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spk03: Hello and welcome to Sero Capital's third quarter 2024 earnings call. My name is Melissa and I will be your coordinator for today's event. Please note this conference is being recorded and for the duration of the call, your lines will be on listen only. However, you will have the opportunity to ask questions at the end of the presentation. This can be done by pressing star followed by one on your keypad to register your question. If you require assistance at any point, please press star zero to be connected to an operator. I'll now turn the call over to Willie Lee. Please go ahead.
spk01: Awesome, thank you. Thank you for joining us on today's call. I'm joined today by the chairman and chief executive officer of Sero Capital, Mark Klein, and chief financial officer, Alison Green. Please note that a slide presentation corresponding to today's prepared remarks by management is available on our website at .serocap.com under investor relations, events, and presentations. Today's call is being recorded and broadcast live on our website, .serocap.com. Replay information is provided in our press release issued today. This call is the property of Sero Capital and the unauthorized reproduction of this call in any form is strictly prohibited. I would also like to call your attention to customary disclosures in today's earnings, press release regarding forward looking information. Statements made in today's conference call and webcast may constitute forward looking statements which relate to future events or our future performance or financial condition. These statements are not guarantees of our future performance or future financial condition or results and involve number of risks, estimates, and uncertainties, including the impact of any market volatility that may be detrimental to our business, our portfolio companies, our industry, and the global economy that could cause actual results to differ materially from the plans and tensions and expectations reflected in or suggested by the forward looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including but not limited to those described from time to time in the company's filings with SEC. Management does not undertake to update such forward looking statements unless required to do so by law. To obtain copies of Sero Capital's latest SEC filings, please visit our website at .serocap.com or the SEC's website at sec.gov. Now I'd like to turn the call over to Mark Klein.
spk04: Thank you, Willie. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. We would like to share the results of Sero Capital's third quarter 2024. Before discussing the exciting events that have occurred in the past few months, I would like to take a step back and share the Sero Capital vision and discuss a bit about what differentiates our firm from other investment alternatives. Please turn to slides three, four, and five. From inception, our goal has been to democratize curated access to venture capital opportunities. Over the last 14 years, we have invested in and exited from investments in companies like Facebook, Twitter, Lyft, Spotify, Dropbox, Coursera, and Palantir. We believe our ability to access these opportunities provides our shareholders with access to an asset class that is typically excluded from the average investor. Presently, we are confident that we have redeployed capital into the next wave of exciting private companies with investments in market leading businesses like OpenAI, CoreWeave, Canva, ServiceTitan, Whoop, and LiquidDeath, to name a few. Between our ability to access attractive opportunities, our rigorous analysis and investment process, and our continued commitment to shareholder value, we are confident that we are providing unique value in the market that others may not. Fostering this differentiation is important given the alternatives investors have. Fast forwarding to today, the last few months have been among the most exciting for our firm in our history. With the exponential growth of AI, a new crop of some of the world's most valuable companies has emerged. We have identified and invested significant capital in a few of the market's leading players. Just in the second half of 2024, we've invested approximately $65 million into some of the largest and most sought after private companies globally.
