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TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp (TPVG -1.04%)
Q2Â 2019 Earnings Call
Jul 31, 2019, 5:00 p.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day and welcome to the TriplePoint Venture Growth Second quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call and Webcast. [Operator Instructions]
I would now like to turn the conference over to Christopher Gastelu, Interim Chief Financial Officer. Please go ahead.
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Ashley, and thank you everyone for joining us today. We are pleased to share with you our results for the second quarter of 2019. Here with me are Jim Labe, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board; and Sajal Srivastava, President and Chief Investment Officer.
Before I turn the call over to Jim, I would like to direct your attention to the customary Safe Harbor disclosure in our press release regarding forward-looking statements. And remind you that during this call, we will make certain statements that relate to future events or the Company's future performance or financial condition, which may be considered forward-looking statements under federal securities law. We ask you that you refer to our most recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission for important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. We do not undertake any obligation to update our forward-looking statements or projections unless required by law. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements made during the call, which reflect management's opinions only as of today. To obtain copies of our latest SEC filings, please visit the Company's website at tpvg.com.
Now, I'll turn the call over to Jim.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Thanks, Chris, and good afternoon everybody. The second quarter represented not only another good quarter, the term that we've been using to describe the past several quarters, but the quarter was truly a great quarter. Our business continued with its ongoing strong performance in returns. In this quarter, we were pleased that our results also reflect and demonstrate the power and value of the warrant kicker, the components that we receive as part of the loans we make in our venture lending business, as well as the direct equity investments that we make in some of our portfolio companies.
Once again, we generated a quarter of strong earnings and more than covered our dividend. We're making great progress on all fronts with our earnings, growth in net assets, originations, funding activities, ROE, size of our originations pipeline and the growing portfolio. In fact, our portfolio reached almost $0.5 billion in size. This is the highest since our IPO. IPO and M&A activity has increased in our portfolio and we're particularly encouraged by the number of portfolio companies that are currently planning future IPOs and acquisition activity as well. Collectively, all the signs bode well for the remainder of 2019 and we remain excited on the outlook for continued growth in the portfolio.
Here's a few of the highlights. Our earnings per share more than doubled over the quarter of a year ago. We earned well in excess of our dividend from an NII perspective. We continue to post attractive portfolio yield with a 16.5% weighted average portfolio yield on our debt investments, including prepayments. This was the exact same weighted average portfolio yield that we had last quarter as well. We had a notable unrealized gain this quarter from an IPO at one of our portfolio companies. We actually had another IPO within our portfolio occur as well just after the close of last quarter. Our net investment income or NII for the first half of this year also increased 36% over the same period of a year ago. We also saw our NAV increase this quarter by $0.60.
Another outstanding achievement was a 28.5% ROEs for the quarter, based on the total net income and held by our unrealized gains, certainly an ROE figure or by itself in a class for BDCs. Our ROEs for the quarter based on net investment income was 12%, the number that we've been running good 10% or more above the last several quarters as well.
To wrap up, I'd like to point out that all of these quarterly accomplishments were achieved with only modest leverage and now with increased credit facilities, the signed term sheets we already have in-house and a strong pipeline, this capacity and the ability to employ additional leverage gives us the potential to enhance our returns even further.
The recent IPOs of CrowdStrike and Medallia medallion greatly contribute to our unrealized gains. During the second quarter, CrowdStrike completed its IPO on June 12th. It opened trading at $63.50 after pricing its IPO at $34 a share, which was above the high end of its expected range. The Company raised more than $600 million. While we are under a six month lockup period as of the end of the quarter, the unrealized gain on our investment was $18 million. The stock continues to perform well, and as of yesterday's close at $94 a share, it represents an unrealized gain of $25 million in total.
In addition, after the close of the quarter, as I mentioned another portfolio company, Medallia, they priced an IPO at $21 a share and raised over $325 million. As of yesterday's close, Medallia stock price was nearly double its IPO price. Aside from these IPO's, we continue to also have positive developments in many other portfolio companies with several raising new rounds of capital are getting acquired, Sajal will provide more specifics on these events.
