Investment

[Jan 2011] The company welcome investors with the relevent experience in Automatic Video Production to join us after the release of our Automatic Video Production software.

The company's net asset, when fairly valued to market price, will reach S$1 million for financial year ending March 2011. We consider this valuation as conservative since most software for the global mass retail market is valued way beyond S$10 million generally.

The Valuation
The valuation is based on comparison with similar Singapore company in similar and complementary field, but not identical and not competing field of Automatic Video Production. Some figures for comparison are as follows:

  Comparison company as at Jan 2011 The company (in 3-5 years time)
History NUS research institute ~ 2001 ~ now 1996 ~ 2001 ~ now
Founders 3, including 1 PhD holder and 1 master degree holder 1 double-master degree holder
Staff Estimated to be about 80 to 100, over 50% degree holder and above Expected to be 30 at most, at most 40% degree holder and above
Turnover Estimated to be about S$7 million Expected to be about S$4 million
Profit Estimated to be about S$2 million Expected to be about S$2 million
Assets 5 patents (including pending patents) 1 patent and 1 commercial property
Product 1 Automatic Video Production entertainment software for the global mass retail market, with a few variants 1 Automatic Video Production entertainment software for the global mass retail market
Valuation Estimated to be about S$12 million at higher 6X PE Expected to be about S$10 million at lower discounted 5X PE
Remarks More established and still growing Smaller size but lower overhead and more profitable. Also growing