spk00: Of that amount,
spk04: we've invested approximately $55 million into artificial intelligent companies. AI investments now represent a significant portion of our portfolio, comprising 18% of our gross assets at the quarter's end. Inclusive of the $17 million of investments we have made into AI companies subsequent to quarter's end, including VAST, the percentage of gross assets allocated to AI is approximately 23% of our portfolio. Outside of our portfolio, AI has attracted tremendous venture capital interest. According to Crunchbase, funding into AI startups made up 31% of the third quarter's total global venture funding. Including OpenAI's $6.6 billion financing, which closed subsequent to the quarter's end, AI's share of total funding amounted to nearly 40%. According to the same source, to give those figures some context, FinTech accounted for about 20% of all venture funding in 2021. While crypto never reached more than 6% of venture funding, even at its peak. During the surge in demand for AI investment, we believe we are highly differentiated on the basis of our AI investment criteria. Unlike many other investors, we have taken a thoroughly intentional approach that prioritizes the industry-agnostic picks and shovels infrastructure with proven traction and scale over the industry-specific applications with unproven product-market fit. Of our AI portfolio companies, our AI portfolio companies are later-stage businesses that have multi-billion dollar enterprise customers or already have massive consumer adoption. Looking at the broader portfolio, we have several portfolio companies that are well-positioned to drive shareholder value upon the reopening of the IPO market. We believe our late-stage portfolio companies, such as ServiceTitan, Canva, Whoop, and Liquid Death, among others, along with our AI portfolio companies, create a balanced portfolio offering our shareholders access to some of the most exciting private technology companies ahead of their potential IPOs. Additionally, many of these portfolio companies have even publicly discussed their IPO plans or have been the subjects of recent reports about their upcoming IPOs. According to Bloomberg, CoreWeave has hired Morgan Stanley Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan to lead its planned IPO next year. This follows the information's report that CoreWeave is aiming to file confidentiality next month. Additionally, according to the information, ServiceTitan may go public as soon as next month after generating approximately $360 million of revenue in the first half of this year. Finally, according to The Times, Limes CEO Wayne Ting said the company is ready for an IPO under the right market conditions and noted that Limes bookings grew by 32% to approximately $600 million last year. I would now like to discuss our recent investments in more detail. We are pleased to announce our significant new and following investments into some of the largest and most compelling AI companies. During the quarter, we made a $17.5 million investment in OpenAI, one of the largest developers of generative AI models for consumers and businesses, through the Class A interest of ARC Type 1 Deep Ventures Fund LLC, a fund whose sole portfolio asset is the convertible equity of OpenAI. During the quarter and subsequent to quarter's end, we increased our position in CoreWeave, a leading AI cloud computing provider viewing a follow-on secondary investments totaling $10 million. These follow-on investments bring our total capital investment in CoreWeave to $25 million, making CoreWeave the single largest initial investment in our firm's history. Lastly, subject to quarter's end, we made a $12 million investment in VAST, a data management solution for AI developers through the membership interest of IH10 LLC, whose sole portfolio asset is an interest in VAST data's preferred-be preferred shares. Together, our investments in OpenAI, CoreWeave, and VAST give our investors access to leading AI companies at each point in the AI value chain. I will discuss these investments in further detail later in my prepared remarks. Turning to our third quarter results, we ended the quarter with net asset value of $157.4 million or $6.73 per share. Please turn to slide six. CERO's top five positions as of September 30th were CoreWeave, which includes CW Opportunity 2LP, the CoreWeave SPV, and our $5 million follow-on secondary investment in CoreWeave Common Shares. Learnio, OpenAI through the Arc Type 1 Deep Ventures Fund, Blink Health, and Service Tighten. These positions accounted for approximately 47% of the investment portfolio at fair value. Additionally, as of September 30th, our top 10 positions accounted for approximately 75% of the investment portfolio. As of the quarter's end, our cash available for investment was approximately $32.7 million, representing 14% of our gross assets. Please turn to slide seven. During the quarter, we made a $17.5 million investment in OpenAI through Arc Type 1 Deep Ventures, a fund whose sole asset was the Class A, and Class A inches was the convertible equity of OpenAI. OpenAI is a leading developer of generative AI models using deep learning technology. According to Axios, OpenAI's $6.6 billion fundraising in which we participated was the largest venture capital deal of all time. The financing made OpenAI one of the most valuable private companies in the world. OpenAI offers its models via free and paid plans that suit the needs of consumers, small teams, and large organizations. Its fully released flagship models, GPT-40 and GPT-40 Mini, are multimodal, meaning they accept both text and image inputs and output text. According to a company blog post, these models are part of OpenAI's broader Chat GPT suite, which is used by over 250 million people every week around the world. Additionally, according to the Wall Street Journal, OpenAI has 11 million paying subscribers and approximately one million paying business customers. For consumers, Chat GPT can quickly generate text with a human-like understanding of a user's input. For example, a user may prompt Chat GPT to write a cover letter based on the user's input or work experience or come up with a workout plan based on the user's input and fitness goals. Within seconds, Chat GPT generates a relevant text response tailored specifically to the user's input. Chat GPT can also summarize more extensive content such as a research