities portfolio decreased from unrealized appreciation of $1,268 at December 31, 2010, to $0 at December 31, 2011.

 

Financial Condition

 

December 31, 2013

 

At December 31, 2013, our total assets and net assets were $125,063,946 and $122,701,575, respectively. At December 31, 2012, they were $131,990,250 and $128,436,774, respectively.

 

At December 31, 2013, our net asset value per share was $3.93, as compared with $4.13 at December 31, 2012. At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our shares outstanding were 31,197,438 and 31,116,881, respectively.

 

Significant developments in the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, included a decrease in the holdings of our venture capital investments of $14,102,732 and an increase in our cash and treasury holdings of $5,160,367. The decrease in the value of our venture capital investments from $108,002,191 at December 31, 2012, to $93,899,459 at December 31, 2013, resulted primarily from a net decrease of $16,302,653 owing to the sale of certain of our shares of Solazyme, Inc., Champions Oncology, Inc., and NeoPhotonics Corporation, a net decrease of $12,303,684 owing to the sale of our investment in Xradia, Inc., and a net decrease in the net value of our venture capital investments of $3,572,683, offset by an increase owing to two new and 37 follow-on investments of $18,076,288. The increase in our cash and treasury holdings from $22,377,991 at December 31, 2012, to $27,538,358 at December 31, 2013, is primarily owing to net proceeds of $16,302,653 received from the sale of certain of our shares of Solazyme, NeoPhotonics and Champions Oncology, net premium proceeds of $629,921 received from certain Solazyme and NeoPhotonics option contracts, $1,222,830 received from the portion of our payments held in escrow from the sales of Innovalight, Inc., and Crystal IS, Inc., and $12,838,244 received from the sale of Xradia, Inc., offset by the payment of cash for operating expenses of $7,317,388 and to new and follow-on venture capital investments totaling $18,076,288.

 

The following table is a summary of additions to our portfolio of venture capital investments made during the twelve months ended December 31, 2013:

 

New Investments  Amount of Investment 
     
EchoPixel, Inc.  $750,000 
ProMuc, Inc.   350,001 

 

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Follow-On Investments  Amount of Investment 
     
Adesto Technologies Corporation  $2,499,999 
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc.   1,802,760 
Metabolon, Inc.   1,225,000 
HzO, Inc.   1,212,500 
HzO, Inc.   1,000,000 
HzO, Inc.   937,500 
Enumeral Biomedical Corp.   750,000 
Adesto Technologies Corporation   672,070 
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc.   648,000 
ABSMaterials, Inc.   500,000 
D-Wave Systems, Inc.   491,100 
SiOnyx, Inc.   418,066 
SiOnyx, Inc.   418,066 
Senova Systems, Inc.   386,363 
Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc.   350,000 
HzO, Inc.   350,000 
Nano Terra, Inc.   350,000 
Enumeral Biomedical Corp.   300,001 
Ancora Pharmaceuticals, Inc.   300,000 
AgBiome, LLC   260,870 
AgBiome, LLC   260,870 
Ultora, Inc.   236,603 
Ultora, Inc.   215,000 
Champions Oncology, Inc.   200,000 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   166,667 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   166,667 
OpGen, Inc.   150,000 
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.   126,585 
Senova Systems, Inc.   113,636 
Senova Systems, Inc.   100,000 
OpGen, Inc.   95,000 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   80,669 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   73,620 
Kovio, Inc.   50,000 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   28,920 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   25,767 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   13,988 
      
Total  $18,076,288 

 

December 31, 2012

 

At December 31, 2012, our total assets and net assets were $131,990,250 and $128,436,774, respectively. At December 31, 2011, they were $150,343,653 and $145,698,407, respectively. At December 31, 2012, our net asset value per share was $4.13 as compared with $4.70 at December 31, 2011.

 

At December 31, 2012, our shares outstanding increased to 31,116,881 from 31,000,601 at December 31, 2011, owing to the vesting of 116,280 shares related to restricted stock awards.

 

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Significant developments in the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, included a decrease in the holdings of our venture capital investments of $5,046,059 and a decrease in our cash of $11,463,403. The decrease in the value of our venture capital investments from $113,048,250 at December 31, 2011, to $108,002,191 at December 31, 2012, resulted primarily from a decrease in the net value of our venture capital investments of $13,480,234, offset by an increase owing to three new and 27 follow-on investments of $16,511,941. The decrease in our cash and treasury holdings from $33,841,394 at December 31, 2011, to $22,377,991 at December 31, 2012, is primarily owing to the payment of cash for operating expenses of $6,254,427 and to new and follow-on venture capital investments totaling $16,511,941, offset by net proceeds of $7,167,816 received from the sale of certain of our shares of Solazyme, Inc., and NeoPhotonics Corporation, net premium proceeds of $1,640,557 received from certain Solazyme and NeoPhotonics written call option contracts, $953,480 from the portion of our upfront payment held in escrow from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., to Amgen, Inc., and $11,140 from the portion of our upfront payment held in escrow from the sale of Crystal IS, Inc., to Asahi Kasei Group.

 

The following table is a summary of additions to our portfolio of venture capital investments made during the twelve months ended December 31, 2012:

 

New Investments  Amount of Investment 
     
AgBiome, LLC (formerly AgInnovation, LLC)  $2,000,000 
OpGen, Inc.   815,000 
OhSo Clean, Inc.   720,000 

 

Follow-On Investments  Amount of Investment 
     
OpGen, Inc.  $2,445,000 
Adesto Technologies Corporation   1,393,147 
SiOnyx, Inc.   1,255,523 
Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc.   1,000,000 
HzO, Inc.   1,000,000 
Enumeral Biomedical Corp.   750,000 
Senova Systems, Inc.   657,692 
Kovio, Inc.   588,000 
Contour Energy Systems, Inc.   480,000 
D-Wave Systems, Inc.   440,999 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   434,784 
NanoTerra, Inc.   650,000 
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.   316,453 
Cambrios Technologies Corporation   216,168 
Ultora, Inc.   215,000 
ABSMaterials, Inc.   200,000 
Laser Light Engines, Inc.   186,955 
Nantero, Inc.   139,075 
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc.   124,542 
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation   109,433 
Ultora, Inc.   107,753 
Ultora, Inc.   67,821 
Ultora, Inc.   64,652 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   45,097 
Nanosys, Inc.   43,821 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   29,994 
Cobalt Technologies, Inc.   15,032 
      
Total  $16,511,941 

 

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The following tables summarize the values of our portfolios of venture capital investments and U.S. government securities, as compared with their cost, at December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012:

 

   December 31, 2013    December 31, 2012 
         
Venture capital investments, at cost  $115,929,793   $111,750,822 
Net unrealized (depreciation) (1)   (22,030,334)   (3,748,631)
Venture capital investments, at value  $93,899,459   $108,002,191 

 

   December 31, 2013   December 31, 2012 
         
U.S. government securities, at cost  $18,999,765   $13,996,136 
Net unrealized appreciation(1)   45    2,744 
U.S. government securities, at value  $18,999,810   $13,998,880 

 

(1)At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the net accumulated unrealized depreciation on investments, including written call options was $22,021,407 and $3,738,387, respectively.

 

Cash Flow

 

Year Ended December 31, 2013

 

Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2013, was $295,923, primarily reflecting the net purchase of U.S. government securities of $5,005,360, the purchase of venture capital investments of $18,076,288 and the payment of operating expenses, partially offset by proceeds from the sale of investments of $30,363,727 and net proceeds from call options of $1,040,127.

 

Net cash used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2013, was $13,303, primarily reflecting the purchase of fixed assets.

 

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Cash used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2013, was $123,183, resulting from the net settlement of restricted stock awards.

 

Year Ended December 31, 2012

 

Net cash used in operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2012, was $(23,741,522), primarily reflecting the net purchase of U.S. government securities of $13,993,650, the purchase of venture capital investments of $16,511,941 and the payment of operating expenses, partially offset by proceeds from the sale of investments of $8,132,435 and net proceeds from call options of $1,640,557.

 

Net cash used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2012, was $15,922, primarily reflecting the purchase of fixed assets.

 

Cash used in financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2012, was $1,704,839, resulting from the repayment of our credit facility and the net settlement of restricted stock awards.

 

Year Ended December 31, 2011

 

Net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2011, was $28,111,456, primarily reflecting net proceeds from the sale of U.S. government securities of $38,248,334 and the sale of venture capital investments of $14,547,826, offset by the purchase of venture capital investments of $19,037,403 and the payment of operating expenses.

 

Net cash used in investing activities for the year ended December 31, 2011, was $18,039, primarily reflecting the purchase of fixed assets.

 

Cash provided by financing activities for the year ended December 31, 2011, was $1,991,058, resulting from the exercise of stock options, and proceeds from the drawdown of our credit facility.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Our liquidity and capital resources are generated and are generally available through our cash holdings, interest earned on our investments on U.S. government securities, cash flows from the sales of U.S. government securities and payments received on our venture debt investments, proceeds from periodic follow-on equity offerings and realized capital gains retained for reinvestment.

 

We fund our day-to-day operations using interest earned and proceeds from our cash holdings, the sales of our investments in U.S. government securities, when applicable, and interest earned from our venture debt securities. We believe the increase or decrease in the value of our venture capital investments does not materially affect the day-to-day operations of the Company or our daily liquidity. As of December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, we had no investments in money market mutual funds.

 

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Our Loan Facility may be used to fund our investments and not for the payment of day-to-day operating expenses. As of December 31, 2013, we had no debt outstanding. We have not issued any debt securities, and, therefore, are not subject to credit agency downgrades.

 

As a venture capital company, it is critical that we have capital available to support our best companies until we have an opportunity for liquidity in our investments. As such, we will continue to maintain a substantial amount of liquid capital on our balance sheet.

 

Although we cannot predict future market conditions, we continue to believe that our current cash and U.S. government security holdings and our ability to adjust our investment pace will provide us with adequate liquidity to execute our current business strategy.

 

Except for a rights offering, we are generally not able to issue and sell our common stock at a price below our net asset value per share, exclusive of any distributing commission or discount, without shareholder approval. As of December 31, 2013, our net asset value per share was $3.93 per share and our closing market price was $2.98 per share. We do not currently have shareholder approval to issue or sell shares below our net asset value per share.

 

December 31, 2013

 

At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our total net primary and secondary liquidity was $33,643,980 and $38,231,691, respectively.

 

At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our total net primary liquidity was $28,073,184 and $22,461,202, respectively. Our primary liquidity is principally comprised of our cash, U.S. government securities, when applicable, and certain receivables. The increase in our primary liquidity from December 31, 2012, to December 31, 2013, is primarily owing to the receipt of our initial payment of $12,838,244 from the sale of Xradia, Inc., the receipt of $1,222,830 from the portion of our upfront payments held in escrow from the sale of Innovalight, Inc., and Crystal IS, Inc., and net proceeds of $16,302,653 received from the sales of certain of our shares of Solazyme, Inc., Champions Oncology, Inc., and NeoPhotonics Corporation, offset by the use of funds for investments and payment of net operating expenses. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, we also purchased and sold call option and put option contracts on our publicly traded positions generating net proceeds of $629,291.

 

At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our secondary liquidity was $5,570,796 and $15,770,489, respectively. Our secondary liquidity consists of our publicly traded securities. Although these companies are publicly traded, their stock may not trade at high volumes and prices can be volatile, which may restrict our ability to sell our positions at any given time. We may also be restricted for a period of time in selling our positions in these companies due to our shares being unregistered.

 

We do not include funds held in escrow from the sale of investments in primary or secondary liquidity. These funds become primary liquidity if and when they are received at the expiration of the escrow period.

 

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We believe that the current and future venture capital environment may adversely affect the valuation of investment portfolios, lead to tighter lending standards and result in reduced access to capital. These conditions may lead to a decline in net asset value and/or decline in valuations of our portfolio companies in future quarters. Although we cannot predict future market conditions, we continue to believe that our current cash and U.S. government security holdings and our ability to adjust our investment pace will provide us with adequate liquidity to execute our current business strategy.

 

On September 24, 2009, we signed a ten-year lease for approximately 6,900 square feet of office space located at 1450 Broadway, New York, New York. The lease commenced on January 21, 2010, with these offices replacing our corporate headquarters previously located at 111 West 57th Street in New York City. The base rent is $36 per square foot with a 2.5 percent increase per year over the 10 years of the lease, subject to a full abatement of rent for four months and a rent credit for six months throughout the lease term. The lease expires on December 31, 2019. Total rent expense for this office space in New York City was $242,806 in 2013, $238,202 in 2012 and $230,302 in 2011. Future minimum lease payments in each of the following years are: 2014 - $250,979; 2015 - $280,673; 2016 - $287,690; 2017 - $294,882; 2018 - $302,254 and thereafter for the remaining term – an aggregate of $309,811.

 

On July 1, 2008, we signed a five-year lease for office space at 420 Florence Street, Suite 200, Palo Alto, California, which commenced on August 1, 2008, and expired on August 31, 2013. Total rent expense for this office space in Palo Alto was $92,787 in 2013, $136,816 in 2012 and $132,831 in 2011.

 

On April 26, 2011, we signed a one-year lease for office space at 530 Lytton Avenue, 2nd Floor, Palo Alto, California, commencing on July 1, 2011, and expiring on June 30, 2012. The lease was renewed commencing on July 1, 2012, and expiring on June 30, 2013, and again commencing on July 1, 2013, and expiring on June 30, 2014. Total rent expense for this office space in Palo Alto was $34,325 in 2013, $28,916 in 2012 and $13,354 in 2011. Future minimum lease payments in 2014 are $17,483.

 

On March 22, 2012, we signed a one-year lease for office space at 140 Preston Executive Drive, Space "L," Cary, North Carolina, commencing on April 1, 2012, and expiring on March 31, 2013. The lease was renewed commencing on April 1, 2013, and expiring on March 31, 2014. Total rent expense for this office space in Cary was $6,442 in 2013 and $4,725 in 2012. Future minimum lease payments in 2014 are $541.

 

December 31, 2012

 

At December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, our total net primary and secondary liquidity was $38,231,691 and $65,368,303, respectively.

 

At December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, our total net primary liquidity was $22,461,202 and $33,910,442, respectively. Our primary liquidity is principally comprised of our cash, U.S. government securities, when applicable, and certain receivables. The decrease in our primary liquidity from December 31, 2011, to December 31, 2012, is primarily owing to the use of funds for investments and payment of net operating expenses, offset by the receipt of $953,480 from the portion of our upfront payment held in escrow from the sale of BioVex Group, Inc., to Amgen, Inc., which was released on March 16, 2012, the receipt of $11,140 from the portion of our upfront payment held in escrow from the sale of Crystal IS, Inc., to Asahi Kasei Group, which was released on April 30, 2012, and $7,167,816 received from the net sales of portions of our shares of Solazyme, Inc., and NeoPhotonics Corporation. During the year ended December 31, 2012, we also purchased and sold call option contracts on our publicly traded positions generating net premiums of $1,640,253.

 

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At December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, our secondary liquidity was $15,770,488 and $31,457,861, respectively. Our secondary liquidity consists of our publicly traded securities. Although these companies are publicly traded, their stock may not trade at high volumes and prices can be volatile, which may restrict our ability to sell our positions at any given time. We may also be restricted for a period of time in selling our positions in these companies due to our shares being unregistered. As of December 31, 2012, none of our publicly traded securities were restricted from sale.

 

We do not include funds held in escrow from the sale of investments in primary or secondary liquidity. These funds will become primary liquidity if and when they are received at the expiration of the escrow period. On January 24, 2013, we received proceeds of $949,468 from the release of the Innovalight escrow.

 

Borrowings

 

On September 30, 2013, the Company terminated its prior credit facility with TD Bank, N.A. As of December 31, 2013, there was no principal outstanding under the prior credit facility and no termination fees were incurred in connection with terminating the prior credit facility.

 

On September 30, 2013, the Company entered into the Loan Facility that may be used by the Company to fund investments in portfolio companies. The Loan Facility replaces the Company’s prior credit facility with TD Bank, NA. The Loan Facility, among other things, matures on September 30, 2017, and bears interest at 10 percent per annum in cash. The Company has the option to have interest accrue at a rate of 13.5 percent per annum if the Company decides not to pay interest in cash monthly. The Company currently plans to pay interest in cash if and when any borrowings are outstanding. The Loan Facility also requires payment of a draw fee on each borrowing equal to 1.0 percent of such borrowing and an unused commitment fee of 1.0 percent per annum. Interest and fee payments under the Loan Facility are made quarterly in arrears. The Company may prepay the loans or reduce the aggregate commitments under the Loan Facility at any time prior to the maturity date, as long as certain conditions are met, including payment of required prepayment or termination fees. The Loan Facility is secured by all of the assets of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, subject to certain customary exclusions. The Loan Facility contains certain affirmative and negative covenants, including without limitation: (a) maintenance of certain minimum liquidity requirements; (b) maintenance of an eligible asset leverage ratio of not less than 4.0:1.0; (c) limitations on liens; (d) limitations on the incurrence of additional indebtedness; and (e) limitations on structural changes, mergers and disposition of assets (other than in the normal course of our business activities). There were no borrowings at closing, and at December 31, 2013, the Company had no outstanding debt.

 

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At December 31, 2013, the Company had no outstanding debt. At December 31, 2012, $0 was held in a collateral account at TD Bank, N.A. as security for the loan under the prior credit facility. The weighted average annual interest rate for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, was zero percent, exclusive of amortization of closing fees and other expenses related to establishing the prior credit facility. The remaining capacity under the Loan Facility was $20,000,000 at December 31, 2013. Fees and expenses of $700,000 related to establishing the Loan Facility have been deferred and included as "Prepaid expenses" as of December 31, 2013. These amounts are amortized over the term of the Loan Facility. At December 31, 2013, the Company was in compliance with all covenants required by the Loan Facility.

 

On June 8, 2012, legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives intended to revise certain regulations applicable to BDCs. The legislation, among other things, provides for increasing the amount of funds BDCs may borrow by reducing asset to debt limitations from 2:1 to 3:2. As a result, we may be able to incur additional indebtedness in the future and, therefore, your risk of an investment in shares of our common stock may increase.

 

Contractual Obligations

 

A summary of our significant contractual payment obligations is as follows:

 

Payments Due by Period

 

       Less than           More Than 
   Total   1 Year   1-3 Years   3-5 Years   5 Years 
Multi-Draw Loan Facility(1)  $0   $0   $0   $0   $0 
Operating leases  $1,744,313   $269,003   $568,363   $597,136   $309,811 

 

(1)As of December 31, 2013, we had $20,000,000 of unused borrowing capacity under our Loan Facility.

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

The Company's significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 to the Consolidated Financial Statements and in the Footnote to the Consolidated Schedule of Investments. Critical accounting policies are those that are both important to the presentation of our financial condition and results of operations and those that require management’s most difficult, complex or subjective judgments. The Company considers the following accounting policies and related estimates to be critical:

 

Valuation of Portfolio Investments

 

The most significant estimate inherent in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements is the valuation of investments and the related amounts of unrealized appreciation and depreciation of investments recorded. As a BDC, we invest in primarily illiquid securities that generally have no established trading market.

 

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Investments are stated at "value" as defined in the 1940 Act and in the applicable regulations of the SEC and U.S. GAAP. ASC 820 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about assets and liabilities measured at fair value. ASC 820 provides a consistent definition of fair value that focuses on exit price in the principal, or most advantageous, market and prioritizes, within a measurement of fair value, the use of market-based inputs over entity-specific inputs. ASC 820 also establishes the following three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability as of the measurement date.

 

    Level 1 - inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets;

 

    Level 2 - inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument.  Level 2 inputs are in those markets for which there are few transactions, the prices are not current, little public information exists or instances where prices vary substantially over time or among brokered market makers; and

 

    Level 3 - inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement. Unobservable inputs are those inputs that reflect our own assumptions that market participants would use to price the asset or liability based upon the best available information.

 

Financial assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement and are not necessarily an indication of risks associated with the investment. See "Note 5. Fair Value of Investments" in the accompanying notes to our consolidated financial statements for additional information regarding fair value measurements.

 

Value, as defined in Section 2(a)(41) of the 1940 Act, is (i) the market price for those securities for which a market quotation is readily available and (ii) the fair value as determined in good faith by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors for all other assets. See "Valuation Procedures" in the "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments" for additional information. As of December 31, 2013, our financial statements include venture capital investments valued at $88,352,165, the fair values of which were determined in good faith by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors. As of December 31, 2013, approximately 72 percent of our net assets represent investments in portfolio companies at fair value by the Board of Directors.

 

Determining fair value requires that judgment be applied to the specific facts and circumstances of each portfolio investment, although our valuation policy is intended to provide a consistent basis for determining fair value of the portfolio investments. Factors that may be considered include, but are not limited to, the cost of the Company’s investment; transactions in the portfolio company’s securities or unconditional firm offers by responsible parties; the financial condition and operating results of the company; the long-term potential of the business and technology of the company; the values of similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses; multiples to revenues, net income or EBITDA that similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses receive; the proportion of the company’s securities we own and the nature of any rights to require the company to register restricted securities under the applicable securities laws; management's assessment of non-performance risk; the achievement of milestones; discounts for restrictions on transfers of publicly traded securities; and the rights and preferences of the class of securities we own as compared with other classes of securities the portfolio has issued.

 

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In addition, with respect to our debt investments for which no readily available market quotations are available, we will generally consider the financial condition and current and expected future cash flows of the portfolio company; the creditworthiness of the portfolio company and its ability to meet its current debt obligations; the relative seniority of our debt investment within the portfolio company’s capital structure; the availability and value of any available collateral; and changes in market interest rates and credit spreads for similar debt investments.

 

Historically, difficult venture capital environments have resulted in companies not receiving financing and being subsequently closed down with a loss of investment to venture investors, and other companies receiving financing but at significantly lower valuations than the preceding rounds, leading to very deep dilution for those who do not participate in the new rounds of investment. Our best estimate of this non-performance risk has been quantified and included in the valuation of our portfolio companies as of December 31, 2013.

