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Registration number: 13890036

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Annual Report and Financial Statements

for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Contents

Company Information

1

Strategic Report

2

Directors' Report

3

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

4

Independent Auditor's Report

5 to 7

Profit and Loss Account

8

Statement of Comprehensive Income

9

Balance Sheet

10

Statement of Changes in Equity

11

Notes to the Financial Statements

12 to 20

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Company Information

Directors

G C Whelan

P S Merkadeau

Registered office

6th Floor
One London Wall
London
EC2Y 5EB

Auditors

Bourner Bullock Chartered Accountants
114 St Martin's Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2N 4BE

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Strategic Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The directors present their strategic report for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Fair review of the business

The principal activity of Vewd Software Holdings Limited (“VSHL”)is that of a holding company for the Vewd Group of companies within the Xperi Inc group structure. Xperi’s TiVo product offerings, when integrated with Vewd’s suite of streaming platform solutions, will help accelerate and scale the deployment of TiVo OS for connected TVs and expand Xperi’s video-over-broadband offerings. The Vewd group primarily conducts business under the brand Xperi since Xperi acquired VSHL in 2022.

The directors are satisfied with the results for the financial year. The company recorded a profit/(loss) of $5,096,668 (2023: ($70,170,656)) after tax. The company’s profit for the current year is primarily attributed to the reversal of previously recorded impairments of investment, following independent third-party valuations of several subsidiaries carried out during the financial period.

During the financial year, the Company entered into an intercompany receivable assignment and set-off agreement with related parties, resulting in no intercompany balances outstanding at year end. The Company also completed a reduction of capital by reducing the share capital and cancelling the entire share premium and capital contribution balances within equity, with the corresponding amounts credited to the profit and loss reserve.

In addition, during the 2024 financial year, Vewd Software AS, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, disposed of its subsidiary Vewd Software Poland Sp. z o.o., and liquidated both Beijing Vewd Information Technology Consulting Ltd and Vewd Software Japan G.K.

Events after the balance sheet date
Xperi Consulting Poland Sp z.o.o and Vewd Software Sweden AB were both sold post year end in 2025. Following these disposals, it is intention of the directors to liquidate Vewd Software AS during 2025.

Key performance indicators

Key performance indicators that are focused on by management include subsidiary revenue levels, new contracts obtained in the period and working capital management. Each of these indicators are monitored by management against targets and prior financial years of each individual subsidiary of VSHL. The directors are satisfied with the performance of the company during the financial year with regard to these indicators.

Principal risks and uncertainties

The principal risk and uncertainties facing the business are its exposure to technological advances in the industry that would result in the Vewd OTT software technology becoming obsolete. The Vewd Group constantly invest resources into research and development to pre-empt consumer preferences and behaviour around media consumption to ensure that the Vewd technologies enhance user experiences into the future.

Approved by the Board on 4 September 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

G C Whelan
Director

   
     
 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Directors' Report for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The directors present their report and the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Directors of the Company

The directors who held office during the year were as follows:

J M Patterson (resigned 15 April 2024)

G C Whelan

M C Spillner (appointed 15 April 2024 and resigned 4 October 2024)

P S Merkadeau (appointed 4 October 2024)

Results and Dividends

The results for the financial year are set out in the profit and loss account. The Directors did not recommend paying a dividend for the period ended 31 December 2024.

Objectives and policies

The company’s activities are exposed to different types of financial risks as set out below.

Credit risk, liquidity risk and exchange rate risk

Credit risk
The company does not have a significant concentration of credit risk.

Liquidity risk
The company is not significantly exposed to liquidity risk due to the maintenance of sufficient cash balances and the support of the ultimate parent company.

Exchange rate risk
The company transactions primarily in USD and any exchange rate risk is not considered material to the ongoing operations and performance of the company.

Disclosure of information to the auditors

Each director has taken steps that they ought to have taken as a director in order to make themselves aware of any relevant audit information and to establish that the Company's auditors are aware of that information. The directors confirm that there is no relevant information (as defined by section 418(3) of the Companies Act 2006) that they know of and of which they know the auditors are unaware.

Approved by the Board on 4 September 2025 and signed on its behalf by:

G C Whelan
Director

   
     
 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Statement of Directors' Responsibilities

The directors acknowledge their responsibilities for preparing the Annual Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and regulations.