For delivering this performance dividend coverage and returns to our shareholders, we didn't have to stretch, we didn't need to use excessive leverage, we didn't change market strategy or our investment discipline, we continue to keep and stick to our long standing venture lending business fundamentals at venture growth stage companies. These haven't changed since the day of our IPO five years ago -- little over five years ago. As we look ahead, momentum in our market remains strong and the demand for venture lending and venture growth stage companies continues to be brisk as evidenced by our large and growing pipeline. There's no lack of deal flow. We plan to capitalize on this pipeline and build upon the achievements of these first two quarters of 2019 for the remainder of this year and the years well beyond. Our performance speaks for itself. This is about results, not words.
In closing, I'd also like to acknowledge that this month mark the 20th anniversary of Sajal and I working together, which is unprecedented in the venture lending industry and it's across two industry leading platforms. TriplePoint Capital as well as TPVG have benefited from the continuity of our partnership and leadership together over that 20 year period, and we look forward to at least another 20 more -- 20 or more years of leading the industry and the TriplePoint platform.
I'll now turn the call over to Sajal.
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Thank you, Jim. Happy anniversary and good afternoon everyone. During the second quarter, we signed $204 million of term sheets at TriplePoint Capital, closed $98 million of debt commitments with 9 companies and added five new company to the portfolio at TPVG. The first was Talkspace, which is an online and mobile therapy platform, matching patients with licensed therapist and psychiatrist. Talkspace has raised more than $100 million of capital from Norwest Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Steve Case's Revolution and other investors.
Imperfect Produce is an online grocer, creating a more sustainable food system by sourcing imperfect produce and surplus food directly and delivering these goods to consumers through a customizable subscription service. Imperfect has raised more than $47 million of capital from Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, Maveron and other investors.
Transfix is an online freight marketplace that uses algorithms and machine learning to provide full load shippers better prices and truck owners with more attractive routes. Transfix has raised more than $78 million of capital from New Enterprise Associates, Canvas Ventures, Lerer Ventures and other investors.
Curology is a direct-to-consumer subscription based service offering prescription based skin care products. Curology has raised more than $20 million of capital from Forerunner Ventures, Sherpa Capital and other investors.
Finally, Bird, which operates as a dockless electric scooter company developing a vehicle sharing platform. Bird has raised more than $270 million of capital from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, CRV and other investors.
As Jim mentioned, we achieved a record level for our investment portfolio this quarter as a result of funding $72.5 million of debt investments, with a 13.8% weighted average yield on new fundings to 13 companies. That 13.8% yield a new fundings is up from 13% last quarter. We also funded $1.7 million of equity investments in five companies. During the quarter, we had $42.5 million in portfolio company prepayments, which contributed to our 16.5% overall weighted average quarterly portfolio yield. Without prepayments, our portfolio yield was 13.7%. As a lender, we're always happy to get our capital back, prepayments are one way and we had a meaningful amount last quarter, but we're also pleased that our portfolio generates between $2 million and $3 million of natural principal amortization per month.
Moving on to credit quality. The weighted average investment ranking of our debt investment portfolio was 2.03, as compared to 1.95 at the end of the prior quarter. As a reminder, under our rating system, loans are rated from 1 to 5 with 1 being the strongest credit rating and new loans are initially generally rated 2.
Mind Candy was upgraded from Orange 4 to Yellow 3, due to continued improvement in capital raising activities. Cambridge Broadband and Roli were downgraded from Yellow 3 to Orange 4 due to delays in fundraising or strategic activities, as well as general performance below plan.
MapR Technologies, a company where we have only equipment financing outstanding, was downgraded from White 2 to Red 5 during the quarter. As reported in the press, MapR is in active M&A discussions. As Jim mentioned, during the quarter, CrowdStrike had its successful IPO and is traded up almost 50% since -- 50% since then. During Q2, we also had 6 portfolio companies raise over $600 million of equity in private rounds, and post quarter-end, Medallia completed its IPO and has been trading well.
Alongside our record level investment portfolio, we have a strong backlog that provides great visibility into potential near-term portfolio growth over the next few quarters. At the end of Q2, our unfunded commitments totaled roughly $350 million to 25 companies, of which $91 million is dependent upon the companies reaching milestones before the capital becomes available to them. A $162.7 million of our unfunded commitments will expire during 2019, a $157.3 million will expire during 2020 and $30 million will expire in 2021 if not drawn prior to expiration.