 

All investments recorded at fair value are categorized based upon the level of judgment associated with the inputs used to measure their fair value. Hierarchical levels related to the amount of subjectivity associated with the inputs to fair valuation of these assets are as discussed above.

 

As of December 31, 2013, approximately 92 percent of our portfolio company investments were classified as Level 3 in the hierarchy, indicating a high level of judgment required in their valuation.

 

The values assigned to our assets are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized, as these amounts depend on future circumstances and cannot be reasonably determined until the individual investments are actually liquidated or become readily marketable. Upon sale of investments, the values that are ultimately realized may be materially different from what is presently estimated.

 

Stock-Based Compensation

 

Determining the appropriate fair-value model and calculating the fair value of share-based awards on the date of grant requires judgment. Historically, we have used the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model to estimate the fair value of employee stock options.

 

Management uses the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model in instances where we lack historical data necessary for more complex models and when the share award terms can be valued within the model. Other models may yield fair values that are significantly different from those calculated by the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model.

 

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Management uses a binomial lattice option pricing model in instances where it is necessary to include a broader array of assumptions. We used the binomial lattice model for the 10-year NQSOs granted on March 18, 2009, and for performance-based restricted stock awards. These awards included accelerated vesting provisions or target stock prices that were based on market conditions.

 

Option pricing models require the use of subjective input assumptions, including expected volatility, expected life, expected dividend rate, and expected risk-free rate of return. Variations in the expected volatility or expected term assumptions have a significant impact on fair value. As the volatility or expected term assumptions increase, the fair value of the stock option increases. The expected dividend rate and expected risk-free rate of return are not as significant to the calculation of fair value. A higher assumed dividend rate yields a lower fair value, whereas higher assumed interest rates yield higher fair values for stock options.

 

In the Black-Scholes-Merton model, we use the simplified calculation of expected term as described in the SEC’s Staff Accounting Bulletin 107 because of the lack of historical information about option exercise patterns. In the binomial lattice model, we use an expected term that assumes the options will be exercised at two times the strike price because of the lack of option exercise patterns. Future exercise behavior could be materially different than that which is assumed by the model.

 

Expected volatility is based on the historical fluctuations in the Company's stock. The Company's stock has historically been volatile, which increases the fair value of the underlying share-based awards.

 

GAAP requires us to develop an estimate of the number of share-based awards that will be forfeited owing to employee turnover. Quarterly changes in the estimated forfeiture rate can have a significant effect on reported share-based compensation, as the effect of adjusting the rate for all expense amortization after the grant date is recognized in the period the forfeiture estimate is changed. If the actual forfeiture rate proves to be higher than the estimated forfeiture rate, then an adjustment will be made to increase the estimated forfeiture rate, which would result in a decrease to the expense recognized in the financial statements. If the actual forfeiture rate proves to be lower than the estimated forfeiture rate, then an adjustment will be made to decrease the estimated forfeiture rate, which would result in an increase to the expense recognized in the financial statements. Such adjustments would affect our operating expenses and additional paid-in capital, but would have no effect on our net asset value.

 

Pension and Post-Retirement Benefit Plan Assumptions

 

The Company provides a Retiree Medical Benefit Plan for employees who meet certain eligibility requirements. Until it was terminated on May 5, 2011, the Company also provided an Executive Mandatory Retirement Benefit Plan for certain individuals employed by us in a bona fide executive or high policy-making position. Our former President accrued benefits under this plan prior to his retirement, and the termination of the plan has no impact on his accrued benefits. Several statistical and other factors that attempt to anticipate future events are used in calculating the expense and liability values related to our post-retirement benefit plans. These factors include assumptions we make about the discount rate, the rate of increase in healthcare costs, and mortality, among others.

 

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The discount rate reflects the current rate at which the post-retirement medical benefit and pension liabilities could be effectively settled considering the timing of expected payments for plan participants. In estimating this rate, we consider the Citigroup Pension Liability Index in the determination of the appropriate discount rate assumptions. The weighted average rate we utilized to measure our post retirement medical benefit obligation as of December 31, 2013, and to calculate our 2014 expense was 4.79 percent. We used a discount rate of 2.75 percent to calculate our pension obligation for the Executive Mandatory Retirement Benefit Plan.

 

Recent Developments - Portfolio Companies

 

On January 15, 2014, the Company made a $500,000 follow-on investment in Senova Systems, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On January 21, 2014, Square 1 Bank, Kovio, Inc.'s secured creditor, finalized a transaction with Thin Film Electronics ASA, a publicly traded Norwegian-based company, to sell substantially all of the assets of Kovio. We received no proceeds as a result of this sale.

 

On January 23, 2014, we received $1,235,312 upon the release of a portion of the funds held in escrow from the acquisition of Xradia, Inc., by Carl Zeiss AG during 2013.

 

On January 31, 2014, the Company made a $415,635 follow-on investment in SiOnyx, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

In January of 2014, we sold 17,834 shares of Solazyme, Inc., for net proceeds of $214,888.

 

On February 4, 2014, the Company made a $250,000 follow-on investment in Enumeral Biomedical Corp., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On February 5, 2014, the Company made a $19,331 follow-on investment in Laser Light Engines, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On February 11, 2014, the Company made a $206,997 follow-on investment in HzO, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On February 13, 2014, Molecular Imprints, Inc., announced that it had signed an agreement to sell its semiconductor imprint lithography equipment business to Canon, Inc. Upon closing, we expect to receive approximately $7.0 million in proceeds from the sale, including amounts to be held in escrow. We could also receive an additional $1.7 million upon the achievement of certain milestones. This merger is expected to be completed by April of 2014, subject to normal shareholder and governmental approvals. In addition to the merger, a new spin-out company will be formed retaining its original Molecular Imprints name. We will be a shareholder of the new spin-out company.

 

On February 19, 2014, the Company made a $245,017 follow-on investment in OpGen, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

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On February 27, 2014, the board of directors of Contour Energy Systems, Inc., adopted a plan of complete liquidation and dissolution. Following the sale of Contour Energy's assets and settlement of its liabilities, any remaining proceeds will be distributed to its shareholders. There can be no assurance of the amount we will ultimately receive from such distribution. At December 31, 2013, we valued our investment in Contour Energy at $90,844.

 

On March 10, 2014, the Company made a $750,000 follow-on investment in Produced Water Absorbents, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

From January 1, 2014, to March 13, 2014, we sold 286,456 shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., for net proceeds of $332,402.

 

On March 10 and 12, 2014, we closed 1,500 written call option contracts on Solazyme, Inc., with a strike price of $12.50, expiring on March 22, 2014, for a payment of $218,532. We also sold 1,000 written call option contracts on Solazyme, with a strike price of $12.50, expiring in June of 2014 and 500 written call option contracts with a strike price of $12.50, expiring in September of 2014. We received net premiums of approximately $338,229 for these contracts.

 

Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk.

 

Our business activities contain elements of risk. We consider the principal types of market risk to be interest rate risk and foreign currency risk. Although we are risk-seeking rather than risk-averse in our investments, we consider the management of risk to be essential to our business.

 

Valuation Risk

 

Value, as defined in Section 2(a)(41) of the 1940 Act, is (i) the market price for those securities for which market quotations are readily available and (ii) fair value as determined in good faith by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors for all other assets. (See the "Valuation Procedures" in the "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments" contained in "Item 8. Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.")

 

Because there is typically no public market for our interests in the privately held small businesses in which we invest, the valuation of the equity interests in that portion of our portfolio is determined in good faith by our Board of Directors with the assistance of our Valuation Committee, comprised of the independent members of our Board of Directors, in accordance with our Valuation Procedures. In the absence of a readily ascertainable market value, the determined value of our portfolio of equity interests may differ significantly from the values that would be placed on the portfolio if a ready market for the equity interests existed. Determining fair value requires that judgment be applied to the specific facts and circumstances of each portfolio investment, although our valuation policy is intended to provide a consistent basis for determining fair value of the portfolio investments. Factors that may be considered include, but are not limited to, readily available public market quotations; the cost of the Company’s investment; transactions in the portfolio company’s securities or unconditional firm offers by responsible parties; the financial condition and operating results of the company; the long-term potential of the business and technology of the company; the values of similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses; multiples to revenues, net income or EBITDA that similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses receive; the proportion of the company’s securities we own and the nature of any rights to require the company to register restricted securities under the applicable securities laws; management's assessment of non-performance risk; the achievement of milestones; and the rights and preferences of the class of securities we own as compared with other classes of securities the portfolio has issued.

 

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In addition, with respect to our debt investments for which no readily available market quotations are available, we will generally consider the financial condition and current and expected future cash flows of the portfolio company; the creditworthiness of the portfolio company and its ability to meet its current debt obligations; the relative seniority of our debt investment within the portfolio company’s capital structure; the availability and value of any available collateral; and changes in market interest rates and credit spreads for similar debt investments. Any changes in valuation are recorded in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as "Net increase (decrease) in unrealized appreciation on investments." Changes in valuation of any of our investments in privately held companies from one period to another may be volatile.

 

Investments in privately held, immature companies are inherently more volatile than investments in more mature businesses.  Such immature businesses are inherently fragile and easily affected by both internal and external forces.  Our investee companies can lose much or all of their value suddenly in response to an internal or external adverse event.  Conversely, these immature businesses can gain suddenly in value in response to an internal or external positive development.

 

The values assigned to our assets are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized, as these amounts depend on future circumstances and cannot be reasonably determined until the individual investments are actually liquidated or become readily marketable. Upon sale of investments, the values that are ultimately realized may be materially different from what is presently estimated.

 

Interest Rate Risk 

 

Interest rate sensitivity refers to the change in earnings that may result from changes in the level of interest rates. Our borrowings under our Loan Facility bear interest at a fixed rate of 10 percent per annum, and, therefore, changes in interest rate benchmarks, such as LIBOR, will not affect our earnings on such investments if we decide to fund them through draws from our Loan Facility.

 

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We may also invest in both short- and long-term U.S. government and agency securities. To the extent that we invest in short- and long-term U.S. government and agency securities, changes in interest rates result in changes in the value of these obligations that result in an increase or decrease of our net asset value. The level of interest rate risk exposure at any given point in time depends on the market environment, the expectations of future price and market movements, and the quantity and duration of long-term U.S. government and agency securities held by the Company, and it will vary from period to period. If the average interest rate on U.S. government securities at December 31, 2013, were to increase by 25, 75 and 150 basis points, the average value of these securities held by us at December 31, 2013, would decrease by approximately $47,500, $142,500 and $285,000, respectively, and the portion of our net asset value attributable to such securities would decrease correspondingly.

 

In addition, market interest rates for high-yield corporate debt are an input in determining value of our investments in debt securities of privately held and publicly traded companies. Significant changes in these market rates could affect the value of our debt securities as of the date of measurement of value. Our investment income could be adversely affected should such debt securities include floating interest rates. We do not currently have any investments in debt securities with floating interest rates.

 

Foreign Currency Risk

 

Most of our investments are denominated in U.S. dollars. We currently have one investment denominated in Canadian dollars. We are exposed to foreign currency risk related to potential changes in foreign currency exchange rates. The potential loss in fair value on this investment resulting from a 10 percent adverse change in quoted foreign currency exchange rates is $484,354 at December 31, 2013.

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Item 8.Consolidated Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.

 

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SCHEDULES

 

The following reports and consolidated financial schedules of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. are filed herewith and included in response to Item 8.

 

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Documents  
   
Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting 93
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm 94
   
Consolidated Financial Statements  
   
Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities as of December 31, 2013, and 2012 96
   
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011 97
   
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011 98
   
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011 99
   
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Net Assets for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011 100
   
Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2013 101
   
Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2012 113
   
Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments 127
   
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements 133
   
Financial Highlights for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009 162
   
Financial Statements Schedule 12-14 172

 

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Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

Management of the Company is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act as a process designed by, or under the supervision of, the Company's principal executive and principal financial officers and effected by the Company's Board of Directors, management and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:

 

pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the Company;

 

provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the Company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the Company; and

 

provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the Company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

Management has assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2013. In making its assessment, management used the criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (1992). Based on the results of this assessment, management (including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer) has concluded that, as of December 31, 2013, the Company's internal control over financial reporting was effective.

 

The effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting has been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in its report which appears on page 94 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Harris & Harris Group, Inc.:

 

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated statements of assets and liabilities, including the consolidated schedules of investments, and the related consolidated statements of operations, of comprehensive income, of changes in net assets and of cash flows and the financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Harris & Harris Group, Inc. and its subsidiaries (hereafter referred to as the "Company") at December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, and the results of their operations and their cash flows, and the changes in their net assets for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2013, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period ended December 31, 2013, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. In addition, in our opinion, the financial statement schedule listed in the accompanying index presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2013, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (1992) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company’s management is responsible for these financial statements, the financial statement schedule and the financial highlights, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements, on the financial statement schedule and on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our integrated audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. Our procedures included confirmation of securities at December 31, 2013 by correspondence with the custodian and brokers. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

As discussed in Note 2, the financial statements include fair value measurements which have been estimated by the Board of Directors using significant unobservable inputs in the absence of observable inputs. As discussed in Note 2, at December 31, 2013, fair value measurements estimated using significant unobservable inputs are $86,095,174 (70.2% of the net assets).

 

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A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.

 

Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.

 

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

 

New York, New York

March 14, 2014

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

  

   December 31, 2013   December 31, 2012 
ASSETS
Investments, in portfolio securities at value:          
Unaffiliated privately held companies          
(cost: $29,277,213 and $29,365,558, respectively)  $29,199,564   $24,949,756 
Unaffiliated rights to milestone payments          
(adjusted cost basis: $3,291,750 and $3,291,750, respectively)   3,489,433    3,400,734 
Unaffiliated publicly traded securities          
(cost: $2,451,410 and $5,070,447, respectively)   5,570,796    14,422,261 
Non-controlled affiliated privately held companies          
(cost: $71,843,448 and $57,789,263, respectively)   54,287,040    60,792,397 
Non-controlled affiliated publicly traded companies          
(cost: $0 and $2,000,000, respectively)   0    1,348,227 
Controlled affiliated privately held companies          
(cost: $9,065,972 and $14,233,804, respectively)   1,352,626    3,088,816 
Total, investments in private portfolio companies, rights to          
milestone payments and public securities at value          
(cost: $115,929,793 and $111,750,822, respectively)  $93,899,459   $108,002,191 
Investments, in U.S. Treasury securities at value          
(cost: $18,999,765 and $13,996,136, respectively)   18,999,810    13,998,880 
Cash   8,538,548    8,379,111 
Receivable from sales of investments (Note 2)   448,886    0 
Restricted funds (Note 2)   0    10,015 
Funds held in escrow from sales of investments at value (Note 2)   1,786,390    1,052,345 
Receivable from portfolio company   54,160    23,830 
Interest receivable   22,804    49,068 
Prepaid expenses   991,409    97,410 
Other assets   322,480    377,400 
Total assets  $125,063,946   $131,990,250 
           
LIABILITIES & NET ASSETS
           
Post retirement plan liabilities (Note 9)  $1,120,262   $2,203,847 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   785,608    934,802 
Deferred rent   353,001    368,977 
Written call options payable (premiums received:          
$112,382 and $50,000, respectively) (Note 6)   103,500    42,500 
Interest on debt and other payables   0    3,350 
Total liabilities   2,362,371    3,553,476 
           
Net assets  $122,701,575   $128,436,774 
           
Net assets are comprised of:          
Preferred stock, $0.10 par value,          
2,000,000 shares authorized; none issued  $0   $0 
Common stock, $0.01 par value, 45,000,000 shares authorized at          
12/31/13 and 12/31/12; 33,026,178 issued at 12/31/13          
and 32,945,621 issued at 12/31/12   330,262    329,456 
Additional paid in capital (Note 7)   214,320,241    213,194,474 
Accumulated net operating and realized loss   (67,449,176)   (77,943,238)
Accumulated unrealized depreciation of investments   (22,021,407)   (3,738,387)
Accumulated other comprehensive income (Note 9)   927,186    0 
Treasury stock, at cost (1,828,740 shares at 12/31/13 and 12/31/12)   (3,405,531)   (3,405,531)
           
Net assets  $122,701,575   $128,436,774 
           
Shares outstanding   31,197,438    31,116,881 
           
Net asset value per outstanding share  $3.93   $4.13 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements. 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

 

   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended 
   December 31, 2013   December 31, 2012   December 31, 2011 
Investment income:               
Interest from:               
Unaffiliated companies  $245,377   $252,138   $252,326 
Non-controlled affiliated companies   (17,877)   91,500    134,358 
Controlled affiliated companies   101,723    169,554    176,629 
Cash and U.S. Treasury securities and other   15,436    45,175    38,167 
Miscellaneous income   126,243    163,860    101,285 
Total investment income   470,902    722,227    702,765 
                
Expenses:               
Salaries, benefits and stock-based
compensation (Note 7)
   5,352,672    6,582,714    5,972,187 
Administration and operations   1,032,494    1,079,653    1,045,739 
Professional fees   1,255,796    1,001,772    1,156,134 
Rent (Note 11)   376,360    408,659    376,487 
Directors' fees and expenses   245,801    296,708    340,148 
Interest and other debt expense   116,421    48,126    36,944 
Custody fees   58,458    49,349    62,338 
Depreciation   55,106    58,589    51,153 
Total expenses   8,493,108    9,525,570    9,041,130 
                
Net operating loss   (8,022,206)   (8,803,343)   (8,338,365)
                
Net realized gain (loss):               
Realized gain (loss) from investments:               
Unaffiliated companies   105,313    546,055    4,967,511 
Non-controlled affiliated companies   6,388,601    475,844    (2,510,802)
Publicly traded companies   12,123,019    (205,919)   0 
Written call options   (282)   1,605,907    0 
Purchased put options   (72,209)   0    0 
U.S. Treasury securities/other   (180)   (218)   (82)
Realized gain from investments   18,544,262    2,421,669    2,456,627 
                
Income tax expense (Note 10)   27,994    15,236    6,922 
Net realized gain from investments   18,516,268    2,406,433    2,449,705 
                
Net (decrease) increase in unrealized               
appreciation on investments:               
Change on investments   (18,284,402)   (13,477,490)   2,227,297 
Change on written call options   1,382    (112,500)   120,000 
Net (decrease) increase in unrealized               
appreciation on investments   (18,283,020)   (13,589,990)   2,347,297 
                
Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on investments  $233,248   $(11,183,557)  $4,797,002 
                
Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations:               
                
Total  $(7,788,958)  $(19,986,900)  $(3,541,363)
                
Per average basic and diluted outstanding share  $(0.25)  $(0.65)  $(0.12)
                
Average outstanding shares   31,138,716    31,000,919    30,980,221 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)

 

   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended 
   December 31, 2013   December 31, 2012   December 31, 2011 
             
Net decrease resulting from operations  $(7,788,958)  $(19,986,900)  $(3,541,363)
                
Other comprehensive income:               
                
Prior service cost (Note 9)   1,101,338    0    0 
Amortization of prior service cost   (174,152)   0    0 
                
Other comprehensive income   927,186    0    0 
                
Comprehensive loss  $(6,861,772)  $(19,986,900)  $(3,541,363)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended 
   December 31, 2013   December 31, 2012   December 31, 2011 
             
Cash flows (used in) provided by operating activities:               
Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations  $(7,788,958)  $(19,986,900)  $(3,541,363)
Adjustments to reconcile net increase (decrease) in net assets
resulting from operations to net cash used in
operating activities:
               
Net realized and unrealized (gain) loss on investments   (261,242)   11,168,321    (4,803,924)
Depreciation of fixed assets, amortization of premium
or discount on U.S. government securities and prepaid
assets and accretion of bridge note interest
   35,600    (161,781)   (327,378)
Stock-based compensation expense   1,249,756    2,928,943    1,894,800 
Purchase of U.S. government securities   (144,596,150)   (36,492,162)   (100,032,726)
Sale of U.S. government securities   139,590,790    22,498,512    138,281,060 
Purchase of affiliated portfolio companies   (17,257,408)   (14,102,326)   (14,766,443)
Purchase of unaffiliated portfolio companies   (818,880)   (2,409,615)   (4,270,960)
Payments received on debt investments   860,641    623,428    1,591,554 
Proceeds from sale of investments and conversion
of bridge notes
   30,365,294    8,201,603    14,547,826 
Proceeds from call option premiums   1,040,127    3,082,636    315,000 
Payments for put and call option purchases   (410,363)   (1,442,079)   0 
                
Changes in assets and liabilities:               
Receivable from sales of investments   (448,886)   0    0 
Restricted funds   10,015    1,502,016    (1,509,280)
Receivable from portfolio company   (30,330)   13,501    (27,331)
Interest receivable   26,264    (34,433)   16,303 
Prepaid expenses   (193,999)   301,448    (19,153)
Other receivables   0    0    4,446 
Other assets   12,937    6,636    244,035 
Post retirement plan liabilities   (156,399)   215,489    154,052 
Accounts payable and accrued liabilities   (216,910)   355,244    320,716 
Deferred rent   (15,976)   (10,003)   40,222 
                
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities   995,923    (23,741,522)   28,111,456 
                
Cash flows from investing activities:               
Purchase of fixed assets   (13,303)   (15,922)   (18,039)
Net cash used in investing activities   (13,303)   (15,922)   (18,039)
                
Cash flows from financing activities:               
Proceeds from stock option exercises (Note 7)   0    0    491,058 
Proceeds from drawdown of credit facility (Note 4)   0    0    1,500,000 
Payment of loan facility closing fees   (700,000)   0    0 
Payment of credit facility (Note 4)   0    (1,500,000)   0 
Acquisition of vested restricted stock for payment of withholdings   (123,183)   (204,839)   0 
                
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities   (823,183)   (1,704,839)   1,991,058 
                
Net increase (decrease) in cash:               
Cash at beginning of the year   8,379,111    33,841,394    3,756,919 
Cash at end of the year   8,538,548    8,379,111    33,841,394 
                