Company law requires the directors to prepare financial statements for each financial year. Under that law the directors have elected to prepare the financial statements in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice (United Kingdom Accounting Standards and applicable law). Under company law the directors must not approve the financial statements unless they are satisfied that they give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Company and of the profit or loss of the Company for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the directors are required to:

select suitable accounting policies and apply them consistently;

make judgements and accounting estimates that are reasonable and prudent;

state whether applicable United Kingdom Accounting Standards have been followed, subject to any material departures disclosed and explained in the financial statements; and

prepare the financial statements on the going concern basis unless it is inappropriate to presume that the Company will continue in business.

The directors are responsible for keeping adequate accounting records that are sufficient to show and explain the Company's transactions and disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the Company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the Company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Opinion

We have audited the financial statements of Vewd Software Holdings Limited (the 'Company') for the year ended 31 December 2024, which comprise the Profit and Loss Account, Statement of Comprehensive Income, Balance Sheet, Statement of Changes in Equity, and Notes to the Financial Statements, including a summary of significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

give a true and fair view of the state of the Company's affairs as at 31 December 2024 and of its profit for the year then ended;

have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice; and

have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Companies Act 2006.

Basis for opinion

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the auditor responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

Conclusions relating to going concern

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the director's use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the directors with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

Other information

The directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

In connection with our audit of the financial statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether there is a material misstatement in the financial statements or a material misstatement of the other information. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Opinion on other matter prescribed by the Companies Act 2006

In our opinion, based on the work undertaken in the course of the audit:

the information given in the Strategic Report and Directors' Report for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

the Strategic Report and Directors' Report have been prepared in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

Matters on which we are required to report by exception

In the light of our knowledge and understanding of the Company and its environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the Strategic Report and the Directors' Report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters where the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

adequate accounting records have not been kept, or returns adequate for our audit have not been received from branches not visited by us; or

the financial statements are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns; or

certain disclosures of directors' remuneration specified by law are not made; or

we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

Responsibilities of directors

As explained more fully in the Statement of Directors' Responsibilities [set out on page 4], the directors are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the directors determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the directors are responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the directors either intend to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

Auditor Responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

The extent to which our procedures are capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud is detailed below:

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Independent Auditor's Report to the Members of Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Discussions with and enquiries of management and those charged with governance were held with a view to identifying those laws and regulations that could be expected to have a material impact on the financial statements. During the engagement team briefing, the outcomes of these discussions an enquiries were shared with the team, as well as consideration as to where and how fraud may occur in the entity.

The following laws and regulations were identified as being of significance to the entity:

• Those laws and regulations considered to have a direct effect on the financial statements include UK financial reporting regulations, Company Law, Tax legislation, and distributable profits legislation.

Audit procedures undertaken in response to the potential risks relating to irregularities (which include fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations) comprised of: enquiries of management and those charged with governance as to whether the entity complies with such laws and regulations; enquiries with the same concerning any actual or potential litigation or claims; inspection of relevant legal correspondence; review of board minutes; testing the appropriateness of journal entries; and the performance of analytical review to identify unexpected movements in account balances which may be indicative of fraud.

No instances of material non-compliance were identified. However, the likelihood of detecting irregularities, including fraud, is limited by the inherent difficulty in detecting irregularities, the effectiveness of the entity’s controls, and the nature, timing and extent of the audit procedures performed. Irregularities that result from fraud might be inherently more difficult to detect than irregularities that result from error. As explained above, there is an unavoidable risk that material misstatements may not be detected, even though the audit has been planned and performed in accordance with ISAs (UK).

A further description of our responsibilities is available on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org.uk/auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

Use of our report

This report is made solely to the Company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the Company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the Company and the Company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

......................................
Russell Joseph (Senior Statutory Auditor)
For and on behalf of Bourner Bullock, Statutory Auditor
 Chartered Accountants
114 St Martin's Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2N 4BE

4 September 2025

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Profit and Loss Account for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Note

2024
$

2023
$

Turnover

-

-

Gross profit/(loss)

 

-

-

Administrative expenses

 

(22,397)

(335,717)

Other operating income

4

43,595

-

Operating profit/(loss)

5

21,198

(335,717)