During the quarter, we renewed and increased our warehouse facility from $210 million to $265 million with our existing lenders and added an accordion feature enabling us to upsize to $400 million. We anticipate tapping into the -- in accordion in Q3 as we look to lock in additional variable rate funding capacity to take advantage of movements by the Fed. As we utilize our warehouse and lever up, we will look to use long-term debt as the way to free up capacity, diversify our balance sheet, and approach 1 times leverage.
As of quarter end, our top five positions represented 36.5% of the total debt investment portfolio on a fair value basis, down from 50.9% in Q2 2018. We continue to make progress in diversifying our portfolio, thanks in part to overall portfolio growth, as well as utilization of our co-investment capabilities. Since receiving our exemptive order, TPVG has made 10 co-investments with TPC's proprietary vehicles and this gives us meaningful financial flexibility as we scale the business.
In closing, given that we are at the halfway mark on the year, we are pleased by the record level of our investment portfolio, year-to-date NII in excess of our dividend, substantial NAV growth and exit activity of our portfolio companies. We are heads down focused on strong -- on a strong finish for the second half of the year and on maintaining our credit quality.
I'll now turn the call over to Chris to highlight some of the key financial metrics achieved during the quarter.
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Thank you, Sajal. As mentioned by Jim and Sajal, the second quarter was another strong quarter for TPVG. Second quarter total investment and other income was $18.9 million, an increase of 14.4% compared to the second quarter of 2018. Our investment portfolio generated a weighted average yield of 16.5% during the quarter, including prepayments and other activity, and 13.7% without, this compared to 17.2% and 13.9% in the second quarter of 2018. The increase in total investment income relative to the prior year was primarily due to portfolio growth and to a lesser extent the favorable impact of the rise in benchmark interest rates.
Expenses during the quarter were $8.8 million, consisting of interest in fee expense of $3 million, base management fees of $2.1 million, income incentive fee of $2.5 million, administrative and general expenses of $1.2 million. Expenses increased approximately 14.4% over the second quarter of 2018 when they totaled $7.8 million and were comprised of $2.5 million of interest and related expense, base management fee of $1.8 million, income incentive fee of $2.2 million, and administrative and general expenses of $1.2 million. The increase in expenses was largely related to asset growth which impacts management fees, higher average debt outstanding and higher incentive fees associated with performance.
Net investment income for the second quarter was up 15% to $10.1 million or $0.41 per share, compared with $8.8 million or $0.50 per share in the second quarter of 2018. The increase in NII was driven by portfolio growth, while the decrease in NII per share relates to a higher share count and the higher level of prepayment income on a per share basis realized in the second quarter of 2018.
We had nominal net realized losses of $17,000 in the second quarter, which related to foreign exchange effects on our non-dollar denominated debt investments. And we had net unrealized gains during the quarter of $13.8 million or $0.55 per share, consisting of mark-to-market activity on the investment portfolio. As discussed earlier on the call, the mark-to-mark appreciation was primarily due to price depreciation in our publicly traded equity holdings and CrowdStrike, and was somewhat offset by fair value marks across the portfolio. Overall, net increase in net assets for the quarter was $23.9 million or $0.96 per share, compared with $8.4 million or $0.47 cents a share in the year ago period.
During the quarter, we generated return on average equity of 28.4% and return on average assets of 18.2% on an annualized basis, this compares to an ROE and ROA of 14.2% and 8.6% for the year ago. Net investment income as a percentage of average equity was 12% for both the quarter and six months ended June 30th, 2019.
Now turning to the balance sheet. We funded $72.5 million of debt investments to 13 companies, acquired $0.7 million of warrants in 10 companies, and made $1.7 million of equity investments in five companies during the quarter. We had four companies repay outstanding obligations prior to maturity in the amount of $42.9 million and had principal amortization on the remaining debt portfolio of $8.4 million. All told, we ended the quarter with long-term investments of $496 million at fair value, up 24.5% from the prior year and up 14.4% from year-end 2018. At quarter end, we held 166 investments in 65 companies with a cost basis of $482.2 million and a fair value of $496 million. The Company's debt portfolio at quarter end had a cost basis of $457.2 million and a fair value of $444.7 million.