Net increase (decrease) in cash  $159,437   $(25,462,283)  $30,084,475 
                
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:               
Income taxes paid  $24,177   $8,075   $2,476 
Interest paid  $0   $27,112   $26,608 
                
Supplemental schedule of non-cash activities:               
Impact of plan amendment on post-retirement plan liabilities  $927,186   $0   $0 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

 

   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended 
   December 31, 2013   December 31, 2012   December 31, 2011 
             
Changes in net assets from operations:               
                
Net operating loss  $(8,022,206)  $(8,803,343)  $(8,338,365)
Net realized gain on investments   18,516,268    2,406,433    2,449,705 
Net (decrease) increase in unrealized appreciation
on investments
   (18,284,402)   (13,477,490)   2,227,297 
Net increase (decrease) in unrealized appreciation
on written call options
   1,382    (112,500)   120,000 
                
Net decrease in net assets resulting from operations   (7,788,958)   (19,986,900)   (3,541,363)
                
Changes in net assets from capital stock transactions:               
                
Issuance of common stock upon the
exercise of stock options
   0    0    1,224 
Acquisition of vested restricted stock awards
to pay required employee withholding tax
   (123,183)   (203,676)   0 
Additional paid in capital on common
stock issued net of offering expenses
   0    0    489,834 
Stock-based compensation expense   1,249,756    2,928,943    1,894,800 
                
Net increase in net assets resulting
from capital stock transactions
   1,126,573    2,725,267    2,385,858 
                
Changes in net assets from accumulated
other comprehensive income:
               
                
Other comprehensive income   927,186    0    0 
                
Net increase in net assets resulting from
accumulated other comprehensive income
   927,186    0    0 
                
Net decrease in net assets   (5,735,199)   (17,261,633)   (1,155,505)
                
Net Assets:               
                
Beginning of the year   128,436,774    145,698,407    146,853,912 
                
End of the year  $122,701,575   $128,436,774   $145,698,407 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2013

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (3) –
31.2% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (4) –  
23.8% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Bridgelux, Inc. (5)(8)(10)     Energy               
Manufacturing high-power light emitting
diodes (LEDs) and arrays
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,000,000    1,861,504   $318,898 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,352,196    2,130,699    365,014 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,371,622    999,999    1,070,897 
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      672,599    440,334    704,760 
Series E-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      386,073    399,579    468,606 
Warrants for Series C Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 12/31/14
  ( I )      168,270    163,900    2,762 
Warrants for Series D Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 8/26/14
  ( I )      88,531    124,999    40,686 
Warrants for Series D Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 3/10/15
  ( I )      40,012    41,666    19,466 
Warrants for Series E Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 12/31/17
  ( I )      93,969    170,823    190,679 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 6/1/16  ( I )      72,668    132,100    1,656 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 8/9/18  ( I )      148,409    171,183    13,538 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 10/21/18  ( I )      18,816    84,846    3,680 
          5,413,165         3,200,642 
                      
Cambrios Technologies Corporation (5)(8)(10)     Electronics               
Developing nanowire-enabled electronic
materials for the display industry
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,294,025    1,294,025    1,165,383 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,300,000    1,300,000    1,170,764 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      515,756    515,756    773,634 
Series D-2 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      92,400    92,400    92,400 
Series D-4 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      216,168    216,168    216,168 
          3,418,349         3,418,349 
                      
Cobalt Technologies, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(11)     Energy               
Developing processes for making bio-
butanol through biomass fermentation
                     
Series C-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      749,998    352,112    704,400 
Series D-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      122,070    48,828    106,152 
Series E-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      114,938    46,089    84,634 
Warrants for Series E-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 10/9/22  ( I )      2,781    1,407    2,163 
Warrants for Series E-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 3/11/23  ( I )      5,355    2,707    4,209 
          995,142         901,558 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2013

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (3) –
31.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (4) –
23.8% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation (5)(8)(9)(12)     Life Sciences               
Developing DNA-Programmed ChemistryTM
for the discovery of new classes of therapeutics
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (H)     $2,000,000    1,449,275   $1,419,855 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 9/11/08  (H)      356,567   $250,211    1,321,657 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 12/10/09  (H)      64,767   $48,868    253,257 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 1/25/12  (H)      126,386   $109,400    548,354 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 3/28/13  (H)      78,121   $73,598    361,996 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 6/24/13  (H)      26,845   $25,759    126,201 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 7/8/13  (H)      14,530   $13,983    68,467 
          2,667,216         4,099,787 
                      
GEO Semiconductor Inc. (5)     Electronics               
Developing programmable, high-performance
video and geometry processing solutions
                     
Participation Agreement with Montage                     
Capital relating to the following assets:                     
Warrants for Series A Pref. Stock expiring on 9/17/17  ( I )      66,684    100,000    82,270 
Warrants for Series A-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 6/30/18  ( I )      23,566    34,500    32,132 
Loan and Security Agreement with GEO Semiconductor
relating to the following assets:
                     
Warrants for Series A Pref. Stock expiring on 3/1/18  ( I )      7,512    10,000    8,007 
Warrants for Series A-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 6/29/18  ( I )      7,546    10,000    8,478 
          105,308         130,887 
                      
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(10)(13)     Life Sciences               
Developing antibody drug conjugates
for cancer therapy
                     
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      443,038    411,630    443,038 
Common Stock  (M)      3,875,395    350,539    108,667 
          4,318,433         551,705 
                      
Molecular Imprints, Inc. (5)(8)(10)(14)(15)     Electronics               
Manufacturing nanoimprint
lithography capital equipment
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  ( I )      2,000,000    1,333,333    1,876,501 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  ( I )      2,406,595    1,285,071    2,359,061 
Non-Convertible Bridge Note  ( I )      0   $0    4,043,381 
          4,406,595         8,278,943 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2013

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (3) –
31.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (4) –
23.8% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Nanosys, Inc. (5)(8)     Energy               
Developing inorganic nanowires and
quantum dots for use in LED-backlit devices
                     
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,500,000    803,428   $1,098,762 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      3,000,003    1,016,950    2,196,781 
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      496,573    433,688    705,827 
Unsecured Convertible Bridge Note, 4%, acquired 7/16/12  (M)      46,385   $43,821    127,016 
          5,042,961         4,128,386 
                      
Nano Terra, Inc. (5)(9)     Energy               
Developing surface chemistry and nano-
manufacturing solutions
                     
Senior secured debt, 12.0%, maturing on 12/1/15  ( I )      663,322   $698,725    680,000 
Warrants for Series A-2 Pref. Stock expiring on 2/22/21  ( I )      69,168    446,248    21,858 
Warrants for Series C Pref. Stock expiring on 11/15/22  ( I )      35,403    241,662    90,476 
          767,893         792,334 
                      
Nantero, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing a high-density, nonvolatile,
random access memory chip, enabled
by carbon nanotubes
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      489,999    345,070    1,349,224 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      323,000    207,051    809,569 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      571,329    188,315    736,312 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      139,075    35,569    139,075 
          1,523,403         3,034,180 
                      
OHSO Clean, Inc. (5)(16)     Life Sciences               
Developing natural, hypoallergenic household
cleaning products enabled by nanotechnology-
enabled formulations of thyme oil
                     
Participation Agreement with Montage
Capital relating to the following assets:
                     
Senior secured debt, 13.00%, maturing on 3/31/15  ( I )      527,006   $624,640    592,100 
Warrants for Series C Pref. Stock expiring on 3/30/22  ( I )      91,742    1,109,333    70,693 
          618,748         662,793 
                      
Total Unaffiliated Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $29,277,213)                  $29,199,564 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2013

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Rights to Milestone Payments (Illiquid) (6) –
2.9% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Amgen, Inc. (8)(10)     Life Sciences               
Rights to Milestone Payments from
Acquisition of BioVex Group, Inc.
  ( I )     $3,291,750   $3,291,750   $3,489,433 
                      
Laird Technologies, Inc. (8)(10)     Energy               
Rights to Milestone Payments from Merger &
Acquisition of Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc.
  ( I )      0    0    0 
                      
Total Unaffiliated Rights to Milestone Payments (cost: $3,291,750)                  $3,489,433 
                      
Publicly Traded Portfolio (7) – 4.5% of net assets at value                     
                      
Solazyme, Inc. (5)(10)(17)     Energy               
Developing algal biodiesel, industrial
chemicals and specialty ingredients using
synthetic biology
                     
Common Stock  (M)     $396,564    167,834   $1,827,712 
                      
Champions Oncology, Inc. (5)(10)     Life Sciences               
Developing its TumorGraftTM platform for
personalized medicine and drug development
Common Stock
  (M)      2,054,446    3,099,651    3,719,582 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 1/29/18  ( I )      400    40,000    23,502 
          2,054,846         3,743,084 
                      
Total Unaffiliated Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $2,451,410)                  $5,570,796 
                      
Total Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (cost: $35,020,373)                  $38,259,793 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2013

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
44.2% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (18) –
44.2% of net assets at value
                     
                      
ABSMaterials, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Energy               
Developing nano-structured absorbent
materials for environmental remediation
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $435,000    390,000   $471,900 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      717,644    624,528    755,679 
          1,152,644         1,227,579 
                      
Adesto Technologies Corporation (5)(8)(19)     Electronics               
Developing low-power, high-performance
memory devices
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,200,000    6,547,619    1,388,276 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,200,000    5,952,381    1,262,070 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,485,531    2,122,187    449,963 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,393,147    1,466,470    1,070,067 
Series D-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      703,740    987,706    561,291 
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,499,999    3,508,771    9,969,781 
          10,482,417         14,701,448 
                      
AgBiome, LLC (formerly AgInnovation, LLC) (5)(8)(9)(10)(20)     Life Sciences               
Providing early stage research and discovery for
agriculture and utilizing the crop microbiome to
identify products that reduce risk and improve yield
                     
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,000,000    2,000,000    2,456,834 
Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      521,740    417,392    564,906 
          2,521,740         3,021,740 
                      
Contour Energy Systems, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(10)(21)     Energy               
Developing batteries using
nano-structured materials
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,009,995    2,565,798    0 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,300,000    812,500    0 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,200,000    1,148,325    90,844 
          4,509,995         90,844 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2013

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
44.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (18) –
44.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
D-Wave Systems, Inc. (8)(9)(10)(22)     Electronics               
Developing high-performance
quantum computing systems
                     
Series 1 Class B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,002,074    1,144,869   $1,399,831 
Series 1 Class C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      487,804    450,450    550,765 
Series 1 Class D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      748,473    855,131    1,045,569 
Series 1 Class E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      248,049    269,280    329,249 
Series 1 Class F Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      238,323    258,721    316,338 
Series 2 Class D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      736,019    678,264    829,313 
Series 2 Class E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      659,493    513,900    628,345 
Series 2 Class F Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      633,631    493,747    603,704 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 6/30/15  ( I )      98,644    153,890    37,617 
          4,852,510         5,740,731 
                      
EchoPixel, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(10)(23)     Life Sciences               
Developing algorithms and software to improve
visualization of data for life science and
healthcare applications
                     
Series Seed Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      750,000    2,516,778    750,000 
                      
Enumeral Biomedical Corp. (5)(8)(9)(10)     Life Sciences               
Developing therapeutics and diagnostics
through functional assaying of single cells
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,026,832    957,038    690,538 
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      750,000    576,923    425,939 
Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,050,001    724,138    566,027 
          2,826,833         1,682,504 
                      
HzO, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Electronics               
Developing novel industrial coatings that
protect electronics against damage from liquids
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      666,667    4,057,294    1,130,362 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      5,502,838    21,879,365    6,095,592 
          6,169,505         7,225,954 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
44.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (18) –
44.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Kovio, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(24)     Electronics               
Developing semiconductor products using
printed electronics and thin-film technologies
                     
Series A' Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $5,242,993    2,160,000   $0 
Series B' Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,006,540    3,015,493    0 
Secured Subordinated Convertible Bridge Note, 7%,
acquired 6/7/13
  (M)      50,000   $50,000    0 
          7,299,533         0 
                      
Laser Light Engines, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Energy               
Manufacturing solid-state light sources for
digital cinema and large-venue projection displays
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  ( I )      2,000,000    7,499,062    0 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  ( I )      3,095,802    13,571,848    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 10/7/11  ( I )      200,000   $200,000    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 11/17/11  ( I )      95,652   $95,652    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 12/21/11  ( I )      82,609   $82,609    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 3/5/12  ( I )      434,784   $434,784    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 7/26/12  ( I )      186,955   $186,955    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 20%, acquired 4/29/13  ( I )      166,667   $166,667    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 20%, acquired 7/22/13  ( I )      166,667   $166,667    0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 10%, acquired 10/30/13  ( I )      82,061   $80,669    164,122 
          6,511,197         164,122 
                      
Metabolon, Inc. (5)(8)(10)     Life Sciences               
Developing service and diagnostic products
through the use of a metabolomics, or
biochemical, profiling platform
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,500,000    371,739    2,997,991 
Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      706,214    148,696    1,199,196 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,000,000    1,000,000    2,756,500 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,499,999    835,882    2,304,109 
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,225,000    444,404    1,225,000 
Warrants for Series B-1 Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 3/25/15
  ( I )      293,786    74,348    216,408 
          7,224,999         10,699,204 
                      
OpGen, Inc. (8)     Life Sciences               
Developing tools for genomic sequence
assembly and analysis
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      245,000    245,000    245,000 
Common Stock  (M)      3,260,000    29,883    0 
          3,505,000         245,000 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
44.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (18) –
44.2% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Energy               
Developing nano-structured absorbent materials
for environmental remediation of contaminated
water in the oil and gas industries
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,000,000    1,000,000   $125,000 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,626,641    6,506,564    1,751,641 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 11/14/13  (M)      832,789   $824,119    832,789 
          3,459,430         2,709,430 
                      
Senova Systems, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Life Sciences               
Developing next-generation sensors to measure pH                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,218,462    1,350,000    540,000 
Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      583,960    1,509,902    603,960 
Warrants for Series B Preferred Stock expiring 10/15/17  ( I )      131,538    164,423    65,753 
Warrants for Series B Preferred Stock expiring 4/24/18  ( I )      20,000    25,000    9,997 
          1,953,960         1,219,710 
                      
SiOnyx, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Electronics               
Developing silicon-based optoelectronic
products enabled by its proprietary Black Silicon
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      750,000    233,499    43,781 
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      890,000    2,966,667    556,250 
Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,445,000    4,207,537    788,913 
Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,169,561    1,892,836    451,903 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,171,316    1,674,030    970,526 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 7/22/13  (M)      433,209   $418,066    859,729 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 10/2/13  (M)      426,520   $418,066    859,729 
Warrants for Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock
    expiring 2/23/17
  ( I )      130,439    247,350    18,165 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 3/28/17  ( I )      84,207    418,507    21,387 
          7,500,252         4,570,383 
                      
Ultora, Inc. (5)(8)(9)     Energy               
Developing energy-storage devices
enabled by carbon nanotubes
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      886,830    17,736    1,788 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      236,603    2,347,254    236,603 
          1,123,433         238,391 
                      
Total Non-Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $71,843,448)              $54,287,040 
                      
Total Investments in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost: $71,843,448)               $54,287,040 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
1.1% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (25) –
1.1% of net assets at value
                     
                      
SynGlyco, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(26)     Life Sciences               
Developing synthetic carbohydrates for
pharmaceutical applications
                     
Common Stock  ( I )     $2,729,817    57,463   $0 
Series A' Convertible Preferred Stock  ( I )      4,855,627    4,855,627    0 
Senior Secured Debt, 12.00%, maturing on 12/11/14  ( I )      436,637   $500,000    831,828 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 1/23/13  ( I )      376,312   $350,000    91,389 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 4/25/13  ( I )      316,504   $300,000    78,334 
          8,714,897         1,001,551 
                      
ProMuc, Inc. (5)(8)(9)(22)     Life Sciences               
Developing synthetic mucins for the
nutritional, food and healthcare markets
                     
Common Stock  (M)      1    1,000    1 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 12/18/13  (M)      351,074   $350,000    351,074 
          351,075         351,075 
                      
Total Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $9,065,972)               $1,352,626 
                      
Total Investments in Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost: $9,065,972)              $1,352,626 
                      
Total Private Placement and Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $115,929,793)         $93,899,459 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                
U.S. Government Securities (27) –
15.5% of net assets at value
                  
                   
U.S. Treasury Bill — due date 01/23/14  (M)  $18,999,765   $19,000,000   $18,999,810 
                   
Total Investments in U.S. Government Securities (cost: $18,999,765)               $18,999,810 
                   
Total Investments (cost: $134,929,558)               $112,899,269 

 

   Method of  Number of     
   Valuation (1)  Contracts   Value 
            
Written Call Options (22) –
(0.1)% of net assets at value
             
              
Solazyme, Inc. — Strike Price $12.50, March 22, 2014  (M)   1,500    103,500 
              
Total Written Call Options (Premiums Received $112,382)          $(103,500)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Schedule of Investments

 

(1)See "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments" on page 127 for a description of the "Valuation Procedures."

 

(2)We classify "Energy" companies as those that seek to improve performance, productivity or efficiency, and to reduce environmental impact, waste, cost, energy consumption or raw materials. We classify "Electronics" companies as those that address problems in electronics-related industries, including semiconductors. We classify "Life Sciences" companies as those that address problems in life sciences-related industries, including biotechnology, agriculture, advanced materials and chemicals, healthcare, bioprocessing, water, industrial biotechnology, food, nutrition and energy.

 

(3)Investments in unaffiliated companies consist of investments in which we own less than five percent of the voting shares of the portfolio company. Investments in non-controlled affiliated companies consist of investments in which we own five percent or more, but less than 25 percent, of the voting shares of the portfolio company, or where we hold one or more seats on the portfolio company’s Board of Directors but do not control the company. Investments in controlled affiliated companies consist of investments in which we own 25 percent or more of the voting shares of the portfolio company or otherwise control the company.

 

(4)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in unaffiliated privately held companies is $29,277,213. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $6,909,761. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $6,987,410.

 

(5)All or a portion of the investments or instruments are pledged as collateral under our loan facility.

 

(6)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in unaffiliated rights to milestone payments is $3,291,750. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $197,683. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $0.

 

(7)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in unaffiliated publicly traded companies is $2,451,410. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $3,119,386. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $0.

 

(8)We are subject to legal restrictions on the sale of our investment(s) in this company.

 

(9)These investments are development-stage companies. A development-stage company is defined as a company that is devoting substantially all of its efforts to establishing a new business, and either it has not yet commenced its planned principal operations, or it has commenced such operations but has not realized significant revenue from them.

 

(10)Represents a non-income producing security. Investments that have not paid dividends or interest within the last 12 months are considered to be non-income producing.

 

(11)Cobalt Technologies, Inc., also does business as Cobalt Biofuels.

 

(12)With our investments in convertible bridge notes issued by Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation, we received warrants to purchase a number of shares of the class of stock sold in the next financing of Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation equal to $260,989 divided by the price per share of the class of stock sold in the next financing of Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation. The ability to exercise these warrants is, therefore, contingent on Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation completing successfully a subsequent round of financing. These warrants shall expire and no longer be exercisable on dates ranging from September 10, 2015, through July 8, 2020. The cost basis of these warrants is $157.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated schedule.

 

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(13)With our investment in the Mersana Therapeutics, Inc., Series A-1 financing, we received a warrant to purchase 277,760 shares of Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock. The ability to exercise the warrant is contingent upon Mersana's achievement of certain milestones. Mersana has not achieved those milestones as of December 31, 2013, and, therefore, this warrant is a contingent asset as of that date. The warrant will expire on July 27, 2022.

 

(14)As part of a loan the Company made to Molecular Imprints in the second quarter of 2011, we received a liquidation preference payable upon a sale of the company equal to three times the principal of the loan, or $4,044,450. This preference is senior to the preferences of the outstanding preferred stock. While the loan has since been repaid, this liquidation preference remains outstanding as of December 31, 2013.

 

(15)On February 13, 2014, Molecular Imprints, Inc., announced that it had signed an agreement to sell its semiconductor lithography equipment business to Canon, Inc. See "Note 13. Subsequent Events."

 

(16)OHSO Clean, Inc. also does business as CleanWell Company.

 

(17)A portion of this security is held in connection with written call option contracts: 150,000 shares, having a fair value of $1,633,500, have been pledged to brokers.

 

(18)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in non-controlled affiliated privately held companies is $71,843,448. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $10,212,841. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $27,769,249.

 

(19)Adesto Technologies Corporation's Series E shares have certain rights and preferences in a sale or IPO that are not ascribed to the other classes of stock.

 

(20)On January 29, 2013, AgInnovation, LLC, changed its name to AgBiome, LLC.

 

(21)On February 27, 2014, the board of directors of Contour Energy Systems, Inc., adopted a plan of complete liquidation and dissolution. See "Note 13. Subsequent Events."

 

(22)D-Wave Systems, Inc., is located and is doing business primarily in Canada. We invested in D-Wave Systems, Inc., through Parallel Universes, Inc., a Delaware company. Our investment is denominated in Canadian dollars and is subject to foreign currency translation. See "Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies."

 

(23)Initial investment was made in 2013.

 

(24)On January 21, 2014, substantially all of Kovio's assets were sold to Thin Film Electronics ASA. See "Note 13. Subsequent Events."

 

(25)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in controlled affiliated companies is $9,065,972. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $0. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $7,713,346.

 

(26)On October 31, 2013, Ancora sold a substantial portion of its assets, including the use of its corporate name, to CordenPharma International US, Inc. ("Corden").  The remaining assets formed a new company, SynGlyco, Inc., of which we continue to own shares.  SynGlyco may receive future royalty payments based upon certain sales targets and other terms of the Corden acquisition.

