Financial Statements
−Removed: DOMINARI HOLDINGS INC.
−Removed: Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets
−Removed: ($ in thousands except share and per share amounts)
+Added: DOMINARI HOLDINGS
+Added: Condensed Consolidated
+Added: Balance Sheets
+Added: ($ in thousands
+Added: except share and per share amounts)
+Added: September 30,
Current assets
17 unchanged sentences
Accrued salaries and benefits
−Removed: Income taxes withheld
Accrued commissions
7 unchanged sentences
5,000,000 shares designated;
−Removed: 3,825 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022;
+Added: 3,825 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022;
liquidation value of $ 0.0001 per share
5,000,000 shares designated;
−Removed: 834 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022;
+Added: 834 shares issued and outstanding at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022;
liquidation value of $ 0.0001 per share
Common stock, $ 0.0001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 5,345,312 and 5,485,096 shares issued at June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively;
−Removed: 5,285,164 and 5,017,079 shares outstanding at June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
+Added: 5,345,312 and 5,485,096 shares issued at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively;
+Added: 5,285,164 and 5,017,079 shares outstanding at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
Additional paid-in capital
−Removed: Treasury stock, at cost, 60,148 and 468,017 shares at June 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
+Added: Treasury stock, at cost, 60,148 and 468,017 shares at September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively
Accumulated deficit
1 unchanged sentence
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
−Removed: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: DOMINARI HOLDINGS INC.
−Removed: Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations
−Removed: ($ in thousands except share and per share amounts)
+Added: See accompanying
+Added: notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: DOMINARI HOLDINGS
+Added: Condensed Consolidated
+Added: Statements of Operations
+Added: ($ in thousands
+Added: except share and per share amounts)
Three Months Ended
−Removed: Six Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Operating costs and expenses
1 unchanged sentence
Research and development
+Added: Research and development - license acquired
Total operating expenses
2 unchanged sentences
Interest income
−Removed: Gain (loss) on marketable securities
+Added: (Loss) gain on marketable securities
Unrealized loss on note receivable
Change in fair value of investments
−Removed: Total other income (expenses)
+Added: Total other (expenses) income
Deemed dividends related to Series O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
4 unchanged sentences
Basic and Diluted
−Removed: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: DOMINARI H OLDINGS
+Added: See accompanying
+Added: notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: DOMINARI HOLDINGS
Condensed Consolidated
3 unchanged sentences
For the Three
−Removed: Months Ended June 30, 2023 and 2022
+Added: Months Ended September 30, 2023 and 2022
Preferred Stock
Treasury Stock
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: Balance at March 31, 2023
+Added: Total Stockholders’
+Added: Balance at June 30, 2023
$ ( 198,306 )
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Balance at June 30, 2023
+Added: Balance at September 30, 2023
$ ( 201,847 )
−Removed: Redeemable Convertible
Preferred Stock
Treasury Stock
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: Balance at March 31, 2022
+Added: Total Stockholders’
+Added: Balance at June 30, 2022
$ ( 172,386 )
−Removed: Redemption of Series O Redeemable Convertible
−Removed: Preferred Stock
−Removed: Redemption of Series P Redeemable
−Removed: Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Deemed dividends related
−Removed: to Series O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Repurchase of treasury stock
+Added: Purchase of treasury stock
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Fractional shares adjusted
−Removed: for reverse split
−Removed: Balance at June 30,
+Added: Balance at September 30, 2022
$ ( 178,625 )
−Removed: For the Six Months Ended June 30, 2023 and 2022
+Added: For the Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30, 2023 and 2022
Preferred Stock
7 unchanged sentences
Retirement of treasury stock
−Removed: Balance at June 30, 2023
+Added: Balance at September 30, 2023
$ ( 201,847 )
−Removed: Redeemable Convertible
+Added: Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
Preferred Stock
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: at December 31, 2021
−Removed: Issuance of Series O redeemable convertible
−Removed: preferred stock for cash
+Added: Treasury Stock
+Added: Balance at December 31, 2021
+Added: $ ( 163,774 )
+Added: Issuance of Series O redeemable convertible preferred stock for cash
Issuance of Series P redeemable convertible preferred stock for cash
−Removed: Cost on issuance of Series
−Removed: O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Deemed dividends related
−Removed: to Series O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Redemption of Series
−Removed: O Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Redemption of Series
−Removed: P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Repurchase of treasury stock
+Added: Cost on issuance of Series O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
+Added: Deemed dividends related to Series O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
+Added: Redemption of Series O Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
+Added: Redemption of Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock
+Added: Purchase of treasury stock
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Cancellation of common stock
−Removed: related to investment in CBM
−Removed: Fractional shares adjusted
−Removed: for reverse split
−Removed: at June 30, 2022
−Removed: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed consolidated
−Removed: financial statements.
−Removed: DOMINARI HOLDINGS INC.
−Removed: Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
+Added: Cancellation of common stock related to investment in CBM
+Added: Fractional shares adjusted for reverse split
+Added: Balance at September 30, 2022
+Added: $ ( 178,625 )
+Added: See accompanying
+Added: notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: DOMINARI HOLDINGS
+Added: Condensed Consolidated
+Added: Statements of Cash Flows
($ in thousands)
−Removed: Six Months Ended
+Added: Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Cash flows from operating activities
3 unchanged sentences
Change in fair value of long-term investment
+Added: Research and development-acquired license, expensed
Stock-based compensation
5 unchanged sentences
Prepaid acquisition cost
−Removed: Deposits with clearing broker
+Added: Clearing broker deposits
Accounts payable and accrued expenses
13 unchanged sentences
Funds to employee forgivable loan
+Added: Purchase of research and development licenses
Purchase of short-term and long-term investments
2 unchanged sentences
Cash flows from financing activities
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance of Series O and Series P
−Removed: Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, net of discount and offering cost
+Added: Proceeds from issuance of Series O and Series P Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, net of discount and offering cost
Payment for fractional shares
13 unchanged sentences
Net cash paid
−Removed: See accompanying notes to unaudited condensed
+Added: See accompanying
+Added: notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: DOMINARI HOLDINGS
+Added: Notes to Condensed
Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: DOMINARI HOLDINGS INC.
−Removed: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: Organization and Description of Business
−Removed: and Recent Developments
−Removed: Organization and Description of Business
−Removed: Dominari Holdings Inc.
−Removed: (the “Company”),
−Removed: formerly AIkido Pharma, Inc., was founded in 1967 as Spherix Incorporated.
−Removed: Since 2017, the Company has operated as a biotechnology company
−Removed: with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics and their related patent technology.
−Removed: In an effort to
−Removed: enhance shareholder value, in June of 2022, the Company formed a wholly owned financial services subsidiary, Dominari Financial Inc.
−Removed: Financial”), with the intent of shifting the Company’s primary operating focus away from biotechnology to the fintech and
−Removed: financial services industries.
−Removed: Through Dominari Financial, the Company acquired Dominari Securities LLC (“Dominari Securities”), an introducing
−Removed: broker-dealer, registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) and an investment adviser registered
−Removed: with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
−Removed: Dominari Securities provides investment advisory services and annuity
−Removed: and insurance products of certain insurance carriers as an insurance agency through independent and affiliated brokers.
−Removed: Additionally, AIkido Labs, LLC (“Aikido
−Removed: Labs”), another wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, is in the process of winding down its historical pipeline of biotechnology
−Removed: assets consisting of patented technologies from leading universities and researchers, including prospective treatments for pancreatic
−Removed: cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
−Removed: Aikido Labs has historically explored opportunities in high growth industries
−Removed: and has equity holdings including Anduril Industries, Inc, Databricks, Inc., Discord, Inc., Epic Games, Inc., Payward, Inc.
−Removed: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
−Removed: dba SpaceX, Tevva Motors Ltd., Thrasio, LLC, and Yanka Industries, Inc.
+Added: and Description of Business and Recent Developments
+Added: and Description of Business
+Added: Dominari Holdings
+Added: (the “Company”), formerly AIkido Pharma, Inc., was founded in 1967 as Spherix Incorporated.
