iOThree Ltd 20-F for FY2025
iOThree Ltd (IOTR)
About this 20-F
iOThree Ltd filed this 20-F on June 30, 2025, covering the fiscal year ended March 31, 2025 (FY2025).
Headline figures
Fiscal year ended March 31, 2025, as reported in this filing, compared with the same period a year earlier where the filing states it.
- Revenue
- $10.48M
- up 22.3% from $8.57M a year earlier
- Net loss
- $230.52K
- compared with a net loss of $4446 a year earlier
- Diluted EPS
- -$0.01
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Annual Report on Form 20-F
Year Ended March 31, 2025
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| PART II | |||
| Item 13. | Defaults, Dividend Arrearages and Delinquencies | 78 | |
| Item 14. | Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders and Use of Proceeds | 78 | |
| Item 15. | Controls and Procedures | 78 | |
| Item 16. | [Reserved] | 79 | |
| 16A. | Audit Committee and Financial Expert | 79 | |
| 16B. | Code of Ethics | 79 | |
| 16C. | Principal Accountant Fees and Services | 79 | |
| 16D. | Exemptions from the Listing Standards for Audit Committees | 80 | |
| 16E. | Purchases of Equity Securities by the Issuer and Affiliated Purchasers | 80 | |
| 16F. | Change in Registrant’s Certifying Accountant | 80 | |
| 16G. | Corporate Governance | 80 | |
| 16H. | Mine Safety Disclosure | 81 | |
| 16I. | Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections | 81 | |
| 16J. | Insider Trading Policies | 81 | |
| 16K. | Cybersecurity | 81 | |
| Item 17. | Financial Statements | 83 | |
| Item 18. | Financial Statements | 83 | |
| Item 19. | Exhibits | 83 | |
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CERTAIN INFORMATION
As used in this Annual Report on Form 20-F (the “Annual Report”), unless otherwise indicated or the context otherwise requires, references to:
“5G” means the 5th generation mobile network, which is a global wireless standard.
“ASC” means FASB Accounting Standards Codification.
“AI” means artificial intelligence.
“AR” means augmented reality.
“British Virgin Islands” means the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland’s territory of the Virgin Islands.
“BVI” means British Virgin Islands.
“CAGR” means compound annual growth rate.
“Cayman Islands” means the Cayman Islands, a British overseas territory in the Western Caribbean islands.
“CCTV” means closed circuit television.
“Companies Act” means the Companies Act (as revised) of the Cayman Islands.
“COVID-19” means the novel Coronavirus Disease of 2019.
“ERP” means enterprise resource planning.
“EU” means the European Union.
“Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or any similar federal statute, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
“FASB” means the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
“GPS” means global positioning system.
“IoT” means Internet of Things.
“iO3 BVI” means iOThree Maritime Technologies Limited, a subsidiary of our Company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands on August 21, 2023.
“iO3 Cayman” means iOThree Limited, an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands on August 21, 2023 as a holding company.
“iO3 Singapore” means iO3 Pte. Ltd. incorporated under the Singapore Companies Act as an exempt private company limited by shares on February 19, 2019.
“IRS” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
“IP phone” means internet protocol phone.
“ISO” means International Organization for Standardization.
“IT” means information technology.
“JOBS Act” means the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012.
“LAN” means local area network.
“Nasdaq” means The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.
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“Nasdaq Listing Rules” means the Listing Rules adopted by The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC, as the same may be amended from time to time.
“OT” means operational technology.
“Sarbanes-Oxley Act” means the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated from time to time thereunder.
“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Securities Act” means the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any similar federal statute and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
“Singapore Dollars” or “S$” means Singapore dollars.
“Singapore Companies Act” means the Companies Act 1967 of Singapore, as amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
“Singapore Stock Exchange” means the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited.
“United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America, including the states, the District of Columbia and its territories and possessions.
“U.S. Dollars”, “US$” or “$” means U.S. dollars.
“U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act” means the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977, as amended.
“USB” means universal serial bus.
“VSAT” means very small aperture terminal.
Financial Statements
The consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the regulations of the SEC.
Financial Information in U.S. Dollars
The reporting currency of the Company is United States Dollars, or “US$”, or “$”, and the consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report have been expressed in United States Dollars. In addition, the Company and subsidiaries maintain their books and record in United States Dollars or “US$”, or “$”, which is a functional currency as being the primary currency of the economic environment in which their operations are conducted.
Transactions denominated in currencies other than United States Dollars are translated into United States Dollars at the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are translated into the functional currency using the applicable exchange rates at the date of the balance sheet dates. The resulting exchange differences arising on the settlement of monetary items or on translating monetary items at the date of the balance sheet dates are recorded in the statement of operations.
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FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report contains many statements that are “forward-looking” and uses forward-looking terminology such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “future,” “intend,” “may,” “ought to,” “plan,” “possible,” “potentially,” “predicts,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would,” negatives of such terms or other similar statements. You should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statement due to its inherent risk and uncertainties, both general and specific. Although we believe the assumptions on which the forward-looking statements are based are reasonable and within the bounds of our knowledge of our business and operations as of the date of this Annual Report, any or all of those assumptions could prove to be inaccurate. Many important factors, including those discussed under “Item 3.D. Risk Factors,” could cause our actual results to differ substantially from those anticipated in our forward-looking statements, including:
| ● | unfavorable global and regional economic, political and health conditions, especially in Singapore and Asia; |
| ● | environmental, social and governance matters, including global climate change; |
| ● | current competition and the emergence of new market participants in our industry; |
| ● | government regulation and changes in foreign currency exchange rates; |
| ● | our expectations regarding the continued growth of our industry in Asia and globally; |
| ● | failure to maintain and enhance our brand recognition; |
| ● | our ability to maintain and expand our supplier relationships; |
| ● | our reliance on technology; |
| ● | being subject to warranty claims, product recalls and product liability claims; |
| ● | our ability to attract, train and retain executives and other qualified employees; and |
| ● | our ability to successfully implement our growth strategies. |
Such risks and uncertainties are not exhaustive. Other sections of this Annual Report include additional factors which could adversely impact our business and financial performance. These statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are not a guarantee of future performance. Actual results of our operations may differ materially from information contained in the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this Annual Report speak only as of the date of this Annual Report or, if obtained from third-party studies or reports, the date of the corresponding study or report, and are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements in this Annual Report. Since we operate in an emerging and evolving environment and new risk factors and uncertainties emerge from time to time, you should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Except as otherwise required by the securities laws of the United States, we undertake no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this Annual Report or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
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PART I
ITEM 1. IDENTITY OF DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND ADVISERS
Not applicable.
ITEM 2. OFFER STATISTICS AND EXPECTED TIMETABLE
Not applicable.
ITEM 3. KEY INFORMATION
3.A. [Reserved]
3.B. Capitalization and Indebtedness
Not applicable.
3.C. Reasons for the Offer and Use of Proceeds
Not applicable.
3.D. Risk Factors
You should carefully consider the following risk factors and all of the information contained in this Annual Report, including but not limited to, the matters addressed in the section titled “Forward-Looking Statements,” and our financial information before you decide whether to invest in our securities. One or more of a combination of these risks could materially impact our business, financial condition or results of operations. In any such case, the market price of the Ordinary Shares could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently do not consider to be material may also materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Summary Risk Factors
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
| ● | We are an early-stage company with a limited operating history. Our relatively short track record makes it difficult to evaluate our historical performance or predict our future prospects. |
| ● | Loss of key employees and the inability to continuously recruit and retain qualified employees could hurt our competitive position. |
| ● | The emergence of a competing maritime digital shipboard platform or other similar product and service could reduce the competitive advantage we believe we currently enjoy with JARVISS, which offers an open, participative infrastructure for a diversified portfolio of applications to be transmitted efficiently, with built-in cybersecurity protection. |
| ● | Satellite failures or degradations in satellite performance could affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. |
| ● | We generate a significant percentage of our revenue from certain key customers, and anticipate this concentration will continue for the foreseeable future, and the loss of one or more of our key customers could negatively affect our business and operating results. |
| ● | As we rely on a small number of suppliers, supplier concentration may expose us to significant financial credit or performance risk. |
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| ● | Defects, errors or other performance problems in our software or hardware, or the third-party software or hardware on which we rely, could harm our reputation, result in significant costs to us, impair our ability to sell our systems and subject us to substantial liability. |
| ● | We are devoting significant resources to research and development efforts that may be unsuccessful. If we are unable to improve our existing products and services and develop new, innovative products and services, our sales and market share may decline. |
| ● | Our reliance on distributors could affect our ability to efficiently and profitably distribute and market our products, maintain our existing markets and expand our business into other geographic markets. |
Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory and Governmental Matters
| ● | Most of the registrant’s operations are carried out in Singapore. As a result, our operations are subject to various political, economic, and other risks and uncertainties. |
| ● | It will be difficult to obtain jurisdiction and enforce liabilities against our officers, directors and assets outside the United States. |
| ● | We may become subject to warranty claims, product recalls and product liability claims and may be adversely affected by unfavorable court decisions or legal settlements. |
Risks Related to Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
| ● | A material failure, inadequacy, interruption or security failure of our technology networks and related systems could harm our business. |
| ● | We depend on cloud-based data services operated by third parties, and any disruption in the operation of these services could harm our business. |
| ● | Cybersecurity breaches, attacks and other similar incidents, as well as other disruptions, could compromise our confidential and proprietary information, including personal information, and expose us to liability and regulatory fines, increase our expenses, or result in legal or regulatory proceedings, which would cause our business and reputation to suffer. |
| ● | We are subject to complex and evolving laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations regarding data privacy and cybersecurity, which can increase the cost of doing business, compliance risks and potential liability. |
| ● | We use open-source software in our systems, which could negatively affect our ability to offer our systems and subject us to litigation and other actions. |
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities
| ● | We are a foreign private issuer and, as a result, are not subject to U.S. proxy rules but are subject to Exchange Act reporting obligations that, to some extent, are more lenient and less frequent than those of a U.S. issuer. |
| ● | We may lose our foreign private issuer status in the future, which could result in significant additional costs and expenses. |
| ● | In addition to being a foreign private issuer, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules and, as a result, are eligible for exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements. |
| ● | As a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, we are permitted to adopt certain home country practices in relation to corporate governance matters that differ significantly from Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards. These practices may afford less protection to shareholders than they would enjoy if we complied fully with Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards. |
| ● | You may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through U.S. courts may be limited, because we are incorporated under Cayman Islands law. |
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| ● | Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association designate the Cayman Islands as the exclusive forum for certain litigation that may be initiated by our shareholders and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the exclusive forum for litigation arising under the federal securities laws of the United States, which could limit our shareholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us. |
| ● | Because we do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future, you must rely on price appreciation of our Ordinary Shares for a return on your investment. |
| ● | Our Ordinary Shares will be subject to potential delisting if we do not meet or continue to maintain the listing requirements of Nasdaq. |
| ● | Our share price has fallen significantly and we could be delisted in which case broker-dealers may be discouraged from effecting transactions in our Ordinary Shares because they may be considered penny stocks and thus be subject to the penny stock rules. |
| ● | Our officers, directors and principal shareholders currently own a substantial number of our Ordinary Shares and have the power to significantly influence the vote on all matters submitted to a vote of our shareholders. |
| ● | For as long as we are an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with certain requirements that apply to other public companies. |
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
We are an early-stage company with a limited operating history. Our relatively short track record makes it difficult to evaluate our historical performance or predict our future prospects.
Since inception in 2019, we have devoted substantially all of our resources to designing, developing and manufacturing our systems and technology, enhancing our engineering capabilities, building our business and establishing relations with our customers, raising capital and providing general and administrative support for these operations. We are still in the early stages of our development and have a limited operating history. Consequently, any assessment you make about our current business or future success or viability may not be as accurate as it could be if we had a longer operating history or an established track record in generating predictable revenues or operating cash flows sufficient to fund our working capital requirements.
Although we have several customer contracts, we have limited insight into trends that may emerge and affect our business, including our ability to attract and retain customers, the amount of revenue we will generate from our customers and the competition we will face. If our revenue grows slower than we anticipate or we otherwise fall materially short of our forecasts and expectations, we may not be able to maintain sustained profitability and our financial condition will be materially and adversely affected which could cause our share price to decline and investors to lose confidence in us.
Additionally, our relatively short track record makes it difficult to evaluate our historical performance or predict our future prospects. Investors should consider our business and prospects in light of the risks, expenses, and challenges frequently encountered by companies in the early stages of development. Any failure to address these challenges effectively could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Loss of key employees and the inability to continuously recruit and retain qualified employees could hurt our competitive position.
We depend on a limited number of key technical, marketing and management personnel to manage and operate our business. In particular, we believe our success depends to a significant degree on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled engineers to facilitate the enhancement of our existing technologies and the development of new systems. In order to compete effectively, we must:
| ● | hire and retain qualified professionals; |
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| ● | continue to develop leaders for key business units and functions; and |
| ● | train and motivate our employee base. |
The competition for qualified personnel is intense, and the number of candidates with relevant experience, particularly in radio-frequency device and satellite communications systems development and engineering, integrated circuit and technical pre- and post-sale support, is limited. Changes in employment-related laws and regulations may also result in increased operating costs and less flexibility in how we meet our changing workforce needs. Additionally, we may in the future decide to dismiss, certain personnel in order to save on costs and focus on our core competencies, which may have an adverse effect on our reputation and our ability to retain additional qualified personnel in the future. We cannot assure that we will be able to attract and retain skilled personnel in the future, which could harm our business and our results of operations.
The markets in which we compete are relatively competitive and our competitors may have greater resources than us.
Although we have not encountered any direct competitors as there is no one company that operates and provides both business segments, the markets in which we compete are still relatively competitive and competition is increasing. In addition, because the markets in which we operate are constantly evolving and characterized by rapid technological change, it is difficult for us to predict whether, when and by whom new competing technologies, products or services may be introduced into our markets. Currently, we face competition in each of our segments. See “Item 4.B. Business Overview — Competition” of this report for a discussion of the competitive environment in each of our segments. Many of our competitors have significant competitive advantages, including strong customer relationships, more experience with regulatory compliance, greater financial and management resources and access to technologies not available to us. Many of our competitors are also substantially larger or more specialized than we are and may have more extensive engineering, manufacturing and marketing capabilities than we do. As a result, these competitors may be able to adapt more quickly to changing technology or market conditions or may be able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion and sale of their products. Our ability to compete in each of our segments may also be adversely affected by limits on our capital resources and our ability to invest in maintaining and expanding our market share.
Our competitors may develop products that are less expensive, are safer or more effective, and thus may diminish or eliminate the commercial success of any potential products that we may commercialize.
Our competitors may develop products that are less expensive, are safer or more effective, and thus may diminish or eliminate the commercial success of any potential products that we may commercialize. If there are competitors’ market products that are less expensive, safer or more effective than our future products developed from our product candidates, or that reach the market before our product candidates, we may not achieve commercial success. The market may choose to continue utilizing the existing products for any number of reasons, including familiarity with or pricing of these existing products. The failure of any of our product candidates to compete with products marketed by our competitors would impair our ability to generate revenue, which would have a material adverse effect on our future business, financial condition and results of operations. We expect to compete with several companies and our competitors may:
| ● | Develop and market products that are less expensive or more effective than our future products; |
| ● | Commercialize competing products before we can launch any products developed from our product candidates; |
| ● | Operate larger or more specialized research and development programs or have substantially greater financial resources than we do; |
| ● | Initiate or withstand substantial price competition more successfully than we can; |
| ● | Have greater success in recruiting skilled technical and scientific workers from the limited pool of available talent; |
| ● | More effectively negotiate third-party licenses and strategic relationships; and |
| ● | Take advantage of acquisition or other opportunities more readily than we can. |
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The emergence of a competing maritime digital shipboard platform or other similar products and services could reduce the competitive advantage we believe we currently enjoy with JARVISS, which offers an open, participative infrastructure for a diversified portfolio of applications to be transmitted efficiently, with built-in cybersecurity protection.
JARVISS is a unified digital shipboard platform that encompasses the full spectrum end-to-end from shipboard edge device to cloud services for operational efficiencies and safer voyages. JARVISS provides a diversified portfolio of digital solutions and is fully customizable and designed to meet our customers’ individual requirements. We believe that our array of competitive advantages positions us to not only maintain but also strengthen our position in the industry. Due to our unique business offering, we have not encountered and are unaware of any direct competitors as there is no one company that operates and provides both business segments (i.e., connectivity and digitalization and other solutions), but any introduction of such a product or company could adversely impact our success. In addition, other companies could replicate some of the distinguishing features of our products, which could potentially reduce the appeal of our solution, increase price competition, and adversely affect sales. We do, however, face different competitors in each of the business segments. Our main competitors are Navarino, Marlink and Inmarsat for satellite connectivity solution; and Alpha Ori, Zero North and Storm Geo for the ‘digitalization’ segment under ‘digitalization and other solutions’, and Navarino, Radio Holland, and DNV for the ‘other solutions’ segment under ‘digitalization and other solutions’. Moreover, our current and future competitors vary in size and in the breadth and scope of the products and services they offer. They may have longer operating histories or have greater available financial, technical, sales, marketing and other resources than we do. Future competitors such as venture backed startups that are purely software focused may be able to benefit from more capital being injected into the research and development of their products as well as business development efforts.
Any failure to maintain our brand recognition and value may adversely affect our business.
We believe our strong market positions have contributed to the Company’s strong brand recognition and value. Maintaining and developing our brand recognition and value will depend largely on the success of our marketing efforts and our ability to provide consistent, high-quality customer service. In addition, brand recognition and value are based in large part on perceptions of subjective qualities, and even isolated incidents can erode trust and confidence, particularly if they result in adverse publicity, governmental investigations or litigation. Our Company, including our brand recognition and value, could be adversely affected if our public image or reputation is tarnished by negative publicity. Any loss of confidence on the part of customers in our brand or brand image would be difficult and costly to overcome and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Satellite failures or degradations in satellite performance could affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our solutions utilize satellites to provide our customers with stable communications and other technological capabilities. Satellites utilize highly complex technology, operate in the harsh environment of space and are subject to significant operational risks while in orbit. These risks include malfunctions (commonly referred to as anomalies), such as malfunctions in the deployment of subsystems and/or components, interference from electrostatic storms, and collisions with meteoroids, decommissioned spacecraft or other space debris. Anomalies can occur as a result of various factors, including satellite manufacturer error, problems with the power or control sub-system of a satellite or general failures caused by the harsh space environment. Our satellite providers may experience anomalies in the future. Any single anomaly or other operational failure or degradation on the satellites we use could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Although the satellite operators we use have redundant or backup systems and components that operate in the event of an anomaly, operational failure or degradation of primary critical components, these redundant or backup systems and components are subject to risk of failure similar to those experienced by the primary systems and components. The occurrence of a failure of any of these redundant or backup systems and components could materially affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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We generate a significant percentage of our revenue from certain key customers, and anticipate this concentration will continue for the foreseeable future, and the loss of one or more of our key customers could negatively affect our business and operating results.
We derive a significant portion of our revenue from a limited number of customers. For the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, our top five customers contributed approximately 44.0%, 34.1% and 39.7% of the total revenue of our company, respectively. If we fail to deliver upon contracts with these five customers, or upon the contracts of other large customers, or if demand by these customers for our products decreases substantially, our revenues and operating results could be materially adversely affected. Any slowdown or a disruption in the growth of these customers’ markets could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
As we rely on a small number of suppliers, supplier concentration may expose us to significant financial credit or performance risk.
Our solutions rely on the supply of services, equipment, or software which we may purchase from a small number of third-party suppliers. Purchases from our five largest suppliers contributed approximately 50.1%, 49.8% and 60.7% of our total cost of sales for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively. As we continue to grow our business, we may need to establish a more diverse supplier network, while attempting to continue to leverage our purchasing power to obtain favorable pricing and delivery terms. The failure to diversify our supplier network could have an adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Furthermore, despite our efforts to maintain good relationships with our existing suppliers, we could lose one or more of our existing suppliers at any time. The loss of one or more key suppliers could increase our reliance on higher cost or lower quality supplies, which could negatively affect our profitability. Any interruptions to, or decline in, the amount or quality of our supplies could materially disrupt our operations and adversely affect our business, financial condition and financial prospects.
Deterioration of the financial condition of our customers could adversely affect our operating results.
Deterioration of the financial condition of our customers could adversely impact our collection of accounts receivable and may result in delays in product orders or contract negotiations. For the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, our top five customers contributed approximately 44.0%, 34.1% and 39.7% of the total revenue of our company, respectively. As of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, accounts receivable with these customers were approximately $269,844, $118,000 and $422,000, respectively. We regularly review the collectability and creditworthiness of our customers to determine an appropriate allowance for credit losses. Based on our review of our customers, we currently have no reserves for uncollectible accounts. If our accounts receivable become uncollectible, our operating results would be negatively impacted. Further, recent global inflationary trends and financial markets volatility have resulted in funding constraints that may affect the timing and scale of investments in new communications technologies by some of our existing and prospective customers. The effects of recent macroeconomic uncertainties on our customers have also resulted in delays to contract negotiations or customer orders, and may result in further delays. Any new or further delays in new contracts or customer orders could materially adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
Some of our customers may require our products and systems to undergo a demonstration process that does not assure future sales or customer contracts.
Prior to purchasing our satellite communications systems, some of our customers may require that products undergo extensive demonstration processes, which may involve the testing of our products in the customers’ systems or via a prototype demonstration. We may also undertake to commit resources to prepare a demonstration for a prospective customer, in which case we would bear the expenses of the demonstration. The demonstration process varies by the customer and the product, and may take several months. The demonstration of our products to a customer does not assure any sales of such product to that customer. Despite these uncertainties, we may devote substantial resources, including design, engineering, sales, marketing and management efforts, to demonstrate our products to customers in anticipation of sales and without an expectation of reimbursement of these costs or generating future revenues and gross profits from the projected sale of our systems.
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Our estimates, including market opportunity estimates and market growth forecasts, are subject to inherent challenges in measurement and significant uncertainty, and real or perceived inaccuracies in those metrics and estimates may harm our reputation and negatively affect our business.
We track certain key metrics and market data, including, among others, our estimated demand for maritime digital technology, which may differ from estimates or similar metrics published by third parties due to differences in sources, methodologies or the assumptions on which we rely. Our methodologies for tracking these data may change over time, which could result in changes to our metrics, including the metrics we publicly disclose. While our key metrics and market data are based on what we believe to be reasonable estimates for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring our performance. For example, the accuracy of our projected potential contract revenue pipeline could be impacted by developments outside of our control, such as changes in customers’ plans, supply chain difficulties and the availability of alternative products. In addition, limitations with respect to how we measure data or with respect to the data that we measure may affect our understanding of certain details of our business, which could affect our long-term strategies. If our estimates of operating metrics and market data are not accurate representations of our business, if investors do not perceive our operating metrics to be accurate, or if we discover material inaccuracies with respect to these figures, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects could be materially and adversely affected. Additionally, industry data, forecasts, estimates and projections included elsewhere in this report are subject to inherent uncertainty as they necessarily require certain assumptions and judgments. Certain facts, forecasts and other statistics relating to the industries in which we compete have been derived from various public data sources, including third-party industry reports and analyses. Accordingly, our use of the terms referring to our markets and industries may be subject to interpretation, and the resulting industry data, projections and estimates are inherently uncertain. If any one or more of the assumptions underlying the market data are later found to be incorrect, actual results may differ from the projections based on these assumptions. Furthermore, our industry data and market share data should be interpreted in light of the defined markets in which we operate. Any discrepancy in the interpretation thereof could lead to varying industry data, measurements, forecasts and estimates. Further, the sources on which such industry and market data and estimates are based were prepared as of a certain point in time, and any changes in global macroeconomic conditions, including recent global inflationary trends and financial markets volatility, could also lead to changes in these data, measurements, forecasts and estimates. Furthermore, we do not, as a matter of general practice, publicly disclose long-term forecasts or internal projections of our future performance, revenue, financial condition or other results.
Fluctuations in our net sales and results of operations could depress the market price of our Ordinary Shares.
Our future net sales and results of operations could vary significantly due to a number of factors, many of which are outside our control. Accordingly, you should not rely on year-to-year comparisons of our results of operations as an indication of future performance. It is possible that our net sales or results of operations in a quarter will fall below the expectations of securities analysts or investors. If this occurs, the market price of our Ordinary Shares could fall significantly. Our results of operations in any financial year can fluctuate for many reasons, including changes in demand for our products and services; delays in order fulfillment; the mix of products and services we sell; our ability to test and deliver products in a timely and cost-effective manner, including the availability of components from our suppliers; our success in winning competitions for orders; the timing of new product introductions by us or our competitors; the scope and success of our investments in research and development; expenses incurred in pursuing acquisitions and investments; expenses incurred in expanding, maintaining, or improving our global network; market and competitive pricing pressures; unanticipated charges or expenses, such as increases in warranty claims; expenses incurred in responding to shareholder activism; general economic climate; and the impact of supply chain disruptions. A large portion of our expenses, including expenses for network infrastructure, facilities, equipment, and personnel, are relatively fixed. Accordingly, if our net sales decline or do not grow as much or as quickly as we anticipate, we might be unable to maintain or improve our operating margins. Any failure to achieve anticipated net sales could therefore significantly harm our operating results for a particular fiscal period.
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Defects, errors or other performance problems in our software or hardware, or the third-party software or hardware on which we rely, could harm our reputation, result in significant costs to us, impair our ability to sell our systems and subject us to substantial liability.
Our software and hardware, and those of third parties on which we rely, is complex and may contain defects or errors when implemented or when new functionality is released, as we may modify, enhance, upgrade and implement new systems, procedures and controls to reflect changes in our business, technological advancements and changing industry trends. Despite our testing, from time to time we have discovered and may in the future discover defects or errors in our software and hardware. Any performance problems or defects in our software or hardware, or those of third parties on which we rely, could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Defects, errors or other similar performance problems or disruptions, whether in connection with day-to-day operations or otherwise, could be costly for us, damage our customers’ businesses, harm our reputation and result in reduced sales or a loss of, or delay in, the market acceptance of our systems. In addition, if we have any such errors, defects or other performance problems, our clients could seek to terminate their contracts, delay or withhold payment or make claims against us. Any of these actions could result in liability, lost business, increased insurance costs, difficulty in collecting accounts receivable, costly litigation or adverse publicity, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Acquisitions and strategic relationships may disrupt our operations or adversely affect our results.
We evaluate opportunities to acquire other businesses and pursue other strategic relationships as they arise. The expenses we incur evaluating and pursuing acquisitions and strategic relationships could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. If we acquire a business, we may be unable to manage it profitably or successfully integrate its operations with our own. Moreover, we may be unable to realize the strategic, financial, operational and other benefits we anticipate, and any acquisition or strategic relationship may increase our operating expenses. Further, our approach to acquisitions and strategic relationships may involve a number of special financial and business risks, such as entry into new and unfamiliar lines of business or markets, which may present challenges or risks that we did not anticipate; entry into new or unfamiliar geographic regions, including exposure to additional tax and regulatory regimes; increased expenses associated with the amortization of acquired intangible assets; increased exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; charges related to any abandoned acquisition; diversion of our management’s time, attention, and resources; loss of key personnel; increased costs to improve or coordinate managerial, operational, financial, and administrative systems, including internal control over financial reporting; dilutive issuances of equity securities; the assumption of legal liabilities; and losses arising from impairment charges associated with goodwill or intangible assets.
We depend on our main facility in Singapore and are susceptible to any event that could adversely affect its condition or the condition of our other facilities.
We depend on our main facility in Singapore and are susceptible to any event that could adversely affect its condition or the condition of our other facilities. A material portion of our operational capacity, our principal offices and principal research and development facilities for the principal part of our business are concentrated in a single location in Singapore. We also have business arrangements with a few local agents in Taiwan and Vietnam. Fire, natural disaster, lockdowns, or any other cause of material disruption in our operations in any of these locations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.
We may not be able to raise equity and debt financing sufficient to meet our capital and operating needs and to comply with the covenants that we expect will be contained in our debt agreements, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
We may not be able to raise equity and debt financing sufficient to meet our capital and operating needs and to comply with the covenants that we expect will be contained in our debt agreements, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. We cannot assure you that the net proceeds from any future equity offering or debt financing would be sufficient to satisfy our capital and operating needs and enable us to comply with various debt covenants that we expect will be contained in future debt agreements. In such case, we may not be able to raise additional equity capital or obtain additional debt financing or refinance our existing indebtedness, if necessary. If we are not able to comply with the covenants that we expect will be contained in future debt agreements and our lenders choose to accelerate our indebtedness and foreclose their liens, we could be required to sell any vessels we may own and our ability to continue to conduct our business would be impaired.
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We are devoting significant resources to research and development efforts that may be unsuccessful. If we are unable to improve our existing products and services and develop new, innovative products and services, our sales and market share may decline.
The market for maritime connectivity and digital solutions is characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product innovations, changes in customer requirements and expectations, and evolving industry standards. For example, we are starting to face competition from other maritime communication companies. For instance, our main competitors are Navarino, Marlink and Inmarsat for satellite connectivity solution; and Alpha Ori, Zero North and Storm Geo for the ‘digitalization’ segment under ‘digitalization and other solutions’, and Navarino, Radio Holland, and DNV for the ‘other solutions’ segment under ‘digitalization and other solutions’. If we fail to make innovations in our existing products and services and reduce the costs of our products and services in a timely way, our market share may decline. Products or services using new technologies, or emerging industry standards, could render our products and services obsolete. If our competitors successfully introduce new or enhanced products or services that outperform our products or services, or are perceived as doing so, we may be unable to compete successfully in the markets affected by these changes. Research and development in our industry is inherently complex and uncertain, and our current and anticipated research and development projects may not achieve the results we seek. The financial resources that we can devote to our research and development efforts may be insufficient to achieve our goals. Our efforts may not result in any viable products or may result in products whose performance, features, price or availability may not be attractive to customers or that we cannot manufacture and sell profitably.
Our reliance on distributors could affect our ability to efficiently and profitably distribute and market our products, maintain our existing markets and expand our business into other geographic markets.
Our ability to maintain and expand our existing markets for our products, and to establish markets in new geographic distribution areas, is dependent on our ability to establish and maintain successful relationships with reliable distributors strategically positioned to serve those areas. Such distributors may sell and distribute competing products, and our products may represent a small portion of their businesses. There is a risk that such distributors may not adequately perform their functions by, without limitation, failing to distribute to sufficient retailers or positioning our products in localities that may not be receptive to our product. Our ability to incentivize and motivate distributors to manage and sell our products is affected by competition from other companies who have greater resources than we do. To the extent that our distributors are distracted from selling our products or do not employ sufficient efforts in managing and selling our products, our sales and results of operations could be adversely affected. Furthermore, such third-parties’ financial position or market share may deteriorate, which could adversely affect our distribution, marketing, and sales activities.
Our ability to maintain and expand our distribution network and attract additional distributors will depend on a number of factors, some of which are outside our control. Some of these factors include:
| ● | the level of demand for our brands and products in a particular distribution area; |
| ● | our ability to price our products at levels competitive with those of competing products; and |
| ● | our ability to deliver products in the quantity and at the time ordered by distributors. |
We may not be able to successfully manage all or any of these factors in any of our current or prospective geographic areas of distribution. Our inability to achieve success with regards to any of these factors in a geographic distribution area will have a material adverse effect on our relationships in that particular geographic area, thus limiting our ability to maintain or expand our market, which will likely adversely affect our revenues and financial results.
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Since we cannot exert the same level of influence or control over our independent distributors as we could were they our own employees, our distributors could fail to comply with our distributor policies and procedures, which could result in claims against us that could harm our financial condition and operating results.
Our distributors are independent and, accordingly, we are not in a position to directly provide the same direction, motivation and oversight as we would if distributors were our own employees. As a result, there can be no assurance that our distributors will participate in our marketing strategies or plans, accept our introduction of new products, or comply with our distributor policies and procedures.
Extensive national and local laws regulate our business and products. Although we have implemented distributor policies and procedures designed to govern distributor conduct and to protect the goodwill associated with our trademarks and tradenames, it can be difficult to enforce these policies and procedures because of the large number of distributors and their independent status. Violations by our independent licensed distributors of applicable law or of our policies and procedures in dealing with customers could reflect negatively on our products and operations and harm our business reputation.
Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory and Governmental Matters
Unfavorable global and regional economic, political and health conditions could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Our results of operations could be adversely affected by global or regional economic, political and health conditions. A global financial crisis or global or regional political and economic instability (including changes in inflation, interest rates and overall economic conditions and uncertainties), wars, terrorism, civil unrest, outbreaks of disease (for example, COVID-19), and other unexpected events, such as supply chain constraints or disruptions, could cause extreme volatility, increase our costs and disrupt our business. Business disruptions could include, among others, disruptions to our commercial activities, including due to supply chain or distribution constraints or challenges, as well as temporary closures of our facilities and the facilities of suppliers or contract manufacturers in our supply chain. For example, these macroeconomic factors could affect the ability of our current or potential future manufacturers, sole source or single source suppliers, licensors or licensees to remain in business, or otherwise manufacture or supply components, materials or services relevant to our products. Any failure by any of them to remain in business could affect our ability to manufacture products or meet demand for our products. In addition, if inflation or other factors were to significantly increase our business costs, we may be unable to pass through price increases to our customers. Interest rates and the ability to access credit markets could also adversely affect the ability of our customers to purchase our products.
Also, ongoing geopolitical instability, including the continuing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the U.S. government’s escalation of trade tariffs in a broader trade war, and renewed violence in the Middle East, poses significant risks to global economic conditions. The governments of the United States, EU, Japan and other jurisdictions have imposed or expanded sanctions targeting certain sectors, entities and individuals, as well as enhanced export controls affecting certain technologies and products. These actions, along with any retaliatory measures by Russia, China, or other affected jurisdictions, could disrupt the global supply chains, reduce the availability of critical raw materials and components, increase costs, and contribute to broader volatility in global financial markets, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Most of our operations are carried out in Singapore. As a result, our operations are subject to various political, economic, and other risks and uncertainties inherent to operating in that jurisdiction.
Most of our operations are carried out in Singapore. As a result, our business is subject to various political, economic, legal, and regulatory risks inherent to operating in that jurisdiction. While Singapore is generally considered to have a stable political environment and pro-business regulatory framework, any changes in government policies, laws, or regulations—including those related to taxation, labor, trade, data privacy, or foreign investment—could adversely impact our operations. Additionally, external factors such as regional geopolitical tensions, shifts in global trade policies, inflationary pressures, or supply chain disruptions may also have indirect effects on the Singaporean economy and, consequently, on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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It will be difficult to obtain jurisdiction and enforce liabilities against our officers, directors and assets outside the United States.
All of our assets are currently located outside of the United States. Additionally, our directors and officers reside outside of the United States. Additionally, our key management and operations are primarily based in Singapore. As a result, it may not be possible for United States investors to enforce their legal rights, to effect service of process upon our directors or officers or to enforce judgments of United States courts predicated upon civil liabilities and criminal penalties of our directors and officers under Federal securities laws in Singapore or the Cayman Islands. Moreover, we have been advised that Singapore and Cayman Islands do not have a treaty providing for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of judgments of courts with the United States.
Risks associated with environmental, social and governance matters, including global climate change, and legal, regulatory or market responses to these matters could harm our reputation and business.
Increasing shareholder environmental, social and governance (ESG) expectations, physical and transition risks associated with climate change, emerging ESG regulation, contractual requirements and policy requirements present short, medium and long-term risks to our business and financial condition. Changes in environmental and climate change laws or regulations could lead to additional operational restrictions and compliance requirements upon us. Compliance with current and future environmental laws and regulations may require significant operating and capital costs. Our suppliers may face similar business interruptions and incur additional costs that may be passed on to us. In addition, customers, shareholders and institutional investors continue to increase their focus on ESG, including our environmental sustainability practices and commitments with respect to our business and operations. If our responses to new or evolving legal and regulatory requirements or other sustainability concerns are unsuccessful or perceived as inadequate for the U.S. or our international markets, we also may suffer damage to our reputation, which could have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We could incur additional legal compliance costs associated with our international operations and could become subject to legal penalties if we do not comply with certain regulations.
As a result of our international operations, we are subject to a number of legal requirements, including the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the customs, export, trade sanctions and anti-boycott laws of the United States, including those administered by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Bureau of Industry and Security, the Department of Commerce, the Department of State, and the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department, as well as those of other nations in which we do business. In addition, many of the countries where our customers use our products and services have licensing and regulatory requirements for the importation and use of satellite communications and reception equipment, including the use of such equipment in territorial waters, the transmission of satellite signals on certain radio frequencies, the transmission of voice over the internet services using such equipment, and, in some cases, the reception of certain video programming services. These laws and regulations are continually changing, making compliance complex. We incur costs identifying and maintaining compliance with applicable licensing and regulatory requirements. In addition, our training and compliance programs and our other internal control policies may be insufficient to protect us from acts committed by our employees, agents or third-party contractors. Any violation of these requirements by us or our employees, agents or third-party contractors may subject us to significant criminal and civil liability.
Changes in foreign currency exchange rates may negatively affect our financial condition and results of operations.
The reporting currency of the Company is U.S. Dollars, to date the majority of the Company’s revenues and costs are denominated in US$ and S$, a majority of the Company’s assets are denominated in US$ and S$ and a significant portion of the Company’s liabilities are denominated in S$. As a result, the Company is exposed to foreign exchange risk as its revenues and results of operations may be affected by fluctuations in the exchange rate between US$ and S$. For example, during 2022 and 2023, the U.S. dollar strengthened against certain foreign currencies and this may cause a decrease in some of our monetary assets which are denominated in foreign currencies and lead to the recognition of foreign exchange losses. Moreover, certain of our products and services are sold internationally in U.S. dollars; if the U.S. dollar continues to strengthen, the relative cost of these products and services to customers located in foreign countries would increase, which could adversely affect export sales. In addition, most of our financial obligations must be satisfied in U.S. dollars. Our exposures to changes in foreign currency exchange rates may change over time as our business practices evolve and could result in increased costs or reduced revenue and could adversely affect our cash flow. Changes in the relative values of currencies occur regularly and may have a significant impact on our operating results. We cannot predict with any certainty changes in foreign currency exchange rates or the degree to which we can cost-effectively mitigate this exposure.
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Potential liability claims relating to our products or services could have a material adverse effect on our business.
We may be subject to liability claims relating to the products we sell or services we provide. Potential liability claims could include, among others, claims for debts and for breaching service level availability obligations. We endeavor to include in our agreements with our business customers provisions designed to limit our exposure to potential claims. However, we may fail to include limitations of our liability in our contracts, or our contractual limitations of liability maybe rejected or limited in certain jurisdictions. Additionally, our insurance does not cover all relevant claims, such as claims for force majeure, and does not provide sufficient coverage. To date, we have not been subject to any material product liability claim. Our business, financial condition and operating results could be materially adversely affected if costs resulting from future claims are not covered by our insurance or exceed our coverage.
We may become subject to warranty claims, product recalls and product liability claims and may be adversely affected by unfavorable court decisions or legal settlements.
From time to time, we may be subject to warranty or product liability claims as a result of defects in our products and systems that could lead to significant expense. If we or one of our suppliers recalls any of our products, we may incur significant costs and expenses, including replacement costs, direct and indirect product recall-related costs, diversion of technical and other resources and reputational harm. Our customer contracts typically contain warranty and indemnification provisions, and in certain cases may also contain liquidated damages provisions related to product delivery obligations. The potential liabilities associated with such provisions are significant, and in some cases, including in agreements with some of our largest customers, are potentially unlimited. Any such liabilities may greatly exceed any revenue we receive from the sale of the relevant products. Costs, payments or damages incurred or paid by us in connection with warranty and product liability claims and product recalls could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
Risks Related to Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
A material failure, inadequacy, interruption or security failure of our technology networks and related systems could harm our business.
A material failure, inadequacy, interruption or security failure of our technology networks and related systems could harm our business. Our information technology networks and related systems are essential to our ability to conduct our day-to-day operations. As a result, we face risks associated with security breaches, whether through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusions over the internet, malware, computer viruses, attachments to emails, persons who access our systems from inside or outside our organization and other significant disruptions of our information technology networks and related systems. A security breach or other significant disruption involving our information technology networks and related systems or those of our vendors could: disrupt our operations; result in the unauthorized access to, and the destruction, loss, theft, misappropriation or release of, proprietary, personally identifiable, confidential, sensitive or otherwise valuable information including tenant information and lease data, which others could use to compete against us or which could expose us to damage claims by third parties for disruptive, destructive or otherwise harmful outcomes; require significant management attention and resources to remedy any damages that result; subject us to claims for breach of contract, damages, credits, penalties or termination of leases or other agreements; or damage our business relationships or reputation generally. Any or all of the foregoing could materially and adversely affect our business and the value of our shares.
We depend on cloud-based data services operated by third parties, and any disruption in the operation of these services could harm our business.
Some of our content services and business records are hosted by various cloud-based data services operated by third parties. Any failure or downtime in one of these services could affect a significant percentage of our customers. Although we control and have access to the components of our network that are located in our internal facilities and certain of our external data facilities, we do not control the operation of external facilities. The providers of our data management services have no obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew these agreements on commercially reasonable terms, or if one or more of our data management suppliers is acquired, closes, suffers financial difficulty or is unable to meet our growing capacity needs, we may be required to transfer our data to other services, and we may incur significant costs and service interruptions in connection with doing so, which could harm our reputation with our customers and adversely affect our revenues and results of operations.
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Cybersecurity breaches, attacks and other similar incidents, as well as other disruptions, could compromise our confidential and proprietary information, including personal information, and expose us to liability and regulatory fines, increase our expenses, or result in legal or regulatory proceedings, which would cause our business and reputation to suffer.
We rely on trade secrets, technical know-how and other unpatented confidential and proprietary information relating to our product development and production activities to provide us with competitive advantages. We also collect, maintain and otherwise process certain sensitive and other personal information regarding our employees, as well as contact information of our customers and suppliers, in the ordinary course of business. One of the ways we protect this information is by entering into confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, customers, suppliers, strategic partners and other third parties with which we do business. We also design our computer networks and implement various procedures to restrict unauthorized access to dissemination of our confidential and proprietary information. We, and our suppliers which may have access to any such information, face various internal and external cybersecurity threats and risks. For example, current, departing or former employees or other individuals or third parties with which we do business could attempt to improperly use or access our computer systems and networks, or those of our suppliers, to copy, obtain or misappropriate our confidential or proprietary information, including personal information, or otherwise interrupt our business. Additionally, like others, we and our suppliers are subject to significant system or network or computer system disruptions from numerous causes, including cybersecurity breaches, attacks or other similar incidents, facility access issues, new system implementations, human error, fraud, energy blackouts, theft, fire, power loss, telecommunications failure or a similar catastrophic event. Moreover, computer viruses, worms, malware, ransomware, phishing, spoofing, malicious or destructive code, social engineering, denial-of-service attacks, and other cyber-attacks have become more prevalent and sophisticated in recent years. Attacks of this nature may be conducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives and expertise, including organized criminal groups, “hacktivists,” terrorists, nation states, nation state-supported actors, and others. We have been subject to attempted cyberattacks in the past, including attempted phishing attacks, and may continue to be subject to such attacks in the future. While we defend against these threats and risks on a daily basis, we do not believe that any such incidents to date have caused us any material damage. Because the techniques used by computer hackers and others to access or sabotage networks and computer systems constantly evolve and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we and our suppliers may be unable to anticipate, detect, react to, counter or ameliorate all of these techniques or remediate any incident as a result therefrom. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic has increased cybersecurity risk due to increased online and remote activity. As a result, our and our customers’ and employees’ confidential and proprietary information, including personal information, may be subject to unauthorized release, accessing, gathering, monitoring, loss, destruction, modification, acquisition, transfer, use or other processing, and the impact of any future incident cannot be predicted. While we generally perform cybersecurity diligence on our key suppliers, because we do not control our suppliers and our ability to monitor their cybersecurity is limited, we cannot ensure the cybersecurity measures they take will be sufficient to protect any information we share with them. Due to applicable laws and regulations or contractual obligations, we may be held responsible for cybersecurity breaches, attacks or other similar incidents attributed to our suppliers as they relate to the information we share with them. We routinely implement improvements to our network security safeguards and we are devoting increasing resources designed to protect the security of our information technology systems. We cannot, however, assure that such safeguards or system improvements will be sufficient to prevent or limit a cybersecurity breach, attack or other similar incident or network or computer system disruption, or the damage resulting therefrom. We may be required to expend significant additional resources to continue to modify or enhance our protective measures or to investigate or remediate any cybersecurity vulnerabilities, breaches, attacks or other similar incidents. Any cybersecurity incident, attack or other similar incident, or our failure to make adequate or timely disclosures to the public, regulators, or law enforcement agencies following any such event, could harm our competitive position, result in violations of applicable data privacy or cybersecurity laws or regulations, result in a loss of customer confidence in the adequacy of our threat mitigation and detection processes and procedures, cause us to incur significant costs to remedy the damages caused by the incident or defend legal claims, subject us to additional regulatory scrutiny, expose us to civil litigation, fines, damages or injunctions, cause disruption to our business activities, divert management attention and other resources or otherwise adversely affect our internal operations and reputation or degrade our financial results. The costs related to cybersecurity breaches, attacks or other similar incidents or network or computer system disruptions typically would not be fully insured or indemnified by others. We cannot ensure that any limitations of liability provisions in our agreements with customers, suppliers and other third parties with which we do business would be enforceable or adequate or would otherwise protect us from any liabilities or damages with respect to any particular claim in connection with a cybersecurity breach, attack or other similar incident. We do not currently maintain cybersecurity insurance, and therefore the successful assertion of one or more large claims against us in connection with a cybersecurity breach, attack or other similar incident could adversely affect our business and financial condition.
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We are subject to complex and evolving laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations regarding data privacy and cybersecurity, which can increase the cost of doing business, compliance risks and potential liability.
