 {"id":372,"date":"2021-03-15T09:46:44","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T09:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wutif.ca\/?p=372"},"modified":"2026-01-27T21:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:38:12","slug":"wutif-news-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wutif.ca\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/wutif-news-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"WUTIF News &#038; Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For CONFIDENTIAL Updates to investors go to the Confidential Page for Investors.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>December 22, 2025<\/strong><\/span>. Actenum Corp, a startup in which WUTIF invested $175K in 2004 and 2006 was acquired by Prometheus Group. WUTIF&#8217;s proceeds were $1.6M.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>November 1, 2025<\/strong><\/span>. Carbon Engineering 3rd and final payout received by WUTIF.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>October 23, 2024<\/strong><\/span>, Interpodia Technology corp is acquired by a U.S. based software company.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>October 1, 2024<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF holds Annual General Meeting via Zoom call. 43.9% of outstanding shares were voted in favour of all resolutions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sep 23, 2024<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF releases Annual Report for the 2024 fiscal year &#8211; available on the confidential page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wutif.ca\">wutif.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sep 11, 2024<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF announces that it&#8217;s Annual General Meeting will be held on Oct 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>July 1, 2024<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF completes its 21st year. During the year, there were four exits. WUTIF will be offering redemptions to investors later this year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>June 24, 2024<\/strong><\/span>, Mergebase Software is acquired by Finite State Inc of Ohio for a combination of cash and shares.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nov 6, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, Sale of Carbon Engineering to Occidental Petroleum at CAD$2.1 Billion valuation completed. WUTIF is now offering share redemptions and rollovers to shareholders.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sep 27, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF held its 20th Annual General Meeting in Person. 68.7% of outstanding shares were voted in favour of all resolutions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sep 15, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF is offering shares at $27.00 per share until December 31, 2023. These shares qualify for the 30% refundable tax credit. Up to 58,500 shares are available.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Aug 16, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, Occidental (NYSE: OXY) will acquire the ~68% of Carbon Engineering\u2019s equity not already owned by it for total cash consideration of approximately US$1.1 billion. This represents US$329 per share to be made in three annual payments.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Feb 10, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, GuardRFID, a company in which WUTIF invested $102K almost 15 years ago, is being acquired by HID Global for $8.5M which will result in a payout of approximately $360K.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jan 16, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF receives a 2023 tax credit allocation allowing us to raise $2 million against which we can issue 30% redeemable tax credits.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Feb 28, 2023<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF closes $1,045,071 in new share subscriptions at $27\/share from Nov 2022 to Feb 2023.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sep 29, 2022<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF held its 19th Annual General Meeting via zoom. 75.3% of outstanding shares were voted in favour of all resolutions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Feb 28, 2022<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF closes $3,428,275 in new share subscriptions at $25\/share in January &amp; February 2022.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nov 30, 2021<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF completes $1.2M in share redemptions.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sept 17, 2021<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF announces date of Annual General Meeting: Thurs, Oct 28 at 4pm via ZOOM.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sept 8, 2021<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF Investee, Redlen Technologies Inc., a Victoria-based X-ray imaging company, is acquired by Canon Inc at a valuation of US$335M.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">June 11, 2021<\/span><\/strong>, WUTIF closed its May 2021 offering of shares raising $1.6M in new capital for investing in startups.\u00a0 WUTIF&#8217;s target for this raise was $920K which was substantially exceeded. Shares were offered to accredited investors\u00a0 for $23\/share.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mar 15,<\/strong> 2021,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/cts.businesswire.com\/ct\/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veracyte.com%2F&amp;esheet=52395729&amp;newsitemid=20210315005263&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Veracyte%2C+Inc&amp;index=1&amp;md5=84b292c3b334a889d6328ebf2ae613f9\" rel=\"nofollow\" shape=\"rect\">Veracyte, Inc<\/a>. (Nasdaq: VCYT) <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.veracyte.com\/news-releases\/news-release-details\/veracyte-completes-acquisition-decipher-biosciences\">announced <\/a>it has completed its USD$600M cash acquisition of Decipher Biosciences, Inc. of San Diego to further solidify its global leadership in genomic diagnostics. Decipher, formerly named GenomeDx was founded in Vancouver BC. Bruce Schmidt, a WUTIF director, was a co-founder.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Feb 9, 2021<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF&#8217;s Investee, <span id=\"MainContent_NewsText\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tantalus.com\/\">Tantalus Systems<\/a> Holding Inc, begins trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker symbol GRID as a result of a reverse takeover by Risetech Capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Jan 4, 2021<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF announces first half of fiscal year 2021 financial results reporting a net profit of $814K as a result of four liquidity events.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Dec 31, 2020<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF completes share redemptions and closes a private placement for $1.8M at $22.00 per share.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nov 19, 2020<\/span>,<\/strong> WUTIF Investee, Moore &amp; Gaspercz (dba ehsAI) is acquired by Intelex resulting in an immediate payout of 3 times our investment of $130K made 11 months earlier for an annualized return of 272%. Additional proceeds may be realized depending on holdbacks.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Nov 2, 2020,<\/strong><\/span> WUTIF announces share redemptions and new investment offering at $22.00 per share for which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">30% refundable tax credits<\/span> are available.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Oct 31, 2020<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF Investee, Clevest Solutions Inc. is acquired by Swedish Firm, IFS Holdings resulting in a total payout of $600K on an investment of $100K.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>July 16, 2020<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF Investee, Aquatic Informatics is acquired by Danaher Corp (US) resulting in a total payout of $815K on an investment of $109K.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Sep 30, 2019<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF wins lawsuit against Mazza Innovations for not honouring its seed round liquidation preference thereby receiving an additional $150K in proceeds.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>July 26, 2019<\/strong><\/span>, WUTIF Investee, Ecotagious Inc is acquired by Simple Energy Inc (USA) for US$12.5 million. WUTIF&#8217;s payout is $306K on two investments of $50K &#8211; in under 3 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">March 13, 2019<\/span><\/strong> WUTIF Investee Company, Neurio Inc. (formerly Energy Aware Inc.), is acquired by Generac Holdings (NYSE:GNRC). WUTIF was one of the early investors in Neurio in 2007. The impact on WUTIF\u2019s share value is substantial.\u00a0 WUTIF will realize proceeds in excess of $3 million for the sale of its shares in Neurio. Check the <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/generac-announces-acquisition-neurio-technology-100000101.html?soc_src=strm&amp;soc_trk=tw\">News Release<\/a> from Generac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For CONFIDENTIAL Updates to investors go to the Confidential Page for Investors. December 22, 2025. Actenum Corp, a startup in which WUTIF invested $175K in 2004 and 2006 was acquired by Prometheus Group. WUTIF&#8217;s proceeds were $1.6M. November 1, 2025. Carbon Engineering 3rd and final payout received by WUTIF. 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