Connexa Sports Technologies Inc
For the period ended Apr 30, 2024. Filed Jul 25, 2024.
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
Note 1: ORGANIZATION AND NATURE OF BUSINESS
Organization
Lazex Inc. (“Lazex”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada on July 12, 2015. On August 23, 2019, the majority owner of Lazex entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with Slinger Bag Americas Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Slinger Bag Americas”), which was 100% owned by Slinger Bag Ltd. (“SBL”), an Israeli company. In connection with the Stock Purchase Agreement, Slinger Bag Americas acquired 2,500 shares of common stock of Lazex for $332,239. On September 16, 2019, SBL transferred its ownership of Slinger Bag Americas to Lazex in exchange for the 2,500 shares of Lazex acquired on August 23, 2019. As a result of these transactions, Lazex owned 100% of Slinger Bag Americas and the sole shareholder of SBL owned 2,500 shares of common stock (approximately 82%) of Lazex. Effective September 13, 2019, Lazex changed its name to Slinger Bag Inc.
On October 31, 2019, Slinger Bag Americas acquired control of Slinger Bag Canada, Inc., (“Slinger Bag Canada”) a Canadian company incorporated on November 3, 2017. There were no assets, liabilities or historical operational activity of Slinger Bag Canada.
On February 10, 2020, Slinger Bag Americas became the 100% owner of SBL, along with SBL’s wholly owned subsidiary Slinger Bag International (UK) Limited (“Slinger Bag UK”), which was formed on April 3, 2019. On February 10, 2021, Zehava Tepler, the owner of SBL, contributed Slinger Bag UK to Slinger Bag Americas for no consideration.
Effective February 25, 2020, the Company increased the number of authorized shares of common stock from 75,000,000 to 300,000,000 via a four-to-one forward split of its outstanding shares of common. All share and per share information contained in this report have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the impact of the stock split. Effective June 27, 2024, the Company increased the number of authorized shares of common stock from 300,000,000 to 1,000,000,000.
On June 21, 2021, Slinger Bag Americas entered into a membership interest purchase agreement with Charles Ruddy to acquire a 100% ownership stake in Foundation Sports Systems, LLC (“Foundation Sports”).
On February 2, 2022, the Company entered into a share purchase agreement with Flixsense Pty, Ltd. (“Gameface”). As a result of the share purchase agreement, Gameface became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
On February 22, 2022, the Company entered into a merger agreement with PlaySight Interactive Ltd. (“PlaySight”) and Rohit Krishnan (the “Shareholders’ Representative”). As a result of the merger agreement, PlaySight would become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.
During April 2022, the Company determined that the technology utilized in the Foundation Sports acquired entity would take substantially more financial resources and more time to bring to market and achieve profitability than originally anticipated. As a result, the goodwill and intangible assets related to Foundation Sports were fully impaired as of April 30, 2022, resulting in an impairment loss of $3,486,599. In addition, during April 2022 the Company decided to sell a portion of Foundation Sports. The Company continued to classify Foundation Sports in continuing operations, until December 5, 2022 when it sold 75% of Foundation Sports back to the original owners at which time it deconsolidated this subsidiary and recorded a loss on the sale. The Company also determined to dispose of the PlaySight entity during the year ended April 30, 2023. The Company completed the sale in November 2022 and recorded a loss on the sale at that time.
In April 2022, the Company changed its domicile from Nevada to Delaware. On April 7, 2022, the Company effected a name change to Connexa Sports Technologies Inc. We also changed our ticker symbol, “CNXA”. Connexa is now the holding company under which Slinger Bag and Gameface reside.
On June 14, 2022, the Company effected a 1-for-10 reverse stock split, where the Company’s common stock began to trade on a reverse split adjusted basis. No fractional shares were issued in connection with the reverse stock split and all such fractional interests were rounded up to the nearest whole number of shares of common stock. All references to the outstanding stock have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect this reverse split. The Company also consummated a public offering of shares of its common stock and the listing of its common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
On November 17, 2022, Gabriel Goldman and Rohit Krishnan resigned from the board of directors of the Company. Gabriel and Rohit were members of the audit and compensation committees. Gabriel Goldman was a member of the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Neither Gabriel nor Rohit advised the Company of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to its operations, policies or practices.
On November 27, 2022, the Company entered into a share purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with PlaySight, Chen Shachar and Evgeni Khazanov (together, the “Buyer”) pursuant to which the Buyer purchased 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of PlaySight from the Company in exchange for (1) releasing the Company from all of PlaySight’s obligations towards its vendors, employees, tax authorities and any other (past, current and future) creditors of PlaySight; (2) waiver by the Buyer of 100% of the personal consideration owed to them under their employment agreements in the total amount of U.S. $600,000 (which would have been increased in December 2022 to U.S. $800,000); and (3) cash consideration of U.S. $2 million to be paid to the Company as follows:
| (i) | a promissory note in the amount of U.S. $2 million issued and delivered to the Company (the “Promissory Note”). |
| (ii) | The maturity due date of the Promissory Note is December 31, 2023 subject to a one year extension in the discretion of the Buyer until December 31, 2024. The Buyer timely elected to extend the maturity date of the Promissory Note to December 31, 2024. |
| (iii) | The Promissory Note can be partially paid over the time, but in the event it is not paid in full by December 31, 2024, then the remaining amount due (i.e. U.S. $2 million less any amount paid), will be converted into ordinary shares of PlaySight (the “Deposited Shares”), which will be deposited with the escrow company of Altshuler Shaham Trust Ltd. (the “Escrow Agent”) for the benefit of the Company or, at the election of the Company, issued in the form of a stock certificate or recorded in some other market-standard format to be held by the Escrow Agent. |
| (iv) | The number of the Deposited Shares shall be determined according to the post-money valuation of the last investment round of the Company, and in the absence of such investment round, the total number of the Deposited Shares shall be $2 million divided by the Company’s valuation to be determined at that time by a third party appraiser, to be nominated by both the Company and the Buyer (the “Appraiser”). The Company and the Buyer have agreed that the identity of the Appraiser shall be Murray Devine Valuation Advisers, to the extent their cost of the appraisal shall not be higher than the cost of other appraisers from the big 4 accounting firms (i.e. E&Y, KPMG, PWC and Deloitte). The Company and the Buyer have agreed to split the cost of the Appraiser. |
The Company has also released PlaySight from all of its obligations (except for those created by the Agreement) in respect of the Company, including any inter-company debts on the books, and the Buyer has released the Company from all of its obligations (except for those created by the Agreement) in respect of PlaySight and the Buyer.
On December 5, 2022, the Company assigned 75% of its membership interest in Foundation Sports to Charles Ruddy, its founder and granted him the right for a period of three years to purchase the remaining 25% of its Foundation Sports membership interests for $500,000 in cash. As of December 5, 2022, the results of Foundation Sports will no longer be consolidated in the Company’s financial statements, and the investment was accounted for as an equity method investment. On December 5, 2022, the Company analyzed this investment and established a reserve for the investment at the full amount of $500,000. The Company intends to enter into a database access and marketing agreement with Foundation Sports pursuant to which Foundation Sports will (i) provide the Company with sporting or racquet facility information and contact data of its customers (subject to applicable law) and (ii) publish any promotional content, call to action, survey or similar promotional communications provided by the Company to Foundation Sport’s customers for its Customers to promote said material to their extended network of consumers in exchange for 7% of any gross revenue to be generated from such activities.
On March 7, 2023, Slinger Bag entered into an exclusive distribution agreement for Padel Tennis with a company located in Valencia, Spain called with Desarrollo y Promocion de Padel S.L. This agreement is contracted to deliver approximately $15 million in revenue by the end of 2028.
On September 13, 2023 the Company held a special meeting of stockholders in which the following items were approved:(i) the issuance of (i) 1,274 shares of the our common stock, par value $0.001 per share, that were issued on October 3, 2023, and, (ii) 14,753 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of Pre-Funded Warrants at an exercise price of $0.00002 per share, (iii) 16,026 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of 5-Year Warrants at an exercise price of $312 per share, (iv) 32,052 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of 7.5 Year Warrants at an exercise price of $344 per share and (v) 22,625 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of 5.5 Year Warrants at an at an exercise price per share equal to $1,768per share to Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd and (ii) a reverse stock split of our common stock within a range of one (1)-for-ten (10) to one (1)-for-forty (40) (“Reverse Stock Split”), with the Board of Directors of the Company to set the specific ratio and determine the date for the reverse split to be effective and any other action deemed necessary to effectuate the Reverse Stock Split, without further approval or authorization of stockholders, at any time within 12 months of the special meeting date.