In the ordinary course of our business, we collect, use, transfer, store, maintain and otherwise process certain sensitive and other personal information regarding our employees, and contact information of our customers and suppliers, that is subject to complex and evolving laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations regarding data privacy and cybersecurity. Ensuring that our collection, use, transfer, storage, maintenance and other processing of personal information complies with applicable laws, regulations, rules, standards and contractual obligations regarding data privacy and cybersecurity in relevant jurisdictions can increase operating costs, impact the development of new systems, and reduce operational efficiency. Global legislation, enforcement, and policy activity in this area is rapidly expanding and creating a complex regulatory compliance environment. Any actual or perceived mishandling or misuse of the personal information by us or a third party with which we are affiliated, including payrolls providers and other suppliers that have access to sensitive and other personal information, could result in litigation, regulatory fines, penalties or other sanctions, damage to our reputation, disruption of our business activities, and significantly increased business and cybersecurity costs or costs related to defending legal claims. Internationally, many jurisdictions have established data privacy and cybersecurity legal frameworks with which we may need to comply. The interpretation and application of international, federal and state laws and regulations relating to data privacy and cybersecurity are often uncertain and fluid, and may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our data practices. Further, while we strive to publish and prominently display privacy policies that are accurate, comprehensive, and compliant with applicable laws, regulations, rules and industry standards, we cannot ensure that our privacy policies and other statements regarding our practices will be sufficient to protect us from claims, proceedings, liability or adverse publicity relating to data privacy or cybersecurity. Although we endeavor to comply with our privacy policies, we may at times fail to do so or be alleged to have failed to do so. The publication of our privacy policies and other documentation that provide promises and assurances about privacy and cybersecurity can subject us to potential federal or state action if they are found to be deceptive, unfair, or misrepresentative of our actual practices. Any failure or perceived or inadvertent failure by us to comply with our privacy policies, or existing or new laws, regulations, rules, standards or contractual obligations, or any compromise of security that results in unauthorized access to, or unauthorized loss, destruction, use, modification, acquisition, disclosure, release or transfer of personal information, may result in substantial costs, time and other resources, orders to stop or modify the alleged non-compliant activity, proceedings or actions against us by governmental entities or others, legal liability, audits, regulatory inquiries, governmental investigations, enforcement actions, claims, fines, judgments, awards, penalties, sanctions and costly litigation (including class actions). Any of the foregoing could harm our reputation, distract our management and technical personnel, increase our costs of doing business, adversely affect the demand for our systems, and ultimately result in the imposition of liability, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We use open-source software in our systems, which could negatively affect our ability to offer our systems and subject us to litigation and other actions.
We rely on some open source in the development of our products for the purpose of activating and operating JARVISS, and may continue to rely on similar licenses. Third parties may assert a copyright claim against us regarding our use of such software or libraries, including asserting its ownership of, or demanding release of, the open-source software or derivative works that we have developed using such software, which could include our proprietary source code, or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms of the applicable open-source license. We may also be forced to purchase a costly license or cease offering the implicated systems unless and until we can re-engineer them to avoid infringement, which may be a costly and time-consuming process, and we may not be able to complete the re-engineering process successfully. Like any other intellectual property claim or litigation, such claims could lead to the adverse results listed above. However, the terms of many open-source licenses have not been interpreted by the courts, and there is a risk that these licenses could be construed in a way that could impose unanticipated conditions or restrictions on our ability to commercialize our systems. In addition, some open-source software licenses require those who distribute open-source software as part of their own software product to publicly disclose all or part of the source code to such software product or to make available any derivative works of the open-source code on unfavorable terms or at no cost, and we may be subject to such terms. As a result, use of such software or libraries by us may also force us to provide third parties, at no cost, the source code to our systems. Additionally, the use of certain open-source software can lead to greater risks than use of third-party commercial software, as open-source licensors generally do not provide warranties or controls on the origin of software. There is typically no support available for open-source software, and we cannot ensure that the authors of such open-source software will implement or push updates to address security risks or will not abandon further development and maintenance. Many of the risks associated with the use of open-source software, such as the lack of warranties or assurances of title or performance, cannot be eliminated, and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business. While we monitor our use of open-source software and do not believe that our use of such software would require us to disclose our proprietary source code or that would otherwise breach the terms of an open-source agreement, such use could inadvertently occur, or could be claimed to have occurred, in part because open-source license terms are often ambiguous. Any of these risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage and may decrease revenue and lessen any competitive advantage we have due to the secrecy of its source code.
We may be unable to adequately protect our proprietary rights, which may limit our ability to compete effectively.
Our business is based mainly on our proprietary technology and related products and services. In the future, we may establish and protect proprietary rights and technology used in our products by the use of patents, trade secrets, copyrights and trademarks. Because of the rapid technological changes and innovation that characterize the maritime connectivity and digital solutions industry, our success will depend in large part on our ability to protect and defend our intellectual property rights. We do not have any registered patents or software copyrights, and currently are in the process of applying for a trademark for JARVISS (i) under the international registration governed exclusively by the Madrid Protocol covering jurisdictions including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Japan, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), United Kingdom and Brunei, (ii) in Hong Kong, and (iii) in Taiwan. As of the date of this report, we have successfully registered the trademark for “JARVISS” with European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), United Kingdom, Brunei, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. Our actions to protect our proprietary rights in our JARVISS and V.Suite as well as other products may be insufficient to protect our intellectual property rights and prevent others from developing products similar to our products. In addition, the laws of many foreign countries do not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the U.S., or we may have failed to enter into non-disclosure and intellectual property assignment agreements with certain persons, or the agreements we entered into may be found inadequate or we may encounter difficulties in enforcing our legal or contractual rights. If we are unable to protect our intellectual property, our ability to operate our business and generate expected revenues may be harmed.
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We may be subject to claims by third parties alleging that we infringe intellectual property owned by them. We may be required to commence litigation to protect our intellectual property rights. Any intellectual property litigation may continue for an extended period and may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results.
There are numerous patents, both pending and issued, in the maritime connectivity and digital solutions industry. We may unknowingly infringe on a patent. We may from time to time be notified of claims that we are infringing on patents, copyrights or other intellectual property rights owned by third parties. While we do not believe that we have infringed in the past or are infringing at present on any intellectual property rights of third parties, we cannot assure you that we will not be subject to such claims or that damages for any such claim will not be awarded against us by a court. In addition, we may be required to commence litigation to protect our intellectual property rights and trade secrets, to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others or to defend against third-party claims of invalidity or infringement. An adverse result of any litigation could force us to pay substantial damages, stop designing, manufacturing, using or selling related products, spend significant resources to develop alternative technologies, discontinue using certain processes, obtain licenses or compensate our customers. We may also not be able to develop alternative technology, and we may not be able to find appropriate licenses on reasonably satisfactory terms. Any such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of resources and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.
Risks Related to Taxation
U.S. tax authorities could treat us as a “passive foreign investment company,” which could have adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. shareholders.
U.S. tax authorities could treat us as a “passive foreign investment company,” which could have adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences to U.S. shareholders. A foreign corporation will be treated as a “passive foreign investment company,” or PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes if either (1) at least 75% of its gross income for any taxable year consists of certain types of “passive income” or (2) at least 50% of the average value of the corporation’s assets produce, or are held for the production of, those types of “passive income.” For purposes of these tests, “passive income” includes dividends, interest, gains from the sale or exchange of investment property, and rents and royalties other than rents and royalties which are received from unrelated parties in connection with the active conduct of a trade or business. For purposes of these tests, income derived from the performance of services does not constitute “passive income.” U.S. shareholders of a PFIC are subject to a disadvantageous U.S. federal income tax regime with respect to the income derived by the PFIC, the distributions they receive from the PFIC and the gain, if any, they derive from the sale or other disposition of their shares in the PFIC. Based on our prior method of operations, we do not believe that we will be a PFIC with respect to any taxable year as a result of any income that we may earn. In this regard, we intend to treat the gross income we derive or are deemed to derive from our service activities as services income. Accordingly, we believe that income from our service activities does not constitute “passive income,” and the assets that we own and operate in connection with the production of that income do not constitute assets that produce, or are held for the production of, “passive income.” However, no assurance can be given that the IRS or a court of law will accept our position, and there is a risk that the IRS or a court of law could determine that we are a PFIC. Moreover, no assurance can be given that we would not constitute a PFIC for any future taxable year if there were to be changes in the nature of our operations. If the IRS were to find that we are or have been a PFIC for any taxable year, our U.S. shareholders would face adverse U.S. federal income tax consequences and information reporting obligations. Under the PFIC rules, unless those U.S. shareholders make an election available under the Code (which election could itself have adverse consequences for such U.S. shareholders), such U.S. shareholders would be liable to pay U.S. federal income tax at the then prevailing U.S. federal income tax rates on ordinary income plus interest upon “excess distributions” and upon any gain from the disposition of our Ordinary Shares, as if such “excess distribution” or gain had been recognized ratably over the U.S. shareholder’s holding period of our Ordinary Shares.
Changes in our effective tax rate may adversely impact our results of operations.
Our effective tax rate is subject to fluctuations, as it is impacted by a number of factors, including the following:
| ● | changes in our overall profitability and the amount of profit determined to be earned and taxed in jurisdictions with differing statutory tax rates; |
| ● | the resolution of issues arising from tax audits with various tax authorities; |
| ● | the impact of transfer pricing policies; |
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| ● | changes in the valuation of either our gross deferred tax assets or gross deferred tax liabilities; |
| ● | changes in expenses not deductible for tax purposes; |
| ● | changes in available tax credits; and |
| ● | changes in tax laws or the interpretation of such tax laws, and changes in generally accepted accounting principles. |
Any significant increase in our future effective tax rates could reduce net income for future periods.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities
We are subject to changing laws, rules and regulations in the U.S. regarding regulatory matters, corporate governance and public disclosure that may increase both our costs and the risks associated with non-compliance.
We are subject to U.S. securities laws, rules and regulations implemented by various governmental and self-regulatory bodies, including, for example, the SEC and The Nasdaq Stock Market, which are charged with the protection of investors and the oversight of companies whose securities are publicly traded, and to new and evolving regulatory measures under applicable law. Our efforts to comply with new and changing laws and regulations have resulted in and are likely to continue to result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities.
Moreover, because these laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance becomes available. This evolution may result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and additional costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to our disclosure and governance practices. If we fail to address and comply with these regulations and any subsequent changes, we may be subject to penalty and our business may be harmed.
We are a foreign private issuer and, as a result, are not subject to U.S. proxy rules but are subject to Exchange Act reporting obligations that, to some extent, are more lenient and less frequent than those of a U.S. issuer.
Because we qualify as a foreign private issuer under the federal securities laws and although we follow Cayman Islands laws and regulations with regard to such matters, we are exempt from certain provisions of the Exchange Act that are applicable to U.S. public companies, including: (i) the sections of the Exchange Act regulating the solicitation of proxies, consents or authorizations in respect of a security registered under the Exchange Act, (ii) the sections of the Exchange Act requiring insiders to file public reports of their stock ownership and trading activities and liability for insiders who profit from trades made in a short period of time, and (iii) the rules under the Exchange Act requiring the filing with the SEC of quarterly reports on Form 10-Q containing unaudited financial and other specified information, or current reports on Form 8-K, upon the occurrence of specified significant events. In addition, foreign private issuers are required to file their annual report on Form 20-F within four months after the end of each fiscal year, while U.S. domestic issuers that are non-accelerated filers are required to file their annual report on Form 10-K within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year. Foreign private issuers are also exempt from Regulation Fair Disclosure, aimed at preventing issuers from making selective disclosures of material information. As a result of the above, even though we are required to furnish interim financial statements on Form 6-K, and even though we are required to furnish reports on Form 6-K disclosing whatever information we have made or are required to make public pursuant to the laws of the Cayman Islands or distribute to our shareholders and that is material to our company, you may not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are U.S. domestic issuers.
We may lose our foreign private issuer status in the future, which could result in significant additional costs and expenses.
As discussed above, we are a foreign private issuer, and therefore, we are not required to comply with all of the periodic disclosure and current reporting requirements of the Exchange Act. The determination of foreign private issuer status is made annually on the last business day of an issuer’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter. In the future, we would lose our foreign private issuer status if (1) more than 50% of our outstanding voting securities are owned by U.S. residents, and (2) a majority of our directors or executive officers are U.S. citizens or residents, and we fail to meet additional requirements necessary to avoid loss of foreign private issuer status. If we lose our foreign private issuer status, we will be required to file with the SEC periodic reports and registration statements on U.S. domestic issuer forms, which are more detailed and extensive than the forms available to a foreign private issuer. We will also have to mandatorily comply with U.S. federal proxy requirements, and our officers, directors and principal shareholders will become subject to the short-swing profit disclosure and recovery provisions of Section 16 of the Exchange Act. In addition, we will lose our ability to rely upon exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements under the listing rules of Nasdaq. As a U.S. listed public company that is not a foreign private issuer, we will incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses that we will not incur as a foreign private issuer.
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In addition to being a foreign private issuer, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules and, as a result, are eligible for exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements.
We are a “controlled company” as defined under the Nasdaq Listing Rules because our founder, Mr. Koh, beneficially owns more than 50% of our total voting power. As a result, Mr. Koh has the ability to control or significantly influence the outcome of most (or all, as applicable) matters requiring approval by shareholders. In addition, for so long as we remain a controlled company under that definition, we are permitted to elect to rely on, and may rely on, certain exemptions from corporate governance rules, including an exemption from the rule that a majority of our board of directors must be independent directors and the requirements regarding compensation and nominating committees. Although we currently do not rely on the “controlled company” exemption, we could elect to rely on this exemption in the future. If we elected to rely on the “controlled company” exemption, a majority of the members of our board of directors might not be independent directors and our nominating and corporate governance and compensation committees might not consist entirely of independent directors. Our status as a controlled company could cause Ordinary Shares to look less attractive to certain investors or otherwise harm our trading price.
As a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, we are permitted to adopt certain home country practices in relation to corporate governance matters that differ significantly from Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards. These practices may afford less protection to shareholders than they would enjoy if we complied fully with Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards.
As a foreign private issuer, we qualify for exemptions from certain Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards. While we may voluntarily follow many of the corporate governance listing requirements of Nasdaq, we intend to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq applicable to U.S. domestic companies. In the future, we may elect to rely on additional foreign private issuer exemptions with respect to some or all other Nasdaq Listing Rules. Following our home country governance practices may afford less protection to investors than the Nasdaq Listing Rules applicable to U.S. issuers.
Specifically, the Company intends to follow the provisions of the laws of the Cayman Islands and its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association in lieu of certain corporate governance requirements under the Nasdaq Listing Rules in the future:
| ● | Rule 5635(a), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required in certain circumstances prior to an issuance of securities in connection with the acquisition of the stock or assets of another company. |
| ● | Rule 5635(b), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required prior to the issuance of securities when the issuance or potential issuance will result in a change of control of the company. |
| ● | Rule 5635(c), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required for the establishment of or any material amendments to our equity compensation arrangements for officers, directors, employees or consultants. |
| ● | Rule 5635(d), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required prior to the issuance of securities in connection with a transaction other than a public offering where such transaction involves the issuance of securities representing 20% or more of our Ordinary Shares outstanding before the issuance at a price lower than the “Minimum Price.” |
| ● | Rule 5620(a), pursuant to which holding annual shareholders’ meetings is required. |
Although we may rely on certain home country corporate governance practices, we must comply with Nasdaq’s notification of non-compliance requirement (Nasdaq Rule 5625). Further, we must have a written charter for our audit committee specifying the authority and responsibilities required by Exchange Act Rule 10A-3 and requiring that the audit committee consist of members who meet the independence requirements of Nasdaq Rule 5605(c)(2)(A)(ii). If we rely on home country practice exemptions, our shareholders may not be provided with the benefits of certain corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.
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You may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through U.S. courts may be limited, because we are incorporated under Cayman Islands law.
We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands with limited liability. Our corporate affairs are governed by our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the Companies Act and the common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of shareholders to take action against our directors and us, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors to us under Cayman Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law of the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from English common law, which are generally of persuasive authority, but are not binding, on a court in the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary duties of our directors under Cayman Islands law are not as clearly established as they would be under statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws than the United States, and provide significantly less protection to investors. In addition, Cayman Islands companies may not have the standing to initiate a shareholder derivative action in a federal court of the United States. There is no statutory recognition in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, although the courts of the Cayman Islands will generally recognize and enforce a non-penal judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits.
Shareholders of Cayman Islands exempted companies like us have no general rights under Cayman Islands law to inspect corporate records (other than as set forth in our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association) or to obtain copies of lists of shareholders of these companies. Our directors are not required under our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to make our corporate records available for inspection by our shareholders. This may make it more difficult for you to obtain the information needed to establish any facts necessary for a shareholder resolution or to solicit proxies from other shareholders in connection with a proxy contest.
Certain corporate governance practices in the Cayman Islands, which is our home country, differ significantly from requirements for companies incorporated in other jurisdictions such as U.S. states. Currently, we plan to rely on home country practice with respect to certain corporate governance matters. Accordingly, our shareholders may be afforded less protection than they otherwise would under rules and regulations applicable to U.S. domestic issuers.
As a result of all of the above, shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by our management, members of the board of directors or controlling shareholders than they would as shareholders of a company incorporated in a U.S. state. For a discussion of significant differences between the provisions of the Companies Act and the laws applicable to companies incorporated in a U.S. state and their shareholders.
Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association designate the Cayman Islands as the exclusive forum for certain litigation that may be initiated by our shareholders and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York as the exclusive forum for litigation arising under the federal securities laws of the United States, which could limit our shareholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us.
Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association designate the courts of the Cayman Islands as the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee of the Company to the Company or its shareholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Companies Act or the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, including but not limited to any purchase or acquisition of our Ordinary Shares, security or guarantee provided in consideration thereof, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against the Company which if brought in the United States of America would be a claim arising under the internal affairs doctrine (as such concept is recognized under the laws of the United States from time to time). This exclusive forum provision would not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Securities Act or the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. To the extent that any such claims may be based upon federal law claims, Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. Furthermore, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder.
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However, our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association contains a provision which provides that, unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (or, if the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York lacks subject matter jurisdiction over a particular dispute, the state courts in New York County, New York) shall be the exclusive forum within the United States for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising out of or relating in any way to the federal securities laws of the United States, regardless of whether such legal suit, action, or proceeding also involves parties other than the Company. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring our securities cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws of the United States and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to claims arising under the Securities Act and shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the same.
The forum selection provisions in our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association may increase a shareholder’s cost and limit a shareholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. The enforceability of similar choice of forum provisions in other companies’ certificates of incorporation, memorandum and articles of association and/or equivalent constitutional documents has been challenged in legal proceedings, and there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce such provisions. In addition, investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. It is possible that a court could find these types of provisions to be inapplicable or unenforceable, and if a court were to find these provisions in our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving the dispute in other jurisdictions, which could have adverse effect on our business, financial conditions and results of operations.
Certain judgments obtained against us or our auditor by our shareholders may not be enforceable.
We are a Cayman Islands exempted company. Our primary operating subsidiary was incorporated and is located in Singapore. Substantially all of our assets are located outside of the United States. In addition, all of our directors and officers are nationals and residents of countries other than the United States and substantially all of the assets of these persons are located outside the United States. Furthermore, our auditor, Audit Alliance LLP, is headquartered in Singapore and substantially all of their assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for a shareholder to effect service of process within the United States upon these persons or to enforce against us, our directors and officers, or our auditor, judgments obtained in United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States. Even if you are successful in bringing an action of this kind, the laws of the Cayman Islands and Singapore may render you unable to enforce a judgment against our assets or the assets of our directors and officers. As a result of all of the above, our shareholders may have more difficulties in protecting their interests through actions against us, our officers, directors or major shareholders, or our auditor, than would shareholders of a corporation incorporated in a jurisdiction in the United States.
Because we do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future, you must rely on price appreciation of our Ordinary Shares for a return on your investment.
We currently intend to retain all of our available funds and any future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, we do not expect to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Therefore, you should not rely on an investment in our shares as a source for any future dividend income. Our board of directors has complete discretion as to whether to distribute dividends, subject to certain requirements of Cayman Islands and Singapore law. Even if our board of directors decides to declare and pay dividends, the timing, amount and form of future dividends, if any, will depend on, among other things, our future results of operations and cash flow, our capital requirements and surplus, the amount of distributions, if any, received by us from our subsidiaries, our financial condition, contractual restrictions and other factors as determined by our board of directors. Accordingly, the return on your investment in our Ordinary Shares will likely depend entirely upon any future price appreciation of our Ordinary Shares. There is no guarantee that our Ordinary Shares will appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which you purchased our shares. You may not realize a return on your investment in our shares and you may even lose your entire investment.
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Our Ordinary Shares will be subject to potential delisting if we do not meet or continue to maintain the listing requirements of Nasdaq.
We have been approved to list our Ordinary Shares on Nasdaq, under the ticker symbol “IOTR”. Nasdaq has rules for continued listing, including, without limitation, minimum bid price, minimum market capitalization and other requirements.
On June 3, 2025, we received a written notification from Nasdaq informing us that the Company was not in compliance with the $1.00 closing bid price requirement for 30 consecutive business days from April 21, 2025 to June 2, 2025 under the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2). Pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), we have been granted a 180-calendar day compliance period, or until December 1, 2025, to regain compliance with the minimum bid price requirement. To regain compliance, the closing bid price of the Company’s Ordinary Shares must be at least $1.00 per share for at least 10 consecutive business days during the 180-calendar day compliance period.
Failure to maintain our listing, or de-listing from Nasdaq, would make it more difficult for shareholders to sell our securities and more difficult to obtain accurate price quotations on our securities. This could have an adverse effect on the price of our Ordinary Shares. Our ability to issue additional securities for financing or other purposes, or otherwise to arrange for any financing we may need in the future, may also be materially and adversely affected if our shares are not traded on a national securities exchange.
The market price of our equity securities has been volatile, and your investment could suffer or decline in value.
The stock markets, including Nasdaq, have experienced significant price and volume fluctuations from time to time. Since our Ordinary Shares became listed on Nasdaq on April 10, 2025, the market price of our Ordinary Shares has been volatile and has declined significantly. If our securities become delisted from Nasdaq, the liquidity and price of our securities may be more limited than if our securities were quoted or listed on Nasdaq or another national securities exchange. In addition, the trading volume in our Ordinary Shares has been limited. We cannot assure you that the market price of our Ordinary Shares will recover or will not decline further in the future in response to a number of factors, including, among others, the following:
| ● | Sales of a significant number of our securities, or that we may in the future register for sale or for resale on behalf of our securityholders, could materially adversely affect the trading prices of our securities; |
| ● | the realization of any of the risk factors presented in this report; |
| ● | actual or anticipated differences in our estimates, or in the estimates of analysts, for our revenues, earnings, results of operations, level of indebtedness, liquidity or financial condition; |
| ● | failure to comply with the requirements of Nasdaq; |
| ● | failure to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or other laws or regulations; |
| ● | variance in our financial performance from the expectations of market analysts; |
| ● | announcements by us or our competitors of significant business developments, changes in supplier relationships, acquisitions or expansion plans; |
| ● | changes in the prices of our products and services; |
| ● | commencement of, or involvement in, litigation involving us; |
| ● | future issuances, sales, repurchases or anticipated issuances, sales, resales or repurchases, of our securities including due to the expiration of contractual lock-up agreements; |
| ● | publication of research reports about us; |
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| ● | failure of securities analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow us or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors; |
| ● | new laws, regulations, subsidies, or credits or new interpretations of existing laws applicable to us; |
| ● | market conditions in our industry; |
| ● | changes in key personnel; |
| ● | speculation in the press or investment community; |
| ● | changes in the estimation of the future size and growth rate of our markets; |
| ● | broad disruptions in the financial markets, including sudden disruptions in the credit markets; |
| ● | actual, potential or perceived control, accounting or reporting problems; |
| ● | changes in accounting principles, policies and guidelines; and |
| ● | other events or factors, including those resulting from infectious diseases, health epidemics and pandemics, natural disasters, war, acts of terrorism or responses to these events. |
Our share price has fallen significantly and we could be delisted, in which case broker-dealers may be discouraged from effecting transactions in our Ordinary Shares because they may be considered penny stocks and thus be subject to the penny stock rules.
The SEC has adopted a number of rules to regulate “penny stocks” that restricts transactions involving stock which is deemed to be penny stock. Such rules include Rules 3a51-1, 15g-1, 15g-2, 15g-3, 15g-4, 15g-5, 15g-6, 15g-7, and 15g-9 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These rules may have the effect of reducing the liquidity of penny stocks. “Penny stocks” generally are equity securities with a price of less than $5.00 per share (other than securities registered on certain national securities exchanges or quoted on Nasdaq if current price and volume information with respect to transactions in such securities is provided by the exchange or system). Our securities may in the future constitute, “penny stock” within the meaning of the rules. In that case, the additional sales practice and disclosure requirements imposed upon U.S. broker-dealers may discourage such broker-dealers from effecting transactions in our Ordinary Shares, which could severely limit the market liquidity of such shares and impede their sale in the secondary market.
A U.S. broker-dealer selling penny stock to anyone other than an established customer or “accredited investor” (generally, an individual with net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or an annual income exceeding $200,000, or $300,000 together with his or her spouse) must make a special suitability determination for the purchaser and must receive the purchaser’s written consent to the transaction prior to sale, unless the broker-dealer or the transaction is otherwise exempt. In addition, the “penny stock” regulations require the U.S. broker-dealer to deliver, prior to any transaction involving a “penny stock”, a disclosure schedule prepared in accordance with SEC standards relating to the “penny stock” market, unless the broker-dealer or the transaction is otherwise exempt. A U.S. broker-dealer is also required to disclose commissions payable to the U.S. broker-dealer and the registered representative and current quotations for the securities. Finally, a U.S. broker-dealer is required to submit monthly statements disclosing recent price information with respect to the “penny stock” held in a customer’s account and information with respect to the limited market in “penny stocks”.
Shareholders should be aware that, according to the SEC, the market for “penny stocks” has suffered in recent years from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such patterns include (i) control of the market for the security by one or a few broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer, (ii) manipulation of prices through prearranged matching of purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases, (iii) “boiler room” practices involving high-pressure sales tactics and unrealistic price projections by inexperienced sales persons, (iv) excessive and undisclosed bid-ask differentials and markups by selling broker-dealers, and (v) the wholesale dumping of the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices have been manipulated to a desired level, resulting in investor losses. Our management is aware of the abuses that have occurred historically in the penny stock market. Although we do not expect to be in a position to dictate the behavior of the market or of broker-dealers who participate in the market, management will strive within the confines of practical limitations to prevent the described patterns from being established with respect to our securities.
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We may issue preferred shares, the terms of which could adversely affect the voting power or value of Ordinary Shares.
Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association authorize us to issue, without the approval of our shareholders, one or more classes or series of preferred shares having such designations, preferences, limitations and relative rights, including preferences over our Ordinary Shares respecting dividends and distributions, as our board of directors may determine. The terms of one or more classes or series of preferred shares could adversely impact the voting power or value of our Ordinary Shares. For example, we might grant holders of preferred shares the right to elect some number of our directors in all events or on the occurrence of specified events or the right to veto specified transactions. Similarly, the repurchase or redemption rights or liquidation preferences we might assign to holders of preferred shares could affect the residual value of our Ordinary Shares.
Securities analysts may downgrade our shares, publish negative research or reports or fail to publish reports about our business. As a result, our share price and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our Ordinary Shares may, to some extent, depend on the research and reports that securities analysts may publish about us, our business, our market or our competitors. We do not have any control over these analysts. We do not currently have and may never obtain research coverage by securities analysts. If no or few securities analysts commence coverage of us, the trading price of our shares may decrease. Even if we do obtain analyst coverage, if one or more of the analysts who cover us should downgrade our shares or publish negative research or reports, cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports about our business, our competitive position could suffer, and our share price and trading volume could decline.
The requirements of being a public company, including compliance with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, and the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, may strain our resources, increase our costs and divert management’s attention, and we may be unable to comply with these requirements in a timely or cost-effective manner.
As a public company, we need to comply with new laws, regulations and requirements, certain corporate governance provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Exchange Act, related regulations of the SEC and the requirements of Nasdaq, with which we were not required to comply as a private company. Complying with these statutes, regulations and requirements may occupy a significant amount of time of our board of directors and management and may significantly increase our costs and expenses. We are required to:
| ● | maintain a comprehensive compliance function; |
| ● | comply with rules promulgated by Nasdaq; |
| ● | continue to prepare and distribute periodic public reports in compliance with our obligations under the federal securities laws; |
| ● | comply with internal policies, such as those relating to insider trading; and |
| ● | involve and retain to a greater degree outside counsel and accountants in the above activities. |
Our internal control over financial reporting may not be effective and our independent registered public accounting firm may not be able to certify as to their effectiveness in the future, which could have a significant and adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and reputation.
We are subject to a requirement, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to conduct an annual review and evaluation of our internal control over financial reporting and furnish a report by management on, among other things, our assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting each fiscal year beginning with the year following our first annual report filed with the SEC. However, because we are an emerging growth company, our independent registered public accounting firm is not required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 until the earlier of the fifth year following our first annual report filed with the SEC or the date we are no longer an emerging growth company. Ensuring that we have adequate internal control over financial reporting in place so that we can produce accurate financial statements on a timely basis is a costly and time-consuming effort that must be evaluated frequently. Establishing and maintaining these internal controls may be costly and may divert management’s attention.
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When evaluating our internal control over financial reporting, we may identify material weaknesses that we may not be able to remediate in time to meet the applicable deadline imposed upon us for compliance with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. In addition, if we fail to achieve and maintain the adequacy of our internal control over financial reporting, as such standards are modified, supplemented or amended from time to time, we may not be able to ensure that we can conclude, on an ongoing basis, that we have effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. We cannot be certain as to the timing of completion of our evaluation, testing and any remediation actions or the impact of the same on our operations. If we do not adequately implement or comply with the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we may be subject to sanctions or investigation by regulatory authorities, such as the SEC, or suffer other adverse regulatory consequences, including penalties for violation of Nasdaq Listing Rules. As a result, there could be a negative reaction in the financial markets due to a loss of confidence in the reliability of our financial statements. A loss of confidence in the reliability of our financial statements also could occur if we or our independent registered public accounting firm were to report one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. In addition, we may be required to incur costs in improving our internal control system, including the costs of the hiring of additional personnel. Any such action could negatively affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows and could also lead to a decline in the price of our Ordinary Shares.
Our officers, directors and principal shareholders currently own a substantial number of our Ordinary Shares and have the power to significantly influence the vote on all matters submitted to a vote of our shareholders.
Our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eng Chye Koh, beneficially owns approximately 74.89% of the voting power of the Company’s issued share capital. As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of Nasdaq Listing Rules and therefore we are eligible for certain exemptions from the corporate governance listing requirements of Nasdaq. However, we have not relied on any of the corporate governance exemptions available to “controlled companies.”
This concentration of voting power and control could delay, defer or prevent actions that might otherwise be beneficial to our other shareholders, such as a change in control, merger, acquisition, or other strategic transactions. It may also result in decisions that are disadvantageous to our other shareholders whose interests are different from those of Mr. Koh. As a result, investors should not rely on their ability to influence the management or direction of the Company through voting their shares, and your investment decision should not be based on an expectation of having any meaningful control over our corporate affairs.
For as long as we are an emerging growth company, we will not be required to comply with certain requirements that apply to other public companies.
We are an emerging growth company, as defined in the JOBS Act. For as long as we are an emerging growth company, unlike other public companies, we will not be required to, among other things: (i) provide an auditor’s attestation report on management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our system of internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) comply with any new requirements adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board requiring mandatory audit firm rotation or a supplement to the auditor’s report in which the auditor would be required to provide additional information about the audit and the financial statements of the issuer, (iii) provide certain disclosures regarding executive compensation required of larger public companies, or (iv) hold nonbinding advisory votes on executive compensation and any golden parachute payments not previously approved. In addition, the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for adopting new or revised financial accounting standards. We intend to take advantage of the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards permitted under the JOBS Act until we are no longer an emerging growth company. If we were to subsequently elect instead to comply with these public company effective dates, such election would be irrevocable pursuant to the JOBS Act.
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We will remain an emerging growth company for up to five full fiscal years, although we will lose that status sooner if we have more than $1.235 billion of revenues in a fiscal year, have more than $700 million in market value of our Ordinary Shares held by non-affiliates (and have been a public company for at least 12 months and have filed one annual report on Form 20-F), or issue more than $1.0 billion of non-convertible debt over a three-year period.
To the extent that we rely on any of the exemptions available to emerging growth companies, you will receive less information about our executive compensation and internal control over financial reporting than issuers that are not emerging growth companies. We cannot predict if investors will find our Ordinary Shares less attractive because we will rely on these exemptions. If some investors find our Ordinary Shares to be less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our Ordinary Shares and our share price may be more volatile.
ITEM 4. INFORMATION ON THE COMPANY
4.A. History and Development of the Company
Our Corporate History
On February 19, 2019, iO3 Pte. Ltd., or iO3 Singapore, was incorporated under the Singapore Companies Act as an exempt private company limited by shares.
On August 21, 2023, we incorporated iOThree Limited, or iO3 Cayman, as a holding company under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability. iO3 Cayman has no substantive operations other than holding all of the issued share capital of iO3 BVI.
On August 21, 2023, our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eng Chye Koh, incorporated iOThree Maritime Technologies Limited, or iO3 BVI, a holding company incorporated under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, which has no substantial operations in the British Virgin Islands. On September 4, 2023, iO3 Cayman acquired 100% of the equity interests of iO3 BVI from Mr. Koh.
On October 6, 2023, as part of a reorganization for the purpose of our initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq, iO3 BVI (at the direction of iO3 Cayman), acquired the entire equity interest in iO3 Singapore from its shareholders, namely Eng Chye Koh, Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, Zhenhua Yin, Wei Meng See, Loo Koon Goh and Tsang Nga Kwok, and as consideration, iO3 Cayman allotted and issued 45,010 shares to Tsang Nga Kwok and 4,990 shares to iO3 Strategic Investments Limited, which is owned by Eng Chye Koh, Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, Zhenhua Yin, Wei Meng See and Loo Koon Goh (i.e., iO3 Cayman allotted and issued an aggregate of 50,000 Ordinary Shares, par value $0.01 per share, of iO3 Cayman credited as fully paid to Tsang Nga Kwok and iO3 Strategic Investments Limited for a consideration of $1,630,695 determined based on the net assets of iO3 Singapore as at March 31, 2023 which was settled by the transfer of an aggregate of 147,360 shares of iO3 Singapore to iO3 BVI). After the reorganization, iO3 Singapore became a wholly-owned subsidiary of iO3 BVI, which in turn, is our wholly-owned subsidiary.
On January 19, 2024, iO3 Cayman increased its authorized share capital from $50,000 divided into 5,000,000 Ordinary Shares, at par value of $0.01 per share to $500,000 divided into 50,000,000 Ordinary Shares, at par value of $0.01 per share.
On February 8, 2024, as of the final step in the series of reorganization transactions for the purpose of our initial public offering and listing on Nasdaq, each shareholder of iO3 Cayman (i.e., iO3 Strategic Investments Limited, All Wealthy International Limited, Tsang Nga Kwok, One Investment and Consultancy Limited, Sakal Capital Pte. Ltd. and Shao Qi Limited) was allotted and issued shares in iO3 Cayman that were in proportion to their shareholdings, credited as fully paid up at par value out of the share premium account of iO3 Cayman. After such allotment and issuance, the total number of issued and outstanding shares of iO3 Cayman increased from 100,000 Ordinary Shares to 15,000,000 Ordinary Shares.
On August 22, 2024, iO3 Cayman conducted a consolidation of its issued and authorized but unissued shares at a ratio of 5 for 1. As such, iO3 Cayman’s authorized share capital changed from $500,000 divided into 50,000,000 Ordinary Shares, at par value of $0.01 per share to $500,000 divided into 10,000,000 Ordinary Shares, at par value of $0.05 per share. The total number of iO3 Cayman’s issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares accordingly decreased from 15,000,000 to 3,000,000 shares. On the same day, iO3 Cayman further conducted a subdivision of its issued and unissued shares at a ratio of 1 for 8. As a result, iO3 Cayman’s authorized share capital changed from $500,000 divided into 10,000,000 Ordinary Shares, at par value of $0.05 per share, to $500,000 divided into 80,000,000 Ordinary Shares, at par value of $0.00625 per share. The total number of iO3 Cayman’s issued and outstanding Ordinary Shares thus increased from 3,000,000 to 24,000,000 shares. The ownership percentages of the Company’s shareholders remained the same after the foregoing consolidation and subsequent subdivision of shares (the “Share Split”). We have retrospectively reflected the Share Split in all financial periods presented in this report.
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IPO
On April 11, 2025, we completed our initial public offering of 1,650,000 Ordinary Shares sold at a public offering price of $4.00 per share, or the IPO. The Ordinary Shares offered and sold in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act pursuant to our Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-276674), which was declared effective by the SEC on March 31, 2025.00. Our Ordinary Shares commenced trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “IOTR” on April 10, 2025.
The Company adopted its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association immediately prior to the completion of the IPO.
Corporate Structure
We are a Cayman Islands holding company and primarily conduct our operations through our Singapore subsidiary. The chart below summarizes our corporate structure as of the date of this Annual Report:
On April 23, 2025, we, through iO3 Pte. Ltd., formed a wholly-owned subsidiary in Malaysia, iO3 Sdn. Bhd., as part of our operational expansion in the country.
4.B. Business Overview
Overview
We are a leading provider of maritime digital technologies including satellite connectivity and digitalization solutions in Singapore focused on facilitating the maritime industry towards digital transformation. Based on the Frost & Sullivan Report, as of March 31, 2024, we ranked fifth in the Singaporean market based on revenue from the provision of maritime connectivity and digital solutions with a market share of approximately 6.2%. Our company was established to adopt an innovative approach towards the management of solutions accustomed to contemporary needs and drive the digital evolution in the maritime industry.
We have two operating segments: (i) satellite connectivity solution, and (ii) digitalization and other solutions. In the satellite connectivity solution segment, we offer integrated satellite connectivity solution through the provision of satellite connectivity services and the sales and/or lease of satellite network equipment and devices for shipboard network management. In the digitalization and other solutions segment, we are involved in designing digital solutions, providing IT support, and providing shipboard support services for IT and OT applications enablement.
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Our digitalization platform — JARVISS — has been specifically designed to support enhanced integrated solutions, asset optimization and delivery of secured critical applications globally. It hosts a fleet of native applications developed by us as well as third party applications, consolidating essential functions such as IoT and vessel management. Our unique platform seamlessly integrates these applications, simplifying maritime operations and fostering unprecedented efficiency and leads us to be a pioneer of integrated maritime connectivity and digital solution providers. For further details regarding JARVISS, see “— Our flagship solution — JARVISS” below. In addition to JARVISS, our portfolio of digital solutions encompasses our V.Suite solutions and our new maritime ERP system FRIDAY. For details, see “— V.Suite” and “— FRIDAY” below.
Our Business Model
The following diagram illustrates our business model:
We provide shipboard infrastructure to our customers by designing and installing the necessary satellite connectivity solution, IT equipment and shipboard equipment (such as equipment relating to navigation systems, automatic identification system, electronic chart display and information system, voyage data recorders etc.) and JARVISS on the vessels of our customers. With such satellite communications and JARVISS (or any additional IT support services required by the customer) in place, staff on the vessel can effectively communicate and interact real-time with their personnel on shore.
Our key management and operations are primarily based in Singapore. However, given that many of our customers and their vessels are located in places other than Singapore, we also operate outside of Singapore when delivering services and solutions to our customers. We have business arrangements with a few local agents in Taiwan and Vietnam with whom we have a close working relationship and we do not have any overseas subsidiaries.
We have two operating segments: (i) satellite connectivity solution and (ii) digitalization and other solutions.
Satellite Connectivity Solution
We offer integrated satellite connectivity solution through the provision of satellite connectivity services and the sales and/or lease of satellite network equipment and devices for shipboard network management.
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Our satellite connectivity services encompass a comprehensive range of services, including but not limited to, shared access services via an extensive satellite network, such as Ku-band VSAT solutions. In addition, we provide airtime services, bandwidth subscription plans, and voice services across various frequency bands, ensuring a tailored and reliable communication experience for our customers. These satellite connectivity services based on frequency bands include:
(i) L-Band (1-2 GHz)
| ● | Iridium Certus: Utilizes L-band frequencies to provide global, low-latency maritime communication, including voice and data services. |
| ● | Inmarsat FleetBroadband: Offers broadband data and voice services for maritime users, especially for smaller vessels. |
| ● | Thuraya: Provides voice and data services for maritime users, especially smaller and regional-going vessels in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. |
| ● | Inmarsat C: Primarily utilized for maritime safety and distress communications. Vessels can transmit distress signals and emergency messages, complying with international regulations such as the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (“GMDSS”). |
(ii) VSAT (4-40 GHz)
| ● | C-Band (4-8 GHz): Often used in maritime applications for high-speed data communication via geostationary satellites. |
| ● | Ku-Band (12-18 GHz): Utilizes Ku-band frequencies for high-data-rate maritime communication, commonly for broadband internet access. |
| ● | Ka-Band (26.5-40 GHz): Utilizes Ka-band frequencies to deliver high-speed broadband services for high-throughput, low-latency connectivity for maritime vessels, improving data-intensive applications. |
(iii) Long-Term Evolution (“LTE”)
| ● | Cellular Networks: LTE networks are widely used for maritime connectivity when vessels are within range of coastal or terrestrial cell towers. |
| ● | WiFi Hotspots: Many maritime vessels, especially passenger ships and ferries, offer onboard Wi-Fi networks that are powered by LTE connections. |
(iv) Low Earth Orbit (“LEO”) Satellite Services – Starlink
We started the rollout of our Starlink satellite services in the first quarter of 2024, marking a further enhancement to our connectivity portfolio. Starlink’s LEO connectivity complements our existing geostationary (“GEO”) and L-band services, offering shipowners greater flexibility to optimize connectivity performance, cost, and availability depending on route, bandwidth requirements, and operational needs.
| ● | LEO-Based Connectivity (10.7–12.7 GHz): Starlink operates in Ku-band frequencies via a rapidly growing constellation of LEO satellites orbiting approximately 550 km above Earth, offering global coverage with significantly reduced latency compared to traditional GEO systems. |
| ● | High Throughput & Low Latency: Delivers speeds exceeding 220 Mbps with latency as low as 20–40 milliseconds, enabling a superior digital experience for real-time applications such as video conferencing, remote diagnostics, and cloud-based services. |
| ● | Flat Panel Antennas: Starlink terminals are compact, auto-tracking, and easy to install, minimizing mechanical complexity onboard. |
| ● | Scalable for Digital Adoption: Supports a wide range of digital use cases including IoT integration, remote monitoring, cybersecurity tools, and cloud synchronization—accelerating the transition to smart vessel operations. |
In order to provide the satellite connectivity services, we sell and/or lease the necessary satellite network equipment and devices including antenna, satellite phone, modem, IP handsets, wireless access points etc. to our customers. The required equipment and devices are then shipped and installed on the vessel specified by the customers. In this connection, shipping and handling services are included in the delivery of the equipment and devices to the customers. For instance, customers have the flexibility to acquire the main satellite antenna equipment either through a ‘sales with an upfront one-time cost’ model or via a ‘lease with a monthly fee’ arrangement. The upfront installation cost, which encompasses labor, shipment, and accessory cost, will be charged accordingly based on the chosen acquisition method. Furthermore, a monthly subscription fee is charged to the customers for the satellite connection services in relation to the airtime, bandwidth subscription plan and value-added service subscribed. Additional fees may be charged to the customers based on any additional value-added services provided.
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The implementation process starts with a consultancy meeting discussing the customer’s requirements, followed by offsite visits to our customer’s premises to determine and finalize the customer’s specifications. After the customer’s requirements have been finalized, we will engage in the preparation of work scope, start the procurement of equipment and devices required and arrange for site survey to finalize the requirements prior to onboard implementation with the customer. This process of the preparation of work scope and procurement will take approximately three to seven days. The implementation process, which involves engineering work onboard of vessels will take approximately one to three days to complete.
Digitalization and Other Solutions
(i) Digitalization
We offer JARVISS to our customers as our key digital platform in line with our vision to drive the maritime industry towards digitalization. In addition to JARVISS, our portfolio of digital solutions also includes our V.Suite solutions (V.SIGHT AI camera surveillance, V.SION AR smart glasses, V.IoT shipboard monitoring and analytics, V.SECURE cybersecurity, V.WEATHER route optimization, together, the “V.Suite”. For details, see “— V.Suite” below). Additionally, we recently launched FRIDAY maritime ERP system (For details, see “— FRIDAY” below). We provide customers access to the digital platform to obtain real time information for their daily operations management.
We generate revenue by charging our customers a monthly subscription fee for the JARVISS solution and its peripheral applications. Regarding the installation of JARVISS, we first install a hardware device that looks like a set-top box onto the vessel. In this process, we charge our customers the hardware cost and the labor cost in association with setting up JARVISS. Subsequently, we charge our customers a subscription fee on a monthly basis for subscribing to JARVISS.
(ii) Other Solutions
Provision of IT support
Our vessel IT support services encompass networking, troubleshooting, and maintenance, as well as the supply of essential hardware and software components. We provide dedicated helpdesk services to our clients, addressing a broad spectrum of technical challenges that vessels may encounter. This includes swiftly resolving network connectivity interruptions and diagnosing hardware issues, such as server or equipment malfunctions. Moreover, we specialize in configuring and optimizing critical software applications essential for efficient vessel operations.
In addition to providing proactive maintenance and real-time troubleshooting, we are well-prepared to respond to emergencies by having a dedicated support team to offer prompt assistance to our clients as and when necessary, thereby ensuring the safety and continuity of maritime operations. This comprehensive approach extends to cybersecurity incident response and performance enhancement, guaranteeing that vessel IT systems consistently operate at peak efficiency. To further enhance operations, we provide crew training and support, empowering personnel to effectively harness the capabilities of onboard IT systems.
In relation to IT support, coordination and maintenance services, we charge our customers a monthly recurring fee depending on the type of IT services provided. For instance, our scope of IT helpdesk service includes a dedicated support team proficient in resolving troubleshooting and networking issues, providing clients with a designated point of contact. We implement an organized ticketing system and established processes to ensure swift and efficient problem resolution. Moreover, we facilitate vessel contacts with our support team via phone and email for prompt assistance. Our responsibilities further extend to the continuous maintenance of vessel systems and the regular update of IT-related documentation, all of which contribute to the seamless operation of onboard IT infrastructure.
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Based on the level of IT support provided, we then charge our customers a monthly recurring fee. In addition, we provide IT services and technical support according to specification of our customers, including the purchase of IT hardware, and purchase and installation of software on certain devices. We subsequently charge our customers the applicable hardware/software and labor cost accordingly.
Some of the key components of hardware and software provided on vessels, include but are not limited to:
Hardware Components
| ● | Network Infrastructure: Ethernet switches, access points, and network cabling create the local area network (“LAN”) on the vessel, enabling seamless data transfer among connected devices. |
| ● | Firewalls and Security Appliances: Firewalls and security appliances protect the vessel’s network from cyber threats, ensuring the safety of onboard systems and data. |
| ● | Computers and Servers: Vessels may have various computers and servers for navigation, communication, automation, and crew use. |
| ● | Cabling and Infrastructure: Fiber-optic, Ethernet, and wireless connections are commonly used, with consideration for waterproof and corrosion-resistant materials. |
| ● | Printer and Scanning Equipment: Printers and scanners are used for generating and processing documents and paperwork on board, including maintenance logs and reports. |
Software Components
| ● | Navigation Software: Navigation systems with GPS and electronic charts are essential for safe navigation at sea. They provide real-time position data, route planning, and collision avoidance capabilities. |
| ● | Communication Software: Messaging, email, and voice communication software enable crew members to stay in touch with onshore personnel and other vessels. |
| ● | Computer Software: Microsoft Office standardized office productivity tools for various tasks such as documentation, communication, data analysis, and collaboration. |
| ● | Cybersecurity Solutions: Antivirus software, intrusion detection systems (“IDS”), and security monitoring tools are used to safeguard vessel networks and data from cyber threats. |
| ● | Remote Support and Diagnostic Tools: Remote support software allows IT teams onshore to diagnose and troubleshoot issues on the vessel remotely. This reduces the need for on-site technical assistance and downtime. |
IT support for vessels typically involves a range of onboard engineering services that encompass the setup of onboard networks, troubleshooting, as well as the installation and configuration of IT hardware and software. The process for IT support may vary in duration depending on the specific requirements and volume of support requested by customers. This could range from a day for routine maintenance to several days for more complex installations or troubleshooting involving multiple systems.
