Company: OPGN
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001829126-25-006628
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Company: OPGEN INC
Filing Date: 2025-08-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 anticipated to serve as a key entry point into CapForce’s broader ecosystem, positioning clients for future use of listing consultancy and advisory solutions as they progress toward a public listing.

Across all verticals, CapForce will maintain a centralized relationship management infrastructure to support client engagement, post-onboarding support, and cross-sale initiatives. This full-lifecycle model will enable CapForce to convert one-time advisory engagements into sustained, multi-product relationships, enhancing both client value and revenue predictability.

Intellectual Property

The development and ongoing operation of CapForce’s next-generation global digital investment banking platform and community-focused cross-border stock trading platform are fundamentally underpinned by a robust portfolio of proprietary intellectual property (IP). This IP includes internally developed software code, advanced computational model-enabled investment banking advisory tools, data processing algorithms, user interface frameworks, and integrated compliance and security protocols, all of which collectively support a secure, scalable, and regulatory-compliant digital infrastructure deployed across Asia and other international markets, providing what the Company believes is a significant competitive advantage in the rapidly evolving FinTech landscape.

CapForce’s platform ecosystem comprises three distinct yet interconnected components:

    1.
    a community-focused cross-border stock trading platform; 

    2.
    a FinTech-enabled capital table management solution; and 

    3.
    an advanced computational model-enabled investment banking advisory and wealth management platform, which also supports public listing sponsorship. 

Each of these platforms involves distinct intellectual property elements. The cross-border trading platform incorporates proprietary matching engines, sophisticated order-routing algorithms, robust multi-currency transaction processing modules, and advanced regulatory compliance engines that integrate with regional financial market infrastructures, ensuring high-speed execution, optimized liquidity, and strict adherence to varied international trading regulations. Our custom-developed APIs enable secure connectivity with global broker-dealers, custodians, and clearing systems while maintaining full auditability and data sovereignty compliance.

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The cap table management platform relies on purpose-built software engineered to securely model and manage complex ownership structures, equity issuances, vesting schedules, shareholder permissions, and comprehensive investor dashboards. The inherently sensitive nature of financial ownership data necessitates rigorous IP protection around these systems, ensuring unwavering data integrity, confidentiality, and compliance. This component requires IP related to advanced role-based access control systems, dynamic scenario modeling (e.g., dilution, conversion events), and sophisticated localization frameworks to accommodate jurisdiction-specific legal and regulatory nuances across various Asian markets.

The advanced computational model-enabled investment banking advisory platform will be integrating advanced machine learning and rule-based logic engines to automate financial forecasting,