On September 25, 2023, as a result ofthe shareholder approval obtained at the special meeting of stockholders on September 13, 2023 and the Reverse Stock Split, the aggregate number of Pre-Funded Warrants, 5-Year Warrants, 5.5-Year Warrants and 7-Year Warrants increased from 85,455 to 471,348 due to certain adjustments that were required to be made by the terms of the relevant warrants in the event of receipt of shareholder approval and the occurrence of the Reverse Stock Split.
On November 16, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with Agile Capital Funding (the “ACF Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $693,500 in future receivables to ACF (the “ACF Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $450,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay ACF $28,895.83 each week until the ACF Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to ACF under the ACF Agreement, the Company granted to ACF a security interest in the following collateral: all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
As previously disclosed on the Current Report on Form 8-K furnished with the SEC on September 9, 2020, the Company entered into a service agreement dated September 7, 2020 (the “YK Employment Agreement”) with Yonah Kalfa, the Company’s chief innovation officer and member of the Company’s board of directors. Pursuant to Sections 2.1(a) and 2.1(b) of the YK Employment Agreement, the Company owes Mr. Kalfa $1,137 in salary (the “Salary Compensation”) through January 31, 2024 to Mr. Kalfa.
The Company was unable to pay Mr. Kalfa any of the compensation in cash and, given Mr. Kalfa’s extraordinary contribution to the Company, pursuant to Section 2.1(b) of the YK Employment Agreement, on January 20, 2024 the Company agreed to pay $1 million of the $1.137 million owed (with Mr. Kalfa waiving the right to receive the $137,000 balance) via an issuance of shares of Common Stock as memorialized by that certain Deferred Payment Conversion Agreement with Mr. Kalfa, dated January 20, 2024 (the “2024 Agreement”). The 2024 Agreement sets forth the price per share of the shares to be issued (267,380), the number of shares to be issued using that price ($3.74), and the amount due to Mr. Kalfa through January 31, 2024.
Due to administrative delays, the Company did not issue the shares in January. Rather, on March 15, 2024, the Company issued 220,265 shares of Common Stock. This is the amount of stock owed for a $1 million payment at a conversion price of $4.54, which was the closing price of the Common Stock on March 13, 2024 (and a higher price than the closing price on March 14, 2024).
No shareholder approval was required for the issuance of the 220,265 shares because it was less than 20% of the number of the Company’s outstanding shares of Common Stock as of March 14, 2024 and was issued at a price per share ($4.54) above the Minimum Price as defined under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d).
The Shares were issued on May 24, 2024 without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), in reliance on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act as a transaction not involving a public offering.
On January 20, 2024, the Company agreed to issue to Mike Ballardie, the Company’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer, warrants to purchase 317,514 shares of common stock (the “MB Warrants”) at an exercise price of $0.02 per share and with a term of 10-years as compensation for his extraordinary contribution to the company, in exchange for Mr. Ballardie’s waiver of his right to receive any bonus payments as described in clause 2.2 of his service agreement with Slinger Bag International (UK) Limited dated 1 November 2020 (the “Service Agreement”) to which he would otherwise be entitled to receive through January 31, 2024.
On March 18, 2024, the Company entered into a share purchase agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) and a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement,” and together with the Share Purchase Agreement, the “Agreements”) to acquire a total of 70% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Yuanyu Enterprise Management Co., Limited (“YYEM”), a Hong Kong company, from the sole shareholder of YYEM, Mr. Hongyu Zhou (the “Seller”), for a combined $56 million. The consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Agreements will result in a change in control of the Company as the shareholders of YYEM will become the owners 82.4% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company (the “Common Stock”). As part of this transaction, as further described below under the heading of “The Separation Agreement”, the Company has agreed to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Slinger Bag Americas Inc., to a newly established entity to be owned by Yonah Kalfa and Mike Ballardie.
Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company agreed to purchase, and the Seller agreed to sell,2,000 ordinary shares of YYEM, representing 20% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of YYEM, for the purchase price of $16,500,000 (the “Share Purchase Consideration”), payable in cash (the “Share Purchase Transaction”). The Share Purchase Transaction closed on March 20, 2024.
Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company has agreed to purchase, and the Seller has agreed to sell,5,000 ordinary shares of YYEM, representing 50% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of YYEM, for 8,127,572 newly issued shares of Common Stock to the Seller (the “Share Exchange Transaction,” and together with the Share Purchase Transaction, the “Transactions”). The shares are expected to represent 82.4% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of the closing of the Share Exchange Transaction (the “Share Exchange Consideration”).
The Exchange Shares will be issued without registration under the Securities Act, in reliance upon a safe harbor for offshore transactions or an exemption from registration for transactions not involving a public offering and, as such, will constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Under Rule 144, the Exchange Shares generally may not be offered or sold publicly unless they have been held for at least six months and subject to other conditions.
In connection with the Exchange Transaction, the Company has agreed that at or prior to the closing date of the Acquisition (the “Closing Date”), it will enter into a separation agreement to sell, transfer and assign all or substantially all of its legacy business, assets and liabilities related to or necessary for the operations of its “Slinger Bag” business or products (the “Legacy Business”) to a newly established entity (“NewCo”), and that after the Closing Date, NewCo will have the sole right to and obligations of the Legacy Business and will be liable to the Company for any losses arising from third-party claims against the Company that arise from liabilities related to the Legacy Business (the “Separation”). NewCo will be owned by Yonah Kalfa and Mike Ballardie.
On a pro forma basis, as of April 30, 2024, the Legacy Business’ assets were approximately $5.1 million (which represents the assets of the Company as of January 31, 2024, minus, on a pro forma basis, the $16.5 million used for the purchase of 20% ownership of YYEM in April 2024), and the liabilities of the Legacy Business were $12.0 million (which represents the liabilities of the Company as of April 30, 2024).
As an inducement to the Company to complete the Transactions, the Agreements provide that aggregate payments of (a) $4,500,000 shall be made to the Company in cash by YYEM and (b) $500,000 shall be made to NewCo (as defined under the header “The Separation Agreement”) in cash by YYEM, as follows: (i) $800,000 payable within two (2) business days of the date of the Agreements; (ii) $1,200,000 payable within three (3) business days of the Company changing its ticker symbol from “CNXA” to “YYAI,” or such other symbol as the parties may agree; (iii) $2,000,000 payable at the Closing and (iv) $500,000 to be paid within 30 days from the Closing Date and paid to NewCo. Out of the $4,500,000, the Company paid $2,142,857 to certain companies for arranging the Transactions.
At or after the Closing, the board of directors of Connexa (the “Board”) shall comprise those individuals designated by YYEM Seller, and all current members of the Board shall resign with such resignation being effective on the later of the Closing or the appointment or election of the new directors.
| ● | on or before the Closing Date, the Company shall obtain approval from holders of shares of Common Stock for the Share Exchange Transaction and other matters related to the Share Exchange Transaction. Such stockholder approval was received on May 15, 2024; |
| ● | on or before the Closing Date, the Company shall obtain approval from Nasdaq for the Reverse Stock Split of the Common Stock at a ratio to be determined by the parties; |
| ● | as a condition to Closing, from the date of the Exchange Agreement through the Closing Date, the existing shares of Common Stock shall have been continually listed on Nasdaq, and the Company shall have not received a determination from Nasdaq indicating that the Common Stock will be delisted from Nasdaq; and |
| ● | the Company and YYEM shall cooperate to effectuate a reverse stock split, obtain approval from Nasdaq of a new listing application to be submitted to Nasdaq in connection with the Share Exchange Transaction, and provide such information as is necessary for the Company to obtain shareholder approval of the Share Exchange Transaction and other matters relating thereto. The shareholder approval was obtained on May 15, 2024, and a new listing application was submitted to Nasdaq in May 2024, which is currently under review by Nasdaq. |
We cannot provide assurance as to when, or if, all of the closing conditions will be satisfied or waived by the relevant party. As of the date of this prospectus, we have no reason to believe that any of the conditions will not be satisfied.