paper or lease agreement, again, extracting details specific to the input. For small teams, Chat GPT acts as an assistant for tasks such as analyzing data, generating code, and writing emails. For example, the finance department of a small business may prompt Chat GPT to summarize financial data based on an inputted Excel spreadsheet. Chat GPT can then visualize the data via chart or graph and generate text that describes trends in data over time. Additionally, the engineering team at a startup may prompt Chat GPT to find a bug in a set of code. Moments later, Chat GPT can identify the bug, explain the mistake, and provide an appropriate correction. For large organizations, Chat GPT provides advanced data analysis capabilities, customized options, and large-scale content generation services, all with enterprise-grade security. Plarna, a global leader in consumer payments, uses Chat GPT to power multilingual customer services. According to OpenAI blog posts, Plarna's AI assistance has 2.3 million conversations representing two-thirds of Plarna's customer service chats. This AI assistance is more accurate and expedient than Plarna's previous solutions, leading to a 25% decrease in repeat inquiries and resolutions in less than two minutes on average compared to 11 minutes on average before. According to PitchBook, OpenAI has raised over $21.9 billion in debt and equity financing from investors including COTE2, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Thrive Capital, Tiger Global, and others. We are excited about OpenAI's traction and positioning at the forefront of generative AI development. Please turn to slide eight. During the third quarter, we made a $5 million follow-on investment in CoreWeed's common shares via secondary transaction. Subsequent to CoreZen, we made an additional $5 million follow-on investment in CoreWeed Series A shares, again via a secondary transaction. These investments add to our previously discussed $50 million investment in CW Opportunity 2 LP, which is invested in CoreWeed Series C preferred shares, bringing our total investment in CoreWeed to $25 million. CoreWeed is a specialized cloud provider delivering access to NVIDIA GPUs and a fast, flexible cloud computing infrastructure tailored for AI and machine learning. It supports -to-end AI workflows from model training to deployment by offering distributed clusters powered by NVIDIA's Quantum InfiniBand Network Solutions. With spin-up times as short as five seconds, CoreWeed provides one of the industry's fastest inference solutions using NVIDIA GPUs. According to the company, its inference service is eight to 10 times faster than those of leading generalized cloud providers. CoreWeed's momentum has accelerated in recent months. According to the Financial Times, it now operates more than 45,000 NVIDIA GPUs, making it the largest private operator in North America. Additionally, according to Bloomberg, just last month, Cisco invested in CoreWeed as part of a transaction valued at $23 billion. Also last month, CoreWeed announced the close of its $650 million credit facility led by JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley, building on the close of its $7.5 billion credit facility led by Blackstone and Magnetart in late May. Later in the month, CoreScientific, a leader in digital infrastructure for Bitcoin mining, announced that CoreWeed exercised its final contract option to deliver approximately 120 megawatts of computing infrastructure to CoreScientific's data centers. According to CoreScientific's press release, this contract exercise expands CoreWeed's contracted infrastructure to approximately 500 megawatts across six CoreScientific sites. Information reported that Microsoft plans to invest $10 billion between 2023 and the end of the decade to use CoreWeed's data centers. According to the information, Microsoft's contract will be a key driver of CoreWeed's significant revenue growth. According to the information, the estimated revenue for CoreWeed is $500 million for 2023, $2 billion for 2024, and $8 billion for 2025. According to Bloomberg, this scale positions CoreWeed for a major IPO with bankers already hired for 2025 listing. According to PitchBook, CoreWeed has raised over $9 billion in debt and equity financing from investors such as Code2, Fidelity, Magnetor, and more. With its -in-class cloud infrastructure, we believe CoreWeed will continue its exponential growth and capitalize on accelerated AI adoptions. Please turn to slide nine. Subsequent to QuartersN, we made a $12 million investment in FastData through a membership interest in IH10 LLC, an entity whose sole portfolio asset is interest in FastData's Series B preferred shares. FastData is a data management solution for leading AI companies. FastData has emerged due to an inability of legacy data management solutions to serve customers building complex AI applications. For several decades, enterprise data solutions was built around the concept of tiers. Tired storage is the idea that data is segmented based on its importance to daily operations. An example of segments could be cold, warm, hot, and mission critical. However, AI applications need to access to all data at once, rendering the tiered storage system increasingly obsolete. FastData collapses the tiered storage model by offering all flash storage. All flash allows all data in a pipeline as opposed to data in a specific tier to be accessed instantly. This is especially valuable for companies that train AI models to produce outputs as these companies require constant movement of data between backend systems. As customers scale and face increasingly complex data management needs, FastData can add nodes to increase connections with a company, a customer's data architecture and GPUs to accelerate the production and usage of customer data. Leading companies at the forefront of AI development use FastData to accelerate their applications. According to a FastData blog post, Pixar, a globally recognized animation studio, uses FastData for its data-intensive media productions. For example, in its 2023 film, Elemental, Pixar used this custom edge animation methods that created several times the data footprint and computational demands for data than other previous movies. Even during the film's peak rendering usage, FastData delivered fast uninterrupted performance. Pixar continues to use FastData to employ new animation techniques using