Provision of shipboard support services
We also offer the sale of shipboard equipment and the provision of engineering services to our customers. We supply shipboard equipment and/or engineering services as per each customer’s specification.
The shipboard equipment we offer for sale includes and the following:
| ● | Navigation Systems: This includes GPS receivers, radar systems, electronic chart displays, and gyrocompasses, which are critical for safe navigation and collision avoidance. |
| ● | Automatic Identification System (“AIS”): AIS transponders and receivers provide real-time information about the positions, identities, and movements of nearby vessels, enhancing situational awareness. |
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| ● | Electronic Chart Display and Information System (“ECDIS”): ECDIS displays electronic nautical charts, integrating with navigation sensors to provide accurate and up-to-date chart data for route planning and monitoring. |
| ● | Voyage Data Recorders (“VDRs”): VDRs record and store data related to a vessel’s voyage, including sensor data, audio recordings, and navigational information, for accident investigation and safety compliance. |
| ● | Very High Frequency (“VHF”) and Ultra High Frequency (“UHF”) Radios: VHF and UHF radios are used for distress and safety calls. |
| ● | GMDSS Equipment: GMDSS equipment, such as Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacons and Search and Rescue Transponders, are essential for distress alerting and search-and-rescue operations. |
The above equipment is then installed on the vessel specified by each individual customer.
Our engineering services consist of on-site visits to the vessels and the installation of the equipment, accessories, and systems onto the vessels of our customers. Furthermore, we have a team of qualified engineers who are certified and highly trained who provide valuable design consultancy and reliable engineering services in achieving maximum value for our customers. Our engineering expertise extends to the seamless installation of these shipboard hardware components, ensuring optimal functionality. We also offer mandatory annual servicing to uphold equipment performance and provide efficient troubleshooting services for any encountered issues. We pledge to provide superior quality of refurbished equipment at competitive prices and ensure that all of our equipment undergoes extensive testing and verification.
We generate revenue upon the completion of equipment installation and transferring the control of the equipment to our customers. The freight charges for the shipment of the equipment are then billed to our customers. Our engineering services are billed to customers based on time cost.
The implementation process begins with a consultancy meeting discussing the customer’s requirements, followed by offsite visits to our customer’s premises to determine and finalize the customer’s plans. After the customer’s requirements have been finalized, we engage in the preparation of work scope, procurement of IT equipment and software, and arrange for site survey to finalize the requirements prior to onboard implementation with the customer. This process will take approximately three to seven days. The implementation process, which involves engineering work onboard of vessels will typically take approximately one to three days to complete.
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Our flagship solution — JARVISS
We seek to transform the maritime industry and accelerate our customers’ digital transformation journey by the adoption of JARVISS — a unified digital shipboard platform that encompasses the full spectrum end-to-end from shipboard edge device to cloud services for operational efficiencies and safer voyages. JARVISS provides an open, participative infrastructure for applications to be transmitted efficiently, with built-in cybersecurity protection. It is embedded with a transport accelerator protocol and supports our native applications, the V.Suite of services, the FRIDAY ERP system, as well as third party software. The advent of new technologies such as the cloud have brought benefits to a wide range of industries in terms of cost savings, efficiency and flexibility. However, the increasing complexity of IT networks, architectures and infrastructures poses new cybersecurity risks to the maritime industry.
JARVISS which is embedded with data acceleration technology, is designed to manage connectivity via various satellite networks. It transmits critical data efficiently, delivers IoT data and facilitates cyber security with AES256 (as defined below) encryption. JARVISS has the following three key features:
Satellite Network Management
JARVISS is proficient in the management of onboard satellite network connectivity by prioritizing business critical data to achieve more intelligent and productive operations.
With JARVISS and our cooperation with satellite operators, our customers can benefit from multiple coverage beams providing global or regional services, options for dual satellite constellation, and advanced onshore data monitoring, tracking and analysis. With the above features, our customers are able to optimize vessel operations and enhance crew welfare, whilst complying with regulations and staying connected to their network within budget.
Managing satellite connectivity on a vessel is essential for maintaining effective communication, ensuring safety through access to navigation and emergency resources, optimizing operational efficiency, supporting crew welfare, and complying with maritime regulations. JARVISS enables proper management of a vessel’s satellite connectivity which involves monitoring network performance, implementing redundancy, prioritizing bandwidth, enhancing security, controlling costs, conducting regular maintenance, and training crew members for emergency situations, collectively contributing to the vessel’s overall functionality and safety at sea.
Cybersecurity
JARVISS uses a highly secure advanced encryption standard with a 256-bit encryption key (“AES256”) to protect data. This process converts the data into an unreadable format, ensuring that even if unauthorized individuals gain access to it, they cannot decipher it without the correct encryption key. AES256 is known for its strong security and is widely used to safeguard sensitive information, making it extremely difficult for malicious parties to access or understand the encrypted data.
JARVISS ensures strong encryption in transport layer with encrypted protocol header and payload, creating a cryptographic way of authentication of every data packet. It also ensures the network perimeter has multi-layered boundary defenses with firewalls and proxies deployed between the untrusted external network and the trusted internal network.
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Data Acceleration
JARVISS accelerates traffic by analyzing traffic and routing conditions in real time to search for the fastest route between the data source and the destination. Advanced congestion control offered by JARVISS helps to monitor and control the amount of data being sent, avoiding bottlenecks and ensuring the smooth transfer of data.
For example, delivery of data streams such as sending emails, conducting a web surfing session, carrying out a scheduled automatic file transfer, and updating a weather charting software, all initiates multiple handshakes and acknowledgement packets over the satellite network. Data sessions embedded with JARVISS acceleration feature reduce noise interference by other devices and congestion retransmission, ensuring smooth transfer of data with improved service performance.
V.Suite
With JARVISS installed on a vessel, various value-added services and native solutions can be added to a vessel’s platform as a customized subscription module:
V.SION
V.Sion is an AR smart glasses solution designed for maritime use. It enhances safety, navigation, and efficiency at sea by providing real-time video, voice calls, and hands-free communication for on-site personnel. This technology enables ship-to-shore communication, supporting functions like video conferencing updates, remote inspections, class surveyor audits, and medical consultations with onshore doctors.
Onshore personnel can gain a 360-degree view of the vessel’s environment through V.Sion. Crew personnel on the vessel wear the smart glasses, stand in front of objects to inspect, and transmit real-time images to onshore screens. For example, engineers and technicians onshore can ask on-board crew to inspect meters, valves, and pipes, instantly receiving video and images for remote assessment. This technology facilitates real-time insights and remote assistance, improving maritime operations.
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| A pair of smart-glasses which can operate with V.SION | Crew wearing smart-glasses on the vessel where real-time video streaming will be transmitted and shown to the personnel onshore via V.SION |
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| Personnel onshore receiving real-time video streaming via V.SION so that they can gain real-time vision on the vessel in order to inspect the vessel’s environment |
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V.SIGHT
V.Sight is a comprehensive AI maritime camera surveillance solution that enhances vessel security and monitoring. It utilizes recognized marine-standard CCTV cameras to provide real-time streaming and AI video analytics for various onboard and external areas. This includes monitoring navigation, engine rooms, cargo operations, berthing, and the surrounding shipyard areas.
The real-time video feed from V.Sight can be accessed not only on shore dashboards but also on smartphones and computers, offering flexibility to users. Additionally, V.Sight incorporates AI analytics for added functionality and security alerts, such as motion detection, object removal, time-lapsed capture, intrusion detection, line crossing detection, and video tampering detection. This advanced technology ensures continuous surveillance and immediate alerts for enhanced vessel safety and security.
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V.IoT
V.IoT is a powerful maritime data solution that seamlessly collects, transmits, and analyzes shipboard data for enhanced insights and decision-making. It securely gathers real-time data from onboard sensors and systems, offering shore users immediate access to critical engine parameters and performance metrics like vessel speed, fuel consumption, and voyage information.
This solution’s three-step process begins with data collection, which forms the foundation for accurate insights. V.IoT ensures data is collected comprehensively, enabling predictions and trend analysis. Next, data delivery addresses the challenge of interoperability among various sensors and engines. The system prioritizes data security during transmission to safeguard vessel operations. Finally, V.IoT’s data analysis transforms collected data into valuable information, aiding maritime business owners in optimizing fuel consumption, complying with regulations, predicting maintenance needs, and enhancing navigational safety. It also assists in calculating carbon emissions and carbon intensity for sustainability reporting, aligning with industry standards set by the International Maritime Organization.
V.SECURE
V.Secure is a cloud-based, all-encompassing security solution designed to fortify cybersecurity within the maritime industry. Its primary objective is to proactively identify potential cyber threats and respond to them swiftly. V.Secure monitors shipboard systems, navigation, propulsion, cargo handling, container tracking, and inventory management software for any signs of cyberattacks. This comprehensive approach includes multi-layered boundary defenses and is underpinned by the Cydome technology specifically tailored for maritime use, which enables regular patching to meet ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 guidelines.
This solution delivers an easily deployable cybersecurity solution uniquely tailored to the maritime sector. The system offers robust protection to the entire fleet, incorporating automated checks and real-time monitoring for both IT and OT systems during voyages. It safeguards vessels against electronic threats, hijacking, and preserves the reputation of shipowners and fleet managers by providing comprehensive cybersecurity coverage for both IT and OT aspects of vessel operations.
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V.WEATHER
V.WEATHER offers weather-based routing for vessels, which is the use of real-time weather data to find the optimal route for a ship’s voyage. We believe that this technology is advancing rapidly, such that ship owners can increasingly utilize this technology to improve their business from a safety, financial, and environmental standpoint.
We believe that V.WEATHER is effective in reducing voyage costs while ensuring safety, taking into account various limitations inherent in predicting weather. It offers the ability for real-time route optimization and shows the user comparisons between different suggested routes. The route optimization options are assessed based on parameters such as remaining fuel, cost required and time needed with accurate carbon emissions and consumption calculated in the end. Eventually, the chosen optimized route will be exported for loading in the vessel’s ECDIS as shown below.
V.MAIL
V.MAIL is a user-friendly and yet highly sophisticated solution tailored to provide cost effective and secure business email services for shipping and offshore customers, providing a stable and secured business email solution for use in demanding remote environments. It can integrate with Microsoft Outlook and other messaging applications to deliver emails in a highly compressed format for delivery via satellite connectivity. This secured shoreside dashboard for management of emails helps control costs and restrict unnecessary emails getting through.
V.MAIL also offers an anti-virus solution that is powered by the industry-leading endpoint solution, ESET, ensuring users receive world-class protection against viruses, malware, Trojans and dialers. All new devices, such as USB sticks, are scanned when inserted into protected machines. Anti-virus updates are designed with satellite bandwidth in mind, with only small files transferred and applied to connected workstations on-board. Users can choose the frequency of updates, be it live, daily or weekly. Users receive full reporting of a ship’s network status via the dashboard, which shows online workstations and update statuses. Updates are replicated locally, ensuring that offline workstations receive the latest anti-virus protection when they come back online.
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FRIDAY
FRIDAY is a maritime ERP system launched on May 1, 2024 with customizable dashboard, intuitive navigation, and real-time data updates. It is a comprehensive and integrated hybrid software solution (on-cloud and on-premises) specifically designed to streamline and optimize the operational processes of ship management, providing real-time visibility into critical data. It serves as a central hub efficiently managing and coordinating various aspects such as vessel operations, fleet management, supply chain logistics, financial transactions, crewing, and maintenance.
The interface is designed to be responsive, ensuring accessibility on various devices, including smartphones and tablets.
FRIDAY offers an extensive range of integrated applications and features, including task management, detailed reporting, inventory and purchase management, document management, safety management, and crew management:
Inventory Module
The inventory module of FRIDAY helps manage and track all aspects of inventory and stock control across multiple locations, providing real-time visibility of inventory levels, suppliers, and purchase orders. It also features item classification, categorizing inventory by equipment structure, spare parts, stores, tools, and more to streamline inventory management. The inventory module integrates seamlessly with other modules within the system for holistic management of maritime operations, ensuring consistency and coordination across the organization. Additionally, it automatically updates the Running Order Balance of inventory parts consumed, maintaining accurate and up-to-date records.
Purchase Module
The purchase module of FRIDAY covers functionalities related to creating purchase requisitions, managing purchase orders, supplier management, tracking deliveries, and invoice reconciliation. This module is a dedicated part made to manage the procurement procedures used in the maritime sector. The purchasing activities of maritime operations are streamlined and automated, guaranteeing the efficient and economical acquisition of goods and services required for ship management, maintenance, and operation. In this module, contracts can be created as well.
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Planned Maintenance System Module
The Planned Maintenance System module of FRIDAY ensures that the vessel’s equipment is well-maintained by tracking maintenance activities. It allows maritime companies to create maintenance schedules based on predefined criteria, such as time-based, condition-based, or usage-based triggers. This module also supports centralized maintenance management, allowing tasks to be allocated to multiple vessels with a single click, and offers customization options to adapt to specific maintenance processes, fleet configurations, and organizational requirements.
Additionally, the Planned Maintenance System module includes a running hour trigger feature that updates running hours to automatically generate a task when threshold limits are reached. It also provides comprehensive reports and analytics on maintenance activities, enhancing equipment reliability and availability through history recording and cost tracking.
Safety Module
The safety module of FRIDAY is a specific component that improves safety management in maritime operations. It focuses on managing and enhancing safety practices and procedures on board the vessel, including safety inspections, incident reporting, safety training, emergency response planning, risk assessment, and compliance management. By incorporating safety-related operations into the overall ERP framework, this module enables faster processes, better data management, and greater compliance with safety requirements. Additionally, it allows maritime enterprises to monitor, report, and handle safety issues, resulting in a safer working environment for crew and passengers while also safeguarding assets and the environment.
Electronic Document (“E-Doc”) Module
The E-Doc module of FRIDAY is a specialized component that manages and streamlines the generation, storage, retrieval and distribution of electronic documents during maritime operations. This program assists maritime firms in moving from paper-based to digital procedures, increasing productivity, document accessibility, accuracy, and compliance.
Crew Management
The crew management system helps manage all actions in the employee cycle of any maritime company, from the flow of recruitment to sign-on or even retirement. This module ensures the proper implementation of any company policy related to the employment of seafarers, and allows maritime enterprises to add full documentation of each employee, payroll and International Maritime Organization (IMO) crew list. Besides promoting efficient crew management, this system ensures compliance with labor regulations and supports crew development and training initiatives.
In addition to the above V.Suite native applications and FRIDAY ERP system, third-party software can be downloaded and integrated into JARVISS so that customers only have to interact with one single operating system, having access to both native and third-party applications all in one place.
Our Competitive Strengths
As a maritime connectivity and digital solutions provider, our goal is to offer a blend of extensive functionality, adaptable scalability, and a user-friendly interface, all designed to enhance and streamline our customers’ maritime experiences and voyages.
We are committed to providing our customers with a wide range of technology options, ensuring consistency, top-notch quality, and dependable services. Our diversified portfolio of solutions is fully customizable and designed to meet our customers’ individual requirements. We believe that our array of competitive advantages positions us to not only maintain but also strengthen our position in the industry. Our competitive strengths include:
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Committed and experienced management team
Since our establishment, our management team has been committed to excellence and focused on supporting the maritime industry towards digital transformation. We have a wealth of experience collectively in the maritime and satellite connectivity space.
Our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Mr. Eng Chye Koh, has over 20 years of experience in the satellite technology and maritime industries. He is passionate about facilitating the maritime industry towards digital transformation through technology-led solutions. With his enriched background and interest in technology including data-driven insights, Mr. Koh built his first satellite communication company in 2004 and later exited in 2018. He is able to leverage his first-hand experience in satellite communication and strengthen the growth of our business. Having gained a wide array of experiences and skills from the technology and maritime industry, he is committed to taking our company to great heights with his effective leadership and in-depth knowledge.
Our Chief Commercial Officer and director, Ms. Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, has an impressive track record of sales experience within the satellite communication industry for over 20 years. She has experience in various functions including marketing communications, sales and account management in the maritime sector. With an excellent sales track record and industry reference, she has deep expertise in selling to clientele within the shipping industry. With years of close interaction with the customers and industry contacts, Ms. Soh’s professional experience and connections allow her to lead and strengthen our sales and marketing team to bolster our marketing efforts.
Our Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Wei Meng See has over 20 years of experience in marine engineering, navigation, communication and automation systems. He is a firm believer in committing oneself to fully understand core issues and developing solutions. With a keen interest in business analytics and information sciences, Mr. See supports all technical related functions within our company, helping to grow our software development and marine electronics team.
Our Chief Financial Officer, Ms. Fui Chu Lo, has extensive experience in providing accounting and financial-related advice to public companies. She also has experience in advising companies on their restructuring plans and internal control systems and procedures. She is currently an independent director cum chairman of audit committee of a listed company in Singapore Stock Exchange. With her extensive knowledge in finance and accounting alongside her experience working with public companies, Ms. Lo is committed to leveraging her knowledge and experience to support the financial functions of our Company.
Loyal networks of customers and partners
By leveraging our management team’s deep experience in our industry, we have developed long-term relationships and a broad network of customers and suppliers, allowing us to integrate cutting-edge technical developments into satellite connectivity solutions, JARVISS, V.Suite, and FRIDAY. Our management team has successfully formed and expanded their professional networks with not only end users and customers, but also regional distribution partners in Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
Since 2019, we have developed stable and loyal long-term relationships with our major customers. We believe that our industry expertise and ability to design, develop and innovate to meet our customers’ requirements and specifications, and our ability to integrate these solutions has been the key drivers for the customers to continue utilizing our solutions. Looking forward, our stable and loyal relationships within our extensive network of customers will help strengthen our brand and reputation, thereby attracting further interests from renowned companies from international destinations to broaden our customer base.
We also benefit from a broad network of customers that provides referrals of new customers to us, which helps us to expand our customer base. For instance, we have connections with a few local agents who help market our products and solutions to potential customers in Taiwan and Vietnam. These local agents provide first level support and trouble-shooting services to our customers using our products and services. With the help of these networks, we hope to bring the Company closer to exerting a dominant market position in relation to maritime digital applications in the Asian market.
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Proven track record in the industry and extensive industry experience
We have been providing maritime connectivity to our customers since 2019 and have accumulated extensive industry experience. Our strong research and development and engineering capabilities enable us to design, develop, customize, and integrate satellite connectivity solutions, JARVISS, V.Suite, and FRIDAY to meet each of our customers’ needs. We also benefit from extensive data accumulated since inception, which are critical in revamping our software and algorithms to continuously optimize and improve our solutions.
In 2022, we were named by Thetius, a maritime innovation consultancy company based in the United Kingdom, as one of the 50 most innovative startups and scaleups in the maritime industry. We were also one of the 15 finalists for the OCBC (Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation) Emerging Enterprise Award 2022.
We believe our achievements and strong track record in providing maritime connectivity and digital solutions will facilitate the promotion and demand for our products and solutions with both existing and new customers, as well as the expansion of our business. We pride ourselves on developing an all-in-one platform for maritime ships that we believe can handle all the different digital applications and services needed by shipowners, ship managers and operators, ports and terminals so that our customers only have to interact with one single operating system. Our customers can elect to utilize our V.Suite native applications and FRIDAY ERP system exclusively whereas customers who require a bespoke and customized digital solution can also integrate third-party software onto JARVISS, giving them access to both native and third-party applications all in one place. We believe that this housing of multiple, diversified products all on a single platform significantly differentiates us from our competitors, whose sole focus is on one aspect of each of the solutions our platform offers. In turn, our unified platform composed of multiple products enables us to accommodate the different needs of our customers, which we believe gives us a competitive edge which could lead to further business opportunities.
Culture of Growth and Innovation
We believe that our entrepreneurial culture of innovation and collaboration is an essential driver of our growth. This entrepreneurial culture of innovation and collaboration is deep-rooted and integral to our management team. Our management team brings a breadth of experience from a variety of fields, including automation, IT, connectivity, software development, AI and marine electronics.
With our culture of innovation, we have been able to develop and improve JARIVSS in four years and we are close to bringing JARVISS to full maturity. Recently, we have launched FRIDAY, a new maritime ERP system with customizable dashboard, intuitive navigation, and real-time data updates. This is a comprehensive and integrated hybrid software solution (on-cloud and on-premises) specifically designed to streamline and optimize the operational processes of ship management, providing real-time visibility into critical data. It serves as a central hub efficiently managing and coordinating various aspects such as vessel operations, fleet management, supply chain logistics, financial transactions, crewing, and maintenance.
In addition, professional development and training are key components of our culture and in developing our talent. We have half-yearly equipment and software upgrade courses available to our employees and we occasionally send our engineers to attend workshops at external sites for their continuing professional development. This on-the job training provides us with an additional talent pipeline for research and development specialists who can continue to drive our growth.
Our Growth Strategies
We plan to expand our business and strengthen our market position in the maritime industry by implementing the following business strategies and future plans.
Broaden and enhance our current solution offerings
We will continue to enhance and broaden our maritime connectivity and digital solutions offerings by developing and integrating new functionalities and features to address and fulfil our customers’ navigation needs at the sea. We believe that advancing our technologies using our research and development capabilities and engineering expertise are vital in maintaining our long-term competitiveness and driving our business growth. Continued development of our technological capabilities in areas such as satellite communications, connectivity, data analytics, AI analytics, will improve our user experience and engagement. Ongoing updates to our satellite communication and software technologies will provide an enhanced user experience in V.Suite and FRIDAY by ensuring higher video quality, lower latency, faster transmission speed and better transmission stability under various network conditions. In addition, improvements to our technology capabilities will bring us closer to fully transforming of JARVISS into a truly unified digital platform, which serves as a one-stop shop for our customers for a comprehensive user experience. We will also scale up and enhance our network and satellite infrastructure as the amount of data generated and stored by JARVISS continues to grow. The combination of the aforementioned efforts will help us retain existing customers, attract new customers, increase user engagement, and provide a better overall user experience.
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Increase our geographical presence
We believe there is significant need for digital solutions such as JARVISS on a global basis and, accordingly, opportunity for us to grow our business through international expansion. We are expanding our global footprint and intend to establish a presence in additional markets in Asia and the Middle East.
Pursue mergers and acquisitions
We may acquire small businesses complementary to our own in Southeast Asia in the near future to enhance our software and technology capabilities. We intend to pursue targeted acquisitions that further complement our solution portfolio or provide us access to new markets. We will carefully evaluate acquisition opportunities to assess whether they will be compatible within our business model and whether they will assist us with achieving our strategic objectives. We believe that through our informed and selective acquisition strategy, we will be able to effectively integrate targeted companies or assets into our offerings and grow our business successfully.
Adapt to digitalization and changing market conditions
We believe that the maritime industry is still in its infancy with respect to digital transformation. With the advent of new technologies and as the maritime industry gradually moves towards digitalization to respond to the rising demand, we believe that this presents a huge opportunity for us. We believe that if we continue to adapt to digitalization and changing market conditions arising from increased global dependency on technological solutions, there will be significant opportunities for us to expand our penetration into multiple aspects within the maritime industry, providing a unified platform offering our customers a more seamless and consistent experience. This will allow us to quickly and easily address every aspect of the customer experience on one unified platform (i.e., JARVISS) instead of asking our customers to navigate across different platforms for different services by third parties.
Broaden our partner ecosystem by forming strategic alliances
To facilitate our organic growth, we will continue to selectively pursue strategic alliances that can strengthen our technological capabilities, and broaden our customer base and solution offerings, as well as our partner ecosystem generally. We have a large and expanding network of partnerships that consists of third-party solution partners and third-party satellite providers who offer complementary capabilities as well as third-party technicians who provide installation of maritime equipment and other related services to our customers. These partners help us grow our business more efficiently by enhancing our sales force through co-marketing efforts and improving our profile and scale to service our customers. We intend to expand our network of partners who are able to drive meaningful collaborations and bring our solutions to new markets. We will continue to seek out potential strategic alliances that are complementary to and have synergies with our current business and that will help us attract and retain customers. By expanding our partner ecosystem, we will continue to grow our business and further provide value to our customers by offering them more diverse and improved solutions.
Our Customers
Our customers consist of certain renowned international brands, governmental department, as well as small and medium size enterprises (“SMEs”) that are mostly based in Southeast Asia. The majority of our customers are ship managers of container vessels, offshore companies and marine transportation businesses which utilize our solutions to navigate the sea. Our customer base also includes shipping companies and maritime fleet providers. Included in our customer base are also our regional distribution partners in Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
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In May 2025, we announced a strategic collaboration with Deckhouse Communications, to deliver digital solutions to Turkish ship owners, managers, and maritime customers.
For the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, our top five customers collectively contributed approximately 44.0%, 34.1% and 39.7% of the total revenue of our company, respectively.
For the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we have entered into several agreements with some of our top five customers for the provision of a wide range of services, including but not limited to, the supply and installation of equipment, provision of technology applications, project management, provision of satellite network and the provision of network troubleshooting and IT support maintenance services. Some of these agreements are master/framework agreements that either have a minimum commitment period of 12 months or last for an indefinite term until termination by the parties, whereby individual purchase orders are made by the customers depending on the actual services required. Depending on the services required by the customers, the services are charged either on a “one-time” or periodic basis depending on the nature of the services involved. For example, monthly fees are payable for the subscription of certain technology application, and “one-time” fees are payable for the installation of equipment, such as switches and antennas etc. Other agreements are standalone contracts with either a minimum commitment period of one to 36 months or a fixed term ranging from 12 months (with an option to renew for another 12 months) to 36 months. These are also charged on either a monthly or “one-time” basis depending on the nature of services involved. We do not have any agreements with one of our top five customers for the years ended March 31, 2025, and 2024, and two of our top five customers for the year ended March 31, 2023. Instead, these customers placed purchase orders based on the specifications and requirements of the specific project with us.
We derived approximately $0.7 million representing approximately 6.4%, $1.2 million representing approximately 14.1%, and $0.9 million representing approximately 12.2%, of our total revenue from our distributors for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, respectively, and the rest of our revenue for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 were derived from end customers. Save for transactions in the ordinary and usual course of business, we do not have relationships with distributors that comprise a material portion of our revenue.
Our Suppliers
Our suppliers are mainly IT hardware/software distributors and satellite operators. As a business that relies on cloud infrastructure and satellite communications to run our solutions, we have built a close relationship with our suppliers in order to ensure stability of satellite communications and cloud services.
For the year ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, our top five suppliers accounted for approximately 50.1%, 49.8% and 60.7% of the total cost of sales, respectively, of our company.
For the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we have entered into several agreements with some of our top five suppliers for the provision of a wide range of services, including but not limited to the provision of satellite network, airtime services, equipment leasing and equipment installation. We are not dependent on any one of the top five suppliers and we are capable of finding alternative suppliers. Some of these agreements are standalone contracts that have a minimum commitment period ranging from 4 months (with an automatic monthly renewal mechanism) to 36 months or a fixed initial term of 12 months with an option to renew on a year-by-year basis. Other agreements are master/framework agreements, whereby individual purchase orders are made depending on the actual services required and these services are paid either on a “one-time” or periodic basis depending on the nature of the services involved. For example, monthly fees are payable for the subscription of network services, such as satellite network or airtime, and “one-time” fees are payable for the purchase and installation of satellite network equipment, such as antennas and routers. We do not have any agreements with one of our top five suppliers for the years ended March 31, 2025, and 2024, and two of our top five suppliers for the year ended March 31, 2023. After obtaining quotations from these suppliers, we placed purchase orders for products or services according to the needs of our customers; therefore, we did not enter into long term agreements with these suppliers.
Sales and Marketing
The focus of our sales and marketing efforts is to strengthen our brand recognition as a leading provider of maritime connectivity and digital solutions. To expand our partner ecosystem to connect with enterprises and other potential partners, we are committed to promoting our solutions to target customers through a variety of channels. One of such channels is working with our regional distribution partners in Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia with whom we signed distributor agreements to promote our brand.
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We benefit from a network of customers and agents in our partner ecosystem that generally have a strong willingness to refer their own customers and partnering institutions to us as this also benefits their own businesses by having cross referrals of customers. We have built solid business relationships with a few local agents in Taiwan and Vietnam who help market our products and solutions to potential customers in Southeast Asia. Through their referrals, we are able to expand our customer base and address these referrals’ needs for maritime connectivity and digital solutions. This allows our business to grow while controlling customer acquisition costs.
We also generate interest and acquire new customers by placing paid advertisements in magazines, social media and other selected platforms such as LinkedIn. Furthermore, our sales and marketing team is regularly reaching out via cold calls to targeted potential clients and nurturing our list of prospective clients with our maritime connectivity and digital solutions that align with their interest, with an aim to bring us the opportunity to converse with such prospective clients regarding our offerings.
Research and Development
As part of the development of our solutions, we review our projects with clients who utilize our satellite connectivity solutions, JARVISS, V.Suite, and FRIDAY regularly and modify our equipment and technologies based on experience and feedback from completed projects. We are also committed to researching and developing technologies in order to understand the needs of ship owners and ship managers, and enhance the effectiveness of our solutions for our customers.
Our technology development personnel have extensive experience with the maritime industry, digital technologies, navigation and automation systems, and focus on the following that support our long-term business growth:
| ● | Maintaining and strengthening all of our digital transformation platform and application system, including but not limited to satellite connectivity solutions, shipboard infrastructure and cloud technology; |
| ● | Ensuring our technology system is well established, reviewed, tested and continuously strengthened; and |
| ● | Organizing and participating in industry seminars, exploring relevant cutting-edge technologies. |
To complement the existing technology in our satellite connectivity solutions, JARVISS, V.Suite, and FRIDAY and to supplement the expertise of our team, we are also looking to collaborate with third-party institutions with an aim to strengthen our research on multi satellite orbit electronic steering antenna and ERP operating system. We expect such research collaboration will enable deep knowledge exchange between the third-party institutions and our engineers, and we will continue to develop and enhance the connectivity and capabilities of our satellite connectivity solutions, JARVISS, V.Suite, and FRIDAY over time.
Intellectual Property
We regard our intellectual property as critical to our success. We currently rely on confidentiality, and non-disclosure agreements with our employees and others to protect our proprietary rights. We are in the process of applying for a trademark for “JARVISS” (i) under the international registration governed exclusively by the Madrid Protocol covering jurisdictions including Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Japan, European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), United Kingdom and Brunei, (ii) in Hong Kong, and (iii) in Taiwan. As of the date of this report, we have successfully registered the trademark for “JARVISS” with European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), United Kingdom, Brunei, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. Apart from the foregoing applications, the Company currently has no other registered intellectual property rights.
Despite our efforts to protect ourselves from infringement or misappropriation of our intellectual property rights, unauthorized parties may attempt to copy or otherwise obtain and use our intellectual property in violation of our rights. In the event of a successful claim of infringement against us, or our failure or inability to develop non-infringing intellectual property or license the infringed or similar intellectual property on a timely basis, our business could be harmed.
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Data Security and Protection
We are committed to protecting the user data that we collect, process, store and use on a daily basis. Keeping confidential data and sensitive information safe is integral to maintaining the trust from our customers. We have implemented enhanced data encryption measures to ensure secured transmission of data, encrypt confidential personal information for storage and apply encryption methodology based on the level of risk. In addition, we have established and put in place stringent internal rules and policies on data security and protection to prevent any unauthorized access or use of our user data. All our employees are required to strictly follow our internal rules and policies to ensure our user data is protected. We limit the types of personal information that our employees and solutions are allowed to collect to only those strictly necessary for conducting our operations.
Furthermore, we provide regular training and awareness programs to educate employees on the importance of data security and protection, and their responsibilities in relation to information management. Only authorized individuals who require the information to fulfil their job responsibilities have access to the relevant information and systems.
Seasonality
We experience seasonality in our business, reflecting a combination of seasonal fluctuations in voyages and the use of ships and vessels. For example, we generally experience less marine traffic during October to January each year due to the cold weather in fall and winter. However, we mitigate the effects of this seasonality through our recurring revenue streams. Indeed, our monthly recurring income for the year ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023 were approximately 51.2%, 47.2% and 49.3% of our total revenue. Overall, the historical seasonality of our business has been relatively mild due to the rapid growth of our recurring revenue sources. Due to our relatively short operating history, the seasonal trends that we have experienced in the past may not apply to, or be indicative of, our future operating results.
Competition
Due to our unique business offering, we have not encountered any direct competitors as there is no one company that operates and provides both of our business segments (i.e., “satellite connectivity solution” and “digitalization and other solutions”). However, we face different competitors in each of our business segments. Our main competitors are Navarino, Marlink and Inmarsat for satellite connectivity solution; and Alpha Ori, Zero North and Storm Geo for the ‘digitalization’ segment under ‘digitalization and other solutions’, as well as Navarino, Radio Holland, and DNV for the ‘other solutions’ segment under ‘digitalization and other solutions’.
Despite our unique competitive position, we still hold a relatively small market share of the global maritime market. Further, while the digital space within the maritime industry remains relatively novel, a handful of our competitors that are more well-established players than us are also entering the digital space. With a longer history and a more established brand name, our competitors are able to achieve better brand recognition than us. Moreover, our current and future competitors vary in size and in the breadth and scope of the products and services they offer. They may have longer operating histories or have greater available financial, technical, sales, marketing and other resources than we do. Future competitors such as venture backed startups that are purely software focused may be able to benefit from more capital being injected into the research and development of their products as well as business development efforts.
We believe the principal competitive factors in our market include, but are not limited to:
| ● | breadth and depth of integrated solutions and value-added services; |
| ● | expertise and experience in the maritime and satellite communication industries; |
| ● | brand recognition and reputation; |
| ● | modern technology and user experience; |
| ● | integration with a wide variety of third-party applications and systems; and |
| ● | quality of implementation of customer service. |
Our ability to remain competitive in our market will depend to a great extent upon our ongoing performance in these areas.
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Insurance
We maintain public liability insurance against injuries, death, or losses due to fire and water leakage, as well as insurance as required by the Ministry of Manpower Singapore in relation to work injury compensation.
In addition, we have purchased directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, covering the period from April 10, 2025 to April 9, 2026. This insurance provides coverage for claims made against our directors, officers and certain employees arising from alleged wrongful acts in their official capacities. It also includes reimbursements to the Company when we are required or permitted to indemnify those individuals, as well as coverage for reasonable expenses incurred in preparing self-reports or responding to regulatory inquiries.
Save for the above, we do not maintain any other liability insurance coverage.
Regulations
This section sets forth a summary of the material laws and regulations that affect the Company’s business and operations in Singapore. Information contained in this section should not be construed as a comprehensive summary nor detailed analysis of laws and regulations applicable to the business and operations of the Company. This overview is provided as general information only and not intended to be a substitute for professional advice. You should consult your own advisers regarding the implication of the laws and regulations of Singapore on our business and operations.
Workplace Safety and Health Act
The Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 of Singapore (the “WSHA”) is the principal legislation governing the safety, health and welfare of persons at work in workplaces. Among other things, the WSHA imposes a duty on every employer and every principal (which would include us) to take, so far as is reasonably practicable, such measures as are necessary to ensure the safety and health of its employees, and any contractor, any direct or indirect subcontractor, and any employee employed by such contractor or subcontractor, when at work.
The general penalties for non-compliance with the WSHA include the imposition of fines up to the amount of S$500,000 in the case of a body corporate. Further or other penalties may apply in the case of repeat offences or specific offences under the WSHA or its subsidiary legislation.
Work Injury Compensation Act
Work injury compensation is governed by the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 (“WICA”) and is regulated by the MOM. The WICA applies to any person who has entered into or works under a contract of service or apprenticeship with an employer, subject to certain prescribed exclusions in respect of injuries suffered by them arising out of and in the course of their employment and sets out, amongst others, the amount of compensation they are entitled to and the methods of calculating such compensation. The WICA provides, subject to certain prescribed exceptions, that if in any employment, personal injury by accident arising out of and in the course of the employment is caused to an employee, his employer shall be liable to pay compensation in accordance with the provisions of the WICA. The amount of compensation shall be computed in accordance with the First Schedule of the WICA, subject to a maximum and minimum limit, considering factors such as the severity and permanence of the personal injury suffered.
Further, the WICA provides that where any person (referred to as the principal) in the course of or for the purpose of his trade or business contracts with any other person (referred to as the employer) for the execution by the employer of the whole or any part of any work, or for the supply of labor to carry out any work, undertaken by the principal, the principal shall be liable to pay to any employee employed in the execution of the work any compensation which he would have been liable to pay if that employee had been immediately employed by the principal.
Every employer is required to maintain work injury compensation insurance for all employees doing manual work and all employees earning less than S$2,600 per month. Failure to do so is an offence carrying a fine of up to S$10,000 and/or imprisonment of up to 12 months. Under the Work Injury Compensation Insurance Regulations 2020 (“WICIR”), every employer entering into a contract of insurance in accordance with the requirements of WICA shall be issued, by the insurer with whom he contracts, with a certificate of insurance which shall contain certain prescribed particulars. The WICIR further provides that such employer shall display a copy of the certificate of insurance at each place of business at which he employs any employee whose claims may be the subject of indemnity under the policy of insurance to which that certificate relates.
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Employment Act
The Employment Act 1968 of Singapore, or the Singapore EA, sets out the basic terms and conditions of employment and the rights and responsibilities of employers as well as employees. With effect from April 1, 2019, the Singapore EA extends to all employees, including persons employed in managerial or executive positions, with certain exceptions.
The Singapore EA prescribes certain minimum conditions of service that employers are required to provide to their employees, including (i) minimum days of statutory annual and sick leave; (ii) paid public holidays; (iii) statutory protection against wrongful dismissal; (iv) provision of key employment terms in writing; and (v) statutory maternity leave and childcare leave benefits. In addition, certain statutory protections relating to overtime and hours of work are prescribed under the Singapore EA, but only apply to limited categories of employees, such as an employee (other than a workman) who receives a salary of up to S$2,600 a month (“relevant employee”). Section 38(8) of the Singapore EA provides that a relevant employee is not allowed to work for more than 12 hours in any one day except in specified circumstances, such as where the work is essential to the life of the community, defense or security. In addition, section 38(5) of the Singapore EA limits the extent of overtime work that a relevant employee can perform, to 72 hours a month.
Other employment-related benefits which are prescribed by law include (i) contributions to be made by an employer to the Central Provident Fund, under the Central Provident Fund Act 1953 of Singapore in respect of each employee who is a citizen or permanent resident of Singapore; (ii) the provision of statutory maternity, paternity, childcare, adoption, unpaid infant care and shared parental leave benefits (in each case subject to the fulfilment of certain eligibility criteria) under the Child Development Co-savings Act 2001 of Singapore; (iii) statutory protections against dismissal on the grounds of age, and statutory requirements to offer re-employment to an employee who attains the prescribed minimum retirement age, under the Retirement and Re-employment Act 1993 of Singapore; and (iv) statutory requirements relating to work injury compensation, and workplace safety and health, under the Work Injury Compensation Act 2019 of Singapore and the Workplace Safety and Health Act 2006 of Singapore, respectively.
Employment of Foreign Manpower Act
The employment of foreign employees in Singapore is governed by the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act 1990 of Singapore (the “EFMA”) and is regulated by the MOM. The EFMA prescribes the responsibilities and obligations of employers of foreign employees in Singapore.
The EFMA provides that no person shall employ a foreign employee unless the foreign employee has obtained a valid work pass from the MOM in accordance with the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) Regulations 2012, which allows the foreign employee to work for him. Any person who fails to comply with or contravenes this provision of the EFMA is guilty of an offense and will: (a) be liable on conviction for a fine not less than S$5,000 and not more than S$30,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both; and (b) on a second or subsequent conviction: (i) in the case of an individual, be liable for a fine of not less than S$10,000 and not more than S$30,000 and imprisonment for a term of not less than one month and not more than 12 months; or (ii) in any other case, be punished with a fine of not less than S$20,000 and not more than S$60,000.
In Singapore, the work pass to be issued to a foreigner is contingent on, among other things, the type of work and salary being received by the foreigner in question. Foreign professionals, managers and executives earning a fixed monthly salary of at least S$4,500 with acceptable qualifications (such as a good university degree, professional qualifications or specialist skills) may apply for an employment pass, whereas older and more experienced candidates will need higher salaries. Mid-level skilled staff earning a fixed monthly salary of at least S$2,500 who possess a degree, diploma or technical certificate and have the relevant work experience may apply for an S-pass; and semi-skilled foreign workers from approved source countries working in, among others, the manufacturing sector may apply for a work permit.
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Further, under the Employment of Foreign Manpower (Work Passes) Regulations 2012, an employer is required to purchase and maintain medical insurance with coverage of at least S$15,000 per 12-month period of a foreign workers’ employment (or for such shorter period where the foreign workers’ period of employment is less than 12 months) for the foreign workers’ in-patient care and day surgery except as the Controller of Work Passes may otherwise provide by notification in writing.
In addition, the employment of foreign workers is also subject to sector-specific rules regulated by the MOM through the following policy instruments: (a) business activity; (b) approved source countries; (c) the imposition of security bonds and levies; and (d) quota (or dependency ratio ceilings) based on the ratio of local to foreign workers.
Central Provident Fund Act
The Central Provident Fund (“CPF”) system is a mandatory social security savings scheme funded by contributions from employers and employees. Pursuant to the Central Provident Fund Act 1953 of Singapore (“CPFA”), an employer is obliged to make CPF contributions for all employees who are Singapore citizens or permanent residents who are employed in Singapore by an employer (save for employees who are employed as a master, a seaman or an apprentice in any vessel, subject to an exception for non-exempted owners). CPF contributions are not applicable for foreigners who hold employment passes, S passes or work permits. CPF contributions are required for both ordinary wages and additional wages (subject to an ordinary wage ceiling and a yearly additional wage ceiling) of employees at the applicable prescribed rates which is dependent on, among other things, the amount of monthly wages and the age of the employee. An employer must pay both the employer’s and employee’s share of the monthly CPF contribution. However, an employer can recover the employee’s share of CPF contributions by deducting it from their wages when the contributions are paid for that month.
Where the amount of the contributions which an employer is liable to pay under the CPFA in respect of any month is not paid within such period as may be prescribed, the employer shall be liable for the payment of interest on the amount for every day the amount remains unpaid commencing from the first day of the month succeeding the month in respect of which the amount is payable and the interest shall be calculated at the rate of 1.5% per month or the sum of S$5, whichever is greater. Where any employer who has recovered any amount from the monthly wages of an employee in accordance with the CPFA fails to pay the contributions to the CPF within such time as may be prescribed, he will be guilty of an offense and will be liable on conviction for a fine not exceeding S$10,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding seven years or both. Where a person fails to pay the contributions to the CPF within such time as may be prescribed which the person is liable under the CPFA to pay in respect of or on behalf of any employee in any month, he will be guilty of an offense and will be liable to a fine of not less than S$1,000 and not more than $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both and if that person is a repeat offender in relation to the same offence, to a fine of not less than $2,000 and not more than $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. Where an offense has been committed under the CPFA but there are no penalties provided, the offender may be liable for a fine not exceeding S$5,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both, and where the offense is repeated by the same offender, the offender may be liable for a fine not exceeding S$10,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both.
The Income Tax Act 1947 of Singapore
The Income Tax Act 1947 of Singapore (the “ITA”) is the main legislation that governs the taxation of income in Singapore. The ITA was first enacted in 1947 and has been amended several times since then to keep up with changes in the tax system and economic landscape. Under the ITA, individuals, companies, and other entities are subject to tax on their income earned in Singapore. The ITA sets out the rules for determining taxable income, allowable deductions, and tax rates for different types of income.
The ITA is administered by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (the “IRAS”), which is responsible for assessing and collecting taxes in Singapore. The ITA is regularly updated to reflect changes in the tax system and ensure that it remains relevant to the needs of taxpayers and the economy.
Some key provisions of the ITA include (i) Tax residency: The ITA defines the criteria for determining an individual or company’s tax residency status in Singapore, which determines the amount of tax they are liable to pay; (ii) Taxable income: The ITA sets out the rules for determining what constitutes taxable income, including employment income, business profits, rental income, and capital gains; (iii) Deductions and allowances: The ITA allows for certain deductions and allowances to be claimed to reduce the amount of taxable income, such as expenses related to employment or business operations; (iv) Tax rates: The ITA sets out the tax rates for different types of income and tax residency statuses; and (v) Filing and payment: The ITA requires individuals and companies to file tax returns and make tax payments by specific deadlines.
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Failure to paying income tax or failing to file tax returns can result in penalties and legal consequences. The penalties can vary depending on the severity of the offense and whether it was a first-time or repeat offense. Some of the penalties that can be imposed for not paying income tax include (i) Late payment penalty, where if you do not pay your income tax by the due date, you will be charged a late payment penalty of 5% of the outstanding tax amount. This penalty will continue to accrue until the tax is fully paid; (ii) Late filing penalty, where if you fail to file your tax return by the due date, you will be charged a late filing penalty of up to $1,000. The penalty amount may be higher if the tax return is filed later; (iii) Prosecution, where if you intentionally fail to pay income tax, you may be prosecuted under the ITA. This can result in fines, imprisonment, or both; and (iv) Additional tax and interest, where if the IRAS discovers that you have underreported your income, you may be required to pay additional tax and interest on the underreported amount. However, if you are having difficulty paying your taxes, you may be able to seek assistance and work out a payment plan with the IRAS to avoid penalties and legal consequences.
Personal Data Protection Act 2012
The Personal Data Protection Act 2012 of Singapore (“PDPA”) establishes the baseline regime for the protection of personal data in Singapore. The PDPA applies to all organizations that collect, use, disclose, and/or process personal data. The PDPA is administered and enforced by the Personal Data Protection Commission (“PDPC”). In this regard, “personal data” as defined under the PDPA refers to data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data or other information to which the organization has or is likely to have access to.
