7.         INVESTMENTS

Equity Investment in Privately Held Company 
 

On November 27, 2024, the Company purchased 5,000,000 shares (the “Boumarang Shares”) of common stock of Boumarang, Inc., an early-stage private technology company developing sustainable long-range drone technology for commercial applications. The Boumarang Shares represent approximately 7.92% of the issued and outstanding shares of Boumarang, Inc. and the Company has no corporate governance or control rights. The Boumarang Shares were purchased from Fiber Food Systems, Inc. (“Fiber Food”), an early-stage company engaged in developing global food security solutions, in consideration of the issuance of 59,500 shares of the Company’s common stock (as adjusted to reflect our 1-for-10 reverse stock split, which was effective April 30, 2026). Fiber Food is not a principal stockholder of Boumarang, Inc. and has no corporate governance or control rights.
     

The purchase agreement between the Company and Fiber Food contemplates collaboration between the parties regarding potential strategic and commercial transactions, including acquiring assets or equity interests in other operating companies, integrating the Company’s identity access management solutions into Fiber Food’s offerings, and introducing the Company to its customers, affiliates and business contacts who are potential users of the Company’s solutions, in each case pursuant to future definitive agreements on terms  to be negotiated by the parties. The purchase agreement contains a standstill which prohibits the Company, Fiber Food, Boomerang and their respective affiliates and representatives for a period of two years, from, among other things, initiating any business combination, restructuring, tender offer, proposal to seek representation on the board of directors, or any proxy solicitation, instigating, encouraging or assisting any third party from doing any of the forgoing, or acquiring any debt or equity securities of any other party.  In April of 2025, Boumarange acquired all intellectual property rights to the Wavedrone platform from Shore House IVF, a technology developer based in the Faroe Islands, for $3.5 million acquisition which was executed entirely in Boumarang common stock.

The Boumarang Shares constitute an investment in a privately held company for which there is no trading market and are carried at fair value. Fair value is the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements for assets and liabilities required to be recorded at fair value, the Company considers the principal or most advantageous market in which it would transact and considers assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability, such as inherent risk, non-performance risk and credit risk.  The Company follows ASC Topic 820 – “Fair Value Measurement,” which establishes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosure of fair value measurements. The valuation hierarchy categorizes assets and liabilities measured at fair value into one of three different levels depending on the observability of the inputs employed in the measurement. The three levels are defined as follows:

Level 1:    Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

Level 2:   Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability, including quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets, inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability and inputs that are derived from observable market data by correlation or other means.

Level 3:   Inputs for the asset or liability that are not based on observable market data (unobservable inputs).
   
The Boumarang Shares are classified as a Level 3 asset and have been valued based on a combination of recent sales of Boumarang common stock to third parties  and a third party valuation applying a discounted cash flow analysis which included discounts for lack of control and lack of marketability, small company risk premium, and specific company risk premium based on Boumarang being an early-stage pre-revenue company. The lack of control and marketability discounts were based on published studies and transfer restrictions contained in Boumarang’s corporate governance documents.
 
Due to the inherent uncertainty of determining the fair value of investments that do not have a readily available market value, the fair value of the Boumarang Shares may fluctuate from period to period and the fair value of the Boumarang Shares may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market existed for such shares and may differ materially from the values that the Company may ultimately realize. The early-stage pre-revenue status and unproven technology of Boumarang, Inc. raise uncertainties that could impact the recoverability of the investment in the Boumarang Shares.

ASC 321-10-35 requires annual impairment testing for equity securities without readily determinable fair values.  As of  December 31, 2025, management recorded a 50% impairment of the Boumarang shares. The Company did not increase the impairment as of March 31, 2026.