 

(27)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of our U.S. government securities is $18,999,765. The gross unrealized appreciation on the tax cost for these securities is $45. The gross unrealized depreciation on the tax cost of these securities is $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated schedule.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (3) –
33.3% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (4) –
19.4% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Bridgelux, Inc. (7)(8)     Energy               
Manufacturing high-power light emitting
diodes (LEDs) and arrays
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,000,000    1,861,504   $426,744 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,352,196    2,130,699    488,456 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,371,622    999,999    356,865 
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      672,599    440,334    520,495 
Series E-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      534,482    399,579    368,251 
Warrants for Series C Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 12/31/14
  ( I )      168,270    163,900    11,210 
Warrants for Series D Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 8/26/14
  ( I )      88,531    124,999    8,295 
Warrants for Series D Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 3/10/15
  ( I )      40,012    41,666    3,976 
Warrants for Series E Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 12/31/17
  ( I )      93,969    170,823    144,181 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 6/1/16  ( I )      72,668    132,100    3,308 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 10/21/18  ( I )      18,816    84,846    3,800 
          5,413,165         2,335,581 
                      
Cambrios Technologies Corporation (7)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing nanowire-enabled electronic
materials for the display industry
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,294,025    1,294,025    700,454 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,300,000    1,300,000    703,688 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      515,756    515,756    870,338 
Series D-2 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      92,400    92,400    86,625 
Series D-4 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      216,168    216,168    202,658 
          3,418,349         2,563,763 
                      
Cobalt Technologies, Inc. (7)(9)(11)     Energy               
Developing processes for making bio-
butanol through biomass fermentation
                     
Series C-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      749,998    352,112    933,802 
Series D-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      122,070    48,828    140,664 
Series E-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      42,328    16,890    41,143 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 10%, acquired 5/25/12  (M)      47,828   $45,097    47,828 
Warrants for Series E-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 10/9/22  ( I )      2,781    1,407    3,116 
          965,005         1,166,553 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (3) –
33.3% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (4) –
19.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation (7)(9)(12)     Life Sciences               
Developing DNA-Programmed ChemistryTM
for the discovery of new classes of therapeutics
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $2,000,000    1,449,275   $0 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 9/11/08  (M)      336,550   $250,211    1,563,344 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 12/10/09  (M)      60,858   $48,868    300,461 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 1/25/12  (M)      117,634   $109,400    654,027 
          2,515,042         2,517,832 
                      
GEO Semiconductor Inc. (13)     Electronics               
Developing programmable, high-performance
video and geometry processing solutions
                     
Participation Agreement with Montage
Capital relating to the following assets:
                     
Senior secured debt, 13.75%, maturing on 1/15/13  ( I )      285,125   $375,801    347,830 
Warrants for Series A Pref. Stock expiring on 9/17/17  ( I )      66,684    100,000    79,796 
Warrants for Series A-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 6/30/18  ( I )      23,566    34,500    28,013 
Loan and Security Agreement with GEO Semiconductor
relating to the following assets:
                     
Subordinated secured debt, 15.75%, maturing on 1/15/13  ( I )      109,574   $125,000    120,410 
Warrants for Series A Pref. Stock expiring on 3/1/18  ( I )      7,512    10,000    7,511 
Warrants for Series A-1 Pref. Stock expiring on 6/29/18  ( I )      7,546    10,000    7,535 
          500,007         591,095 
                      
Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. (7)(9)(14)     Life Sciences               
Developing treatments for cancer based
on novel drug delivery polymers
                     
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      316,453    294,019    316,453 
Common Stock  (M)      3,875,395    350,539    108,667 
          4,191,848         425,120 
                      
Molecular Imprints, Inc. (7)(10)(15)     Electronics               
Manufacturing nanoimprint
lithography capital equipment
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,000,000    1,333,333    1,789,108 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,406,595    1,285,071    2,138,498 
Non-Convertible Bridge Note  ( I )      0   $0    3,033,338 
          4,406,595         6,960,944 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (3) –  
33.3% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (4) –
19.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Nanosys, Inc. (7)     Energy               
Developing inorganic nanowires and
quantum dots for use in LED-backlit devices
                     
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,500,000    803,428   $186,032 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      3,000,003    1,016,950    2,814,423 
Series E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      496,573    433,688    698,783 
Unsecured Convertible Bridge Note, 4%, acquired 7/16/12  (M)      44,633   $43,821    249,067 
          5,041,209         3,948,305 
                      
Nano Terra, Inc. (9)     Energy               
Developing surface chemistry and nano-
manufacturing solutions
                     
Senior secured debt, 12.0%, maturing on 12/1/15  ( I )      614,597   $650,000    622,600 
Warrants for Series A-2 Pref. Stock expiring on 2/22/21  ( I )      69,168    446,248    66,003 
Warrants for Series C Pref. Stock expiring on 11/15/22  ( I )      35,403    241,662    35,271 
          719,168         723,874 
                      
Nantero, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing a high-density, nonvolatile,
random access memory chip, enabled
by carbon nanotubes
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      489,999    345,070    1,349,224 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      323,000    207,051    809,569 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      571,329    188,315    736,312 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      139,075    35,569    139,075 
          1,523,403         3,034,180 
                      
OHSO Clean, Inc. (16)(17)     Life Sciences               
Developing natural, hypoallergenic household
cleaning products enabled by nanotechnology-
enabled formulations of thyme oil
                     
Participation Agreement with Montage
Capital relating to the following assets:
                     
Senior secured debt, 13.00%, maturing on 3/31/15  ( I )      580,025   $683,200    615,750 
Warrants for Series C Pref. Stock expiring on 3/30/22  ( I )      91,742    1,109,333    66,759 
          671,767         682,509 
                      
Total Unaffiliated Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $29,365,558)                  $24,949,756 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Rights to Milestone Payments (Illiquid) (5) –
2.7% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Amgen, Inc. (7)(10)     Life Sciences               
Rights to Milestone Payments from
Acquisition of BioVex Group, Inc.
  ( I )     $3,291,750   $3,291,750   $3,400,734 
                      
Total Unaffiliated Rights to Milestone Payments (cost: $3,291,750)                  $3,400,734 
                      
Publicly Traded Portfolio (6) –
11.2% of net assets at value
                     
                     
NeoPhotonics Corporation (10)(18)     Electronics               
Developing and manufacturing
optical devices and components
                     
Common Stock  (M)     $821,971    50,807   $291,632 
                      
Solazyme, Inc. (10)(19)     Energy               
Developing algal biodiesel, industrial
chemicals and specialty ingredients using
synthetic biology
                     
Common Stock  (M)      4,248,476    1,797,790    14,130,629 
                      
Total Unaffiliated Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $5,070,447)                  $14,422,261 
                      
Total Investments in Unaffiliated Companies (cost: $37,727,755)                  $42,772,751 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2012

 

   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
48.4% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (20) –
47.3% of net assets at value
                     
                      
ABSMaterials, Inc. (7)(9)     Energy               
Developing nano-structured absorbent
materials for environmental remediation
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $435,000    390,000   $97,871 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 8%, acquired 10/1/12  (M)      204,033   $200,000    232,080 
          639,033         329,951 
                      
Adesto Technologies Corporation (7)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing low-power, high-performance
memory devices
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,200,000    6,547,619    4,474,625 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,200,000    5,952,381    4,117,841 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,485,531    2,122,187    1,643,416 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,393,147    1,466,470    1,227,285 
          7,278,678         11,463,167 
                      
AgBiome, LLC (formerly AgInnovation, LLC) (7)(9)(10)(16)(21)     Life Sciences               
Providing early stage research and discovery for
agriculture and utilizing the crop microbiome to
identify products that reduce risk and improve yield
                     
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,000,000    2,000,000    2,000,000 
                      
Contour Energy Systems, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Energy               
Developing batteries using
nanostructured materials
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,009,995    2,565,798    1,703,814 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,300,000    812,500    1,008,380 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,200,000    1,148,325    1,125,002 
          4,509,995         3,837,196 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled  
Affiliated Companies (3) –
48.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (20) –  
47.3% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
D-Wave Systems, Inc. (7)(9)(22)     Electronics               
Developing high-performance
quantum computing systems
                     
Series 1 Class B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $1,002,074    1,144,869   $1,493,024 
Series 1 Class C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      487,804    450,450    587,432 
Series 1 Class D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      748,473    855,131    1,115,176 
Series 1 Class E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      248,049    269,280    351,168 
Series 1 Class F Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      238,323    258,721    337,398 
Series 2 Class D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      736,019    678,264    884,524 
Series 2 Class E Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      409,032    317,746    414,372 
Series 2 Class F Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      392,993    305,286    398,124 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 6/30/15  ( I )      98,644    153,890    40,103 
          4,361,411         5,621,321 
                      
Enumeral Biomedical Corp. (7)(9)(10)     Life Sciences               
Developing therapeutics and diagnostics
through functional assaying of single cells
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,026,832    957,038    1,325,507 
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      750,000    576,923    750,000 
          1,776,832         2,075,507 
                      
HzO, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing novel industrial coatings that
protect electronics against damage from liquids
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      666,667    4,057,294    760,227 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,000,000    7,895,776    1,737,366 
          2,666,667         2,497,593 
                      
Kovio, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing semiconductor products using
printed electronics and thin-film technologies
                     
Series A' Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      5,242,993    2,160,000    359,321 
Series B' Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,006,540    3,015,493    1,362,591 
          7,249,533         1,721,912 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
48.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (20) –
47.3% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Metabolon, Inc. (7)(10)     Life Sciences               
Developing service and diagnostic products
through the use of a metabolomics, or
biochemical, profiling platform
                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $2,500,000    371,739   $1,951,723 
Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      706,214    148,696    780,689 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,000,000    1,000,000    1,794,510 
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,499,999    835,882    1,499,999 
Warrants for Series B-1 Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 3/25/15
  ( I )      293,786    74,348    71,164 
          5,999,999         6,098,085 
                      
                      
Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc. (7)(9)(10)(23)     Energy               
Developed thin-film thermoelectric devices
for cooling and energy conversion
                     
Common Stock  (M)      4,384,762    8,080,153    0 
                      
                      
OpGen, Inc. (7)(10)(15)     Life Sciences               
Developing tools for genomic sequence
assembly and analysis
                     
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      3,260,000    23,623,188    3,260,000 
                      
Produced Water Absorbents, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Energy               
Developing nano-stuctured absorbent materials
for environmental remediation of contaminated
water in the oil and gas industries
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,000,000    1,000,000    278,170 
                      
                      
Senova Systems, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Life Sciences               
Developing next-generation sensors to measure pH                     
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,218,462    1,350,000    810,000 
Warrants for Series B Preferred Stock expiring 10/15/17  ( I )      131,538    164,423    98,637 
          1,350,000         908,637 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
48.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) (20) –
47.3% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
SiOnyx, Inc. (7)(9)(10)     Electronics               
Developing silicon-based optoelectronic
products enabled by its proprietary Black Silicon
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $750,000    233,499   $160,367 
Series A-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      890,000    2,966,667    2,037,507 
Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      2,445,000    4,207,537    2,889,736 
Series B-1 Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,169,561    1,892,836    1,300,000 
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      1,171,316    1,674,030    1,255,523 
Warrants for Series B-1 Convertible Preferred
Stock expiring 2/23/17
  ( I )      130,439    247,350    50,113 
Warrants for Common Stock expiring 3/28/17  ( I )      84,207    418,507    32,098 
          6,640,523         7,725,344 
                      
Ultora, Inc. (7)(9)     Energy               
Developing energy-storage devices
enabled by carbon nanotubes
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      671,830    671,830    671,830 
                      
Xradia, Inc. (7)(10)     Electronics               
Designing, manufacturing and selling ultra-
high resolution 3D x-ray microscopes and
fluorescence imaging systems
                     
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      4,000,000    3,121,099    12,303,684 
                      
Total Non-Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $57,789,263)               $60,792,397 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Non-Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3) –
48.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                
                      
Publicly Traded Portfolio (Illiquid) (24) –
1.1% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Champions Oncology, Inc. (10)     Life Sciences               
Developing its TumorGraftTM platform for
personalized medicine and drug development
                     
Common Stock  (M)     $2,000,000    2,666,667   $1,348,227 
                      
Total Non-Controlled Affiliated Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $2,000,000)               $1,348,227 
                      
Total Investments in Non-Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost: $59,789,263)               $62,140,624 
                      
Investments in Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3)(25) –
2.4% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) –
2.4% of net assets at value
                     
                      
Ancora Pharmaceuticals Inc. (7)(9)     Life Sciences               
Developing synthetic carbohydrates for
pharmaceutical applications
                     
Common Stock  ( I )     $2,729,817    57,463   $0 
Series A' Convertible Preferred Stock  ( I )      4,855,627    4,855,627    521,494 
Senior Secured Debt, 12.00%, maturing on 12/11/13  ( I )      446,731   $500,000    453,270 
          8,032,175         974,764 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Primary      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Industry (2)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                   
Investments in Controlled
Affiliated Companies (3)(25) –
2.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                
                      
Private Placement Portfolio (Illiquid) –
2.4% of net assets at value (Cont.)
                     
                      
Laser Light Engines, Inc. (7)(9)     Energy               
Manufacturing solid-state light sources for
digital cinema and large-venue projection displays
                     
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)     $2,000,000    7,499,062   $0 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock  (M)      3,095,802    13,571,848    1,008,225 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 10/7/11  (M)      229,721   $200,000    229,721 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 11/17/11  (M)      108,577   $95,652    108,577 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 12/21/11  (M)      92,848   $82,609    92,848 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 3/5/12  (M)      477,953   $434,784    477,953 
Secured Convertible Bridge Note, 12%, acquired 7/26/12  (M)      196,728   $186,955    196,728 
          6,201,629         2,114,052 
                      
Total Controlled Private Placement Portfolio (cost: $14,233,804)                 $3,088,816 
                      
Total Investments in Controlled Affiliated Companies (cost: $14,233,804)               $3,088,816 
                      
Total Private Placement and Publicly Traded Portfolio (cost: $111,750,822)               $108,002,191 

 

   Method of      Shares/     
   Valuation (1)  Cost   Principal   Value 
                
U.S. Government Securities (26) –
10.9% of net assets at value
              
                   
U.S. Treasury Bill — due date 03/28/13  (M)  $13,996,136   $14,000,000   $13,998,880 
                   
Total Investments in U.S. Government Securities (cost: $13,996,136)               $13,998,880 
                   
Total Investments (cost: $125,746,958)               $122,001,071 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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   Method of  Number of     
   Valuation (1)  Contracts   Value 
Written Call Options (16) –  
(0.03)% of net assets at value
          
              
Solazyme, Inc. — Strike Price $10.00, March 16, 2013  (M)   1,500    (37,500)
NeoPhotonics Corporation — Strike Price $7.50, February 16, 2013  (M)   500    (5,000)
              
Total Written Call Options (Premiums Received $50,000)          $(42,500)

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Schedule of Investments

 

(3)See "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments" on page 127 for a description of the "Valuation Procedures."

 

(4)We classify "Energy" companies as those that seek to improve performance, productivity or efficiency, and to reduce environmental impact, waste, cost, energy consumption or raw materials using nanotechnology-enabled solutions. We classify "Electronics" companies as those that use nanotechnology to address problems in electronics-related industries, including semiconductors. In the fourth quarter of 2012, we renamed the industry classification "Healthcare" to "Life Sciences." We classify "Life Sciences" companies as those that address problems in life sciences-related industries, including biotechnology, agriculture, advanced materials and chemicals, healthcare, bioprocessing, water, industrial biotechnology, food, nutrition and energy.

 

(3)Investments in unaffiliated companies consist of investments in which we own less than five percent of the voting shares of the portfolio company. Investments in non-controlled affiliated companies consist of investments in which we own five percent or more, but less than 25 percent, of the voting shares of the portfolio company, or where we hold one or more seats on the portfolio company’s Board of Directors but do not control the company. Investments in controlled affiliated companies consist of investments in which we own 25 percent or more of the voting shares of the portfolio company or otherwise control the company.

 

(4)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in unaffiliated privately held companies is $29,365,558. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $4,376,000. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $8,791,802.

 

(5)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in unaffiliated rights to milestone payments is $3,291,750. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $108,984. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $0.

 

(6)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in unaffiliated publicly traded companies is $5,070,447. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $9,882,153. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $530,339.
   
(7)We are subject to legal restrictions on the sale of our investment(s) in this company.

 

(8)With the conversion of our bridge note into shares of Series E-1 Preferred Stock, we received a warrant to purchase shares of common stock at $0.25 per share. The number of shares is determined by certain financial targets for 2012 set upon receipt of the audited financial statements for 2012. These financial statements have not yet been issued, and, therefore, the warrant remains contingent as of December 31, 2012.

 

(9)These investments are development-stage companies. A development-stage company is defined as a company that is devoting substantially all of its efforts to establishing a new business, and either it has not yet commenced its planned principal operations, or it has commenced such operations but has not realized significant revenue from them.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated schedule.

 

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(10)Represents a non-income producing security. Investments that have not paid dividends or interest within the last 12 months are considered to be non-income producing.

 

(11)Cobalt Technologies, Inc., also does business as Cobalt Biofuels.

 

(12)With our investment in a convertible bridge note issued by Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation, we received a warrant to purchase a number of shares of the class of stock sold in the next financing of Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation equal to $149,540 divided by the price per share of the class of stock sold in the next financing of Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation. The ability to exercise this warrant is, therefore, contingent on Ensemble Therapeutics Corporation completing successfully a subsequent round of financing. This warrant shall expire and no longer be exercisable on September 10, 2015. The cost basis of this warrant is $89.86.

 

(13)The outstanding loans with maturity dates of 1/15/13 were not repaid as of that date. The maturity dates of these loans are expected to be extended to at least 6/30/13. GEO Semiconductor continues to pay principal and interest, as applicable, on each loan based on the terms negotiated as of December 31, 2012.

 

(14)With our investment in the Mersana Therapeutics, Inc., Series A-1 financing, we received a warrant to purchase 277,760 shares of Series A-2 Convertible Preferred Stock. The ability to exercise the warrant is contingent upon Mersana's achievement of certain milestones. Mersana has not achieved those milestones as of December 31, 2012, and, therefore, this warrant is a contingent asset as of that date. The warrant will expire on July 27, 2022.

 

(15)As part of a loan the Company made to Molecular Imprints in the second quarter of 2011, we received a liquidation preference payable upon a sale of the company equal to three times the principal of the loan, or $4,044,450. This preference is senior to the preferences of the outstanding preferred stock. While the loan has since been repaid, this liquidation preference remains outstanding as of December 31, 2012.

 

(16)Initial investment was made during 2012.

 

(17)OHSO Clean, Inc. also does business as CleanWell Company.

 

(18)A portion of this security is held in connection with written call option contracts: 50,000 shares, having a fair value of $287,000, have been pledged to brokers.

 

(19)A portion of this security is held in connection with written call option contracts: 150,000 shares, having a fair value of $1,175,000, have been pledged to brokers.

 

(20)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in non-controlled affiliated companies is $57,789,263. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $15,229,665. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $12,226,531.

 

(21)On January 29, 2013, AgInnovation, LLC, changed its name to AgBiome, LLC.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated schedule.

 

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(22)D-Wave Systems, Inc., is located and is doing business primarily in Canada. We invested in D-Wave Systems, Inc., through Parallel Universes, Inc., a Delaware company. Our investment is denominated in Canadian dollars and is subject to foreign currency translation. See "Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies."

 

(23)On February 13, 2013, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., was acquired by Laird Technologies, Inc., for $1 and the potential for future milestone payments.

 

(24)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in non-controlled affiliated publicly traded companies is $2,000,000. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $0. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $651,773.

 

(25)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of investments in controlled affiliated companies is $14,233,804. The gross unrealized appreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $0. The gross unrealized depreciation based on the tax cost for these securities is $11,144,988.

 

(26)The aggregate cost for federal income tax purposes of our U.S. government securities is $13,996,136. The gross unrealized appreciation on the tax cost for these securities is $2,744. The gross unrealized depreciation on the tax cost of these securities is $0.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this consolidated schedule.

 

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FOOTNOTE TO CONSOLIDATED SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS

 

VALUATION PROCEDURES

 

I.Determination of Net Asset Value

 

The 1940 Act requires periodic valuation of each investment in the portfolio of the Company to determine its net asset value. Under the 1940 Act, unrestricted securities with readily available market quotations are to be valued at the current market value; all other assets must be valued at "fair value" as determined in good faith by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

 

The Board of Directors is also responsible for (1) determining overall valuation guidelines and (2) ensuring that the investments of the Company are valued within the prescribed guidelines.

 

The Valuation Committee, comprised of all of the independent Board members, is responsible for determining the valuation of the Company’s assets within the guidelines established by the Board of Directors. The Valuation Committee receives information and recommendations from management. An independent valuation firm also reviews select portfolio company valuations. The independent valuation firm does not provide proposed valuations.

 

The fair values assigned to these investments are based on available information and do not necessarily represent amounts that might ultimately be realized when that investment is sold, as such amounts depend on future circumstances and cannot reasonably be determined until the individual investments are actually liquidated or become readily marketable.

 

The Deal Team shall meet at the end of each quarter to discuss portfolio companies and propose fair valuations for all private securities. The Valuation Committee book shall be prepared with the use of data from primary sources whenever reasonably practicable. Proposed valuations for each portfolio company are communicated to the Valuation Committee in the Valuation Committee book and at the Valuation Committee meeting after the end of each quarter. The Valuation Committee determines the fair value of each private security and publicly traded securities without reliable market quotations. All valuations are then reported to the full Board of Directors along with the Chief Financial Officer’s calculation of net asset value.

 

II.Approaches to Determining Fair Value

 

Accounting Standards Codification Topic 820, "Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures," ("ASC 820") defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (exit price). It applies fair value terminology to all valuations whereas the 1940 Act applies market value terminology to readily marketable assets and fair value terminology to other assets.

 

The main approaches to measuring fair value utilized are the market approach and the income approach.

 

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·Market Approach (M): The market approach may use quantitative inputs such as prices and other relevant information generated by market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities and the values of market multiples derived from a set of comparable companies. The market approach may also use qualitative inputs such as progress toward milestones, the long-term potential of the business, current and future financing requirements and the rights and preferences of certain securities versus those of other securities. The selection of the relevant inputs used to derive value under the market approach requires judgment considering factors specific to the significance and relevance of each input to deriving value.

