Genius Group Ltd
For the period ended Dec 31, 2023. Filed May 15, 2024.
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FY2023 · Filed May 15, 2024
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B. Significant Changes
We have had a number of significant changes since the date of our audited consolidated financial statements included in this Annual Report. These include:
| ● | Genius Group closed the Public Offering of $8.25 million by offering 23,571,429 of the Company’s ordinary shares, Series 2024-A warrants (“Series 2024-A Warrants”) to purchase up to 23,571,429 of the Company’s ordinary shares and Series 2024-C warrants (“Series 2024-C Warrants”) to purchase up to 23,571,429 of the Company’s ordinary shares, at a combined offering price of $0.35 per ordinary share and associated warrants. The Company further issued 7,220,256 ordinary shares for the exercise of Series-A (817,138 ordinary shares) and Series-C (6,403,118 ordinary shares) after receiving the exercise price of $2.5 million in cash. |
| ● | Genius group registered an additional pool of 10,000,000 shares of the common stock of the Company under the Company Share Option Scheme 2023 and the Company Employee Share Scheme 2024. |
| ● | Genius Group announced the closure of UAV and legal action against the sellers, Marco and Sandra Johnson. On 29 February 2024, California’s Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education announced the decision to cease all instruction at UAV, stop enrolling students, and collect tuition and fees by 8 March 2024. The decision comes after WASC Senior College and University Commission (“WSCUC”), the association accrediting public and private educational institutions, found “serious noncompliance” with its standards. Following the decision to close UAV, Genius Group management has since contacted independent auditors who specialize in postsecondary education and have appointed them to conduct a close-out audit. The close-out audit was initiated mainly to identify any fraud in addition to conducting the close-out audit required by the Department of Education and for Genius Group’s civil suit. |
| ● | Genius Group completed the acquisition of FB Primesource Acquisition LLC assets in an all share transaction. The Company issued 73,873,784 Ordinary shares of the Genius Group Limited to the seller. The transaction included the purchase of selected FatBrain AI assets and liabilities by Genius Group in an all-share transaction, through the purchase of the equity of a FatBrain subsidiary which is held by Genius as a wholly owned subsidiary. |
| ● | Genius Group entered into an acquisition agreement with OpexExo March 2024 with closing pending meeting closing conditions. The agreement calls for the purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of OpenExo, Inc., a Delaware corporation, for a purchase price of $10,000,000 payable in Genius Group restricted stock at a per share purchase price equal to the lower of $1.00 and the 30 day VWAP of one ordinary share of GNS as of a date prior to the date of closing of the transaction. The purchase price may be increased or decreased based upon certain revenue thresholds detailed in the OpenExo Agreement (Section 3.7) including market cap levels. The agreement also contain certain customary and usual closing conditions, representations and warranties and covenants for a transaction of this type. |
| ● | Genius Group entered into a $5.72 million Non-Convertible Note (the “Note”) financing with the Investor. The total amount funded, in two tranches, is $5 million. $3.0 million was funded upon the initial closing (“Closing A”) with the remaining $2.0 million funded upon the Company’s timely filing of the 20-F among certain other conditions (“Closing B”). The term of the Note is 18 months with the unpaid balance due in full on the maturity date at 105% of the amount of the Note (the “Redemption Value”). The Company also issued the Investor a five-year warrant to purchase 8,945,000 of its ordinary shares at a per share exercise price of $0.41. |
| ● | Genius Group appointed Adrian Reese as its Chief Financial Officer in March 2024. |
| ● | Genius Group appointed Michael Moe as a Board Chairman in April 2024. |
| ● | In April 2024, Genius Group launched an AI Avatar Toolkit for Global Faculty to build their own AI Tutors. |
On or about April 18, 2024, LZGI completedthe acquisition of FatBrain/Primesource by 73,873,784 of its common shares issued to LZG International, Inc. (which in conjunction with the assumption of approximately $12.5 million in obligations constituted the purchase price for the acquisition).
FatBrain AI is an AI-driven SAAS company co-founded by serial entrepreneur, Peter B. Ritz, and exec chaired by Michael T. Moe, Founder and CEO of GSV, ASU-GSV Summit, GSV Ventures, an early investor in 16 out of 30 Edtech unicorns including Coursera, Chegg, ClassDojo, Course Hero, Masterclass, and Guild Education.