Other interest receivable and similar income

6

1,016,670

1,220,987

Impairment reversal / (loss)

 

5,209,588

(69,682,881)

Interest payable and similar expenses

7

(1,150,789)

(1,373,045)

   

5,075,469

(69,834,939)

Profit/(loss) before tax

 

5,096,667

(70,170,656)

Profit/(loss) for the financial year

 

5,096,667

(70,170,656)

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Statement of Comprehensive Income for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

2024
$

2023
$

Profit/(loss) for the year

5,096,667

(70,170,656)

Total comprehensive income for the year

5,096,667

(70,170,656)

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

(Registration number: 13890036)
Balance Sheet as at 31 December 2024

Note

2024
$

2023
$

Fixed assets

 

Investments

11

38,439,708

33,230,119

Current assets

 

Debtors

12

-

25,933,905

Cash at bank and in hand

 

2

19,626

 

2

25,953,531

Creditors: Amounts falling due within one year

13

(1,163,479)

(1,902,614)

Net current (liabilities)/assets

 

(1,163,477)

24,050,917

Total assets less current liabilities

 

37,276,231

57,281,036

Creditors: Amounts falling due after more than one year

13

(8,000,000)

(33,117,093)

Net assets

 

29,276,231

24,163,943

Capital and reserves

 

Called up share capital

1

100,000

Share premium reserve

16

-

84,284,721

Other reserves

16

-

29,648,222

Retained earnings

16

29,276,230

(89,869,000)

Shareholders' funds

 

29,276,231

24,163,943

Approved and authorised by the Board on 4 September 2025 and signed on its behalf by:
 

G C Whelan
Director

   
     
 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Statement of Changes in Equity for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Share capital
$

Share premium
$

Other reserves
$

Retained earnings
$

Total
$

At 1 January 2024

100,000

84,284,721

29,648,222

(89,869,000)

24,163,943

Profit for the year

-

-

-

5,096,667

5,096,667

Capital contribution

-

-

15,621

-

15,621

Reduction in share capital account & credited to retained earnings

(99,999)

(84,284,721)

(29,663,843)

114,048,563

-

At 31 December 2024

1

-

-

29,276,230

29,276,231

Share capital
$

Share premium
$

Other reserves
$

Retained earnings
$

Total
$

At 1 January 2023

100,000

84,284,721

29,648,222

(19,698,344)

94,334,599

Loss for the year

-

-

-

(70,170,656)

(70,170,656)

At 31 December 2023

100,000

84,284,721

29,648,222

(89,869,000)

24,163,943

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

1

General information

The Company is a private company limited by share capital, incorporated in England and Wales.

The address of its registered office is:
6th Floor
One London Wall
London
EC2Y 5EB

Principal activity

The principal activity of the Company is holding investments.

These financial statements were authorised for issue by the Board on 4 September 2025.

2

Accounting policies

Summary of significant accounting policies and key accounting estimates

The principal accounting policies applied in the preparation of these financial statements are set out below. These policies have been consistently applied to all the years presented, unless otherwise stated.

Statement of compliance

These financial statements have been prepared in accordance with Financial Reporting Standard 102 - 'The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland' and the Companies Act 2006.

Basis of preparation

These financial statements have been prepared using the historical cost convention except that as disclosed in the accounting policies certain items are shown at fair value.

Summary of disclosure exemptions

FRS 102 allows a qualifying entity certain disclosure exemptions if certain conditions have been complied with, including notification of and no objections to, the use of exemptions by the company's shareholders. A qualifying entity is defined as a member of a group that prepares publicly available financial statements, which give a true and fair view, in which that member is consolidated. Vewd Software Holdings Limited is a qualifying entity as its results are consolidated into the financial statements of Xperi Inc. which are publicly available.

As a qualifying entity, the company has taken advantage of the following exemptions:
(i) from the requirement to present a statement of cash flows as required by paragraph 3.17 (d) of FRS 102;
(ii) from the requirement to present financial instrument disclosures, as required by FRS 102 paragraphs 11.39 to 11.48A, 12.26 and 12.29; and
(iii) from the requirement to present a reconciliation of the number of shares outstanding at the beginning and end of the period as required by paragraph 4.12(a)(iv).

Separately, the company has also taken advantage of the exemption under Section 33.1A of FRS 102 not to disclose transactions between itself and other wholly owned group companies.