| ● | copies of all resolutions of the Board authorizing the execution, delivery, and performance of the Exchange Agreement and the other agreements, instruments, and documents required to be delivered in connection with the Exchange Agreement or at the Closing to which the Company is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; |
| ● | the Exchange Shares; |
| ● | all documents, instruments, agreements and certificates that may be deliverable in connection with the performance or fulfilment of the conditions under Section 6.01 and Section 6.03 of the Exchange Agreement that are relevant to the Company; |
| ● | a duly executed bought and sold note, as applicable; and |
| ● | all other documents, instruments and writings which may be reasonably requested by YYEM Seller to be delivered by the Company at or prior to the Closing pursuant to the Exchange Agreement. |
| ● | payment of the Closing Cash Payment (as defined in the Exchange Agreement); |
| ● | a good standing certificate (or its equivalent) for YYEM from the relevant governmental authority of Hong Kong, if applicable, and each other jurisdiction where YYEM is qualified, registered, or authorized to do business, if any; |
| ● | if the YYEM shares are represented by certificates, such certificates duly endorsed for transfer by YYEM Seller, as applicable; |
| ● | a counterpart to any consents required in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement; |
| ● | all documents, instruments, agreements and certificates that may be deliverable in connection with the performance or fulfilment of the conditions under Section 6.01 and Section 6.02 of the Exchange Agreement that are relevant to YYEM Seller; |
| ● | a duly executed bought and sold note as may be required under the law of Hong Kong; and |
| ● | all other documents, instruments and writings which may be reasonably requested by YYEM Buyer to be delivered by YYEM Seller and YYEM at or prior to the Closing pursuant to the Exchange Agreement. |
The Exchange Agreement may be terminated by mutual written consent of the Company and the YYEM Seller at any time before the Closing or by either the Company or the YYEM Seller at any time before the Closing if the Share Exchange Transaction has not been consummated by the date that is 180 days from the date of the Exchange Agreement (the “Termination Date”) or if any party breaches the Exchange Agreement with respect to the closing conditions and such breaches cannot be cured by the Termination Date. If the Exchange Agreement is terminated by the Company unilaterally and of its own volition other than due to the aforementioned termination conditions, the Company shall be liable for a termination fee in the amount of three times the fees and costs incurred by the YYEM Seller in connection with the Share Exchange Transaction up to a maximum amount in the aggregate of $600,000, with certain exceptions, including, but not limited to lack of SEC or Nasdaq approval of the Share Exchange Transaction or lack of approval from holders of shares of Common Stock.
The Company’s Board and stockholders have approved the Proposed Reverse Stock Split of its Common Stock within a range of 1-for-10 to 1-for-100, with the Board having set the specific ratio at 1-20 and determined the date for the Proposed Reverse Stock Split to be effective to be June 27, 2024.
On June 8, 2023, the Company entered into a merchant cash advance agreement with Meged Funding Group (“Meged”) pursuant to which the Company sold $315,689 in future receivables to Meged (the “Meged Receivables Purchased Amount”) to in exchange for payment to the Company of $210,600 in cash less fees of $10,580. The Company agreed to pay Meged $17,538 each week until the Meged Receivables Purchased Amount is paid in full.
On September 19, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with Meged (the “Second Meged Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $423,000 in future receivables to Meged (the “Meged Second Receivable Amount”) in exchange for paying the then outstanding balance of $70,153 of the Meged Receivables Purchased Amount in full with the balance being retained by the Company in cash for general purposes. The Company agreed to pay Meged $15,107 each week until the Meged Second Receivable Amount was paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Meged under the Second Meged Agreement, the Company granted to Meged a security interest in all accounts receivable and all proceeds therefrom as such term is defined by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On August 7, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with UFS (the “UFS Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $797,500 in future receivables (the “UFS Second Receivables Purchased Amount”) to UFS in exchange for payment to the Company of $550,000 in cash less fees of $50,000. The Company agreed to pay UFS $30,000 each week until the UFS Second Receivables Purchased Amount was paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to UFS under the UFS Agreement, the Company granted to UFS a security interest in all accounts receivable and all proceeds therefrom as such term is defined by Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On September 13, 2023 the Company held a special meeting of stockholders in which the following items were approved:(i) the issuance of (i) 1,274 shares of the our common stock, par value $0.001 per share, that were issued on October 3, 2023, and, (ii) 14,753 shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of Pre-Funded Warrants at an exercise price of $0.00002 per share, (iii) 16,026 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of 5-Year Warrants at an exercise price of $312 per share, (iv) 32,052 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of 7.5 Year Warrants at an exercise price of $344 per share and (v) 22,625 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of 5.5 Year Warrants at an at an exercise price per share equal to $1,768per share to Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd and (ii) a reverse stock split of our common stock within a range of one (1)-for-ten (10) to one (1)-for-forty (40) (“Reverse Stock Split”), with the Board of Directors of the Company to set the specific ratio and determine the date for the reverse split to be effective and any other action deemed necessary to effectuate the Reverse Stock Split, without further approval or authorization of stockholders, at any time within 12 months of the special meeting date.
On September 25, 2023, as a result ofthe shareholder approval obtained at the special meeting of stockholders on September 13, 2023 and the Reverse Stock Split, the aggregate number of Pre-Funded Warrants, 5-Year Warrants, 5.5-Year Warrants and 7-Year Warrants increased from 85,455 to 471,348 due to certain adjustments that were required to be made by the terms of the relevant warrants in the event of receipt of shareholder approval and the occurrence of the Reverse Stock Split.
From September 18, 2023 through April 30, 2024, the Company issued Armistice 473,935 shares of Common Stock related to the exercise of the pre-funded warrants.
On October 11, 2023, the Company, the Lenders and the Agent (as defined in the LSA) entered into a loan and security modification agreement to allow for an additional loan of $1,000,000 pursuant to the loan and security modification agreement. In addition, on October 11, 2023, the Company agreed to issue warrants to purchase up to 8,460 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $138 per share (the “October Warrants”).
On December 6, 2023, the Company entered into an inducement offer letter agreement (the “Inducement Letter”) with Armistice with regard to certain of the Company’s existing warrants to purchase up to a total of 248,611 shares of Common Stock, consisting of: (i)70,508 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued on September 28, 2022 each at an exercise price of $35.46 per share with a term of five year (the “September 2022 Five Year Warrants”); (ii)155,479 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued on September 28, 2022 each at an exercise price of $70.92 per share with a term of seven and one half years (the “September 2022 Seven and a Half Year Warrants”); and (iii)22,625 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued on January 6, 2023 (the “January 2023 Warrants” and, together with the September 2022 Five Year Warrants and the September 2022 Seven and a Half Year Warrants, the “2022 and 2023 Warrants”).
Pursuant to the Inducement Letter, Armistice agreed to exercise for cash the 2022 and 2023 Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 248,611 shares of Common Stock at a reduced exercise price of $5.88 per share in consideration of the Company’s agreement to issue common stock purchase warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 497,221 shares of Common Stock (the “December Warrants”). The Company received aggregate gross proceeds of $1,461,827.68 from the exercise of the 2022 and 2023 Warrants by the Holder, before deducting offering expenses payable by it. The transaction closed on December 7, 2023.
The resale of the shares of the Common Stock underlying the 2022 and 2023 Warrants and 224,472 shares of Common Stock owned by Sapir LLC, a consultant engaged by the Company were registered pursuant to an existing registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-275407), declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 4, 2023.
On February 21, 2024, the Company and the Lenders and the Agent entered into a Waiver, Warrant Amendment and Second Loan and Security Modification Agreement (the “Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement”).
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Lenders and the Agent agreed to waive certain events of default with regard to certain covenants and obligations the Company had pursuant to (a) that certain registration rights agreement between the Company and the Lenders and the Agent entered into in September 2022, (b) the LSA (as modified), and (c) the Inducement Letter.
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Company and the Lenders and the Agent agreed to modify the Loan and Security Agreement such that the Note is now convertible into up to 499,584 shares of Common Stock based on the agreed to conversion price of $6.40. The Company believed that the $6.40 conversion price meets the definition of “Minimum Price” in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(d).
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Lenders and the Agent agreed to use their reasonable best efforts to voluntarily convert all amounts owed under the Note on or prior to the last trading day before the trading day on which the next meeting of the Company’s shareholders would take place.
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Company and the Lenders and the Agent agreed that following shareholder approval, which the Company obtained on May 15, 2024, the October Warrants and December Warrants have been amended to lower the exercise price of such warrants to $3.20 per share.
