TCPC vs BTQ Comparison

BlackRock TCP Capital Corp is an externally-managed specialty finance company focused on middle-market lending. Its investment objective is to achieve high total returns through current income and capital appreciation, with an emphasis on principal protection. It seeks to achieve investment objective through investments in debt securities of middle-market companies. The group generates returns through a combination of the receipt of contractual interest payments on debt investments and origination and similar fees, and, to a lesser extent, equity appreciation through options, warrants, conversion rights or direct equity investments.

BTQ Technologies Corp is engaged in the development of computer-based technology related to post-quantum cryptography, particularly as it applies to blockchain and related technologies, and their protection from the emerging security risk of quantum computing. Its products include PQScale, Keelung, Kenting, and Qbyte. PQScale is a novel scaling technique for post-quantum cryptographic primitives. Keelung is a zero-knowledge toolkit for fast, private, and secure applications. Kenting provides acceleration for NIST-compliant post-quantum cryptography, post-quantum zk-SNARKs, and eco-friendly mining hardware, and Qbyte is a quantum risk calculator. Geographically, the company derives maximum revenue from Canada, and also has a presence in Taiwan, and Australia.