 

·Income Approach (I): The income approach uses valuation techniques to convert future amounts (for example, cash flows or earnings) to a single present value amount (discounted). The measurement is based on the value indicated by current market expectations about those future amounts. Those valuation techniques include present value techniques; option-pricing models, such as the Black-Scholes-Merton formula (a closed-form model) and a binomial model (a lattice model), which incorporate present value techniques; and the multi-period excess earnings method, which is used to measure the fair value of certain assets.

 

·Hybrid Approach (H): The hybrid approach uses elements of both the market approach and the income approach. The hybrid approach calculates values using the market and income approach, individually. The resulting values are then distributed among the share classes based on probability of exit outcomes.

 

ASC Topic 820 classifies the inputs used to measure fair value by these approaches into the following hierarchy:

 

·Level 1: Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

 

·Level 2: Quoted prices in active markets for similar assets or liabilities, or quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument. Level 2 inputs are in those markets for which there are few transactions, the prices are not current, little public information exists or instances where prices vary substantially over time or among brokered market makers; and

 

·Level 3: Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement. Unobservable inputs are those inputs that reflect our own assumptions that market participants would use to price the asset or liability based upon the best available information.

 

Financial assets and liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement and are not necessarily an indication of risks associated with the investment.

 

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III.Investment Categories

 

The Company’s investments can be classified into five broad categories for valuation purposes:

 

·Equity-related securities;

 

·Long-term fixed-income securities;

 

·Short-term fixed-income securities;

 

·Investments in intellectual property, patents, research and development in technology or product development; and

 

·All other securities.

 

The Company applies the methods for determining fair value discussed above to the valuation of investments in each of these five broad categories as follows:

 

A.EQUITY-RELATED SECURITIES

 

Equity-related securities, including options or warrants, are fair valued using the market or income approaches. The following factors may be considered when the market approach is used to fair value these types of securities:

 

§Readily available public market quotations;

 

§The cost of the Company’s investment;

 

§Transactions in a company's securities or unconditional firm offers by responsible parties as a factor in determining valuation;

 

§The financial condition and operating results of the company;

 

§The company's progress towards milestones;

 

§The long-term potential of the business and technology of the company;

 

§The values of similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses;

 

§Multiples to revenue, net income or EBITDA that similar securities issued by companies in similar businesses receive;

 

§The proportion of the company's securities we own and the nature of any rights to require the company to register restricted securities under applicable securities laws; and

 

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§The rights and preferences of the class of securities we own as compared with other classes of securities the portfolio company has issued.

 

When the income approach is used to value warrants, the Company uses the Black-Scholes-Merton formula.

 

B.LONG-TERM FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES

 

1.Readily Marketable. Long-term fixed-income securities for which market quotations are readily available are valued using the most recent bid quotations when available.

 

2.Not Readily Marketable. Long-term fixed-income securities for which market quotations are not readily available are fair valued using the income approach. The factors that may be considered when valuing these types of securities by the income approach include:

 

·Credit quality;

 

·Interest rate analysis;

 

·Quotations from broker-dealers;

 

·Prices from independent pricing services that the Board believes are reasonably reliable; and

 

·Reasonable price discovery procedures and data from other sources.

 

C.SHORT-TERM FIXED-INCOME SECURITIES

 

Short-term fixed-income securities are valued in the same manner as long-term fixed-income securities until the remaining maturity is 60 days or less, after which time such securities may be valued at amortized cost if there is no concern over payment at maturity.

 

D. INVESTMENTS IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, PATENTS, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN TECHNOLOGY OR PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

 

Such investments are fair valued using the market approach. The Company may consider factors specific to these types of investments when using the market approach including:

 

·The cost of the Company’s investment;

 

·Investments in the same or substantially similar intellectual property or patents or research and development in technology or product development or offers by responsible third parties;

 

·The results of research and development;

 

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·Product development and milestone progress;

 

·Commercial prospects;

 

·Term of patent;

 

·Projected markets; and

 

·Other subjective factors.

 

E.ALL OTHER SECURITIES

 

All other securities are reported at fair value as determined in good faith by the Valuation Committee using the approaches for determining valuation as described above.

 

For all other securities, the reported values shall reflect the Valuation Committee's judgment of fair values as of the valuation date using the outlined basic approaches of valuation discussed in Section II. They do not necessarily represent an amount of money that would be realized if we had to sell such assets in an immediate liquidation. Thus, valuations as of any particular date are not necessarily indicative of amounts that we may ultimately realize as a result of future sales or other dispositions of investments we hold.

 

IV.Frequency of Valuation

 

The Valuation Committee shall value the Company’s investment assets (i) as of the end of each calendar quarter at the time sufficiently far in advance of filing of the Company’s reports on Form 10-Q and Form 10-K to enable preparation thereof, (ii) as of within 48 hours of pricing any common stock of the Company by the Company (exclusive of Sundays and holidays) unless the proposed sale price is at least 200 percent of any reasonable net asset value of such shares, and (iii) as of any other time requested by the Board of Directors.

 

V.Regular Review

 

The General Counsel, President and Chief Financial Officer shall review these Valuation Procedures on an annual basis to determine the continued appropriateness and accuracy of the methodologies used in valuing the Company’s investment assets, and will report any proposed modifications to these Valuation Procedures to the Board of Directors for consideration and approval.

 

The Chief Executive Officer, the President and the individuals responsible for preparing the Valuation Committee book shall meet quarterly before each Valuation Committee meeting to review the methodologies for the valuation of each security, and will highlight any changes to the Valuation Committee.

 

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VI.Other Assets

 

Non-investment assets, such as fixtures and equipment, shall be valued using the cost approach less accumulated depreciation at rates determined by management and reviewed by the Audit Committee. Valuation of such assets is not the responsibility of the Valuation Committee.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

NOTE 1. THE COMPANY

 

Harris & Harris Group, Inc. (the "Company," "us," "our" and "we"), is a venture capital company operating as a business development company ("BDC") under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "1940 Act") that specializes in making investments in companies commercializing and integrating products enabled by nanotechnology and microsystems. We operate as an internally managed investment company whereby our officers and employees, under the general supervision of our Board of Directors, conduct our operations.

 

H&H Ventures Management, Inc.SM ("Ventures"), formerly Harris & Harris Enterprises, Inc.SM, is a 100 percent wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. Ventures is taxed under Subchapter C (a "C Corporation") of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (the "Code"). Harris Partners I, L.P, is a limited partnership and, from time to time, may be used to hold certain interests in portfolio companies. The partners of Harris Partners I, L.P., are Ventures (sole general partner) and the Company (sole limited partner). Ventures pays taxes on income generated by its operations as well as on any non-passive investment income generated by Harris Partners I, L.P. For the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, there was no non-passive investment income generated by Harris Partners I, L.P. Ventures, as the sole general partner, consolidates Harris Partners I, L.P. The Company consolidates its wholly owned subsidiary, Ventures, for financial reporting purposes.

 

NOTE 2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed in the preparation of the consolidated financial statements:

 

Principles of Consolidation. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America ("GAAP") and include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary. In accordance with GAAP and Regulation S-X, the Company may only consolidate its interests in investment company subsidiaries and controlled operating companies whose business consists of providing services to the Company. Our wholly owned subsidiary, Ventures, is a controlled operating company that provides services to us and is, therefore, consolidated. All significant inter-company accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation. Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.

 

Use of Estimates. The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and contingent assets and liabilities and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses. Actual results could differ from these estimates, and the differences could be material. The most significant estimates relate to the fair valuations of our investments.

 

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Portfolio Investment Valuations. Investments are stated at "value" as defined in the 1940 Act and in the applicable regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and in accordance with GAAP. Value, as defined in Section 2(a)(41) of the 1940 Act, is (i) the market price for those securities for which a market quotation is readily available and (ii) the fair value as determined in good faith by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors for all other assets. (See "Valuation Procedures" in the "Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments.") As of December 31, 2013, our financial statements include privately held investments fair valued at $88,352,165. The fair values of our privately held investments and warrants of Champions Oncology, Inc., a publicly traded company, were determined in good faith by, or under the direction of, the Board of Directors. Upon sale of investments, the values that are ultimately realized may be different from what is presently estimated. The difference could be material.

 

Cash. Cash includes demand deposits. Cash is carried at cost, which approximates fair value.

 

Restricted Funds. At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, we held $0 and $10,015, respectively, in "Restricted funds" related to security deposits for sublessors.

 

Unaffiliated Rights to Milestone Payments. At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the outstanding milestone payments from Amgen, Inc.’s acquisition of Biovex Group, Inc., were valued at $3,489,433 and $3,400,734, respectively. The milestone payments are derivatives and valued using the probability-adjusted, present value of proceeds from future payments that would be due upon successful completion of certain regulatory and sales milestones. If all remaining milestones are met, we would receive $9,526,393. There can be no assurance as to how much of this amount we will ultimately realize or when it will be realized, if at all. At December 31, 2013, the outstanding milestone payments from Laird Technologies, Inc.’s acquisition of Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc., were valued at $0.

 

Receivable from Sales of Investments. At December 31, 2013, we had a receivable totaling $448,886 from the sales of 43,073 shares of Solazyme, Inc., which settled on January 2 and January 6, 2014, and 2,075 shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., which settled on January 3, 2014.

 

Funds Held in Escrow from Sale of Investment. At December 31, 2013, there were funds held in escrow fair valued at $1,786,390 relating to the sale of Xradia, Inc., to Carl Zeiss AG. Funds held in escrow are valued using certain discounts applied to the amounts withheld. Funds held in escrow totaling $1,235,312 from the Xradia transaction were released in January 2014. The remaining funds held in escrow from the Xradia transaction will be released in July of 2014 net of any settlement of any indemnity claims and expenses related to the transaction. If the remaining funds held in escrow for this transaction are released in full, we would receive an additional $1,139,515 and realize a gain of $588,437.

 

Prepaid Expenses. We include prepaid insurance premiums and deferred financing charges in "Prepaid expenses." Prepaid insurance premiums are recognized over the term of the insurance contract. Deferred financing charges consist of fees and expenses paid in connection with the closing of loan facilities and are capitalized at the time of payment. Deferred financing charges are amortized over the term of the loan facility discussed in "Note 4. Debt." Amortization of the financing charges is included in "Interest and other debt expense" in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.

 

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Property and Equipment. Property and equipment are included in "Other assets" and are carried at $246,138 and $288,122 at December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, respectively, representing cost, less accumulated depreciation of $375,600 and $356,214, respectively. Depreciation is provided using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the premises and equipment. We estimate the useful lives to be five to ten years for furniture and fixtures, three years for computer equipment, and the lesser of ten years or the remaining life of the lease for leasehold improvements. All of our fixed assets are pledged as collateral under the Loan Facility.

 

Post Retirement Plan Liabilities. The Company provides a Retiree Medical Benefit Plan for employees who meet certain eligibility requirements. Until it was terminated on May 5, 2011, the Company also provided an Executive Mandatory Retirement Benefit Plan for certain individuals employed by us in a bona fide executive or high policy-making position. The net periodic postretirement benefit cost for the year is determined as the sum of service cost for the year and interest on the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation. Unrecognized actuarial gains and losses are recognized as net periodic benefit cost pursuant to the Company's historical accounting policy. The impact of plan amendments are amortized over the service period as a component of "Accumulated other comprehensive income."

 

Interest Income Recognition. Interest income, including amortization of premium and accretion of discount, is recorded on an accrual basis. When accrued interest is determined to not be recoverable, the Company ceases accruing interest and writes off any previously accrued interest. Securities are deemed to be non-income producing if, on their last interest or dividend date, no cash was paid or no cash or in-kind dividends were declared. These write-offs are reversed through interest income. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the Company earned $323,121 and $322,561, respectively, in interest on U.S. government securities, senior secured debt, participation agreements, subordinated secured debt, non-convertible promissory notes and interest-bearing accounts. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the Company recorded, on a net basis, $67,781 and $235,806, respectively, of bridge note interest. The total for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, includes a partial write-off of previously accrued bridge note interest of $218,213. The total for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, includes a partial write-off of previously accrued bridge note interest of $200,583, which was recognized in the second quarter of 2012, offset by $236,238 of interest recognized in the third quarter upon conversion of this investment. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the Company earned $80,000 and $107,586, respectively, on rental income from the sublet of our office space at 420 Florence Street, Palo Alto, CA.

 

Loan Fees. Loan fees received in connection with our venture debt investments are deferred. The unearned fee income is accreted into income based on the effective interest method over the life of the investment. Total loan fees accreted into investment income were $46,242, $56,274 and $20,173 for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively.

 

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Call Options. The Company writes covered call options on publicly traded securities with the intention of earning option premiums. Option premiums may increase the Company’s realized gains and, therefore, may help increase distributable income, but may limit the realized gains on the security. When a Company writes (sells) an option, an amount equal to the premium received by the Company is recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities as a liability. The amount of the liability is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current market value of the option written. When an option expires, the Company realizes a gain on the option to the extent of the premiums received. Premiums received from writing options that are exercised or closed are added to the proceeds or offset against the amount paid on the transaction to determine the realized gain or loss. At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the Company had 150,000 shares of Solazyme, Inc., covered by call option contracts. In the event these contracts are exercised, the Company would be required to deliver those shares to the counterparty. At December 31, 2012, the Company had 50,000 shares of NeoPhotonics Corporation covered by call option contracts.

 

Put Options. The Company purchases put options on publicly traded securities with the intention of limiting its downside risk. When the Company purchases a put option, an amount equal to the premium paid is recorded in the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities as an investment. The amount of this asset is subsequently marked-to-market to reflect the current value of the put option. In the event that the put option is exercised, the Company would be required to deliver those shares to the counterparty. When the put option expires unexercised, the Company realizes a loss on the premium paid. The Company did not have any put options outstanding at December 31, 2013, or December 31, 2012.

 

Stock-Based Compensation. The Company has a stock-based employee compensation plan. The Company accounts for the Amended and Restated Harris & Harris Group, Inc. 2012 Equity Incentive Plan (the "Stock Plan") by determining the fair value of all share-based payments to employees, including the fair value of grants of employee stock options and restricted stock awards, and records these amounts as an expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations over the vesting period with a corresponding increase to our additional paid-in capital. At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the increase to our operating expenses was offset by the increase to our additional paid-in capital, resulting in no net impact to our net asset value. Additionally, the Company does not record the potential tax benefits associated with the expensing of stock options or restricted stock because the Company currently intends to qualify as a regulated investment company ("RIC") under Subchapter M of the Code, and the deduction attributable to such expensing, therefore, is unlikely to provide any additional tax savings. The amount of non-cash, stock-based compensation expense recognized in the Consolidated Statements of Operations is based on the fair value of the awards the Company expects to vest, recognized over the vesting period on a straight-line basis for each award, and adjusted for actual awards vested and pre-vesting forfeitures. The forfeiture rate is estimated at the time of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if the actual forfeiture rate differs from the estimated rate and is accounted for in the current period and prospectively. See "Note 7. Stock-Based Compensation" for further discussion.

 

Rent expense. Our lease at 1450 Broadway, New York, New York, commenced on January 21, 2010. The lease expires on December 31, 2019. The base rent is $36 per square foot with a 2.5 percent increase per year over the 10 years of the lease, subject to a full abatement of rent for four months and a rent credit for six months throughout the lease term. Certain leasehold improvements were also paid for on our behalf by the landlord, the cost of which is accounted for as property and equipment and "Deferred rent" in the accompanying Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities. These leasehold improvements are depreciated over the lease term. We also lease office space in California and North Carolina. We apply these rent abatements, credits, escalations and landlord payments on a straight-line basis in the determination of rent expense over the lease term.

 

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Realized Gain or Loss and Unrealized Appreciation or Depreciation of Portfolio Investments. Realized gain or loss is recognized when an investment is disposed of and is computed as the difference between the Company's cost basis in the investment at the disposition date and the net proceeds received from such disposition. Realized gains and losses on investment transactions are determined by specific identification. Unrealized appreciation or depreciation is computed as the difference between the fair value of the investment and the cost basis of such investment.

 

Income Taxes. As we intend to qualify as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code, the Company does not accrue for income taxes. The Company has capital loss carryforwards that can be used to offset net realized capital gains. The Company recognizes interest and penalties in income tax expense. We pay federal, state and local income taxes on behalf of our wholly owned subsidiary, Ventures, which is a C corporation. See "Note 10. Income Taxes."

 

Foreign Currency Translation. The accounting records of the Company are maintained in U.S. dollars. All assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into U.S. dollars based on the rate of exchange of such currencies against U.S. dollars on the date of valuation. The Company does not isolate the portion of the results of operations that arises from changes in foreign currency rates on investments held on its Consolidated Statements of Operations. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, included in the net increase in unrealized depreciation on investments was an unrealized depreciation of $371,513 resulting from foreign currency translation. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2012, included in the net decrease in unrealized appreciation on investments was an unrealized gain of $123,904 resulting from foreign currency translation.

 

Securities Transactions. Securities transactions are accounted for on the date the transaction for the purchase or sale of the securities is entered into by the Company (i.e., trade date).

 

Concentration of Credit Risk. The Company places its cash and cash equivalents with financial institutions and, at times, cash held in depository accounts may exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insured limit.

 

NOTE 3. BUSINESS RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES

 

We invest primarily in privately held companies, the securities of which are inherently illiquid. We also have investments in small publicly traded companies. Although these companies are publicly traded, their stock may not trade at high volumes and prices can be volatile, which may restrict our ability to sell our positions. These privately held and publicly traded businesses tend to not have attained profitability, and many of these businesses also lack management depth and have limited or no history of operations. Because of the speculative nature of our investments and the lack of a liquid market for and restrictions on transfers of privately held investments, there is greater risk of loss relative to traditional marketable investment securities.

 

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We do not choose investments based on a strategy of diversification. We also do not rebalance the portfolio should one of our portfolio companies increase in value substantially relative to the rest of the portfolio.  Therefore, the value of our portfolio may be more vulnerable to microeconomic events affecting a single sector, industry or portfolio company and to general macroeconomic events that may be unrelated to our portfolio companies. These factors may subject the value of our portfolio to greater volatility than a company that follows a diversification strategy. As of December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, our largest 10 investments by value accounted for approximately 75 percent and 73 percent, respectively, of the value of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio. Our largest three investments, by value, Adesto Technologies Corporation, Metabolon, Inc., and Molecular Imprints, Inc., accounted for approximately 17 percent, 12 percent and 9 percent, respectively, of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio at December 31, 2013. Adesto Technologies, Metabolon and Molecular Imprints are privately held portfolio companies. As of December 31, 2012, our largest two investments, by value, Solazyme, Inc., a publicly traded company, and Xradia, Inc., a privately held company, accounted for approximately 14 percent and 12 percent, respectively, of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio.

 

Approximately 94 percent of the portion of our equity-focused venture capital portfolio that was fair valued was comprised of securities of 26 privately held companies and warrants of one publicly traded company. Because there is typically no public or readily ascertainable market for our interests in the small privately held companies in which we invest, the valuation of the securities in that portion of our portfolio is determined in good faith by our Valuation Committee, which is comprised of all of the independent members of our Board of Directors. The values are determined in accordance with our Valuation Procedures and are subject to significant estimates and judgments. The fair value of the securities in our portfolio may differ significantly from the values that would be placed on these securities if a ready market for the securities existed. Any changes in valuation are recorded in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as "Net (decrease) increase in unrealized appreciation on investments." Changes in valuation of any of our investments in privately held companies from one period to another may be significant.

 

NOTE 4. DEBT

 

On September 30, 2013, the Company terminated the $10,000,000 Revolving Loan Agreement by and between the Company and TD Bank, N.A., dated February 24, 2011. As of September 30, 2013, there was no principal outstanding under this credit facility, and no termination fees were incurred in connection with terminating this credit facility.

 

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On September 30, 2013, the Company entered into a four-year $20,000,000 Multi-Draw Term Loan Facility Credit Agreement, by and among the Company, as borrower, Orix Corporate Capital, Inc., as administrative agent and lender and the other lenders party thereto from time to time, which provides for a multi-draw loan facility (the "Loan Facility") that may be used by the Company to fund investments in portfolio companies. The Loan Facility replaces the Company’s prior credit facility with TD Bank, NA. The Loan Facility, among other things, matures on September 30, 2017, and bears interest at 10 percent per annum in cash. The Company has the option to have interest accrue at a rate of 13.5 percent per annum if the Company decides not to pay interest in cash monthly. The Company currently plans to pay interest in cash if and when any borrowings are outstanding. The Loan Facility also requires payment of a draw fee on each borrowing equal to 1.0 percent of such borrowing and an unused commitment fee of 1.0 percent per annum. Fee payments under the Loan Facility are made quarterly in arrears. The Company may prepay the loans or reduce the aggregate commitments under the Loan Facility at any time prior to the maturity date, as long as certain conditions are met, including payment of required prepayment or termination fees. The Loan Facility is secured by all of the assets of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, subject to certain customary exclusions. The Loan Facility contains certain affirmative and negative covenants, including without limitation: (a) maintenance of certain minimum liquidity requirements; (b) maintenance of an eligible asset leverage ratio of not less than 4.0:1.0; (c) limitations on liens; (d) limitations on the incurrence of additional indebtedness; and (e) limitations on structural changes, mergers and disposition of assets (other than in the normal course of our business activities). There were no borrowings at closing.

 

At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, the Company had no outstanding debt. At December 31, 2012, $0 was held in a collateral account at TD Bank, N.A. as security for the loan under the prior credit facility. The weighted average annual interest rate for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, was zero percent, exclusive of amortization of closing fees and other expenses. The weighted average debt outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2013, was $0. The remaining capacity under the Loan Facility was $20,000,000 at December 31, 2013. Fees and expenses of $700,000 related to establishing the Loan Facility have been deferred and included as "Prepaid expenses" as of December 31, 2013. These amounts are amortized over the term of the Loan Facility and $44,199 was amortized in 2013. At December 31, 2013, the Company was in compliance with all covenants required by the Loan Facility.