+Added: Since 2017, the Company
+Added: has operated as a biotechnology company with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics and their related
+Added: patent technology.
+Added: In an effort to enhance shareholder value, in June of 2022, the Company formed a wholly owned financial services subsidiary,
+Added: Dominari Financial Inc.
+Added: (“Dominari Financial”), with the intent of shifting the Company’s primary operating focus away
+Added: from biotechnology to the fintech and financial services industries.
+Added: Through Dominari Financial, the Company acquired Dominari Securities
+Added: LLC (“Dominari Securities”), an introducing broker-dealer, registered with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”)
+Added: and an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
+Added: Dominari Securities provides investment
+Added: advisory services and annuity and insurance products of certain insurance carriers as an insurance agency through independent and affiliated
+Added: Related to the shift described above, AIkido Labs, LLC (“Aikido
+Added: Labs”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, is in the process of winding down its historical pipeline of biotechnology assets.
+Added: Aikido Labs has historically explored opportunities in high growth industries and has equity holdings including Anduril Industries, Inc,
+Added: Databricks, Inc., Discord, Inc., Epic Games, Inc., Payward, Inc.
+Added: dba Kraken, Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
+Added: dba SpaceX, Tevva Motors
+Added: Ltd., Thrasio, LLC, and Yanka Industries, Inc.
dba Masterclass.
−Removed: Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: The Company continues to incur ongoing administrative
−Removed: and other expenses, including public company expenses, in excess of corresponding (non-financing related) revenue.
−Removed: While the Company continues
−Removed: to implement its business strategy, it intends to finance its activities through managing current cash on hand from the Company’s
−Removed: past equity offerings.
−Removed: Based upon projected cash flow requirements, the
−Removed: Company has adequate cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities to fund its operations for at least the next twelve months from the date of the issuance of these unaudited
−Removed: condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
−Removed: There have been no material changes in the Company’s
−Removed: significant accounting policies from those previously disclosed in the 2022 Annual Report other than those discussed below.
−Removed: Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated
−Removed: financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S.
−Removed: in conformity with the rules and regulations of the SEC.
−Removed: In the opinion of management, these financial statements contain all adjustments,
−Removed: consisting of only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair statement of the results of the interim periods presented.
−Removed: The condensed
−Removed: balance sheet at December 31, 2022, was derived from audited annual financial statements but does not contain all of the footnote disclosures
−Removed: from the annual financial statements.
−Removed: Accordingly, these financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated
−Removed: financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Company’s policy is to consolidate all
−Removed: entities that it controls by ownership of a majority of the membership interest or outstanding voting stock.
−Removed: The accompanying unaudited
−Removed: condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Aikido Labs, Dominari
−Removed: Financial, and Dominari Securities.
−Removed: All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: Results for interim periods are not necessarily
−Removed: indicative of results to be expected for a full year or any future period.
+Added: and Capital Resources
+Added: The Company continues
+Added: to incur ongoing administrative and other expenses, including public company expenses, in excess of corresponding (non-financing related)
+Added: While the Company continues to implement its business strategy, it intends to finance its activities through managing current
+Added: cash on hand from the Company’s past equity offerings.
+Added: Based upon projected
+Added: cash flow requirements, the Company has adequate cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities to fund its operations for at least
+Added: the next twelve months from the date of the issuance of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: of Significant Accounting Policies
+Added: There have been
+Added: no material changes in the Company’s significant accounting policies from those previously disclosed in the 2022 Annual Report.
+Added: Basis of Presentation
+Added: and Principles of Consolidation
+Added: The accompanying
+Added: unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S.
+Added: generally accepted accounting principles
+Added: GAAP”), and in conformity with the rules and regulations of the SEC.
+Added: In the opinion of management, these financial
+Added: statements contain all adjustments, consisting of only normal recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair statement of the results of
+Added: the interim periods presented.
+Added: The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2023,
+Added: condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, condensed consolidated
+Added: statements of stockholders’ equity for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022, and the condensed consolidated
+Added: statements of cash flows for the nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 are unaudited, but include all adjustments, consisting
+Added: only of normal recurring adjustments, which the Company considers necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating
+Added: results and cash flows for the periods presented.
+Added: The results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 are not necessarily
+Added: indicative of results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2023 or for any future interim period.
+Added: The condensed consolidated
+Added: balance sheet at December 31, 2022 has been derived from audited financial statements;
+Added: however, it does not include all of the information
+Added: and notes required by U.S.
+Added: GAAP for complete financial statements.
+Added: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
+Added: should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual
+Added: report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: policy is to consolidate all entities that it controls by ownership of a majority of the membership interest or outstanding voting stock.
+Added: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries,
+Added: Aikido Labs, Dominari Financial, and Dominari Securities.
+Added: All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated
+Added: in consolidation.
+Added: Results for interim
+Added: periods are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for a full year or any future period.
Use of Estimates
−Removed: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated
−Removed: financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S.
−Removed: This requires management to make estimates and assumptions that
−Removed: affect certain reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited
−Removed: condensed consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the period.
−Removed: The Company’s significant
−Removed: estimates and assumptions include stock-based compensation, the valuation of investments, the valuation of notes receivable and the valuation
−Removed: allowance related to the Company’s deferred tax assets.
−Removed: Certain of the Company’s estimates could be affected by external conditions,
−Removed: including those unique to the Company and general economic conditions.
−Removed: It is reasonably possible that these external factors could have
−Removed: an effect on the Company’s estimates and could cause actual results to differ from those estimates and assumptions.
−Removed: Deposits with clearing broker
−Removed: Deposits with Dominari Securities’ clearing
−Removed: broker consisted of approximately $ 7.1 million held in money market funds and liquid insured deposits maintained by the Company with its
−Removed: clearing broker as of June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The Company accounts for its leases under ASC
−Removed: 842, Leases (“ASC 842”).
−Removed: Under this guidance, arrangements meeting the definition of a lease are classified
−Removed: as operating or financing leases and are recorded on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as both a right-of-use asset and
−Removed: lease liability, calculated by discounting fixed lease payments over the lease term at the rate implicit in the lease or the Company’s
−Removed: incremental borrowing rate.
−Removed: Lease liabilities are increased by interest and reduced by payments each period, and the right-of-use asset
−Removed: is amortized over the lease term.
−Removed: For operating leases, interest on the lease liability and the amortization of the right-of-use asset
−Removed: result in straight-line rent expense over the lease term.
−Removed: For finance leases, interest on the lease liability and the amortization of
−Removed: the right-of-use asset results in front-loaded expense over the lease term.
−Removed: Variable lease expenses are recorded when incurred (see Note
−Removed: 10 - Leases ).
−Removed: The Company recognizes revenues under ASC
−Removed: 606 - Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”) .
−Removed: Revenues are recognized when control
−Removed: of the promised goods or performance obligations for services is transferred to the Company’s customers, in an amount that reflects
−Removed: the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for the goods or services.
−Removed: following provides detailed information on the recognition of the Company’s revenues from contracts with customers:
−Removed: ● Underwriting
−Removed: services include underwriting and placement agent services in both the equity and debt capital
−Removed: markets, including private equity placements, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings,
−Removed: and underwriting and distributing public and private debt.
−Removed: Underwriting and placement agent
−Removed: revenues are recognized at a point in time on trade-date, as the client obtains the control
−Removed: and benefit of the underwriting offering at that point.
−Removed: Costs associated with underwriting
−Removed: transactions are deferred until the related revenue is recognized or the engagement is otherwise
−Removed: concluded and are recorded on a gross basis within the general and administrative line item
−Removed: in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations as the Company is acting
−Removed: as a principal in the arrangement.
−Removed: Any expenses reimbursed by the Company’s clients
−Removed: are recognized as other income.
+Added: The accompanying
+Added: unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S.
+Added: This requires management to make
+Added: estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities
+Added: at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the
+Added: The Company’s significant estimates and assumptions include stock-based compensation, the valuation of investments, the
+Added: valuation of notes receivable and the valuation allowance related to the Company’s deferred tax assets.