machine learning models for adopted and improved media production. According to a FastData blog post, Zoom, leader in live video conferencing, uses FastData to assist in training its AI models. On top of its video conferencing interface, Zoom offers AI-powered features such as -to-text transcription and language translation. To build and refine these features, Zoom required a data management solution that could access and retrieve data instantly. Zoom uses FastData to help process audio efficiently and quickly even in real time during a video conference. FastData has quickly cemented itself as a dominant AI infrastructure provider. According to a press release, at the end of 2023, FastData reached over $200 million in ARR. Additionally, the company has been cashflow positive for the last three years. According to PitchBook, FastData has raised over $390 million in equity financing from investors such as NEA, General Atlantic, TPG, and others. We believe FastData is poised for growth as a leading data management provider for the AI universe. Over the last few months, we've been deliberately focusing on deploying capital into companies offering critical AI infrastructure solutions. Today, with nearly $55 million invested in AI infrastructure, we believe our portfolio is well-positioned for upside given AI tailwinds. Now I would like to highlight recent developments in our portfolio company, Canva. As previously discussed, Canva is an online productivity design software and collaboration platform with a mission to empower everyone in the world to design. According to a Forbes article, as of late October, Canva crossed 200 million active daily users and $2.5 billion in annualized revenue. Additionally, the company reported having completed several transactions at a $32 billion valuation, up from the $26 billion valuation it received in its larger company tender in April. As previously discussed, we made our $10 million investment in Canva on similar terms as what was reported in the company tender offer. Finally, Canva continues to gain traction with enterprise companies having added names such as HP and the New York Stock Exchange to its platform. According to PitchBook, Canva has raised over $581 million in equity financing from investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Iconic, and others. We are excited about Canva's traction and positioning in the market as it expands its enterprise footprint and further captures international markets. Transitioning to our public investments. As previously stated, it is our objective to sell our public positions when lock-up restrictions expire and there is relative stability in a given public position trading. In line with this approach, we began to monetize our position in public square shares as their lock-up restrictions expired during the quarter and have continued to do so subsequent to quarter's end. One additional portfolio company we'd like to highlight again is Oklo. Oklo has been very positively received as a public company with the stock closing in excess of $26.50 today, more than double where the stock initially listed. As previously discussed, Oklo is a fast-firing, clean-power company backed by Sam Ullman. Oklo is on the cutting edge of nuclear fuel recycling, which has many uses, including the potential to add clean power to AI-related data centers. According to a recent report from the US Department of Energy, nuclear power has one of the lowest life-cycle emissions of any major generating energy source, providing electricity to the grid with the lowest CO2 emissions per megawatt hour of any currently available technology. Oklo is in the forefront of the small modular nuclear reactor space, which has recently received significant commercial interest. According to an Oklo press release in August, Oklo established a preferred supplier agreement with Siemens Energy, a leading manufacturer of steam, turbine-generated products and services. This partnership exceeds 1,300 megawatts in non-binding letters of intent, underscoring Oklo's significant market traction. Additionally, in September, Oklo announced the finalization of an agreement with the US Department of Energy's Idaho Operations Office. According to Oklo's press release, this agreement gives Oklo access to conduct site investigations as the only advanced formation company with a DOE site use permit. We are excited about Oklo's positioning as a leading nuclear energy provider as the company continues to expand its commercialization prospects. Finally, we continue to focus on our shareholder-friendly initiatives, including our recently executed note purchase agreement and note repurchase program and the expansion and extension of our share repurchase program. Allison will discuss these initiatives during her prepared remarks in further detail. To conclude my remarks, I want to highlight why I believe this is an exceptionally promising time for our portfolio. Over the past five years, we have made it a priority to share our perspectives on the evolving market and cycles and trends. In the middle of 2020, we stated our belief that there would be a significant increase in IPO activity and we were strategically positioned to take advantage of this potential. Throughout 2021, we monetized over $258 million of our portfolio's assets, including two substantial monetizations of Palantir and Corsair, each exceeding $100 million in net proceeds. We also declared a total of $8 per share for over $212 million in distributions to our shareholders. In 2022, we conveyed our view that the market was a bit overextended, prompting us to considerably scale back on our new capital investments. In the subsequent year and a half, we had ongoing dialogue with our investors about the disparity between private and public market valuations. And as this year progressed, we have detailed our approach to judiciously deploying our available capital. I am confident that our current positioning is as strong, if not stronger, than it was in 2020. We believe that if the market remains robust, the IPO market will reopen. As I discussed in earlier my remarks, we have several investments that could materially benefit from a revitalized IPO market. Given our recent investments and broader portfolio, we believe we are well positioned to drive shareholder return. Thank you for your attention. With that, I will hand it over to Allison Green, our Chief Financial Officer.