We ended the quarter with total liquidity of $203.6 million consisting of cash of $24.4 million and $179.2 million of undrawn availability under our revolving credit facility subject to borrowing base and other restrictions. Total outstanding borrowings for the quarter end were approximately $159 million, consisting of $75 million of long-term fixed rate notes maturing in 2022 and $86 million drawn under our revolving credit facility. This put us at a leverage ratio of 0.5 times, which is essentially flat versus Q1, and gives a sample capacity to expand the portfolio without accessing additional capital. We ended the quarter with net assets of $352.7 million or $14.19 cents per share. This is up $0.69 year-to-date and $1.05 from a year ago. During the second quarter, we distributed $0.36 cents per share consisting of our regular quarterly dividend.
I'm pleased to announce that our Board of Directors declared a distribution of $0.36 per share for the third quarter, of which 51.6% represents a spillover dividend as a result of overearning the quarterly dividends in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018. The dividend is payable on September 16th to stockholders of record as of August 30th. This marks the 22nd consecutive quarter we have increased or maintained our quarterly distribution rate.
I'll now turn the call back over to Jim.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Thanks again, Chris. At this point, we'll be happy to take your questions. Operator, can you please open the line?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
We will now begin the question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from Finian O'Shea, Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.
Finian O'Shea -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
Hi, guys. Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question and congratulations on the quarter and anniversary. Question on a couple of the portfolio names downgraded, Roli and Mind Candy, you should know that -- the part of those loan structures have become past due. So can you kind of comment first sort of high level given the robust venture capital environment, sort of, what that might mean for companies that couldn't sort of find a solution or catch a bid from a new venture sponsor perhaps. And then, more on the ground level, what sort of game plan you'd have for a company that still holds some value according to your mark, but it is obviously past due on the loan per se? Thank you.
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Yeah. Hi, Fin. This is Sajal. I'll start and then, Jim, Chris, please jump in. So, Fin, to answer your question, generally is -- when there are delays in fundraising activity, we collaborate with the sponsors and be helpful where we can and in certain situations that may be delaying payment or deferring payment and then our expectations are for either full catch up of the payment, post strategic event occurring or those may get added to principal balance. So generally that's our rule of thumb. We may delay or defer payments during those extended periods for the rounds or the strategic processes that happen and then once they do caught up and then occur [Phonetic].
Finian O'Shea -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
Very well. Thank you for the color. And then, if I can do another name on Imperfect Produce, it sounds like sort of one of these delivery services of -- perhaps now widely distributed food, you know those businesses, I mean, at least in the headline sense haven't held up very well in some cases. And also that name, I think, you mentioned has raised $47 million, which is on the lower and I think of companies that you typically finance on their life span. Can you kind of give us some color on the asset value, the intellectual property value on that name?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Yeah, well, let me comment generally on maybe our consumer companies and talk more specific. Maybe high level first, I guess Fin is, when it comes to capital raising activity, we only share information that's in the public domain. And so to the extent that for many of our companies, those rounds may actually not be announced, may not have been announced, and so we're not going to pre-empt generally any company and their capital raising activities. And so, again, equity round activity that we disclose is only information publicly available.
Secondly, again, if you look to our core thesis of companies that are rapidly growing minimum revenues of $20 million. So in particular, as we look to e-commerce companies or consumer companies and those that may have historically raised or publicly raised lower amounts of equity capital, most of them are ridiculously efficient and have revenue growth rates and significant scale and enterprise value that are beyond the capital bases, their equity capital bases. So my takeaway is, you'll be frickin' impressed by the profiles of our companies, in particular, some of the names you mentioned just given the growth and the infrastructure they built.
As a last point, grocery in general, you're absolutely right, I'd say. 20 years ago the approach that many online grocery companies took were capital inefficient, and the great news is the next generation of companies have learned and are piggy backing off the knowledge gained to be more efficient, have solid unit economics and great support from investors.
Finian O'Shea -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
Sure. Thank you for the color. And just one more small if I may on Medalia, which -- IPO in first quarter as you noted, were there any additional rate to invest? Would we expect additional exposure post quarter or is -- or should we go by what we see on the June 30 profile.