An organization is required to comply with, amongst other things, the data protection obligations prescribed by the PDPA, which may be summarized as follows:
| ● | Consent obligation — the consent of individuals must be obtained before collecting, using, disclosing and/or processing their personal data, unless an exception applies. Additionally, an organization must allow the withdrawal of consent by an individual which has been given or is deemed to have been given; |
| ● | Purpose limitation obligation — personal data must be collected, used, disclosed, and/or processed only for purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances, and if applicable, have been notified to the individual concerned; |
| ● | Notification obligation — individuals must be notified of the purposes for the collection, use, disclosure, and/or processing of their personal data, prior to such collection, use, disclosure, and/or processing; |
| ● | Access and correction obligations — when requested by an individual and unless an exception applies, an organization must: (i) provide that individual with access to his personal data in the possession or under the control of the organization and information about the ways in which his personal data may have been used or disclosed during the past year, and/or (ii) correct an error or omission in his personal data that is in the possession or under the control of the organization; |
| ● | Accuracy obligation — an organization must make reasonable efforts to ensure that personal data collected by or on its behalf is accurate and complete if such data is likely to be used by the organization to make a decision affecting the individual to whom the personal data relates or if such data is likely to be disclosed to another organization; |
| ● | Protection obligation — an organization must implement reasonable security arrangements to protect personal data in its possession or under its control from (i) unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, copying, modification, disposal or similar risks, and (ii) the loss of any storage medium or device on which personal data is stored; |
| ● | Retention limitation obligation — an organization must anonymize or must not keep personal data for longer than it is necessary to fulfill; (i) the purposes for which it was collected, or (ii) a legal or business purpose; |
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| ● | Transfer limitation obligation — personal data must not be transferred out of Singapore except in accordance with the requirements prescribed under the PDPA. In this regard, an organization must ensure that the recipient of the personal data in that country outside Singapore is bound by legally enforceable obligations to provide the transferred personal data a standard of protection that is at least comparable to the protection under the PDPA; |
| ● | Accountability obligation — an organization must implement the necessary policies and procedures in order to meet its obligations under the PDPA, communicate and inform their staff about these policies and procedures, as well as make information of such policies and procedures available on request. In addition, an organization must develop a process to receive and respond to data-related complaints, and must designate at least one individual as the data protection officer to oversee the organization’s compliance with the PDPA; |
| ● | Data breach notification obligation — an organization must notify the PDPC and/or the affected individuals if it has suffered a data breach that meets the notification thresholds prescribed under the PDPA (i.e., the data breach is or is likely to be of significant scale, or has caused or is likely to cause significant harm to the affected individuals). The organization is expected to expeditiously assess the severity of the breach, and the timeline to notify the PDPC is 3 calendar days of the organization assessing that a notification threshold has been met; and |
| ● | Data portability obligation — the data portability obligation (which is not yet in force as at the date of this report) grants individuals with an existing direct relationship with an organization the right to request for a copy of their personal data to be transmitted in a commonly used machine-readable format to another organization which has a business presence in Singapore. The exact scope and applicability of this right will be delineated by the relevant regulations and guidelines to be published by the PDPC. |
The maximum financial penalty that can be imposed on organizations is S$1 million, or 10% of the organization’s annual turnover in Singapore, whichever is higher. The severity of the penalties will be assessed based on, amongst other things, the amount of personal data involved, and the degree of harm caused to individuals.
Customs Act
Goods exported from Singapore are regulated under the Customs Act 1960 of Singapore (the “Customs Act”). To export goods from Singapore, the exporter is required to declare the goods to Singapore Customs, a department under the Ministry of Finance, which is the lead agency for trade facilitation and revenue enforcement. The Singapore Goods and Services Tax (the “GST”) is not levied on goods exported from Singapore. A Customs export permit is required for, among other things, the export of locally manufactured goods or local GST paid goods, the export of goods from free trade zones, dutiable goods from licensed warehouses and non-dutiable goods from a zero-rated warehouse. The exporter will be the party that issues the commercial invoice to his overseas customer. Exporters who intend to engage in import and/or export activities in Singapore or appoint a declaring agent to apply for Customs import, export and transshipment permits or certificates will need to activate their Customs Account with Singapore Customs, further to which a declaring agent may be appointed to apply for Customs permits on their behalf. Declaring agents have to be registered with Singapore Customs. Exporters may be penalized if they do not comply with the requirements and conditions imposed under the Customs Act. Making an incorrect declaration or failing to make a declaration of goods imported into, exported from or transshipped in Singapore will result in being liable on conviction for a fine not exceeding S$10,000, or the equivalent of the amount of the customs duty, excise duty or GST payable, whichever is the greater amount, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or both.
Unfair Contract Terms Act and Sale of Goods Act
The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 of Singapore, or the UCTA, provides that exclusion clauses in standard terms of business or where one of the contracting parties is a consumer are subject to a condition of “reasonableness.” Also, when a business deals with a consumer, the business cannot render contractual performance substantially different from what was reasonably expected of it, or render no performance at all in respect of the whole or part of any contractual obligation. The Sale of Goods Act 1979 of Singapore, or the SOGA, regulates the sale of goods in Singapore. The SOGA implies certain terms into contracts of sale of goods, which include implied conditions that the seller has or will have the right to sell the goods and that goods supplied are of satisfactory quality. The SOGA also provides that where a seller wrongfully neglects or refuses to deliver goods, the buyer may sue for non-delivery. The damages available are the estimated loss directly and naturally resulting from the seller’s breach of contract in the ordinary course of events. Rights, liabilities and implied conditions arising under a contract of sale pursuant to SOGA may be excluded or varied by contract, subject to the requirements of the UCTA.
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4.C. Organizational Structure
See “Item 4.A. History and Development of the Company—Corporate Structure” above for details of our current organizational structure.
4.D. Plants, Property and Equipment
Our principal executive office and warehouse are located in Singapore. These facilities currently accommodate our management headquarters, as well as most of our product development and storage, sales and marketing, and general administrative activities. We lease all of the facilities that we currently occupy.
We have entered into a tenancy agreement for our principal office in Singapore situated at 140 Paya Lebar Road #07-02, AZ@Paya Lebar, Singapore 409015, for a period of 12 months from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025.
We have entered into a tenancy agreement for our warehouse situated at Kampong Ubi Industrial Estate #01-68, 3025A Ubi Road Singapore 408654, for a period of 12 months from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2026.
We have entered into a lease agreement for office space situated at 161 Kallang Way, #07-01 and #07-08, Singapore 349247, for a period of three years from September 15, 2025 to September 14, 2028.
We have entered into a tenancy agreement for office and dormitory space situated at 61 Jalan Damai, Taman Sri Setia, 80300 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia, for a period of 24 months from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026, to house our IT contractors in Malaysia.
ITEM 4A. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
None.
ITEM 5. OPERATING AND FINANCIAL REVIEW AND PROSPECTS
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report. This discussion may contain forward-looking statements. Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements because of various factors, including those set forth under “Item 3.D. Risk Factors” or in other parts of this Annual Report. See also “Forward-Looking Statements.”
5.A. Operating Results
Overview
We are a holding company incorporated as an exempted company under the laws of the Cayman Islands. As a holding company with no material operations of our own, we conduct all of our operations through our operating entity incorporated in Singapore, iO3 Singapore.
We are a leading provider of maritime digital technologies including satellite connectivity and digitalization solutions in Singapore focused on facilitating the maritime industry towards digital transformation. Based on the Frost & Sullivan Report, as of March 31, 2024, we ranked fifth in the Singaporean market based on revenue from the provision of maritime connectivity and digital solutions with a market share of approximately 6.2%. Our company was established to adopt an innovative approach towards the management of solutions accustomed to contemporary needs and drive the digital evolution in the maritime industry.
We generate revenue from our two operating segments: (i) satellite connectivity solution, and (ii) digitalization and other solutions. In the satellite connectivity segment, we offer integrated satellite connectivity solutions through the provision of satellite connectivity services and the sales and/or lease of satellite network equipment and devices for shipboard network management. In the digitalization and other solutions segment, we are involved in designing digital solutions, providing IT support, and providing shipboard support services for IT and OT applications enablement.
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Our digitalization platform — “Just A Really Very Intelligent System” (“JARVISS”) — has been specifically designed to support enhanced integrated solutions, asset optimization and delivery of secured critical applications globally. It hosts a fleet of native applications developed by us as well as third party applications, consolidating essential functions such as IoT and vessel management. Our unique platform seamlessly integrates these applications, simplifying maritime operations and fostering unprecedented efficiency and leads us to be the pioneer of integrated maritime connectivity and digital solution providers. In addition to JARVISS, our portfolio of digital solutions encompasses our V.Suite solutions and our new maritime ERP system FRIDAY.
Factors Affecting Our Performance and Related Trends
We believe that the key factors affecting our performance and financial performance include:
Impact of the overall economic conditions and oil prices
The health of the global economy, particularly fluctuations in oil prices, directly affects shipping volumes and maritime activity. Prolonged economic downturns or volatile fuel prices may lead to reduced demand for our technology solutions as shipping companies seek to cut costs.
Maritime regulations impacting our services and offerings
Maritime regulations that facilitate or limit our ability to provide our offerings impact our financial performance. For example, our operations may benefit from the changes to the regulatory requirements applicable to the shipping and maritime industry including but not limited to stricter requirements adopted by international organizations, such as the International Maritime Organization, or by individual countries or charterers and actions taken by regulatory authorities for safety and environmental compliance. Compliance with such laws, regulations and standards, where applicable, may require installation of new equipment or implementation of operational changes and may create new business opportunities to the Company. On the other hand, these costs could have a material adverse effect on the costs of maintaining our customers’ vessels, which in turn affects their financial ability to subscribe to our services or offerings. In addition, a failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations may result in administrative and civil penalties, criminal sanctions or the suspension or termination of operations of our customers’ vessels, which in turn affects our business operations since the customers would have to cease operating their vessels, hence terminating our services and their subscriptions to our services.
Our ability to expand into other jurisdictions
We intend to expand our business operations in terms of the services and solutions we offer by establishing offices in other Asian countries and the Middle East in order to increase and diversify revenue channels and further engage our customers. As such, we plan to scale up our services in terms of sales and lease of equipment and devices, and solution offerings. Entering new geographic markets requires us to invest in personnel, marketing, and infrastructure, including additional offices and distribution networks. Our international expansion may result in increased costs and is subject to a variety of risks, including low initial brand awareness, local competition, inventory risks and compliance with foreign laws and regulations. While we expect our operating expenses to increase as we continue to expand our business, we expect such expenses to decrease as a percentage of revenue over time as we continue to streamline our business and benefit from economies of scale. We believe that our ability to successfully expand our business operations, both geographically and through our offerings, is paramount to our ability to achieve and maintain long-term profitability.
Impact of fluctuations in costs of revenue
We are sensitive to price movements in equipment for satellite connectivity solutions and digitalization and other solutions. Our material purchases are for electronics equipment and satellite connectivity such as antenna, satellite phone, modem, IP handsets, wireless access points etc. for satellite connectivity solution, and hardware/software components and shipboard equipment for digitalization and other solutions. Prices for these products, along with costs for transportation and delivery, fluctuate with market conditions, and have generally increased over time with inflation. We may be unable to offset the impact of price increases on a timely basis due to outstanding commitments to our customers, and our financial performance could be adversely impacted. A failure by our suppliers to continue to supply us with component parts and equipment for satellite connectivity at reasonable prices could have a material adverse effect on us. To the extent there are material fluctuations in the prices of electronics equipment and satellite connectivity, our margins could be materially adversely impacted.
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Chip supply constraints
Chips are integral to our equipment and digital solutions. An on-going shortage of chips could materially affect our operations and business. We may encounter higher prices of electronic equipment such as modems, routers, and antennas, which would significantly increase our cost of sales, thereby affecting our profitability and financial performance. In addition, as satellite connectivity forms a substantial part of our revenues, should the satellite operators increase their bandwidth pricing, it may have a significant impact on our service costs, and hence increase our cost of sales.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenue
Satellite Connectivity Solution
There are two main categories of revenue generated through satellite connectivity solution:
| (i) | Subscription income — Monthly subscription fee is charged to customer for the satellite connection service in relating to the airtime, bandwidth subscription plan and value-added service subscribed. The contracts with customers are normally within five years and are generally non-cancellable; and |
| (ii) | Sales and lease of satellite network equipment and devices. |
We sell or lease the satellite network equipment and devices to customers. We provide engineering and installation service to our customers. The revenue generated, inclusive of shipping and handling fees charged to customers, are as below:
| (a) | Sales of equipment and devices; |
| (b) | Sales-type lease of equipment and devices; and |
| (c) | Operating lease of equipment and devices. |
Digitalization and Other Solutions
Our revenue generated from digitalization and other solutions are as below:
| (i) | Subscription income from JARVISS digital platform — JARVISS digital platform was launched in early 2022. We provide customers access to the digital platform to help their daily operation management. Monthly subscription fee is charged to the customers based on the number of user access and number of service elements subscribed. |
| (ii) | Revenue generated from IT support services — Customers specify their IT support requirements in the contracts, which may include purchase of IT equipment, purchase and installation of software in certain IT equipment and devices. We charge customers the equipment cost and service fee. We also provide IT help desk service and technical support and charge customers a monthly fee. |
| (iii) | Revenue generated from shipboard support services — At the customers’ request, we supply and install shipboard equipment as per customer’s specification. We charge customers the equipment cost, installation fee, shipping and handling fee. |
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Cost of Revenue
Satellite Connectivity Solution
Our cost of revenue for satellite connectivity solution consists primarily of:
| (i) | Costs of satellite subscription services payable to satellite operators in relating to airtime consumed, bandwidth subscription plan, and value-added service subscribed. |
| (ii) | Costs of satellite network equipment and devices such as antenna, satellite phone, modem, IP handsets, wireless access points, etc. |
| (iii) | Other costs include staff costs, subcontractor costs, depreciation and shipping and handling costs. |
Digitalization and Other Solutions
Our cost of revenue for digitalization and other solutions consists primarily of:
| (i) | Costs of IT software and hardware, including network infrastructure related devices, firewalls and security appliances, computer and servers, printer and scanning equipment etc.; |
| (ii) | Costs of shipboard equipment; and |
| (iii) | Other costs include staff costs, subcontractor costs, amortization and shipping and handling costs. |
Operating Cost and Expenses
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Our sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of (i) staff costs of our sales and marketing personnel which include salaries, central provident funds, staff bonus and other employee benefits, (ii) commission to our agents, and (iii) marketing and advertising fee.
General and Administrative Expenses
Our general and administrative expenses consist primarily of wages and salaries, travelling expenses, general office expenses, depreciation expenses, IT expenses, repairs and maintenance and entertainment expenses.
Other Operating (Expenses)/Income, Net
Our other operating income consists primarily of government grants, foreign exchange gains, commission received and others. Our other operating expenses consist primarily of foreign exchange losses and others such as withholding tax for overseas customers.
Finance Income
Our finance income consists of interest income from sales-type lease of satellite network equipment.
Finance Costs
Our finance costs consist primarily of interest expenses relating to finance lease and bank borrowing.
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Results of Operations
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||
| (US$) | (US$) | (US$) | ||||||||||
| Revenues, net | 10,478,550 | 8,570,070 | 7,487,564 | |||||||||
| Cost of revenue | (8,614,316 | ) | (6,724,479 | ) | (5,231,836 | ) | ||||||
| Gross profit | 1,864,234 | 1,845,591 | 2,255,728 | |||||||||
| Operating cost and expenses: | ||||||||||||
| Sales and marketing expenses | (579,042 | ) | (406,870 | ) | (348,786 | ) | ||||||
| General and administrative | (1,475,028 | ) | (1,453,282 | ) | (853,462 | ) | ||||||
| Other operating expenses | (12,818 | ) | (18,588 | ) | (4,106 | ) | ||||||
| Total operating cost and expenses | (2,066,888 | ) | (1,878,740 | ) | (1,206,354 | ) | ||||||
| (Loss)/Income from operations | (202,654 | ) | (33,149 | ) | 1,049,374 | |||||||
| Finance income | 23,671 | 20,743 | 14,110 | |||||||||
| Finance cost | (34,702 | ) | (35,830 | ) | (23,951 | ) | ||||||
| (Loss)/Income before income taxes | (213,685 | ) | (48,236 | ) | 1,039,533 | |||||||
| Income tax (expense)/credit | (16,830 | ) | 43,790 | (115,373 | ) | |||||||
| NET (LOSS)/INCOME | (230,515 | ) | (4,446 | ) | 924,160 | |||||||
Revenue
We derive our revenue from our two operating segments: (i) satellite connectivity solution, and (ii) digitalization and other solutions. The following table sets out the breakdown of our revenue for the periods indicated:
| For the year ended March 31, | ||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||
| (US$) | (US$) | (US$) | ||||||||||
| Revenue from external customers | ||||||||||||
| Satellite connectivity solution | ||||||||||||
| Subscription | 4,408,157 | 3,678,354 | 3,605,177 | |||||||||
| Sales and lease of equipment and devices | 2,250,024 | 1,933,744 | 1,381,085 | |||||||||
| 6,658,181 | 5,612,098 | 4,986,262 | ||||||||||
| Digitalization and other solutions | ||||||||||||
| Subscription | 503,586 | 369,179 | 84,770 | |||||||||
| Equipment and engineering services | 3,316,783 | 2,588,793 | 2,416,532 | |||||||||
| 3,820,369 | 2,957,972 | 2,501,302 | ||||||||||
| Revenue from external customers | 10,478,550 | 8,570,070 | 7,487,564 | |||||||||
Comparison of the Years Ended March 31, 2025 and 2024
Our total revenue increased by approximately $1.9 million or 22.1% from approximately $8.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $10.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2025. The increase in revenue was contributed by customers from Singapore of approximately $1.8 million, Israel of approximately $0.5 million, Taiwan of approximately $0.2 million and Vietnam of approximately $0.1 million. The increase was offset by the decrease in contribution from Indonesia of approximately $0.4 million and Thailand of approximately $0.3 million.
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Our revenue generated from our satellite connectivity solution increased by approximately $1.1 million or 19.6% from approximately $5.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $6.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2025, due to the increase in subscription income from satellite connectivity services of approximately $0.7 million and increase in sales and lease of satellite network equipment, device and services of approximately $0.4 million.
Our revenue generated from digitalization and other solutions increased by approximately $0.8 million or 26.7% from approximately $3.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $3.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2025, mainly due to increase in revenue generated from sales of IT equipment and services of approximately $0.7 million.
Cost of Revenue
Our cost of revenue for our satellite connectivity solution increased by approximately $1.0 million or 25.0%, from approximately $4.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $5.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2025, primarily attributable to the increase in cost incurred in provision of satellite connectivity services of approximately $0.9 million. The increase in cost of revenue was consistent with the increase in revenue
Our cost of revenue for our digitalization and other solutions increased by approximately $0.9 million or 32.1%, from approximately $2.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $3.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2025. This was consistent with the increase in revenue.
Gross Profit
As a result of the foregoing, (i) our gross profit for our satellite connectivity solution was approximately $1.7 million for each of the years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, and (ii) our gross profit for our digitalization and other solutions was approximately $0.2 million for each of the years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024.
The gross profit margin of satellite connectivity solution decreased from approximately 29.6% for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately 25.5% for the year ended March 31, 2025 due to the rollout of Starlink satellite connection services to the market which has a lower margin.
The gross profit margin of digitalization and other solutions decreased from approximately 6.2% for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately 4.3% for the year ended March 31, 2025 due to the increase in staff costs in digitalization segment of approximately $0.3 million arising from the increase in number of head count gradually from 9 as at March 31, 2024 to 12 as at March 31, 2025.
As a result, the overall gross profit margin decreased from approximately 21.5% for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately 17.8% for the year ended March 31, 2025.
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Our sales and marketing expenses increased by approximately $0.2 million or 50.0%, from approximately $0.4 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $0.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2025, attributable to the increase in staff costs of approximately $0.2 million as the number of headcounts for marketing department increased by 2.
General and Administrative expenses
Our general and administrative expenses were approximately $1.5 million, which was roughly the same as the year ended March 31, 2024. The audit fee decreased by $0.2 million for year ended March 31, 2025 compared to year ended March 31, 2024. This was mainly due to a higher audit fee for year ended March 31, 2024 because this was the year we engaged our US GAAP auditor to carry out FY2022 to FY2024 audit and half year review for the six months ended September 30, 2022 and 2023. The decrease was offset by the increase in staff costs and depreciation of approximately $0.1 million each. The increase in staff costs was mainly due to an increase in salaries and staff bonuses.
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Other Operating (Expenses)/Income, Net
Our other operating expenses decreased by approximately $6,000 from approximately $19,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $13,000 for the year ended March 31, 2025 mainly due to the foreign exchange losses decreased by approximately $10,000. The decrease was offset by the decrease in government grants of approximately $2,000 and other income of approximately $2,000.
Finance Income and Finance Costs
Our finance income consists of interest income from sales-type lease of satellite network equipment. Our finance income increased by approximately $3,000 or 14.3% from approximately $21,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024 to approximately $24,000 for the year ended March 31, 2025 due to the increase in the number of sales-type lease of satellite network equipment over the years.
Our finance costs were approximately $35,000 for the year ended March 31, 2025. It was about the same as that for the year ended March 31, 2024 of approximately $36,000.
(Loss)/Income before Income Taxes
As a result of the foregoing, our loss before income taxes increased from approximately $48,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024 to a loss of approximately $214,000 for the year ended March 31, 2025.
Income Tax Credit/(Expense)
We recorded an income tax provision of approximately $17,000 for the year ended March 31, 2025. However, there was an income taxes credit of approximately $44,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024 mainly due to the reversal of over provision of income taxes in relation to prior financial years.
Net (Loss)/Income
As a result of the foregoing, our net loss increased from approximately $4,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024 to a loss of approximately $231,000 for the year ended March 31, 2025.
Comparison of the Years Ended March 31, 2024 and 2023
Revenue
Our total revenue increased by approximately $1.1 million or 14.7% from approximately $7.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $8.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2024. The increase was due to the increase in the number of vessels subscribing for our solutions. Our total number of vessels served increased from 339 for the year ended March 31, 2023 to 411 for the year ended March 31, 2024. The increase in revenue was contributed by customers from United States of approximately $0.3 million, Indonesia of approximately $0.2 million, Taiwan of approximately $0.2 million, Vietnam of approximately $0.2 million, Israel of approximately $0.1 million and Republic of the Marshall Islands of approximately $0.1 million.
Our revenue generated from our satellite connectivity solution increased by approximately $0.6 million or 12.0% from approximately $5.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $5.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2024, due to the increase in sales and lease of satellite network equipment, device and services of approximately $0.5 million.
Our revenue generated from digitalization and other solutions increased by approximately $0.5 million or 20.0% from approximately $2.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $3.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2024, due to the increase in the revenue generated from provision of IT support services and JARVISS subscription income of approximately $0.2 million and $0.3 million respectively.
Cost of Revenue
Our cost of revenue for our satellite connectivity solution increased by approximately $0.6 million or 17.6%, from approximately $3.4 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $4.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2024, attributable to the increase in cost of satellite network equipment, device and services of approximately $0.7 million. The increase in cost of revenue was also consistent with the increase in revenue.
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Our cost of revenue for our digitalization and other solutions increased by approximately $1.0 million or 55.6%, from approximately $1.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $2.8 million for the year ended March 31, 2024. This was mainly due to increase in revenue.
Gross Profit
As a result of the foregoing, (i) our gross profit for our satellite connectivity solution increased from approximately $1.6 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $1.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2024, and (ii) our gross profit for our digitalization and other solutions decreased from approximately $0.7 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $0.2 million for the year ended March 31, 2024.
The gross profit margin of satellite connectivity solution decreased from approximately 31.8% for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately 29.6% for the year ended March 31, 2024 due to the increase in staff cost of approximately $0.1 million arising from the increase in number of head count in the connectivity segment gradually from 2 to 5 over the period of twelve months ended March 31, 2023 while 5 head count was maintained for the full year ended March 31, 2024.
The gross profit margin of digitalization and other solutions decreased from approximately 26.7% for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately 6.2% for the year ended March 31, 2024 due to (i) the increase in staff costs in digitalization segment of approximately $0.2 million arising from the increase in number of head count gradually from 6 to 8 over the period of twelve months ended March 31, 2023 while higher number of head count, i.e., 8 to 9, was maintained for the year ended March 31, 2024, (ii) lower margin from some customers whom we charged less engineering fee since they have their own team to handle and install the hardware, and (iii) special pricing given to some customers who expanded their business volume with us.
As a result, the overall gross profit margin decreased from approximately 30.1% for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately 21.5% for the year ended March 31, 2024.
Operating Cost and Expenses
Sales and Marketing Expenses
Our sales and marketing expenses increased by approximately $0.1 million or 33.3%, from approximately $0.3 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $0.4 million for the year ended March 31, 2024, attributable to the increase in advertising expenses.
General and Administrative expenses
Our general and administrative expenses increased by approximately $0.6 million or 66.7% from approximately $0.9 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $1.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2024 mainly due to (i) increase in audit fee of approximately $0.3 million or 5,266.5% as we engaged our auditors in June 2023 for the purpose of the listing, (ii) increase in staff costs of approximately $0.2 million as we recruited three employees in the second half of the year ended March 31, 2023, and (iii) increase in amortization on right of use assets of $0.1 million as we relocated to a new warehouse with higher rental in October 2022.
Other Operating (Expenses)/Income, Net
Our other operating expenses increased by approximately $15,000 from approximately $4,000 for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $19,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024 mainly due to decrease in government grants of approximately $34,000 as there was no COVID-19 related support scheme during year ended March 31, 2024. However, the decrease in government grants was offset by the decrease in operating expenses of foreign exchange losses of approximately $11,000 and withholding tax for overseas customers of approximately $7,000.
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Finance Income and Finance Costs
Our finance income consists of interest income from sales-type lease of satellite network equipment. Our finance income increased by approximately $7,000 or 50.0% from approximately $14,000 for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $21,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024, which was consistent with the increase in demand from our customers in relating to our sales-type lease of satellite network equipment during the year ended March 31, 2024.
Our finance costs increased by approximately $12,000 or 50.0% from approximately $24,000 for the year ended March 31, 2023 to approximately $36,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024, mainly due to (i) increase in interest expenses relating to finance lease of approximately $13,000 as we purchase more assets through hire purchase arrangements.
(Loss)/Income before Income Taxes
As a result of the foregoing, our income before income taxes decreased from approximately $1.0 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to a loss of approximately $48,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024.
Income Tax Credit/(Expense)
We recorded an income tax provision of approximately $115,000 for the year ended March 31, 2023. However, there was an income taxes credit of approximately $44,000 for the year ended March 31,2024 mainly due to the reversal of over provision of income taxes in relating to prior financial years.
Net (Loss)/Income
As a result of the foregoing, our net income decreased from approximately $0.9 million for the year ended March 31, 2023 to a loss of approximately $4,000 for the year ended March 31, 2024.
5.B. Liquidity and Capital Resources
We were incorporated in the Cayman Islands as a holding company and our Cayman Islands holding company did not have active business operations as of the date of this report. Our consolidated assets and liabilities, consolidated revenue and net income are the operation results of our subsidiary in Singapore. Current Singapore regulations permit such Singapore subsidiary to pay dividends to its respective shareholders only out of its accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Singapore accounting standards and regulations. There are no exchange or capital controls under Singapore laws and both residents and non-residents are free to convert Singapore dollars to foreign currencies and/or remit such currencies out of the country. Under current Singapore tax rules, there is no withholding tax imposed on dividends, regardless of whether they are paid to Singapore or foreign shareholders. However, foreign shareholders may be taxed on the receipt of such dividends back in their own home country, which will depend on the tax laws in the respective countries where they are resident. As of March 31, 2025, none of the net assets of our subsidiary in Singapore were restricted net assets. There were no funds transferred from our Singapore subsidiary to us in the form of loans, advances, or cash dividends during the years ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. For the year ended March 31, 2025, iO3 Singapore, our subsidiary in Singapore transferred S$12,000 to iO3 Cayman, our Cayman Islands holding company, in August 2024.
In assessing our liquidity, we monitor and analyze our cash on-hand and our operating expenditure commitments. Our liquidity needs are to meet our working capital requirements and operating expense obligations. Historically, we have financed our operations primarily through cash generated by operations and bank borrowing. Other than bank borrowing, the Company has no other debt instruments.
As at March 31, 2025, our working capital was approximately $0.5 million, our cash and cash equivalents amounted to approximately $0.4 million, our current assets were approximately $4.1 million, and our current liabilities were approximately $3.6 million.
Based on our current operating plan, we believe that our existing cash and cash equivalents and anticipated cash generated from operating activities will be sufficient to meet our anticipated working capital and capital expenditures for at least the next 12 months. Our future working capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the rate of our revenue growth, our introduction of new solutions, and expansion of our business operation. To the extent that our cash and cash equivalents, and cash flow from operating activities are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may need to raise additional funds through bank credit arrangements, public or private equity or debt financings. We also may need to raise additional funds in the event we decide in the future to acquire businesses, technologies and products that will complement our existing operations. In the event additional funding is required, we may not be able to obtain bank credit arrangements or equity or debt financing on terms acceptable to us or at all.
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Cash Flows for the Years Ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023
The following summarizes the key components of our cash flows for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
| For the year ended March 31, | ||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||
| (US$) | (US$) | (US$) | ||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | 488,097 | 1,631,420 | 725,952 | |||||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | (581,050 | ) | (491,365 | ) | (119,182 | ) | ||||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | (465,532 | ) | (539,194 | ) | (410,337 | ) | ||||||
| Effect on exchange rate change on cash and cash equivalents | 6,510 | (7,317 | ) | (6,634 | ) | |||||||
| Net change in cash and cash equivalents | (551,975 | ) | 593,544 | 189,799 | ||||||||
Operating Activities
For the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company had net cash provided by operating activities of approximately $0.5 million attributable to (i) income before income taxes after adjustment for depreciation and amortization of intangible assets of approximately $0.3 million, (ii) change in other payables and accrued liabilities of approximately $0.4 million, (iii) change in inventories of approximately $0.2 million, (iv) change in net investment in sales-type lease of approximately $0.1 million, and (v) increase in deposits, prepayments and other receivables of approximately $0.1 million, partially offset by (i) increase in account receivables of approximately $0.4 million, and (ii) decrease in customer deposits of approximately $0.2 million,
For the year ended March 31, 2024, the Company had net cash provided by operating activities of approximately $2.0 million attributable to (i) loss before income taxes of approximately $48,000, (ii) change in customer deposits of approximately $1.2 million, and (iii) adjustment for depreciation of approximately $0.3 million, partially offset by (i) change in net investment in sales-type leases of approximately $0.2 million, and (ii) change in deposits, prepayments, and other receivables of approximately $0.1 million.
For the year ended March 31, 2023, the Company had net cash provided by operating activities of approximately $0.7 million attributable to (i) income before income taxes of approximately $1.0 million, (ii) change in account payable of approximately $0.8 million, and (iii) adjustment for depreciation of approximately $0.2 million, partially offset by (i) change in inventories of approximately $0.7 million, and (ii) change in account receivables of approximately $0.3 million.
Investing Activities
For the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company had net cash used in investing activities of approximately $0.6 million which was mainly attributable to purchase of equipment.
For the year ended March 31, 2024, the Company had net cash used in investing activities of approximately $0.5 million which was attributable to purchase of equipment of approximately $0.5 million.
For the year ended March 31, 2023, the Company had net cash used in investing activities of approximately $0.1 million attributable to purchase of intangible assets of approximately $0.1 million representing continuous development of our JARVISS platform and our new maritime ERP software, FRIDAY.
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Financing Activities
For the year ended March 31, 2025, the Company had net cash used in financing activities of approximately $0.5 million attributable to repayment of lease liabilities of approximately $0.6 million and payment of deferred offering costs of approximately $0.2 million. The cash outflow from financing activities was partially offset by proceeds from lease financing of approximately $0.3 million.
For the year ended March 31, 2024, the Company had net cash used in financing activities of approximately $0.5 million attributable to payment of deferred offering costs of approximately $0.8 million and repayment of lease liabilities of approximately $0.5 million. The cash outflow from financing activities was partially offset by funds injected by shareholders of approximately $0.7 million and proceeds from lease financing of approximately $0.4 million.
For the year ended March 31, 2023, the Company had net cash used in financing activities of approximately $0.4 million attributable to repayment of lease liabilities of approximately $0.3 million.
Bank Borrowing
We had bank borrowing obtained from a financial institution in Singapore, which bear annual interest at a fixed rate of 4.25% and are repayable in five years. As of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we had bank borrowing of approximately $0.1 million, $0.1 million and $0.2 million, respectively.
Dividends Paid
No dividend was declared or paid during the year ended March 31, 2025.
For the years ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, iO3 Singapore paid dividends of approximately $293,000 and $79,000, respectively.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We did not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023.
Capital Expenditures
For the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we had capital expenditures of approximately $0.6 million, $0.5 million and $0.1 million, respectively. Our capital expenditures were mainly used for the purchase of property, equipment and intangible assets.
Lease Liabilities
Our lease liabilities consist primarily of finance lease liabilities and operating lease liabilities. We have entered into finance lease agreements to purchase the equipment used in our operation. We have also entered into operating lease agreements for office and warehouse. As of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we had lease liability of approximately $0.6 million, $0.7 million and $0.8 million, respectively. The following table sets forth our lease liabilities as of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
| As of March 31, | ||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||
| (US$) | (US$) | (US$) | ||||||||||
| Current | ||||||||||||
| Finance lease liabilities | 308,125 | 317,057 | 259,252 | |||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | 115,945 | 112,392 | 143,613 | |||||||||
| 424,070 | 429,449 | 402,865 | ||||||||||
| Non-current | ||||||||||||
| Finance lease liabilities | 216,430 | 283,878 | 279,739 | |||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | - | 5,692 | 106,715 | |||||||||
| 216,430 | 289,570 | 386,454 | ||||||||||
| Total lease liabilities | 640,500 | 719,019 | 789,319 | |||||||||
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Net investment in sales-type leases
We have entered into sales-type lease agreements with our customers for sales of equipment. The lease terms are three to five years. Net investment in sales-type leases represents the sum of the present value of the future contractual lease payments from our customers.
As of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, we had net investment in sales-type leases of approximately $0.5 million, $0.6 million and $0.4 million, respectively. The following table sets forth our net investment in sales-type leases as of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023:
| As of March 31, | ||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||
| (US$) | (US$) | (US$) | ||||||||||
| Gross lease receivable | 794,126 | 867,751 | 677,970 | |||||||||
| Received cash | (267,877 | ) | (236,225 | ) | (233,154 | ) | ||||||
| Unearned interest income | (28,369 | ) | (36,663 | ) | (21,658 | ) | ||||||
| 497,880 | 594,863 | 423,158 | ||||||||||
| Reported as: | ||||||||||||
| Current net investment in sales-type lease | 203,381 | 230,209 | 176,536 | |||||||||
| Non-current net investment in sales-type lease | 294,499 | 364,654 | 246,622 | |||||||||
| 497,880 | 594,863 | 423,158 | ||||||||||
Our net investment in sales-type leases decreased by approximately $0.1 million or 16.7%, from approximately $0.6 million as of March 31, 2024 to approximately $0.5 million as of March 31, 2025, mainly due to the repayment of lease receivable from customers.
5.C. Research and Development, Patents and Licenses, etc.
See “Item 4. Information on the Company—B. Business Overview.”
5.D. Trend Information
Other than as disclosed elsewhere in this Annual Report, we are not aware of any trends, uncertainties, demand, commitments or events that are reasonably likely to have a material effect on our net revenues and income from operations, profitability, liquidity, capital resources, or would cause reported financial information not to be indicative of future operation results or financial condition.
5.E. Critical Accounting Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the years presented. The accounting estimates that require our most significant and subjective judgments have an impact on revenue recognition, the determination of lease, fair values assessment in relating to financial instruments and impairment of intangible and long-lived assets.
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We evaluate our estimates and judgments on an ongoing basis. Although we believe that the estimates we use are reasonable, due to the inherent uncertainty involved in making those estimates, actual results could differ from these estimates. The critical accounting policies and estimates, assumptions and judgments that we believe have the most significant impact on our consolidated financial statements are described below.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue in accordance with ASC 606 which follows a five-step model to recognize revenue consisting of identifying contracts with customers, the performance obligations promised in those contracts, determining and allocating the transaction price to the obligations, and recognizing revenue when the Company satisfies its obligations. Revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised products and services. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration which we expect to be entitled to receive in exchange for these products and services.
Contracts with customers may comprise multiple performance obligations and may have lease and/or non-lease components. The total contract consideration is allocated to the separate lease components and non-lease components, which represent distinct performance obligations, based on the relative estimated standalone selling price in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue Recognition. We generally determine standalone selling prices based on observable price of the goods and services (i.e., actual selling prices charged to customers). If the standalone selling price is not directly observable, it is estimated using appropriate data that reflects the amount of consideration that we expect to receive in exchange for transferring such goods or services to the customer (i.e., cost plus expected margin). Assumptions and estimations have been made in estimating the relative selling price of each distinct performance obligation, and changes in judgements relating to these assumptions and estimates may impact revenue recognition.
The timing of revenue recognition each performance obligation depends on the nature of transaction and service provided.
Satellite connectivity solution
The Company provide various type of satellite connectivity solution to our customers:
| (a) | Subscription |
Monthly subscription fee is charged to customers for the satellite connection service in relating to the airtime, bandwidth subscription plan and value-added service subscribed. The revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract.
| (b) | Sales or lease of satellite network equipment and devices |
For satellite network equipment and devices, the Company assesses at contract inception whether it meet the criteria of lease. If the criteria are met, the revenue is recognized according to ASC 842, Leases (refer to the note in relating to lease below). The leased equipment is antenna and the connected devices.
If the criteria are not met, the revenue from the sales of satellite network equipment and devices are recognized upon the completion of installation and the transfer of control to the customer. The sales of satellite network equipment and devices including antenna, satellite phone, battery, wall charger, modem etc. The equipment is shipped and installed at the destination specified by the customer. As such, shipping and handling services are part of the performance obligation to deliver the equipment to customers and therefore the fee charged to the customers are included as part of the revenue from sales of satellite network equipment and devices.
Digitalization and other solutions
| (a) | Digital platform service — The Company provides customers access to our JARVISS digital platform to obtain real time information for their daily operation management. Monthly subscription fee is charged to the customers based on the number of user access and number of service elements subscribed, e.g. V.SION, V.Sight, V.IoT, V,Secure, V.Mail etc. Revenue recognition commences ratably when control of the services is transferred to the customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for those services over the contractual term. |
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| (b) | Provision of information technology (IT) support — Customer specifies their IT support requirement in a contract, which may include IT help desk service, technical support, installation of software in the devices as specified etc. Performance obligations promised in the contract are identified based on the goods or services that to be delivered to the customer. Revenue recognition commences when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation and the control of the goods or services transferred to the customer. |
| (c) | Provision of shipboard support services — The Company supplies shipboard equipment and/or engineering service as per customer’s specification. The shipboard equipment includes equipment relating to navigation systems, automatic identification system, electronic chart display and information system, voyage data recorders etc. Equipment is installed at the destination specified by the customers. As such, shipping and handling services are part of the performance obligation to deliver the equipment to customers. Revenue, including the shipping and handling fee charged to customers, is recognized when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation and the control of the goods or services transferred to the customer. |
Leases
We assess at contract inception whether a contract is or contains a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. The lease term corresponds to the non-cancellable period of each contract.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance sheet. We recognize lease expense or income for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
Our Company as a lessor
Other than outright sales, we also offer our customers to purchase the antenna and the connected devices through sales-type lease or operating lease arrangement.
At the commencement date, the lease payments are fixed payments. Lease payments do not include variable lease payments from our customers that do not depend on an index or a rate.
We classify a lease as a sales-type lease when the lease meets any of the following criteria:
| (a) | the lease transfers ownership of the underlying asset to the lessee by the end of the lease term; |
| (b) | the lease grants the lessee an option to purchase the underlying asset that the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise; |
| (c) | the lease term is for the major part of the remaining economic life of the underlying asset; |
| (d) | the present value of the sum of the lease payments equals or exceeds substantially all of the fair value of the underlying asset; or |
| (e) | the underlying asset is of such a specialized nature that it is expected to have no alternative use to the lessor at the end of the lease term. |
Notwithstanding the above criteria, leases are classified as operating leases if they have variable lease payments that do not depend on an index or rate and if classifying the lease as a sales-type lease or a direct financing lease would result in the recognition of a selling loss.
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For a sales-type lease, at the lease commencement, net investment in the lease is recognized by the sum of the lease receivable and the unguaranteed residual asset. Lease receivable is the present values of the sum of lease payments and the guaranteed residual asset. We recognize all revenue and costs associated with the sales-type lease as revenue from leasing activities and cost of leasing activities upon delivery of the underlying asset to the customer. Interest income based on the implicit rate in the lease is recorded to finance income over time as customers are invoiced on a monthly basis.
All other leases are accounted for as operating leases wherein we recognize, at the commencement date, the lease payments as income in profit or loss over the lease term on a straight-line basis and we recognize variable lease payments as income in profit or loss in the period in which the changes in facts and circumstances on which the variable lease payment are based occur.
We suspend recognition of sales-type lease revenue and operating lease revenue and place the account on non-accrual status when management determines that collection of future income is not probable (generally after 60 days past due). We resume recognition of revenue, and recognize previously suspended income, when we consider collection of remaining amounts to be probable. We write off interest earned but uncollected prior to the receivables being placed on non-accrual status through allowance for doubtful accounts when, in the judgment of management, we consider it to be uncollectible.
Our Company as a lessee
Leases are classified at the inception date as either a finance lease or an operating lease. While we offer our customers to purchase the antenna and the connected devices through lease arrangement, we also purchase some of our antenna through finance lease.
As the lessee, a lease is a finance lease if any of the following conditions exist:
| (a) | ownership is transferred to the lessee by the end of the lease term; |
| (b) | there is a bargain purchase option; |
| (c) | the lease term is at least 75% of the asset’s estimated remaining economic life; |
| (d) | the present value of the minimum lease payments at the beginning of the lease term is 90% or more of the fair value of the leased asset to the lessor at the inception date; or |
| (e) | the leased asset is of such a specialized nature that it is expected to have no alternative use. |
Finance lease assets are presented separately on the consolidated balance sheet as finance lease right-of-use assets, and current and non-current portion of finance lease liabilities.
All other leases are accounted for as operating leases wherein rental payments are expensed on a straight-line basis over the periods of their respective leases. We leased our office and warehouse through operating lease arrangements. Operating leases (with an initial term of more than 12 months) are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets, operating lease liabilities (current), and operating lease liabilities (non-current) in the consolidated balance sheet. ROU assets represent our right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent our obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. We utilize a market-based approach to estimate the incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease prepayments, reduced by lease incentives and accrued rent. The lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that we will exercise that option.
The accounting update also requires that for finance leases, a lessee recognizes interest expense on the lease liability, separately from the amortization of the right-of-use asset in the statements of earnings, while for operating leases, such amounts should be recognized as a combined expense. In addition, this accounting update requires expanded disclosures about the nature and terms of lease agreements.
Net Investment in Sales-type Lease
A net investment in finance lease is recognized if a lease meets specific criteria under the sales-type lease (refer to lease accounting policy above for more information) at its inception. Upon commencement of the lease, the book value of the equipment is de-recognized and a net investment in finance lease is recognized in our Consolidated Balance Sheets based on the present value of fixed payments under the contract and the residual value of the underlying asset, discounted at the rate implicit in the lease. We recognize the difference between the book value of the equipment and the net investment in the lease in equipment sales in our Consolidated Statement of Operations. Interest income on our net investment in finance leases is recognized over the lease term in a manner that produces a constant rate of return on the net investment in the lease.
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Intangible Assets
Software license consists of costs paid to third party for the right to use the licensed property and systems which was used as a base structure for JARVISS digital platform. It was initially recognized at cost and subsequently carried at cost less accumulated amortization and accumulated impairment losses, if any. Amortization is calculated on a straight-line basis over its expected useful lives of 7 years.
We are currently developing a new maritime ERP software. Costs incurred in the preliminary stages of development are expensed as incurred. Once an application has reached the technological feasibility stage, internal and external costs, if direct and incremental, are capitalized until the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use. Capitalization ceases upon completion of all substantial testing. The Company also capitalizes costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable that the expenditures will result in additional features and functionality. Maintenance costs are expensed as incurred. As of balance sheet date, the software is in progress of development and not amortized until it is ready for intended use.
An intangible asset is derecognized on disposal, or when no future economic benefits are expected from use or disposal. Gains or losses arising from derecognition of an intangible asset, measured as the difference between the net disposal proceeds and the carrying amount of the intangible asset, are recognized in profit or loss when the intangible asset is derecognized.
The intangible assets are tested annually for impairment.
Impairment of Long-lived Assets
We evaluated our long-lived assets, including fixed assets, intangible assets and right of use assets, for impairment. Whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying amount may not be fully recoverable or that the useful life is shorter than the Company had originally estimated. When these events occur, we evaluate the impairment by comparing carrying value of the assets to an estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated from the use of the assets and their eventual disposition. If the sum of the expected future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the assets, we recognize an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying value of the assets over the fair value of the assets.
Fair value measurement
We apply ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures (“ASC 820”). ASC 820 defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value and expands disclosures about fair value measurements. ASC 820 requires disclosures to be provided for fair value measurements.
ASC 820 establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
| ● | Level 1 — Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets. The fair values are determined based on prices and other relevant information generated from market transactions involving identical or comparable assets or liabilities. |
| ● | Level 2 — Includes other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace. The fair values are determined using the project future cash flows models and discount the future amounts to a present value using market-based observable inputs. |
| ● | Level 3 — Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market activity. The fair values are therefore determined using model-based techniques, including option pricing models and discounted cash flow models. |
During the reporting periods, we assessed the fair values of our financial instruments. The carrying values of the financial instruments included in current assets and liabilities approximate their fair values due to their short-term maturities. The carrying amount of long-term borrowings and account receivables approximates its fair value due to the fact that the related interest rates approximate market rates for similar debt instruments of comparable maturities.
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Fair value estimates are made at a specific point in time based on relevant market information about the financial instrument. These estimates are subjective in nature and involve uncertainties and matters of significant judgment and, therefore, cannot be determined with precision. Changes in assumptions could significantly affect the estimates. Our significant accounting policies are fully described in the notes to the audited financial statements (refer to Note 2 in our consolidated financial statements for the years ended March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023) included elsewhere in this report.
ITEM 6. DIRECTORS, SENIOR MANAGEMENT AND EMPLOYEES
6.A. Directors and Senior Management
The following table sets forth certain information regarding our directors and executive officers.
| Name | Age | Position | ||
| Eng Chye Koh | 49 | Chief Executive Officer, Chairman | ||
| Fui Chu Lo | 53 | Chief Financial Officer | ||
| Joanna Hui Cheng Soh | 45 | Chief Commercial Officer, Director | ||
| Wei Meng See | 50 | Chief Technology Officer | ||
| Wai Man Raymond Cheung | 48 | Independent director | ||
| Ser Chiang Ng | 58 | Independent director | ||
| Yuanting Zhang | 46 | Independent director |
Executive Officers and Employee Directors
Eng Chye Koh is our founder and has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since inception in August 2023. Mr. Koh founded iO3 Singapore, the operating subsidiary of the Company in February 2019 and continues to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of iO3 Singapore since February 2019. As our founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman, Mr. Koh is responsible for leading the development of our short and long-term strategies. From June 2009 to January 2019, Mr. Koh served as the managing director of IEC Telecom Singapore Pte. Ltd., an international satellite service operator. From August 2004 to May 2009, Mr. Koh served as the business development manager of Devor Technologies Pte. Ltd., a telecommunications company. From June 2002 to July 2004, Mr. Koh was a sales engineer at W.H. Brennan & Co. Pte Ltd., a marine supply provider. Mr. Koh received his diploma in electronics from Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore.