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Company agreed that Slinger Bag Americas Inc., a Delaware subsidiary of the Company (“Slinger”) would, within ten (10) business days of the six month anniversary of the effectiveness of the registration statement on Form S-1 registering the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the conversion of the Note (the “Effectiveness Date”), pay in cash to the Lenders and the Agent the difference, if any, between (i) $6 million (the “Guaranteed Amount”) and (ii) the combined gross proceeds realized by the Lenders and the Agent from its sale of the shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to (a) conversions of the Note and (b) exercises of the October Warrants and December Warrants(the “Realized Amount”). Slinger is obligated to fund an escrow account with $2 million within ten (10) weeks of February 21, 2024. The Company and the Lenders and the Agent also agreed that if, due to a Force Majeure Event, the Lenders and the Agent had not fully converted the Note prior to the six-month anniversary of the Effectiveness Date, the Company would repurchase the Note and the October Warrants and December Warrants by paying in cash to the Lenders and the Agent the difference, if any, between the Guaranteed Amount and the Realized Amount.
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Company and the Lenders and the Agent agreed that once the Note was fully repaid (either via a combination of cash payments and conversions into shares of Common Stock or just via conversions into shares of Common Stock) all liens and security interests of the Lenders and the Agent in any and all of the property of the Company and the Guarantors (as defined in the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement) would be automatically released and terminated, including without limitation, any liens and security interests evidenced by Uniform Commercial Code financing statements.
Pursuant to the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, the Company agreed to prepare and file a registration statement on Form S-1 registering the shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the conversion of the Note with the SEC within five (5) business days of February 21, 2024 and use commercially reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective by the SEC as soon as practical thereafter and, in any event, within thirty (30) calendar days of February 21, 2024. A registration statement was filed and became effective on March 1, 2024 in compliance with this obligation.
On April 15, 2024, the Company acknowledged and agreed to the entrance into a warrant purchase agreement (the “Morgan WPA”) by Armistice and Morgan Capital LLC (“Morgan”) pursuant to which Armistice sold the October and December 2023 Warrants to Morgan for $2,500,000 in cash. Pursuant to the Morgan WPA, Armistice agreed that the obligation of Slinger Bag Americas to, within 10 Business Days of the six month anniversary of the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement, pay in cash to Armistice the difference, if any, between (i) $6 million and (ii) the combined gross proceeds to be realized by the Holder from its sale of the Company’s common stock issued pursuant to (a) conversions of the note (which as of the date hereof has been fully converted into shares of the Company’s common stock) and (b) exercises of the Warrants would be terminated and of no further effect and force. In addition, pursuant to the Morgan WPA, Armistice agreed that the obligation of Slinger Bag Americas to maintain an escrow account with its counsel in the amount of no less than $2,000,000 would be terminated and of no further effect and force. Armistice further agreed that any and all liens and security interests of Armistice in any and all of the property of the Company and the Guarantors (as such terms are defined in the Waiver, Amendment, and Modification Agreement) would be automatically released and terminated, including without limitation, any liens and security interests evidenced by Uniform Commercial Code financing statements.
On October 12, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company approved an amendment to the Bylaws of the Company to reduce the percentage of shares of stock, issued and outstanding and entitled to vote, to be present in person or represented by proxy in order to constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business from a majority to thirty-three and one third percent (33 1/3%).
On November 14, 2023, the Company issued 11,224 shares of Common Stock to Sapir LLC. Sapir LLC is controlled by Aitan Zacharin, an investor relations and financial structuring consultant to the Company who is a party to an amended and restated consulting agreement with the Company dated April 30, 2020 (the “AZ Consulting Agreement”). Pursuant to the AZ Consulting Agreement, the Company owed Mr. Zacharin $127,500 as consulting fee compensation through November 30, 2023 (the “Consulting Fee Compensation”). In addition, the Company granted Mr. Zacharin $127,500 as discretionary compensation (“Discretionary Compensation”) pursuant to Section 2.1(d) of the AZ Consulting Agreement. In consideration of the Consulting Fee Compensation and the Discretionary Compensation, the issuance of shares of Common Stock consisted of (i)8,017 shares of Common Stock as payment of the Consulting Fee Compensation, and (ii)3,207 shares of Common Stock as payment of the Discretionary Compensation.
On January 30, 2024, the Company received a letter from the staff of the Nasdaq Stock Market confirming that following the receipt of a an investment of $16.5 million as disclosed in the Company’s current report filed on Form 8-K on January 24, 2024 (i) the Company has regained compliance with the minimum shareholder equity requirement in Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) (the “Equity Rule”), as required by the Nasdaq Hearing Panel’s (“Panel”) decision dated April 12, 2023, as amended, and (ii) in application of Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B), the Company will be subject to a mandatory panel monitor for a period of one year from the date of such letter. If, within that one-year monitoring period, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications staff (the “Staff”) finds that the Company is no longer in compliance with the Equity Rule, then, notwithstanding Rule 5810(c)(2), the Company will not be permitted to provide Staff with a plan of compliance with respect to such deficiency and the Staff will not be permitted to grant additional time for the Company to regain compliance with respect to such deficiency, nor will the Company be afforded an applicable cure or compliance period pursuant to Rule 5810(c)(3). Instead, the Staff will issue a Delist Determination Letter and the Company will have an opportunity to request a new hearing with the initial Panel or a newly convened Hearings Panel if the initial Panel is unavailable. The Company will have the opportunity to respond/present to the Hearings Panel as provided by Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(C) and the Company’s securities may at that time be delisted from Nasdaq.
It is further reported that, in application of Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B), the Company is also subject to a mandatory panel monitor in respect of its periodic filing requirements in Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) (the “Periodic Filing Rule”) for a period of one year from October 11, 2023. If, within that one-year monitoring period, the Staff finds the Company again out of compliance with the Periodic Filing Rule, notwithstanding Rule 5810(c)(2), the Company will not be permitted to provide Staff with a plan of compliance with respect to that deficiency and Staff will not be permitted to grant additional time for the Company to regain compliance with respect to that deficiency, nor will the company be afforded an applicable cure or compliance period pursuant to Rule 5810(c)(3). Instead, Staff will issue a Delist Determination Letter and the Company will have an opportunity to request a new hearing with the initial Panel or a newly convened Hearings Panel if the initial Panel is unavailable. The Company will have the opportunity to respond/present to the hearing panel as provided by Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(C) and the Company’s securities may at that time be delisted from Nasdaq.
On December 12, 2023, the Company received a letter (the “Notice”) from the Staff informing the Company that because the closing bid price for the Common Stock listed on Nasdaq was below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, the Company was not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on Nasdaq as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”). In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company was given a period of 180 calendar days from December 12, 2023, or until June 10, 2024, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement.
On June 11, 2024, the Company received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that (i) the Company did not regained compliance with the Rule within the prescribed time period and is not eligible for a second 180-day remediation period. Specifically, the Company did not comply with the $5,000,000 minimum stockholders’ equity initial listing requirement for The Nasdaq Capital Market under the Equity Standard and (ii) unless the Company requests an appeal by June 18, 2024, of this determination, Nasdaq has determined that the Company’s securities will be scheduled for delisting from Nasdaq and will be suspended at the opening of business on June 21, 2024, and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which will remove the Company’s securities from listing and registration on The Nasdaq Stock Market (the “Delisting Determination”).
The Company appealed of the Delisting Determination on June 18, 2024 by requesting a hearing before the Panel to stay the suspension of the Company’s securities. The hearing panel date was set for July 25, 2024. Through the subsequent filing of the Form 25-NSE with the SEC. On June 27, 2024, the Company effected a 1-20 reverse stock split, which brought its share price to $8.31, which, in turn, caused the Company to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement and on July 11, 2024, the company’s closing bid price was in excess of $1 for a continuous 10-day trading period. On July 18, 2024, the Company received Nasdaq confirmation that the hearing has been cancelled and the Delisting Determination has been withdrawn.
On January 19, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with three investors (the “January 2024 Investors”) for the issuance and sale to each investor of (i)116,510 shares of Common Stock and (ii) the Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,258,490 shares of Common Stock at a combined purchase price of $0.40 per share of Common Stock for an aggregate amount of approximately $16.5 million. The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.0002 per share of Common Stock and are exercisable beginning on May 15, 2024, the date stockholder approval was received and effective, allowing exercisability of Pre-Funded Warrants under Nasdaq rules until the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. The aggregate number of Shares issued to the January 2024 Investors is 349,530 and the aggregate number of Pre-Funded Warrants is 3,775,470.
From April 2024 through May 2024, the Company acknowledged and agreed to the entrance into certain warrant purchase agreements (the “WPAs”) by the January 2024 Investors and 10 purchasers (the “Pre-Funded Warrants Purchasers”) pursuant to which the January 2024 Investors sold all of the 3,775,470 Pre-Funded Warrants to Pre-Funded Warrants Purchasers for an aggregate amount of $18,877,350 in cash.