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Hey, Fin, it's Chris. Yeah, you should go by the June 30th profile in terms of our holdings.
Finian O'Shea -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
All right. Thank you guys again.
Operator
The next question comes from Matthew Howlett, Nomura. Please go ahead.
Matthew Howlett -- Nomura -- Analyst
Hey, guys. Congratulations. Thanks for taking my question. Just want to walk through, just -- if you look at the back half of the year, and earlier on the year you gave some guidance on the $75 million to $150 million of funding. I know that's going to be obviously prepayments, we had four in there. And then you said that you're going to utilize a revolver at some point, trim out the debt, just maybe walk me through, I mean, still expecting, I know you've always said one prepayment, look at that, but -- could -- is there any more clarity on sort of funding plus prepayments and how long it will take you to get up to that upper end of that leverage 10 [Phonetic] target? Can we see it by the end of the year?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Hi, Matt, Sajal here. I'll start, and then Jim, Chris, please jump in. So absolutely no change in terms of the guidance that we've given for quarterly fundings for second half of the year, minimum $75 million. We hope as high as $150 million. As you know, the second half of the year is the busier time of the year for our portfolio companies as they kind of boost balance sheets for capital raising activity, year-end financials, things of that nature. So we continue to feel very confident for a meaningful portfolio growth over the second half of the year.
I think with regards to prepaid, we continue to feel confident about one prepay on average a quarter. We've obviously had, I think, two or three -- two to three in Q1, so we're not using those to average to one. We currently have no -- we have not had any prepayments so far here in Q3, and we have no known knowledge as of right now of any prepayments under way but again, those things usually materialize toward the end of the quarter.
And yeah, we are feeling, given the pipeline, the backlog with the unfunded commitments and the visibility that we have getting to target leverage by the end of the year.
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
I can't really add to that, so I'll just embellish and reinforce by saying again, 1, sometimes 1 to 2 per quarter is always been our guidance and we do like and expect prepayers is part of this great model and good contributors to return and obviously pick up some prepayment penalties. At the same time, given the pipeline, we're going to continue and and see strong growth in the portfolio here by year's end, that's the model.
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
It's a tremendous momentum and I think you said that, it's been a couple of year since you accessed the bond, the term market there and certainly your bank are recognizing the increase in the facility. Any sense on the appetite to turn out some dead, and could you see a improvement from --when you came back a couple of years ago?
Yeah, great question. So I'd say, one is, a good indicator is our baby bonds are trading well, trading above par. So that's a good indicator. We're glad we did not rush to leverage up given today's Fed announcement. So I'd like to say that we continue to show our discipline in terms of capital raising. I don't say we're just in time, but we're thoughtful when it comes to when. We're not going to be pressured to raise capital just because the stock may be trading a certain way or the bond may be trading a certain way where we're doing it based on the funding needs of the business.
We've got great long-term support from our credit facility lenders, stepping up and providing us again the largest single warehouse facility in the venture lending industry. So we're proud of that. We have parties that are interested to help us with the accordion. So we're excited to pursue that. And then I think, you know, as we drive utilization, you know, we'll explore what's the right way to take out. Is it the long-term debt? Is it securitization? And so we're just, again, focused on building a quality portfolio, scaling it up, and then we'll be mindful of how best to diversify the balance sheet.
Matthew Howlett -- Nomura -- Analyst
Great. And then last question, I know you have a real stable lending platform, but we get excited when we see some of these warrant realizations coming out. And I know you can't -- you can't get something like CrowdStrike every time, but any sense on what's in registration in the portfolio? What could come maybe public, you know -- I know you can't give any specific names, but you know, it seems like we're in a small -- in the right part of the cycle and you guys are there. Just just curious on what you're seeing in terms of liquidation events on the portfolio.
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Yeah. No, I mean, I'd say, are definitely -- after the end of the day, it's what our entrepreneurs and our VC partners, they're the ones that drive the exit activity. The great news is that our VCs are in for the long haul. They're not here to make a quick killing, so to speak, on the investments they're investing in industry, leading multi-billion dollar potential companies. I would say there's no doubt that our entrepreneurs in VCs are mindful of the current funding environment, both on the private basis and in the public and in the M&A and I think those that see the ability to drive further value and make some interesting realizations are exploring it.
