History
A Mongolian mining explorer that unwound its funding and sat as a shell for years became a heart-monitor developer, bought a monitoring business in 2016, then left SEC reporting.
2008: A raise undone
The company, then Sunrise Holdings Limited, began 2008 by closing a private placement of 75,000,000 units at $0.04 each, raising $3,000,000. Each unit carried one share and a warrant to buy another share at $0.10 for three years. CEO Xuguang Sun put in $1,500,000 and two other investors the rest.
The plan did not last. In June 2008 the company abandoned its Khul Morit mining license in Mongolia, after a western mining company it had been talking to decided not to proceed with a joint venture and further drilling and testing costs looked undesirable. Its subsidiary also bought a $500,000 convertible note from SJ Electronics, Inc. In October the board agreed with the three investors to undo the placement. It returned $2,933,128 and cancelled the 75,000,000 shares and warrants. The filing cited changes in business planning and falling natural resource prices, and said the company's cash had been significantly reduced and impaired.
2009-2014: A shell finds a heart monitor
The record is quiet for several years. The company later said it had had no operations since December 2008. In June 2014 control passed to John Bentivoglio as nominee for Event Cardio Group (ECG), a developer of a cardiac monitoring device. In September 2014 the company agreed to buy ECG for 79,500,000 new shares, and the deal closed on November 14, 2014. ECG's three family-trust holders ended up with about 92.7% of the voting power, so existing shareholders were heavily diluted. Shares on issue rose from about 6.9 million at the end of 2013 to about 87.1 million at the end of 2014. The company said it was no longer a shell.
In October 2014 a subsidiary also signed a license with Life Medical Technologies for the BreastCare DTS breast-screening product, with minimum annual royalties of $100,000 in 2015 and $200,000 a year after that.
2015-2016: Borrowing, raisings and a buy-back
Funding came mostly from debt and small raisings. In March 2015 Medpac Asia Pacific PTY Ltd. put in $200,000 of an agreed $500,000 through an 8% convertible note, in return for distribution rights in Australia and parts of Southeast Asia. In August 2015 the company guaranteed a Cdn$583,000 loan, extended to June 2016, secured by a lien on all its assets. Shares on issue reached about 113.6 million by the end of 2015.
In February 2016 the company agreed to sell 16,901,400 shares and 10,000,000 warrants to ten individuals for Cdn$1,500,000, of which only Cdn$335,000 had been received. A lender owed about Cdn$960,300 extended repayment to January 31, 2018. The filing also revealed that Life Medical claimed about $800,000 under the BreastCare license and that the subsidiary was in litigation over it.
In June 2016 the company paid Nick Bozza CAD $1,025,000 to take back his Ontario distribution rights, end certain debts and buy 20,000,000 of his shares. It also sold shares and warrants for $375,000 to Zhenli Xu and $1,000,000 to entities controlled by Ian Genoa and Michael Ho. It then issued 2,812,500 shares to the Bentivoglio and Sgro family trusts for the company holding Bentivoglio's Canadian rights, bringing all Canadian marketing and distribution rights back in-house.
2016: Ambumed and deregistration
On July 8, 2016 the company completed its first purchase of an operating business, Ambumed, Inc. of Maryland, which runs the National Cardiac Monitoring Center, a 24-hour ECG monitoring service. The price was $1,200,000, half at closing and half a year later, plus 2,000,000 restricted shares. Joseph Hashim became Ambumed's Chief Operating Officer.
On November 25, 2016, the company filed a Form 15 to end its SEC registration, citing 156 holders of record. Gary Blom signed as President and CEO from Linthicum, Maryland. At that date, the Life Medical dispute was unresolved, the $600,000 Ambumed payment was due around July 2017, and shareholders would no longer receive regular SEC filings. Shares on issue were about 130.4 million at the end of 2016.
Written from the 14 story beats below (2008 to 25 Nov 2016), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.