spk02: Thank you, Mark. I would like to follow Mark's update with a more detailed review of our financial results as of September 30th and investment activity during the third quarter and subsequent quarter end. Additionally, I will provide more detail on the .5% convertible note purchase agreement and related issuances during the quarter and subsequent quarter end, and the board approved 6% notes due to the 2026 repurchase program. I will conclude with a brief update on the share repurchase program and our current liquidity. Please turn to slide 10. As Mark mentioned, during the quarter, we completed a $17.5 million investment in the convertible equity of OpenAI through the Class A interest of ARC Type 1 Deep Ventures Fund LLC, a fund whose sole portfolio asset for Class A interest holders is the convertible equity of OpenAI. We also made a $5 million investment in CoreWeave's common shares via secondary transactions. Subsequent to quarter end, we made an additional $5 million investment in CoreWeave's Series A preferred shares via secondary transactions and a $12 million investment in VAS data through our investment in the membership interest of IH10 LLC, an entity whose sole portfolio asset is the Series B preferred shares of VAS data through an STB. Please turn to slide 11. During the third quarter, we began to sell our public common shares of Public Square following their lockup expiration on July 19th. We sold 359,845 shares of Public Square for approximately $1 million in net proceeds, resulting in a realized gain of approximately $732,000. Additionally, we sold our entire remaining position in One Valley, Inc., formerly known as Nest GSB, resulting in net proceeds of $3 million and a realized loss of approximately $6.6 million. During the quarter, we also exited our position in STBRX, formerly known as GSB Sustainability Partners, upon the dissolution of the business for which we received a final distribution of approximately $375,000, resulting in a realized loss of approximately $6.8 million. Finally, during the third quarter, we wrote off our investments in Churchill Sponsor 7 and UVET Technology doing business as fan power upon each of those companies' dissolutions. Subsequent to quarter end, we continued to sell our public common shares in Public Square. So far in Q4, we have sold 822,305 shares of Public Square for approximately $2.5 million in net proceeds and a resulting realized gain of approximately $1.8 million. Please turn to slide 12. I'd like to provide more detail on the note repurchase program for the 6% notes due to 2026 and the executed note purchase agreement for .5% convertible notes due to 2029. On August 6th, Serow Capital's Board of Directors approved a discretionary note repurchase program, which allows the company to repurchase up to .67% or $35 million in aggregate principal amount of our 6% notes due to 2026 through open market purchases, including block purchases, in such manner as will comply with the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940 as amended and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended. As of September 30th, we had repurchased ,010,136 of the 6% notes under the note repurchase program. The subsequent quarter in through today, we repurchased an additional 201,446 of the 6% notes under the note repurchase program. To date, under the note repurchase program, we have repurchased a total of ,211,582 or approximately $30.3 million principal amounts of the publicly traded 6% notes for approximately $30 million. The aggregate principal dollar amount of 6% notes that may yet be repurchased by Serow Capital under the note repurchase program is approximately $4.7 million. Now moving on to the .5% convertible note issuance. On August 6th, Serow Capital entered into a note purchase agreement by and between the company and a private issuer, pursuant to which we may issue up to a maximum of $75 million in aggregate principal amount of .5% convertible notes due to 2029. Pursuant to the note purchase agreement, on August 14th, we issued and sold in the purchase or purchase $25 million in aggregate principal amount of the convertible notes. Under the note purchase agreement, upon mutual agreement between the company and the purchaser, we may issue additional convertible notes for sale and subsequent offerings to the purchaser or issue additional notes with modified pricing terms in the aggregate for both the additional notes and the new notes up to a maximum of $50 million in one or more private offerings. Interest on the .5% convertible notes due to 2029 will be paid quarterly in arrears on March 30th, June 30th, September 30th, and December 30th at a rate of .5% per year beginning September 30th this year. The convertible notes will mature on August 14th, 2029 and may be redeemed in whole or in part at any time or from time to time at our option on or after August 6th, 2027 upon the fulfillment of certain conditions. The .5% convertible notes will be convertible into shares of our common stock at the purchaser's sole discretion at an initial conversion rate of approximately 129 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the convertible notes, subject to adjustments and limitations as provided in the note purchase agreement. The net proceeds from the offering