On January 23, 2024, the Company issued 10,000 shares of Common Stock to Smartsports LLC. Smartsports LLC is an investor relations consultant to the Company who is a party to a consulting agreement with the Company dated January 23, 2024 (the “Smartsports Consulting Agreement”). Pursuant to the Smartsports Consulting Agreement, the Company agreed to issue and deliver to Smartsports LLC 10,000 shares of Common Stock as a consulting fee for the provision of investor relations services (the “Consulting Fee Compensation”) and use its commercially reasonable efforts to prepare and file with the Securities Exchange Commission a registration statement covering the resale of all of the shares on Form S-1 as soon as is reasonably practicable.
On January 10, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Agile Capital Funding, LLC (the “Agile Jan Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $1,460,000 in future receivables to Agile Capital Funding, LLC (the “Agile Jan Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $1,000,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay Agile Capital Funding, LLC (“Agile”) $52,142.86 each week until the Agile Receivable Amount is paid in full. In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Agile under the Agile Jan Agreement, the Company granted to Agile a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral. The proceeds from the sale of future receivables were used, in part, to pay the outstanding balance of the ACF Receivable Amount (as defined below).
On January 29, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Cedar Advance LLC (the “Cedar Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $1,183,200 in future receivables to Cedar Advance LLC (the “Cedar Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $752,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay Cedar Advance LLC (“Cedar”) $39,440 each week until the Cedar Receivable Amount is paid in full. In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Cedar under the Cedar Agreement, the Company granted to Cedar a security interest in the following collateral: all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On March 6, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement (the “UFS Agreement”) with Unique Funding Solutions (“UFS”) pursuant to which the Company sold $323,350 in future receivables to UFS (the “UFS Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $200,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay UFS $9,798.49 each week until the UFS Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to UFS under the UFS Agreement, the Company granted to UFS a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On April 3, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Cedar (the “Second Cedar Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $438,000 in future receivables to Cedar (the “Second Cedar Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $285,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay UFS $14,600 each week until the Second Cedar Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Cedar under the Second Cedar Agreement, the Company granted to Cedar a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On April 22, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Cedar (the “Third Cedar Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $481,800 in future receivables to Cedar (the “Third Cedar Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $310,200 in cash. The Company agreed to pay UFS $18,530.77 each week until the Third Cedar Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Cedar under the Third Cedar Agreement, the Company granted to Cedar a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
The Company operates in the sports equipment and technology business. The Company is the owner of the Slinger Launcher, which is comprised of a portable tennis ball launcher, a portable padel tennis ball launcher and a portable pickleball launcher and Gameface, providing AI technology and performance analytics.
From inception to date, we have been focused on the ball sport market globally. Our first product, the Slinger Bag Launcher, is a patented, highly portable, versatile and affordable ball launcher built into an easy to transport wheeled trolley bag.
Tennis ball machines have been around since the 1950’s when they were introduced by Rene Lacoste. Improvements to performance were made in the 1970’s when Prince started its tennis business on the back of its first product – Little Prince – which was a vacuum operated ball machine. In the 1990’s the first battery operated machines came to the market and since that time very little, if anything, has changed in the structure of ball machines products outside of added computerization. Typically, the machines being marketed by traditional ball machine brands are large, cumbersome and awkward to operate. They are also generally expensive – often well above U.S. $1,000 compared to the entry price of $700 for a Slinger Bag Launcher. We believe that up until the introduction of the Slinger Bag Launcher, the majority of traditional tennis ball machines were sold to tennis facilities, institutions and tennis teachers, with only a few being sold directly to tennis playing consumers.
| 1. | The nominations of Mike Ballardie, Yonah Kalfa, Kirk Taylor, Stephen Crummey, and Rodney Rapson for election as directors at the Annual Meeting until the 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. |
| 2. | The appointment of Olayinka Oyebola & Co. to continue as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2024. |
| 3. | The approval of the issuance of shares of our common stock pursuant to that certain Share Exchange Agreement dated March 18, 2024 (the “Exchange Agreement”) among the Company, Mr. Hongyu Zhou (the “YYEM Seller”), and Yuanyu Enterprise Management Co., Limited (“YYEM”), in exchange for 50% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of YYEM. The Exchange Agreement is a part of a transaction between the Company, YYEM Seller, and YYEM, whereby the Company agreed to purchase a total of 70% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of YYEM by entering into a share purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) and the Exchange Agreement as described in the Company’s Schedule 14A filed on May 2, 2024. Upon the closing of the Acquisition, YYEM Seller will be issued the number of Exchange Shares equal to 82.4% of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of common stock immediately following the closing of the Acquisition, and Connexa stockholders as of immediately prior to the closing of the Acquisition will retain the balance of approximately 17.6% of such outstanding shares. |
| 4. | The amendment to the Company’s certificate of incorporation to increase the authorized shares of its common stock from 300,000,000 shares to 1,000,000,000 shares. |
| 5. | The approval of an amendment to the Company’s certificate of incorporation to authorize a reverse stock split of its common stock within a range of 1-for-10 to 1-for-100, with the Board of Directors of the Company to set the specific ratio and determine the date for the Reverse Stock Split to be effective. |
| 6. | The approval of the separation of the Company’s “Slinger Bag” business and products and the transactions contemplated by the separation agreement related to the transaction contemplated by the Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Transaction”) Once the Share Exchange Transaction is closed, the current board of directors of the Company will resign and will appoint YYEM’s slate of directors to the board, which will effect of a change of control of the Company, and the current business of the Company, including its liabilities, will be spun off and sold to a company to be owned and controlled by Yonah Kalfa, the founder of the Slinger Bag business and an officer and director of the company, and Mike Ballardie, the Company’s current chief executive officer and director. The Company’s current shareholders will not have a participation in the Slinger Bag business from the date of the closing of the Share Exchange Transaction and onward. |
| 7. | The approval of the amendment to the exercise price of the Warrants held by Morgan Capital LLC to $3.20 per share. |
| 8. | The approval of the issuance of shares of Common Stock to certain investors party to the Company’s securities purchase agreements entered into in January 2024 when the Company received an investment of $16,500,000 in cash in exchange for the issuance and sale to each Investor of (i) 116,510 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Common Stock Shares”) and (ii) pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of 1,258,490 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrant Shares”) at a combined purchase price of $4 per share of our common stock for an aggregate amount of approximately $16.5 million. The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.0002 per share of Common Stock and became exercisable on May 15, 2024 allowing exercisability of the Pre-Funded Warrants under Nasdaq rules until the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. The aggregate number of Common Stock Shares issued was 349,530 and the aggregate number of Pre-Funded Warrant Shares to be issued is 3,775,470. |
| 9. | The approval of the issuance of 47,116 shares of Common Stock to Yonah Kalfa. As previously disclosed on the Current Report on Form 8-K furnished with the SEC on September 9, 2020, the Company entered into a service agreement dated September 7, 2020 (the “YK Employment Agreement”) with Yonah Kalfa, the Company’s chief innovation officer and a member of the Company’s Board. Pursuant to Sections 2.1(a) and 2.1(b) of the YK Employment Agreement, the Company owed Mr. Kalfa $1,137,000 in salary (the “Salary Compensation”) through January 31, 2024. The Company was unable to pay Mr. Kalfa any of the compensation in cash and, given Mr. Kalfa’s extraordinary contribution to the Company, pursuant to Section 2.1(b) of the YK Employment Agreement, the Company agreed to pay $1 million of the $1.137 million owed (with Mr. Kalfa waiving the right to receive the $137,000 balance) via an issuance of shares of Common Stock as memorialized by that certain Deferred Payment Conversion Agreement with Mr. Kalfa, dated January 20, 2024 (the “2024 Agreement”). The 2024 Agreement sets forth the price per share of the shares to be issued (267,380), the number of shares to be issued using that price ($3.74), and the amount due to Mr. Kalfa through January 31, 2024. Due to administrative delays, the Company did not issue the shares in January 2024. Rather, on March 15, 2024, the Company issued 220,265 shares of Common Stock. This is the amount of stock owed for a $1 million payment at a conversion price of $4.54, which was the closing price of the Common Stock on March 13, 2024 (and a higher price than the closing price on March 14, 2024). |
| 10. | The approval of the issuance of 50,000 shares of Common Stock to each of Yonah Kalfa, Mike Ballardie and Kirk Taylor and 25,000 shares of common stock to each of Rodney Rapson and Steven Crummey, our directors, for their services and extraordinary contribution to the Company. |
| 11. | The approval of the issuance of 16,750 shares of Common Stock to each of Juda Honickman, the Company’s chief marketing officer, and Mark Radom, the Company’s general counsel, for their services and extraordinary contribution to the Company. |
| 12. | The approval of the amendment of the 2020 Slinger Bag Inc. Global Share Incentive Plan to make an additional 1,500,000 shares of the Common Stock available for the issuance of awards under the plan. |
On June 27, 2024, the Company effected a 1-20 reverse stock split. No fractional shares were issued in connection with the reverse stock split and all such fractional interests were rounded up to the nearest whole number of shares of common stock. All references to the outstanding stock and per share amounts have been retrospectively adjusted to reflect this reverse split.
