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Organization and Description of Business
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2024
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Organization and Description of Business

1. Organization and Description of Business

 

MDB Capital Holdings, LLC (“the Company” or “MDB”), a Delaware limited liability company, is a holding company that has three wholly-owned subsidiaries: MDB CG Management Company (“MDB Management”); Public Ventures, LLC (“Public Ventures”) doing business under the name MDB Capital; and PatentVest, Inc. (“PatentVest”), and has a majority-owned partner company, Invizyne Technologies, Inc. (“Invizyne”), who is in the process of financing which will reduce the ownership by action of dilution.

 

MDB Management is an “administrative” entity whose purpose is to conduct, and to consolidate, wherever possible, shared services and other resources, for our US-based operations.

 

Public Ventures is a U.S. registered broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and is a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), and the National Securities Clearing Corporation (“NSCC”). Public Ventures is dual clearing, operating as a self-clearing firm and carrying accounts for its customers, and on a fully disclosed basis with a nonrelated FINRA member firm, Interactive Brokers, LLC (“Interactive Brokers”). Interactive Brokers serves as custodian of certain investments maintained by Public Ventures.

 

PatentVest performs intellectual property validation services for broker-dealer due diligence functions on the intellectual property of clients and prospective client companies and intellectual property assessment and roadmap for client companies, and it is also an Arizona licensed law firm specializing in patent matters,

 

Invizyne was formed with the business objective of taking nature’s building blocks to make molecules of interest, effectively simplifying nature. Invizyne is a biology technology development company. Invizyne’s technology is a differentiated and unique synthetic biology platform which is designed to enable the scalable exploration of a large number of molecules and properties found in nature.

 

Prior to January 14, 2022, Public Ventures owned the majority of the equity interests in PatentVest and Invizyne. On January 14, 2022, Public Ventures distributed 100% of its equity interests in PatentVest and Invizyne to its members. On January 15, 2022, Public Ventures filed with the Internal Revenue Service to be treated as a corporation for federal income tax purposes. On January 16, 2022, the members of Public Ventures contributed their entire interests in the equity of Public Ventures, and their then equity interests in Invizyne and PatentVest to MDB, as result of which MDB became the new parent holding company of those three entities. There was no effective change in the beneficial ownership of Public Ventures as a result of this transaction. On the same day as part of the reorganization, MDB established MDB Management as a management company subsidiary. These reorganization steps are collectively referred to as the “reorganization”. In connection with the reorganization, 5,000,000 Class B common shares were issued in exchange for the transferred equity interests.

 

The reorganization was completed between entities that were under common control, and the assets contributed and liabilities assumed are recorded based on their historical carrying values. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements retroactively reflect the financial statements of the Company and Public Ventures on an unaudited condensed consolidated basis for the periods presented.

 

On January 16, 2022, the Company issued 100,000 shares of Class A common shares in exchange for all the then non-controlling interests in PatentVest. PatentVest is now wholly owned by the Company.

 

On July 1, 2022, the Company made a cash distribution for $2,723,700 to the former members of Public Ventures. This cash distribution was declared on January 16, 2022.

 

 

On June 8, 2022, MDB completed the first closing of a private placement, consisting of the sale of 2,517,966 Class A common shares at $10.00 per share, for gross proceeds of $25,179,660. On June 15, 2022, the Company completed the second closing of the private placement, consisting of the sale of an additional 11,000 Class A common shares, for gross proceeds of $110,000. Accordingly, the Company received total gross proceeds of $25,289,660 from the sale of 2,528,966 Class A common shares, or $24,746,142 net of $543,518 of offering expenses. In conjunction with the private placement, the Company issued warrants to the placement agent to purchase 18,477 Class A common shares, exercisable upon issuance for a period of 10 years at $13.00 per share, for a cash consideration of $0.001/share. The placement agent’s warrants had a fair value of $106,940, as calculated pursuant to the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and were accounted for as issuance costs that were recorded against paid in capital. The warrants issued are accounted for as equity and recorded under paid in capital.

 

On September 20, 2023, MDB completed an initial public offering (IPO), consisting of the sale of 1,666,666 Class A common shares at $12.00 per share, for gross proceeds of $19,999,992. Accordingly, the Company received total gross proceeds of $19,999,992 from the sale of 1,666,666 Class A common shares, or $17,444,659 net of $2,555,333 of offering expenses. In conjunction with the IPO, the Company issued warrants to the placement agent to purchase 16,667 Class A common shares, exercisable upon issuance for a period of 5 years at $15.00 per share, for a cash consideration of $0.001/share. The placement agent’s warrants had a fair value of $65,411, as calculated pursuant to the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and accounted for as issuance costs that were accounted for as equity instruments and recorded against paid in capital.