of the convertible notes will be used to repay outstanding indebtedness, make investments in accordance with our investment objective and investment strategy, and for other general corporate purposes. The note purchase agreement includes customary representations, warranties, and covenants by the company. Subsequent quarter end pursuant to the note purchase agreement, on October 9th we issued and sold in the purchaser purchased $5 million in aggregate principal amount of additional .5% convertible notes. The additional convertible notes are treated as a single series with the initial notes and have the same terms as the initial notes. The additional notes are fungible and ranked equally with the initial notes. Upon issuance of the additional notes, the outstanding aggregate principal amount of the .5% convertible notes due to 2029 became $30 million. Please turn to slide 13. This quarter we reevaluated the investment things used to categorize the portfolio by industry to more appropriately capture our current portfolio as it has evolved since the themes were initially introduced. As a result, the six former investment themes, education technology, big data cloud AI, marketplaces, financial technology, social mobile, and sustainability were replaced to present a more accurate reflection of our portfolio. The new investment themes are artificial intelligence infrastructure and applications, software as a service, education technology, consumer goods and services, logistics and supply chain, financial technology and services, and SORO support. Segmented by seven general investment themes, the top allocation of our investment portfolio at quarter end was to software as a service representing approximately 26% of the investment portfolio at fair value. Artificial intelligence infrastructure and applications and consumer goods and services were the next largest categories with approximately 21% and 16% of our portfolio respectively. Approximately 15% of our portfolio was invested in education technology companies and the logistics and supply chain category accounted for approximately 11% of the fair value of our portfolio. Financial technology and services accounted for 9% of the fair value of our portfolio and SORO support accounted for 2% as of September 30th. Please turn to slide 14. We ended the third quarter 2024 with an NAV per share of $6.73, which is consistent with our financial reporting. The decrease in NAV per share from $6.94 at Q2 to $6.73 as of September 30th was primarily driven by a 59 cent per share decrease resulting from the net realized loss on our portfolio investments during the quarter, a 14 cent per share decrease due to net investment loss, and a 1 cent per share decrease due to realized loss on the partial repurchase of our 6% notes due to 2026. The decrease in NAV per share was partially offset by a 50 cent per share increase from the net change and unrealized appreciation of our investments and a 3 cent per share increase from the impact of stock based compensation during the quarter. I'd like to conclude with some notes on our share repurchase program and our liquidity at the quarter end. As Mark mentioned earlier, SORO Capital is committed to initiatives that enhance shareholder value. Accordingly, on October 29th, our board of directors authorized a $4.3 million expansion to the share repurchase program to $64.3 million and an extension of the share repurchase program through October 31st, 2025. Since the inception of the share repurchase program in August 2017, we have repurchased a total of over 6 million shares of our common stock for a total deployment of approximately $39.3 million of the $64.3 million authorized by the board. Approximately $25 million remains authorized under the share repurchase program that is now set to expire on October 31st, 2025. Regarding our liquidity as of quarter end, we ended the quarter with approximately $39.5 million of liquid assets, including approximately $32.7 million in cash and approximately $6.7 million in unrestricted public securities. The $1.4 million of public securities subject to lock up restrictions as of quarter end was not included in this balance. At September 30th and as of today, there are ,378,002 shares of the company's common stock outstanding. That concludes my comments. We would like to thank you for your interest and support of Storo Capital. Now I will turn the call over to the operator for the start of the Q&A session. Operator?
spk03: Thank you. As a reminder, if you would like to ask a question, please press star followed by one on your keypad to register your question. To withdraw your question for any reason, you may press star two. We kindly request you limit yourself to one question. You will be advised when to ask your question. As we have no questions in the queue, I would like to turn it back over to your host for any closing remarks.
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spk04: you all for attending our Q3 call. We appreciate your interest and support. If you have any further questions, feel free to reach out directly through our IR portal. Thank you all very much.
spk03: Thank you very much. Once again, that does conclude today's conference. You may now disconnect.
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