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Going concern

The company is dependent on the support of its parent company and group to continue as a going concern. Confirmation of this support has been provided and the directors consider it appropriate to prepare the accounts on a going concern basis.

Should the support not continue, adjustments would have to be made to reduce the value of assets to their recoverable amount, to provide for any further liabilities that may arise and to reclassify fixed assets as current and long term liabilities as current liabilities.

Exemption from preparing group accounts

The financial statements contain information about Vewd Software Holdings Limited as an individual company and do not contain consolidated financial information as the parent of a group.

The company is exempt under section 401 of the Companies Act 2006 from the requirement to prepare consolidated financial statements as it and its subsidiary undertakings are included by full consolidation in the consolidated financial statements of its parent, Xperi Inc, a company incorporated in USA.

Foreign currency transactions and balances

Transactions in foreign currencies are initially recorded at the functional currency rate prevailing at the date of the transaction. Monetary assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated into the respective functional currency of the entity at the rates prevailing on the reporting period date. Non-monetary items carried at fair value that are denominated in foreign currencies are retranslated at the rate on the date when the fair value is re-measured.

Non-monetary items measured in terms of historical cost in a foreign currency are not retranslated.

Tax

The tax expense for the period comprises tax. Tax is recognised in profit or loss, except that a change attributable to an item of income or expense recognised as other comprehensive income is also recognised directly in other comprehensive income.

The current income tax charge is calculated on the basis of tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date in the countries where the company operates and generates taxable income.

Deferred income tax is recognised on temporary differences arising between the tax bases of assets and liabilities and their carrying amounts in the financial statements and on unused tax losses or tax credits in the Company. Deferred income tax is determined using tax rates and laws that have been enacted or substantively enacted by the reporting date.

The carrying amount of deferred tax assets are reviewed at each reporting date and a valuation allowance is set up against deferred tax assets so that the net carrying amount equals the highest amount that is more likely than not to be recovered based on current or future taxable profit.

Investments

Investments in equity shares which are publicly traded or where the fair value can be measured reliably are initially measured at fair value, with changes in fair value recognised in profit or loss. Investments in equity shares which are not publicly traded and where fair value cannot be measured reliably are measured at cost less impairment.

Interest income on debt securities, where applicable, is recognised in income using the effective interest method. Dividends on equity securities are recognised in income when receivable.

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Financial instruments

The Company only enters into basic financial instrument transactions that result in the recognition of financial assets and liabilities like trade and other debtors and creditors, loans to/from related parties and investments in non-puttable ordinary shares.

Financial assets that are measured at cost and amortised cost are assessed at the end of each reporting period for objective evidence of impairment. If objective evidence of impairment is found, an impairment loss is recognised in profit or loss.

Financial assets and liabilities are offset and the net amount reported in the Balance Sheet when there is an enforceable right to set off the recognised amounts and there is an intention to settle on a net basis or to realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously.

Trade debtors

Basic financial assets, including trade and other debtors, are intially recognised at transaction price, unless the arrangement constitutes a financing transaction, where the transaction is measured at the present value of the future receipts discounted at a market rate of interest. Such assets are subsequently carried at amortised cost using the effective interest method, less any impairment.

Trade debtors are amounts due from customers for services performed in the ordinary course of business.

Cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand and call deposits, and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of change in value.

Trade creditors

Trade creditors are obligations to pay for goods or services that have been acquired in the ordinary course of business from suppliers. Accounts payable are classified as current liabilities if the Company does not have an unconditional right, at the end of the reporting period, to defer settlement of the creditor for at least twelve months after the reporting date. If there is an unconditional right to defer settlement for at least twelve months after the reporting date, they are presented as non-current liabilities.

Trade creditors are recognised initially at the transaction price and subsequently measured at amortised cost using the effective interest method.

Borrowings

Interest-bearing borrowings are initially recorded at fair value, net of transaction costs. Interest-bearing borrowings are subsequently carried at amortised cost, with the difference between the proceeds, net of transaction costs, and the amount due on redemption being recognised as a charge to the profit and loss account over the period of the relevant borrowing.

Interest expense is recognised on the basis of the effective interest method and is included in interest payable and similar charges.

Borrowings are classified as current liabilities unless the Company has an unconditional right to defer settlement of the liability for at least twelve months after the reporting date.