Fui Chu Lo has served as our Chief Financial Officer since October 2023. Ms. Lo has been serving as the finance director of iO3 Singapore, the operating subsidiary of the Company since July 2023. Since September 2019, Ms. Lo has been an independent director and chairman of the audit committee of HealthBank Holdings Ltd. (SGX:40B), a Singapore-based investment holding company focused on property investment and facilities management services. Since July 1997, Ms. Lo has also been a director of Irasaba. Sdn. Bhd., an oil palm plantation management company. Ms. Lo joined the training for executive/CEO coaching in July 2023 and worked as a Chair/CEO Coach for Vistage Malaysia, a CEO membership organization focused on professional training and executive coaching. From June 2017 to October 2020, Ms. Lo served as a director of Bright Chemicals Pte. Ltd., a pharmaceutical product trading company. From April 2007 to March 2016, Ms. Lo served as the Chief Financial Officer and member of the board of directors at Sinotel Technologies Ltd., a wireless communications company. Ms. Lo completed her Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (“ACCA”) study in Systematic Business Training Centre in June 1992 and became a member of the ACCA in September 1998.
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Joanna Hui Cheng Soh has served as our Chief Commercial Officer and director since October 2023. Ms. Soh has been serving as the Chief Commercial Officer of iO3 Singapore, the operating subsidiary of the Company since March 2021. From July 2017 to March 2021, Ms. Soh served as the sales director of the Maritime Division of Speedcast Singapore Pte. Ltd. (ASX:SDA), a satellite communication company. From June 2013 to June 2017, she served as a key account manager of Marlink Pte. Ltd., a satellite communication company. From January 2012 to May 2013, she was a sales manager at Inmarsat Solutions Pte. Ltd. (LON:ISAT). From March 2006 to December 2011, she was employed as a marketing communication manager at Stratos Pte. Ltd., a remote communications service provider. Ms. Soh holds a bachelor’s degree in business (management) from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Wei Meng See has served as our Chief Technology Officer since October 2023. Mr. See has been serving as the Chief Technology Officer of iO3 Singapore, the operating company of the Company since April 2022. From July 2019 to March 2022, Mr. See was a senior technical service manager at Survitec Group (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a survival technology company. From June 2003 to June 2019, Mr. See served as a technical sales and service manager at W.H. Brennan & Co. Pte. Ltd., a marine supply provider. From January 1999 to May 2003, he was employed as a service engineer at Associated Technical Services Pte. Ltd., a telecommunications company. Mr. See received his bachelor’s degree in business from the Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Non-Employee Directors
Wai Man Raymond Cheung has served as our independent director since December 31, 2024. Mr. Cheung has been appointed as the chief executive officer of Basel Medical Group, a medical service provider with operations in Singapore, since July 2023. Mr. Cheung is the founder and has been the chief executive officer of CER Consultancy Pte. Ltd., a ESG consultancy company, since its inception in March 2023, where he is responsible for providing end-to-end solutions and advisory services for ESG and green projects in Asia. Mr. Cheung has also served as a portfolio manager at Lucerne Asset Management Pte. Ltd., a financial services company since June 2022, and the managing director of Alpha Consultancy Pte. Ltd., a financial services company since March 2021. Mr. Cheung is also the founder and has been the chief executive officer of Alpha Millenia Technology Pte. Ltd., a fintech company since its inception in September 2020. Mr. Cheung’s directorship experience with public companies includes serving as an independent director and chairman of the risk management committee as well as a member of the audit committee, remuneration committee and nominating committee for Beverly JCG Ltd. (SGX: VFP) from March 2019 to April 2024 and SDAI Limited (SGX: 5TI; previously known as Kitchen Culture Holdings Ltd.) from July 2023 to date, both of which are listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. From January 2019 to August 2020, Mr. Cheung was the chief executive officer of Allcars Pte. Ltd., an e-motor platform technology company which he co-founded in January 2019. From February 2018 to December 2018, Mr. Cheung was the chief strategy officer of Symbo Platform Holdings Pte. Ltd., a digital insurance brokerage. From April 2016 to February 2018, Mr. Cheung was the regional head of insurance of Grab Holdings Inc (Nasdaq: GRAB), a multinational e-ride hailing company. From December 2013 to June 2014, Mr. Cheung was the chief risk officer and group head of compliance of Asia Capital Reinsurance Group Pte. Ltd., a reinsurance company. Mr. Cheung received his bachelor’s degree in business with a major in actuarial science from Nanyang Technological University in 2001. He is also an associate member of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom and the Singapore Actuarial Society.
Ser Chiang Ng has served as our independent director since December 31, 2024. Mr. Ng has been employed as a partner of Elitaire Law LLP, an advocates and solicitors firm in Singapore since August 2010. Mr. Ng is also an independent director and chairman of the nominating committee and remuneration committee of HGH Holdings Limited, previously known as AA Group Holdings Limited, a company listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX: 5GZ) since June 2016. From February 2002 to July 2004, Mr. Ng was a managing partner of Hameed & Company, a law firm, and from July 2004 to August 2010, Mr. Ng was the sole proprietor of the same firm. Mr. Ng received his bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom and was admitted as an advocate and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2000.
Yuanting Zhang has served as our independent director since December 31, 2024. Mr. Zhang has been the assistant finance manager of CCL Design (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., a company engaged in the design and manufacture of printed, functional and decorative products for electronics, automotives and industrial sectors, since February 2019, where he is responsible for managing the day-to-day financial operations and conducting external and internal audit for the company. From March 2014 to February 2019, Mr. Zhang served as an accountant cum operation manager at AsiaPhos Ltd, a company engaged in the trading of phosphate chemical products and commodity products with its shares listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX: 5WV). From August 2012 to February 2014, Mr. Zhang was a senior audit associate of Verity Partners, a professional services firm, where he was responsible for performing audit assignments in various industries and preparing group consolidated accounts with subsidiaries overseas. Mr. Zhang received his diploma in petrochemical technologies from Lanzhou Petrochemical School, Sinopec Corp of China in the People’s Republic of China in 1998, and his bachelor’s degree in applied accounting from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom in 2009. Mr. Zhang is also a member of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) and a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).
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Family Relationships
None of our directors or executive officers has a family relationship as defined in Item 401 of Regulation S-K.
6.B. Compensation
For the year ended March 31, 2025, iO3 Singapore paid approximately S$243,000 (approximately $181,000), S$182,000 (approximately $136,000), S$138,000 (approximately $102,000) and S$120,000 (approximately $89,000) in cash to our employee directors and executive officers — Eng Chye Koh, Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, Wei Meng See and Fui Chu Lo, respectively — as their compensation and benefits, including salaries, bonus and employer’s contribution to the Central Provident Fund, a mandatory social security scheme in Singapore funded by contributions from employers and employees.
Other than as disclosed above, for the year ended March 31, 2025, we did not set aside or accrued any amount to provide pension, retirement or other similar benefits to our employee directors and executive officers.
Employment Agreements
iO3 Cayman has entered into an employment agreement with each of our executive officers that are governed by the laws of Singapore. A copy of the form of such agreements has been filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report. The duration of such agreements is specified in a separate employment contract between the officer and iO3 Singapore (the “Singapore Agreement”), which provides that the Singapore Agreement will remain in force until terminated by either the Company or the officer in accordance with its terms. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, the employment may be terminated by iO3 Cayman at any time with or without cause, or by the officer, with one month’s prior written notice. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, iO3 Cayman shall pay to the officer (or his or her beneficiary in the event of his or her death) any base salary or other compensation earned but not paid to the officer prior to the effective date of such termination. All other benefits due to the officer following his or her termination of employment shall be determined in accordance with the plans, policies and practices of iO3 Cayman.
The officer agrees to dedicate substantially all of the officer’s working time and best efforts to the officer’s role with iO3 Cayman and to assign any intellectual property created (i) within the scope of the officer’s employment during the officer’s tenure, (ii) within 12 months after termination of employment if the intellectual property relates to the officer’s employment scope, and (iii) by using resources of iO3 Cayman during the officer’s tenure, to iO3 Cayman. The agreements also contain customary non-competition, non-solicitation, and confidentiality clauses. Each executive officer also represented to iO3 Cayman that when the employment agreement was executed, he or she was not in an employment relationship with any other entity or corporation and he or she had not executed any other non-competition agreement.
iO3 Cayman has entered into indemnification agreements with the directors and executive officers, pursuant to which it agreed to indemnify the directors and executive officers against certain liabilities and expenses incurred by such persons in connection with claims made by reason of their being such a director or officer. A copy of the form of the indemnification agreements has been filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report.
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Directors’ Service Contracts
For the year ended March 31, 2025, we did not offer or pay non-employee directors any compensation for their services. In addition, directors who have also been our employees did not receive additional compensation for their service as a director during the year ended March 31, 2025.
However, we reimburse our directors for reasonable expenses incurred during the course of their performance, if any.
Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End
As of the date of this Annual Report, we have not yet adopted any incentive plans, cash incentive or performance-based compensation programs, and there were no outstanding equity awards to our directors or executive officers as of March 31, 2025.
Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings
To the best of our knowledge, none of our directors or executive officers has, during the past 10 years, been involved in any legal proceedings described in subparagraph (f) of Item 401 of Regulation S-K.
6.C. Board Practices
Composition of Board of Directors
Our board of directors consists of five directors, comprising two employee directors and three non-employee, independent directors. A director is not required to hold any shares in our Company to qualify to serve as a director. Subject to making appropriate disclosures to the board of directors in accordance with our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, a director may vote with respect to any contract, proposed contract, or arrangement in which he or she is interested, in voting in respect of any such matter, such director should take into account his or her director’s duties. A director may exercise all the powers of our Company to borrow money, mortgage its business, property and uncalled capital, and issue debentures or other securities whenever money is borrowed or as security for any obligation of our Company or of any third party.
Our board of directors has determined that none of our independent directors has a relationship that would interfere with the exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of director and that each of these directors is “independent” as that term is defined under the rules of Nasdaq.
Status as a Controlled Company and Foreign Private Issuer
As a “controlled company,” we are not required to comply with certain corporate governance requirements. Additionally, as a “foreign private issuer,” as defined by the SEC, we are permitted to follow home country corporate governance practices, instead of certain corporate governance practices required by Nasdaq for domestic issuers. While we may voluntarily follow many of the corporate governance listing requirements of Nasdaq, we intend to follow certain home country corporate governance practices in lieu of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq applicable to U.S. domestic companies. We may in the future decide to use other foreign private issuer exemptions with respect to some or all of the other Nasdaq Listing Rules. Following our home country governance practices may provide less protection than is accorded to investors under Nasdaq Listing Rules applicable to domestic issuers.
Specifically, the Company intends to follow the provisions of the laws of the Cayman Islands and its Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association in lieu of certain corporate governance requirements under the Nasdaq Listing Rules in the future:
| ● | Rule 5635(a), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required in certain circumstances prior to an issuance of securities in connection with the acquisition of the stock or assets of another company. |
| ● | Rule 5635(b), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required prior to the issuance of securities when the issuance or potential issuance will result in a change of control of the company. |
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| ● | Rule 5635(c), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required for the establishment of or any material amendments to our equity compensation arrangements for officers, directors, employees or consultants. |
| ● | Rule 5635(d), pursuant to which shareholder approval is required prior to the issuance of securities in connection with a transaction other than a public offering where such transaction involves the issuance of securities representing 20% or more of our Ordinary Shares outstanding before the issuance at a price lower than the “Minimum Price.” |
| ● | Rule 5620(a), pursuant to which holding annual shareholders’ meetings is required. |
Although we may rely on certain home country corporate governance practices, we must comply with Nasdaq’s notification of non-compliance requirement (Nasdaq Rule 5625). Further, we must have a written charter for our audit committee specifying the authority and responsibilities required by Exchange Act Rule 10A-3 and requiring that the audit committee consist of members who meet the independence requirements of Nasdaq Rule 5605(c)(2)(A)(ii).
We intend to take all actions necessary for us to maintain compliance as a foreign private issuer under the applicable corporate governance requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the rules adopted by the SEC and the Nasdaq Listing Rules.
Because we are a foreign private issuer, our directors and officers are not subject to short-swing profit and insider trading reporting obligations under Section 16 of the Exchange Act. They are, however, subject to the obligations to report changes in share ownership under Section 13 of the Exchange Act and related SEC rules.
Duties of Directors
As a matter of Cayman Islands law, directors of a Cayman Islands company owe fiduciary duties to the company and separately a duty of care, diligence and skill to the company. Under Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties: (i) duty to act in good faith in what the director or officer believes to be in the best interests of the company and the shareholders as a whole; (ii) duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose; (iii) directors should not fetter the exercise of future discretion; (iv) duty of trusteeship of the company’s assets; (v) duty to exercise independent judgment; (vi) duty not to make secret profits from the office of director; (vii) duty to avoid putting themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests; and (viii) duty to disclose personal interest in contracts involving the company. In connection with this last obligation, our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association will provide that a director must disclose the nature and extent of their interest in any contract or arrangement, and following such disclosure and subject to any separate requirement under applicable law or the Nasdaq Listing Rules, such director may vote in respect of any transaction or arrangement in which they are interested and may be counted in the quorum at the meeting, provided that such interest does not affect the ability of the interested director(s) to act bona fide in the best interests of the company. A director of a Cayman Islands company also owes the company duties to exercise independent judgment in carrying out his functions and to exercise reasonable skill, care and diligence, which has both objective and subjective elements. Recent English and Commonwealth courts have moved toward an objective standard and have confirmed that directors must exercise the care, skill and diligence that would be exercised by a reasonably diligent person having the general knowledge, skill and experience reasonably to be expected of a person acting as a director and these authorities are likely to be followed in the Cayman Islands. Additionally, a director must exercise the knowledge, skill and experience which they actually possess.
Board Diversity
We seek to achieve board diversity through the consideration of a number of factors when selecting the candidates to our board of directors, including but not limited to gender, skills, age, professional experience, knowledge, cultural, education background, ethnicity and length of service. The ultimate decision of the appointment will be based on merit and the contribution which the selected candidates will bring to our board of directors.
Committees of the Board of Directors
Our board of directors has established an audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee. We have adopted a charter for each of the three committees. Each committee’s members and functions are described below.
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Audit Committee
Our audit committee consists of Ser Chiang Ng, Wai Man Raymond Cheung and Yuanting Zhang, and is chaired by Yuanting Zhang. We have determined that each of these three directors satisfies the “independence” requirements of the Nasdaq Listing Rules and meets the independence standards under Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act. We have determined that Yuanting Zhang qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert.” The audit committee oversees our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of our financial statements.
The audit committee has the responsibility to, among other things:
| ● | select the independent registered public accounting firm and pre-approve all auditing and non-auditing services permitted to be performed by the independent registered public accounting firm; |
| ● | review with the independent registered public accounting firm any audit problems or difficulties and management’s responses; |
| ● | review and approve all proposed related party transactions, as defined in Item 404 of Regulation S-K under the Securities Act; |
| ● | discuss the annual audited financial statements with management and the independent registered public accounting firm; |
| ● | review the adequacy and effectiveness of our accounting and internal control policies and procedures and any special steps taken to monitor and control major financial risk exposures; |
| ● | annually review and reassess the adequacy of our audit committee charter; |
| ● | meet separately and periodically with management and the independent registered public accounting firm; |
| ● | monitor compliance with our code of business conduct and ethics, including reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our procedures to ensure proper compliance; and |
| ● | report regularly to the board. |
Compensation Committee
Our compensation committee consists of three independent directors, namely Ser Chiang Ng, Wai Man Raymond Cheung and Yuanting Zhang, and is chaired by Wai Man Raymond Cheung. The compensation committee assists the board in reviewing and approving the compensation structure, including all forms of compensation, relating to our directors and executive officers. Our chief executive officer may not be present at any committee meeting during which his compensation is deliberated. The compensation committee is responsible for, among other things:
| ● | reviewing and approving, or recommending to the board for its approval, the compensation for our chief executive officer and other executive officers; |
| ● | reviewing and recommending to the board for determination with respect to the compensation of our non-employee directors; |
| ● | reviewing periodically and approving any incentive compensation or equity plans, programs or similar arrangements; and |
| ● | selecting compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser only after taking into consideration all factors relevant to that person’s independence from management. |
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Our nominating and corporate governance committee consists of three directors, namely Ser Chiang Ng, Wai Man Raymond Cheung and Yuanting Zhang, and is chaired by Ser Chiang Ng. The nominating and corporate governance committee assists the board of directors in selecting individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the board and its committees. The nominating and corporate governance committee is responsible for, among other things:
| ● | selecting and recommending to the board nominees for election by the shareholders or appointment by the board; |
| ● | reviewing annually with the board the current composition of the board with regards to characteristics such as independence, knowledge, skills, experience and diversity; |
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| ● | making recommendations on the frequency and structure of board meetings and monitoring the functioning of the committees of the board; and |
| ● | advising the board periodically with regards to significant developments in the law and practice of corporate governance as well as our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and making recommendations to the board on all matters of corporate governance and on any remedial action to be taken. |
6.D. Employees
As of March 31, 2023, 2024 and 2025, we had 26, 27 and 36 full-time employees, all based in Singapore. Additionally, we had approximately 12 IT contractors in Malaysia during the year ended March 31, 2025.
The following table sets forth the number of employees by function as of March 31, 2025:
| Department/Function | Employees | |||
| Management | 4 | |||
| Sales and Marketing | 7 | |||
| Finance | 3 | |||
| Logistic | 2 | |||
| Operations | 20 | |||
| IT Contractors (part-time) | 12 | |||
| TOTALS | 48 | |||
iO3 Singapore enters into employment contracts with its full-time employees which contain standard confidentiality provisions. In addition, the employment contracts with our sales and marketing employees contain non-compete provisions. As of March 31, 2025, neither the Company nor its other subsidiary had any full or part time employees.
We have not experienced any material labor disputes in the past, and we consider our relations with our employees to be good. None of our employees are represented by a labor union.
6.E. Share Ownership
See “Item 7. Major Shareholders and Related Party Transactions—A. Major Shareholders.”
6.F. Disclosure of a Registrant’s Action to Recover Erroneously Awarded Compensation
None.
ITEM 7. MAJOR SHAREHOLDERS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
7.A. Major shareholders
The following table sets forth information with respect to beneficial ownership of our share capital as of the date of this Annual Report by:
| ● | each person who is known by us to beneficially own 5% or more of each class of our voting securities; |
| ● | each of our current directors and each of our officers; and |
| ● | all of our directors and officers as a group. |
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| Name | Number of Ordinary Shares | Approximate percentage of outstanding Ordinary Shares | ||||||
| Directors and executive officers(1) | ||||||||
| Eng Chye Koh | 19,209,600 | (2) | 74.89 | % | ||||
| Fui Chu Lo | — | — | ||||||
| Wei Meng See | 14,282,400 | 55.68 | % | |||||
| Joanna Hui Cheng Soh | 14,282,400 | 55.68 | % | |||||
| Directors and executive officers as a group | 19,209,600 | 74.89 | % | |||||
| 5% principal shareholders(1) | ||||||||
| All Wealthy International Limited | 4,927,200 | 19.21 | % | |||||
| iO3 Strategic Investments Limited | 14,282,400 | 55.68 | % | |||||
| (1) | The business address for our directors and executive officers is c/o iOThree Limited, 140 Paya Lebar Road, #07-02, AZ@Paya Lebar, Singapore 409015. The registered office address for both iO3 Strategic Investments Limited and All Wealthy International Limited is Craigmuir Chambers, Road Town, Tortola, VG 1110, British Virgin Islands. |
| (2) | Represents (i) 4,927,200 Ordinary Shares held by All Wealthy International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company, and (ii) 14,282,400 Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic Investments Limited (“iO3 Strategic”). Eng Chye Koh, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, is the sole owner of all of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of All Wealthy International Limited, and therefore has sole voting and dispositive power over the Ordinary Shares held by All Wealthy International Limited. Mr. Koh owns 51 ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic, which represents 51% of the total issued and outstanding ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic, and pursuant to the organizational documents of iO3 Strategic, Mr. Koh has sole voting and dispositive power over all of the Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic. |
| (3) | Represents 14,282,400 Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic. Mr. See owns 10 ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic, which represents 10% of the total issued and outstanding ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic. Mr. See disclaims beneficial ownership of the Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein. |
| (4) | Represents 14,282,400 Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic. Ms. Soh owns 20 ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic, which represents 20% of the total issued and outstanding ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic. Ms. Soh disclaims beneficial ownership of the Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic except to the extent of her pecuniary interest therein. |
| (5) | Mr. Koh has sole voting and dispositive power over the 4,927,200 Ordinary Shares held by All Wealthy International Limited, a British Virgin Islands company. |
| (6) | The ordinary shares of iO3 Strategic are owned in the following proportions by the following individuals: 51% (Mr. Koh), 20% (Ms. Soh), 10% (Zhenhua Yin), 10% (Mr. See) and 9% (Loo Koon Goh). However, pursuant to the organizational documents of iO3 Strategic, Mr. Koh has sole voting and dispositive power over all of the Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic. Ms. Soh, Mr. Yin, Mr. See, and Mr. Goh disclaim beneficial ownership of the Ordinary Shares held by iO3 Strategic except to the extent of their pecuniary interests therein. |
7.B. Related Party Transactions
Unless otherwise noted, the following is a description of related party transactions we have entered into since April 1, 2024, with any of the members of our board of directors, any executive officer, any holder of more than 5% of the Ordinary Shares at the time of such transaction, or any members of their immediate family, that had or will have a direct or indirect material interest, other than compensation arrangements, which are described under “Item 6.B. Compensation.”
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As of March 31, 2025, the amounts due to directors, Eng Chye Koh and Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, amounted to $329,427, which were included in other payables and accrued liabilities in our audited consolidated financial statements.
Related Party Transaction Policy
Pursuant to our related party transaction policy, any related party transaction must be approved or ratified by our audit committee of our board of directors. In determining whether to approve or ratify a transaction with a related party, our audit committee will consider all relevant facts and circumstances, including without limitation the commercial reasonableness of the terms, the benefit and perceived benefit, or lack thereof, to us, opportunity costs of alternate transactions, the materiality and character of the related party’s direct or indirect interest and the actual or apparent conflict of interest of the related party. Our audit committee will not approve or ratify a related party transaction unless it has determined that, upon consideration of all relevant information, such transaction is in, or not inconsistent with, our best interests and the best interests of our shareholders.
7.C. Interests of Experts and Counsel
Not applicable.
ITEM 8. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
8.A. Consolidated Statements and Other Financial Information
Financial Statements
See “Item 18. Financial Statements,” which contains our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
Legal Proceedings
We may from time to time become involved in legal proceedings or be subject to claims arising in the ordinary course of our business. Litigation or any other legal or administrative proceeding, regardless of the outcome, is likely to result in substantial costs and diversion of our resources, including our management’s time and attention. As of the date of this Annual Report, we are not aware of any such legal proceedings or claims that in the opinion of our management will have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or operating results. Although the results of litigation and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, we believe that the final outcome of ordinary course matters will not have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, financial condition or cash flows.
Policy on Dividend Distributions
We currently intend to retain all of our future earnings, if any, for the operations and expansion of our business and do not anticipate declaring or paying any further dividends.
The declaration and payment of future dividends to holders of our Ordinary Shares will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend upon many factors, including our financial condition, earnings, legal requirements, restrictions in our debt agreements and other factors deemed relevant by our board of directors. In addition, as a holding company, our ability to pay dividends depends on our receipt of cash dividends from our operating subsidiaries, which may further restrict our ability to pay dividends as a result of the laws of their respective jurisdictions of organization, agreements of our subsidiaries or covenants under future indebtedness that we or they may incur. See “Item 3.D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Ownership of Our Securities — Because we do not expect to pay dividends in the foreseeable future, you must rely on price appreciation of our Ordinary Shares for a return on your investment.”
8.B. Significant Changes
No significant change has occurred since the date of our consolidated financial statements filed as part of this Annual Report.
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ITEM 9. THE OFFER AND LISTING
9.A. Offer and Listing Details
Our Ordinary Shares have traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market since April 10, 2025, under the symbol “IOTR.”
9.B. Plan of Distribution
Not applicable.
9.C. Markets
See “Item 9. The Offer and Listing—A. Offer and Listing Details.”
9.D. Selling Shareholders
Not applicable.
9.E. Dilution
Not applicable.
9.F. Expenses of the Issue
Not applicable.
ITEM 10. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
10.A. Share Capital
Not applicable.
10.B. Memorandum and Articles of Association
Summaries of material provisions of our memorandum and articles of association currently in effect and of the Companies Act, insofar as they relate to the material terms of the Ordinary Shares, are contained in the “Exhibit 2.1. Description of Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act” to this Annual Report, which are incorporated herein by reference.
10.C. Material Contracts
All material contracts governing the business of the Company are described elsewhere in this Annual Report or in the information incorporated by reference herein.
10.D. Exchange Controls
Cayman Islands
Under the laws of the Cayman Islands, there are currently no restrictions on the export or import of capital, including foreign exchange controls or restrictions that affect the remittance of dividends, interest or other payments to non-resident holders of the Ordinary Shares.
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Singapore
Singapore maintains a liberal foreign exchange policy and does not impose exchange controls. The Singapore Dollar is freely convertible, and there are generally no restrictions on the remittance of capital or profits into or out of Singapore. Residents and non-residents are permitted to hold and deal in foreign currency accounts, and both inward and outward investment flows are unrestricted.
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) administers Singapore’s exchange rate policy but does not regulate the use or transfer of foreign exchange for most commercial or investment purposes. However, financial institutions in Singapore are required to comply with anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) regulations, and certain transactions may be subject to reporting or regulatory oversight under the MAS Act or related legislation.
As of the date of this Annual Report, the government of Singapore does not impose restrictions or conditions on the repatriation of profits, dividends, or capital by foreign investors. Nonetheless, any material changes to exchange control regulations could affect the ability to transfer funds into or out of Singapore.
10.E. Taxation
A description of material Cayman Islands, U.S. federal income, and Singapore tax consequences of the acquisition, ownership and disposition of the Ordinary Shares is set forth in the section entitled “Material Income Tax Considerations” of the registration statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-276674), initially filed with the SEC on January 24, 2024, and declared effective by the SEC on December 31, 2024, as further amended by post-effective amendments declared effective by the SEC on March 31, 2025, which section is incorporated herein by reference.
10.F. Dividends and Paying Agents
Not applicable.
10.G. Statement by Experts
Not applicable.
10.H. Documents on Display
We are subject to the informational requirements of the Exchange Act as a foreign private issuer and file reports and other information with the SEC, including annual reports on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K. Reports and other information filed by us with the SEC, including this Annual Report, may be viewed from the SEC’s Internet site at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, we will provide hard copies of our Annual Report free of charge to shareholders upon request.
Statements made in this Annual Report as to the contents of any document referred to are not necessarily complete. With respect to each such document filed as an exhibit to this Annual Report, reference is made to the exhibit for a more complete description of the matter involved, and each such statement shall be deemed qualified in its entirety by such reference.
As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of quarterly reports and proxy statements, and officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
10.I. Subsidiary Information
Not applicable.
10.J. Annual Report to Security Holders
If we are required to provide an annual report to security holders, we will submit the annual report to security holders in electronic format in accordance with the EDGAR Filer Manual.
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ITEM 11. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURE ABOUT MARKET RISK
We have exposure to a variety of financial risks from our operations. The key financial risks include credit risk, interest rate risk, economic and political risk, exchange rate risk and liquidity risk.
Further quantitative disclosures are included throughout the consolidated financial statements.
Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject us to credit risk consist of cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts and financing receivable. Cash equivalents are maintained with high credit quality institutions, the composition and maturities of which are regularly monitored by management. The Singapore Deposit Protection Board pays compensation up to a limit of S$100,000 (approximately $74,395) if the bank with which an individual/a company hold its eligible deposit fails. As of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, cash balance of $0.4 million, $0.9 million and $0.4 million, respectively, held at financial institutions in Singapore, was subject to credit risk. While management believes that these financial institutions are of high credit quality, it also continually monitors their credit worthiness.
For accounts receivable, we determine, on a continuing basis, the probable losses, and sets up an allowance for doubtful accounts based on the estimated realizable value.
We have adopted a policy of only dealing with creditworthy counterparties. We perform ongoing credit evaluation of our counterparties’ financial condition and generally do not require a collateral. We also consider the probability of default upon initial recognition of asset and whether there has been a significant increase in credit risk on an ongoing basis throughout each reporting period.
We have determined the default event on a financial asset to be when internal and/or external information indicates that the financial asset is unlikely to be received, which could include default of contractual payments due for more than 90 days or there is significant difficulty of the counterparty.
To minimize credit risk, we have developed and maintained our credit risk grading to categorize exposures according to their degree of risk of default. The credit rating information is supplied by publicly available financial information and our own trading records to rate our major customers and other debtors. We consider available reasonable and supportive forward-looking information which includes the following indicators:
| ● | Actual or expected significant adverse changes in business, financial or economic conditions that are expected to cause a significant change to the debtor’s ability to meet its obligations |
| ● | Internal credit rating |
| ● | External credit rating and when necessary |
Regardless of the analysis above, a significant increase in credit risk is presumed if a debtor is more than 60 days past due in making contractual payment.
As of March 31, 2025, approximately 23.5% of accounts receivable and sale-type lease investments were collectively owed by two customers. The ageing for aforementioned receivables was less than 90 days.
As of March 31, 2024, approximately 22.1% of accounts receivable and sale-type lease investments were collectively owed by two customers. The ageing for aforementioned receivables was less than 90 days.
As of March 31, 2023, approximately 23.5% of accounts receivable and sale-type lease investments were collectively owed by two customers. The ageing for aforementioned receivables was less than 90 days except for $21,565 which was 30 days overdue. However, this amount was successfully collected after the reporting date.
Interest Rate Risk
As we have no significant interest-bearing assets, our income and operating cash flows are substantially independent of changes in market interest rates.
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Our interest-rate risk arises from bank borrowings. We manage interest rate risk by managing the mixture of fixed and variable rate debt, the issuance and maturity dates of debt, limiting the amount of variable rate debt, and continually monitoring the effects of market changes in interest rates. As of March 31, 2025, 2024 and 2023, all our bank borrowings were at fixed interest rates.
Economic and Political Risk
Our major operations are conducted in Asia. Accordingly, the political, economic, and legal environments in Asia, as well as the general state of Asia’s economy may influence our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Exchange Rate Risk
We cannot guarantee that the current exchange rate will remain steady; therefore, there is a possibility that we could report the same amount of profit for two comparable periods but, because of fluctuations in the exchange rate, actually realize higher or lower profit when converted from S$ to US$. The exchange rate could fluctuate depending on changes in political and economic environments without notice.
Liquidity Risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that we will not be able to meet our financial obligations as they become due. Our policy is to ensure that we have sufficient cash to meet our liabilities when they become due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to our reputation. A key risk in managing liquidity is the degree of uncertainty in cash flow projections. If future cash flows are highly uncertain, liquidity risk increases.
ITEM 12. DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES OTHER THAN EQUITY SECURITIES
12.A. Debt Securities
Not applicable.
12.B. Warrants and Rights
Not applicable.
12.C. Other Securities
Not applicable.
12.D. American Depositary Shares
Not applicable.
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PART II
ITEM 13. DEFAULTS, DIVIDEND ARREARAGES AND DELINQUENCIES
None.
ITEM 14. MATERIAL MODIFICATIONS TO THE RIGHTS OF SECURITY HOLDERS AND USE OF PROCEEDS
Material Modifications to the Rights of Security Holders
There have been no material modifications to the rights of our security holders.
Use of Proceeds
On April 11, 2025, we completed our initial public offering of 1,650,000 Ordinary Shares sold at a public offering price of $4.00 per share, or the IPO. The Ordinary Shares offered and sold in the IPO were registered under the Securities Act pursuant to our Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-276674), which was declared effective by the SEC on March 31, 2025. Eddid Securities USA Inc. acted as representative of the underwriters in our IPO.
Our IPO, including the over-allotment, generated gross proceeds of $8,400,000, before deducting underwriting discounts and other related expenses, including $6,600,000 received by the Company and $1,800,000 received by the selling shareholders. We paid underwriting discounts of approximately $462,000 and other issuance costs of approximately $1.6 million. We paid out of pocket all of our fees, costs and expenses in connection with the IPO.
No offering proceeds were paid directly or indirectly to any of our directors or officers (or their associates), persons owning 10% or more of the Ordinary Shares or any other affiliates.
There has been no material change in the expected use of the net proceeds from our IPO as described in our final prospectus filed with the SEC on April 10, 2025, pursuant to Rule 424(b).
ITEM 15. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to management, including principal executive and financial officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. There are inherent limitations to the effectiveness of any system of disclosure controls and procedures, including the possibility of human error and the circumvention or overriding of the controls and procedures. Accordingly, even effective disclosure controls and procedures can only provide reasonable assurance of achieving their control objectives.
Our management carried out an evaluation, under the supervision of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as such term is defined under Rule 13a-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act as of March 31, 2025. Based on that evaluation, our management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report.
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
This annual report does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal control over financial reporting or an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm due to a transition period established by rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission for newly public companies.
Attestation Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
This annual report does not include a report of management’s assessment regarding internal control over financial reporting or an attestation report of the Company’s registered public accounting firm due to a transition period established by rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission for newly public companies.
Changes in Internal Controls over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that occurred during the period covered by this Annual Report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
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It should be noted that while our management believes that our disclosure controls and procedures provide a reasonable level of assurance, our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or internal financial controls will prevent all errors or fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived or operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met.
ITEM 16. [RESERVED]
ITEM 16A. AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT
Our board of directors has determined that Yuanting Zhang is the “Audit Committee Financial Expert” as such term is defined in Item 407(d) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC and also meets Nasdaq’s financial sophistication requirements. Mr. Zhang is an “independent director” as defined by the rules and regulations of Nasdaq.
ITEM 16B. CODE OF ETHICS
We have adopted a Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, or the Code of Ethics, that is applicable to all of our employees, officers and directors and is available on our website at https://io3.sg/. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website does not constitute a part of this Annual Report and is not incorporated by reference herein. If we make any amendment to the Code of Ethics or grant any waivers, including any implicit waiver, from a provision of the Code of Ethics, we will disclose the nature of such amendment or waiver on our website to the extent required by the rules and regulations of the SEC. Under Item 16B of Form 20-F, if a waiver or amendment of the Code of Ethics applies to our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller and relates to standards promoting any of the values described in Item 16B(b) of Form 20-F, we are required to disclose such waiver or amendment on our website in accordance with the requirements of Instruction 4 to such Item 16B.
ITEM 16C. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
The following table represents aggregate fees billed to the Company for fiscal years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 by Audit Alliance LLP, the Company’s principal accounting firm.
| For
the year ended March 31, |
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| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| USD | USD | |||||||
| Audit Fees | $ | 143,805 | $ | 329,900 | ||||
| Audit-Related Fees | $ | - | $ | - | ||||
| Tax Fees | $ | - | $ | - | ||||
| All Other Fees | $ | - | $ | - | ||||
| Total | $ | 143,805 | $ | 329,900 | ||||
Audit Fees
Audit fees consisted of the aggregate fees for the audits of our consolidated financial statements, half year reviews, consents, and assistance with review of documents filed with the SEC. Fees for the years ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, also include the fees related to audit activities conducted in connection to the IPO and under PCAOB standards.
Audit Related Fees
Audit-related fees consist of the aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for assurance and related services performed by the Company’s principal accountant that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements and are not reported under the paragraph captioned “Audit Fees” above.
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Tax Fees
Tax fees consist of aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for professional services performed by the Company’s principal accountant with respect to tax compliance, tax advice, tax consulting and tax planning. We did not engage our principal accountant to provide tax compliance, tax advice or tax planning services during the last two fiscal years.
All Other Fees
All other fees consist of aggregate fees billed for each of the last two fiscal years for products and services provided by the Company’s principal accountant, other than for the services reported under the headings “Audit Fees,” “Audit-Related Fees” and “Tax Fees” above. We did not engage our principal accountant to render services to us during the last two fiscal years, other than as reported above.
Audit Committee’s Pre-Approval Policies and Procedures
Our audit committee has adopted a pre-approval policy for the engagement of our independent accountant to perform certain audit and non-audit services. Pursuant to this policy, which is designed to ensure that such engagements do not impair the independence of our auditor, the audit committee pre-approves each type of audit, audit-related, tax and other permitted services, subject to the ability of the audit committee to delegate certain pre-approval authority to one or more of its members. All of the fees listed in the table above were approved by our audit committee.
ITEM 16D. EXEMPTIONS FROM THE LISTING STANDARDS FOR AUDIT COMMITTEES
None.
ITEM 16E. PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY THE ISSUER AND AFFILIATED PURCHASERS
None.
ITEM 16F. CHANGE IN REGISTRANT’S CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANT
None.
ITEM 16G. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
We are incorporated in the Cayman Islands and our corporate governance practices are governed by applicable laws of Cayman Islands and our memorandum and articles of association. In addition, since the Ordinary Shares are listed on Nasdaq, we are subject to Nasdaq’s corporate governance requirements.
As of the date of this Annual Report, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules, where more than 50% of the voting power of our securities for the election of directors was held by an individual, group or another company and, as a result, qualified for exemptions from certain Nasdaq corporate governance requirements, including, without limitation (i) the requirement that the board of directors is comprised of a majority of independent directors; (ii) the requirement that the compensation of our officers be determined or recommended to our board of directors by a compensation committee that is comprised solely of independent directors, and (iii) the requirement that director nominees be selected or recommended to the board of directors by a majority of independent directors or a nominating and corporate governance committee comprised solely of independent directors. We have not relied on any of these “controlled company” exemptions.
In addition, as a foreign private issuer, Nasdaq Listing Rule 5615(a)(3) permits us to follow home country practices in lieu of certain requirements of Listing Rule 5600, provided that we disclose in our annual report filed with the SEC each requirement of Rule 5600 that we do not follow and describe the home country practice followed in lieu of such requirement.
We are not currently following any Cayman Islands corporate governance practices in lieu of Nasdaq corporate governance listing standards.
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ITEM 16H. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE
Not applicable.
ITEM 16I. DISCLOSURE REGARDING FOREIGN JURISDICTIONS THAT PREVENT INSPECTIONS
Not applicable.
ITEM 16J. INSIDER TRADING POLICIES
Before listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market on
April 10, 2025, we had
ITEM 16K. CYBERSECURITY
Risk Management and Strategy
We have established a comprehensive cybersecurity and risk management framework, designed to identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor cyber threats and vulnerabilities. This framework includes:
| ● | Regular Cybersecurity Risk Assessments: We conduct ongoing assessments to evaluate potential cyber-attack vectors, information security weaknesses, and emerging threats that may affect our business operations. |
| ● | Data Encryption and Protection: We employ advanced data encryption protocols to ensure the secure transmission and storage of sensitive information. Confidential data is encrypted based on risk level, and encryption methodologies are applied in accordance with best practices and regulatory standards. |
| ● | Internal Security Policies and Access Controls: The Company has implemented stringent internal policies and procedures governing data security and access control. Access to sensitive systems and information is restricted to authorized personnel on a need-to-know basis, and all employees are required to comply strictly with our cybersecurity policies. |
| ● | Employee Training and Awareness: We provide regular training and awareness programs to educate employees on cybersecurity best practices, threat awareness, and their individual responsibilities in information management. These initiatives are designed to foster a strong security culture across the organization. |
| ● | Incident Response and Monitoring: Our cybersecurity infrastructure includes real-time monitoring tools and an incident response plan to detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents in a timely manner, minimizing potential disruption and loss. |
We have
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Risk Governance
Management’s Role in Managing Risk
Monitoring Cybersecurity Incidents
The Company’s management is continually informed about the latest developments in cybersecurity, including potential threats and innovative risk management techniques. Management implements and oversees processes for the regular monitoring of our information systems. This includes the deployment of industry-standard security measures and regular system audits to identify potential vulnerabilities. In the event of a cybersecurity incident, management will implement the cybersecurity crisis management plan.
Reporting to Board of Directors
Significant cybersecurity matters, and strategic risk management decisions, will be escalated to the board of directors.
For additional information on our cybersecurity risks, please see “Item 3.D. Risk Factors — Risks Related to Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity.”
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PART III
ITEM 17. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The Company has elected to provide financial statements pursuant to Item 18.
ITEM 18. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Our audited financial statements are included as the “F” pages attached to this Annual Report.
All financial statements in this Annual Report, unless otherwise stated, are presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
ITEM 19. EXHIBITS
| * | Filed herewith. |
| ** | Furnished herewith. |
| † | Executive Compensation Plan or Agreement |
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SIGNATURES
The registrant hereby certifies that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form 20-F and that it has duly caused and authorized the undersigned to sign this annual report on its behalf.
| IOTHREE LIMITED | ||
| Date: June 30, 2025 | By: | /s/ Eng Chye Koh |
| Name: | Eng Chye Koh | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman (Principal Executive Officer) | |
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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
F-1
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
IOTHREE LIMITED
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of IOTHREE Limited and Subsidiaries (collectively referred to as the “Company”) as of March 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income, changes in shareholders' equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended March 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of March 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows each of the two years in the period ended March 31, 2025, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
/s/ Audit
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2023.
June 30, 2025
F-2
IOTHREE LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(Currency expressed in United States Dollars (“US$”))
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
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| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | $ | ||||||
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| TOTAL ASSETS | $ | $ | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | $ | ||||||
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| Commitments and contingencies | ||||||||
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| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY | $ | $ | ||||||
| * |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-3
IOTHREE LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
(Currency expressed in United States Dollars (“US$”))
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Revenues, net | $ | $ | ||||||
| Cost of revenue | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Gross profit | ||||||||
| Operating cost and expenses: | ||||||||
| Sales and marketing expenses | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| General and administrative | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Other operating expenses | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Total operating cost and expenses | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Loss from operations | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Finance income | ||||||||
| Finance cost | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Loss before income taxes | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Income tax (expense) / credit | ( | ) | ||||||
| NET LOSS | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Net loss per share | ||||||||
| Basic and diluted | $ | ( | ) | $ | ** | |||
| Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding | ||||||||
| Basic and diluted | * | |||||||
| * |
| ** |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
F-4
IOTHREE LIMITED AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(Currency expressed in United States Dollars (“US$”), except for number of shares)
| Ordinary shares* | Additional | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| No. of shares | Amount | paid-in capital | Retained earnings | shareholders’ equity | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of April 1, 2023 | * | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||
| Dividends declared and paid to the former shareholders | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||
| Net loss for the year | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 31, 2024 | * | |||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss for the year | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 31, 2025 | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||
| * |
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
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IOTHREE LIMITED AND SUBSIDARIES
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Currency expressed in United States Dollars (“US$”))
| Year ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Cash flows from operating activities: | ||||||||
| Income before income taxes | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities | ||||||||
| Depreciation of property and equipment | ||||||||
| Bad debt expenses | ||||||||
| Unrealised foreign exchange (gain) / losses | ( | ) | ||||||
| Amortization of intangible assets | ||||||||
| Change in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts receivable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net investment in sales-type leases | ( | ) | ||||||
| Inventories | ||||||||
| Deposits, prepayments, and other receivables | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accounts payable | ( | ) | ||||||
| Customer deposits | ( | ) | ||||||
| Other payables and accrued liabilities | ( | ) | ||||||
| Income tax payable | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | ||||||||
| Cash flows from investing activities: | ||||||||
| Purchase of property and equipment | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Purchase of intangible assets | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Cash flows from financing activities: | ||||||||
| Funds injected by a shareholder | ||||||||
| Proceeds from lease financing | ||||||||
| Repayment of bank borrowings | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Dividends paid | ( | ) | ||||||
| Repayment of lease liabilities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Payment of deferred offering costs | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Effect on exchange rate change on cash and cash equivalents | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net change in cash and cash equivalent | ( | ) | ||||||
| BEGINNING OF YEAR | ||||||||
| END OF YEAR | $ | $ | ||||||
| SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW INFORMATION: | ||||||||
| Cash paid for income taxes | $ | $ | ||||||
| Cash paid for interest | $ | $ | ||||||
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.
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NOTE－1 BUSINESS OVERVIEW AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION
Principal Activities
iOThree Limited (“iO3 Cayman”) was
incorporated in the Cayman Islands on
iO3 Cayman, through its subsidiaries (collectively with iO3 Cayman, the “Company”) are mainly engaged in the business of satellite communications and software.
Description of subsidiaries incorporated and controlled by the Company as at balance sheet date:
| Name | Background | Effective ownership | |||
| iOThree Maritime Technologies Limited (“iO3 BVI”) | ● | ||||
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| iO3 Pte. Ltd. (“iO3 Singapore”) | ● | ||||
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Reorganization
On August 21, 2023, our founder and Chief
Executive Officer, Eng Chye Koh, incorporated iOThree Maritime Technologies Limited (“iO3 BVI”), a holding company incorporated
under the laws of the British Virgin Islands, which has no substantial operations in the British Virgin Islands. On September 4, 2023,
iO3 Cayman acquired
On October 6, 2023, as part of a reorganization
for the purpose of this offering and listing on Nasdaq, iO3 BVI (at the direction of iO3 Cayman), acquired the entire equity interest
in iO3 Singapore from its shareholders, namely Eng Chye Koh, Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, Zhenhua Yin, Wei Meng See, Loo Koon Goh and Tsang Nga
Kwok, and as consideration, iO3 Cayman allotted and issued its shares to Tsang Nga Kwok and iO3 Strategic Investments Limited, which is
owned by Eng Chye Koh, Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, Zhenhua Yin, Wei Meng See and Loo Koon Goh (i.e., iO3 Cayman allotted and issued an
aggregate of
On February 8, 2024, as of the final step in the
series of reorganization transactions for the purpose of this offering and listing on Nasdaq, each shareholder of iO3 Cayman (i.e., iO3
Strategic Investments Limited, All Wealthy International Limited, Tsang Nga Kwok, One Investment and Consultancy Limited, Sakal Capital
Pte. Ltd. and Shao Qi Limited) was allotted and issued shares in iO3 Cayman that were in proportion to their existing shareholdings, credited
as fully paid up at par value out of the share premium account of iO3 Cayman. After such allotment and issuance, the total number of issued
and outstanding shares of iO3 Cayman increased from
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The financial statements of the Company were prepared on the basis as if the reorganization became effective as of the beginning of the first period presented in the accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Company. Accordingly, the results of the Company include the results of the subsidiaries for year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024. Such manner of presentation reflects the economic substance of the companies, which were under common control throughout the relevant period, as a single economic enterprise, although the legal parent-subsidiary relationships were not established.
Forward Share Consolidation and Share Split
On August 22, 2024, the Company conducted share consolidation and share split as follow:
(a) Share consolidated at the ratio of 1:5, i.e. every 5 ordinary shares were consolidated to 1 ordinary share; and
(b) Share split at the ratio of 8:1, i.e. every 1 ordinary share was subdivided into 8 ordinary shares.