+Added: Certain of the Company’s
+Added: estimates could be affected by external conditions, including those unique to the Company and general economic conditions.
+Added: It is reasonably
+Added: possible that these external factors could have an effect on the Company’s estimates and could cause actual results to differ from
+Added: those estimates and assumptions.
+Added: Deposits with
+Added: clearing broker
+Added: Deposits with Dominari
+Added: Securities’ clearing broker consisted of approximately $ 7.2 million held in money market funds and liquid insured deposits maintained
+Added: by the Company with its clearing broker as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: The Company accounts
+Added: for its leases under ASC 842, Leases (“ASC 842”).
+Added: Under this guidance, arrangements meeting the definition
+Added: of a lease are classified as operating or financing leases and are recorded on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as
+Added: both a right-of-use asset and lease liability, calculated by discounting fixed lease payments over the lease term at the rate implicit
+Added: in the lease or the Company’s incremental borrowing rate.
+Added: Lease liabilities are increased by interest and reduced by payments each
+Added: period, and the right-of-use asset is amortized over the lease term.
+Added: For operating leases, interest on the lease liability and the amortization
+Added: of the right-of-use asset result in straight-line rent expense over the lease term.
+Added: For finance leases, interest on the lease liability
+Added: and the amortization of the right-of-use asset results in front-loaded expense over the lease term.
+Added: Variable lease expenses are recorded
+Added: when incurred (see Note 10 - Leases ).
+Added: The Company recognizes
+Added: revenues under ASC 606 - Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”) .
+Added: recognized when control of the promised goods or performance obligations for services is transferred to the Company’s customers,
+Added: in an amount that reflects the consideration the Company expects to be entitled to in exchange for the goods or services.
+Added: The following provides
+Added: detailed information on the recognition of the Company’s revenues from contracts with customers:
+Added: services include underwriting and placement agent services in both the equity and debt capital markets, including private equity
+Added: placements, initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, and underwriting and distributing public and private debt.
+Added: and placement agent revenues are recognized at a point in time on trade-date, as the client obtains the control and benefit of the
+Added: underwriting offering at that point.
+Added: Costs associated with underwriting transactions are deferred until the related revenue is recognized
+Added: or the engagement is otherwise concluded and are recorded on a gross basis within the general and administrative line item in the
+Added: unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations as the Company is acting as a principal in the arrangement.
+Added: reimbursed by the Company’s clients are recognized as other income.
● Commissions
−Removed: are earned by executing, transactions for clients primarily in equity,
−Removed: equity-related, and debt products.
−Removed: Commission revenues associated with trade execution are recognized
−Removed: at a point in time on trade-date.
−Removed: Commissions revenues are generally paid on settlement date
−Removed: and the Company records receivables to account for timing between trade-date and payment
−Removed: on settlement date.
−Removed: Recently adopted accounting standards
−Removed: In October 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-08,
−Removed: Business Combinations (Topic 805) Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers (“ASU
−Removed: This update amends Topic 805 to add contract assets and contract liabilities to the list of exceptions to the
−Removed: recognition and measurement principles that apply to business combinations and to require that an entity (acquirer) recognize and measure
−Removed: contract assets and contract liabilities in accordance with ASC 606.
−Removed: The Company adopted ASU 2021-08 on January 1, 2023.
−Removed: There was no material impact to the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements from the implementation of ASU
−Removed: Effect of new accounting pronouncements not
−Removed: In June 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-03, Fair
−Removed: Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions , to clarify that a contractual restriction on the
−Removed: 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
−Removed: the fair value of the equity security.
−Removed: ASU 2022-03 also clarifies that an entity cannot recognize and measure a contractual
−Removed: sale restriction as a separate unit of account.
−Removed: The amendments in ASU 2022-03 may be early adopted and are effective on
−Removed: a prospective basis for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: The Company is
−Removed: currently evaluating the impact of the amendments on the Company’s consolidated financial statements and whether it will early adopt
−Removed: the amendments in ASU 2022-03 .
−Removed: In March 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-01,
−Removed: Leases , to require entities to classify and account for leases with related parties on the basis of legally enforceable terms
−Removed: and conditions of the arrangement.
−Removed: The amendments are effective in periods beginning after December 15, 2023, including interim periods
−Removed: within those fiscal years.
−Removed: The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of the amendments and the impact on its future consolidated
−Removed: financial statements and whether it will early adopt the amendments in ASU 2023-01.
−Removed: Effect of new accounting pronouncements to
−Removed: be adopted in future periods
−Removed: The Company reviewed all other recently issued
−Removed: accounting pronouncements and concluded that they were either not applicable or not expected to have a significant impact on these unaudited
−Removed: condensed consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: FPS Acquisition
−Removed: On September 9, 2022, Dominari Financial entered
−Removed: into a membership interest purchase agreement, as amended and restated on March 27, 2023 (the “FPS Purchase Agreement”) with
−Removed: Fieldpoint Private Bank & Trust (“Seller”), a Connecticut bank, for the purchase of its wholly owned subsidiary, Fieldpoint
−Removed: Private Securities, LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company (“FPS”), that is a broker-dealer registered with FINRA and
−Removed: an investment adviser registered with the SEC (the “FPS Acquisition”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the FPS Purchase Agreement,
−Removed: Dominari Financial purchased from the Seller 100 % of the membership interests in FPS (the “FPS Membership Interests”).
−Removed: FPS’s registered broker-dealer and investment adviser businesses were renamed and will operate as Dominari Securities, a wholly
−Removed: owned subsidiary of Dominari Financial.
−Removed: The FPS Purchase Agreement provides for Dominari Financial’s acquisition of FPS’s
−Removed: Membership Interests in two closings, the first of which occurred on October 4, 2022 (the “Initial Closing”), at which
−Removed: Dominari Financial paid to the Seller $ 2.0 million in consideration for a transfer by the Seller to Dominari Financial of 20 %
−Removed: of the FPS Membership Interests.
−Removed: Following the Initial Closing, FPS filed a continuing membership application requesting approval
−Removed: for a change of ownership, control, or business operations with FINRA in accordance with FINRA Rule 1017 (the “Rule 1017 Application”).
−Removed: The Rule 1017 Application was approved by FINRA on March 20, 2023.
+Added: are earned by executing, transactions for clients primarily in equity, equity-related, and
+Added: debt products.
+Added: Commission revenues associated with trade execution are recognized at a point
+Added: in time on trade-date.
+Added: Commissions revenues are generally paid on settlement date and the
+Added: Company records receivables to account for timing between trade-date and payment on settlement
+Added: advisory fees are earned in connection with investment advisory services.
+Added: Account advisory
+Added: fees are recognized over time using the time elapsed method as the Company determined that
+Added: the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits of investment advisory services
+Added: as they are provided.
+Added: Account advisory fees are generally paid in advance of a specified
+Added: service period (e.g.
+Added: quarterly) and are initially deferred within in our Condensed Consolidated
+Added: Balance Sheet.
+Added: Long-term investments
+Added: Effective January
+Added: 1, 2018, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-01 and related ASU 2018-03 and ASU 2019-04 concerning
+Added: recognition and measurement of financial assets and financial liabilities.
+Added: In adopting this guidance, the Company has made an accounting
+Added: policy election to adopt an adjusted cost method measurement alternative for investments in equity securities without readily determinable
+Added: For equity investments
+Added: that are accounted for using the measurement alternative, the Company initially records equity investments at cost but is required to
+Added: adjust the carrying value of such equity investments through earnings when there is an observable transaction involving the same or a
+Added: similar investment with the same issuer or upon an impairment.
+Added: Recently adopted
+Added: accounting standards
+Added: In October 2021,
+Added: the FASB issued ASU 2021-08, Business Combinations (Topic 805) Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts
+Added: with Customers (“ASU 2021-08”).
+Added: This update amends Topic 805 to add contract assets and contract liabilities
+Added: to the list of exceptions to the recognition and measurement principles that apply to business combinations and to require that an entity
+Added: (acquirer) recognize and measure contract assets and contract liabilities in accordance with ASC 606.