Share capital

Ordinary shares are classified as equity. Equity instruments are measured at the fair value of the cash or other resources received or receivable, net of the direct costs of issuing the equity instruments. If payment is deferred and the time value of money is material, the initial measurement is on a present value basis.

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

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Significant judgements and key sources of estimation uncertainty

Judgements

The preparation of the financial statements requires management to make judgements, estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported for assets and liabilities as at the balance sheet date and the amounts reported for revenues and expenses during the year. However, the nature of estimation means that actual outcomes could differ from those estimates.

Key sources of estimation uncertainty

The estimates and assumptions which have a significant risk of causing a material adjustment to the carrying amount of assets and liabilities are as follows:

Impairment of investments
The director considers whether investments in subsidiaries are impaired. Where an indication of an impairment is identified the estimation of the recoverable amount requires management to estimate the value in use which is based on future cash flows and a suitable discount rate in order to calculate the present value. The impairment reversal made during the year was $5,209,588 (2023 - impairment of $69,682,880).

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Other operating income

The analysis of the Company's other operating income for the year is as follows:

2024
$

2023
$

Group loan write off

43,595

-

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Operating profit/(loss)

Arrived at after charging/(crediting)

2024
$

2023
$

Impairment (reversal)/loss

(5,209,588)

69,682,881

6

Other interest receivable and similar income

2024
$

2023
$

Loan interest receivable

1,016,670

1,220,987

7

Interest payable and similar expenses

2024
$

2023
$

Interest expense on other finance liabilities

1,150,789

1,373,045

8

Staff costs

The average number of persons employed by the Company during the year, was 0 (2023 - 0).

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

The company had no employees directly employed during the 2024 or the 2023 financial years. For the period from 01 January 2024 to year ended 31 December 2024 $nil director's emoluments have been borne by Vewd Software Holdings Limited. The directors of the company are also directors or officers of a number of companies within the Xperi group. These directors’ services to the company do not occupy a significant amount of their time. As such, these directors do not consider that they have received any remuneration for their incidental services to the company.

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Auditors' remuneration

2024
$

2023
$

Audit of the financial statements

11,610

9,550

Other fees to auditors

All other non-audit services

6,962

3,343


 

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Taxation

The tax on profit before tax for the year is lower than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK (2023 - higher than the standard rate of corporation tax in the UK) of 25% (2023 - 23.52%).

The differences are reconciled below:

2024
$

2023
$

Profit/(loss) before tax

5,096,667

(70,170,656)

Corporation tax at standard rate

1,274,167

(16,504,523)

Effect of expense not deductible in determining taxable profit (tax loss)

(1,213,146)

16,389,796

Effect of tax losses

(66,470)

-

Tax increase from effect of unrelieved tax losses carried forward

5,449

114,727

Total tax charge/(credit)

-

-

Deferred tax

There are $3,781,414 of unused tax losses (2023 - $3,913,739) for which no deferred tax asset is recognised in the balance sheet. No deferred tax asset has been recognised due to uncertainty over the expected reversal of the timing difference.

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

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Investments

2024
$

2023
$

Investments in subsidiaries

38,439,708

33,230,119

Subsidiaries

$

Cost or valuation

At 1 January 2024

115,544,309

Provision

At 1 January 2024

82,314,189

Reversal of impairment

(5,209,588)

At 31 December 2024

77,104,601

Carrying amount

At 31 December 2024

38,439,708

At 31 December 2023

33,230,119

Details of undertakings

Details of the investments (including principal place of business of unincorporated entities) in which the Company holds 20% or more of the nominal value of any class of share capital are as follows:

Undertaking

Registered office

Holding

Proportion of voting rights and shares held

     

2024

2023

Subsidiary undertakings

Vewd Software AS*

Tordenskiolds gate 2, 0160 Oslo,Norway

Ordinary

100%

100%

Vewd Software Sweden AB

Storgatan 40, 582 23 Linköping, Sweden

Ordinary

100%

100%

Vewd Software Poland Sp. z o.o

Puławska 182, 01-001 Warszawa, Poland

Ordinary

0%

100%

Xperi Consulting Poland Sp. z o.o.