Subsequent to the above exercise, the Company
has an authorised share of
NOTE－2 SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
These accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect the application of certain significant accounting policies as described in this note and elsewhere in the accompanying consolidated financial statements and notes.
| ● | Basis of Presentation |
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
| ● | Use of Estimates and Assumptions |
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the years presented. Significant accounting estimates in the period include the allowance for doubtful accounts on accounts and other receivables, impairment loss on inventories, assumptions used in assessing right of use assets and impairment of long-lived assets, and deferred tax valuation allowance.
| ● | Basis of Consolidation |
The consolidated financial statements include the consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries. All significant inter-company balances and transactions within the Company have been eliminated upon consolidation.
| ● | Foreign Currency Translation and Transaction |
The reporting currency of the Company is United States Dollar or “US$” and the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been expressed in US$. In addition, the Company and subsidiaries maintain their books and record in United States Dollars or “US$”, which is a functional currency as being the primary currency of the economic environment in which their operations are conducted.
Transactions denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing at the dates of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in currencies other than the functional currency are translated into the functional currency using the applicable exchange rates at the date of the balance sheet dates. The resulting exchange differences arising on the settlement of monetary items or on translating monetary items at the date of the balance sheet dates are recorded in the statement of operations.
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| ● | Cash and Cash Equivalents |
Cash and cash equivalents consist primarily of cash in readily available checking and saving accounts which are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value. The Company maintains its bank accounts in Singapore.
| ● | Accounts Receivable, net |
Accounts receivable include trade accounts due from customers in the sale of products or delivery of services.
Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and do not bear interest, which are due within contractual payment terms. The normal settlement terms of accounts receivable are within 90 days upon the delivery of goods or services. Management reviews its receivables on a regular basis to determine if the bad debt allowance is adequate and provides allowance when necessary. The allowance is based on management’s best estimates of specific losses on individual customer exposures, as well as the historical trends of collections. Account balances are charged off against the allowance after all means of collection have been exhausted and the likelihood of collection is not probable. The Company’s management continues to evaluate the reasonableness of the valuation allowance policy and update it if necessary.
The Company does not hold any collateral or other credit enhancements overs its accounts receivable balances.
| ● | Net investment in sales-type lease |
A net investment in finance lease is recognized if a lease meets specific criteria under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 842 at its inception. Upon commencement of the lease, the book value of the equipment is de-recognized and a net investment in finance lease is recognized in our Consolidated Balance Sheets based on the present value of fixed payments under the contract and the residual value of the underlying asset, discounted at the rate implicit in the lease. The Company recognize the difference between the book value of the equipment and the net investment in the lease in equipment sales in our Consolidated Statement of Operations. Interest income on our net investment in finance leases is recognized over the lease term in a manner that produces a constant rate of return on the net investment in the lease. (Refer to Lease for more information).
| ● | Inventories |
Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value. Cost is determined by the weighted average cost method. The Company records adjustments to its inventory for estimated obsolescence or diminution in net realizable value equal to the difference between the cost of the inventory and the estimated net realizable value. At the point of loss recognition, a new cost basis for that inventory is established, and subsequent changes in facts and circumstances do not result in the restoration or increase in that newly established cost basis.
| ● | Deferred Offering Costs |
Deferred offering costs, which consist of direct incremental legal, accounting, and consulting fees relating to the Company’s proposed initial public offering (“IPO”), are capitalized in “Deposits, prepayments and other receivables” on the consolidated balance sheets. The deferred offering costs will be offset against IPO proceeds upon the consummation of an IPO. In the event the planned IPO is terminated, the deferred offering costs will be expensed.
| ● | Property and Equipment, net |
Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and accumulated impairment losses, if any. Depreciation is calculated on the straight-line basis over the following expected useful lives from the date on which they become fully operational and after taking into account their estimated residual values:
| Expected useful life | ||
| Computer equipment | ||
| Furniture, fixtures and fittings | ||
| Equipment | ||
| Motor vehicles |
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Expenditure for repairs and maintenance is expensed as incurred. When assets have retired or sold, the cost and related accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts and any resulting gain or loss is recognized in the results of operations.
| ● | Intangible assets |
The software license
is acquired by the Company. It initially recognised at cost and subsequently carried at cost less accumulated amortization and accumulated
impairment losses, if any. Amortization is calculated on the straight-line basis over its expected useful lives of
Software development costs consists of costs incurred to develop cloud-based applications used to deliver our services. Costs incurred in the preliminary stages of development are expensed as incurred. Once an application has reached the technological feasibility stage, internal and external costs, if direct and incremental, are capitalized until the software is substantially complete and ready for its intended use. Capitalization ceases upon completion of all substantial testing. The Company also capitalizes costs related to specific upgrades and enhancements when it is probable the expenditures will result in additional features and functionality. Maintenance costs are expensed as incurred. As of balance sheet date, the software is in progress of development and not amortized until it is ready for intended use.
An intangible asset is derecognised on disposal, or when no future economic benefits are expected from use or disposal. Gains or losses arising from derecognition of an intangible asset, measured as the difference between the net disposal proceeds and the carrying amount of the intangible asset, are recognised in profit or loss when the intangible asset is derecognised.
The intangible assets are tested annually for impairment.
| ● | Impairment of Long-lived Assets |
Long-lived assets are evaluated for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances (such as a significant adverse change to market conditions that will impact the future use of the assets) indicate that the carrying amount may not be fully recoverable or that the useful life is shorter than the Company had originally estimated. When these events occur, the Company evaluates the impairment by comparing carrying value of the assets to an estimate of future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated from the use of the assets and their eventual disposition. If the sum of the expected future undiscounted cash flows is less than the carrying value of the assets, the Company recognizes an impairment loss based on the excess of the carrying value of the assets over the fair value of the assets.
| ● | Revenue Recognition |
The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC 606”) Revenue from Contracts with Customers, revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised products and services. The amount of revenue recognized reflects the consideration which the Company expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for these products and services. To achieve this core principle, the Company applies the following five steps as per Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09:
| 1. | Identification of the contract(s) with a customer | |
| A contract with a customer exists when | ||
| (i) | the Company enters into an enforceable contract with a customer that defines each party’s rights regarding the goods or services to be transferred and identifies the payment terms related to these goods or services, | |
| (ii) | the contract has commercial substance, and | |
| (iii) | the Company determines that collection of substantially all consideration for goods or services that are transferred is probable based on historical results and the customer’s ability to pay the promised consideration. The Company’s contracts are typically evidenced through a signed Company quote or a customer purchase order and Company quote. | |
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| 2. | Identification of the performance obligations in the contract | |
| At contract inception, the Company evaluates whether a single contract includes more than one performance obligation. Performance obligations promised in a contract are identified based on the goods or services that will be transferred to the customer that are both capable of being distinct, whereby the customer can benefit from the goods or services either on their own or together with other resources that are readily available from third parties or from the Company, and are distinct in the context of the contract, whereby the transfer of the goods or services is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract. To the extent a contract includes multiple promised goods or services, the Company applies judgment to determine whether promised goods or services are capable of being distinct in the context of the contract. If these criteria are not met, the promised goods or services are accounted for as a combined performance obligation. | ||
| 3. | Determination of the transaction price
The transaction price is determined based on the consideration to which the Company will be entitled in exchange for transferring goods or services to the customer. Such amounts are stated within the customer contracts.
| |
| 4. | Allocation of the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract | |
| If the contract contains a single performance obligation, the entire transaction price is allocated to the single performance obligation. Contracts that contain multiple performance obligations require an allocation of the transaction price to each performance obligation based on a relative standalone selling price (SSP) basis. The Company determines SSP based on the price at which the performance obligation is sold separately. If the SSP is not observable through past transactions, the Company estimates the SSP taking into consideration available information, such as market conditions and internally approved pricing guidelines related to the performance obligations. | ||
| 5. | Recognition of revenue when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation | |
| Satellite connectivity solution | ||
| The Company provide various type of satellite connectivity solution to our customers: | ||
| (a) | Subscription | |
| Monthly subscription fee is charged to customers for the satellite connection service in relating to the airtime, bandwidth subscription plan and value-added service subscribed. The revenue is recognized ratably over the period of the contract. | ||
| (b) | Sales of satellite network equipment and devices | |
| The sales of satellite network equipment and devices including antenna, satellite phone, battery, wall charger, modem etc. The equipment is shipped and installed at the destination specified by the customer. As such, shipping and handling services are part of the performance obligation to deliver the equipment to customers. The revenue, including the shipping and handling fee charged to customers, is recognized at the point in time when control and ownership of the goods is transferred to the customer. | ||
| (c) | Integrated satellite connectivity solution | |
| The Company offers integrated satellite connectivity solution to our customer, which includes both airtime and the satellite network equipment for network connection. Contract with customer comprise multiple performance obligations and may have lease components. The total contract consideration is allocated to the airtime service and the sales of satellite network equipment and devices, which represents distinct performance obligations. The revenue in relating to the airtime subscription fee is recognized according to (a) above. For satellite network equipment and devices, the Company assesses at contract inception whether it meet the criteria of lease. If the criteria are met, the revenue is recognized according to ASC 842, Leases (refer to the note in relating to lease). If the criteria are not met, the revenue from the sales of satellite network equipment and devices are recognized upon the completion of installation and the transfer of control to the customer. | ||
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| Digitalization and other solution | ||
| (a) | Digital platform service – The Company provides customers access to the digital platform (“Jarviss”) to obtain real time information for their daily operation management. Monthly subscription fee is charged to the customers based on the number of user access and number of service elements subscribed. Revenue recognition commences rateably when control of the services is transferred to the customers, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for those services over the contractual term. | |
| (b) | Provision of information technology (IT) support - Customer specifies their IT support requirement in a contract, which may include IT help desk service, technical support, installation of software in the devices as specified etc. Performance obligations promised in the contract are identified based on the goods or services that to be delivered to the customer. Revenue recognition commences when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation and the control of the goods or services transferred to the customer. | |
| (c) | Provision of shipboard support services – The Company supplies shipboard equipment and/or engineering service as per customer’s specification. Equipment is installed at the destination specified by the customers. As such, shipping and handling services are part of the performance obligation to deliver the equipment to customers. Revenue, including the shipping and handling fee charged to customers, is recognized when or as the Company satisfies a performance obligation and the control of the goods or services transferred to the customer. | |
The Company
is subject to GST which is levied on the products at the rate of
Advance
payment from customer on future products are recorded as customer deposit and recognized as income when the control and ownership of the
good is transferred to the customer. The deposits received in advance from customers
were $
| ● | Lease |
The Company assesses at contract inception whether a contract is or contains a lease if the contract conveys the right to control the use of an identified asset for a period of time in exchange for consideration. The lease term corresponds to the non-cancellable period of each contract.
Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less are not recorded on the consolidated balance sheet; the Company recognizes lease expense or income for these leases on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
The Company as a lessor
At the commencement date, the lease payments are fixed payments. Lease payments do not include variable lease payments that do not depend on an index or a rate.
Leases are classified at the lease commencement date as either a sales-type lease or an operating lease. The lessor shall classify a lease as a sales-type lease when the lease meets any of the following criteria:
a) the lease transfers ownership of the underlying asset to the lessee by the end of the lease term;
b) the lease grants the lessee an option to purchase the underlying asset that the lessee is reasonably certain to exercise;
c) the lease term is for the major part of the remaining economic life of the underlying asset;
d) the present value of the sum of the lease payments equals or exceeds substantially all of the fair value of the underlying asset; or
e) the underlying asset is of such a specialized nature that it is expected to have no alternative use to the lessor at the end of the lease term.
Notwithstanding the above criteria, leases are classified as operating leases if they have variable lease payments that do not depend on an index or rate and if classifying the lease as a sales-type lease or a direct financing lease would result in the recognition of a selling loss.
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For a sales-type lease, at the lease commencement, net investment in the lease is recognized by the sum of the lease receivable and the unguaranteed residual asset. Lease receivable is the present values of the sum of lease payments and the guaranteed residual asset. The Company recognizes all revenue and costs associated with the sales-type lease as revenue from leasing activities and cost of leasing activities upon delivery of the underlying asset to the customer. Interest income based on the implicit rate in the lease is recorded to finance income over time as customers are invoiced on a monthly basis.
All other leases are accounted for as operating leases wherein the Company recognizes, at the commencement date, the lease payments as income in profit or loss over the lease term on a straight-line basis and the Company recognizes variable lease payments as income in profit or loss in the period in which the changes in facts and circumstances on which the variable lease payment are based occur.
The Company suspend recognition of sales-type lease revenue and operating lease revenue and place the account on non-accrual status when management determines that collection of future income is not probable (generally after 60 days past due). The Company resume recognition of revenue, and recognize previously suspended income, when the Company consider collection of remaining amounts to be probable. The Company write off interest earned but uncollected prior to the receivables being placed on non-accrual status through allowance for doubtful accounts when, in the judgment of management, the Company consider it to be uncollectible.
The Company as a lessee
Leases are classified at the inception date as either a finance lease or an operating lease. As the lessee, a lease is a finance lease if any of the following conditions exist:
a) ownership is transferred to the lessee by the end of the lease term,
b) there is a bargain purchase option,
c) the lease
term is at least
d) the present value of the minimum lease payments at the beginning of the lease term is 90% or more of the fair value of the leased asset to the lessor at the inception date or
e) the leased asset is of such a specialized nature that it is expected to have no alternative use.
Finance lease assets are presented separately on the consolidated balance sheet as finance lease right-of-use assets, and current and non-current portion of finance lease liabilities.
All other leases are accounted for as operating leases wherein rental payments are expensed on a straight-line basis over the periods of their respective leases. Operating leases (with an initial term of more than 12 months) are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets, operating lease liabilities (current), and operating lease liabilities (non-current) in the consolidated balance sheet. ROU assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease. Operating lease ROU assets and liabilities are recognized at commencement date based on the present value of lease payments over the lease term. The Company utilizes a market-based approach to estimate the incremental borrowing rate based on the information available at commencement date in determining the present value of lease payments. The operating lease ROU asset also includes any lease prepayments, reduced by lease incentives and accrued rent. The lease terms may include options to extend or terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain that the Company will exercise that option.
The accounting update also requires that for finance leases, a lessee recognize interest expense on the lease liability, separately from the amortization of the right-of-use asset in the statements of earnings, while for operating leases, such amounts should be recognized as a combined expense. In addition, this accounting update requires expanded disclosures about the nature and terms of lease agreements.
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| ● | Shipping and Handling costs |
Shipping and handling costs are included in cost of revenue as it is part of the Company’s fulfilment activity to satisfy the performance obligation as specified in the sales contract.
| ● | Sales and Marketing |
Sales and
marketing expenses include payroll, employee benefits and other headcount-related expenses associated with sales and marketing personnel,
and the costs of advertising, promotions, seminars, and other programs. Advertising costs are expensed as incurred. Advertising expense
was $
| ● | Government Grant |
A government grant or subsidy is not recognized until there is reasonable assurance that: (a) the enterprise will comply with the conditions attached to the grant; and (b) the grant will be received. When the Company receives government grant or subsidies but the conditions attached to the grants have not been fulfilled, such government subsidies are deferred and recorded under other payables and accrued expenses, and other long-term liability. The classification of short-term or long-term liabilities is dependent on the management’s expectation of when the conditions attached to the grant can be fulfilled.
The government evaluates the Company’s eligibility
for the grants on a consistent basis, and then makes the payment. Government grants are recognized when received and all the conditions
for their receipt have been met and are recorded as part of Other Income. The grants received were $
| ● | Comprehensive Income (Loss) |
ASC Topic 220, Comprehensive Income, establishes standards for reporting and display of comprehensive income, its components and accumulated balances. Comprehensive income as defined includes all changes in equity during a period from non-owner sources. Accumulated other comprehensive income, as presented in the accompanying statement of shareholder’s equity, consists of changes in unrealized gains and losses on foreign currency translation. This comprehensive income is not included in the computation of income tax expense or benefit.
| ● | Income Taxes |
Income taxes are determined in accordance with the provisions of ASC Topic 740, Income Taxes (“ASC 740”). Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax basis. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted income tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. Any effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date.
ASC 740 prescribes a comprehensive model for how
companies should recognize, measure, present, and disclose in their consolidated financial statements uncertain tax positions taken or
expected to be taken on a tax return. Under ASC 740, tax positions must initially be recognized in the consolidated financial statements
when it is more likely than not the position will be sustained upon examination by the tax authorities. Such tax positions must initially
and subsequently be measured as the largest amount of tax benefit that has a greater than
The Company is subject to tax in its local jurisdiction. As a result of its business activities, the Company files tax returns that are subject to examination by the local tax authorities. As such, the current and deferred tax were assessed based on each subsidiary’s local tax jurisdiction.
As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the Company has significant unrecognized deferred tax assets and liabilities.
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Goods and services tax (“GST”)
Revenues, expenses and assets are recognised net of the amount of GST except:
| - | Where the GST incurred on a purchase of assets or services is not recoverable from the taxation authority, in which case the GST is recognised as part of the cost of acquisition of the asset or as part of the expense item as applicable; and |
| - | Receivables and payables that are stated with the amount of GST included. |
The net amount of GST recoverable from, or payable to, the taxation authority is included as part of receivables or payables in the statement of financial position.
For the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company did not have any interest and penalties associated with tax positions. As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the Company did not have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions.
| ● | Retirement Plan Costs |
Contributions to retirement plans (which are defined
contribution plans) are charged to general and administrative expenses in the accompanying statements of operation as the related employee
service are provided. The Company is required to make contribution to their employees under a government-mandated multi-employer defined
contribution pension scheme for its eligible full-times employees in Singapore. The Company is required to contribute a specified percentage
of the participants’ relevant income based on their ages and wages level. During the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, $
| ● | Segment Reporting |
FASB ASC 280, “Segment Reporting”, establishes standards for reporting information about operating segments on a basis consistent with the Company’s internal organizational structure as well as information about geographical areas, business segments and major customers in financial statements for details on the Company’s business segments.
Operating segments are defined as components of
an enterprise which engage in business activities from which they may earn revenues and incur expenses, and about which separate financial
information is available that is evaluated regularly by the chief operating decision-maker, who is the Company’s Chief Executive
Officer, in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. Reportable segments are defined as an operating segment
that either (a) exceeds
The Group has
| ● | Related Parties |
The Company follows the ASC 850-10, Related Party for the identification of related parties and disclosure of related party transactions.
Pursuant to section 850-10-20 the related parties include: (a) affiliates of the Company; (b) entities for which investments in their equity securities would be required, absent the election of the fair value option under the Fair Value Option Subsection of section 825–10–15, to be accounted for by the equity method by the investing entity; (c) trusts for the benefit of employees, such as pension and Income-sharing trusts that are managed by or under the trusteeship of management; (d) principal owners of the Company; (e) management of the Company; (f) other parties with which the Company may deal if one party controls or can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests; and (g) other parties that can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the transacting parties or that have an ownership interest in one of the transacting parties and can significantly influence the other to an extent that one or more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests.
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The financial statements shall include disclosures of material related party transactions, other than compensation arrangements, expense allowances, and other similar items in the ordinary course of business. However, disclosure of transactions that are eliminated in the preparation of consolidated or combined financial statements is not required in those statements. The disclosures shall include: (a) the nature of the relationship(s) involved; (b) a description of the transactions, including transactions to which no amounts or nominal amounts were ascribed, for each of the periods for which income statements are presented, and such other information deemed necessary to an understanding of the effects of the transactions on the financial statements; (c) the dollar amounts of transactions for each of the periods for which income statements are presented and the effects of any change in the method of establishing the terms from that used in the preceding period; and (d) amount due from or to related parties as of the date of each balance sheet presented and, if not otherwise apparent, the terms and manner of settlement.
| ● | Commitments and Contingencies |
The Company follows the ASC 450-20, Commitments to report accounting for contingencies. Certain conditions may exist as of the date the financial statements are issued, which may result in a loss to the Company but which will only be resolved when one or more future events occur or fail to occur. The Company assesses such contingent liabilities, and such assessment inherently involves an exercise of judgment. In assessing loss contingencies related to legal proceedings that are pending against the Company or un-asserted claims that may result in such proceedings, the Company evaluates the perceived merits of any legal proceedings or un-asserted claims as well as the perceived merits of the amount of relief sought or expected to be sought therein.
If the assessment of a contingency indicates that it is probable that a material loss has been incurred and the amount of the liability can be estimated, then the estimated liability would be accrued in the Company’s financial statements. If the assessment indicates that a potentially material loss contingency is not probable but is reasonably possible, or is probable but cannot be estimated, then the nature of the contingent liability, and an estimate of the range of possible losses, if determinable and material, would be disclosed.
Loss contingencies considered remote are generally not disclosed unless they involve guarantees, in which case the guarantees would be disclosed. Management does not believe, based upon information available at this time that these matters will have a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows. However, there is no assurance that such matters will not materially and adversely affect the Company’s business, financial position, and results of operations or cash flows.
| ● | Concentration of Credit Risk |
Financial instruments that potentially subject
the Company to credit risk consist of cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable. Cash equivalents are maintained with high
credit quality institutions, the composition and maturities of which are regularly monitored by management. The Singapore Deposit Protection
Board pays compensation up to a limit of S$
For accounts receivable, the Company determines, on a continuing basis, the allowance for doubtful accounts are based on the estimated realizable value. The Company identifies credit risk on a customer by customer basis. The information is monitored regularly by management. Concentration of credit risk arises when a group of customers having similar characteristics such that their ability to meet their obligations is expected to be affected similarly by changes in economic conditions.
| ● | Exchange Rate Risk |
The reporting currency of the Company is US$, to date the majority of the Company’s revenues and costs are denominated in US$ and S$, a majority of the Company’s assets are denominated in US$ and S$ and a significant portion of the Company’s liabilities are denominated in S$. As a result, the Company is exposed to foreign exchange risk as its revenues and results of operations may be affected by fluctuations in the exchange rate between US$ and S$. If S$ depreciates against US$, the value of S$ revenues, costs and assets as expressed in US$ financial statements will decline. The Company does not hold any derivative or other financial instruments that expose to substantial market risk.
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| ● | Liquidity Risk |
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they become due. The Company’s policy is to ensure that it has sufficient cash to meet its liabilities when they become due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Company’s reputation. A key risk in managing liquidity is the degree of uncertainty in the cash flow projections. If future cash flows are fairly uncertain, the liquidity risk increases.
| ● | Fair Value Measurement |
The Company follows the guidance of the ASC Topic 820-10, Fair Value Measurements and Disclosure (“ASC 820-10”), with respect to financial assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value. ASC 820-10 establishes a three-tier fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs used in measuring fair value as follows:
| ● | Level 1 : Inputs are based upon unadjusted quoted prices for identical instruments traded in active markets; | |
| ● | Level 2 : Inputs are based upon quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active, and model-based valuation techniques (e.g. Black-Scholes Option-Pricing model) for which all significant inputs are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities. Where applicable, these models project future cash flows and discount the future amounts to a present value using market-based observable inputs; and | |
| ● | Level 3 : Inputs are generally unobservable and typically reflect management’s estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. The fair values are therefore determined using model-based techniques, including option pricing models and discounted cash flow models. |
The carrying value of the Company’s financial instruments: cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts receivable, loans receivable, accounts payable, income tax payable, amount due to a related party, other payables and accrued liabilities approximate at their fair values because of the short-term nature of these financial instruments.
Management believes, based on the current market prices or interest rates for similar debt instruments, the fair value of note payable approximate the carrying amount. The Company accounts for loans receivable at cost, subject to impairment testing. The Company obtains a third-party valuation based upon loan level data including note rate, type and term of the underlying loans.
The Company’s non-marketable equity securities are investments in privately held companies, which are without readily determinable market values and are classified as Level 3, due to the absence of quoted market prices, the inherent lack of liquidity and the fact that inputs used to measure fair value are unobservable and require management’s judgment.
Fair value estimates are made at a specific point in time based on relevant market information about the financial instrument. These estimates are subjective in nature and involve uncertainties and matters of significant judgment and, therefore, cannot be determined with precision. Changes in assumptions could significantly affect the estimates.
| ● | Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements |
In June 2023, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2022-03 Fair Value Measurements (Topic 820): Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions. These amendments clarify that a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security is not considered part of the unit of account of the equity security and, therefore, is not considered in measuring fair value. This guidance is effective for public business entities for fiscal years, including interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after October 15, 2023. Early adoption is permitted. The Company has assessed ASU 2023-03 and early adopted the guidance during the second quarter of 2023. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
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In March 2023, the FASB issued ASU No. 2023-01, Leases (Topic 842) – Common-Control Arrangements. This guidance amends the accounting for leasehold improvements in common-control arrangements by requiring a lessee in a common-control arrangement to amortize leasehold improvements that it owns over the improvements’ useful life to the common-control group, regardless of the lease term, if the lessee continues to control the use of the underlying asset through a lease. The new standard will become effective for the Company beginning in fiscal year 2025. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In October 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements: Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative, which incorporates certain SEC disclosure requirements into the FASB Accounting Standards Codification. This update will improve disclosure and presentation requirements of a variety of topics and align the requirements in the FASB codification with the SEC’s regulations. The adoption did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment Reporting (Topic 280)” (“ASU 2023-07”). The amendments in ASU 2023-07 improve financial reporting by requiring disclosure of incremental segment information on an annual and interim basis for all public entities to enable investors to develop more decision useful financial analyses. Topic 280 requires a public entity to report a measure of segment profit or loss that the chief operating decision maker (CODM) uses to assess segment performance and make decisions about allocating resources. Topic 280 also requires other specified segment items and amounts, such as depreciation, amortization, and depletion expense, to be disclosed under certain circumstances. The amendments in ASU 202307 do not change or remove those disclosure requirements. The amendments in ASU 2023-07 also do not change how a public entity identifies its operating segments, aggregates those operating segments, or applies the quantitative thresholds to determine its reportable segments. The amendments in ASU 2023-07 are effective for years beginning after December 15, 2023 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, adopted retrospectively. Management considers that the guidance does not have a significant impact on the disclosures set out in these consolidated financial statements.
In December 2023, FASB issued Accounting Standards
Update (“ASU”) 2023-09, “Income Taxes (Topic 740)” (“ASU 2023-09”). The amendments in ASU 2023-09
address investor requests for more transparency about income tax information through improvements to income tax disclosures primarily
related to the rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. One of the amendments in ASU 2023-09 includes disclosure of, on
an annual basis, a tabular rate reconciliation of (i) the reported income tax expense (or benefit) from continuing operations, to (ii)
the product of the income (or loss) from continuing operations before income taxes and the applicable statutory federal income tax rate
of the jurisdiction of domicile using specific categories, including separate disclosure for any reconciling items within certain categories
that are equal to or greater than a specified quantitative threshold of
In November 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-03, “Income Statement–Reporting Comprehensive Income–Expense Disaggregation Disclosures (Subtopic 220-40): Disaggregation of Income Statement Expenses” (“ASU 2024-03”), which requires the disaggregation of certain expenses in the financial statements notes, to provide enhanced transparency into the expense captions presented on the face of the consolidated statement of operations. ASU 2024-03 is effective for annual reporting periods beginning January 1, 2027 and interim periods beginning January 1, 2028 and may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively. The Company is currently evaluating the impact that ASU 2024-03 will have on its related disclosures, and the transition method.
Except for the above-mentioned pronouncements, there are no new recently issued accounting standards that will have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements.
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NOTE – 3 BUSINESS SEGMENT AND DISAGGREGATION OF REVENUE (RESTATEMENT)
The Company has disaggregated its revenue from contracts with customers into categories based on the business segment and nature of the revenue in the following table:
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Satellite connectivity solution | Digitalization and other solution | Unallocated | Total | Satellite connectivity solution | Digitalization and other solution | Unallocated | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subscription | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equipment, device and services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cost of revenue | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subscription | $ | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | $ | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Equipment, device and services | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ( |
) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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) | ( |
) | ( |
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| Gross profit | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Subscription | $ | ( |
) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Equipment, device and services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operating expenses | $ | ( |
) | ( |
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) | ( |
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| Income/(loss) from operations | ( |
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| Finance income | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finance cost | ( |
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| Income/ (loss) before income taxes | ( |
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| Segment assets | $ | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Segment liabilities | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The following table presents revenues earned from external customers:
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Subscription income from satellite connection service | $ | $ | ||||||
| Sales and lease of satellite network equipment and device | ||||||||
| Subscription income from Jarviss | ||||||||
| Revenue from IT support services | ||||||||
| Revenue from shipboard support services | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
The major customers (refer to Note 16(a) for
further details) contributed for $
Included in the revenue from sales and lease of
equipment, device and services of satellite connectivity solution of $
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
The following table presents revenues by geographic area based on the countries in which the customer is located:
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Singapore | $ | $ | ||||||
| Israel | ||||||||
| Malaysia | ||||||||
| Vietnam | ||||||||
| Republic of Marshall Islands | ||||||||
| Thailand | ||||||||
| Indonesia | ||||||||
| Republic of China | ||||||||
| Others | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
NOTE－4 FINANCE INCOME
Finance income consisted of interest income from sales-type lease as a lessor.
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NOTE－5 FINANCE COSTS
Finance costs consisted of the following:
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Interest expense in relating to finance lease | $ | $ | ||||||
| Interest expense in relating to bank borrowing | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
NOTE－6 ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE, NET
Accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Accounts receivable, net | $ | $ | ||||||
The Company generally conducts its business with creditworthy third parties. The Company determines, on a continuing basis, the probable losses and an allowance for doubtful accounts, based on several factors including internal risk ratings, customer credit quality, payment history, historical bad debt/write-off experience and forecasted economic and market conditions. For the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company made allowance for doubtful accounts.
Accounts receivable are written off after exhaustive
collection efforts occur and the receivable is deemed uncollectible. In addition, receivable balances are monitored on an ongoing basis
and its exposure to bad debts is not significant. There was no bad debt write-offs for the year ended March 31, 2025 (2024: $
At March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the analysis of the accounts receivable aging at the reporting date was as follows.
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Less than 30 days | $ | $ | ||||||
| 31-60 days | ||||||||
| 61-90 days | ||||||||
| More than 90 days | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
The unsatisfied performance obligation resulting from long term satellite connectivity and digitalization contracts were expected to be recognized as revenue over the periods as specified below:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Less than 1 year | $ | $ | ||||||
| From 1 to 2 years | ||||||||
| From 2 to 3 years | ||||||||
| From 3 to 4 years | ||||||||
| From 4 to 5 years | ||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | ||||||
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NOTE－7 INVENTORIES
The Company’s inventories consisted of the following:-
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Satellite network and information technology equipment, at cost | $ | $ | ||||||
reserve for obsolete inventories as of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.
NOTE－8 DEFERRED OFFERING COSTS
Included in the deposits, prepayments and other receivables, the deferred offering costs as of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 were as follows:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Deferred offering costs | $ | $ | ||||||
NOTE－9 PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET
Property and equipment consisted of the following:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| At cost: | ||||||||
| Right-of-use assets | $ | $ | ||||||
| Equipment | ||||||||
| Computer equipment | ||||||||
| Furniture, fixtures and fittings | ||||||||
| Motor vehicles | ||||||||
| Less: accumulated depreciation | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Property and equipment, net | $ | $ | ||||||
Property and equipment under finance leasing arrangements
classified under equipment as of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 amounted to $
under operating leasing arrangements
as of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024 amounted to $
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Depreciation expense for the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 were included in cost of revenue and general and administrative expenses as below:-
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Cost of revenue: | ||||||||
| Depreciation on equipment under finance lease | $ | $ | ||||||
| General and administrative expenses | ||||||||
| Depreciation on rights of use assets under operating lease | ||||||||
| Depreciation on other assets | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
NOTE－10 LEASES
Company as a lessee
The Company
has entered into agreements to purchase the equipment used in its operations. The lease terms are
The Company
has also entered into agreements for office and warehouse. The remaining lives of the leases were less than
The table below presents the lease-related assets and liabilities recorded on the consolidated balance sheet.
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Assets | ||||||||
| Finance lease, right-of-use assets, net | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating lease, right-of-use assets, net | ||||||||
| Total right-of-use asset | $ | $ | ||||||
| Liabilities | ||||||||
| Current: | ||||||||
| Finance lease liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | ||||||||
| Non-current: | ||||||||
| Finance lease liabilities | ||||||||
| Operating lease liabilities | ||||||||
| Total lease liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
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| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Finance lease cost: | ||||||||
| Interest on lease liabilities (per ASC 842) | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating lease cost: | ||||||||
| Operating lease expense (per ASC 842) | ||||||||
| Total lease expense | $ | $ | ||||||
The Company excludes short-term leases (those with lease terms of less than one year at inception) from the measurement of . There were no short-term leases for years ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.
Components of Lease Expense
The Company recognize lease expense on a straight-line basis over the term of the operating leases, as reported within “general and administrative” expense on the accompanying consolidated statement of operations.
Future Contractual Lease Payments
Finance lease
As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the maturities of finance lease liabilities (excluding short-term leases) were as follows:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Less than 1 year | $ | $ | ||||||
| More than 1 year | ||||||||
| Total undiscounted lease payments | ||||||||
| Less: Interest | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
| Representing:- | ||||||||
| Current liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Non-current liabilities | ||||||||
Operating lease
As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the maturities of operating lease liabilities (excluding short-term leases) were as follows:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Less than 1 year (current liabilities) | $ | $ | ||||||
| From 1 to 2 years (non-current liabilities) | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
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Company as a lessor
Sales-type lease receivables
The Company
has entered into sales-type lease agreements with customers for sales of equipment. The lease terms are
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Gross lease receivables | $ | $ | ||||||
| Received cash | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Unearned interest income | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
| Reported as: | ||||||||
| Current net investment in sales-type lease | ||||||||
| Non-current net investment in sales-type lease | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, undiscounted cash flows of our sales-type lease receivables from customers for the next five years and thereafter were as follows:
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Less than 1 year | $ | $ | ||||||
| From 1 to 2 years | ||||||||
| From 2 to 3 years | ||||||||
| From 3 to 4 years | ||||||||
| From 4 to 5 years | ||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | ||||||
Lease income in operating lease
The Company
has entered into lease agreements with customers for rental of equipment. The leases are fixed payment and the lease terms are
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Lease income relating to operating lease | $ | $ | ||||||
The operating
lease term is
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Less than 1 year | $ | $ | ||||||
| From 1 to 2 years | ||||||||
| From 2 to 3 years | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
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NOTE－11 INTANGIBLE ASSETS
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Intangible assets: | ||||||||
| Software license | $ | $ | ||||||
| Software under development | ||||||||
| Less: accumulated amortization | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Intangible assets, net | $ | $ | ||||||
The amortization expense, included in the cost
of revenue, for year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 was $
As of March 31, 2025, the estimated future amortization of finite-lived intangible assets for the next five years and thereafter was as follows:
| Year ended March 31, 2026 | $ | |||
| Year ended March 31, 2027 | ||||
| Year ended March 31, 2028 | ||||
| Year ended March 31, 2029 | ||||
| Thereafter | ||||
| Total | $ |
NOTE－12 BANK BORROWING
Bank borrowing consisted of the following:
| Term of repayments | Annual interest rate | March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||||
| Term loan | % | $ | $ | |||||||||
| Representing :- | ||||||||||||
| Within 12 months | $ | $ | ||||||||||
| Over 1 year | ||||||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||||||
As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, bank
borrowing was obtained from a financial institution in Singapore, which bear annual interest at a fixed rate from
The Company’s bank borrowing is guaranteed under personal guarantees from the directors, Eng Chye Koh and Joanna Hui Cheng Soh, and a third party.
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NOTE - 13 SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (RESTATEMENT)
Ordinary Shares
iO3 Cayman was established under the laws of Cayman
Islands on August 21, 2023. After the reorganization exercise (see Note 1), iO3 Cayman has an authorized share of
On August 22, 2024, the Company conducted forward share consolidation and share split as follow:
(a) Share consolidated at the ratio of 1:5, i.e. every 5 ordinary shares were consolidated to 1 ordinary share; and
(b) Share split at the ratio of 8:1, i.e. every 1 ordinary share was subdivided into 8 ordinary shares.
Subsequent to the above exercise, the Company
has an authorised share of
iO3 Cayman is authorized to issue one class of Ordinary Share.
The holders of iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share are entitled to the following rights:
Voting Rights: Each share of iO3 Cayman’s
Ordinary Share entitles its holder to
Dividend Right: Subject to limitations under Cayman law and preferences that may apply to any shares of preferred share that iO3 Cayman may decide to issue in the future, holders of iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share are entitled to receive ratably such dividends or other distributions, if any, as may be declared by the Board of iO3 Cayman out of funds legally available therefor.
Liquidation Right: In the event of the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our business, the holders of iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share are entitled to share ratably in the assets available for distribution after the payment of all of the debts and other liabilities of iO3 Cayman, subject to the prior rights of the holders of iO3 Cayman’s preferred share.
Other Matters: The holders of iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share have no subscription, redemption or conversion privileges. iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share does not entitle its holders to preemptive rights. All of the outstanding shares of iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share are fully paid and non-assessable. The rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of iO3 Cayman’s Ordinary Share are subject to the rights of the holders of shares of any series of preferred share which iO3 Cayman may issue in the future.
Dividend Distribution
| March 31, 2025 | March 31, 2024 | |||||||
| Declared and paid during the financial year ended | ||||||||
| Dividends on ordinary shares: | ||||||||
| Interim exempt (one-tier) dividends of (March 31, 2024: $ | $ | - | $ | |||||
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NOTE－14 INCOME TAXES
The provision for income taxes consisted of the following:
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Under / (Over) provision for income taxes in prior financial years | $ | $ | ( | ) | ||||
The effective tax rate in the years presented is the result of the mix of income earned in various tax jurisdictions that apply a broad range of income tax rate. The Company’s subsidiaries are subject to taxes in the jurisdiction in which they operate, as follows:
BVI
iOThree Maritime Technologies Limited is considered to be an exempted British Virgin Islands Company and is presently not subject to income taxes or income tax filing requirements in the British Virgin Islands or the United States.
Singapore
iO3 Pte. Ltd’s operations are primarily
conducted in Singapore and are therefore subject to Singaporean tax law at the corporate tax rate at
The reconciliation of income tax rate to the effective income tax rate based on income before income taxes for the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 are as follows:
| Years ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| (Loss) / Income before income taxes | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Statutory income tax rate | % | % | ||||||
| Income tax expense at statutory rate | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Tax incentives | ( | ) | ||||||
| Tax effect of deductible contractual lease payment | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Tax effect of non-deductible items | ||||||||
| Tax exemptions in relating to newly incorporated company | ( | ) | ||||||
| Utilization of capital allowance | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Under/(Over) provision of income taxes in prior financial years, net | ( | ) | ||||||
| Others | ||||||||
| Income tax expense / (credit) | $ | $ | ( | ) | ||||
Uncertain tax positions
The Company evaluates the uncertain tax position (including the potential application of interest and penalties) based on the technical merits, and measure the unrecognized benefits associated with the tax positions. As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the Company did not have any significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions. The Company did not incur any interest and penalties related to potential underpaid income tax expenses for the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 and also did not anticipate any significant increases or decreases in unrecognized tax benefits in the next 12 months from March 31, 2025.
NOTE－15 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
Apart from the transactions and balances detailed elsewhere in these accompanying consolidated financial statements, the Company has no other significant or material related party transactions during the years presented.
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NOTE－16 CONCENTRATIONS OF RISK
The Company is exposed to the following concentrations of risk:
| (a) | Major customers |
For the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the customers who accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s revenue are as below:
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Percentage of revenue | Accounts receivable | Percentage of revenue | Accounts receivable | |||||||||||||
| Customer A (Digitalization and other solution segment) | % | $ | % | $ | ||||||||||||
| Customer B (Connectivity segment) | % | |||||||||||||||
| (b) | Major vendors |
For the year ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the vendor who accounted for 10% or more of the Company’s purchases and its outstanding payable balances as at year end date, is presented as follows:
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Percentage of purchases | |
Accounts payable | Percentage of purchases | Accounts payable | ||||||||||||
| Vendor A | % | $ | % | $ | ||||||||||||
| Vendor B | % | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Credit risk |
Financial instruments that potentially subject
the Company to credit risk consist of cash equivalents, restricted cash, accounts and financing receivable. Cash equivalents are maintained
with high credit quality institutions, the composition and maturities of which are regularly monitored by management. The Singapore Deposit
Protection Board pays compensation up to a limit of S$
For accounts receivable, the Company determines, on a continuing basis, the probable losses and sets up an allowance for doubtful accounts based on the estimated realizable value.
The Company has adopted a policy of only dealing with creditworthy counterparties. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluation of its counterparties’ financial condition and generally do not require a collateral. The Company also considers the probability of default upon initial recognition of asset and whether there has been a significant increase in credit risk on an ongoing basis throughout each reporting period.
The Company has determined the default event on a financial asset to be when internal and/or external information indicates that the financial asset is unlikely to be received, which could include default of contractual payments due for more than 90 days or there is significant difficulty of the counterparty.
To minimize credit risk, the Company has developed and maintained its credit risk grading to categorize exposures according to their degree of risk of default. The credit rating information is supplied by publicly available financial information and the Company’s own trading records to rate its major customers and other debtors. The Company considers available reasonable and supportive forward-looking information which includes the following indicators:
| ● | Actual or expected significant adverse changes in business, financial or economic conditions that are expected to cause a significant change to the debtor’s ability to meet its obligations | |
| ● | Internal credit rating | |
| ● | External credit rating and when necessary |
Regardless of the analysis above, a significant increase in credit risk is presumed if a debtor is more than 60 days past due in making contractual payment.
As of March 31, 2025,
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| (d) | Interest rate risk |
As the Company has no significant interest-bearing assets, the Company’s income and operating cash flows are substantially independent of changes in market interest rates.
The Company’s interest-rate risk arises from bank borrowings. The Company manages interest rate risk by managing the mixture of fixed and variable rate debt, the issuance and maturity dates of debt, limiting the amount of variable rate debt, and continually monitoring the effects of market changes in interest rates. As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the borrowings were at fixed interest rates.
| (e) | Economic and political risk |
The Company’s major operations are conducted in Asia. Accordingly, the political, economic, and legal environments in Asia, as well as the general state of Asia’s economy may influence the Company’s business, financial condition, and results of operations.
| (f) | Exchange rate risk |
The Company cannot guarantee that the current exchange rate will remain steady; therefore there is a possibility that the Company could post the same amount of profit for two comparable periods and because of the fluctuating exchange rate actually post higher or lower profit depending on exchange rate of S$ converted to US$ on that date. The exchange rate could fluctuate depending on changes in political and economic environments without notice.
| (g) | Liquidity risk |
Liquidity risk is the risk that the Company will not be able to meet its financial obligations as they become due. The Company’s policy is to ensure that it has sufficient cash to meet its liabilities when they become due, under both normal and stressed conditions, without incurring unacceptable losses or risking damage to the Company’s reputation. A key risk in managing liquidity is the degree of uncertainty in the cash flow projections. If future cash flows are fairly uncertain, the liquidity risk increases.
NOTE－17 COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Litigation — From time to time, the Company may be involved in various legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of business. The Company currently is not aware of any legal proceedings or claims that it believes will have, individually or in the aggregate, a material adverse effect on its business, financial condition, operating results, or cash flows.
As of March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, the Company has material commitments or contingencies.
NOTE－18 OFF-BALANCE SHEET TRANSACTIONS
As of March 31, 2025, the Company has not entered into any material off-balance sheet transactions or arrangements.
The Company has not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. In addition, the Company has not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our own shares and classified as shareholders’ equity, or that are not reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Furthermore, the Company do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. Moreover, the Company do not have any variable interest in an unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.
NOTE－19 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
In accordance with ASC Topic 855, “Subsequent Events”, which establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before condensed consolidated financial statements are issued, the Company has evaluated the impact of all events or transactions that occurred after March 31, 2025, up through the date the Company issued the audited consolidated financial statements. Apart from the transactions disclosed elsewhere in these accompanying consolidated financial statements, the Company did not have any material subsequent events other than disclosed above.
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Exhibit 2.1
DESCRIPTION OF THE REGISTRANT’S SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, AS AMENDED
iOThree Limited has one class of securities registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”): ordinary shares, par value $0.00625 per share (the “Ordinary Shares”).
References herein to “we,” “us,” “our,” and “Company” refer to iOThree Limited.
The following represents a summary of our securities and does not purport to be complete. It is subject to and qualified in its entirety by reference to our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, and certain related sections of the Companies Act of the Cayman Islands (the “Companies Act”). We encourage you to read our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, which are attached as an exhibit to this Annual Report, as well as the applicable sections of the Companies Act for additional information.
Share Capital
The authorized share capital of the Company is $500,000 divided into 80,000,000 Ordinary Shares, with a par value of $0.00625 per share.
Our Ordinary Shares have been listed on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) since April 10, 2025, under the symbol “IOTR.”
Objectives of Our Company. Under our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, the objects of our Company will be unrestricted and we have the full power and authority to carry out any object not prohibited by the law of the Cayman Islands.
Ordinary Shares. Our Ordinary Shares are issued in registered form and are issued when registered in our register of members. We may not issue shares to bearer. Our shareholders who are non-residents of the Cayman Islands may freely hold and vote their shares.
Dividends. The holders of our Ordinary Shares are entitled to such dividends as may be declared by our board of directors. In addition, our shareholders may declare dividends by ordinary resolution, but no dividend shall exceed the amount recommended by our directors. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association will provide that the directors may, before recommending or declaring any dividend, set aside out of the funds legally available for distribution such sums as they think proper as a reserve or reserves which shall, in the absolute discretion of the directors, be applicable for meeting contingencies or for equalizing dividends or for any other purpose to which those funds may be properly applied. Under the laws of the Cayman Islands, our Company may pay a dividend out of either profit or the credit standing in our Company’s share premium account or as otherwise permitted by the Companies Act, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if this would result in our Company being unable to pay its debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business immediately following the date on which the distribution or dividend is paid.
Voting Rights. Subject to any rights and restrictions attached to any shares, on a show of hands every shareholder present in person and every person representing a shareholder by proxy shall, at a general meeting of the Company, each have one vote and on a poll every shareholder and every person representing a shareholder by proxy shall have one vote for each ordinary share of which he or the person represented by proxy is the holder. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided by a poll.
An ordinary resolution to be passed at a meeting by the shareholders requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes attaching to the Ordinary Shares cast at a meeting, while a special resolution requires the affirmative vote of no less than two-thirds of the votes cast attaching to the outstanding Ordinary Shares at a meeting. A special resolution will be required for important matters such as a change of name or making changes to our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association. Holders of the Ordinary Shares may, among other things, divide or combine their shares by ordinary resolution.
General Meetings of Shareholders. As a Cayman Islands exempted company, we are not obliged by the Companies Act to call shareholders’ annual general meetings. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association will provide that we may (but are not obliged to) in each year hold a general meeting as our annual general meeting in which case we shall specify the meeting as such in the notices calling it, and the annual general meeting shall be held at such time and place as may be determined by our directors.