FatBrain AI delivers peer intelligence and hierarchical insights to connect GOV, F500 and SMEs (Companies with 500 or less employees) with a variety of sector-specific SAAS solutions. The partnership signed between Genius Group and FatBrain AI will enable the delivery of a full end-to-end AI Education Ecosystem which includes:
| ● | For Schools: Government and company funded AI camps and accelerators together with a scholarship fund for young students to learn future-focused skills, both virtual and in-person, personalized with their Genie AI. |
| ● | For Universities: Government and company funded future-focused AI-based training from one week AI Microschools through to full undergraduate and masters degree programs integrating with personalized gamified learning via Genie AI and Genius Metaversity, with learning libraries shared across participating students and institutions. |
| ● | For Companies: Full suite of upskilling courses in AI and Exponential Technologies, ranging from one week AI Microschools to three-month in-house accelerators, linked with the Genius Scholarship to connect student apprentices with entrepreneurs and employees, and linked to FatBrain AI’s SAAS solutions to share peer intelligence, industry trends and leaderboards. |
| ● | For Governments: A comprehensive AI Education Ecosystem providing participating cities, regions and national governments with a full AI-driven, lifelong learning system for future-focused education and upskilling, with direct benefits in increased skills, competitiveness and shared intelligence within the rapidly changing Age of AI and Exponential Technologies. |
The parties intend to launch globally the overarching AI Education Ecosystem in early 2024.
FatBrain AI provides powerful and easy-to-use AI solutions to empower the enterprise stars of tomorrow to grow, innovate, and drive the majority of the global economy. FatBrain’s AI 2.0 technologies and advanced data services transform continuous learning, narrative reasoning, large language models, cloud and blockchain technologies into auditable, explainable and easy to integrate AI solutions. FatBrain’s subscriptions allow all companies to deploy its advanced AI solutions quickly, easily, and securely behind their firewalls or via cloud. FatBrain’s global delivery includes 600+ team across design, development centers in the US, UK, India and Kazakh Republic.
Historical Development
LZG International, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Florida on May 22, 2000, as LazyGrocer.Com, Inc. On August 28, 2009, LZGI’s name was changed to LZG International, Inc. Prior to the transaction on October 23, 2021, LZGI was a blank check company and had limited operations.
On October 23, 2021, LZGI executed an “IT Asset Purchase Agreement” with FatBrain, LLC, a previously unrelated entity, for certain intellectual properties, including patents pending, proprietary technology, licenses, software, development plans and contractual rights. The intellectual property is comprised of an AI Technology with many commercial applications, the first being “Angelina FX”. As consideration, LZGI issued 10,000,000 shares of common stock to FatBrain, LLC’s material non-controlling member, Peter B. Ritz. The mutually agreed upon asset fair market value of $348,000 was allocated 100% to the Angelina FX software due to the assignment of contractual rights to LZGI of a licensing agreement previously entered into on May 7, 2021, between FatBrain and a non-related party, Tempus, Inc. This transaction resulted in a change in control of LZGI, whereby Mr. Ritz is the owner of 97.6% of LZGI’s issued and outstanding common stock.
The FatBrain IT Assets acquired in the IT Asset Purchase Agreement include software that uses artificial intelligence to help companies automate enterprise decision cycles to learn, explain and intervene for better outcomes across all business interactions. The software continuously learns from historical transactions, incumbent models and in-house expert teams to deliver a unified framework binding structured and unstructured data in text, numerical, network/graph and video formats. The FatBrain software leverages modern advances in machine learning and cloud economics to enable sustained operational advantages of (i) simplicity with smaller, denser models using vector embeddings, (ii) auditability with explainable, trusted quantification and de-biasing using blockchain, (iii) quality work with noisy, sparse, imbalances or missing date using generative autoencoders, and (iv) technology using transfer and active learning. LZGI has initiated the commercialization of the technology and we have spoken to several potential clients.
