Kings Arms Yard Kings Arms Yard Vct Plc: Interim Management Statement
June 07 2023 - 6:41AM
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Kings Arms Yard VCT PLC
Interim Management Statement
LEI Code 213800DK8H27QY3J5R45
Introduction
I present Kings Arms Yard VCT PLC's (the "Company") interim
management statement for the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March
2023.
Performance
The Company's unaudited net asset value ("NAV") as at 31 March
2023 was GBP116.0 million or 21.98 pence per share (excluding
treasury shares), an increase of 1.03 pence per share (4.9%) since
31 December 2022.
On 2 March 2023, a NAV update was announced following an
external fundraising process at Quantexa at a significantly higher
valuation. The NAV at 31 March 2023 has increased by 0.19 pence per
share (0.9%) compared to the 2 March 2023 NAV update. This Series E
fundraising round has now completed, raising $129 million, and was
announced by Quantexa on 4 April 2023.
After accounting for the first interim dividend for the year
ending 31 December 2023 of 0.52 pence per share paid on 28 April
2023 to shareholders on the register on 11 April 2023, the NAV is
21.46 pence per share.
Albion VCTs' Top Up Offers
A prospectus Top Up Offer of new Ordinary shares was launched on
10 October 2022. The Board announced on 18 January 2023 that,
following strong demand for the Company's shares, it had elected to
exercise its over-allotment facility, taking the total Offer to
GBP12.5 million. The Offer was fully subscribed and closed to
further applications on 16 March 2023.
During the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023, the
Company issued the following new Ordinary shares of nominal value 1
penny per share under the Albion VCTs Prospectus Top Up Offers
2022/2023:
Issue price per share
(including costs of Net proceeds
Date Number of shares issued issue) GBP'000
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31 March 2023 31,071,626 22.40p 6,786
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Portfolio
The following investments have been made during the period from
1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023:
Further
investments GBP'000 Activity
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Proveca 533 Reformulation of medicines for children
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Seldon Enabling enterprises to deploy Machine Learning models
Technologies 152 in production
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Designer and manufacturer of radiation detection
Symetrica 150 equipment
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Brytlyt 34 GPU database software provider
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Total further
investments 869
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Top ten holdings as at 31 March 2023:
% of
net
Portfolio Carrying value asset
company GBP'000 value Activity
--------------- -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------------------------
Quantexa 15,274 13.2% Network analytics platform to detect financial crime
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Proveca 10,445 9.0% Reformulation of medicines for children
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Egress Software
Technologies 6,234 5.4% Encrypted email and file transfer service provider
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Chonais River Owner and operator of a 2 MW hydro-power scheme in
Hydro 3,470 3.0% the Scottish Highlands
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Technology enabled service business in medical nutritional
Oviva 2,252 1.9% therapy (MNT)
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The Evewell
Group 2,245 1.9% Operator of women's health centres focusing on fertility
--------------- -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------------------------
Provider of an online platform delivering family centric
Healios 2,008 1.7% psychological care primarily to children and adolescents
--------------- -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------------------------
Gravitee Topco
(T/A
Gravitee.io) 1,961 1.7% API management platform
--------------- -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------------------------
The Street by 1,859 1.6% Owner and operator of photovoltaic systems on domestic
Street Solar properties in the UK
Programme
--------------- -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------------------------
Academia 1,761 1.5% Social networking for the academic community
--------------- -------------- ----- ----------------------------------------------------------
A full breakdown of the Company's portfolio can be found on the
Company's webpage on the Manager's website at
www.albion.capital/funds/KAY.
Share buy-backs
During the period from 1 January 2023 to 31 March 2023, the
Company did not buy back any shares.
It remains the Board's policy to buy back shares in the market,
subject to the overall constraint that such purchases are in the
Company's interest, including the maintenance of sufficient
resources for investment in existing and new portfolio companies
and the continued payment of dividends to shareholders.
It is the Board's intention for such buy-backs to be at around a
5% discount to net asset value, so far as market conditions and
liquidity permit.
Material events and transactions after the period end
After the period end, the Company issued the following new
Ordinary shares of nominal value 1 penny each were allotted under
the Albion VCTs Prospectus Top Up Offers 2022/23:
Issue price per share
(including costs of Net proceeds
Date Number of shares issued issue) GBP'000
-------------- ----------------------- ----------------------- ------------
14 April 2023 1,377,016 21.60p to 21.90p 294
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There have been no other material events or transactions after
the period end to the date of this announcement.
Further information
The Company continues to offer a Dividend Reinvestment Scheme to
existing shareholders. Details of this scheme can be found at
www.albion.capital/funds/KAY.
Further information regarding historic and current financial
performance and other useful shareholder information can be found
on the Company's webpage on the Manager's website under
www.albion.capital/funds/KAY.
Fiona Wollocombe, Chairman
7 June 2023
For further information please contact:
Vikash Hansrani
Operations Partner
Albion Capital Group LLP -- Tel: 020 7601 1850
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