I would encourage you, maybe like, Google some of our larger portfolio companies and you can see those that have some chatter with regard to exhibit activity. But as Jim said, there are definitely others that are exploring, considering and working on exit activity events.
Matthew Howlett -- Nomura -- Analyst
Great, guys. Thanks a lot, and congrats.
Operator
Your next question comes from Casey Alexander, Compass Point. Please go ahead.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Good afternoon, and also again, congrats on the 20 years, and don some incredible successes this quarter. I think I know the answer to this, but could you explain why there's no capital gains incentive fee accrual given the unrealized gains that you had in the quarter?
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, sure Casey. This is Chris, and thanks for the question. So essentially, the short answer is that the cumulative gains, you know, it's a lifetime test that we haven't exceeded the threshold yet and that may be a little hard for you to discern because we did revise some of our accounting, a couple of years ago, so you don't necessarily see the -- see that show up in the balance sheet.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
So you still have tax book losses that you can apply the gains to, even though they're not on the balance sheet.
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Yes. Well -- you know, well, we're -- you kind of flipped subjects to tax, we're talking incentive -- capital gains incentive fee here.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Well, I mean, -- [Speech Overlap] on the balance sheet, how would we know how to model expected capital gains?
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, I think maybe simplified. It's -- we've had historic realized losses and these gains or offs or those realized losses are offsetting the incentive fees associated with these capital gains, Chris, is that the simple way to say?
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Yes. That's the way, yes.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Right, but without being on the balance sheet, how much do we know is there? I mean, I know this -- I had this conversation with Andrew Olson when this was done, and this was a part of the conversation that we had, that when you remove those losses from the balance sheet, we don't know what sheltered or not?
Yeah, so we can get maybe more detail offline, but I think the gross numbers was -- we had about $20 million, up prior to this quarter. So you could see that this quarter didn't quite overcome $20 million yet.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Okay.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Just -- correct me if I'm wrong, Chris, but I think in our footnotes in the Q, there is a statement about cumulative realized losses and gains.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Yeah, go ahead.
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
I was going to say, we can -- maybe get little more detail offline.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Okay. That's fine. Secondly, Medallia, at the second quarter, the mark was $610,000. Do you know what that mark related to in terms of a price per share for Medallia? I mean, we can see where it's trading now, but the IPO didn't happen until the third week of July. So it's hard for us to tell what that $610,000 relates to in terms of a mark?
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
Yeah, so I think if you just look at that number relative to the shares that we're holding that gives you that answer. And just with respect to the approach there -- for that, it was known that they were going public during the quarter, you know they had come about a confidential filing, and I think they might have even posted the price range before quarter end, maybe I'm off on that, but, you know the rules relate to us. Since the IPO occurred prior to the publishing of the financial statements, we were able to give some, factor in a little bit, the outcome of the IPO and coming up and striking a fair value mark at quarter end.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Okay. On MapR, do you know, I understand that it's in some sort of sale process, but do you know what the residual value of the equipment that is under the equipment lease is compared to what the valuation is that you're carrying at the end of the quarter?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Generally, Casey, we're financing mission critical equipment, servers, furniture, hardware, data center equipment, and so the fair value mark that we put for the quarter is our expected recovery, factoring in residual value, payments from potential M&A and things of that nature. But generally speaking, hardware residuals are anywhere from 10% to 30% of original cost if you look at the historic hardware lease financing data.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
And these have been paying down for quite a while, right?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Correct.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Yeah. Okay. All right. Thanks. Thanks for taking my questions.
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from Christopher Nolan with Ladenburg Thalmann. Please go ahead. Please go ahead, Christopher Nolan.
Christopher Nolan -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Hi guys. Sajal, for the $75 million to $150 million growth that Matt was discussing, I mean, is that for portfolio growth or just funding before...
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
That's funding. Thanks, Chris. You're correct. That's prepayments.
Christopher Nolan -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Okay. So are you guys still targeting for the $300 million to $600 million growth or it sounds like you coming in below that?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Well, $300 million to $600 million of total fundings for the year offset by prepayments we've had, roughly, $90 million of prepayments year-to-date.