The Company operates in the sport equipment and technology business. The Company is the owner of the Slinger Launcher, which is a portable tennis ball launcher as well as other associated tennis accessories and Gameface AI an Australian artificial intelligence sports software company.
The operations of Slinger Bag Inc., Slinger Bag Americas, Slinger Bag Canada, Slinger Bag UK, SBL, and Gameface are collectively referred to as the “Company.”
Basis of Presentation
The accompanying consolidated financial statements of the Company are presented in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). As a result of the transactions described above, the accompanying consolidated financial statements include the combined results of Slinger Bag Inc., Slinger Bag Americas, Slinger Bag Canada, Slinger Bag UK, SBL, and Gameface for the years ended April 30, 2024, and 2023. The operations of Foundation Sports and PlaySight are included as discontinued operations in our statements of operations as these entities were sold in November 2022 and December 2022 as disclosed in Note 16.
Impact of Russian and Ukrainian Conflict and Israel-Hamas War
In February 2022, the Russian Federation and Belarus commenced a military action with the country of Ukraine. We are closely monitoring the unfolding events due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and its regional and global ramifications. We have one distributor in Russia, which is not material to our overall financial results. We do not have operations in Ukraine or Belarus.
In October 2023, Hamas attacked Israel and has been engaged in warfare with Israel to-date.
We are monitoring any broader economic impact from these conflicts. The specific impact on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows is also not determinable as of the date of these financial statements. However, to the extent that such military action spreads to other countries, intensifies, or otherwise remains active, such action could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
Note 2: GOING CONCERN
The financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, which assumes the Company will be able to realize its assets and discharge its liabilities in the normal course of business for the foreseeable future. The Company has an accumulated deficit of $167,387,028 as of April 30, 2024, and more losses are anticipated in the development of the business. Accordingly, there is substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. These financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that might be necessary should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
The ability to continue as a going concern is dependent upon the Company generating profitable operations in the future and/or being able to obtain the necessary financing to meet its obligations and repay its liabilities arising from normal business operations when they become due. Management intends to finance operating costs over the next twelve months with existing cash on hand, loans from related parties, and/or private placement of debt and/or common stock. In the event that the Company is unable to successfully raise capital and/or generate revenues, the Company will likely reduce general and administrative expenses, and cease or delay its development plan until it is able to obtain sufficient financing. The Company has begun reducing operating expenses and cash outflows by selling PlaySight, as well as selling 75% of Foundation Sports in November and December 2022, respectively to the former shareholders of those companies. There can be no assurance that additional funds will be available on terms acceptable to the Company, or at all. We have recorded the 25% investment in Foundation Sports at $0. We have recorded our 20% ownership stake in YYEM at $16,500,000.
Note 3: SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Use of Estimates
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes. Accordingly, actual results could differ from those estimates.
Financial Statement Reclassification
Certain prior year amounts within accounts payable, accrued expenses, and certain operating expenses have been reclassified for consistency with the current year presentation and had no effect on the Company’s balance sheet, net loss, shareholders’ deficit or cash flows.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The majority of payments due from banks for credit card transactions process within 24 to 48 hours and are accordingly classified as cash and cash equivalents.
Accounts Receivable
The Company’s accounts receivable are non-interest bearing trade receivables resulting from the sale of products and payable over terms ranging from 15 to 60 days. The Company provides an allowance for doubtful accounts at the point when collection is considered doubtful. Once all collection efforts have been exhausted, the Company charges-off the receivable with the allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company recorded $40,000 and $209,690 in allowance for doubtful accounts for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023.
Inventory
Inventory is valued at the lower of the cost (determined principally on a first-in, first-out basis) or net realizable value. The Company’s valuation of inventory includes inventory reserves for inventory that will be sold below cost and the impact of inventory shrink. Inventory reserves are based on historical information and assumptions about future demand and inventory shrink trends. The Company’s inventory as of April 30, 2024 and April 30, 2023 consisted of the following:
| April 30, 2024 | April 30, 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Finished Goods | $995,533 | $1,509,985 |
| Component/Replacement Parts | 770,737 | 1,712,553 |
| Capitalized Duty/Freight | 26,171 | 517,228 |
| Inventory Reserve | (183,245) | (550,000) |
| Total | $1,609,196 | $3,189,766 |
Prepaid Inventory
Prepaid inventory represents inventory that is in-transit that has been paid for but not received from the Company’s third-party vendors. The Company typically prepays for the purchase of materials and receives the products within three months after making payments. The Company continuously monitors delivery from, and payments to, the vendors. If the Company has difficulty receiving products from a vendor, the Company would cease purchasing products from such vendors in future periods. The Company has not had difficulty receiving products during the reporting periods.
Property and equipment
Property and equipment acquired through business combinations are stated at the estimated fair value at the date of the acquisition. Purchases of property and equipment are stated at cost, net of accumulated depreciation and impairment losses. Expenditures that materially increase the useful life of the assets are capitalized. Ordinary repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred. Depreciation and amortization are computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the related assets, which is an average of 5 years.
Concentration of Credit Risk
The Company maintains its cash in bank deposit accounts, the balances of which at times may exceed insured limits. The Company continually monitors its banking relationships and consequently has not experienced any losses in such accounts. While we may be exposed to credit risk, we consider the risk remote and do not expect that any such risk would result in a significant effect on our results of operations or financial condition. See Note 4 for further details on the Company’s concentration of credit risk as well as other risks and uncertainties.
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes revenue for their continuing operations in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 606, the core principle of which is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled to receive in exchange for those goods or services. The Company recognizes revenue for its performance obligation associated with its contracts with customers at a point in time once products are shipped. Amounts collected from customers in advance of shipping products ordered are reflected as contract liabilities on the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The Company’s standard terms are non-cancelable and do not provide for the right-of-return, other than for defective merchandise covered under the Company’s standard warranty. The Company has not historically experienced any significant returns or warranty issues.
The Company recognizes revenue under ASC 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers”. The core principle of this revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The following five steps are applied to achieve that core principle:
Step 1: Identify the contract with the customer
The Company determines that it has a contract with a customer when each party’s rights regarding the products or services to be transferred can be identified, the payment terms for the services can be identified, the Company has determined the customer has the ability and intent to pay, and the contract has commercial substance. At contract inception, the Company evaluates whether two or more contracts should be combined and accounted for as a single contract and whether the combined or single contract includes more than one performance obligation.
Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract
The Company’s customers are buying an integrated system. In evaluating whether the equipment is a separate performance obligation, the Company’s management considered the customer’s ability to benefit from the equipment on its own or together with other readily available resources and if so, whether the service and equipment are separately identifiable (i.e., is the service highly dependent on, or highly interrelated with the equipment). Because the Products and Services included in the customer’s contract are integrated and highly interdependent, and because they must work together to deliver the Solution, the Company has concluded that Products installed on customer’s premise and Services contracted for by the customer are generally not distinct within the context of the contract and, therefore, constitute a single, combined performance obligation.
Step 3: Determine the transaction price
The transaction price is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer. The consideration promised in a contract with a customer includes predetermined fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both. The Company’s contracts do not include any rights of returns or refunds.
The Company collects each year’s service fees in advance and should therefore consider the existence of a significant financing component. However, due to the fact that the payments are provided for the service of a one-year term, the Company elected to apply the practical expedient under ASC 606 which exempts the adjustment of the consideration for the existence of a significant financing component when the period between the transfer of the services and the payment for such services is one year or less.
Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract
Contracts that contain multiple performance obligations require an allocation of the transaction price to each performance obligation based on each performance obligation’s relative standalone selling price (“SSP”). The Company has identified a single performance obligation in the contract, and therefore, the allocation provisions under ASC 606 do not apply to the Company’s contracts.