+Added: The Company adopted ASU
+Added: 2021-08 on January 1, 2023.
+Added: There was no material impact to the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements
+Added: from the implementation of ASU 2021-08.
+Added: Effect of new
+Added: accounting pronouncements not yet adopted
+Added: In June 2022, the
+Added: FASB issued ASU 2022-03, Fair Value Measurement of Equity Securities Subject to Contractual Sale Restrictions ,
+Added: to clarify that a contractual restriction on the sale of an equity security is not considered part of the unit of account of the equity
+Added: security and, therefore, is not considered in measuring the fair value of the equity security.
+Added: ASU 2022-03 also clarifies
+Added: that an entity cannot recognize and measure a contractual sale restriction as a separate unit of account.
+Added: The amendments in ASU 2022-03 may
+Added: be early adopted and are effective on a prospective basis for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within
+Added: those fiscal years.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the amendments on the Company’s consolidated financial statements
+Added: and whether it will early adopt the amendments in ASU 2022-03 .
+Added: In March 2023,
+Added: the FASB issued ASU 2023-01, Leases , to require entities to classify and account for leases with related parties on
+Added: the basis of legally enforceable terms and conditions of the arrangement.
+Added: The amendments are effective in periods beginning after December
+Added: 15, 2023, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the provisions of the amendments and
+Added: the impact on its future consolidated financial statements and whether it will early adopt the amendments in ASU 2023-01.
+Added: Effect of new
+Added: accounting pronouncements to be adopted in future periods
+Added: The Company reviewed
+Added: all other recently issued accounting pronouncements and concluded that they were either not applicable or not expected to have a significant
+Added: impact on these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
+Added: On September 9, 2022, Dominari Financial entered into a membership
+Added: interest purchase agreement, as amended and restated on March 27, 2023 (the “FPS Purchase Agreement”) with Fieldpoint Private
+Added: Bank & Trust (“Seller”), a Connecticut bank, for the purchase of its wholly owned subsidiary, Fieldpoint Private Securities,
+Added: LLC, a Connecticut limited liability company (“FPS”), that is a broker-dealer registered with FINRA and an investment adviser
+Added: registered with the SEC (the “FPS Acquisition”).
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the FPS Purchase Agreement, Dominari Financial
+Added: purchased from the Seller 100 % of the membership interests in FPS (the “FPS Membership Interests”).
+Added: FPS’s registered
+Added: broker-dealer and investment adviser businesses were renamed and will operate as Dominari Securities, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dominari
+Added: The FPS Purchase Agreement provided for Dominari Financial’s acquisition of FPS’s Membership Interests in
+Added: two closings, the first of which occurred on October 4, 2022 (the “Initial Closing”), at which Dominari Financial paid
+Added: to the Seller $ 2.0 million in consideration for a transfer by the Seller to Dominari Financial of 20 % of the FPS Membership
+Added: Following the Initial Closing, FPS filed a continuing membership application requesting approval for a change of ownership,
+Added: control, or business operations with FINRA in accordance with FINRA Rule 1017 (the “Rule 1017 Application”).
+Added: 1017 Application was approved by FINRA on March 20, 2023.
The second closing (the “Second Closing”) occurred on March 27,
−Removed: Dominari Financial paid to the Seller an additional approximate $ 1.6 million consideration for a transfer by the Seller
−Removed: to Dominari Financial of the remaining 80 % of the FPS Membership Interests.
−Removed: Consideration Transferred
−Removed: The FPS Acquisition was accounted for as a business
−Removed: combination under ASC 805.
−Removed: Under the terms of the FPS Purchase Agreement
−Removed: and subsequent Amendments and Side Letters, 100 % of the FPS Membership Interests were acquired for cash consideration of approximately
−Removed: $ 3.4 million, which reflected the fair value of net assets acquired, plus a $ 1 purchase price.
−Removed: At March 31, 2023, Dominari Financial had
−Removed: not finalized the purchase accounting related to the fair value of assets acquired in the FPS Acquisition.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Initial Closing
−Removed: and Second Closing, Dominari Financial had wired a total of approximately $ 3.6 million in cash to the Seller.
−Removed: The purchase price allocation
−Removed: identified net assets of approximately $ 3.4 million, resulting in a receivable due from the Seller for approximately $ 0.2 million.
−Removed: receivable is not included within the consideration transferred as part of the FPS Acquisition but is included within prepaid expenses
−Removed: and other assets within the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2023.
−Removed: Under the acquisition method of accounting, the
−Removed: assets acquired, and liabilities assumed of FPS were recorded as of the acquisition date, at their respective fair values, and consolidated
−Removed: with those of the Company.
−Removed: Acquisition-related costs are not included as a component of consideration transferred but are expensed in
−Removed: the periods in which costs are incurred.
−Removed: The Company incurred approximately $ 0.3 million of transaction costs associated with the FPS
−Removed: The transaction costs are included in general and administrative expenses in the unaudited condensed consolidated statement
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: Fair Value of Net Assets Acquired
−Removed: The following table summarizes the fair values
−Removed: of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed of FPS at the date of acquisition:
−Removed: Cash and cash equivalents
−Removed: Deposits with Clearing Broker-Dealer
+Added: Dominari Financial paid to the Seller an additional approximate $ 1.6 million consideration for a transfer by the Seller to
+Added: Dominari Financial of the remaining 80 % of the FPS Membership Interests.
+Added: Consideration
+Added: The FPS Acquisition
+Added: was accounted for as a business combination under ASC 805.
+Added: Under the terms of the FPS Purchase Agreement and subsequent amendments
+Added: and side letters to the agreement 100 % of the FPS Membership Interests were acquired for cash consideration of approximately $ 3.4 million,
+Added: which reflected the fair value of net assets acquired, plus a $ 1 purchase price.
+Added: At March 31, 2023, Dominari Financial had not finalized
+Added: the purchase accounting related to the fair value of assets acquired in the FPS Acquisition.
+Added: Pursuant to the Initial Closing and Second
+Added: Closing, Dominari Financial had wired a total of approximately $ 3.6 million in cash to the Seller.
+Added: The purchase price allocation identified
+Added: net assets of approximately $ 3.4 million, resulting in a receivable due from the Seller for approximately $ 0.2 million.
+Added: The receivable
+Added: is not included within the consideration transferred as part of the FPS Acquisition but is included within prepaid expenses and other
+Added: assets within the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2023.
+Added: Under the acquisition
+Added: method of accounting, the assets acquired, and liabilities assumed of FPS were recorded as of the acquisition date, at their respective
+Added: fair values, and consolidated with those of the Company.
+Added: Acquisition-related costs are not included as a component of consideration transferred
+Added: but are expensed in the periods in which costs are incurred.
+Added: The Company incurred approximately $ 0.3 million of transaction costs associated
+Added: with the FPS Acquisition.
+Added: The transaction costs are included in general and administrative expenses in the unaudited condensed consolidated
+Added: statement of operations.
+Added: Fair Value of
+Added: Net Assets Acquired
+Added: The following table
+Added: summarizes the fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed of FPS at the date of acquisition ($ in thousands):
+Added: and cash equivalents
+Added: with Clearing Broker-Dealer
Other receivables
−Removed: Prepaid and other current assets
−Removed: Total assets acquired
+Added: and other current assets
+Added: assets acquired
Accrued expenses
Accrued commissions
−Removed: Wealth management liabilities
−Removed: Total liabilities assumed
−Removed: Total net assets of FPS Acquisition
−Removed: Dominari Securities reported a net loss of approximately
−Removed: $ 7.7 million for the three-months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: Revenue for the period ended June 30, 2023, was approximately $ 0.07 million.
−Removed: net loss was primarily a result of approximately $ 5.4 million of bonus and employee compensation expense and professional services of
−Removed: approximately $ 0.9 million.
