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Note 1 - Organization, Basis of Presentation and Nature of Operations
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Note 1 - Organization Basis Of Presentation And Nature Of Operations  
Note 1 - Organization, Basis of Presentation and Nature of Operations

Note 1 – Organization, Basis of Presentation and Nature of Operations

 

The accompanying audited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in The United States of America and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for financial information.

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Trunity Holdings, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary Trunity, Inc., for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013. All intercompany accounts have been eliminated in the consolidation.

 

Trunity, Inc. (“the Company”) is a “C” Corporation organized under the Laws of Delaware with principal offices located in Portsmouth, New Hampshire until January 2015, and now located in Davie, Florida. It was formed on July 28, 2009 to develop a cloud-based knowledge sharing platform that focuses on e-learning, virtual textbooks, customer experience and education market place. The Company was formed though the acquisition of certain intellectual property by its three founders.

 

On January 24, 2012, Trunity Holdings, Inc., Trunity, Inc. and Trunity Acquisition Corporation (“TAC”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trunity Holdings, Inc., all Delaware corporations, entered into an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”). Pursuant to the terms of the Merger Agreement, on January 24, 2012, TAC merged with and into Trunity, Inc., with Trunity, Inc. remaining as the surviving corporation and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trunity (the “Merger”). In order to facilitate the reverse merger transaction, immediately prior to execution of the Merger Agreement, Trunity acquired a 90.1% interest in Brain Tree International, Inc., a Utah corporation (“BTI). As part of the transaction, on January 24, 2012, immediately prior to the Merger, BTI reincorporated in Delaware and changed its name from Brain Tree International, Inc. to Trunity Holdings, Inc.

 

On March 20, 2013 the Company executed a five year licensing agreement with the Ukraine Government’s Open World National Project to use the Trunity eLearning Platform in exchange for a license fee of $400,000. Upon signing, the initial payment of $100,000 was received and the remaining payment of $300,000 was received in April 2013. The impact of this transaction was a $400,000 payment that was reflected in the Company’s 2013 Annual Report on Form 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2013 as deferred revenue of $315,850 for the portion representing the remaining professional hours and license term on the agreement.

 

On June 5, 2013, the Company entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with its new institutional investor, Pan-African Investment Company, LLC (“PIC”), whereby PIC will assist with the introduction and marketing of the Trunity eLearning Platform in African nations seeking to improve the quality of education for their citizens. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the MOU, PIC has been granted a seven-year exclusive right to introduce Trunity’s products and services to the governments of each of the countries on the African continent with a goal of improving, modernizing and providing these countries with a sustainable education platform.

 

On January 21, 2014, the Company entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) (HMH), a global education leader to offer select HMH digital content via the Trunity Knowledge Exchange to Pre-K-12 schools, as well as to government agencies and entities responsible for the selection or purchase of educational materials on a worldwide basis.

 

In October 2014, Trunity teamed with Visual Collaboration Innovations, Inc. (“VCI”) to enable and enhance ubiquitous online knowledge sharing and collaboration between doctors, patients and other healthcare industry stakeholders. As a recognized global expert in engineering turnkey visual collaboration solutions for the healthcare market, VCI helps companies, organizations and individuals create connections by streamlining accessibility of information through modular applications, tools and resources that can be configured into a single holistic program built on a single proprietary framework. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Hosted API License Agreement, VCI has licensed Trunity’s proprietary, backend Application Programming Interface (API) to deliver and make accessible content to its clients. Trunity will also host the API and share in quarterly revenues generated by VCI from use of its API.