 

Year 

Total Debt Outstanding (Unit)

Exclusive of Treasury Securities

  

Total Assets per

Unit of Indebtedness

 
2013  $0   $0 

 

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NOTE 5. FAIR VALUE OF INVESTMENTS

 

At December 31, 2013, our financial assets were categorized as follows in the fair value hierarchy:

 

   Fair Value Measurement at Reporting Date Using: 
       Unadjusted Quoted         
       Prices in Active Markets   Significant Other   Significant 
       for Identical Assets   Observable Inputs   Unobservable Inputs 
Description  December 31, 2013   (Level 1)   (Level 2)   (Level 3) 
                 
U.S. Government Securities:  $18,999,810   $18,999,810   $0   $0 
                     
Privately Held Portfolio Companies:                    
Preferred Stock  $71,577,059   $0   $0   $71,577,059 
Bridge Notes   6,044,114    0    0    6,044,114 
Warrants   800,487    0    0    800,487 
Rights to Milestone Payments   3,489,433    0    0    3,489,433 
Common Stock   108,668    0    0    108,668 
Senior Secured Debt   1,511,828    0    0    1,511,828 
Participation Agreement   777,195    0    0    777,195 
Non-Convertible Promissory Note   4,043,381    0    4,043,381    0 
                     
Publicly Traded Portfolio Companies:                    
Common Stock  $5,547,294   $5,547,294   $0   $0 
                     
Total Investments:  $112,899,269   $24,547,104   $4,043,381   $84,308,784 
                     
Funds Held in Escrow From
Sales of Investments:
  $1,786,390   $0   $0   $1,786,390 
                     
Total Financial Assets:  $114,685,659   $24,547,104   $4,043,381   $86,095,174 
                     
Liabilities:                    
Written Call Options  $103,500   $103,500   $0   $0 
                     
Total Liabilities:  $103,500   $103,500   $0   $0 

 

Significant Unobservable Inputs

 

The table below presents the valuation technique and quantitative information about the significant unobservable inputs utilized by the Company in the fair value measurements of Level 3 assets. Unobservable inputs are those inputs for which little or no market data exists and, therefore, require an entity to develop its own assumptions.

 

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   Fair Value at   Valuation     Range (Weighted
   December 31, 2013   Techniques(s)  Unobservable Input  Average(a))
              
           Private Offering Price  $1.38 ($1.38)
           Probability of Exit Outcomes  25% - 75% (b)
Preferred Stock  $1,419,855   Hybrid Approach  Probability of Achieving Milestones  26% - 80% (b)
               
           Non-Performance Risk  0% - 100% (0%)
           Probability of Exit Outcomes  0% - 100% (b)
    4,235,562   Income Approach  Probability of Achieving Milestones  0% - 100% (b)
               
           Private Offering Price  $0.10 - $3.91 ($1.30)
           Non-Performance Risk  0% - 97% (5%)
           Revenue Multiples  1.15 - 7.27 (1.06)
           Illiquidity Discounts  20% - 30% (2.5%)
    65,921,642   Market Approach  Probability of Exit Outcomes  0% - 100% (b)
               
    2,679,932   Hybrid Approach      
    333,845   Income Approach  Private Offering Price  $1.00 ($1.00)
Bridge Notes   3,030,337   Market Approach  Non-Performance Risk  0% (0%)
               
           Private Offering Price  $0.001 - $47.51 ($11.06)
Common Stock   108,668   Market Approach  Non-Performance Risk  0% (0%)
               
           Stock Price  $0.06 - $2.76 ($1.36)
       Black-Sholes-Merton  Volatility  22.6% - 107% (105%)
Warrants   800,487   Model  Expected Term  0.50 - 9.20 Years (3.3)
               
        Probability Weighted     
Rights to Milestone       Discounted Cash  Probability of Achieving Independent Milestones  0% - 80% (b)
Payments   3,489,433   Flow  Probability of Achieving Dependent Milestones  0% - 30% (b)
               
            Warrant Adjusted Effective Yield  21.5% (21.5%)
           Effective Yield  21.5% (21.5%)
           Non-Performance Risk  0% (0%)
           Participation Payment Risk  0% (0%)
           Stock Price  $0.09 - $0.50 ($0.34)
Participation          Volatility  107% (107%)
Agreements(c)777,195   Income Approach  Expected Term  3.72 - 8.25 Years (5.59)
               
Senior Secured Debt   1,511,828   Income Approach  Effective Yield
Non-Performance Risk
  15.8% - 22.7% (19.6%)
0% (0%)
               
Funds Held in              
Escrow From Sales              
of Investments   1,786,390      Escrow Discounts  50% (50%)
               
Total  $86,095,174          

 

(a) Weighted average based on fair value at December 31, 2013.

 

(b) Weighted average has not been disclosed owing to the wide range of possible values.

 

(c) In connection with our investments in participation agreements in GEO Semiconductor, Inc., and OHSO Clean, Inc., we received warrants to purchase stock. See "Warrants" for a discussion of the valuation methodology used.

 

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Valuation Methodologies and Inputs for Level 3 Assets

 

The following sections describe the valuation techniques and significant unobservable inputs used to measure Level 3 assets.

 

Preferred Stock, Bridge Notes and Common Stock

 

Preferred stock, bridge notes and common stock are valued by either a market or income approach using internal models with inputs, most of which are not market observable. Common inputs for valuing Level 3 preferred stock, bridge note and private common stock investments include: prices from recently executed private transactions in a company’s securities or unconditional firm offers, revenue multiples of comparable publicly traded companies, M&A transactions consummated by comparable companies, discounts for lack of marketability, rights and preferences of the class of securities we own as compared with other classes of securities the portfolio company has issued, particularly related to potential liquidity scenarios of an IPO or an acquisition transaction, and management’s best estimate of risk attributable to non-performance risk. Certain securities are valued using the present value of future cash flows. We define non-performance risk as the risk that the price per share (or implied valuation of a portfolio company) or the effective yield of a debt security of a portfolio company, as applicable, does not appropriately represent the risk that a portfolio company with negative cash flow will be: (a) unable to raise capital, will need to be shut down and will not return our invested capital; or (b) able to raise capital, but at a valuation significantly lower than the implied post-money valuation of the last round of financing.  We assess non-performance risk for each private portfolio company quarterly. Our assessment of non-performance risk typically includes an evaluation of the financial condition and operating results of the company, the company's progress towards milestones, and the long-term potential of the business and technology of the company and how this potential may or may not affect the value of the shares owned by us. An increase to the non-performance risk or a decrease in the private offering price of a future round of financing from that of the most recent round would result in a lower fair value measurement and/or a change in the distribution of value among the classes of securities we own.

 

Bridge notes commonly contain terms that provide for the conversion of the full amount of principal, and sometimes interest, into shares of preferred stock at a defined price per share and/or the price per share of the next round of financing. The use of a discount for non-performance risk in the valuation of bridge notes would indicate the potential for conversion of only a portion of the principal, plus interest when applicable, into shares of preferred stock or the potential that a conversion event will not occur and that the likely outcome of a liquidation of assets would result in payment of less than the remaining principal outstanding of the note. An increase in non-performance risk would result in a lower fair value measurement.

 

Warrants

 

We use the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model to determine the fair value of warrants held in our portfolio. Option pricing models, including the Black-Scholes-Merton model, require the use of subjective input assumptions, including expected volatility, expected life, expected dividend rate, and expected risk-free rate of return. In the Black-Scholes-Merton model, variations in the expected volatility or expected term assumptions have a significant impact on fair value. Because certain securities underlying the warrants in our portfolio are not publicly traded, many of the required input assumptions are more difficult to estimate than they would be if a public market for the underlying securities existed.

 

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An input to the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model is the value per share of the type of stock for which the warrant is exercisable as of the date of valuation. This input is derived according to the methodologies discussed in "Preferred Stock, Bridge Notes and Common Stock."

 

Rights to Milestone Payments

 

Rights to milestone payments are valued using a probability-weighted discounted cash flow model. As part of Amgen Inc.’s acquisition of our former portfolio company, BioVex Group, Inc., we are entitled to potential future milestone payments based upon the achievement of certain regulatory and sales milestones. We are also entitled to future milestone payments from Laird Technologies Inc.'s acquisition of our former portfolio company, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc. We assign probabilities to the achievements of the various milestones. Milestones identified as independent milestones can be achieved irrespective of the achievement of other contractual milestones. Dependent milestones are those that can only be achieved after another, or series of other, milestones are achieved. The interest rates used in these models are observable inputs from sources such as the Federal Reserve published interest rates.

 

Participation Agreements and Senior Secured Debt

 

We invest in venture debt investments through participation agreements and senior secured debt. We value these securities using an income approach. The income approach uses valuation techniques to convert future amounts (for example, cash flows or earnings) to a single present value amount (discounted). The measurement is based on the value indicated by current market expectations about those future amounts. Common inputs for valuing Level 3 debt investments include: the effective yield of the debt investment or, in the case where we have received warrant coverage, the warrant-adjusted effective yield of the security, adjustments for changes in the yields of comparable publicly traded high-yield debt funds and risk-free interest rates and an assessment of non-performance risk. For those debt investments made through participation agreements, we include discounts for the risk of breach of the participation agreements. For venture debt investments, an increase in yields would result in a lower fair value measurement. Furthermore, yields would decrease, and value would increase, if the company is exceeding targets and risk has been substantially reduced from the level of risk that existed at the time of investment. Yields would increase, and values would decrease, if the company is failing to meet its targets and risk has been increased from the level of risk that existed at the time of investment.

 

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The following chart shows the components of change in the financial assets categorized as Level 3 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013.

 

  

Beginning

Balance

1/1/2013

  

Total Realized

Gains (Losses)

Included in

Changes in

Net Assets

   Transfers  

Total Unrealized

(Depreciation)

Appreciation

Included in

Changes in

Net Assets

  

Investments

in Portfolio

Companies,

Interest on

Bridge Notes,

and

Amortization

of Loan

Fees, Net

   Disposals  

Ending

Balance

12/31/2013

  

Amount of Total

(Depreciation)

Appreciation for the

Period Included in

Changes in Net

Assets Attributable

to the Change in

Unrealized Gains or

Losses Relating to

Assets Still Held at

the Reporting Date

 
                                 
Preferred Stock  $78,615,582   $10,006,915   $1,817,4761  $(17,635,033)  $12,779,034   $(14,006,915)  $71,577,059   $(9,331,349)
                                         
Bridge Notes   4,152,634    0    (1,822,831)1   (1,078,514)   4,792,825    0    6,044,114    (1,078,514)
                                         
Common Stock   108,667    (4,384,762)   0    4,384,762    1    0    108,668    0 
                                         
Warrants   586,320    0    5,3551   188,412    20,400    0    800,487    188,412 
                                         
Rights to
Milestone
Payments
   3,400,734    0    0    88,699    0    0    3,489,433    88,699 
                                         
Participation Agreements   1,138,148    90,255    0    (22,807)   5,966    (434,367)   777,195    39,896 
                                         
Subordinated  
Secured Debt
   120,410    15,058    0    (10,836)   368    (125,000)   0    0 
                                         
Senior Secured Debt   1,075,870    0    0    397,325    339,907    (301,274)   1,511,828    397,325 
                                         
Non-Convertible Promissory Note   3,033,338    0    (3,033,338)   0    0    0    0    0 
                                         
Publicly Traded Common Stock   1,348,227    0    (1,547,827)   0    199,600    0   0    0 
                                         
Funds Held in Escrow From
Sales of
Investments
   1,052,345    766,448    0    0    1,168,671    (1,201,074)   1,786,390    0 
                                         
Total  $94,632,275   $6,493,914   $(4,581,165)  $(13,687,992)  $19,306,772   $(16,068,630)  $86,095,174   $(9,695,531)

 

1Transfers among asset classes are owing to conversions at financing events. These do not represent transfers in or out of Level 3.

 

We elected to use the beginning of period values to recognize transfers in and out of Level 2 and Level 3 investments. For the year ended December 31, 2013, there were transfers out of Level 3 totaling $4,581,165. Our shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., transferred from a Level 3 investment to a Level 1 investment owing to the market for the shares becoming active with increased and sustained trading volume and the lapse of restrictions on 626,523 shares that were previously restricted. Our non-convertible promissory note in Molecular Imprints, Inc., transferred from a Level 3 investment to a Level 2 investment owing to an acquisition offer.

 

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At December 31, 2012, our financial assets were categorized as follows in the fair value hierarchy:

 

 

   Fair Value Measurement at Reporting Date Using:  
Description 

 

 

 

December 31, 2012

  

Unadjusted Quoted

Prices in Active Markets

for Identical Assets

(Level 1)

  

Significant Other

Observable Inputs

(Level 2)

  

Significant Unobservable

Inputs (Level 3) 

 
                 
U.S. Government Securities:  $13,998,880   $13,998,880   $0   $0 
                     
Privately Held Portfolio Companies:                    
Preferred Stock  $78,615,582   $0   $0   $78,615,582 
Bridge Notes  $4,152,634   $0   $0   $4,152,634 
Warrants  $586,320   $0   $0   $586,320 
Rights to Milestone Payments  $3,400,734   $0   $0   $3,400,734 
Common Stock  $108,667   $0   $0   $108,667 
Senior Secured Debt  $1,075,870   $0   $0   $1,075,870 
Participation Agreement  $1,138,148   $0   $0   $1,138,148 
Subordinated  Secured  Debt  $120,410   $0   $0   $120,410 
Non-Convertible Promissory Note  $3,033,338   $0   $0   $3,033,338 
                     
Publicly Traded Portfolio
Companies:
                    
Common Stock  $15,770,488   $14,422,261   $0   $1,348,227 
                     
Total Investments:  $122,001,071   $28,421,141   $0   $93,579,930 
                     
Liabilities:                    
Written Call Options  $42,500   $37,500   $5,000   $0 
                     
Total Liabilities:  $42,500   $37,500   $5,000   $0 

 

At December 31, 2012, certain written call option contracts were classified as Level 2 investments because there was no active market for the options as of that date. These options were valued using a midpoint pricing convention.

 

Significant Unobservable Inputs

 

The table below presents the valuation technique and quantitative information about the significant unobservable inputs utilized by the Company in the fair value measurements of Level 3 assets. Unobservable inputs are those inputs for which little or no market data exists and, therefore, require an entity to develop its own assumptions.

 

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   Fair Value at
December 31,
2012
   Valuation Techniques(s)  Unobservable Input 

Range (Weighted

Average(1))

              
           Probability of Achieving Milestones  50% - 100%  (N/A)
           Private Offering Price  $0.14 - $4.00 ($1.28)
           Non-Performance Risk  0% - 100% (11%)
           Revenue Multiple  0.53 - 3.3 (1.4)
        Income Approach  Discount for Illiquidity  20% - 30% (21%)
Preferred Stock  $78,615,582   Market Approach  Probability of Exit Outcomes  0% - 100% (50%)
               
           Private Offering Price  $1.00 ($1.00)
Bridge Notes   4,152,634   Market Approach  Non-Performance Risk  0% (0%)
               
           Private Offering Price  $0.54 - $47.51 ($11.06)
Common Stock   108,667   Market Approach  Non-Performance Risk  0% - 100%  (0%)
               
           Stock Price  $0.12 - $2.44 ($0.82)
          Volatility  107% (107%)
Warrants   586,320   Black-Sholes-Merton Model  Expected Term  0.50 - 9.88 Years (4.22)
               
        Probability Weighted  Probability of Achieving Independent Milestones  0% - 75% (N/A)
Rights to Milestone Payments   3,400,734   Discounted Cash Flow  Probability of Achieving Dependent Milestones  0.07% - 28.125% (N/A)
               
           Warrant Adjusted Effective Yield  21.5% - 27.9% (23%)
           Effective Yield  21.5% - 37.9% (27%)
           Non-Performance Risk  0% - 25% (11%)
           Participation Payment Risk  0% (0%)
Participation Agreements   1,138,148   Income Approach  Discount for Comparable Prices of High-Yield Debt  0% (0%)
               
           Warrant Adjusted Effective Yield  31.3% (31.3%)
           Effective Yield  39.1% (39.1%)
Subordinated  Secured Debt   120,410   Income Approach  Non-Performance Risk  25% (25%)
               
           Effective Yield  15.8% - 32% (23%)
Senior Secured Debt   1,075,870   Income Approach  Non-Performance Risk  0% - 25% (11%)
               
           Probability of Exit Outcomes  25% - 75% (50%)
           Private Offering Price  $3.00 ($3.00)
Non-Convertible Promissory
Note
   3,033,338   Income Approach  Non-Performance Risk  50% (50%)
               
           Non-Performance Risk  0% (0%)
OTC Traded Common Stock  $1,348,227   Market Approach  Warrant Adjusted Price per Share  $0.47 ($0.47)
               
Total  $93,579,930          

  

(1) Weighted average based on fair value at December 31, 2012.

 

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The following chart shows the components of change in the financial assets categorized as Level 3 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2012.

 

   Beginning
Balance
1/1/2012
   Total
Realized
Gains
(Losses)
Included in
Changes in
Net Assets
   Transfers  

Total
Unrealized
(Depreciation)
Appreciation
Included in
Changes in

Net Assets

  

Investments in

Portfolio
Companies,
Interest on
Bridge Notes,

and
Amortization
of Loan

Fees, Net

   Disposals   Ending
Balance
12/31/2012
  

Amount of Total
(Depreciation)
Appreciation for the

Period Included in
Changes in Net Assets

Attributable to the

Change in Unrealized

Gains or Losses

Relating to Assets

Still Held at the

Reporting Date

 
                                 
Preferred Stock  $68,833,189   $0   $1,091,677   $(4,903,413)  $13,594,129   $0   $78,615,582   $(4,903,413)
                                         
Bridge Notes   4,007,509    0    (2,727,754)   1,310,272    1,562,607    0    4,152,634    1,310,272 
                                         
Common Stock   0    0    1,633,296    (1,524,629)   0    0    108,667    (1,524,629)
                                         
Warrants   728,787    0    2,781    (396,396)   251,148    0    586,320    (396,396)
                                         
Rights to
Milestone
Payments
   3,362,791    0    0    37,943    0    0    3,400,734    37,943 
                                         
Participation
Agreements
   560,200    0    0    24,790    714,157    (160,999)   1,138,148    24,790 
                                         
Subordinated  
Secured Debt
   121,880    0    0    (1,103)   (367)   0    120,410    (1,103)
                                         
Senior Secured
Debt
   942,695    0    0    (13,663)   609,267    (462,429)   1,075,870    (13,663)
                                         
Non-Convertible
Promissory Note
   3,033,338    0    0    0    0    0    3,033,338    0 
                                         
Publicly Traded
Common Stock
   1,973,334    0    0    (625,107)   0    0    1,348,227    (625,107)
                                         
Total  $83,563,723   $0   $0   $(6,091,306)  $16,730,941   $(623,428)  $93,579,930   $(6,091,306)

 

We elected to use the beginning of period values to recognize transfers in and out of Level 3 investments. For the year ended December 31, 2012, there were no transfers out of Level 3.

 

NOTE 6. DERIVATIVES

 

The Company has written covered call options on its holdings of one of its publicly traded portfolio companies in exchange for the receipt of a premium. The option provides the holder the right, but not the obligation, to purchase the shares on which the option is held at a specified price over a specified future period. The call options were sold at a strike price above the market price on the date of the sale allowing the Company to receive potential appreciation in addition to the premium.

 

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Transactions in written call options during the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, were as follows:

 

   Number of
Contracts
   Premium 
Call options outstanding at December 31, 2012   2,000   $50,000 
Call options written   18,321    1,092,989 
Call options expired   (2,065)   (96,565)
Call options called in assignment transactions   (9,356)   (638,434)
Call options terminated in closing transactions   (7,400)   (295,608)
Call options outstanding at December 31, 2013   1,500   $112,382 

 

We have also purchased put options as a method of limiting the downside risk that the price per share of this company may decrease substantially from current levels. A put option gives its holder the right to sell a specified number of shares of a specific security at a specific price (known as the exercise strike price) by a certain date.

 

At December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, we had rights to milestone payments from Amgen, Inc.’s acquisition of our former portfolio company, BioVex. These milestone payments were fair valued at $3,489,433 and $3,400,734, respectively, and are contingent upon certain milestones being achieved in the future. As of December 31, 2013, we also had rights to milestone payments from Laird Technologies, Inc.'s acquisition of our former portfolio company, Nextreme Thermal Solutions, Inc. These milestone payments were fair valued at $0 as of December 31, 2013.

 

The following tables present the value of derivatives held at December 31, 2013, and the effect of derivatives held during the year ended December 31, 2013, along with the respective location in the financial statements.

 

   Assets  Liabilities 
Derivatives  Location  Fair Value   Location   Fair Value 
                
Equity Contracts           

Written call

options payable

   $103,500 
                   
Amgen, Inc. Rights to Milestone
Payments from Acquisition of
BioVex Group, Inc.
  Investments  $3,489,433         
                   
Laird Technologies, Inc. Rights
to Milestone Payments from
Acquisition of Nextreme
Thermal Solutions, Inc.
  Investments  $0         

 

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Statement of Operations

 

Derivatives  Location  Realized
(Loss)/Gain
  

Change in unrealized

Appreciation/

(Depreciation)

 
            
Equity Contracts  Net Realized and Unrealized (Loss) Gain  $(72,491)  $1,382 
              
Amgen, Inc. Rights to Milestone
Payments from Acquisition of
BioVex Group, Inc.
  Net Realized and Unrealized (Loss) Gain  $0   $88,699 
              
Laird Technologies, Inc. Rights
to Milestone Payments from
Acquisition of Nextreme
Thermal Solutions, Inc.
  Net Realized and Unrealized (Loss) Gain  $0   $0 

 

Transactions in written call options written during the year ended December 31, 2012, were as follows:

 

   Number of
Contracts
   Premium 
Options outstanding at December 31, 2011   3,000   $315,000 
Options written   37,970    3,170,443 
Options expired   (11,142)   (1,056,804)
Options terminated in closing transactions   (27,828)   (2,378,639)
Options outstanding at December 31, 2012   2,000   $50,000 

 

At December 31, 2012, we had rights to milestone payments from Amgen’s acquisition of our former portfolio company, BioVex. These milestone payments were fair valued at $3,400,734 and are contingent upon certain milestones being achieved in the future.