−Removed: The bonus and compensation expense and professional service fees related to establishing the operations of
−Removed: the broker-dealer and are included in the general and administrative expenses line item within the unaudited condensed consolidated statement
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: Investments in Marketable Securities
−Removed: The realized gain or loss, unrealized gain or
−Removed: loss, and dividend income related to marketable securities for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022, which are recorded
−Removed: as a component of gains and (losses) on marketable securities on the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, are as
−Removed: follows ($ in thousands):
+Added: management liabilities
+Added: liabilities assumed
+Added: net assets of FPS Acquisition
+Added: in Marketable Securities
+Added: The realized gain
+Added: or loss, unrealized gain or loss, and dividend income related to marketable securities for the three and nine months ended September
+Added: 30, 2023 and 2022, which are recorded as a component of gains and (losses) on marketable securities on the unaudited condensed consolidated
+Added: statements of operations, are as follows ($ in thousands):
Three Months Ended
−Removed: Six Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
Realized loss
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Dividend income
−Removed: Short-term investments
−Removed: The following table presents the Company’s
−Removed: short-term investments as of June 30, 2023, and December 31, 2022 ($ in thousands):
−Removed: Investment in Vicinity Motor Corp.
−Removed: There was no change in the fair value of the short-term
−Removed: investments for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The following table provides quantitative information
−Removed: regarding Level 3 fair value measurement inputs at their measurement dates:
−Removed: Option term (in years)
+Added: The following table
+Added: presents the Company’s short-term investments as of September 30, 2023, and December 31, 2022 ($ in thousands):
+Added: September 30,
+Added: in Vicinity Motor Corp.
+Added: There was approximately
+Added: $ 12,000 reduction in the fair value of the short-term investments for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: The following table
+Added: provides quantitative information regarding Level 3 fair value measurement inputs at their measurement dates:
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Option term (in
Risk-free interest rate
Expected dividends
−Removed: Long-Term Investments
−Removed: The Company holds interests in several privately
−Removed: held companies as long-term investments that the Company perceives as potential IPO candidates.
−Removed: The following table presents the Company’s
−Removed: long-term investments as of June 30, 2023, and December 31, 2022 ($ in thousands):
+Added: The Company holds
+Added: interests in several privately held companies as long-term investments that the Company perceives as potential IPO candidates.
+Added: The following
+Added: table presents the Company’s long-term investments as of September 30, 2023, and December 31, 2022 ($ in thousands):
+Added: September 30,
Investment in Kerna Health Inc
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Investment in ASP Isotopes
−Removed: Investment in AerocarveUS Corporation
+Added: Investment in Unusual Machines
Investment in Qxpress
9 unchanged sentences
Investment in Anduril
−Removed: Investment in AerocarveUS Corporation
−Removed: On November 22, 2021, the Company entered
−Removed: into an agreement (the “AerocarveUS Agreement”) with AerocarveUS Corporation, (“AerocarveUS”).
−Removed: AerocarveUS Agreement, the Company agreed to purchase 250,000 shares of common stock of AerocarveUS for $ 1.0 million.
+Added: in Unusual Machines, Inc.
+Added: On November 22, 2021, the Company entered into an agreement (the “AerocarveUS
+Added: Agreement”) with AerocarveUS Corporation, (“AerocarveUS”).
+Added: Under the AerocarveUS Agreement, the Company agreed to purchase 250,000 shares
+Added: of common stock of AerocarveUS for $ 1.0 million.
AerocarveUS changed its name to “Unusual Machines, Inc.” on July 5,
−Removed: In March of 2023, the Company was issued an
−Removed: additional 64,377 shares at no cost.
−Removed: In June 2023, the Company purchased an additional 150,000 shares of common stock for
−Removed: approximately $ 0.08 million.
−Removed: The investment in AerocarveUS Corporation (a.k.a.
−Removed: Unusual Machines, Inc.) was valued at approximately
−Removed: $ 1.08 million as of June 30, 2023.
−Removed: Notes Receivable
−Removed: The following table presents the Company’s
−Removed: notes receivable as of June 30, 2023 ($ in thousands):
+Added: In March of 2023, the Company was issued an additional 64,377 shares at no cost.
+Added: In June 2023, the Company purchased an additional 150,000 shares
+Added: of common stock for approximately $ 0.08 million.
+Added: On July 10, 2023, Unusual Machines, Inc.
+Added: effected a reverse stock split pursuant to which
+Added: each two shares of common stock of the Corporation issued and outstanding was combined and reclassified into one share of common stock
+Added: of the Corporation.
+Added: The investment in Unusual Machines, Inc.
+Added: was valued at approximately $ 1.0 million as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: The following table
+Added: presents the Company’s notes receivable as of September 30, 2023 ($ in thousands):
Maturity Date
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Notes receivable, at fair value - non-current portion
−Removed: Convergent Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: The Company’s 8 % convertible promissory
−Removed: note (“Convergent Convertible Note”) issued by Convergent Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: (“Convergent”) in the principal amount
−Removed: of approximately $ 1.8 million pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement matured on January 29, 2023 .
−Removed: Upon maturity, Convergent entered
−Removed: into a contractual repayment schedule with the Company.
−Removed: Pursuant to the schedule, Convergent will make a total of eight payments in the
−Removed: amount of $ 250 thousand and accrued interest, every three months until fully satisfied.
−Removed: The principal balance of the Convergent Convertible
−Removed: Note was approximately $ 1.8 million as of June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The Company recorded principal repayment of $ 0.5 million and interest income
−Removed: of approximately $ 0.1 million on the Convergent Convertible Note for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: Raefan Industries LLC Investment
−Removed: The Company recorded an interest income receivable
−Removed: of approximately $ 0.6 million on the Raefan Industries Promissory Note as of June 30, 2023 and an unrealized loss on the note of
−Removed: approximately $ 0.2 million.
−Removed: American Innovative Robotics, LLC Investment
−Removed: The Company recorded interest income of approximately
−Removed: $ 44,000 on the Robotics Promissory Note for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: Kaya Now Inc.
−Removed: During the fourth quarter of 2022, the Company
−Removed: identified indicators of impairment for the Kaya investment as a result of adverse changes in Kaya’s business operations, including
−Removed: liquidity concerns.
−Removed: As a result, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $ 0.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2022.
−Removed: The impairment
−Removed: charge represents an impairment loss of the total investment held as a promissory note resulting in a $ 0 balance for the Kaya Now
−Removed: Promissory Note as of June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The Company received and recorded interest income
−Removed: related to the Kaya Now Promissory Note of approximately $ 10,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: Fair Value of Financial Assets and
−Removed: Financial instruments, including cash and cash
−Removed: equivalents, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are carried at cost, which management believes approximates fair value due to the
−Removed: short-term nature of these instruments.
−Removed: The Company measures the fair value of financial assets and liabilities based on the exchange
−Removed: price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market
−Removed: for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.
−Removed: The Company maximizes the use
−Removed: of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.
−Removed: The Company uses three levels of inputs that may
−Removed: be used to measure fair value:
−Removed: Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets
−Removed: for identical assets or liabilities
−Removed: Level 2 - quoted prices for similar
−Removed: assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable
−Removed: Level 3 - inputs that are unobservable
−Removed: (for example, cash flow modeling inputs based on assumptions)
−Removed: Observable inputs are based on market data obtained
−Removed: from independent sources, while unobservable inputs are based on the Company’s market assumptions.
−Removed: Unobservable inputs require significant
−Removed: management judgment or estimation.
−Removed: In some cases, the inputs used to measure an asset or liability may fall into different levels of the
−Removed: fair value hierarchy.
−Removed: In those instances, the fair value measurement is required to be classified using the lowest level of input that
−Removed: is significant to the fair value measurement.
−Removed: Such determination requires significant management judgment.
−Removed: The following table presents the Company’s
−Removed: assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value as of June 30, 2023, and December 31, 2022 ($ in thousands):
−Removed: Fair value measured as of June 30, 2023
−Removed: active markets
−Removed: Significant other
+Added: Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: The Company’s 8 %
+Added: convertible promissory note (“Convergent Convertible Note”) issued by Convergent Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: (“Convergent”)
+Added: in the principal amount of approximately $ 1.8 million pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement matured on January 29, 2023 .
+Added: maturity, Convergent entered into a contractual repayment schedule with the Company.
