KinerjaPay Corp.
J1 Multatuli, No. 8A
Medan, 20151 Indonesia
September 13, 2016
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Washington, DC 20549
Attn: Geoff Kruczek, Senior Staff Attorney
RE: KinejaPay Corp.
File No. 333-211294
Amendment No. 2 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Staff Comment Letter dated August 1, 2016
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is in response to the staff's comment letter dated August 1,
2016, with respect to the above-referenced Form S-1/A filed by KinerjaPay Corp.
For the convenience of the staff, we have included each of the staff's comments
numbered sequentially, followed by our response to each numbered comment.
Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company, page 6
Comment 1. Your response to prior comment 2 states that you have attached all
communications to
your response letter, but no such attachments were included. Please provide us
with the
communications requested by prior comment 2.
Response 1. We have attached written communications available to the Registrant.
All other communication with respect to potential investors took place verbally
in between the Registrant and potential investor.
Summary of Financial Information, page 8
Comment 2. We note your response to prior comment 4. However, your disclosure
indicates that the data as of December 31, 2015 is derived from your "unaudited
interim financial statements," but your financial statements indicate that the
period ending December 31, 2015 was audited and was your fiscal-year end. Please
revise.
Response 2. We have revised our disclosure to include the unaudited interim
consolidated financial statements for the period ended June 30, 2016 and our
audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015.
Selling Stockholders, page 19
Comment 3. We note your revised disclosure in response to prior comment 6;
however, it is our understanding from publicly available information that Mr. Ng
is affiliated with an entity named "The Stareast Group." We also note the "PT Stareast" entity listed on page 53. Please expand your response to address these
affiliations of Mr. Ng.
Response 3. We have expanded and revised our disclosure to clarify that our CEO,
Chairman and controlling shareholder Mr. Edwin Witarsa Ng, is the controlling
shareholder owning 80% of P.T. Stareast Sejahtera Group, another Indonesian
corporation ("Stareast Sejahtera"), which has an equity interest of 40% in
Stareast Asset Management but has no representation on its Board of Directors
nor does Mr. Ng have either: (i) any control over the business or management of
Stareast Asset Management; or (ii) any voting or dispositive powers with respect
to Stareast Asset Management's shares. Mr. Ng. disclaims beneficial ownership in
Stareast Asset Management's equity interest in the Company.
Comment 4. We note your revisions to the table. Please clarify how PT Stareast
is offering an aggregate of one million shares when it beneficially owned only
640,000 shares prior to the offering, as disclosed here.
Response 4. We corrected the table to reflect that P.T Stareast owns
beneficially 640,000 shares of common stock and offers 640,000 shares of common
stock in this offering.
Description of Business, page 23
Our E-Commerce Portal KinerjaPay.com, page 24
Comment 5. Please clarify why you deleted the transaction and customer data in
response to prior comment 11. While we note the added disclosure that from
inception through April 2016, you were solely engaged in capital raising
activities, the deleted information and information that remains on page 50
suggests that you were also engaged in operating activities during that time.
Given this, it continues to be unclear how you intend to generate revenue from
your business and why you did not generate revenues in prior periods. Please
revise to clarify. Also revise to clarify when you began offering your services;
your response suggests you began operations recently but the disclosure on page
50 indicates you conducted operations during 2015.
Response 5. We have further revised and clarified the disclosure in response to
this comment and make reference to the Form 8-K filed by the Registrant on
September 7, 2016. While the Registrant indeed began operating activities in May
2016, it did not have in place the infrastructure to conduct billing and
collections.