 

The following tables present the value of derivatives held at December 31, 2012, and the effect of derivatives held during the year ended December 31, 2012, along with the respective location in the financial statements.

  

   Assets   Liabilities 
Derivatives  Location   Fair Value   Location   Fair Value 
                 
Equity Contracts           

Written call

options payable

   $42,500 
                     
Amgen, Inc. Rights to Milestone
Payments from Acquisition of
BioVex Group, Inc.
   Investments   $3,400,734         

 

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Statement of Operations

 

Derivatives  Location  Realized
Gain/(Loss)
  

Change in unrealized

(Depreciation)/

Appreciation

 
            
Equity Contracts  Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)  $1,605,907   $(112,500)
              
Amgen, Inc. Rights to Milestone
Payments from Acquisition of
BioVex Group, Inc.
  Net Realized and Unrealized Gain (Loss)  $0   $37,943 

  

NOTE 7. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

 

The Company maintains the Stock Plan, which provides for the grant of equity-based awards of stock options to our officers and employees and restricted stock to our officers, employees and non-employee directors subject to compliance with the 1940 Act and an exemptive order granted by the SEC permitting us to award shares of restricted stock on April 3, 2012 (the "Exemptive Order").

 

Under the Stock Plan, a maximum of 20 percent (6,200,120 shares) of our total shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of the 2012 Annual Meeting date, calculated on a fully diluted basis (31,000,601 shares), were available for awards under the Stock Plan. Under the Stock Plan, no more than 50 percent of the shares of stock reserved for the grant of the awards under the Stock Plan (up to an aggregate of 3,100,060 shares) may be restricted stock awards at any time during the term of the Stock Plan. If any shares of restricted stock are awarded, such awards will reduce on a percentage basis the total number of shares of stock for which options may be awarded. No more than 1,000,000 shares of our common stock may be made subject to awards under the Stock Plan to any individual in any year. Although the Stock Plan permits us to continue to grant stock options, our Board of Directors currently plans to discontinue further grants of stock options. As of December 31, 2013, 1,504,518 shares of restricted stock, or 4.9 percent, of the 31,000,601 total shares outstanding as of the effective date of the Stock Plan had been granted. As of December 31, 2013, 1,425,372 options, or 4.6 percent, of the 31,000,601 total shares outstanding as of the effective date of the Stock Plan were outstanding, of which 1,128,261, or 79.2 percent, of all options outstanding were held in the estate of Charles E. Harris.

 

The Stock Plan will expire on June 7, 2022. The expiration of the Stock Plan will not by itself adversely affect the rights of plan participants under awards that are outstanding at the time the Stock Plan expires.

 

Stock Option Awards

 

During the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company did not grant any stock options. On May 11, 2012, certain executive officers voluntarily cancelled 1,963,745 outstanding stock options for no consideration. Upon cancellation, we recognized $1,365,242 in compensation expense related to these previously granted options. The Compensation Committee currently does not plan to grant new stock options to employees.

 

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For the years ended December 31, 2013, December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, the Company recognized $215,394, $1,973,569 and $1,894,800, respectively, of compensation expense in the Consolidated Statements of Operations related to stock options. The amount for the year ended December 31, 2012, includes $1,365,242 related to the voluntary cancellation of stock options. As of December 31, 2013, there was approximately $92,756 of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock option awards. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately four months. As of December 31, 2012, there was approximately $224,182 of unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested stock option awards.

 

No options were exercised during the years ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012. For the year ended December 31, 2011, a total of 122,437 options were exercised for total proceeds to the Company of $491,058.

 

A summary of the changes in outstanding stock options for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, is as follows:

 

       Weighted   Weighted
Average
   Weighted Average
Remaining
   Aggregate 
       Average   Grant Date   Contractual   Intrinsic 
   Shares   Exercise Price   Fair Value   Term (Years)   Value 
Options Outstanding at
January 1, 2013
   1,425,372   $9.77   $6.27    3.68   $0 
                          
Granted   0    0    0    0      
                          
Exercised   0    0    0    0      
                          
Forfeited or Expired   0    0    0    0      
                          
Options Outstanding at
December 31, 2013
   1,425,372   $9.77   $6.27    2.68   $0 
                          
Options Exercisable at
December 31, 2013
   1,399,927   $9.76   $6.25    2.68   $0 
                          
Options Exercisable and Expected to
be Exercisable at December 31, 2013
   1,425,372   $9.77   $6.27    2.68   $0 

 

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above with respect to options outstanding, exercisable and expected to be exercisable, is calculated as the difference between the Company's closing stock price of $2.98 on December 31, 2013, and the exercise price, multiplied by the number of in-the-money options. This amount represents the total pre-tax intrinsic value that would have been received by the option holders had all options been fully vested and all option holders exercised their awards on December 31, 2013.

 

The grant date fair value of options vested during the year ended December 31, 2013, was $202,269. The grant date fair value of options vested during the year ended December 31, 2012, was $580,542, which included options vested for certain executive officers prior to the voluntary cancellation of 1,963,745 outstanding stock options on May 11, 2012. The grant date fair value of options vested during the year ended December 31, 2011, was $1,863,330.

 

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At December 31, 2013, there were 25,445 unvested options with a weighted average grant date fair value of $7.46. At December 31, 2012, there were 56,505 unvested options with a weighted average grant date fair value of $6.94. At December 31, 2011, there were 732,835 unvested options with a weighted average grant date fair value of $4.36.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013, a total of 31,060 options vested having a weighted average grant date fair value of $6.51. During the year ended December 31, 2012, a total of 162,972 options vested having a weighted average grant date fair value of $3.56. During the year ended December 31, 2011, a total of 489,914 options vested having a weighted average grant date fair value of $3.80.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2013, and December 31, 2012, no options were exercised. For the year ended December 31, 2011, the aggregate intrinsic value of the 122,437 options exercised was $142,842.

 

Restricted Stock

 

On June 11, 2012, the Committee granted the employees a total of 1,780,000 shares of restricted stock. A total of 1,068,000 awards (60 percent) vest when the volume-weighted stock price is at or above pre-determined stock price targets over a 30-day period. These pre-determined stock price targets range from $5.00 per share to $9.00 per share. The remaining 712,000 of these shares (40 percent) have vesting dates ranging from December 31, 2012, through June 30, 2017, based on the employee's continued service to the Company. After this initial employee grant, the Compensation Committee does not plan to grant additional restricted stock to existing employees until at least June 11, 2015. Pursuant to the Exemptive Order, non-employee directors receive up to 2,000 shares of restricted stock annually. On June 7, 2012, the non-employee directors received a grant of 14,000 shares of restricted stock. On May 2, 2013, an additional 12,000 shares of restricted stock were granted to the non-employee directors.

 

The compensation expense for the service-based awards is determined by the market price of our stock at the date of grant applied to the total number of shares we anticipate to fully vest. The market prices on the dates of the 2012 director and employee service-based awards were $3.55 and $3.38, respectively. The market price for the May 2, 2013, director service-based awards was $3.15.

 

The compensation expense for the market-based awards is determined by the fair value of the awards applied to the number of shares granted, net of estimated forfeitures. The fair values of the market-based awards were determined using a lattice model. The fair values of these awards range from $2.25 per share to $2.92 per share and will be expensed over derived service periods ranging from approximately 37 to 75 months.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2013, we recognized $1,034,362 of compensation expense related to restricted stock awards. As of December 31, 2013, there was unrecognized compensation cost of $3,203,536 related to restricted stock awards. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 1.8 years.

 

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Non-vested restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2013, and changes during the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, were as follows:

 

   Shares  

Weighted-Average Grant Date

Fair Value Per Share

 
         
Outstanding at January 1, 2013   1,616,000   $2.82 
           
Granted   12,000    3.15 
           
Vested based on service   (80,555)   3.39 
           
Shares withheld  related to net share
settlement of restricted stock
   (40,927)   3.38 
           
Forfeited   (2,000)   3.55 
           
Outstanding at December 31, 2013   1,504,518   $2.78 

 

For the year ended December 31, 2012, we recognized $955,374 of compensation expense related to restricted stock awards. As of December 31, 2012, there was unrecognized compensation cost of $4,207,197 related to restricted stock awards. This cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of approximately 2.3 years.

 

Non-vested restricted stock awards as of December 31, 2012, and changes during the year ended December 31, 2012, were as follows:

 

   Shares  

Weighted-Average Grant

Date Fair Value Per Share

 
         
Outstanding at January 1, 2012   0   $0 
           
Granted   1,794,000    2.88 
           
Vested based on service   (116,280)   3.38 
           
Shares withheld  related to net share
settlement of restricted stock
   (61,720)   3.38 
           
Forfeited   0    0 
           
Outstanding at December 31, 2012   1,616,000   $2.82 

 

Under net settlement procedures currently applicable to our outstanding restricted stock awards for current employees, upon each settlement date, restricted stock awards are withheld to cover the required withholding tax, which is based on the value of the restricted stock award on the settlement date as determined by the closing price of our common stock on the vesting date. The remaining amounts are delivered to the recipient as shares of our common stock. During 2013, 121,482 restricted stock awards vested, of which 117,480 were net settled by withholding 40,927 shares, which represented the employees' minimum statutory obligation for each such employee's applicable income and other employment taxes and remitted cash totaling of $123,182 to the appropriate tax authorities.

 

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During 2012, 178,000 restricted stock awards were net settled by withholding 61,720 shares, which represented the employees' minimum statutory obligation for each such employee's applicable income and other employment taxes and remitted cash totaling of $203,676 to the appropriate tax authorities.

 

The amounts remitted to the tax authorities for the employees' tax obligations were reflected as a financing activity within our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. The shares withheld by us as a result of the net settlement of restricted stock awards are not considered issued and outstanding, thereby reducing our shares outstanding used to calculate net asset value per share.

 

NOTE 8. DISTRIBUTABLE EARNINGS

 

As of December 31, 2013, December 31, 2012, and December 31, 2011, there were no distributable earnings. The difference between the book basis and tax basis components of distributable earnings is primarily nondeductible deferred compensation and net operating losses. These differences are immaterial.

 

The Company did not declare dividends for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012 or 2011.

 

NOTE 9. EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

 

401(k) Plan

 

We adopted a 401(k) Plan covering substantially all of our employees. Matching contributions to the plan are at the discretion of the Compensation Committee. For the year ended December 31, 2013, the Compensation Committee approved a 100 percent match which amounted to $219,600. The 401(k) Company match for the years ended December 31, 2012, and 2011, was $208,383 and $181,500, respectively.

  

Medical Benefit Retirement Plan

 

We administer a plan to provide medical and dental insurance for retirees and their spouses who, at the time of their retirement, have 10 years of service with us and have attained 50 years of age or have attained 45 years of age and have 15 years of service with us. On March 7, 2013, the Board of Directors amended this Medical Benefit Retirement Plan. The amendment limits the medical benefit to $10,000 per year for a period of ten years. The amendment does not affect benefits accrued by former employees or one current employee who is grandfathered under the former terms of the plan.

 

Our accumulated postretirement benefit obligation was remeasured as of the plan amendment date, which resulted in a $1,101,338 decrease in our liability. A deferred gain of $1,101,338 owing to this amendment was included in "Accumulated other comprehensive income." This amount will be amortized over a service period of 5.27 years. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, a total of $174,152 was amortized and included as a reduction of "Salaries, benefits and stock-based compensation" on our Consolidated Statements of Operations. All of the amounts reported in the Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) relate to the plan amendment.

 

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The plan is unfunded and has no assets. The following disclosures about changes in the benefit obligation under our plan to provide medical and dental insurance for retirees are as of the measurement date of December 31:

 

   2013   2012 
         
Accumulated Postretirement Benefit
Obligation at Beginning of Year
  $1,955,116   $1,711,092 
           
Service Cost   69,277    160,428 
           
Interest Cost   43,033    71,033 
           
Plan Amendment   (1,101,338)   0 
           
Actuarial Loss   (47,848)   34,143 
           
Benefits Paid   (20,317)   (21,580)
           
Accumulated Postretirement
Benefit Obligation at End of Year
  $897,923   $1,955,116 

 

In accounting for the plan, the assumption made for the discount rate was 4.79 percent and 4.25 percent for the years ended December 31, 2013, and 2012, respectively. The assumed health care cost trend rates in 2013 were eight percent grading to five percent over six years for medical and five percent per year for dental. The assumed health care cost trend rates in 2012 were 8.5 percent grading to five percent over seven years for medical and five percent per year for dental. The effect on disclosure information of a one percentage point change in the assumed health care cost trend rate for each future year is shown below.

 

   1% Decrease   Assumed   1% Increase 
   in Rates   Rates   in Rates 
             
Aggregated Service and Interest Cost  $94,935   $112,310   $135,184 
                
Accumulated Postretirement Benefit Obligation  $810,028   $897,923   $1,002,332 

 

The net periodic postretirement benefit cost for the year is determined as the sum of service cost for the year, interest on the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation and amortization of the transition obligation (asset) less previously accrued expenses over the average remaining service period of employees expected to receive plan benefits. The following is the net periodic postretirement benefit cost for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011:

 

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   2013   2012   2011 
             
Service Cost  $69,277   $160,428   $101,787 
                
Interest Cost on Accumulated Postretirement
Benefit Obligation
   43,033    71,033    59,001 
                
Amortization of Prior Service Cost   (174,152)   0    0 
                
Amortization of Net (Gain)/Loss   10,496    514    (7,995)
                
Net Periodic Post Retirement Benefit Cost  $(51,346)  $231,975   $152,793 

 

The Company estimates the following benefits to be paid in each of the following years:

 

2014  $19,537 
2015  $21,969 
2016  $28,405 
2017  $32,318 
2018 through 2022  $245,809 

 

For the year ended December 31, 2013, net unrecognized actuarial gains, which resulted primarily from the increase in the discount rate, increased by $58,344, which represents $47,848 of actuarial gains arising during the year and a $10,496 reclassification adjustment that increased the net periodic benefit cost for the year.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2012, net unrecognized actuarial losses, which resulted primarily from the decrease in the discount rate, increased by $33,629, which represents $34,143 of actuarial losses arising during the year offset by a $514 reclassification adjustment that increased the net periodic benefit cost for the year.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2011, net unrecognized actuarial losses, which resulted primarily from the decrease in the discount rate, revised mortality rates and the potential impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, increased by $529,179, which represents $521,184 of actuarial losses arising during the year and a $7,995 reclassification adjustment that decreased the net periodic benefit cost for the year.

 

Executive Mandatory Retirement Benefit Plan

 

On May 5, 2011, the Board of Directors of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., terminated the Amended and Restated Executive Mandatory Retirement Benefit Plan. The plan was adopted in 2003 in order to begin planning for eventual management succession for individuals who are employed by us in a bona fide executive or high policy-making position. The plan provided benefits required by age discrimination laws as a result of the Company’s policy of mandatory retirement when such individuals attained the age of 65. Our former President accrued benefits under this plan prior to his retirement, and the termination of this plan has no impact on his accrued benefits. At December 31, 2013, and 2012, we had $222,337 and $248,729, respectively, accrued for benefits for this former employee under the plan, which is included in "Post retirement plan liabilities" on the Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities.

 

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NOTE 10. INCOME TAXES

 

We filed for the 1999 tax year to elect treatment as a RIC under Subchapter M of the Code and qualified for the same treatment for the years 2000 through 2013. However, there can be no assurance that we will qualify as a RIC for 2014 or subsequent years.

 

In the case of a RIC that furnishes capital to development corporations, there is an exception to the rule relating to the diversification of investments required to qualify for RIC treatment. This exception is available only to registered investment companies that the SEC determines to be principally engaged in the furnishing of capital to other corporations that are principally engaged in the development or exploitation of inventions, technological improvements, new processes, or products not previously generally available ("SEC Certification"). We have received SEC Certification since 1999, including for 2012, but it is possible that we may not receive SEC Certification in future years. We intend to apply for certification for 2013.

 

In addition, under certain circumstances, even if we qualified for Subchapter M treatment for a given year, we might take action in a subsequent year to ensure that we would be taxed in that subsequent year as a C Corporation, rather than as a RIC. As a RIC, we must, among other things, distribute at least 90 percent of our investment company taxable income and may either distribute or retain our realized net capital gains on investments.

 

For federal tax purposes, the Company’s 2010 through 2013 tax years remain open for examination by the tax authorities under the normal three-year statute of limitations. Generally, for state tax purposes, the Company’s 2009 through 2013 tax years remain open for examination by the tax authorities under a four-year statute of limitations.

 

During 2013, the Company recorded a consolidated expense of $27,994 in federal, state and local income taxes. At December 31, 2013, we had $0 accrued for federal, state and local taxes payable by the Company.

 

We pay federal, state and local taxes primarily related to sublease income generated by Ventures, which is taxed as a C Corporation. For the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011, our income tax expense for Ventures was $27,053, $14,331 and $5,896, respectively.

 

Tax expense included in the Consolidated Statement of Operations consists of the following:

 

   2013   2012   2011 
             
Current  $27,994   $15,236   $6,922 
                
Total income tax expense  $27,994   $15,236   $6,922 

 

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The Company realized short- and long-term capital gains of $15,648,618, $2,421,669 and $2,456,627 in 2013, 2012 and 2011, respectively. The Company offset these gains with capital loss carryforwards and neither owed federal income taxes on the gain nor was required to distribute any portion of this gain to shareholders.

 

On December 22, 2010, the Regulated Investment Company Modernization Act of 2010 (the "Act") was enacted, which changed various technical rules governing the tax treatment of RICs. The changes are generally effective for taxable years beginning after the date of enactment. One of the more prominent changes addresses capital loss carryforwards. Under the Act, the Company will be permitted to carry forward capital losses incurred in taxable years beginning after the date of enactment for an unlimited period. However, any losses incurred during those future taxable years will be required to be utilized prior to the losses incurred in pre-enactment taxable years, which carry an expiration date. As a result of this ordering rule, pre-enactment capital loss carryforwards may be more likely to expire unused. Additionally, post-enactment capital loss carryforwards will retain their character as either short-term or long-term capital losses rather than being considered all short term as permitted under previous regulation.

 

As of December 31, 2013, we had no post-enactment loss carryforwards under the provisions of the Act. As of December 31, 2013, we had pre-enactment loss carryforwards totaling $3,876,148, expiring in 2018. We had no post-October losses.

 

Continued qualification as a RIC requires us to satisfy certain investment asset diversification requirements in future years. Our ability to satisfy those requirements may not be controllable by us. There can be no assurance that we will qualify as a RIC in subsequent years.

  

NOTE 11. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

 

On September 24, 2009, we signed a ten-year lease for approximately 6,900 square feet of office space located at 1450 Broadway, New York, New York. The lease commenced on January 21, 2010, with these offices replacing our corporate headquarters previously located at 111 West 57th Street in New York City. The base rent is $36 per square foot with a 2.5 percent increase per year over the 10 years of the lease, subject to a full abatement of rent for four months and a rent credit for six months throughout the lease term. The lease expires on December 31, 2019.

 

We have one option to extend the lease term for a five-year period, provided that we are not in default under the lease. Annual rent during the renewal period will equal 95 percent of the fair market value of the leased premises, as determined in accordance with the lease. Upon an event of default, the lease provides that the landlord may terminate the lease and require us to pay all rent that would have been payable during the remainder of the lease or until the date the landlord re-enters the premises.

 

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On July 1, 2008, we signed a five-year lease for office space at 420 Florence Street, Suite 200, Palo Alto, California, which commenced on August 1, 2008, and expired on August 31, 2013. On April 26, 2011, we signed a one-year lease for office space at 530 Lytton Avenue, 2nd Floor, Palo Alto, California, commencing on July 1, 2011, and expiring on June 30, 2012. The lease was renewed commencing on July 1, 2012, and expiring on June 30, 2013, and again on July 1, 2013, and expiring on June 30, 2014. On March 22, 2012, we signed a one-year lease for office space at 140 Preston Executive Drive, Space "L," Cary, North Carolina, commencing on April 1, 2012, and expiring on March 31, 2013. The lease was renewed commencing on April 1, 2013, and expiring on March 31, 2014. Total rent expense for all of our office space was $376,360 in 2013, $408,659 in 2012 and $376,487 in 2011. Aggregate future minimum lease payments in each of the following years are: 2014 - $269,002; 2015 - $280,673; 2016 - 287,690; 2017 - $294,882; 2018 - $302,254 and thereafter for the remaining term - an aggregate of $309,811.

 

In the ordinary course of business, we indemnify our officers and directors, subject to certain regulatory limitations, for loss or liability related to their service on behalf of the Company, including serving on the Boards of Directors or as officers of portfolio companies. At December 31, 2013, and 2012, we believe our estimated exposure is minimal, and accordingly we have no liability recorded.

 

NOTE 12. CHANGE IN NET ASSETS PER SHARE

 

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted per share net decreases in net assets resulting from operations for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011.

 

   2013   2012   2011 
             
Numerator for decrease in net assets per share  $(7,788,958)  $(19,986,900)  $(3,541,363)
                
Denominator for basic weighted average shares   31,138,716    31,000,919    30,980,221 
                
Basic net decrease in net assets per share resulting from
operations
  $(0.25)  $(0.65)  $(0.12)
                
Denominator for diluted weighted average shares   31,138,716    31,000,919    30,980,221 
                
Diluted net decrease in net assets per share resulting from
operations1
  $(0.25)  $(0.65)  $(0.12)
                
Anti-dilutive shares by type:               
                
Stock options   1,425,372    1,425,372    3,389,117 
Restricted stock   436,518    548,000    0 
                
Total anti-dilutive shares   1,861,890    1,973,372    3,389,117 

 

1A total of 1,068,000 performance-based shares of restricted stock were outstanding during the twelve months ended December 31, 2013. These shares vest when the volume-weighted stock price is at or above pre-determined stock price targets over a 30-day period. These pre-determined stock price targets range from $5.00 per share to $9.00 per share. These shares were not included in the computation of diluted net asset value per share because as of the end of the reporting period none of the pre-determined stock price targets were met.