+Added: Pursuant to the schedule, Convergent will make a
+Added: total of eight payments in the amount of $ 250 thousand and accrued interest, every three months until fully satisfied.
+Added: The principal balance
+Added: of the Convergent Convertible Note was approximately $ 1.3 million as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: The Company recorded principal repayment
+Added: of $ 0.8 million and interest income of approximately $ 0.2 million on the Convergent Convertible Note for the nine months ended September
+Added: Raefan Industries
+Added: LLC Investment
+Added: The Company recorded
+Added: an interest income receivable of approximately $ 0.7 million on the Raefan Industries Promissory Note as of September 30, 2023 and
+Added: an unrealized loss on the note of approximately $ 0.2 million.
+Added: Innovative Robotics, LLC Investment
+Added: The Company recorded
+Added: interest income of approximately $ 67,000 on the Robotics Promissory Note for the nine months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: During the fourth
+Added: quarter of 2022, the Company identified indicators of impairment for the Kaya investment as a result of adverse changes in Kaya’s
+Added: business operations, including liquidity concerns.
+Added: As a result, the Company recorded an impairment charge of $ 0.5 million in the
+Added: fourth quarter of 2022.
+Added: The impairment charge represents an impairment loss of the total investment held as a promissory note resulting
+Added: in a $ 0 balance for the Kaya Now Promissory Note as of September 30, 2023.
+Added: The Company received
+Added: and recorded interest income related to the Kaya Now Promissory Note of approximately $ 10,000 for the nine months ended September 30,
+Added: Value of Financial Assets and Liabilities
+Added: Financial instruments,
+Added: including cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are carried at cost, which management believes approximates
+Added: fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments.
+Added: The Company measures the fair value of financial assets and liabilities
+Added: based on the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most
+Added: advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.
+Added: maximizes the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.
+Added: The Company uses
+Added: three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
+Added: 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
+Added: 2 - quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable
+Added: 3 - inputs that are unobservable (for example, cash flow modeling inputs based on assumptions)
Observable inputs
−Removed: Significant unobservable
+Added: are based on market data obtained from independent sources, while unobservable inputs are based on the Company’s market assumptions.
+Added: Unobservable inputs require significant management judgment or estimation.
+Added: In some cases, the inputs used to measure an asset or liability
+Added: may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy.
+Added: In those instances, the fair value measurement is required to be classified
+Added: using the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
+Added: Such determination requires significant management
+Added: The following table
+Added: presents the Company’s assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value as of September 30, 2023, and December 31, 2022 ($
+Added: in thousands):
+Added: Fair value measured as of September 30, 2023
+Added: Total at September 30,
+Added: Quoted prices in active markets
+Added: Significant other observable inputs
+Added: Significant unobservable inputs
Marketable securities:
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Notes receivable at fair value, non-current portion
−Removed: Fair value measured as of December 31, 2022
−Removed: Significant other
+Added: value measured as of December 31, 2022
observable inputs
Marketable securities:
−Removed: Total marketable securities
−Removed: Short-term investment
−Removed: Notes receivable at fair value, current portion
−Removed: Notes receivable at fair value, non-current portion
+Added: marketable securities
+Added: receivable at fair value, current portion
+Added: receivable at fair value, non-current portion
Level 3 Measurement
−Removed: The following table sets forth a summary of the
−Removed: changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis ($ in thousands):
+Added: The following table
+Added: sets forth a summary of the changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial assets that are measured at fair value
+Added: on a recurring basis ($ in thousands):
Short-term investment at December 31, 2022
−Removed: Short-term investment at June 30, 2023
+Added: Change in fair value of investment
+Added: Short-term investment at September 30, 2023
Notes receivable at fair value, current portion at December 31, 2022
3 unchanged sentences
Accrued interest receivable
−Removed: Notes receivable at fair value, current portion at June 30, 2023
+Added: Notes receivable at fair value, current portion at September 30, 2023
Notes receivable at fair value, non-current portion at December 31, 2022
1 unchanged sentence
Accrued interest receivable
−Removed: Notes receivable at fair value, non-current portion at June 30, 2023
−Removed: Note Receivable at fair value
−Removed: As of June 30, 2023, the fair value of the notes
−Removed: receivable was measured taking into consideration cost of the investment, market participant inputs, market conditions, liquidity, operating
−Removed: results and other qualitative and quantitative factors.
−Removed: No material change was noted in the fair value of the notes receivable during
−Removed: the three months ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: On December 1, 2021, the Company entered into
−Removed: a Lease Agreement (the “Company’s Lease”) with Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a New York limited liability company.
−Removed: the Company’s Lease, the Company rents a portion of the twenty-second floor at 725 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York (the “22 nd Floor
−Removed: The Company currently uses the 22 nd Floor Premises to run its day-to-day operations.
−Removed: The initial term
−Removed: of the Company’s Lease is seven (7) years commencing on July 11, 2022 (“Commencement Date).
−Removed: Under the Company’s Lease,
−Removed: the Company is required to pay monthly rent, commencing on January 11, 2023, equal to $ 12,874 .
−Removed: Effective for the sixth and seventh years of the
−Removed: Company’s Lease, the rent shall increase to $ 13,502 .
−Removed: The Company took possession of the 22 nd Floor Premises on the
+Added: Notes receivable at fair value, non-current portion at September 30, 2023
+Added: Note Receivable
+Added: at fair value
+Added: As of September
+Added: 30, 2023, the fair value of the notes receivable was measured taking into consideration cost of the investment, market participant inputs,
+Added: market conditions, liquidity, operating results and other qualitative and quantitative factors.
+Added: No material change was noted in the fair
+Added: value of the notes receivable during the three months ended September 30, 2023.
+Added: On December 1,
+Added: 2021, the Company entered into a Lease Agreement (the “Company’s Lease”) with Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a New York
+Added: limited liability company.
+Added: Under the Company’s Lease, the Company rents a portion of the twenty-second floor at 725 Fifth Avenue,
+Added: New York, New York (the “22 nd Floor Premises”).
+Added: The Company currently uses the 22 nd Floor
+Added: Premises to run its day-to-day operations.
+Added: The initial term of the Company’s Lease is seven ( 7 ) years commencing on July 11, 2022
(“Commencement Date).
−Removed: On September 23, 2022, Dominari Financial entered
−Removed: into a Lease Agreement (“Dominari Financial’s Lease”) with Trump Tower Commercial LLC, a New York limited liability
−Removed: Under Dominari Financial’s Lease, Dominari Financial rents a portion of a floor at 725 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
−Removed: (the “Premises”).
+Added: Under the Company’s Lease, the Company is required to pay monthly rent, commencing on January 11, 2023,
+Added: equal to $ 12,874 .
+Added: Effective for the sixth and seventh years of the Company’s Lease, the rent shall increase to $ 13,502 .
+Added: took possession of the 22 nd Floor Premises on the Commencement Date.
+Added: On September 23,
+Added: 2022, Dominari Financial entered into a Lease Agreement (“Dominari Financial’s Lease”) with Trump Tower Commercial
+Added: LLC, a New York limited liability company.
+Added: Under Dominari Financial’s Lease, Dominari Financial rents a portion of a floor at 725
+Added: Fifth Avenue, New York, New York (the “Premises”).
Dominari Financial currently uses the Premises to run its day-to-day operations.
−Removed: The initial term of Dominari
−Removed: Financial’s Lease is seven (7) years commencing on the date that possession of the Premises is delivered to Dominari Financial.
+Added: The initial term of Dominari Financial’s Lease is seven ( 7 ) years commencing on the date that possession of the Premises is delivered
+Added: to Dominari Financial.
Under Dominari Financial’s Lease, Dominari Financial is required to pay monthly rent equal to $ 49,368 .
−Removed: Effective for the sixth and
−Removed: seventh years of Dominari Financial’s Lease, the rent shall increase to $ 51,868 per month.
−Removed: The Company took possession of the
−Removed: Premises in February 2023.