Shareholders’ general meetings may be convened by a majority of our board of directors. Advance notice of at least seven calendar days is required for the convening of our annual general shareholders’ meeting (if any) and any other general meeting of our shareholders. A quorum required for any general meeting of shareholders consists of at least one shareholder present or by proxy, representing not less than one-third of all votes attaching to all of our shares in issue and entitled to vote.
The Companies Act provides shareholders with only limited rights to requisition a general meeting, and does not provide shareholders with any right to put any proposal before a general meeting. However, these rights may be provided in a company’s articles of association. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association will provide that upon the requisition of shareholders representing, as at the date of the deposit of the requisition, in aggregate not less than one-third of the votes attaching to the issued and outstanding shares of our Company that as at the date of the deposit entitled to vote at general meetings, our chairman or board will convene an extraordinary general meeting and put the resolutions so requisitioned to a vote at such meeting.
Transfer of Ordinary Shares. Subject to the restrictions set out below, any of our shareholders may transfer all or any of his or her Ordinary Shares by an instrument of transfer in the usual or common form or any other form approved by our board of directors.
Liquidation. On the winding up of our Company, if the assets available for distribution amongst our shareholders shall be more than sufficient to repay the whole of the share capital at the commencement of the winding up, the surplus shall be distributed amongst our shareholders in proportion to the par value of the shares held by them at the commencement of the winding up, subject to a deduction from those shares in respect of which there are monies due, of all monies payable to our Company for unpaid calls or otherwise. If our assets available for distribution are insufficient to repay the whole of the share capital, the assets will be distributed so that the losses are borne by our shareholders in proportion to the par value of the shares held by them.
Calls on Shares and Forfeiture of Shares. Our board of directors may from time to time make calls upon shareholders for any amounts unpaid on their shares in a notice served to such shareholders at least 14 calendar days prior to the specified time or times of payment. The shares that have been called upon and remain unpaid are subject to forfeiture.
Redemption, Repurchase and Surrender of Shares. We may issue shares on terms that such shares are subject to redemption, at our option or at the option of the holders of these shares, on such terms and in such manner as may be determined by our board of directors. We may also repurchase any of our shares on such terms and in such manner as have been approved by our board of directors or by an ordinary resolution of our shareholders. Under the Companies Act, the redemption or repurchase of any share may be paid out of our profits, out of the share premium account, or out of the proceeds of a new issue of shares made for the purpose of such redemption or repurchase, or out of capital (including share premium account and capital redemption reserve) if our Company can, immediately following such payment, pay its debts as they fall due in the ordinary course of business. In addition, under the Companies Act no such share may be redeemed or repurchased (a) unless it is fully paid up, (b) if such redemption or repurchase would result in there being no shares outstanding or (c) if the company has commenced liquidation. In addition, our Company may accept the surrender of any fully paid share for no consideration.
Variations of Rights of Shares. If at any time our share capital is divided into different classes or series of shares, the rights attached to any class or series of shares (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class or series), whether or not our Company is being wound-up, may be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of at least two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or series or with the sanction of an ordinary resolution passed at a separate meeting of the holders of the shares of the class or series. The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class issued shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking pari passu with such existing class of shares.
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Issuance of Additional Shares. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association will authorize our board of directors to issue additional Ordinary Shares from time to time as our board of directors shall determine, to the extent of available authorized but unissued shares.
Inspection of Books and Records. Holders of our Ordinary Shares will have no general right under Cayman Islands law to inspect or obtain copies of our corporate records (except for the Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association of our Company, any special resolutions passed by our Company and the register of mortgages and charges of our Company). However, we will provide our shareholders with annual audited financial statements.
Anti-Takeover Provisions. Some provisions of our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association may discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our Company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including provisions that:
| ● | authorize our board of directors to issue preference shares in one or more series and to designate the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of such preference shares without any further vote or action by our shareholders; and |
| ● | limit the ability of shareholders to requisition and convene general meetings of shareholders. |
However, under Cayman Islands law, our directors may only exercise the rights and powers granted to them under our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association for a proper purpose and for what they believe in good faith to be in the best interests of our Company.
Exempted Company. We are an exempted company with limited liability under the Companies Act. The Companies Act distinguishes between ordinary resident companies and exempted companies. Any company that is registered in the Cayman Islands but conducts business mainly outside of the Cayman Islands may apply to be registered as an exempted company. The requirements for an exempted company are essentially the same as for an ordinary company except that an exempted company:
| ● | does not have to file an annual return of its shareholders with the Registrar of Companies; |
| ● | is not required to open its register of members for inspection; |
| ● | does not have to hold an annual general meeting; |
| ● | may issue negotiable or bearer shares or shares with no par value; |
| ● | may obtain an undertaking against the imposition of any future taxation (such undertakings are usually given for 20 years in the first instance); |
| ● | may register by way of continuation in another jurisdiction and be deregistered in the Cayman Islands; |
| ● | may register as a limited duration company; and |
| ● | may register as a segregated portfolio company. |
“Limited liability” means that the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount unpaid by the shareholder on the shares of the company (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstances in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).
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Differences in Corporate Law
The Companies Act is derived, to a large extent, from the older Companies Acts of England but does not follow recent English statutory enactments and accordingly there are significant differences between the Companies Act and the current Companies Act of England. In addition, the Companies Act differs from laws applicable to U.S. corporations and their shareholders. Set forth below is a summary of certain significant differences between the provisions of the Companies Act applicable to us and the laws applicable to companies incorporated in the United States and their shareholders.
Mergers and Similar Arrangements. The Companies Act permits mergers and consolidations between Cayman Islands companies and between Cayman Islands companies and non-Cayman Islands companies. For these purposes, (i) “merger” means the merging of two or more constituent companies and the vesting of their undertaking, property and liabilities in one of such companies as the surviving company, and (ii) a “consolidation” means the combination of two or more constituent companies into a consolidated company and the vesting of the undertaking, property and liabilities of such companies to the consolidated company. In order to effect such a merger or consolidation, the directors of each constituent company must approve a written plan of merger or consolidation, which must then be authorized by (a) a special resolution of the shareholders of each constituent company, and (b) such other authorization, if any, as may be specified in such constituent company’s articles of association. The written plan of merger or consolidation must be filed with the Registrar of Companies of the Cayman Islands together with a declaration as to the solvency of the consolidated or surviving company, a list of the assets and liabilities of each constituent company and an undertaking that a copy of the certificate of merger or consolidation will be given to the members and creditors of each constituent company and that notification of the merger or consolidation will be published in the Cayman Islands Gazette. Court approval is not required for a merger or consolidation which is effected in compliance with these statutory procedures.
A merger between a Cayman parent company and its Cayman subsidiary or subsidiaries does not require authorization by a resolution of shareholders of that Cayman subsidiary if a copy of the plan of merger is given to every member of that Cayman subsidiary to be merged unless that member agrees otherwise. For this purpose a company is a “parent” of a subsidiary if it holds issued shares that together represent at least ninety percent (90%) of the votes at a general meeting of the subsidiary.
The consent of each holder of a fixed or floating security interest over a constituent company is required unless this requirement is waived by a court in the Cayman Islands.
Save in certain limited circumstances, a shareholder of a Cayman constituent company who dissents from the merger or consolidation is entitled to payment of the fair value of his shares (which, if not agreed between the parties, will be determined by the Cayman Islands court) upon dissenting to the merger or consolidation, provide the dissenting shareholder complies strictly with the procedures set out in the Companies Act. The exercise of dissenter rights will preclude the exercise by the dissenting shareholder of any other rights to which he or she might otherwise be entitled by virtue of holding shares, save for the right to seek relief on the grounds that the merger or consolidation is void or unlawful.
Separate from the statutory provisions relating to mergers and consolidations, the Companies Act also contains statutory provisions that facilitate the reconstruction and amalgamation of companies by way of schemes of arrangement, provided that the arrangement is approved by a majority in number representing seventy-five per cent in value of the creditors or class of creditors, or is approved by seventy-five per cent in value of the shareholders or class of shareholders, as the case may be, that are present and voting either in person or by proxy at a meeting, or meetings, convened for that purpose. The convening of the meetings and subsequently the arrangement must be sanctioned by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. While a dissenting shareholder has the right to express to the court the view that the transaction ought not to be approved, the court can be expected to approve the arrangement if it determines that:
| ● | the statutory provisions as to the required majority vote have been met; |
| ● | the shareholders have been fairly represented at the meeting in question and the statutory majority are acting bona fide without coercion of the minority to promote interests adverse to those of the class; |
| ● | the arrangement is such that may be reasonably approved by an intelligent and honest man of that class acting in respect of his interest; and |
| ● | the arrangement is not one that would more properly be sanctioned under some other provision of the Companies Act. |
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The Companies Act also contains a statutory power of compulsory acquisition which may facilitate the “squeeze out” of dissentient minority shareholder upon a tender offer. When a tender offer is made and accepted by holders of not less than 90.0% in value of the shares affected within four months, the offeror may, within a two-month period commencing on the expiration of such four month period, require the holders of the remaining shares to transfer such shares to the offeror on the terms of the offer. An objection can be made to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands but this is unlikely to succeed in the case of an offer which has been so approved unless there is evidence of fraud, bad faith or collusion.
If an arrangement and reconstruction by way of scheme of arrangement is thus approved and sanctioned, or if a tender offer is made and accepted, a dissenting shareholder would have no rights comparable to appraisal rights, which would otherwise ordinarily be available to dissenting shareholders of Delaware corporations, providing rights to receive payment in cash for the judicially determined value of the shares.
Shareholders’ Suits. In principle, we will normally be the proper plaintiff to sue for a wrong done to us as a company, and as a general rule a derivative action may not be brought by a minority shareholder. However, based on English authorities, which would in all likelihood be of persuasive authority in the Cayman Islands, the Cayman Islands court can be expected to follow and apply the common law principles (namely the rule in Foss v. Harbottle and the exceptions thereto) so that a non-controlling shareholder may be permitted to commence a class action against or derivative actions in the name of the company to challenge actions where:
| ● | a company acts or proposes to act illegally or ultra vires; |
| ● | the act complained of, although not ultra vires, could only be effected duly if authorized by more than a simple majority vote that has not been obtained; and |
| ● | those who control the company are perpetrating a “fraud on the minority.” |
Indemnification of Directors and Executive Officers and Limitation of Liability. Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association provide that we shall indemnify our officers and directors against all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by such directors or officer, other than by reason of such person’s dishonesty, willful default or fraud, in or about the conduct of our Company’s business or affairs (including as a result of any mistake of judgment) or in the execution or discharge of his duties, powers, authorities or discretions, including without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, any costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by such director or officer in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil proceedings concerning our Company or its affairs in any court whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere. This standard of conduct is generally the same as permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law for a Delaware corporation.
In addition, we intend to enter into indemnification agreements with our directors and executive officers prior to the completion of this offering, that provide such persons with additional indemnification beyond that provided in our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers or persons controlling us under the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.
Directors’ Fiduciary Duties. Under Delaware corporate law, a director of a Delaware corporation has a fiduciary duty to the corporation and its shareholders. This duty has two components: the duty of care and the duty of loyalty. The duty of care requires that a director act in good faith, with the care that an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under similar circumstances. Under this duty, a director must inform himself of, and disclose to shareholders, all material information reasonably available regarding a significant transaction. The duty of loyalty requires that a director acts in a manner he reasonably believes to be in the best interests of the corporation. He must not use his corporate position for personal gain or advantage. This duty prohibits self-dealing by a director and mandates that the best interest of the corporation and its shareholders take precedence over any interest possessed by a director, officer or controlling shareholder and not shared by the shareholders generally. In general, actions of a director are presumed to have been made on an informed basis, in good faith and in the honest belief that the action taken was in the best interests of the corporation. However, this presumption may be rebutted by evidence of a breach of one of the fiduciary duties. Should such evidence be presented concerning a transaction by a director, the director must prove the procedural fairness of the transaction, and that the transaction was of fair value to the corporation.
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As a matter of Cayman Islands law, a director of a Cayman Islands company is in the position of a fiduciary with respect to the company and therefore it is considered that he owes the following duties to the company — a duty to act bona fide in the best interests of the company, a duty not to make a profit based on his position as director (unless the company permits him to do so), a duty not to put himself in a position where the interests of the company conflict with his personal interest or his duty to a third party, and a duty to exercise powers for the purpose for which such powers were intended. A director of a Cayman Islands company owes to the company a duty to act with skill and care. It was previously considered that a director need not exhibit in the performance of his duties a greater degree of skill than may reasonably be expected from a person of his knowledge and experience. However, English and Commonwealth courts have moved towards an objective standard with regard to the required skill and care and these authorities are likely to be followed in the Cayman Islands.
Shareholder Action by Written Resolution. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a corporation may eliminate the right of shareholders to act by written consent by amendment to its certificate of incorporation. Our articles of association provide that any ordinary or special resolution of shareholders and any other action that may be taken by the shareholders at a meeting may also be taken by a resolution consented to in writing, without the need for any notice, by all shareholders who would have been entitled to attend and vote at a meeting called for the purpose of passing such a resolution or taking any other action.
Shareholder Proposals. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a shareholder has the right to put any proposal before the annual meeting of shareholders, provided it complies with the notice provisions in the governing documents. A special meeting may be called by the board of directors or any other person authorized to do so in the governing documents, but shareholders may be precluded from calling special meetings.
The Companies Act provides shareholders with only limited rights to requisition a general meeting. However, these rights may be provided in a company’s articles of association. Our amended and restated articles of association allow our shareholders holding at the date of deposit of requisition shares which carry in aggregate not less than one-third of all votes attaching to the issued and outstanding shares of our Company that as at the date of the deposit entitled to vote at general meetings to requisition an extraordinary general meeting of our shareholders, in which case our chairman or board is obliged to convene an extraordinary general meeting and to put the resolutions so requisitioned to a vote at such meeting. As an exempted Cayman Islands company, we may but are not obliged by law to call shareholders’ annual general meetings. See “Our Memorandum and Articles of Association-General Meetings of Shareholders.” for more information on the rights of our shareholders’ rights to put proposals before the annual general meeting.
Cumulative Voting. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, cumulative voting for elections of directors is not permitted unless the corporation’s certificate of incorporation specifically provides for it. Cumulative voting potentially facilitates the representation of minority shareholders on a board of directors since it permits the minority shareholder to cast all the votes to which the shareholder is entitled for a single director, which increases the shareholder’s voting power with respect to electing such director. There are no prohibitions in relation to cumulative voting under the laws of the Cayman Islands but our amended and restated articles of association do not provide for cumulative voting. As a result, our shareholders are not afforded any less protections or rights on this issue than shareholders of a Delaware corporation.
Removal of Directors. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a director of a corporation with a classified board may be removed only for cause with the approval of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Under our amended and restated articles of association, directors may be removed by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the directors then in office (except with regard to the removal of the chairman, who may be removed from office by the affirmative vote of all directors) or by an ordinary resolution (except with regard to the removal of the chairman, who may be removed from office by special resolution) of our shareholders. In addition, a director’s office shall be vacated if the director (i) becomes bankrupt or makes any arrangement or composition with his creditors; (ii) is found to be or becomes of unsound mind or dies; (iii) resigns his office by notice in writing to the company; or (iv) is removed from office pursuant to any other provisions of our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association.
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Transactions with Interested Shareholders. The Delaware General Corporation Law contains a business combination statute applicable to Delaware corporations whereby, unless the corporation has specifically elected not to be governed by such statute by amendment to its certificate of incorporation, it is prohibited from engaging in certain business combinations with an “interested shareholder” for three years following the date that such person becomes an interested shareholder. An interested shareholder generally is a person or a group who or which owns or owned 15% or more of the target’s outstanding voting share within the past three years. This has the effect of limiting the ability of a potential acquirer to make a two-tiered bid for the target in which all shareholders would not be treated equally. The statute does not apply if, among other things, prior to the date on which such shareholder becomes an interested shareholder, the board of directors approves either the business combination or the transaction which resulted in the person becoming an interested shareholder. This encourages any potential acquirer of a Delaware corporation to negotiate the terms of any acquisition transaction with the target’s board of directors.
Cayman Islands law has no comparable statute. As a result, we cannot avail ourselves of the types of protections afforded by the Delaware business combination statute. However, although Cayman Islands law does not regulate transactions between a company and its significant shareholders, it does provide that such transactions must be entered into bona fide in the best interests of the company and not with the effect of constituting a fraud on the minority shareholders.
Dissolution; Winding up. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, unless the board of directors approves the proposal to dissolve, dissolution must be approved by shareholders holding 100% of the total voting power of the corporation. Only if the dissolution is initiated by the board of directors may it be approved by a simple majority of the corporation’s outstanding shares. Delaware law allows a Delaware corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a supermajority voting requirement in connection with dissolutions initiated by the board.
Under Cayman Islands law, a company may be wound up by either an order of the courts of the Cayman Islands or by a special resolution of its members or, if the company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due, by an ordinary resolution of its members. The court has authority to order winding up in a number of specified circumstances including where it is, in the opinion of the court, just and equitable to do so. Under the Companies Act and our articles of association, our Company may be dissolved, liquidated or wound up by a special resolution of our shareholders.
Variation of Rights of Shares. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a corporation may vary the rights of a class of shares with the approval of a majority of the outstanding shares of such class, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Under Cayman Islands law and our amended and restated articles of association, if our share capital is divided into more than one class of shares, we may vary the rights attached to any class with the written consent of the holders of two-thirds of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.
Amendment of Governing Documents. Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a corporation’s governing documents may be amended with the approval of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Under the Companies Act and our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association, our memorandum and articles of association may only be amended by a special resolution of our shareholders.
Rights of Non-resident or Foreign Shareholders. There are no limitations imposed by our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association on the rights of non-resident or foreign shareholders to hold or exercise voting rights on our shares. In addition, there are no provisions in our Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association governing the ownership threshold above which shareholder ownership must be disclosed.
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Exhibit 4.1
INDEMNIFICATION AGREEMENT
This Indemnification Agreement (this “Agreement”), made and entered into as of the ________ day of ___________, 20_____, by and between IOTHREE Limited, an exempted company with limited liability under the laws of Cayman Islands (the “Company”) and ________ (“Indemnitee”).
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Indemnitee has agreed to serve as a director or executive officer of the Company and in such capacity will render valuable services to the Company;
WHEREAS, both the Company and Indemnitee recognize the increased risk of litigation and other claims being asserted against directors and executive officers of public companies;
WHEREAS, in order to induce and encourage highly experienced and capable persons such as the Indemnitee to serve as directors and officers of the Company, the board of directors of the Company (the “Board”) has determined that it is reasonably prudent and necessary for the Company contractually to obligate itself to indemnify, and to advance expenses on behalf of, such persons;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and mutual agreements hereinafter set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, including, without limitation, the service of the Indemnitee, the receipt of which hereby is acknowledged, and in order to induce the Indemnitee to serve, or continue to serve, as a director or an executive officer of the Company, the Company and the Indemnitee hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement:
(a). “Change of Control” shall mean any of the following:
(i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “Exchange Act”)), but excluding (1) the Company, (2) any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities pursuant to an employee benefit or welfare plan or employee share plan of the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, or any entity organized, appointed, established or holding securities of the Company with voting power for or pursuant to the terms of any such plan and (3) any entity owned, directly or indirectly, by the shareholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company, becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 30% or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities without the prior approval of at least majority of the directors in office immediately prior to such person’s attaining such interest;
(ii) any merger or consolidation of the Company with any other entity, other than a merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior to such merger or consolidation continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than 50% of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation and with the power to elect at least a majority of the Board or other governing body of such surviving entity;
(iii) the approval by the shareholders of the Company of a complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets;
(iv) any other event of a nature that would be required to be reported in response to Item 6(e) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A (or in response to any similar item or any similar or successor schedule or form) promulgated under the Exchange Act whether or not the Company is then subject to such reporting requirements; and
(v) during any period of two (2) consecutive years (not including any period prior to the execution of this Agreement), individuals who at the beginning of such period constitute the Board, and any new director (other than a director designated by a person who has entered into an agreement with the Company to effect a transaction described in Sections 1(a)(i), 1(a)(iii) or 1(a)(iv)) whose election by the Board or nomination for election by the Company’s shareholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who either were directors at the beginning of the period or whose election or nomination for election was previously so approved, ceasing for any reason to constitute a least a majority of the members of the Board.
(b). “Disinterested Director” with respect to any request by the Indemnitee for indemnification or advancement of expenses hereunder shall mean a director of the Company who neither is nor was a party to the Proceeding (as defined below) in respect of which indemnification or advancement is being sought by the Indemnitee.
(c). “Expenses” shall mean shall mean, without limitation, expenses of Proceedings, including attorneys’ fees, disbursement and retainers, accounting and witness fees, expenses related to preparation for service as a witness and to service as a witness, travel and deposition costs, expenses of investigations, judicial or administrative proceedings and appeals, amounts paid in settlement of a Proceeding by or on behalf of the Indemnitee, costs of attachment or similar bonds, any expenses of attempting to establish or establishing a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses, under this Agreement, the Company’s Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association as currently in effect (the “Articles”), applicable law or otherwise, and reasonable compensation for time spent by the Indemnitee in connection with the investigation, defense or appeal of a Proceeding or action for indemnification for which the Indemnitee is not otherwise compensated by the Company or any third party. The term “Expenses” shall not include the amount of judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually levied against or sustained by the Indemnitee to the extent sustained after final adjudication.
(d). “Independent Legal Counsel” shall mean any firm of attorneys that is not presently representing and has not in the preceding five (5) years represented the Company, the Company’s subsidiaries or affiliates, the Indemnitee, any entity controlled by the Indemnitee, or any party adverse to the Company in any matter material to any such party (other than with respect to matters concerning the Indemnitee under this Agreement, or of other indemnitees under similar indemnification agreements). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the term “Independent Legal Counsel” shall not include any person who, under applicable standards of professional conduct then prevailing, would have a conflict of interest in representing either the Company or the Indemnitee in an action to determine the Indemnitee’s right to indemnification or advancement of expenses under this Agreement, the Articles, applicable law or otherwise.
(e). “Proceeding” shall mean any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, arbitration, alternate dispute resolution mechanism, or other proceeding (including, without limitation, an appeal therefrom), formal or informal, whether brought in the name of the Company or otherwise, whether of a civil, criminal, administrative or investigative nature, and whether by, in or involving a court or an administrative, other governmental or private entity or body (including, without limitation, an investigation by the Company or its Board), by reason of (i) the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, whether or not the Indemnitee is serving in such capacity at the time any liability or expense is incurred for which indemnification or reimbursement is to be provided under this Agreement, (ii) any actual or alleged act or omission or neglect or breach of duty, including, without limitation, any actual or alleged error or misstatement or misleading statement, which the Indemnitee commits or suffers while acting in any such capacity, or (iii) the Indemnitee attempting to establish or establishing a right to indemnification or advancement of expenses pursuant to this Agreement, the Articles, applicable law or otherwise.
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(f). The phrase “serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise” or any similar terminology shall mean, unless the context otherwise requires, serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, employee benefit or welfare plan or other enterprise, foreign or domestic. The phrase “serving at the request of the Company” shall include, without limitation, any service as a director/an executive officer of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director/executive officer with respect to the Company or any of the Company’s subsidiaries, affiliates, employee benefit or welfare plans, such plan’s participants or beneficiaries or any other enterprise, foreign or domestic. In the event that the Indemnitee shall be a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company, trust, employee benefit or welfare plan or other enterprise, foreign or domestic, 50% or more of the ordinary shares, combined voting power or total equity interest of which is owned by the Company or any subsidiary or affiliate thereof, then it shall be presumed conclusively that the Indemnitee is so acting at the request of the Company.
2. Services By Indemnitee. The Indemnitee agrees to serve as a director or officer of the Company under the terms of the Indemnitee’s agreement with the Company for so long as the Indemnitee is duly elected or appointed or until such time as the Indemnitee tenders a resignation in writing or is removed from the Indemnitee's position; provided, however, that the Indemnitee may at any time and for any reason resign from such position (subject to any other contractual obligation or other obligation imposed by operation of law).
3. Proceedings by or in the Right of the Company. The Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee is a party to or threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any Proceeding by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, against all Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with the defense or settlement of such a Proceeding, if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner the Indemnitee reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the Company; except that no indemnification under this section shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudicated by final judgment by a court of competent jurisdiction to be liable to the Company for willful misconduct in the performance of his/her duty to the Company, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such Proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such amounts which such other court shall deem proper.
4. Proceeding Other Than a Proceeding by or in the Right of the Company. The Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee if the Indemnitee is a party to or threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved in any Proceeding (other than a Proceeding by or in the right of the Company) by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or officer of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, against all Expenses, judgments, fines, interest or penalties, which are actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such a Proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that any settlement of a Proceeding must be approved in advance in writing by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld).
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5. Indemnification for Costs, Charges and Expenses of Witness or Successful Party. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, to the extent that the Indemnitee (a) has prepared to serve or has served as a witness in any Proceeding in any way relating to (i) the Company or the Company’s subsidiaries, affiliates, employee benefit or welfare plans or such plan’s participants or beneficiaries or (ii) anything done or not done by the Indemnitee as a director or officer of the Company or in connection with serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, or (b) has been successful in defense of any Proceeding or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, on the merits or otherwise, including the dismissal of a Proceeding without prejudice or the settlement of a Proceeding without an admission of liability, the Indemnitee shall be indemnified against all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection therewith to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. All such indemnification against Expenses shall be offset by the amount of cash, if any, received by the Indemnitee resulting from his/her success therein.
6. Partial Indemnification. If Indemnitee is entitled under any provision of this Agreement to indemnification by the Company for a portion of Expenses, but not for the total amount of Expenses, the Company shall indemnify the Indemnitee for the portion of such Expenses to which Indemnitee is entitled.
7. Advancement of Expenses. The Expenses incurred by the Indemnitee in any Proceeding shall be paid promptly by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the Proceeding at the written request of the Indemnitee, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law; provided, however, that the Indemnitee shall set forth in such request reasonable evidence that such Expenses have been incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such Proceeding and an undertaking in writing to repay any advances if it is ultimately determined as provided in Section 8(b) of this Agreement that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement, the Articles, applicable law or otherwise.
8. Indemnification Procedure; Determination of Right to Indemnification.
(a) Promptly after receipt by the Indemnitee of notice of the commencement of any Proceeding, the Indemnitee shall, if a claim for indemnification or advancement of Expenses in respect thereof is to be made against the Company under this Agreement, notify the Company of the commencement thereof in writing. The failure and delay to so notify the Company will not relieve the Company from any liability which the Company may have to the Indemnitee under this Agreement unless the Company shall have lost significant substantive or procedural rights with respect to the defense of any Proceeding as a result of such omission to so notify.
(b) The Indemnitee shall be conclusively presumed to be entitled to indemnification under this Agreement unless a determination is made that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement, the Articles, applicable law or otherwise by one of the following two methods, which, if there has not been a Change in Control, shall be at the election of the Board: (i) by a majority vote of the Board of a quorum consisting of Disinterested Directors or (ii) if a quorum of the Board consisting of Disinterested Directors is not obtainable or, even if obtainable, said Disinterested Directors so direct, by Independent Legal Counsel in a written opinion to the Board, a copy of which shall be delivered to the Indemnitee. If a Change in Control shall have occurred and the Indemnitee so requests in writing, such determination shall be made only by Independent Legal Counsel in the manner set forth in this subsection.
(c) If (i) a determination is made that the Indemnitee is not entitled to indemnification under this Agreement or (ii) a claim for indemnification or advancement of Expenses under this Agreement is not paid by the Company within thirty (30) days after receipt by the Company of written notice thereof, the Indemnitee is entitled to an adjudication in any court of competent jurisdiction. Such judicial proceeding shall be made de novo. The burden of proving that indemnification or advances are not appropriate shall be on the Company. Neither the failure of the directors of the Company or Independent Legal Counsel to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification or advancement of Expenses is proper in the circumstances because the Indemnitee has met the applicable standard of conduct, if any, nor an actual determination by the directors of the Company or Independent Legal Counsel that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct shall be a defense to an action by the Indemnitee or create a presumption for the purpose of such an action that the Indemnitee has not met the applicable standard of conduct. The termination of any Proceeding by judgment, order, settlement or conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself (i) create a presumption that the Indemnitee did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the Company and/or its shareholders, and, with respect to any criminal Proceeding, that the Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful or (ii) otherwise adversely affect the rights of the Indemnitee to indemnification or advancement of Expenses under this Agreement, except as may be provided herein.
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(d) If a court of competent jurisdiction shall determine that the Indemnitee is entitled to any indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder, the Company shall pay all Expenses actually and reasonably incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with such adjudication (including, but not limited to, any appellate proceedings).
(e) With respect to any Proceeding for which indemnification or advancement of Expenses is requested, the Company will be entitled to participate therein at its own expense and, except as otherwise provided below, to the extent that it may wish, the Company may assume the defense thereof, with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnitee. After notice from the Company to the Indemnitee of its election to assume the defense of a Proceeding, the Company will not be liable to the Indemnitee under this Agreement for any Expenses subsequently incurred by the Indemnitee in connection with the defense thereof, other than as provided below. The Company shall not settle any Proceeding in any manner which would impose any penalty or limitation on the Indemnitee without the Indemnitee’s written consent. The Indemnitee shall have the right to employ his/her own counsel in any Proceeding, but the fees and expenses of such counsel incurred after notice from the Company of its assumption of the defense of the Proceeding shall be at the expense of the Indemnitee, unless (i) the employment of counsel by the Indemnitee has been authorized by the Company, (ii) the Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and the Indemnitee in the conduct of the defense of a Proceeding, or (iii) the Company shall not in fact have employed counsel to assume the defense of a proceeding, in each of which cases the fees and expenses of the Indemnitee’s counsel shall be advanced by the Company. The Company shall not be entitled to assume the defense of any Proceeding brought by or on behalf of the Company or as to which the Indemnitee has reasonably concluded that there may be a conflict of interest between the Company and the Indemnitee.
9. Limitations on Indemnification. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement, the Company shall not be obligated under this Agreement to make any indemnity in connection with any claim made against the Indemnitee:
(a) in connection with any Proceeding initiated or brought voluntarily by the Indemnitee and not by way of defense, unless (i) the Board authorized the Proceeding prior to its initiation or (ii) the Proceeding is to enforce indemnification rights under this Agreement, the Articles, applicable law or otherwise and either (A) Indemnitee is successful in such Proceeding in establishing Indemnitee’s right, in whole or in part, to indemnification or advancement of Expenses hereunder (in which case such indemnification or advancement shall be to the fullest extent permitted by this Agreement) or (B) the court in such Proceeding shall determine that, despite Indemnitee’s failure to establish his or her right to indemnification, Indemnitee is entitled to indemnity for such expenses (in which case such indemnification or advancement shall be to the extent provided by such court);
(b) in connection with the Indemnitee preparing to serve or serving, prior to a Change in Control, as a witness in voluntary cooperation with any non-governmental or non-regulatory party or entity who or which has threatened or commenced any action or proceeding against the Company, or any director, officer, employee, trustee, agent, representative, subsidiary, parent corporation or affiliate of the Company, but such indemnification may be provided by the Company if the Board finds it to be appropriate;
(c) for which payment has actually been made to the Indemnitee under a valid and collectible insurance policy, except in respect of any excess beyond the amount of payment under such insurance policy;
(d) for an accounting of profits made from the purchase or sale by the Indemnitee of securities of the Company pursuant to the provisions of Section 16(b) of the Act or similar provisions of any foreign or United States federal, state or local statute or regulation;
(e) for which the Indemnitee is indemnified and actually paid other than pursuant to this Agreement;
(f) for conduct that is finally adjudged by a court of competent jurisdiction to have been caused by the Indemnitee’s dishonesty, willful default or fraud, including, without limitation, breach of the duty of loyalty, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such Proceeding was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, the Indemnitee is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such amounts which such court shall deem proper;
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(g) if a court of competent jurisdiction finally determines that such indemnification is unlawful. In this respect, the Company and the Indemnitee have been advised that the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) takes the position that indemnification for liabilities arising under securities laws is against public policy and is, therefore, unenforceable and that claims for indemnification should be submitted to appropriate courts for adjudication;
(h) in connection with Indemnitee’s personal tax matter;
(i) subject to the proviso in Section 9(a) hereof, in connection with any dispute or breach arising under any contract or similar obligation between the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates and such Indemnitee; or
(j) in connection with any reimbursement made by Indemnitee to the Company pursuant to Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”), Section 306 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act or Section 954 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the rules promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
10. Insurance. To the extent that the Company maintains an insurance policy or policies providing liability insurance for directors, officers, employees, or agents or fiduciaries of the Company or of any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, employee benefit plan or other enterprise that such person serves at the request of the Company, the Indemnitee shall be covered by such policy or policies in accordance with its or their terms to the maximum extent of the coverage available for any director, officer, employee, agent or fiduciary under such policy or policies. If, at the time of the receipt of a notice of a Proceeding pursuant to the terms hereof, the Company has directors’ and officers’ insurance in effect, the Company shall give prompt notice of the commencement of such Proceeding to the insurers in accordance with the procedures set forth in the respective policies. The Company shall thereafter take all necessary or desirable action to cause such insurers to pay, on behalf of the Indemnitee, all amounts payable as a result of such Proceeding in accordance with the terms of such policies.
11. No Employment Rights. Nothing in this Agreement is intended to create in the Indemnitee any right to continued employment with the Company.
12. Continuation of Indemnification. All agreements and obligations of the Company contained herein shall continue during the period that the Indemnitee is a director or an executive officer of the Company (or is or was serving at the request of the Company as an agent of another enterprise, foreign or domestic) and shall continue thereafter so long as the Indemnitee shall be subject to any Proceeding by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was a director or an executive officer of the Company or is or was serving in any other capacity referred to in this Section 12.
13. Indemnification Hereunder Not Exclusive. The indemnification provided by this Agreement shall not be deemed to be exclusive of any other rights to which the Indemnitee may be entitled under the Articles, any agreement, vote of shareholders or vote of Disinterested Directors, provisions of applicable law, or otherwise, both as to action or omission in the Indemnitee’s official capacity and as to action or omission in another capacity on behalf of the Company while holding such office.
14. Contribution. To the fullest extent permissible under applicable law, if the indemnification provided for in this Agreement is unavailable to Indemnitee for any reason whatsoever, the Company, in lieu of indemnifying Indemnitee, shall contribute to the amount incurred by Indemnitee, whether for judgments, fines, penalties, excise taxes, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement and/or for Expenses, in connection with any claim relating to an indemnifiable event under this Agreement, in such proportion as is deemed fair and reasonable in light of all of the circumstances of such Proceeding in order to reflect (i) the relative benefits received by the Company and Indemnitee as a result of the event(s) and/or transaction(s) giving rise to such Proceeding; and/or (ii) the relative fault of the Company (and its directors, officers, employees and agents) and Indemnitee in connection with such event(s) and/or transaction(s). The relative fault of the Company on the one hand and of the Indemnitee on the other hand shall be determined by reference to, among other things, the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent the circumstances resulting in such judgments, fines, penalties, excise taxes, amounts paid or to be paid in settlement and/or for Expenses. The Company agrees that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this Section 14 were determined by pro rata allocation or any other method of allocation which does not take account of the foregoing equitable considerations.
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15. Entire Agreement. This Agreement and the documents referred to herein constitute the entire agreement between the parties hereto with respect to the matters covered hereby, and any other prior or contemporaneous oral or written understandings or agreements with respect to the matters covered hereby are superseded by this Agreement, provided that this Agreement is a supplement to and in furtherance of the Articles and applicable law, and shall not be deemed a substitute therefor, nor to diminish or abrogate any rights of Indemnitee thereunder.
16. Amendment. This Agreement may not be modified or amended except by a written instrument executed by or on behalf of each of the parties hereto. No amendment, alteration or repeal of this Agreement or of any provision hereof shall limit, restrict or reduce any right of Indemnitee under this Agreement in respect of any act or omission, or any event occurring, prior to such amendment, alteration or repeal. To the extent that a change in applicable law, whether by statute or judicial decision limits rights with respect to indemnification, contribution or advancement of Expenses, it is the intent of the parties hereto that the rights with respect to indemnification, contribution or advancement of Expenses in effect prior to such change shall remain in full force and effect to the extent permitted by applicable law.
17. Waivers. The observance of any term of this Agreement may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance and either retroactively or prospectively) by the party entitled to enforce such term only by a writing signed by the party against which such waiver is to be asserted. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, no delay on the part of any party hereto in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any waiver on the part of any party hereto of any right, power or privilege hereunder operate as a waiver of any other right, power or privilege hereunder nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege hereunder.
18. Assignment; Successors and Assigns. Neither this Agreement nor any of the rights or obligations hereunder may be assigned by either party thereto without the prior written consent of the other party, except that the Company may, without such consent, assign all such rights and obligations to a successor in interest to the Company which assumes all obligations of the Company under this Agreement in a written agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Indemnitee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by and against the parties hereto and the Company’s successors (including any direct or indirect successor by purchase, merger, consolidation, or otherwise to all or substantially all of the business and/or assets of the Company) and assigns, as well as the Indemnitee’s spouses, heirs, and personal and legal representatives.
19. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications under this Agreement shall be in writing (which may be by facsimile transmission or email). All such notices, requests and other communications shall be deemed received on the date of receipt by the recipient thereof if received prior to 5:00 p.m. in the place of receipt and such day is a business day in the place of receipt. Otherwise, any such notice, request or communication shall be deemed not to have been received until the next succeeding business day in the place of receipt. The address for notice to a party is as shown on the signature page of this Agreement, or such other address as any party shall have given by written notice to the other party as provided above.
20. Subrogation. In the event of payment under this Agreement, the Company shall be subrogated to the extent of such payment to all of the rights of recovery of the Indemnitee, who shall execute all documents required and shall do all acts that may be necessary to secure such rights and to enable the Company effectively to bring suit to enforce such rights.
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21. Severability. If any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall be held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable for any reason whatsoever: (a) the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement (including each portion of any Section of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and shall remain enforceable to the fullest extent permitted by law; (b) such provision or provisions shall be deemed reformed to the extent necessary to conform to applicable law and to give the maximum effect to the intent of the parties hereto; and (c) to the fullest extent possible, the provisions of this Agreement (including each portion of any Section of this Agreement containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, that is not itself invalid, illegal or unenforceable) shall be construed so as to give effect to the intent manifested thereby. To the extent required, any section, sentence, term or provision of this Agreement may be modified by a court of competent jurisdiction to preserve its validity and to provide the Indemnitee with the broadest possible indemnification permitted under applicable law. The Company’s inability, pursuant to a court order or decision, to perform its obligations under this Agreement shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement.
22. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore. The parties hereto agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore in the event of any dispute, claim or matter arising from this Agreement.
23. Submission to Jurisdiction. The Company and Indemnitee hereby agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore in the event of any dispute, claim or matter arising from this Agreement.
24. Headings. The Section headings in this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, and shall not be deemed to alter or affect the meaning or interpretation of any provisions hereof.
25. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same Agreement. Only one such counterpart signed by the party against whom enforceability is sought needs to be produced to evidence the existence of this Agreement.
26. Use of Certain Terms. As used in this Agreement, the words “herein,” “hereof,” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular paragraph, subparagraph, section, subsection, or other subdivision. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed and delivered to be effective as of the date first above written.
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[Signature Page to Indemnification Agreement]
Exhibit 4.2
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Employment Agreement (the “Agreement”), dated as of [MONTH DATE], 2025 (the “Effective Date”), is entered between IOTHREE Limited, an exempted company incorporated and existing under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “Company”) and _________ (the “Executive”).
WHEREAS, the Company and the Executive wish to enter into an employment agreement whereby the Executive will be employed by the Company in accordance with the terms and conditions stated below;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual promises set forth herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1
EMPLOYMENT, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Section 1.01. Employment. The Executive shall serve as the ______________ of the Company. The Executive hereby accepts such employment and agrees to devote substantially all of the Executive’s time and efforts to promoting the interests of the Company.
Section 1.02. Duties and Responsibilities. Subject to the supervision of and direction by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”), the Executive shall perform such duties as are similar in nature to those duties and services customarily associated with the positions set forth above.
Section 1.03. Base of Operation. The Executive’s principal base of operation for the performance of his or her duties and responsibilities under this Agreement shall be the offices of the Company in Singapore, and at such other places as shall from time to time be reasonably necessary to fulfill the Executive’s obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE 2
TERM
Section 2.01. Term. (a) The term of this Agreement (the “Term”) shall be specified in a separate agreement between the Executive and the Company’s designated subsidiary or affiliate entity (the “Singapore Agreement”). The Term and this Agreement will be renewed automatically thereafter for successive one-year terms unless a one-month notice of non-renewal is given by one party to the other.
(b) The Executive represents and warrants to the Company that neither the execution and delivery of this Agreement nor the performance of the Executive’s duties hereunder violates or will violate the provisions of any other agreement to which the Executive is a party or by which the Executive is bound.
(c) If the Singapore Agreement is terminated pursuant to the terms therein, the employment between the Executive and the Company pursuant to this Agreement shall also be terminated unless otherwise mutually agreed by both parties.
ARTICLE 3
COMPENSATION AND EXPENSES
Section 3.01. Salary And Benefits. The Executive’s salary and benefits shall be determined by the Company and shall be specified in the Singapore Agreement. The Executive’s salary shall be payable in accordance with the Company’s regular payroll practices, as established from time to time. Unless otherwise provided in such separate agreement, the Executive’s salary and benefits are subject to annual review and adjustment by the Company.
Section 3.02 Expenses. The Company will reimburse the Executive for reasonable documented business-related expenses incurred by the Executive in connection with the performance of the Executive’s duties hereunder during the Term, subject, however, to the Company’s policies relating to business-related expenses as in effect from time to time during the Term.
Section 3.03. Equity Incentive Plan. The Executive shall be entitled to participate during the Term in any long-term compensation program as may be authorized and adopted from time to time by the Board, including any equity incentive plan the Company, subject to the terms and provisions of such plans and the execution of the award agreements between the Company and the Executive.
Section 3.04 Payer of Compensation. All compensation, salary, benefits and remuneration in this Agreement may be paid by the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliated entities, as decided by the Company in its sole discretion.
ARTICLE 4
EXCLUSIVITY, NON-COMPETE, ETC.
Section 4.01. Exclusivity. The Executive agrees to perform his or her duties, responsibilities and obligations hereunder efficiently and to the best of his or her ability. Unless otherwise approved by the Board, the Executive agrees to devote substantially all of his or her working time, care and attention and best efforts to such duties, responsibilities and obligations throughout the Term. The Executive agrees that all of his or her activities as an employee of the Company shall be in conformity with all present and future policies, rules and regulations and directions of the Company not inconsistent with this Agreement.
Section 4.02. Intellectual Property. The Executive agrees that Intellectual Property under this Agreement is the sole and exclusive property of the Company and further agrees to assign to the Company the ownership of all right, title and interest in Intellectual Property, including any Intellectual Property conceived, created, and otherwise obtained by the Executive (i) during the Term of this Agreement relating to the work he performs within the scope of such Executive’s employment with the Company, (ii) within twelve (12) months after the Executive retires or ends employment with the Company under the circumstances that such Intellectual Property relates to such Executive’s employment scope with the Company, and (iii) by using the resources of the Company during the Term of this Agreement. During the Executive’s employment with the Company and within twelve (12) months after his or her employment with the Company terminates, the Executive has the obligation to inform the Company of any Intellectual Property within ten days of its creation and the Executive has the obligation to assist the Company in its patent, copyright or trademark application related to the Intellectual Property.
“Intellectual Property” under this Section 4.02 means any and all intellectual property in any form or stage of development, including but not limited to any idea, concept, design, invention, method, process, system, model, software, know-how and any other subject matter, material or information that qualifies and/or is considered by the Company to qualify for patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, or any other protection under the laws of Singapore or Cayman Islands providing or creating intellectual property rights.
Section 4.03. Non-Competition, Non-Solicitation and Confidentiality.
(a) Non-competition. During the Term, the Executive will not, directly or indirectly, be employed or self-employed in, engage in or own or hold any interest in (whether as a principal, partner, director, employee, shareholder, agent, advisor or otherwise) any business that is in direct or indirect competition, or would compete, with any businesses conducted by the Company, its subsidiaries or affiliated entities (the “Group”) upon or prior to the termination of the employment of the Executive, provided, however, it shall not be a violation of this Section 4.03(a) for the Executive to become the registered or beneficial owner of up to five percent (5%) of any class of the capital stock of a publicly traded corporation in competition with the Group, provided that the Executive does not otherwise participate in the business of such corporation.
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(b) Non-Solicitation; Non-Interference. During the Term and for twenty-four (24) months after his or her employment with the Company terminates for any reason, the Executive agrees that he or she will not, directly or indirectly, for the Executive’s benefit or for the benefit of any other person or entity, do any of the following: (i) approach the suppliers, clients, direct or end customers or contacts or other persons or entities introduced to the Executive in his or her capacity as a representative of the Group for the purpose of doing business of the same or of a similar nature to the business of the Group or doing business that will harm the business relationships of the Group with the foregoing persons or entities; (ii) solicit, encourage or assist other employees of the Group to seek employment with any business or organization in competition with the Group; or otherwise interfere with the business or accounts of the Group.
(c) Confidentiality. Throughout the course of the Executive’s employment with the Company and thereafter, the Executive shall keep in strict confidence all non-public information relating to the business, financial condition and other aspects of the Company, including but not limited to trade secrets, business methods, products, processes, procedures, development or experimental projects, plans, service providers, customers and users, intellectual property, information technology and any other information which is material to the Company’s business operations, and without the prior express written approval of the Company, may not disclose or provide to any person, firm, corporation or entity such non-public information, and may not use such non-public information for any purpose other than to fulfill his or her responsibilities as the [Title] in the best interest of the Company. The Executive shall also comply with the Company’s corporate policies and any other agreements on confidentiality that the Executive may enter into with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliated entities. In the event that the Executive is required by law to disclose any confidential information of the Company, the Executive agrees to give the Company prompt advance written notice thereof and to provide the Company with reasonable assistance in obtaining an order to protect such confidential information from public disclosure. This provision and such other confidentiality policies and agreements are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Confidentiality Terms.”
ARTICLE 5
TERMINATION AND INDEMNIFICATION
Section 5.01. Termination by Company. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, the Company shall have the right to terminate the Executive’s employment at any time with or without “Cause” by giving a one-month advance notice in writing pursuant to the terms hereof. For purposes of this Agreement, unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, in which case the Singapore Agreement shall apply, “Cause” shall mean: (i) the Executive’s willful and continued failure to substantially perform his or her duties hereunder (other than as a result of total or partial incapacity due to physical or mental illness), (ii) dishonesty in the performance of the Executive’s duties hereunder, (iii) an act or acts on the Executive’s part constituting a felony under the laws of Singapore or of the United States or any state thereof, (iv) any other act or omission which is materially injurious to the financial condition or business reputation of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates, or (v) the Executive’s breach of Section 4.03 hereof. For purposes of this Section, no act or failure to act, on the part of the Executive shall be deemed “willful” unless done, or omitted to be done, by the Executive not in good faith and without reasonable belief that the act or omission of the Executive was in the best interest of the Company.