Christopher Nolan -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Got you. And in your comments, I heard that you guys are talking about using long-term debt possibly, given the interest rate environment, I mean, at least for the balance of the 2019, should we expect to just use the credit facility more actively or
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Yeah. No, I mean, again, right personally [Phonetic] after today, right. So again for us, it's bound -- you want to make sure we have sufficient funding capacity and so it's a balance of up. We don't want over optimize. We want to make sure we have sufficient liquidity. I mean, the good news, right, is with the 16.5% yielding portfolio or somewhat indifferent with 25 bps or 50 bps changes in fed rates, and so it means deploy more capital, deploy more deals, but yeah, we want to be mindful of making sure we don't rush to raise leverage and lock ourselves into higher cost, long-term capital as you expect rates to come down.
Christopher Nolan -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Final question. Are you seeing more entrants into the venture debt market?
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
It's a question -- that will come across a runway that people ask almost every month and it's been, I want to say 20 years now since our anniversary. So there's always speculation, there's always talk, there's always all kinds of folks in the so-called venture lending business who are about to jump into it. And at least the market that we serve, again, which is working with just a defined group of select venture capital investors, leading ones associated with some of the biggest tech life science successes of the past several decades. In the market we serve, there's been no change of imperceptible, no change at all. So maybe out in the larger market, this thing's going on, but -- in our market, and you can tell that by looking at our pipeline and our deal flow and our business.
Christopher Nolan -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Thank you, Jim.
Operator
Your next question comes from Ryan Lynch, KBW. Please go ahead.
Ryan Lynch -- kbw Logo -- Analyst
Hey, good afternoon, and thanks for taking my questions. First one, you talked about CrowdStrike and a couple of other names, it obviously seems like a very healthy IPO market and venture capital market in general. You saw the benefits of this quarter and probably next quarter with the big move up in CrowdStrike. I'm just wondering, with that sort of very healthy IPO market and venture capital market, we saw the benefits, but are there any dynamics that presents some issues, a couple I can think about would be guys IPO-ing versus taking on venture debt, because the IPO markets are open or companies may be prepaying quicker because those markets are open which could hurt portfolio growth. Just trying to think through there are obviously some paths of dynamics, but what are some of the struggles that occur with a really healthy IPO market in venture capital market today?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
You know, a very thoughtful question, Ryan. So I would say, an interesting takeaway or the way that -- our -- we look at it is, when you see robust M&A and IPO activity, what our data shows is, it actually causes other companies to accelerate, to move faster, right, and it shows that, hey, we need to run faster, grow faster to potentially pursue an exit event faster and sooner. And so what does that mean, these are cash burning companies, it means that they need to spend more. In order to spend more, they need more capital. And so that's really where the -- we would argue the value proposition of venture debt in particular is the greatest, because it enables those companies to raise more capital for that growth acceleration without setting a valuation like an equity round does, which then would be what the basis for an M&A or an IPO. So I'd say, high level, we think there's a benefit as it causes more demand as companies want to kind of accelerate growth.
On the other hand, though, as you point out, these companies may not be around for as long and the journey may not be as long and so that may delay or cut off a long-term potential customer down the road. But if you, again -- if you look at the data, the average time for M&A and IPO for a venture backed company, although it's come back a little bit, it's still between seven and nine years, and so -- from that initial funding. So it's not like, prior times where that acceleration to the exit event was a year, two or three. So still represents strong opportunity for venture debt.
I think the last point though is, to the extent that we're in a robust equity environment as we saw in 2017, and here now and then, if companies choose to go the equity path, top off rounds of financing, maybe to set valuation prematurely, then yeah, that does cause other than to prepay our debt, delay drawing on unfunded commitments or not potentially utilize our debt at all. And so -- so again, it's multiple levers, but at least given the pipeline of the data points that we're seeing, we're feeling really good that it's just causing kind of the entire ecosystem to pull itself up, run faster, and burn a little more capital and need more capital.