Puławska 182, 01-001 Warszawa, Poland

Ordinary

100%

100%

Beijing Vewd Information Technology Consulting Ltd

Ping An International Financial Plaza, Tower B, 17th Floor, No.1-3, Xin Yuan Nan Road, Chaoyang District, 100022 Beijing, China

Ordinary

0%

100%

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Undertaking

Registered office

Holding

Proportion of voting rights and shares held

Vewd Software Japan G.K.

Marunouchi Trust Tower North 12F, 1-8-1, Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan

Ordinary

0%

100%

* indicates direct investment of the company

Subsidiary undertakings

Vewd Software AS*

The principal activity of Vewd Software AS* is the provision of software services.

Vewd Software Sweden AB

The principal activity of Vewd Software Sweden AB is the provision of software services.

Vewd Software Poland Sp. z o.o

The principal activity of Vewd Software Poland Sp. z o.o is the provision of software services.

Xperi Consulting Poland Sp. z o.o.

The principal activity of Xperi Consulting Poland Sp. z o.o. is the provision of consulting associated with software services.

Beijing Vewd Information Technology Consulting Ltd

The principal activity of Beijing Vewd Information Technology Consulting Ltd is the provision of software services.

Vewd Software Japan G.K.

The principal activity of Vewd Software Japan G.K. is the provision of software services.

Beijing Vewd Information Technology Consulting Ltd and Vewd Software Japan G.K. were liquidated within 2024. Vewd Software Poland Sp. z o.o was sold in 2024. Xperi Consulting Poland Sp. z.o.o and Vewd Software Sweden AB were both sold post year end in 2025.

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Debtors

2024
$

2023
$

Amounts owed by related parties

-

25,933,905

 

-

25,933,905

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

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Creditors

Note

2024
$

2023
$

Due within one year

 

Amounts due to related parties

-

1,125,638

Other payables

 

1,148,493

748,493

Accruals

 

14,986

28,483

 

1,163,479

1,902,614

Due after one year

 

Amounts due to related parties

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8,000,000

8,000,000

Other non-current financial liabilities

 

-

25,117,093

 

8,000,000

33,117,093

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Loans and borrowings

Non-current loans and borrowings

2024
$

2023
$

Redeemable preference shares

8,000,000

8,000,000

Holders of the Preference share are entitled to preference dividend which is a fixed cumulative preferential dividend at the annual rate of 5% of the aggregate amount paid up or credits in respect of the nominal value of the shares issued. The company has accrued $1,148,493 (2023: $748,493) of cumulative preferential dividend as of the year end. This cumulative preferential dividend has been recorded as interest as the redeemable preference shares have been recorded as a debt.

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Share capital

Allotted, called up and fully paid shares

 

2024

2023

 

No.

£

No.

£

Ordinary shares of £0.01 each

100

1

10,000,000

100,000

Preference shares of £1 each

8,000,000

8,000,000

8,000,000

8,000,000

 

8,000,100

8,000,001

18,000,000

8,100,000

 

Vewd Software Holdings Limited

Notes to the Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 December 2024

Redeemable preference shares

The Redeemable preference shares are redeemable at the option of the holder. They are redeemable at $1 per share and carry no voting rights. On a winding up of the Company the holders of the shares have a right to receive the surplus assets of the company be paid first, ahead of the ordinary shareholders.

Preference shares are entitled to preference dividends which is a fixed cumulative preferential dividend at the annual rate of 5% of the aggregate amount paid up.

Capital Reduction
On 19 December 2024 the company reduced the share capital from 10,000,000 ordinary shares of £0.01 each to 100 ordinary shares of $0.01 each and transferred the resulting credit of $99,999 to distributable reserves. On the same day the company reduced the share premium account and the capital contribution reserve; the resulting credits of $84,284,721 and $29,648,222 were transferred to distributable reserves.

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Reserves

Capital contribution reserve

The capital contribution reserve represents a capital contribution arising on funds received from the parent company. The shareholder has waived the requirement for the company to repay these amounts. As such, the company has treated this as a capital contribution by the shareholder and recognised directly in equity within other reserves

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Parent and ultimate parent undertaking

The Company's immediate parent is Xperi Inc., incorporated in USA.

The parent of the largest group in which these financial statements are consolidated is Xperi Inc., incorporated in USA.

  These financial statements are available upon request from 2190 Gold Street San Jose, CA 95002 United States