Step 5: Recognize revenue when the Company satisfies a performance obligation
Revenues for the Company’s single, combined performance obligation are recognized on a straight-line basis over the customer’s contract term, which is the period in which the parties to the contract have enforceable rights and obligations (Typically 3-4 years).
Business Combinations
Upon acquisition of a company, we determine if the transaction is a business combination, which is accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. Under the acquisition method, once control is obtained of a business, the assets acquired, and liabilities assumed, are recorded at fair value. We use our best estimates and assumptions to assign fair value to the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the acquisition date. One of the most significant estimates relates to the determination of the fair value of these assets and liabilities. The determination of the fair values is based on estimates and judgments made by management. Our estimates of fair value are based upon assumptions we believe to be reasonable, but which are inherently uncertain and unpredictable. Measurement period adjustments are reflected at the time identified, up through the conclusion of the measurement period, which is the time at which all information for determination of the values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed is received and is not to exceed one year from the acquisition date. We may record adjustments to the fair value of these tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed, with the corresponding offset to goodwill. The Company elected to apply pushdown accounting to all entities acquired.
Additionally, uncertain tax positions and tax-related valuation allowances are initially recorded in connection with a business combination as of the acquisition date. We continue to collect information and reevaluate these estimates and assumptions periodically and record any adjustments to preliminary estimates to goodwill, provided we are within the measurement period. If outside of the measurement period, any subsequent adjustments are recorded to the consolidated statement of operations.
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
Fair value of financial and non-financial assets and liabilities is defined as an exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. The three-tier hierarchy for inputs used in measuring fair value, which prioritizes the inputs used in the methodologies of measuring fair value for assets and liabilities, is as follows:
Level 1 — Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
Level 2 — Observable inputs other than quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities
Level 3 — Unobservable pricing inputs in the market
Financial assets and financial liabilities are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurements. Our assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurements requires judgment and may affect the valuation of the assets and liabilities being measured and their categorization within the fair value hierarchy.
The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, investments and accounts payable. The carrying amount of these financial instruments approximates fair value due to their short-term maturity.
The Company’s contingent consideration in connection with the acquisition of Gameface was calculated using Level 3 inputs. The fair value of contingent consideration as of April 30, 2024 and 2023 was $0 and $418,455, respectively.
The Company estimates the fair value of its intangible assets using Level 3 assumptions, primarily based on the income approach utilizing the discounted cash flow method.
The investment, at cost of $16,500,000 and $0 as of April 30, 2024 and 2023 have been classified using level 3 inputs.
The Company’s derivative liabilities were calculated using Level 2 assumptions on the issuance and balance sheet dates via a Black-Scholes option pricing model and consisted of the following ending balances and gain amounts as of and for the year ended April 30, 2024:
| Note derivative is related to | April 30, 2024 balance | (Gain) loss for the year ended April 30, 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| 8/6/21 warrants | $4,898 | $(97,026) |
| 6/17/22 underwriter warrants | 535 | (5,996) |
| 9/30/22 warrants issued with common stock | - | (16,484,486) |
| 1/6/2023 warrants issued with note payable | - | (2,720,053) |
| 10/11/2023 warrants issued with note payable | - | (46,909) |
| 12/7/2023 warrants issued with note payable | - | 11,718,858 |
| Total | $5,433 | $(7,635,612) |
The Company’s derivative liabilities were calculated using Level 2 assumptions on the issuance and balance sheet dates via a Black-Scholes option pricing model and consisted of the following ending balances and gain amounts as of and for the year ended April 30, 2023:
| Note derivative is related to | April 30, 2023 ending balance | (Gain) loss for the year ended April 30, 2023 |
|---|---|---|
| 4/11/21 profit guaranty | $1,456,854 | $395,304 |
| 8/6/21 convertible notes | 101,924 | (2,611,410) |
| 6/17/22 underwriter warrants | 6,531 | (57,951) |
| Other derivative liabilities eliminated in uplist | - | (1,604,413) |
| 9/30/22 warrants issued with common stock | 6,109,559 | (6,170,728) |
| 1/6/2023 warrants issued with note payable | 2,814,738 | (900,819) |
| Total | $10,489,606 | $(10,950,017) |
The Company also recognized derivative expense of $14,119,784 and 8,995,962 at inception on the issuance dates of the derivative instruments for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively.. The Black-Scholes option pricing model assumptions for the derivative liabilities during the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023 consisted of the following:
| Year Ended April 30, 2024 | Year Ended April 30, 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Expected life in years | 2.5 -10 years | 3.25-10 years |
| Stock price volatility | 150% | 50 - 150 % |
| Risk free interest rate | 4.08-5.37 % | 2.90%-4.34 % |
| Expected dividends | 0% | 0% |
Refer to Note 10 and Note 11 for more information regarding the derivative instruments.
Income Taxes
Income taxes are accounted for in accordance with the provisions of ASC 740, Accounting for Income Taxes. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. Valuation allowances are established, when necessary, to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are more likely than not to be realized.
Intangible Assets
Intangible assets relate to the “Slinger” technology trademark, which the Company purchased on November 10, 2020. The Company also acquired intangible assets as a part of the Gameface acquisition. These intangible assets include tradenames, internally developed software, and customer relationships. The acquired intangible assets are amortized based on the estimated present value of cash flows of each class of intangible assets in order to determine their economic useful life. All intangible assets acquired with the PlaySight transaction are included in discontinued operations. Refer to Note 6 for more information.
Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
In accordance with ASC 360-10, the Company evaluates long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that their net book value may not be recoverable. Factors which could trigger impairment review include significant underperformance relative to historical or projected future operating results, significant changes in the manner of use of the assets or the strategy for the overall business, a significant decrease in the market value of the assets or significant negative industry or economic trends. When such factors and circumstances exist, the Company compares the projected undiscounted future cash flows associated with the related asset or group of assets over their estimated useful lives against their respective carrying amount. If those net undiscounted cash flows do not exceed the carrying amount, impairment, if any, is based on the excess of the carrying amount over the fair value based on the market value or discounted expected cash flows of those assets and is recorded in the period in which the determination is made. There was impairment of long-lived assets identified during the year ended April 30, 2024 and 2023 in our continuing operations. Refer to Note 6 for more information.
Goodwill
The Company accounts for goodwill in accordance with ASC 350, Intangibles - Goodwill and Other (“ASC 350”). ASC 350 requires that goodwill not be amortized, but reviewed for impairment if impairment indicators arise and, at a minimum, annually. The Company records goodwill as the excess purchase price over assets acquired and includes any work force acquired as goodwill. Goodwill is evaluated for impairment on an annual basis.
With the adoption of the ASU 2017-04, which eliminates the second step of the goodwill impairment test, the Company tests impairment of goodwill in one step. In this step, the Company compares the fair value of each reporting unit with goodwill to its carrying value. The Company determines the fair value of its reporting units with goodwill using a combination of a discounted cash flow and a market value approach. If the carrying value of the net assets assigned to the reporting unit exceeds the fair value of the reporting unit, the Company will record an impairment charge based on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value. If the fair value of the reporting unit exceeds the carrying value of the net assets assigned to that reporting unit, goodwill is not impaired and the Company will not record an impairment charge.
The Company impaired all goodwill as of April 30, 2023.
Share-Based Payment
The Company accounts for share-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation (ASC 718). Under the fair value recognition provisions of this topic, stock-based compensation cost is measured at the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as an expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is the vesting period.
Warrants
The Company grants warrants to key employees and executives as compensation on a discretionary basis. The Company also grants warrants in connection with certain note payable agreements and other key arrangements. The Company is required to estimate the fair value of share-based awards on the measurement date and recognize as expense that value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest over the requisite service period. Warrants granted in connection with ongoing arrangements are more fully described in Note 11 and Note 14.
The warrants granted during the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023 were valued using a Black-Scholes option pricing model on the date of grant using the following assumptions:
| Year Ended April 30, 2024 | Year Ended April 30, 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Expected life in years | 5-10 years | 5 – 10 years |
| Stock price volatility | 150% | 50% - 150% |
| Risk free interest rate | 4.59% | 2.50% - 4.68% |
| Expected dividends | 0% | 0% |
Foreign Currency Translation
Our functional currency is the U.S. dollar. The functional currency of our foreign operations, generally, is the respective local currency for each foreign subsidiary. Assets and liabilities of foreign operations denominated in local currencies are translated at the spot rate in effect at the applicable reporting date. Our consolidated statements of comprehensive loss are translated at the weighted average rate of exchange during the applicable period. The resulting unrealized cumulative translation adjustment is recorded as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss in shareholders’ equity. Realized and unrealized transaction gains and losses generated by transactions denominated in a currency different from the functional currency of the applicable entity are recorded in other income (loss) in the period in which they occur.