−Removed: The tables below represent the Company’s
−Removed: lease assets and liabilities as of June 30, 2023:
−Removed: Operating lease right-of-use-assets
−Removed: The following tables summarize quantitative information
−Removed: about the Company’s operating leases, under the adoption of ASC 842:
−Removed: Weighted-average remaining lease term – operating leases (in years)
−Removed: Weighted-average discount rate – operating leases
−Removed: During the six months ended June 30, 2023, the
−Removed: Company recorded approximately $ 0.4 million of lease expense to current period operations.
−Removed: Three Months Ended
−Removed: Six Months Ended
+Added: for the sixth and seventh years of Dominari Financial’s Lease, the rent shall increase to $ 51,868 per month.
+Added: The Company took
+Added: possession of the Premises in February 2023.
+Added: The tables below
+Added: represent the Company’s lease assets and liabilities as of September 30, 2023:
+Added: September 30,
+Added: lease right-of-use-assets
+Added: The following tables
+Added: summarize quantitative information about the Company’s operating leases, under the adoption of ASC 842:
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Weighted-average
+Added: remaining lease term – operating leases (in years)
+Added: Weighted-average discount
+Added: rate – operating leases
+Added: During the nine
+Added: months ended September 30, 2023, the Company recorded approximately $ 0.6 million of lease expense to current period operations.
+Added: September 30,
+Added: September 30,
Operating leases
−Removed: Operating lease cost
Operating lease expense
−Removed: Short-term lease rent expense
−Removed: Net rent expense
−Removed: Supplemental cash flow information related to
−Removed: leases were as follows:
−Removed: Operating cash flows - operating leases
−Removed: Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities
−Removed: As of June 30, 2023, future minimum payments during
−Removed: the next five years and thereafter are as follows:
−Removed: Remaining Period Ended December 31, 2023
+Added: lease rent expense
+Added: Supplemental cash
+Added: flow information related to leases were as follows:
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Operating cash
+Added: flows - operating leases
+Added: Right-of-use assets obtained
+Added: in exchange for operating lease liabilities
+Added: As of September
+Added: 30, 2023, future minimum payments during the next five years and thereafter are as follows:
+Added: Remaining Period
+Added: Ended December 31, 2023
Year Ended December 31, 2024
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Year Ended December 31, 2028
−Removed: Less present value discount
−Removed: Operating lease liabilities
−Removed: Net Loss per Share
−Removed: Basic loss per share of common stock is computed
−Removed: by dividing the net loss allocable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock or common stock equivalents
−Removed: Diluted loss per common share is computed similar to basic loss per share except that it reflects the potential dilution
−Removed: that could occur if dilutive securities or other obligations to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock.
−Removed: that could potentially dilute loss per share in the future that were not included in the computation of diluted loss per share for the
−Removed: six months ended June 30, 2023, and 2022 are as follows:
−Removed: As of June 30,
+Added: present value discount
+Added: lease liabilities
+Added: Loss per Share
+Added: Basic loss per
+Added: share of common stock is computed by dividing the net loss allocable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares
+Added: of common stock or common stock equivalents outstanding.
+Added: Diluted loss per common share is computed similar to basic loss per share except
+Added: that it reflects the potential dilution that could occur if dilutive securities or other obligations to issue common stock were exercised
+Added: or converted into common stock.
+Added: Securities that could potentially dilute loss per share in the future that were not included in the computation
+Added: of diluted loss per share for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, and 2022 are as follows:
+Added: As of September 30,
Convertible preferred stock
Warrants to purchase common stock
+Added: Restricted stock awards
Options to purchase common stock
−Removed: Stockholders’ Equity and Convertible
−Removed: Preferred Stock
−Removed: On March 6, 2023, the Company cancelled 644,499
−Removed: shares of common stock as a result of retirement of 644,499 shares of treasury stock.
−Removed: On March 20, 2023, the Company cancelled 25,000
−Removed: shares of common stock owned by a board member.
−Removed: June 27, 2023, pursuant to Soo Yu’s employment
−Removed: agreement and the Company’s 2022 Equity Incentive Plan, the Company executed a Grant Agreement, through which Soo Yu was granted
−Removed: 1,033,591 shares of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: Upon issuance, the shares were fully-vested and nonforfeitable with a total fair
−Removed: value of approximately $ 2.7 million.
−Removed: Pursuant to the Grant Agreement, the Company withheld 503,876 of the shares granted to satisfy
−Removed: Soo Yu’s tax obligation of approximately $ 1.3 million and recorded as income taxes withheld within the unaudited condensed consolidated
−Removed: balance sheet.
+Added: Stockholders’
+Added: Equity and Convertible Preferred Stock
+Added: On March 6, 2023,
+Added: the Company cancelled 644,499 shares of common stock as a result of retirement of 644,499 shares of treasury stock.
+Added: On March 20, 2023,
+Added: the Company cancelled 25,000 shares of common stock owned by an executive.
+Added: June 27, 2023,
+Added: pursuant to Soo Yu’s employment agreement and the Company’s 2022 Equity Incentive Plan, the Company executed a Grant Agreement,
+Added: through which Soo Yu was granted 1,033,591 shares of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: Upon issuance, the shares were fully vested and
+Added: nonforfeitable with a total fair value of approximately $ 2.7 million.
+Added: Pursuant to the Grant Agreement, the Company withheld 503,876
+Added: of the shares granted to satisfy Soo Yu’s tax obligation of approximately $ 1.3 million and recorded as income taxes withheld within
+Added: the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet.
See Restricted Stock roll-forward below.
−Removed: Treasury Stock
−Removed: On January 21, 2022, the Company’s board
−Removed: of directors authorized a share buyback program (the “Share Buyback Program”), pursuant to which the Company authorized the
−Removed: Share Buyback Program in an amount of up to three million dollars.
−Removed: During the six months ended June 30, 2023, the Company repurchased
−Removed: 236,630 shares at a cost of approximately $ 0.9 million or $ 3.97 per share through marketable securities account under the Share
−Removed: Buyback Program.
+Added: On January 21,
+Added: 2022, the Company’s board of directors authorized a share buyback program (the “Share Buyback Program”), pursuant to
+Added: which the Company authorized the Share Buyback Program in an amount of up to three million dollars.
+Added: During the nine months
+Added: ended September 30, 2023, the Company repurchased 236,630 shares at a cost of approximately $ 0.9 million or $ 3.97 per share
+Added: through marketable securities account under the Share Buyback Program.
The Company records treasury stock using the cost method.
−Removed: On March 6, 2023, the Company retired 644,499
−Removed: shares of treasury stock with original cost of approximately $ 3.8 million.
−Removed: A summary of warrant activity for the six months
−Removed: ended June 30, 2023, is presented below:
−Removed: Exercise Price
+Added: On March 6, 2023,
+Added: the Company retired 644,499 shares of treasury stock with original cost of approximately $ 3.8 million.
+Added: A summary of warrant
+Added: activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, is presented below:
Outstanding as of December 31, 2022
−Removed: Outstanding as of June 30, 2023
−Removed: Restricted Stock Awards
−Removed: A summary of restricted stock awards activity
−Removed: for the six months ended June 30, 2023, is presented below:
−Removed: Number of Restricted
−Removed: Weighted Average
−Removed: Grant Day Fair Value
+Added: Outstanding as of September 30, 2023
+Added: A summary of restricted
+Added: stock awards activity for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, is presented below:
+Added: Number of Restricted Stock Awards
+Added: Weighted Average Grant Day Fair Value
Nonvested at December 31, 2022
−Removed: Nonvested at June 30, 2023
−Removed: As of June 30, 2023, there is no unrecognized
−Removed: stock-based compensation expense related to restricted stock awards.
+Added: Nonvested at September 30, 2023
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: associated with the amortization of restricted stock awards expense was approximately $ 93,000 and $ 1.4 million for the nine months ended
+Added: September 30, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
+Added: All stock compensation was recorded as a component of general and administrative expenses.
+Added: As of September
+Added: 30, 2023, there is approximately $ 0.2 million unrecognized stock-based compensation expense related to restricted stock awards.