As a result, on August 22, 2016, the Registrant's wholly-owned Indonesian
subsidiary, PT Kinerja Pay Indonesia, entered into an addendum (the "Addendum"),
effective as of July 1, 2016, between the Registrant and its wholly-owned
subsidiary with PT. Kinerja Indonesia, which is the licensor of the Registrant's
E-Commerce Portal, kinerjapay.com, as well as provider of services to the
Registrant and its subsidiary under separate Service Agreement dated February
19, 2016. Similar to the disclosure contained in the Form 8-K, we have added
disclosure in the S-1/A under "Our E-Commerce Portal . . " as follows:
"On August 22, 2016, the Registrant's wholly-owned Indonesian subsidiary, PT
Kinerja Pay Indonesia, entered into an addendum (the "Addendum"), effective as
of July 1, 2016, between the Registrant and its subsidiary, on the one hand, and
PT. Kinerja Indonesia. Pursuant to the Addendum, the Registrant's subsidiary
agreed to utilized certain payment services of PT. Kinerja Indonesia as
described below. The reason for entering into the Addendum was due to the fact
that the PT. Kinerja Indonesia has already successfully established the
requisite infrastructure for billing, collections, payments and related payment
services (the "Payment Services") in the furtherance of its various businesses,
including its e-Wallet and Web Portal business that were the subject of the
License Agreement between the Registrant and PT Kinerja Indonesia dated December
1, 2015, in lieu of PT. Kinerja Pay devoting the time, efforts and resources to
develop its own Payment Services, which the Registrant recently determined would
not only delay its ability to timely commence billing and collections as well as
be unnecessarily duplicative of the Payment Service infrastructure in place at
PT Kinerja, but would also require incurring costs in hiring and maintaining
additional personnel.
Pursuant to the terms of the Addendum, in consideration for the payment of an
administrative fee of US$200 per month, PT Kinerja Indonesia shall: (i) collect
payments from the users of the licensed web portal, Kinerjapay.com, including
cash deposits, bank transfers, debit cards payments, credit cards payments, and
other forms of payment for transactions related to purchases or payments made
for the use of PT. Kinerja Pay's licensed web portal; and (ii) distribute the
appropriate payments to vendors, less the commissions chargeable (the
"Commissions") for all transactions generated by the users while using the
licensed web portal, kinerjappay.com, following receipt of payments made by the
vendors, which Commissions shall then be paid to PT. Kinerja Pay Indonesia. The
Registrant reasonably expects that it will receive payment of these Commission
beginning in the 3rd quarter of 2016 and thereafter."
Patents, Trademarks, Intellectual Property, Licenses, page 26
Comment 6. We note your disclosure added in response to prior comment 12. Please
expand your response to clarify the source of protection for your licensed
"proprietary technologies and intellectual property." Your revised disclosure
should clearly explain why the licensed technology is "proprietary" and why it
is considered "intellectual property." Also, although the license may be
perpetual, the duration of the underlying intellectual
property protection is unclear. Please revise.
Response 6. We have revised and expanded the following paragraphs under renamed
subheading "Proprietary Technology, Domain Name and Licenses" as follows:
We will endeavor to protect our propriety technology, domain name, customer base
and trade secrets to the extent reasonably and commercially practicable because
such protection may be considered as critical to our success. To that end, we
will rely principally on the laws in Indonesia and, to a lesser extent on
available international protection, if any.
We plan to register our domain name both domestically and internationally, but
have not yet done so, nor can there ban any assurance that we will be able to do
so or that such registration will be adequate. As we expand our markets, we may
seek to further protect our proprietary rights, to the extent that they may
exist, a process that can be both expensive and time consuming and may not be
successful. If we are unable to register or protect our domain name, we could be
adversely affected in any jurisdiction in which our trademarks and/or domain
names are not registered or protected.
Market for Common Equity . . ., page 29
Market Information, page 29
Comment 7. Please revise your disclosure to include the interim period for which
you have provided financial statements in this registration statement. See
Regulation S-K Item 201(a)(1)(iii).
Response 7. We have included the Market Information of our common stock for the
interim periods ended March 31, 2016 and June 30, 2016.
Index to Financial Statements
Comment 8. We note that contrary to your response to prior comment 15, common
shares have not been retroactively restated to reflect a one-for-thirty (1:30)
basis reverse split in your audited financial statements at and for the years
ended December 31, 2015 and 2014. Please give retroactive effect of this split
in your next amendment to this filing.
Response 8. We have retroactively restated the audited financial statements at
and for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014 to reflect the one-for-thirty
(1:30) reverse split.
Notes to Financial Statements
Note 1. The Company and Significant Accounting Policies
Comment 9. We note in your responses to prior comments 16 and 17 that references
to revenues during 2015 have been deleted throughout the document. However, if
you had no revenues in 2015 tell us why the statement "Our Kinerja.com platform
was launched in February 2015 but has already achieve significant market
acceptance evidenced by more than 13,000 users/customers and more than 78,000
e-commerce transactions in 2015" was not removed and appears on pages 4, 26 and
50 of the amended filing. If that statement is accurate, please revise this note
to disclose the nature and significant terms of your planned revenue
transactions as well as your accounting policy for each transaction disclosed
and provide us with specific references to the authoritative US GAAP you
considered when determining the propriety of the revenue recognition policies
disclosed in your amendment to this filing. Otherwise, please eliminate all
disclosures from the filing that imply you generated revenues during 2015. This
comment also applies to the interim financial statements presented.