On June 17, 2022, LZGI entered into a Master Stock Purchase Agreement with two individuals, Yevgeniy Chsherbinin and Victor Nazarov through its wholly owned subsidiary, FB Prime Source Acquisition, LLC to acquire Prime Source, a Kazakhstani corporation and Prime Source’s affiliates consisting of Prime Source Innovation, Prime Source – Analytical Systems, Digitalism, and InFin-IT Solution (together with Prime Source, the “Prime Source Companies”). The agreed upon purchase price of $18,000,000 is payable on a payment schedule. Subsequent to this acquisition, LZGI ran its AI business through its FB Primesource subsidiary, which was the entity for which all equity interests have been purchased by Genius Group.
Our Business
We’re the leading AI Solutions company empowering 500M-strong star enterprises of tomorrow (aka MSMEs) to grow, innovate, and drive the majority of the global economy.
Our purpose is to:
| ● | Boost millions of MSMEs with AI Solutions and impact over 50% of global jobs and GDP |
| ● | Simplify decisions w/ unified subscription model, inclusion economy, growth @fraction of an FTE |
| ● | Secure extended enterprise reach, supply chain, cyber, hierarchical transparency |
| ● | Realize trillions in hidden market value, surpassing F500 and governments as economic drivers |
Our market is large and undeserved, driven by the common challenges faced by MSMEs worldwide and addressable through the combination of our AI Solutions and our simple subscription model. Today, most MSMEs face the explosion of AI and data signals from thousands of business applications, yielding millions of decision factors. Large F500 companies and governments have the resources to address their AI solution needs from McKinsey, Big 4 Consultancies, C3AI, Palantir et al. We sell AI Solutions delivering insights across the commonplace, yet unified needs of MSMEs worldwide, focusing on helping them improve to:
| ● | GET CUSTOMERS |
| ● | GET PAID |
| ● | GET CAPITAL |
| ● | PAY WORKERS |
| ● | ACCESS ADVICE |
| ● | BE COMPLIANT & ORGANIZED |
| ● | GET WORK DONE |
The problems facing 500M MSMEs today have been aggravating business owners for decades: too much data; too many variables; not enough time. However now, with our AI 2.0 Solutions MSMEs can solve these problems by harnessing the hidden insights from both their existing individual behavior and peer market data.
Our sustainable competitive advantage comprises what we call “Peer Intelligence AI” or “AI 2.0” solutions and technologies which work to harness the power of permissioned private data and insights from thousands of MSMEs aligned to the relevant public data signals to advance the knowledge of the unified market dynamics. That is, Peer Intelligence AI works by connecting into the clients’ existing SaaS products (e.g., Intuit’s QuickBooks, Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, 1C, Xero, Slack, and more), where all their business data lives and aligning the data with millions of relevant market signals, including:
| ● | Collation of clients’ different business data sources |
| ● | Mapping against thousands of market data sources |
| ● | Industry specific data and insights |
Once our Outcomes™ engine has aligned all of the thousands of different signals (internal and external), it drives the FatBrain AI 2.0 Solutions marketplace where, alongside FatBrain expert coaches it turns meaningless data into actionable insights:
| ● | Turn data into insights |
| ● | Industry specific coaching |
| ● | All within our Outcomes™ engine |
Our clients gain regular, valuable actions to improve their business decisions and save time and money, while also being able to benchmark themselves against their market peers and industry comparables, gaining:
| ● | Leaderboard ranking |
| ● | Trajectory podiums across different areas |
| ● | Clear and visible tracking of business improvement |
Our go to market uses extended enterprise reach focusing on networks of similarly situated peers across industry sectors. For example, we’re able to offer our FX AI 2.0 Solutions to the two million importers and exporters filing disclosures with the US Customs office to quantify their purchase cycles to minimize their currency risks. Similarly, we’re able to offer our InsureTech AI solutions to the three hundred thousand independent agents to save time by auto-matching the right products to right clients while and helping the agents to get paid faster.
We believe that nearly every one of the MSMEs globally faces challenges that our AI Solutions are designed to address. Our focus in the near term is to build partnerships with institutions that have the leadership necessary to effect structural change within their extended supply chain — to reconstitute their operations around data. Over the long term, we believe that many of the global MSMEs in the markets we serve will become a potential client.
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