 

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For the twelve months ended December 31, 2013, 2012 and 2011, the calculation of net decrease in net assets resulting from operations per diluted share does not include any stock options or restricted stock awards because such awards were anti-dilutive. Stock options and restricted stock awards may be dilutive in future periods in which there are both a net increase in net assets resulting from operations and either significant increases in our average stock price or significant decreases in the amount of unrecognized compensation cost during the period.

 

NOTE 13. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On January 15, 2014, the Company made a $500,000 follow-on investment in Senova Systems, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On January 21, 2014, Square 1 Bank, Kovio, Inc.'s secured creditor, finalized a transaction with Thin Film Electronics ASA, a publicly traded Norwegian-based company, to sell substantially all of the assets of Kovio. We received no proceeds as a result of this sale.

 

On January 23, 2014, we received $1,235,312 upon the release of a portion of the funds held in escrow from the acquisition of Xradia, Inc., by Carl Zeiss AG during 2013.

 

On January 31, 2014, the Company made a $415,635 follow-on investment in SiOnyx, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

In January of 2014, we sold 17,834 shares of Solazyme, Inc., for net proceeds of $214,888.

 

On February 4, 2014, the Company made a $250,000 follow-on investment in Enumeral Biomedical Corp., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On February 5, 2014, the Company made a $19,331 follow-on investment in Laser Light Engines, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On February 11, 2014, the Company made a $206,997 follow-on investment in HzO, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

On February 13, 2014, Molecular Imprints, Inc., announced that it had signed an agreement to sell its semiconductor imprint lithography equipment business to Canon, Inc. Upon closing, we expect to receive approximately $7.0 million in proceeds from the sale, including amounts to be held in escrow. We could also receive an additional $1.7 million upon the achievement of certain milestones. This merger is expected to be completed by April of 2014, subject to normal shareholder and governmental approvals. In addition to the merger, a new spin-out company will be formed retaining its original Molecular Imprints name. We will be a shareholder of the new spin-out company.

 

On February 19, 2014, the Company made a $245,017 follow-on investment in OpGen, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

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On February 27, 2014, the board of directors of Contour Energy Systems, Inc., adopted a plan of complete liquidation and dissolution. Following the sale of Contour Energy's assets and settlement of its liabilities, any remaining proceeds will be distributed to its shareholders. There can be no assurance of the amount we will ultimately receive from such distribution. At December 31, 2013, we valued our investment in Contour Energy at $90,844.

 

On March 10, 2014, the Company made a $750,000 follow-on investment in Produced Water Absorbents, Inc., a privately held portfolio company.

 

From January 1, 2014, to March 13, 2014, we sold 286,456 shares of Champions Oncology, Inc., for net proceeds of $332,402.

 

On March 10 and 12, 2014, we closed 1,500 written call option contracts on Solazyme, Inc., with a strike price of $12.50, expiring on March 22, 2014, for a payment of $218,532. We also sold 1,000 written call option contracts on Solazyme, with a strike price of $12.50, expiring in June of 2014 and 500 written call option contracts with a strike price of $12.50, expiring in September of 2014. We received net premiums of approximately $338,229 for these contracts.

 

NOTE 14. SELECTED QUARTERLY DATA (UNAUDITED)

 

   2013 
   1st Quarter   2nd Quarter   3rd Quarter   4th Quarter 
                 
Total investment income (loss)  $185,090   $189,963   $135,025   $(39,176)
                     
Net operating loss  $(1,935,573)  $(1,989,938)  $(1,892,794)  $(2,203,901)
                     
Net (decrease) increase in net
assets resulting from operations
  $(2,060,192)  $4,104,761   $(2,096,162)  $(7,737,365)
                     
Net (decrease) increase in net
assets resulting from operations
per average outstanding share
  $(0.07)  $0.13   $(0.07)  $(0.25)

 

   2012 
   1st Quarter   2nd Quarter   3rd Quarter   4th Quarter 
                 
Total investment income (loss)  $160,890   $(28,446)  $396,246   $193,537 
                     
Net operating loss  $(2,089,381)  $(3,275,280)  $(1,450,334)  $(1,988,348)
                     
Net increase (decrease) in net
assets resulting from operations
  $5,580,183   $(1,905,919)  $(3,669,717)  $(19,991,447)
                     
Net increase (decrease) in net
assets resulting from operations
per average outstanding share
  $0.18   $(0.06)  $(0.12)  $(0.65)

 

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HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

 

   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended   Year Ended 
   Dec. 31, 2013   Dec. 31, 2012   Dec. 31, 2011   Dec. 31, 2010   Dec. 31, 2009 
                     
Per Share Operating Performance                         
                          
Net asset value per share, beginning of year  $4.13   $4.70   $4.76   $4.35   $4.24 
                          
Net operating loss*   (0.26)   (0.28)   (0.27)   (0.25)   (0.32)
Net realized gain (loss) on investments*   0.59    0.08    0.08    (0.12)   (0.42)
Net (decrease) increase in unrealized
appreciation on investments
and written call options*(1)
   (0.58)   (0.44)   0.07    0.71    0.73 
Total from investment operations*   (0.25)   (0.64)   (0.12)   0.34    (0.01)
                          
Net increase as a result of stock-
based compensation expense*
   0.04    0.09    0.06    0.07    0.11 
                          
Net increase as a result of stock offering,
net of offering expenses
   0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.01 
                          
Net decrease as a result of acquisition
of vested restricted stock awards
related to employee withholding
   (0.01)   (0.02)   0.00    0.00    0.00 
                          
Total increase from capital
stock transactions
   0.03    0.07    0.06    0.07    0.12 
                          
Net increase as a result of other
comprehensive income
   0.02    0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00 
                          
Net (decrease) increase in net asset value   (0.20)   (0.57)   (0.06)   0.41    0.11 
                          
Net asset value per share, end of year  $3.93   $4.13   $4.70   $4.76   $4.35 
                          
Stock price per share, end of year  $2.98   $3.30   $3.46   $4.38   $4.57 
                          
Total return based on stock price   (9.70)%   (4.62)%   (21.0)%   (4.16)%   15.7%
                          
Supplemental Data:                         
                          
Net assets, end of year  $122,701,575   $128,436,774   $145,698,407   $146,853,912   $134,158,258 
                          
Ratio of expenses to average net assets   6.6%   6.6%   6.1%   5.7%   7.8%
                          
Ratio of net operating loss to
average net assets
   (6.3)%   (6.1)%   (5.6)%   (5.4)%   (7.6)%
                          
Average debt outstanding  $0.00   $1,679,781   $1,254,247   $0.00   $0.00 
                          
Average debt per share  $0.00   $0.05   $0.04   $0.00   $0.00 
                          
Cash dividends paid per share  $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00 
                          
Taxes payable on behalf of shareholders
on the deemed dividend per share
  $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00   $0.00 
                          
Number of shares outstanding, end of year   31,197,438    31,116,881    31,000,601    30,878,164    30,859,593 

 

*Based on average shares outstanding.

(1) Net unrealized gains (losses) includes rounding adjustments to reconcile change in net asset value per share. See "Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations" for a description of unrealized losses on investments.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of this schedule.

 

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Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements With Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

 

None.

 

Item 9A. Controls and Procedures.

 

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

 

As of the end of the period covered by this report, the Company’s management, under the supervision and with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as required by Rules 13a-15 of the Exchange Act). Disclosure controls and procedures means controls and other procedures of an issuer that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within time periods specified in the SEC's rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the issuer's management, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosures. As of December 31, 2013, based upon this evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.

 

Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

Management's Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm, on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, is included in Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

 

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

 

There have not been any changes in the Company's internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the fourth quarter of 2013 to which this report relates that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

  

Item 9B. Other Information.

 

None.

 

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PART III

 

Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance.

 

The information set forth under the captions "Nominees," "Executive Officers," "Section 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance" and "Audit Committee" in our Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held May 1, 2014, to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act (the "2014 Proxy Statement"), is herein incorporated by reference.

 

We have adopted a Code of Conduct for Directors and Employees, which also applies to our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Senior Controller, which is posted on our website at http://ir.hhvc.com/governance.cfm.

 

The Board of Directors has determined that W. Dillaway Ayres, Jr., Lucio L. Lanza, Richard P. Shanley and Bruce W. Shewmaker are all "Audit Committee Financial Experts" serving on our Audit Committee. Messrs. Ayres, Lanza, Shanley and Shewmaker are not "interested persons" as defined under Section 2(a)(19) of the 1940 Act and are independent under the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market.

 

Item 11. Executive Compensation.

 

The information set forth under the captions "Executive Compensation," "Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation" and "Compensation Committee Report on Executive Compensation" in the 2014 Proxy Statement is herein incorporated by reference.

 

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

 

The information set forth under the caption "How Many Shares Do the Company's Principal Shareholders, Directors and Executive Officers Own?" in the 2014 Proxy Statement is herein incorporated by reference. The "Equity Compensation Plan Information" chart is set forth herein under Item 5.

 

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

 

The information set forth under the captions "Nominees" and "Related Party Transactions" in the 2014 Proxy Statement is herein incorporated by reference.

 

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Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services.

 

The information set forth under the captions "Audit Committee's Pre-Approval Policies" and "Fees Paid to PwC for 2013 and 2012" in the 2014 Proxy Statement is herein incorporated by reference.

 

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PART IV

 

Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statements Schedules.

 

(a) The following documents are filed as a part of this report:

 

(1)Listed below are the financial statements which are filed as part of this report:

 

·Consolidated Statements of Assets and Liabilities as of December 31, 2013, and 2012;

 

·Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011;

 

·Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income (Loss) for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011

 

·Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011;

 

·Consolidated Statements of Changes in Net Assets for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, and 2011;

 

·Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2013;

 

·Consolidated Schedule of Investments as of December 31, 2012;

 

·Footnote to Consolidated Schedule of Investments;

 

·Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements; and

 

·Financial Highlights for the years ended December 31, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and 2009.

 

(2)Schedule 12-14.

 

(3)The following exhibits are filed with this report or are incorporated herein by reference to a prior filing, in accordance with Rule 12b-32 under the Exchange Act.

 

3.1(a)Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., dated September 23, 2005, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.1(a) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 15, 2011.

 

3.1(b)Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., dated May 19, 2006, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1(b) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 14, 2012.

 

3.1(c)Certificate of Change of the Certificate of Incorporation of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., dated August 5, 2010, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3 to Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on August 6, 2010.

 

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3.2Amended and Restated By-laws, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on August 3, 2012.

 

4Form of Specimen Certificate of Common Stock, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 4 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 16, 2009.

 

10.1Custody Agreement by and between Harris & Harris Group, Inc. and Union Bank, dated March 11, 2011, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 14, 2011.

 

10.2Custody Agreement by and between Harris & Harris Group, Inc. and TD Bank, N.A., dated February 24, 2011, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on February 24, 2011.

 

10.3Multi-Draw Term Loan Facility Credit Agreement, by and among the Company, as borrower, Orix Corporate Capital, Inc., as Administrative Agent, and the other lenders party thereto from time to time, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on September 30, 2013.

 

10.4Form of Indemnification Agreement which has been established with all directors and executive officers of the Company, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on November 1, 2013.

 

10.5Amended and Restated Harris & Harris Group, Inc. 2012 Equity Incentive Plan, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 (File No 814-00176) filed on March 14, 2012.

 

10.6Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.11 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 16, 2009.

 

10.7Form of Director Restricted Stock Agreement, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 (File No. 814-00176) filed on May 10, 2012.

 

10.8Form of Employee Restricted Stock Agreement, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2012 (File No. 814-00176) filed on May 10, 2012.

 

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10.9Lease Agreement, dated September 24, 2009, between Rosh 1450 Properties LLC and Harris & Harris Group, Inc., incorporated by reference as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K (File No. 814-00176) filed on September 24, 2009.

 

10.10Harris & Harris Group, Inc. Employee Stock Purchase Plan, incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 14, 2012.

 

14.1Code of Conduct for Directors and Employees of Harris & Harris Group, Inc., incorporated by reference as Exhibit 14.1 to the Company's Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 15, 2010.

 

21Subsidiaries of Registrant and Jurisdiction of Incorporation/Organization, incorporated by reference as Exhibit 21 to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 (File No. 814-00176) filed on March 15, 2013.

 

31.01*Certification of CEO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

31.02*Certification of CFO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

32.01*Certification of CEO and CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

 

*Filed herewith

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

  HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.
     
Date: March 14, 2014 By: /s/ Douglas W. Jamison
    Douglas W. Jamison
    Chairman of the Board and
    Chief Executive Officer

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Company and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Signatures   Title   Date
         
/s/ Douglas W. Jamison   Chairman of the Board   March 14, 2014
Douglas W. Jamison   and Chief Executive Officer    
         
/s/ Patricia N. Egan   Chief Financial Officer   March 14, 2014
Patricia N. Egan        
         
/s/ W. Dillaway Ayres, Jr.   Director   March 14, 2014
W. Dillaway Ayres, Jr.        
         
/s/ Phillip A. Bauman   Director   March 14, 2014
Phillip A. Bauman        

 

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/s/ Stacy R. Brandom   Director   March 14, 2014
Stacy R. Brandom        
         
/s/ Lucio L. Lanza   Director   March 14, 2014
Lucio L. Lanza        
         
/s/ Charles E. Ramsey   Director   March 14, 2014
Charles E. Ramsey        
         
/s/ Richard P. Shanley   Director   March 14, 2014
Richard P. Shanley        
         
/s/ Bruce W. Shewmaker   Director   March 14, 2014
Bruce W. Shewmaker        

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

The following exhibits are filed with this report in accordance with Rule 12b-32 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

 

Exhibit No.   Description
     
31.01   Certification of CEO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
31.02   Certification of CFO pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.
     
32.01   Certification of CEO and CFO pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

 

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Schedule 12-14

 

HARRIS & HARRIS GROUP, INC.

INVESTMENTS IN AND ADVANCES TO AFFILIATES

 

 

Name of Issuer  Title of Issue or
Nature of Indebtedness(A)
  Amount of
Dividends
or Interest
Credited
to Income (B)
   Value as of
December 31,
2012
   Gross
Additions (C)
   Gross
Reductions (D)
   Value as of
December 31,
2013
 
                        
MAJORITY                       
CONTROL INVESTMENTS:                            
                             
SynGlyco, Inc.  Common Stock  $0   $0   $0   $0   $0 
                             
   Secured Convertible
Bridge Note
   16,504    0    316,504    (238,170)   78,334 
                             
   Series A' Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    521,494    0    (521,494)   0 
                             
   Senior Secured Debt   97,740    453,270    378,558    0    831,828 
                             
   Secured Convertible
Bridge Note
   26,312    0    376,312    (284,923)   91,389 
                             
ProMuc, Inc.  Common Stock  $0   $0   $1   $0   $1 
                             
   Secured Convertible
Bridge Note
   1,074    0    351,074    0    351,074 
                             
Total Control
Investments
     $141,630   $974,764   $1,422,449   $(1,044,587)  $1,352,626 
                             
AFFILIATE
INVESTMENTS:
                            
                             
ABSMaterials, Inc.  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $97,871   $374,029   $0   $471,900 
                             
   Secured Convertible
Bridge Note
   13,611    232,080    13,611    (245,691)   0 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    755,679    0    755,679 
                             
Adesto Technologies
Corporation
  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $4,474,625   $0   $(3,086,349)  $1,388,276 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    4,117,841    0    (2,855,771)   1,262,070 
                             
   Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,643,416    0    (1,193,453)   449,963 
                             
   Series D Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,227,285    0    (157,218)   1,070,067 
                             
   Series D-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   31,670    0    703,740    (142,449)   561,291 
                             
   Series E Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    9,969,781    0    9,969,781 

 

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Name of Issuer  Title of Issue or
Nature of Indebtedness(A)
  Amount of
Dividends
or Interest
Credited
to Income (B)
   Value as of
December 31,
2012
   Gross
Additions (C)
   Gross
Reductions (D)
   Value as of
December 31,
2013
 
                        
AgBiome, LLC  Series A-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $2,000,000   $456,834   $0   $2,456,834 
                             
   Series A-2 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    564,906    0    564,906 
                             
Contour Energy
Systems, Inc.
  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $1,703,814   $0   $(1,703,814)  $0 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,008,380    0    (1,008,380)   0 
                             
   Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,125,002    0    (1,034,158)   90,844 
                             
D-Wave Systems, Inc.  Series 1 Class B
Convertible Preferred Stock
  $0   $1,493,024   $0   $(93,193)  $1,399,831 
                             
   Series 1 Class C
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    587,432    0    (36,667)   550,765 
                             
   Series 1 Class D
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    1,115,176    0    (69,607)   1,045,569 
                             
   Series 1 Class E
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    351,168    0    (21,919)   329,249 
                             
   Series 1 Class F
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    337,398    0    (21,060)   316,338 
                             
   Series 2 Class D
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    884,524    0    (55,211)   829,313 
                             
   Series 2 Class E
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    414,372    250,461    (36,488)   628,345 
                             
   Series 2 Class F
Convertible Preferred Stock
   0    398,124    240,638    (35,058)   603,704 
                             
   Warrants for Common
Stock
   0    40,103    0    (2,486)   37,617 
                             
EchoPixel, Inc.  Series Seed Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $0   $750,000   $0   $750,000 
                             
Enumeral Biomedical
Corp.
  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $1,325,507   $0   $(634,969)  $690,538 
                             
   Series A-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    750,000    0    (324,061)   425,939 
                             
   Series A-2 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    1,050,001    (483,974)   566,027 
                             
HzO, Inc.  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $760,227   $370,135   $0   $1,130,362 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   2,838    1,737,366    4,358,226    0    6,095,592 

 

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Name of Issuer  Title of Issue or
Nature of Indebtedness(A)
  Amount of
Dividends
or Interest
Credited
to Income (B)
   Value as of
December 31,
2012
   Gross
Additions (C)
   Gross
Reductions (D)
   Value as of
December 31,
2013
 
                        
Kovio, Inc.  Series A' Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $359,321   $0   $(359,321)  $0 
                             
   Series B' Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,362,591    0    (1,362,591)   0 
                             
   Secured Subordinated
Convertible Bridge Note
   0    0    50,000    (50,000)   0 
                             
Laser Light Engines,
Inc.
  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $0   $0   $0   $0 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,008,225    0    (1,008,225)   0 
                             
   Convertible Bridge Notes   (104,436)   1,105,827    414,003    (1,355,708)   164,122 
                             
Metabolon, Inc.  Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $1,951,723   $1,046,268   $0   $2,997,991 
                             
   Series B-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    780,689    418,507    0    1,199,196 
                             
   Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,794,510    961,990    0    2,756,500 
                             
   Series D Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,499,999    804,110    0    2,304,109 
                             
   Series E Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    1,225,000    0    1,225,000 
                             
   Warrants for Series B-1
Preferred Stock
   0    71,164    145,244    0    216,408 
                             
OpGen, Inc.  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $2,211   $0   $245,000   $0   $245,000 
                             
   Common Stock(F)   0    3,260,000    0    (3,260,000)   0 
                             
Produced Water
Absorbents, Inc.
  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $278,170   $0   $(153,170)  $125,000 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    1,751,641    0    1,751,641 
                             
   Convertible Bridge Note   8,670    0    832,789    0    832,789 
                             
Senova Systems, Inc.  Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $810,000   $0   $(270,000)  $540,000 
                             
   Series B-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   3,961    0    603,960    0    603,960 
                             
   Warrants for Series B
Preferred Stock
   0    98,637    20,000    (42,887)   75,750 

 

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Name of Issuer  Title of Issue or
Nature of Indebtedness(A)
  Amount of
Dividends
or Interest
Credited
to Income (B)
   Value as of
December 31,
2012
   Gross
Additions (C)
   Gross
Reductions (D)
   Value as of
December 31,
2013
 
                        
SiOnyx, Inc.  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
  $0   $160,367   $0   $(116,586)  $43,781 
                             
   Series A-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    2,037,507    0    (1,481,257)   556,250 
                             
   Series A-2 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    2,889,736    0    (2,100,823)   788,913 
                             
   Series B-1 Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,300,000    0    (848,097)   451,903 
                             
   Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    1,255,523    0    (284,997)   970,526 
                             
   Warrants for Series B-1
Preferred Stock
   0    50,113    0    (31,948)   18,165 
                             
   Warrants for Common
Stock
   0    32,098    0    (10,711)   21,387 
                             
   Secured Convertible Bridge 
Notes
   23,597    0    1,719,458    0    1,719,458 
                             
Ultora, Inc.  Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    671,830    0    (670,042)   1,788 
                             
   Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock
   0    0    236,603    0    236,603 
                             
Total Affiliate Investments     $(17,878)  $50,602,765   $30,332,614   $(26,648,339)  $54,287,040 

 

(A)Common stock, warrants, options, membership units and, in some cases, preferred stock are generally non-income producing and restricted. The principal amount of debt and the number of shares of common and preferred stock and number of membership units are shown in the accompanying Consolidated Schedules of Investments as of December 31, 2013 and 2012.

 

(B)Represents the total amount of interest or dividends credited to income for the portion of the year an investment was a control or affiliate investment, as appropriate. Amounts credited to preferred or common stock represent accrued bridge note interest related to conversions that occurred during 2013.

 

(C)Gross additions include increases in investments resulting from new portfolio investments, paid-in-kind interest or dividends, the amortization of discounts and fees. Gross additions also include net increases in unrealized appreciation or decreases in unrealized depreciation.

 

(D)Gross reductions include decreases in investments resulting from principal collections related to investment repayments or sales, the amortization of premiums and acquisition costs. Gross reductions also include net increases in unrealized depreciation or decreases in unrealized appreciation.

 

(E)Debt security is on non-accrual status and, therefore, is considered non-income producing during the year ended December 31, 2013.

 

(F)At December 31, 2012, we owned $3,260,000 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock in OpGen, Inc. During 2013, these shares converted to common stock. At December 31, 2013, the value of these shares of common stock was $0.

 

**Information related to the amount of equity in the net profit and loss for the year for the investments listed has not been included in this schedule. This information is not considered to be meaningful owing to the complex capital structures of the portfolio companies, with different classes of equity securities outstanding with different preferences in liquidation. These investments are not consolidated, nor are they accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

 

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