Response 9. We have removed the statement ""Our Kinerja.com platform was
launched in February 2015 but has already achieve significant market acceptance
evidenced by more than 13,000 users/customers and more than 78,000 e-commerce
transactions in 2015" on page 4 under subheading "Prospectus Summary", on page
26 under subheading "Sales and Marketing and on page 50 under subheading
"Management's Analysis of Financial Condition and Plan of Operation." We have
removed all references throughout the document that imply we have generated
revenues including disclosure in our interim financial statements.
Directors, Officers, Promoters and Control Persons, page 53
Comment 10. Your response to prior comment 22 states that you revised the
disclosure regarding Mr. Pranata's business experience, but no changes were
made. Please revise to provide the disclosure requested by prior comment 22.
Please also revise to clarify Mr. Rahardjo's business experience from August
2015 until April 2016.
Response 10. We corrected our disclosure to reflect that Mr. Pranata held the
position of Finance Director from September 2009 to December 2013 at Yupi Indo
Jelly Gum, the Indonesia's biggest candy manufacturer with world-wide
distribution in Asia, North America, Europe and the Middle East.
We also expanded disclosure related to Mr. Rahardjo's business experiences
during the period August 2015 to April 2016 when Mr. Rahardjo worked as an
independent business consultant providing IT and management consulting services
startup companies in Singapore.
Security Ownership . . ., page 56
Comment 11. We note your response to prior comment 24. Given your disclosure in
footnote 1 on page 30 that the shares held by PT Kinerja Indonesia do have
voting rights, please revise your beneficial ownership table to include the
referenced 1,333,333 shares. Please refer to Regulation S-K Item 403(a) and Rule
13d-3 of the Exchange Act.
Response 11. We have revised our disclosure and included the 1,333,333 shares
held by PT Kinerjay Indonesia. We have also filed Schedule 13D for Mr. Ng on
September 7, 2016.
Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules, page 61
Comment 12. We note your response to prior comment 27. However, some of your
exhibits incorporated by reference do not appear in the documents to which you
refer. For example, we note that you attempt to incorporate Exhibit 10.1 by
reference to a Form S-1 filed February 8, 2012, but the registration statement
filed on that date does not include that exhibit. Please revise.
Response 12. We have revised our disclosure and incorporated by reference
exhibit 10.1 titled "Patent Sales Agreement" to Form S-1/A as filed with the SEC
on January 3, 2012.
Comment 13. We note that Exhibit 3.1(ii) filed in response to prior comment 28
is dated January 15, 2016, but that the information statement related to these
amendments was filed two weeks later, on January 29, 2016. Please clarify how
you complied with Regulation 14C in adopting these amendments to your articles
prior to filing and mailing an information statement related to the amendments.
Note, in particular, the 20-day period referenced in Exchange Act Rule 14c-2(b).
Response 13. We have attached Exhibit 3.1(ii) as filed with the Secretary of
State of Delaware. The amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation was filed
with the Secretary of State of Delaware after the joint written consent of the
board of directors and majority consenting shareholder, which is dated January
15, 2016, but was inadvertently filed by the corporate service on January 21,
2016, prior to mailing the information statement to the Company's shareholder
and prior to the 20-day period referenced in the Exchange Act rule 14c-2(b).
Exhibit 3.2
Comment 14. Please tell us why the signature portion of the exhibit purporting
to evidence your bylaws refers to "Kinder Holding Corp." instead of your name.
Please file your bylaws as an exhibit. We further note that this document was
executed on July 1, 2016. If this document amended your bylaws, please tell us
why you did not file a Form 8-K disclosing amendments to your bylaws. See Item
5.03 to Form 8-K.
Response 14. We have corrected this clerical mistake and filed a Form 8-K with
disclosure under Item 5.03 on September 7, 2016. We have incorporated our bylaws
by reference to this Form S-1/A.
Sincerely,
/s/ Edwin Witarsa Ng
CEO