Company: VMCWF
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001641172-25-001827
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Company: Valuence Merger Corp. I
Filing Date: 2025-03-31
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 and with limited historical financial data, volatile revenues or earnings, intense competition
and difficulties in obtaining and retaining key personnel. Although our management will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a
particular target business, we cannot assure you that we will properly ascertain or assess all significant risk factors. Furthermore,
some of these risks may be outside of our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks will
adversely impact a target business.

We
may seek Business Combination opportunities with a high degree of complexity that require significant operational improvements, which
could delay or prevent us from achieving our desired results.

We
may seek Business Combination opportunities with large, highly complex companies that we believe would benefit from operational improvements.
While we intend to implement such improvements, to the extent that our efforts are delayed or we are unable to achieve the desired improvements,
the Business Combination may not be as successful as we anticipate.

To
the extent we complete our initial Business Combination with a large complex business or entity with a complex operating structure, we
may also be affected by numerous risks inherent in the operations of the business with which we combine, which could delay or prevent
us from implementing our strategy. Although our management team will endeavor to evaluate the risks inherent in a particular partner
business and its operations, we may not be able to properly ascertain or assess all of the significant risk factors until we complete
our Business Combination. If we are not able to achieve our desired operational improvements, or the improvements take longer to implement
than anticipated, we may not achieve the gains that we anticipate. Furthermore, some of these risks and complexities may be outside of
our control and leave us with no ability to control or reduce the chances that those risks and complexities will adversely impact a partner
business. Such combination may not be as successful as a combination with a smaller, less complex organization.

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RISKS
RELATING TO OUR SPONSOR AND MANAGEMENT TEAM

Our
ability to successfully effect our initial Business Combination will be dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel, some of whom
may join us following our initial Business Combination. The loss of key personnel could negatively impact the operations and profitability
of our post-combination business.

Our
ability to successfully effect our initial Business Combination is dependent upon the efforts of our key personnel. The role of our key
personnel in the target business, however, cannot presently be ascertained. Although some of our key personnel may remain with the target
business in senior management or advisory positions