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Section 5.02. Termination by Executive. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, the Executive shall have the right to terminate this Agreement at any time by giving a one-month advance notice in writing pursuant to the terms hereof.
Section 5.03. Death. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, in the event the Executive passes away during the Term, this Agreement shall automatically terminate, such termination to be effective on the date of the Executive’s death.
Section 5.04. Disability. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, in the event that the Executive shall suffer any physical or mental impairment which, as reasonably determined by the Board, renders the Executive unable to perform the essential functions of his or her position at the Company, even with reasonable accommodation that does not impose an undue burden on the Company, for more than 180 days in any 12-month period, unless a longer period is required by applicable law, in which case that longer period shall apply, the Company shall have the right to terminate this Agreement, such termination to be effective upon the giving of notice thereof to the Executive in accordance with Section 6.02 hereof.
Section 5.05. Effect of Termination. Unless otherwise provided in the Singapore Agreement, (a) in the event of termination of the Executive’s employment, whether before or after the Term, by either party for any reason, or by reason of the Executive’s death or disability, the Company shall pay to the Executive (or his or her beneficiary in the event of his or her death) any base salary or other compensation earned but not paid to the Executive prior to the effective date of such termination. All other benefits due to the Executive following his or her termination of employment shall be determined in accordance with the plans, policies and practices of the Company; and (b) in the event of termination of the Executive’s employment by the Company other than for Cause, the Company shall pay to the Executive any additional amount as provided by applicable law.
ARTICLE 6
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 6.01. Benefit Assignment; Assignment; Beneficiary. The Executive agrees that he or she will not transfer, sell, assign or otherwise dispose of (whether voluntarily, involuntarily or by operation of law) any rights or interests under this Agreement, and the rights of the Executive shall not be subject to any security interest or creditors’ claims. Any such transfer, assign or other disposal shall be invalid. Nothing contained in this Agreement shall prevent the Company from merging into or with any other company or selling all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or transfer this Agreement or any obligation under this Agreement. In the event of any change in the ownership interest or the control of the Company, the provisions of this Agreement shall continue to apply and shall be binding upon any successors. Notwithstanding and subject to the foregoing, this Agreement shall also inure to the benefit of, and be enforceable by, the Executive and his or her personal or legal representatives, executors, administrators, successors, heirs, distributees, devisees and legatees. If the Executive should die while any amount would still be payable to him or her hereunder if the Executive had continued to live, all such amounts shall be paid in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to the Executive’s beneficiary, devisee, legatee or other designee, or if there is no such designee, to the Executive’s estate.
Section 6.02. Notices. Any notice required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be sufficiently given if personally delivered or if sent by registered or certified mail, national overnight courier, or email. In the case of the Company, to the office or email account of the human resource department; and in the case of the Executive, to the address or email account appearing on the employment records of the Company, from time to time. Any notice given hereunder shall be deemed to have been given at the time of receipt thereof by the person to whom such notice is given.
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Section 6.03. Entire Agreement; Amendment. This Agreement contains the entire agreement of the parties hereto with respect to the terms and conditions of the Executive’s employment during the Term and supersedes any and all prior agreements and understandings, whether written or oral, between the parties hereto with respect to compensation due for services rendered hereunder. This Agreement may not be amended or revised unless by a written instrument executed by both of the parties hereto.
Section 6.04. Waiver. The waiver by either party of a breach of any provision of this Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a continuing waiver or as a consent to or waiver of any subsequent breach hereof. Any failure or delay to assert any right, remedy or power shall not be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy or power. All rights and remedies existing under this Agreement are cumulative to, and not exclusive of, any rights or remedies otherwise available.
Section 6.05. Headings. The article and section headings herein are for convenience of reference only, do not constitute a part of this Agreement and shall not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
Section 6.06. Agreement To Take Actions. Each party hereto shall execute and deliver such documents, certificates, agreements and other instruments, and shall take such other actions, as may be reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perform his, her or its obligations under this Agreement or to effectuate the purposes hereof.
Section 6.07. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of Singapore.
Section 6.08. Submission to Jurisdiction. The parties hereto agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Singapore in the event of any dispute, claim or matter arising from this Agreement.
Section 6.09. Survivorship. The respective rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall survive any termination of this Agreement to the extent necessary to the intended preservation of such rights and obligations.
Section 6.10. Severability. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision or provisions of this Agreement shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision or provisions of this Agreement, which shall remain in full force and effect.
Section 6.11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original but all of which together will constitute one and the same instrument.
Section 6.12. Withholding. All payments to the Executive hereunder shall be subject to withholding to the extent required by applicable law.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the parties hereto has duly executed this Agreement as of the date first above written.
| IOTHREE LIMITED | |||
| By: | |||
| Name: | |||
| Title: | |||
| EXECUTIVE | |||
| Name: | |||
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[Signature Page to Employment Agreement]
Exhibit 8.1
LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES
| Name of Subsidiary | Jurisdiction of Organization | Percentage of Ownership | ||||
| iOThree Maritime Technologies Limited | British Virgin Islands | 100 | % | |||
| iO3 Pte. Ltd. | Singapore | 100 | % | |||
| iO3 Sdn. Bhd. | Malaysia | 100 | % | |||
Exhibit 11.2
IOTHREE LIMITED
INSIDER TRADING POLICY
| 1. | PURPOSE |
This Insider Trading Policy (this “Policy”) states the policy with respect to transactions in the securities of IOTHREE LIMITED (the “Company”) and the handling of confidential information about the Company and the companies with which the Company engages in transactions or does business. The Company’s Board of Directors has adopted this Policy to promote compliance with U.S. federal, state and foreign securities laws that prohibit certain persons who are aware of material nonpublic information about a company from (i) engaging in transactions in the securities of that company, or (ii) providing material nonpublic information to other persons who may engage in transactions on the basis of that information.
| 2. | PERSONS SUBJECT TO THE POLICY |
This Policy applies to all members of the Company’s Board of Directors (collectively, “directors” and each, a “director”), officers and employees of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company may also determine that other persons should be subject to this Policy, such as contractors or consultants who have access to material nonpublic information about the Company. With respect to any person covered by this Policy, this Policy also applies to that person’s family members, other members of that person’s household, and entities controlled by that person, as described below under “Transactions by Family Members and Others” and “Transactions by Entities That You Influence or Control.”
| 3. | TRANSACTIONS SUBJECT TO THE POLICY |
This Policy applies to transactions in the Company’s securities (collectively, “Company Securities”), including the Company’s ordinary shares, restricted shares, options to purchase ordinary shares or any other type of security the Company may issue, including (but not limited to) preferred shares, convertible debentures and warrants, as well as derivative securities that are not issued by the Company, such as exchange-traded put or call options or swaps relating to the Company’s Securities. Transactions subject to this Policy include purchases, sales and bona fide gifts of Company Securities. This Policy similarly applies to transactions in or relating to the securities of certain other companies with which the Company engages in transactions or does business.
| 4. | INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY |
Persons subject to this Policy have ethical and legal obligations to maintain the confidentiality of information about the Company and to not engage in transactions in Company Securities while in possession of material nonpublic information. Persons subject to this policy must not engage in illegal trading and must avoid the appearance of improper trading. Each individual is responsible for making sure that he, she or they complies with this Policy, and that any family member, household member or entity whose transactions are subject to this Policy, as discussed below, also comply with this Policy. In all cases, the responsibility for determining whether an individual is in possession of material nonpublic information rests with that individual, and any action on the part of the Company, the Administrator (as defined below) or any other employee, officer or director pursuant to this Policy (or otherwise) does not in any way constitute legal advice or insulate an individual from liability under applicable securities laws. You could be subject to severe legal penalties and disciplinary action by the Company for any conduct prohibited by this Policy or applicable securities laws, as described below under “Consequences of Violations.”
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| 5. | ADMINISTRATION OF THE POLICY |
The “Administrator” of this Policy is the Company’s Chief Financial Officer or such other individual designated by the Company’s Board of Directors from time to time. All determinations and interpretations by the Administrator are final and not subject to further review.
| 6. | PRINCIPAL STATEMENT OF POLICY |
(a) Trading in Company Securities and Disclosure of Nonpublic Information. No director, officer or employee of the Company (or any other person designated by this Policy or by the Administrator as subject to this Policy) who is aware of material nonpublic information relating to the Company may, directly or indirectly through family members or other persons or entities:
(i) engage in transactions in Company Securities, except as otherwise specified in this Policy under the heading “Limited Exceptions;”
(ii) recommend that others engage in transactions in any Company Securities;
(iii) disclose material nonpublic information to persons within the Company whose jobs do not require them to have that information, or to persons outside of the Company, including, but not limited to, family, friends, business associates, investors and consultants, except as required in the performance of regular corporate duties and only to the extent appropriate confidentiality protections are effective and the disclosure conforms to Company policies; or
(iv) assist anyone engaged in the above activities.
(b) Trading in Securities of Other Companies. No director, officer or employee of the Company (or any other person designated by this Policy or by the Administrator as subject to this Policy) who, in the course of working for the Company, learns of material nonpublic information about a company with which the Company does or intends to do business, including a customer, supplier, vendor, or service provider of the Company, or otherwise involved in a potential transaction or business relationship with the Company, may engage in transactions in that company’s securities until the information becomes public or is no longer material.
(c) No Exceptions. There are no exceptions to this Policy, except as specifically noted herein. Transactions that may be necessary or justifiable for independent reasons (such as the need to raise money for an emergency expenditure), or small transactions, are not excluded from this Policy. The securities laws do not recognize any mitigating circumstances, and, in any event, even the appearance of an improper transaction must be avoided to preserve the Company’s reputation for adhering to the highest standards of conduct.
| 7. | DEFINITION OF MATERIAL NONPUBLIC INFORMATION |
(a) Material Information. Information is considered “material” if a reasonable investor would consider that information important in making a decision to buy, hold or sell securities. Any information that could be expected to impact the Company’s share price, whether it is positive or negative, is considered material. There is no bright-line standard for assessing materiality; rather, materiality is based on an assessment of all of the facts and circumstances, and is often evaluated by enforcement authorities with the benefit of hindsight. While it is not possible to define all categories of material information, some examples of information that ordinarily would be regarded as material are:
| ● | operating or financial results or projections, including earnings guidance; | |
| ● | changes to previously announced earnings guidance, or downgrades of the decision to suspend earnings guidance; |
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| ● | analyst upgrades or downgrades of the Company or one of its securities; | |
| ● | corporate transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures or restructurings; | |
| ● | significant related party transactions; | |
| ● | dividend, share repurchase or recapitalization matters; | |
| ● | debt or equity financing matters; | |
| ● | regulatory matters; | |
| ● | major marketing changes; | |
| ● | gain or loss of a significant customer or supplier; | |
| ● | a change in the Board of Directors or senior management; | |
| ● | a change in auditors or notification that the auditor’s reports may no longer be relied upon; | |
| ● | a significant cybersecurity incident, such as a data breach, or any other significant disruption in the company’s operations or loss, potential loss, breach or unauthorized access of its property or assets, whether at its facilities or through its information technology infrastructure; | |
| ● | impending bankruptcy or the existence of severe liquidity problems; | |
| ● | litigation or regulatory proceedings and investigations; | |
| ● | the imposition of a ban or restriction on trading in Company Securities or other securities; | |
| ● | intellectual property and other proprietary information; and | |
| ● | significant corporate developments, including with respect to research and development activities. |
(b) Nonpublic Information. Information is considered “nonpublic” if that information has not been broadly disclosed to the marketplace, such as by press release or a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and/or the investing public has not had time to fully absorb that information. Information that has not been disclosed to the public is generally considered to be nonpublic information. In order to establish that the information has been disclosed to the public, it may be necessary to demonstrate that the information has been widely disseminated. Information generally would be considered widely disseminated if it has been disclosed through the newswire services, a broadcast on widely available radio or television programs, publication in a widely available newspaper, magazine or news website, or public disclosure documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) that are available on the SEC’s website. By contrast, information would likely not be considered widely disseminated if it is available only to the Company’s employees, or if it is only available to a select group of analysts, brokers and institutional investors.
As a general rule, information should not be considered fully absorbed by the investing public until the second full business day after the day on which the information is released. If the information is released after business hours, it is deemed to have been released on the following business day. If, for example, the Company makes an announcement at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, a person subject to this Policy should not engage in transactions in Company Securities until the market opens on Wednesday. If such an announcement were made at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, the person subject to this Policy should not engage in transactions in Company Securities until the market opens on Thursday. Depending on the particular circumstances, the Company may determine that a longer or shorter period should apply.
| 8. | TRANSACTIONS BY FAMILY MEMBERS AND OTHERS |
This Policy applies to your family members who reside with you (including a spouse, a child, a child away at college, stepchildren, grandchildren, parents, stepparents, grandparents, siblings and in-laws), anyone else who lives in your household, and any family members who do not live in your household but whose transactions in Company Securities are directed by you or are subject to your influence or control, such as parents or children who consult with you before they engage in transactions in Company Securities (collectively, “Family Members”). You are responsible for the transactions of your Family Members and therefore should make them aware of the need to confer with you before they engage in transactions in Company Securities, and you should treat all such transactions for the purposes of this Policy and applicable securities laws as if the transactions were for your own account. This Policy does not, however, apply to personal securities transactions of Family Members where the transaction decision is made by a third party not controlled by, influenced by or related to you or your Family Members.
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| 9. | TRANSACTIONS BY ENTITIES THAT YOU INFLUENCE OR CONTROL |
This Policy applies to any entities that you influence or control, including any corporations, partnerships or trusts (collectively, “Controlled Entities”), and transactions by these Controlled Entities should be treated for the purposes of this Policy and applicable securities laws as if they were for your own account.
| 10. | LIMITED EXCEPTIONS |
This Policy does not apply in the case of the following transactions (although these transactions may nevertheless be subject to the requirements of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), applicable to directors and officers (as defined by Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act (“Rule 16a-1”)):
(a) Share Option Exercises. This Policy does not apply to the exercise of an employee share option acquired pursuant to the Company’s plans, or to the exercise of a tax withholding right pursuant to which a person has elected to have the Company withhold shares subject to an option to satisfy tax withholding requirements. This Policy does apply, however, to any sale of shares as part of a broker-assisted cashless exercise of an option, or any other market sale for the purpose of generating the cash needed to pay the exercise price of an option.
(b) Restricted Share Awards. This Policy does not apply to the vesting of restricted shares, or the exercise of a tax withholding right pursuant to which you elect to have the Company withhold shares to satisfy tax withholding requirements upon the vesting of any restricted shares. The Policy does apply, however, to any market sale of restricted shares.
(c) 401(k) Plan. This Policy does not apply to purchases of Company Securities in the Company’s 401(k) plan resulting from your periodic contribution of money to the plan pursuant to your payroll deduction election. This Policy does apply, however, to certain elections you may make under the 401(k) plan, including: (i) an election to increase or decrease the percentage of your periodic contributions that will be allocated to any Company Securities fund; (ii) an election to make an intra-plan transfer of an existing account balance into or out of any Company Securities fund; (iii) an election to borrow money against your 401(k) plan account if the loan will result in a liquidation of some or all of any Company Securities fund balance; and (iv) an election to pre-pay a plan loan if the pre-payment will result in allocation of loan proceeds to any Company Securities fund. It should be noted that sales of Company Securities from a 401(k) account are also subject to Rule 144, and therefore affiliates should ensure that a Form 144 is filed when required.
(d) Employee Share Purchase Plan. This Policy does not apply to purchases of Company Securities in the employee share purchase plan resulting from your periodic contribution of money to the plan pursuant to the election you made at the time of your enrollment in the plan. This Policy also does not apply to purchases of Company Securities resulting from lump sum contributions to the plan, provided that you elected to participate by lump sum payment at the beginning of the applicable enrollment period. This Policy does apply, however, to your election to participate in the plan for any enrollment period, and to your sales of Company Securities purchased pursuant to the plan.
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(e) Dividend Reinvestment Plan. This Policy does not apply to purchases of Company Securities under the Company’s dividend reinvestment plan resulting from your reinvestment of dividends paid on Company Securities. This Policy does apply, however, to voluntary purchases of Company Securities resulting from additional contributions you choose to make to the dividend reinvestment plan, and to your election to participate in the plan or increase your level of participation in the plan. This Policy also applies to your sale of any Company Securities purchased pursuant to the plan.
(f) Other Similar Transactions. Any other purchase of Company Securities from the Company or sales of Company Securities to the Company are not subject to this Policy.
(g) Rule 10b5-1 Plans. Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act (“Rule 10b5-1”) provides a defense from insider trading liability under Rule 10b-5 under the Exchange Act (“Rule 10b-5”). In order to be eligible to rely on this defense, a person subject to this Policy must enter into a Rule 10b5-1 plan for transactions in Company Securities that meets certain conditions specified in the Rule (a “Rule 10b5-1 Plan”). If the plan meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1, Company Securities may be traded without regard to certain insider trading restrictions. To comply with this Policy, a Rule 10b5-1 Plan must be approved by the Administrator and meet the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 and the Company’s “Guidelines for Rule 10b5-1 Plans,” which are set forth in Appendix 10(b) to this Policy. In general, to ensure that a Rule 10b5-1 Plan is entered into at a time when the person entering into the plan is not aware of material nonpublic information, it must be entered into during an Open Trading Window. Once the Rule 10b5-1 Plan is adopted, the person must not exercise any influence over the amount of securities to be traded, the price at which they are to be traded or the date of the trade. The Rule 10b5-1 Plan must either specify the amount, pricing and timing of transactions in advance or delegate discretion on these matters to an independent third party. The Rule 10b5-1 Plan must include a cooling-off period before trading can commence that, for directors or officers, ends on the later of 90 days after the adoption of the Rule 10b5-1 Plan or two business days following the disclosure of the Company’s financial results in an SEC periodic report for the fiscal quarter in which the Rule 10b5-1 Plan was adopted (but in any event, the required cooling-off period is subject to a maximum of 120 days after adoption of the Rule 10b5-1 Plan), and for persons other than directors or officers, 30 days following the adoption or modification of a Rule 10b5-1 Plan. A person may not enter into overlapping Rule 10b5-1 Plans (subject to certain exceptions) and may only enter into one single-trade Rule 10b5-1 Plan during any 12-month period (subject to certain exceptions). Directors and officers must include a representation in their Rule 10b5-1 Plan certifying that: (i) they are not aware of any material nonpublic information; and (ii) they are adopting the plan in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions in Rule 10b-5. All persons entering into a Rule 10b5-1 Plan must act in good faith with respect to that plan. Any Rule 10b5-1 Plan must be submitted for approval at least five business days prior to the entry into the Rule 10b5-1 Plan. No further pre-approval of transactions conducted pursuant to the Rule 10b5-1 Plan will be required.
| 11. | SPECIAL AND PROHIBITED TRANSACTIONS |
The Company has determined that there is a heightened legal risk and/or the appearance of improper or inappropriate conduct if the persons subject to this Policy engage in certain types of transactions. Therefore, it is the Company’s policy that any persons covered by this Policy may not engage in any of the following transactions, or should otherwise consider the Company’s preferences as described below:
(a) Short-Term Trading. Short-term trading of Company Securities may be distracting to the person and may unduly focus the person on the Company’s short-term stock market performance instead of the Company’s long-term business objectives. For these reasons, all persons subject to this Policy who purchase Company Securities in the open market are discouraged from selling any Company Securities of the same class during the six months following the purchase (or vice versa). Furthermore, such short-term trading by directors or officers (as defined by Rule 16a-1) may result in short-swing profit liability under Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act.
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(b) Short Sales. Short sales of Company Securities (i.e., the sale of a security that the seller does not own) may evidence an expectation on the part of the seller that the securities will decline in value, and therefore have the potential to signal to the market that the seller lacks confidence in the Company’s prospects. In addition, short sales may reduce a seller’s incentive to seek to improve the Company’s performance. For these reasons, short sales of Company Securities are prohibited. Furthermore, Section 16(c) of the Exchange Act prohibits directors and officers (as defined by Rule 16a-1) from engaging in short sales. Short sales arising from certain types of hedging transactions are subject to the paragraph below captioned “Hedging Transactions.”
(c) Publicly-Traded Options. Given the relatively short term of publicly-traded options, transactions in options may create the appearance that that director, officer or employee is trading based on material nonpublic information and focus that director’s, officer’s or employee’s attention on short-term performance at the expense of the Company’s long-term objectives. Accordingly, transactions in put options, call options or other derivative securities, on an exchange or in any other organized market, are prohibited by this Policy. Option positions arising from certain types of hedging transactions are governed by the paragraph below captioned “Hedging Transactions.”
(d) Hedging Transactions. Hedging or monetization transactions can be accomplished through a number of possible mechanisms, including through the use of financial instruments such as prepaid variable forwards, equity swaps, collars and exchange funds. Such hedging transactions may permit a director, officer or employee to continue to own Company Securities obtained through employee benefit plans or otherwise, but without the full risks and rewards of ownership. When that occurs, the director, officer or employee may no longer have the same objectives as the Company’s other shareholders. Therefore, directors, officers and employees are prohibited from engaging in any such transactions.
(e) Margin Accounts and Pledged Securities. Securities held in a margin account as collateral for a margin loan may be sold by the broker without the customer’s consent if the customer fails to meet a margin call. Similarly, securities pledged (or hypothecated) as collateral for a loan may be sold in foreclosure if the borrower defaults on the loan. Because a margin sale or foreclosure sale may occur at a time when the pledgor is aware of material nonpublic information or otherwise is not permitted to engage in transactions in Company Securities, directors, officers and employees are prohibited from holding Company Securities in a margin account or otherwise pledging Company Securities as collateral for a loan unless the arrangement is specifically approved in advance by the Administrator. Any person seeking an exception must submit a request for approval to the Administrator at least two weeks prior to the transaction. Pledges of Company Securities arising from certain types of hedging transactions are governed by the paragraph above captioned “Hedging Transactions.”
(f) Standing and Limit Orders. Standing and limit orders (except standing and limit orders under approved Rule 10b5-1 Plans, as described above) create heightened risks for insider trading violations similar to the use of margin accounts. There is no control over the timing of purchases or sales that result from standing instructions to a broker, and as a result the broker could execute a transaction when a director, officer or employee is in possession of material nonpublic information. The Company therefore discourages placing standing or limit orders on Company Securities. If a person subject to this Policy determines that they must use a standing order or limit order, the order should be limited to short duration and should otherwise comply with the restrictions and procedures outlined below under the heading “Additional Procedures.”
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| 12. | ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES |
The Company has established additional procedures in order to assist the Company in the administration of this Policy, to facilitate compliance with laws prohibiting insider trading while in possession of material nonpublic information, and to avoid the appearance of any impropriety. These additional procedures are applicable only to those individuals described below.
(a) Pre-Clearance Procedures. Directors, officers and other designated employees of the Company and its subsidiaries, as well as the Family Members and Controlled Entities of such persons (“Restricted Persons”), may not engage in any transaction in Company Securities without first obtaining pre-clearance of the transaction from the Administrator. The list of Restricted Persons is updated periodically by the Administrator. You will be notified by the Administrator if you are considered a Restricted Person for purposes of this Policy. Restricted Persons should submit a request for pre-clearance to the Administrator at least two business days in advance of the proposed transaction. The Administrator is under no obligation to approve a transaction submitted for pre-clearance and may determine not to permit the transaction. If the Administrator wishes to transact in Company Securities, the Administrator should submit any request for pre-clearance to the Chief Executive Officer. If a Restricted Person seeks pre-clearance and permission to engage in the transaction is denied, then he, she or they should refrain from initiating any transaction in Company Securities and should not inform any other person of the restriction.
When a request for pre-clearance is made, the requestor should carefully consider whether he, she or they may be aware of any material nonpublic information about the Company and should describe fully those circumstances to the Administrator. The requestor should also indicate whether he, she or they has effected any non-exempt “opposite-way” transactions (e.g., an open market sale would be “opposite” any open market purchase, and vice versa) within the past six months, and should be prepared to report the proposed transaction on an appropriate Form 4 or Form 5. The requestor should also be prepared to comply with SEC Rule 144 and file Form 144, if necessary, at the time of any sale.
A request for pre-clearance must be made in writing, preferably by submission of a completed Request for Pre-Clearance in the form of EXHIBIT A to this Policy. Pre-cleared transactions should be effected promptly. Requestors are required to refresh the request for pre-clearance if a pre-cleared transaction is not effected within five business days after pre-clearance is received.
Furthermore, requestors must immediately notify the Administrator following the execution of any transaction.
(b) Trading Restrictions. Restricted Persons, as well as their Family Members and Controlled Entities, may not conduct transactions involving the Company’s Securities (other than as specified by this Policy) except during an Open Trading Window. An “Open Trading Window” generally begins on the third business day following the day of public release of the Company’s annual or six-month earnings and ends at the close of trading 15 calendar days prior to the end of March or September. For example, if the Company publicly discloses its six-month operating results on December 16, 2024 through an earnings release and/or a Form 6-K filed with the SEC, the Open Trading Window will start on December 19, 2024 and end on March 16, 2025. The Administrator will notify Restricted Persons of the opening and closing of the trading window.
(c) Event-Specific Trading Restriction Periods. From time to time, an event may occur that is material to the Company and is known by only a few Restricted Persons. So long as the event remains material and nonpublic, the persons designated by the Administrator may not engage in transactions in Company Securities. In addition, the Company’s financial results may be sufficiently material in a particular fiscal period that, in the judgment of the Administrator, designated persons should refrain from trading in Company Securities even during the ordinary Open Trading Window described above. In that situation, the Administrator may notify these persons that they should not engage in transactions in the Company’s Securities, without disclosing the reason for the restriction. The existence of an event-specific trading restriction period or the closing of the Open Trading Window will be announced by the Administrator to persons designated by the Administrator. Even if the Administrator has not designated you a person who should not trade due to an event-specific trading restriction, you may not trade while aware of material nonpublic information. Exceptions will not be granted during an event-specific trading restriction period.
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(d) Exceptions.
(i) The trading restrictions and event-driven trading restrictions do not apply to those transactions to which this Policy does not apply, as described above under the heading “Limited Exceptions,” nor do they apply to an election to participate in an employer plan during an open enrollment period.
(ii) The Administrator in his, her or their discretion may approve other or further exceptions to these requirements on a case-by-case basis in extraordinary circumstances. Any request for an exception pursuant to this paragraph must be submitted in advance and in writing, and any approval must be in writing.
| 13. | POST-TERMINATION TRANSACTIONS |
This Policy continues to apply to transactions in Company Securities even after termination of service to the Company. If an individual is in possession of material nonpublic information when his, her or their service terminates, that individual may not engage in transactions in Company Securities until that information has become public or is no longer material. The pre-clearance procedures specified under the heading “Additional Procedures” above and applicable to directors and certain executives will continue to apply for a period of three months after a termination of service, in order to facilitate compliance with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
| 14. | CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLATIONS |
Engaging in transactions in securities while aware of material nonpublic information, or the disclosure of material nonpublic information to others who then engage in transactions in the Company’s Securities, is prohibited by federal and state laws. Insider trading violations are pursued vigorously by the SEC, the U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcement authorities, as well as enforcement authorities in foreign jurisdictions. Punishment for insider trading violations is severe and could include significant fines and imprisonment. While the regulatory authorities concentrate their efforts on the individuals who trade, or who tip inside information to others who trade, the federal securities laws also impose potential liability on companies and other “controlling persons” if they fail to take reasonable steps to prevent insider trading by company personnel.
In addition, an individual’s failure to comply with this Policy may subject the individual to Company-imposed sanctions, up to and including termination of employment, whether or not the individual’s failure to comply results in a violation of law. Needless to say, a violation of law, or even an SEC investigation that does not result in prosecution, can tarnish a person’s reputation and irreparably damage a career.
| 15. | REPORTING OF VIOLATIONS |
Any person who violates this Policy or any federal or state law governing insider trading or tipping, or who knows of or reasonably suspects any such violation by another person, should report the matter immediately to his, her or their supervisor and/or to the Administrator identified in Section 5. Company personnel subject to this Policy are obligated to report suspected and actual violations of Company policy or the law. Doing so brings the concern into the open so that it can be resolved quickly and more serious harm can be prevented. Failure to do so could result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
If you encounter a situation or are considering a course of action and its appropriateness is unclear, do not hesitate to reach out to the Administrator with any questions; even the appearance of impropriety can be very damaging and should be avoided, and the Administrator may be in the best position to provide helpful information or other resources.
| 16. | CERTIFICATION |
All persons subject to this Policy may be required to certify and re-certify, from time to time, their understanding of, and intent to comply with, this Policy.
| 17. | AMENDMENT |
This Policy may be amended by the Board of Directors or any committee or designee to which the Board of Directors delegates this authority.
The Administrator has the authority to make determinations under, and interpretations of, this Policy, as specified in this Policy under the heading “Administration of the Policy.” In addition, the Administrator is authorized to approve amendments to this Policy that: (i) correct obvious errors (e.g., typographical or grammatical errors); (ii) are necessitated by changes in legal requirements; (iii) are necessary to clarify the meaning of this Policy; or (iv) are administrative in nature, such as the provisions of this Policy under the heading “Additional Procedures.”
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Appendix 10(b)
Guidelines for Rule 10b5-1 Plans⁎
Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act provides a defense from insider trading liability under Rule 10b-5. In order to be eligible to rely on this defense, a person subject to our Insider Trading Policy must enter into a Rule 10b5-1 Plan for transactions in Company Securities (as defined in the Insider Trading Policy) that meets certain conditions specified in the Rule. If the plan meets the requirements of Rule 10b5-1, transactions in Company Securities may occur even when the person who has entered into the plan is aware of material nonpublic information. In general, a Rule 10b5-1 Plan must be entered into at a time when the person entering into the plan is not aware of material nonpublic information. Once the plan is adopted, the person must not exercise any influence over the amount of securities to be traded, the price at which they are to be traded or the date of the trade. The plan must either specify the amount, pricing and timing of transactions in advance or delegate discretion on these matters to an independent third party.
A Rule 10b5-1 Plan must include a cooling-off period before trading can commence that, for directors or officers, ends on the later of 90 days after the adoption of the Rule 10b5-1 Plan or two business days following the disclosure of the Company’s financial results in an SEC periodic report for the fiscal quarter in which the plan was adopted (but in any event, the required cooling-off period is subject to a maximum of 120 days after adoption of the plan), and for persons other than directors or officers, 30 days following the adoption or modification of a Rule 10b5-1 Plan. A person may not enter into overlapping Rule 10b5-1 Plans (subject to certain exceptions) and may only enter into one single-trade Rule 10b5-1 Plan during any 12-month period (subject to certain exceptions). Directors and officers must include a representation in their Rule 10b5-1 Plan certifying that: (i) they are not aware of any material nonpublic information; and (ii) they are adopting the plan in good faith and not as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions in Rule 10b-5. All persons entering into a Rule 10b5-1 Plan must act in good faith with respect to that plan.
As specified in the Company’s Insider Trading Policy, a Rule 10b5-1 Plan must be approved by the Administrator and meet the requirements of Rule 10b5-1 and these guidelines. Any Rule 10b5-1 Plan must be submitted for approval at least five business days prior to the entry into the Rule 10b5-1 Plan. Once a 10b5-1 Plan is approved, no further pre-approval of transactions conducted pursuant to the plan will be required.
The following guidelines apply to all Rule 10b5-1 Plans:
| ● | You may not enter into, modify or terminate a Rule 10b5-1 Plan outside of an Open Trading Window or while in possession of material nonpublic information. |
| ● | All Rule 10b5-1 Plans must have a duration of at least six months and no more than two years. |
| ● | For officers and directors, no transaction may take place under a Rule 10b5-1 Plan until the later of (a) 90 days after adoption or modification (as specified in Rule 10b5-1) of the Rule 10b5-1 Plan or (b) two business days following the disclosure of the Company’s financial results in a Form 6-K or Form 20-F for the fiscal quarter (the Company’s first fiscal quarter in the case of a Form 20-F) in which the Rule 10b5-1 Plan was adopted or modified (as specified in Rule 10b5-1). In any event, the cooling-off period is subject to a maximum of 120 days after adoption of the plan. |
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| ● | For persons other than officers and directors, no transaction may take place under a Rule 10b5-1 Plan until 30 days following the adoption or modification (as specified in Rule 10b5-1) of a Rule 10b5-1 Plan. |
| ● | Subject to certain limited exceptions specified in Rule 10b5-1, you may not enter into more than one Rule 10b5-1 Plan at the same time; |
| ● | Subject to certain limited exceptions specified in Rule 10b5-1, you are limited to only one Rule 10b5-1 Plan designed to effect an open market purchase or sale of the total amount of securities subject to the Rule 10b-1 Plan as a single transaction in any 12-month period; |
| ● | You must act in good faith with respect to a Rule 10b5-1 Plan. A Rule 10b5-1 Plan cannot be entered into as part of a plan or scheme to evade the prohibition of Rule 10b-5. Therefore, although modifications to an existing Rule 10b5-1 Plan are not prohibited, a Rule 10b5-1 Plan should be adopted with the intention that it will not be amended or terminated prior to its expiration. |
| ● | Officer and directors must include a representation to the Company at the time of adoption or modification of a Rule 10b5-1 Plan that (i) the person is not aware of material nonpublic information about the Company or Company Securities and (ii) the person is adopting the plan in good faith and not as part of plan or scheme to evade the prohibitions of Rule 10b-5. |
| ● | You may not enter into any transaction in Company Securities while the Rule 10b5-1 Plan is in effect. |
The Company and the Company’s officers and directors must make certain disclosures in SEC filings concerning Rule 10b5-1 Plans. Officers and directors of the Company must undertake to provide any information requested by the Company regarding Rule 10b5-1 Plans for the purpose of providing the required disclosures or any other disclosures that the Company deems to be appropriate under the circumstances.
The approval or adoption of a Rule 10b5-1 Plan in no way reduces or eliminates a person’s obligations under Section 16 of the Exchange Act, including disclosure obligations and liability for short-swing profits. Persons subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act should consult with their own counsel in implementing a Rule 10b5-1 Plan.
| ⁎ | Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the IOTHREE LIMITED Insider Trading Policy. |
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Exhibit A
Request for Pre-Clearance⁎
For pre-clearance to transact in Company Securities.
Upon executing a transaction, directors, officers and other designated employees must immediately notify the Company.
| Transaction Vehicle (check one) | Transaction Initiated By (check one) |
| ☐ Open Market Transaction | ☐ Employee or immediate family member directly |
| ☐ Equity Compensation Plan | ☐ Court or government decree (e.g., divorce decree) |
| ☐ Other (specify): | ☐ Broker (provide name, firm, telephone and e-mail): |
Type of Transaction (check one)
| ☐ | Purchase or acquire ordinary shares |
| ☐ | Sell or dispose of ordinary shares |
| ☐ | Move Company Securities from one account to another (e.g., in or out of a trust) |
| ☐ | Dispose of fractional shares |
| ☐ | Pledge Company Securities for margin account, or otherwise |
| ☐ | Exercise options without subsequent sale |
| ☐ | Exercise options with subsequent sale (e.g., a “cashless exercise”) |
| ☐ | Gift of Company Securities |
| Other (describe): |
Transaction Detail (provide the following information)
| Number of securities: | |
| Estimated share price: | |
| Contemplated execution date: | |
| Date of your last “opposite way” transaction⁎⁎: |
Certification
I certify that I have fully disclosed the information requested in this form, I have read the IOTHREE LIMITED Insider Trading Policy, I am not in possession of material nonpublic information, and to the best of my knowledge and belief the proposed transaction will not violate the IOTHREE LIMITED Insider Trading Policy.
| (Sign Above) | |
| (Print Name Above) | |
| (Date) |
| ⁎ | Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the IOTHREE LIMITED Insider Trading Policy. |
| ⁎⁎ | If a Section 16 insider buys and sells (or sells and buys) Company Securities within a six-month time frame and such transactions are not exempt under SEC rules, the two transactions can be “matched” for purposes of Section 16. The insider may be sued and will be strictly liable for any profits made, regardless of whether the insider was in possession of material nonpublic information. |
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Exhibit 12.1
Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act
I, Eng Chye Koh, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of iOThree Limited;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The company’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the company and have:
a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, 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;
c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
d. Disclosed in this report any change in the company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the company’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The company’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and the audit committee of the company’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: June 30, 2025
| By: | /s/ Eng Chye Koh | |
| Name: | Eng Chye Koh | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman | |
| (Principal Executive Officer) |
Exhibit 12.2
Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) of the Exchange Act
I, Fui Chu Lo, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 20-F of iOThree Limited;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the company as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The company’s other certifying officer(s) and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the company and have:
a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the company, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, 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;
c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the company’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
d. Disclosed in this report any change in the company’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the company’s internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The company’s other certifying officer(s) and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the company’s auditors and the audit committee of the company’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the company’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Date: June 30, 2025
| By: | /s/ Fui Chu Lo | |
| Name: | Fui Chu Lo | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
| (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) |
Exhibit 13.1
Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350
Pursuant to U.S.C. Section 1350 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (subsections (a) and (b) of Section 1350, Chapter 63 of Title 18, United States Code), each of the undersigned officers of iOThree Limited (the “Company”), does hereby certify, to such officer’s knowledge, that:
The Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended March 31, 2025 of the Company fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and information contained in the Form 20-F fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
| IOTHREE LIMITED | ||
| June 30, 2025 | By: | /s/ Eng Chye Koh |
| Name: | Eng Chye Koh | |
| Title: | Chief Executive Officer and Chairman | |
| (Principal Executive Officer) | ||
| June 30, 2025 | By: | /s/ Fui Chu Lo |
| Name: | Fui Chu Lo | |
| Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
| (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | ||
Exhibit 97.1
IOTHREE LIMITED
CLAWBACK POLICY
| A. | OVERVIEW |
In accordance with the applicable rules of The Nasdaq Stock Market (the “Nasdaq Rules), Section 10D and Rule 10D-1 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) (“Rule 10D-1”), the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of IOTHREE LIMITED (the “Company”) has adopted this Policy (the “Policy”) to provide for the recovery of erroneously awarded Incentive-based Compensation from Executive Officers. All capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings set forth in Section H, below.
| B. | RECOVERY OF ERRONEOUSLY AWARDED COMPENSATION |
(1) In the event of an Accounting Restatement, the Company will reasonably promptly recover the Erroneously Awarded Compensation Received in accordance with Nasdaq Rules and Rule 10D-1 as follows:
| (i) | After an Accounting Restatement, the Compensation Committee of the Board (the “Committee”) shall determine the amount of any Erroneously Awarded Compensation Received by each Executive Officer and shall promptly notify each Executive Officer with a written notice containing the amount of any Erroneously Awarded Compensation and a demand for repayment or return of such compensation, as applicable. |
| (a) | For Incentive-based Compensation based on (or derived from) the Company’s stock price or total shareholder return, where the amount of Erroneously Awarded Compensation is not subject to mathematical recalculation directly from the information in the applicable Accounting Restatement: |
| i. | The amount to be repaid or returned shall be determined by the Committee based on a reasonable estimate of the effect of the Accounting Restatement on the Company’s stock price or total shareholder return upon which the Incentive-based Compensation was Received; and |
| ii. | The Company shall maintain documentation of the determination of such reasonable estimate and provide the relevant documentation as required to the Nasdaq. |
| (ii) | The Committee shall have discretion to determine the appropriate means of recovering Erroneously Awarded Compensation based on the particular facts and circumstances. Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as set forth in Section B(2) below, in no event may the Company accept an amount that is less than the amount of Erroneously Awarded Compensation in satisfaction of an Executive Officer’s obligations hereunder. |
| (iii) | To the extent that the Executive Officer has already reimbursed the Company for any Erroneously Awarded Compensation Received under any duplicative recovery obligations established by the Company or applicable law, it shall be appropriate for any such reimbursed amount to be credited to the amount of Erroneously Awarded Compensation that is subject to recovery under this Policy. |
| (iv) | To the extent that an Executive Officer fails to repay all Erroneously Awarded Compensation to the Company when due, the Company shall take all actions reasonable and appropriate to recover such Erroneously Awarded Compensation from the applicable Executive Officer. The applicable Executive Officer shall be required to reimburse the Company for any and all expenses reasonably incurred (including legal fees) by the Company in recovering such Erroneously Awarded Compensation in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence. |
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(2) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Company shall not be required to take the actions contemplated by Section B(1) above if the Committee determines that recovery would be impracticable and any of the following three conditions are met:
| (i) | The Committee has determined that the direct expenses paid to a third party to assist in enforcing the Policy would exceed the amount to be recovered. Before making this determination, the Company must make a reasonable attempt to recover the Erroneously Awarded Compensation, document such attempt(s) and provide such documentation to the Nasdaq; |
| (ii) | Recovery would violate home country law where that law was adopted prior to November 28, 2022, provided that, before determining that it would be impracticable to recover any amount of Erroneously Awarded Compensation based on violation of home country law, the Company has obtained an opinion of home country counsel, acceptable to the Nasdaq, that recovery would result in such a violation and a copy of the opinion is provided to Nasdaq; or |
| (iii) | Recovery would likely cause an otherwise tax-qualified retirement plan, under which benefits are broadly available to employees of the Company, to fail to meet the requirements of Section 401(a)(13) or Section 411(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and regulations thereunder. |
| C. | DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS |
The Company shall file all disclosures with respect to this Policy required by applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings and rules.
| D. | PROHIBITION OF INDEMNIFICATION |
The Company shall not be permitted to insure or indemnify any Executive Officer against (i) the loss of any Erroneously Awarded Compensation that is repaid, returned or recovered pursuant to the terms of this Policy, or
(ii) any claims relating to the Company’s enforcement of its rights under this Policy. Further, the Company shall not enter into any agreement that exempts any Incentive-based Compensation that is granted, paid or awarded to an Executive Officer from the application of this Policy or that waives the Company’s right to recovery of any Erroneously Awarded Compensation, and this Policy shall supersede any such agreement (whether entered into before, on or after the Effective Date of this Policy). It is hereby acknowledged that Rule 10D-1(b)(1)(v) and Nasdaq Rule 5608 provide that the Company is prohibited from indemnifying any executive officer or former executive officer against the loss of erroneously awarded compensation. It is therefore acknowledged that such indemnification is prohibited by applicable law for all purposes, including any and all such agreements.
| E. | ADMINISTRATION AND INTERPRETATION |
This Policy shall be administered by the Committee, and any determinations made by the Committee shall be final and binding on all affected individuals.
The Committee is authorized to interpret and construe this Policy and to make all determinations necessary, appropriate, or advisable for the administration of this Policy and for the Company’s compliance with Nasdaq Rules, Section 10D, Rule 10D-1 and any other applicable law, regulation, rule or interpretation of the SEC or Nasdaq promulgated or issued in connection therewith.
| F. | AMENDMENT; TERMINATION |
The Committee may amend this Policy from time to time in its discretion and shall amend this Policy as it deems necessary. Notwithstanding anything in this Section F to the contrary, no amendment or termination of this Policy shall be effective if such amendment or termination would (after taking into account any actions taken by the Company contemporaneously with such amendment or termination) cause the Company to violate any federal securities laws, SEC rule or Nasdaq rule.
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| G. | OTHER RECOVERY RIGHTS |
This Policy shall be binding and enforceable against all Executive Officers and, to the extent required by applicable law or guidance from the SEC or Nasdaq, their beneficiaries, heirs, executors, administrators or other legal representatives. The Committee intends that this Policy will be applied to the fullest extent required by applicable law. Any employment agreement, equity award agreement, compensatory plan or any other agreement or arrangement with an Executive Officer shall be deemed to include, as a condition to the grant of any benefit thereunder, an agreement by the Executive Officer to abide by the terms of this Policy. Any right of recovery under this Policy is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other remedies or rights of recovery that may be available to the Company under applicable law, regulation or rule or pursuant to the terms of any policy of the Company or any provision in any employment agreement, equity award agreement, compensatory plan, agreement or other arrangement.
| H. | DEFINITIONS |
For purposes of this Policy, the following capitalized terms shall have the meanings set forth below.
(1) “Accounting Restatement” means an accounting restatement due to the material noncompliance of the Company with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, including any required accounting restatement to correct an error in previously issued financial statements that is material to the previously issued financial statements (a “Big R” restatement), or that would result in a material misstatement if the error were corrected in the current period or left uncorrected in the current period (a “little r” restatement).
(2) “Clawback Eligible Incentive Compensation” means all Incentive-based Compensation Received by an Executive Officer (i) on or after the effective date of the applicable Nasdaq rules, (ii) after beginning service as an Executive Officer, (iii) who served as an Executive Officer at any time during the applicable performance period relating to any Incentive-based Compensation (whether or not such Executive Officer is serving at the time the Erroneously Awarded Compensation is required to be repaid to the Company),
(iv) while the Company has a class of securities listed on a national securities exchange or a national securities association, and (v) during the applicable Clawback Period (as defined below).
(3) “Clawback Period” means, with respect to any Accounting Restatement, the three completed fiscal years of the Company immediately preceding the Restatement Date (as defined below), and if the Company changes its fiscal year, any transition period of less than nine months within or immediately following those three completed fiscal years.
(4) “Erroneously Awarded Compensation” means, with respect to each Executive Officer in connection with an Accounting Restatement, the amount of Clawback Eligible Incentive Compensation that exceeds the amount of Incentive-based Compensation that otherwise would have been Received had it been determined based on the restated amounts, computed without regard to any taxes paid.
(5) “Executive Officer” means each individual who is currently or was previously designated as an “officer” of the Company as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Exchange Act. For the avoidance of doubt, the identification of an executive officer for purposes of this Policy shall include each executive officer who is or was identified pursuant to Item 401(b) of Regulation S-K or Item 6.A of Form 20-F, as applicable, as well as the principal financial officer and principal accounting officer (or, if there is no principal accounting officer, the controller).
(6) “Financial Reporting Measures” means measures that are determined and presented in accordance with the accounting principles used in preparing the Company’s financial statements, and all other measures that are derived wholly or in part from such measures. Stock price and total shareholder return (and any measures that are derived wholly or in part from stock price or total shareholder return) shall, for purposes of this Policy, be considered Financial Reporting Measures. For the avoidance of doubt, a Financial Reporting Measure need not be presented in the Company’s financial statements or included in a filing with the SEC.
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(7) “Incentive-based Compensation” means any compensation that is granted, earned or vested based wholly or in part upon the attainment of a Financial Reporting Measure.
(8) “Nasdaq” means The Nasdaq Stock Market.
(9) “Received” means, with respect to any Incentive-based Compensation, actual or deemed receipt, and Incentive-based Compensation shall be deemed received in the Company’s fiscal period during which the Financial Reporting Measure specified in the Incentive-based Compensation award is attained, even if the payment or grant of the Incentive-based Compensation to the Executive Officer occurs after the end of that period.
(10) “Restatement Date” means the earlier to occur of (i) the date the Board, a committee of the Board or the officers of the Company authorized to take such action if Board action is not required, concludes, or reasonably should have concluded, that the Company is required to prepare an Accounting Restatement, or (ii) the date a court, regulator or other legally authorized body directs the Company to prepare an Accounting Restatement.
Adopted by the Board of Directors on December 19, 2024.
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