Ryan Lynch -- kbw Logo -- Analyst
Okay. Now, that makes sense. Very helpful. Thorough answer. One other question I had, if I just look at your year-to-date highlights, you guys closed about $290 million of new commitments year-to-date and have funded about $163 million. So can you just walk through maybe historically, you know, what percentage -- when you guys make a new commitment, what percentage of those commitments actually end up funding down the road if you have kind of a ballpark figure with that? And then also, I know some of those commitments, they're milestone based. So obviously, if the company doesn't hit their milestone, it won't get funded. But maybe can you talk about some of the other reasons why you make a commitment, it eventually doesn't end up in the funded category?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Great question. So let me start and please, Jim, jump in. So I'd say, the fundamental data point for everyone is, for the triple play approaches, we fundamentally lend to great companies that have recently raised a round of equity financing. So we lend to companies that have cash. So we are not last minute bridge financing. We -- and that's a strategic part of our approach lending to companies that have recently close around financing. It validates investor support, it validates enterprise value, it validates your LTV cap, right. And so we then provide our commitments to those companies generally with a 12 to 18 month availability period to burn through some of that equity capital that they've raised, and after they've burned through that capital, use our venture then to give them more runway so that they can achieve more -- sorry, more milestones and command higher valuation, be it in that next equity round, be it in the IPO or be in an M&A.
So again we're that lighter fluid financing to help them maximize valuation for that next event. So what happens sometimes or -- that's the general thesis of how we approach -- our approach to lending -- of lending to companies with cash and the fact that they delay typically the time that they use our debt typically toward the middle or the end of the availability period. And so we expect generally when we commit to a company that a small percentage will draw it close, because again of the meaningful liquidity they have day one and then we'll expect to see some initial utilization between months six and nine and then the maximum, if not the majority of the utilization toward the end of the availability period before it expires. And that's why we reported when the unfunded commitments expire, because we think again there is a correlation to expiration and utilization of our unfunded commitments.
You know, I would say we used to say the rule of thumb was 75% of our unfunded commitments would get utilized before the end of the availability period. I think given the robust private equity environment or fund raising environment that we're in, the data shows it's more like in the 50% to 70% utilization of unfunded commitments get utilized before they expire. But then, when you have robust equity activity as we saw in 2017 and in parts of '18, when those companies raise rounds a little bit early, they generally then don't need the debt financing that's available to them and then they may ask for us to extend the availability or we terminate and then revisit like we used the halftime analogy and come back, you know, 12 months later in the third or fourth quarter.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Yeah, I think that's well said and covers it. I mean, there is some other uses, acquisitions, and so forth that our companies use these lines for, but I think that covers it very well.
Ryan Lynch -- kbw Logo -- Analyst
That makes sense and that's really good color. Those are all the questions that I had today. Great quarter. I appreciate your time.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Thank you.
Operator
Your next question comes from Casey Alexander, Compass Point. Please go ahead.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Hi. Just a quick follow-up. Knowing that the Fed did cut rates today and so that does affect the prime rate. When does that take effect on your loans? Does it take effect immediately or is it take effect at the end of the third quarter?
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Casey, it takes effect immediately. But keep in mind, we do set prime floors for our portfolio companies, and so to the extent that loans were originated in a prime at 5.5%, they'd have prime at 5.5% to the extent that they were loans earlier in '18, they would have lower -- they would have prime floors, but said at the then current prime. So that's why we think we're well positioned in a decreasing Fed rate environment to withhold the portfolio yield given those prime floors.
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Okay. So, all right. Great. Thank you.
Operator
This concludes our question-and-answer session. I would now like to hand the conference back over to Jim Labe for any closing remarks.
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Thanks. I'll close again by expressing my appreciation to all of you for your continued interest and support in TriplePoint Venture Growth and attending, I guess, our 20th anniversary month here between co-founders, and I hope you share our enthusiasm and excitement heading into the back half here at 2019 and what we believe is going to be a truly strong finish for the year. Thanks, and I will speak to everyone again soon.
Operator
[Operator Closing Remarks]
Duration: 51 minutes
Call participants:
Christopher Gastelu -- Interim Chief Financial Officer
James P. Labe -- Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Sajal K. Srivastava -- President and Chief Investment Officer
Finian O'Shea -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst
Matthew Howlett -- Nomura -- Analyst
Casey Alexander -- Compass Point -- Analyst
Christopher Nolan -- Ladenburg Thalmann -- Analyst
Ryan Lynch -- kbw Logo -- Analyst