Stock Options
−Removed: A summary of option activity under the Company’s
−Removed: stock option plan for the six months ended June 30, 2023 is presented below:
+Added: A summary of option
+Added: activity under the Company’s stock option plan for the nine months ended September 30, 2023, is presented below:
Number of Shares
−Removed: Weighted Average
−Removed: Exercise Price
−Removed: Total Intrinsic Value
−Removed: Weighted Average
−Removed: Remaining Contractual
−Removed: Life (in years)
+Added: Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (in years)
Outstanding as of December 31, 2022
+Added: Employee options granted
+Added: Employee options forfeited
Employee options expired
−Removed: Outstanding as of June 30, 2023
+Added: Outstanding as of September 30, 2023
Options vested and exercisable
−Removed: Stock-based compensation associated with the amortization
−Removed: of stock option expense was approximately $ 8,000 and $ 0 for the six months ended June 30, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: All stock compensation
−Removed: was recorded as a component of general and administrative expenses.
−Removed: Estimated future stock-based compensation expense
−Removed: relating to unvested stock options is approximately $ 7,000 .
−Removed: The following table presents our total revenues
−Removed: disaggregated by revenue type for the three and six months ended June 30, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands):
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: associated with the amortization of stock option expense was approximately $ 26,000 and $ 40,000 for the nine months ended September 30,
+Added: 2023, and 2022, respectively.
+Added: All stock compensation was recorded as a component of general and administrative expenses.
+Added: Estimated future
+Added: stock-based compensation expense relating to unvested stock options is approximately $ 0.7 million.
+Added: The following table
+Added: presents our total revenues disaggregated by revenue type for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 and 2022 (in thousands):
Three Months Ended
−Removed: Six Months Ended
−Removed: Commitments and Contingencies
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30,
+Added: Advisory fees
+Added: and Contingencies
Legal Proceedings
−Removed: In the past, in the ordinary course of business,
−Removed: the Company actively pursued legal remedies to enforce its intellectual property rights and to stop unauthorized use of the Company’s
−Removed: Other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, the Company is not aware of any material, active or pending
−Removed: legal proceedings brought against it.
−Removed: Dominari Securities, the Company’s broker-dealer
−Removed: subsidiary, is registered with the SEC as an introducing broker-dealer and is a member of FINRA.
−Removed: The Company’s broker-dealer subsidiary
−Removed: is subject to SEC Uniform Net Capital Rule (Rule 15c3-1) which requires the maintenance of minimum net capital and requires that the ratio
−Removed: of aggregate indebtedness to net capital, both as defined, shall not exceed 15 to 1.
−Removed: As such, the subsidiary is subject to the minimum
−Removed: net capital requirements promulgated by the SEC and has elected to calculate minimum capital requirements using the basic method permitted
−Removed: by Rule 15c3-1.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2023, Dominari Securities had net capital of approximately $ 7.3 million, which was approximately $ 7.2 million
−Removed: in excess of required minimum net capital of $ 0.1 million.
−Removed: Related Party Transaction
−Removed: In 2021, the Company engaged the services of Revere
−Removed: Securities, LLC (“Revere”) to strategically manage and build the Company’s investment processes.
−Removed: Kyle Wool, Board Member,
−Removed: is also a member of the board of directors of Revere.
−Removed: The Company incurred fees of approximately $ 0.08 million and $ 0.6 million during
−Removed: the six months ending June 30, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
−Removed: These fees were included in general and administrative expense in the unaudited
−Removed: condensed consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: Segment Reporting
−Removed: The Company operates in two reportable
−Removed: business segments:
−Removed: (1) Dominari Securities and (2) Legacy AIkido Pharma.
−Removed: The Dominari Securities reportable business segment represents
−Removed: the Company’s broker-dealer business, which is composed of underwriting and transactional service activities.
−Removed: The Legacy AIkido
−Removed: Pharma reportable business segment includes Aikido Labs, which manages the investments holdings of the legacy entity.
−Removed: Prior to the FPS Acquisition, the Company operated as a single operating segment comprised of Legacy AIkido Pharma.
−Removed: The chief operating decision-maker (“CODM”)
−Removed: has access to and regularly reviews internal financial reporting for each business and uses that information to make operational decisions
−Removed: and allocate resources.
−Removed: Accounting policies applied by the reportable segments are the same as those used by the Company and described
−Removed: in the “ Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.
−Removed: ” While assets are primarily held within the Legacy AIkido Pharma
−Removed: reportable business segment, total assets by segment is not disclosed as the CODM does not assess performance, make strategic decisions,
−Removed: or allocate resources based on assets.
−Removed: The measures of segment profitability that are most
−Removed: relied upon by the CODM are gross revenues and net loss, as presented within the table below and reconciled to the statement of operations.
−Removed: Three Months Ended June 30, 2023
+Added: In the past, in
+Added: the ordinary course of business, the Company actively pursued legal remedies to enforce its intellectual property rights and to stop
+Added: unauthorized use of the Company’s technology.
+Added: Other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, the Company is
+Added: not aware of any material, active or pending legal proceedings brought against it.
Dominari Securities,
−Removed: Legacy AIkido Pharma
+Added: the Company’s broker-dealer subsidiary, is registered with the SEC as an introducing broker-dealer and is a member of FINRA.
+Added: Company’s broker-dealer subsidiary is subject to SEC Uniform Net Capital Rule (Rule 15c3-1) which requires the maintenance of minimum
+Added: net capital and requires that the ratio of aggregate indebtedness to net capital, both as defined, shall not exceed 15 to 1.
+Added: the subsidiary is subject to the minimum net capital requirements promulgated by the SEC and has elected to calculate minimum capital
+Added: requirements using the basic method permitted by Rule 15c3-1.
+Added: As of September 30, 2023, Dominari Securities had net capital of approximately
+Added: $ 6.2 million, which was approximately $ 6.1 million in excess of required minimum net capital of $ 0.1 million.
+Added: Party Transaction
+Added: In 2021, the Company
+Added: engaged the services of Revere Securities, LLC (“Revere”) to strategically manage and build the Company’s investment
+Added: Kyle Wool, Board Member, was previously a member of the board of directors of Revere.
+Added: The Company incurred fees of approximately
+Added: $ 75,000 and $ 0.8 million during the nine months ending September 30, 2023, and 2022, respectively.
+Added: These fees were included in general
+Added: and administrative expenses in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: The Company operates
+Added: in two reportable business segments:
+Added: (1) Dominari Financial and (2) Legacy AIkido.
+Added: The Dominari Financial reportable business
+Added: segment represents the Company’s broker-dealer business, which is composed of mostly underwriting and transactional service activities.
+Added: The Legacy AIkido reportable business segment includes Aikido Labs, which manages the investments holdings of the legacy entity.
+Added: to the FPS Acquisition, the Company operated as a single operating segment comprised of Legacy AIkido.
+Added: The chief operating
+Added: decision-maker (“CODM”) has access to and regularly reviews internal financial reporting for each business and uses that
+Added: information to make operational decisions and allocate resources.
+Added: Accounting policies applied by the reportable segments are the same
+Added: as those used by the Company and described in the “ Summary of Significant Accounting Policies.
+Added: ” While assets are primarily
+Added: held within the Legacy AIkido reportable business segment, total assets by segment is not disclosed as the CODM does not assess performance,
+Added: make strategic decisions, or allocate resources based on assets.
+Added: The measures of
+Added: segment profitability that are most relied upon by the CODM are gross revenues and net loss, as presented within the table below and
+Added: reconciled to the statement of operations.
+Added: Three Months Ended
+Added: September 30, 2023
Operating Costs
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Unrealized loss on note receivable
+Added: Change in fair value of investments
Total other (expenses) income
−Removed: Six Months Ended June 30, 2023
−Removed: Dominari Securities
−Removed: Legacy AIkido Pharma
+Added: Nine Months Ended
+Added: September 30, 2023
Operating Costs
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Interest income
−Removed: Loss on marketable securities
+Added: Gain on marketable securities
Unrealized loss on note receivable
+Added: Change in fair value of investments
Total other (expenses) income
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