Earnings Per Share
Basic earnings per share are calculated by dividing income available to shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during each period. Diluted earnings per share are computed using the weighted average number of common and dilutive common share equivalents outstanding during the period.
All common stock equivalents such as shares to be issued for the conversion of notes payable and warrants were excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings per share as the effect is antidilutive. As a result, the basic and diluted earnings per share are the same for each of the periods presented.
Note 4:CONCENTRATION OF CREDIT RISK AND OTHER RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES
Accounts Receivable Concentration
As of April 30, 2024, the Company had two customers that accounted for 100%, compared to two customers accounting for 47% of the Company’s trade receivables balance as of April 30, 2023.
Accounts Payable Concentration
As of April 30, 2024 and 2023, the Company had four significant suppliers that accounted for 63% and 59% of the Company’s trade payables balances, respectively.
Note 5: INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Intangible assets reflect only those intangible assets of our continuing operations, and consist of the following:
| Weighted | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Period · April 30, 2024 | |||||
| Amortization (in years) | Carrying Value | Accumulated Amortization | Impairment Loss | Net Carrying Value | |
| Tradenames and patents | 15.26 | $385,582 | $24,031 | $360,551 | $1,000 |
| Customer relationships | 9.92 | 3,930,000 | 50,038 | 3,879,962 | — |
| Internally developed software | 4.91 | 580,000 | 79,608 | 500,392 | — |
| Total intangible assets | $4,895,582 | $153,677 | $4,740,905 | $1,000 | |
| Weighted | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average Period · April 30, 2023 | |||||
| Amortization (in years) | Carrying Value | Accumulated Amortization | Impairment Loss | Net Carrying Value | |
| Tradenames and patents | 15.26 | $385,582 | $24,031 | 260,270 | $101,281 |
| Customer relationships | 9.92 | 3,930,000 | 50,038 | 3,879,962 | — |
| Internally developed software | 4.91 | 580,000 | 79,608 | 500,392 | — |
| Total intangible assets | $4,895,582 | $153,677 | $4,640,624 | $101,281 | |
Amortization expense for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023 was approximately $1,000 and $101,281, respectively. The Company impaired $100,281 for the year ended April 30, 2024. The remaining $1,000 is a nominal value related to the Company’s patents. This amount is not expected to be amortized any further.
Note 6:ACCRUED EXPENSES
The composition of accrued expenses is summarized below:
| April 30, 2024 | April 30, 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Accrued payroll | $1,304,363 | $1,535,186 |
| Accrued bonus | 1,022,751 | 1,720,606 |
| Accrued professional fees | 37,212 | 490,424 |
| Other accrued expenses | 1,041,046 | 1,165,623 |
| Total | $3,405,372 | $4,911,839 |
Note 7: NOTE PAYABLE - RELATED PARTY
The discussion of note payable – related party only includes those that existed as of April 30, 2023. For a discussion of all prior note payable – related party we refer you to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed September 14, 2023 for the fiscal year end April 30, 2023.
On January 14, 2022, the Company entered into two loan agreements with related party lenders, each for $1,000,000, pursuant to which the Company received a total amount of $2,000,000. The loans bear interest at a rate of 8% per annum and are required to be repaid in full by April 30, 2022 or such other date as may be accepted by the lenders. The Company is not permitted to make any distribution or pay any dividends unless or until the loans are repaid in full. On June 28, 2022, the Company entered into amendments for the two related party loan agreements with the lenders in which the repayment date was extended to July 31, 2024.
There was $1,169,291 and $1,953,842 in outstanding borrowings from related parties as of April 30, 2024 and 2023. Interest expense related to the related parties for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023 amounted to $0 and $293,090, respectively. Accrued interest due to related parties as of April 30, 2024 and 2023 amounted to $917,957 and $917,957, respectively. The accrued interest includes notes that were either repaid or converted but the interest remained.
On January 6, 2023, we sold certain of our inventory including all components, parts, additions and accessions thereto to Yonah Kalfa and Naftali Kalfa who immediately consigned it back to us in exchange for a payment of $103 per ball launcher we sell until we have paid them an aggregate total of $2,092,700, which represents payment in full of the principal amounts of and accrued interest in respect of the Loan Agreements (as defined above) and certain other expenses they incurred in connection with the Company.
Note 8: CONVERTIBLE NOTES PAYABLE
The discussion of convertible notes payable only includes those that existed as of April 30, 2023. For a discussion of all prior convertible notes payable we refer you to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed September 14, 2023 for the fiscal year end April 30, 2023.
As of April 30, 2024, all outstanding convertible notes payable had been fully converted into outstanding common shares. On June 17, 2022, the Company issued 109,737 shares of common stock in conversion of the $13,200,000 in convertible notes payable and $846,301 in accrued interest. In addition, the remaining $122,222 of unamortized discount on the convertible notes payable was amortized and included in our consolidated statements of operations for the fiscal year end April 30, 2023.
Note 9: NOTES PAYABLE
The discussion of notes payable only includes those that existed as of April 30, 2023. For a discussion of all prior notes payable we refer you to the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed September 14, 2023 for the fiscal year end April 30, 2023.
On April 11, 2021, the Company and the lender entered into an agreement whereby the lender converted the promissory note into 681 shares of Company stock, which were issued to the lender at a 20% discount from the closing price of the stock on the day prior to the conversion. In addition to the discount, the agreement contains a guarantee that the aggregate gross sales of the shares by the lender will be no less than $1,500,000 over the next three years and if the aggregate gross sales are less than $1,500,000 the Company will issue additional shares of common stock to the lender for the difference between the total gross proceeds and $1,500,000, which could result in an infinite number of shares being required to be issued.
The Company evaluated the conversion option of the note payable to shares under the guidance in ASC 815-40, Derivatives and Hedging, and determined the conversion option qualified for equity classification. The Company also evaluated the profit guarantee under ASC 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and determined it to be a make-whole provision, which is an embedded derivative within the host instrument. As the economic characteristics are dissimilar to the host instrument, the profit guarantee was bifurcated from the host instrument and stated as a separate derivative liability, which is marked to market at the end of each reporting period with the non-cash gain or loss recorded in the period as a gain or loss on derivative.
On the date of conversion, the Company recognized a $1,501,914 loss on extinguishment of debt, which represented the difference between the promissory note and the fair value of the shares issued of $1,250,004, which were recorded in shares issued in connection with conversion of note payable within shareholders’ equity, as well as the derivative liability of $1,251,910, which was valued using a Black-Scholes option pricing model.
The fair value of the derivative liability was $1,456,854 as of April 30, 2023.
On August 21, 2023, the Company amended its arrangement with MidCity and agreed to issue 42,500 shares of stock monthly for eight months to settle the profit guarantee under its prior note arrangement from April 2020. The parties agreed to a one-time true-up at March 31, 2024 if any further amounts are due MidCity at that time. As a result of this new agreement with MidCity fixing the terms of the guarantee, the Company has removed the criteria that created a net share settlement issue and thus no longer treats this as a derivative liability. The remaining liability has been adjusted against additional paid in capital at the date of the agreement.
On February 15, 2022, for and in consideration of $4,000,000 the Company conveyed, sold, transferred, set over, assigned and delivered to Slinger Bag Consignment, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (“Consignor”), all of the Company’s right, title and interest in and to 13,000 units of certain surplus inventory, including all components, parts, additions and accessions thereto (collectively, the “Consigned Goods”). The Company has repaid this in full as of April 30, 2024.
On April 1, 2022, the Company entered into a $500,000 note payable. The note was to mature on July 1, 2022 and bears interest at eight percent (8%) per year. The Company pays interest monthly and will pay all accrued and unpaid interest on the maturity date in which the outstanding principal is due. On August 1, 2022, the Company repaid the $500,000.
Cash Advance Agreements
UFS Agreements
On August 7, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with UFS (the “UFS Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $797,500 in future receivables (the “UFS Second Receivables Purchased Amount”) to UFS in exchange for payment to the Company of $550,000 in cash less fees of $50,000. The Company agreed to pay UFS $30,000 each week until the UFS Second Receivables Purchased Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to UFS under the UFS Agreement, the Company granted to UFS a security interest in the following collateral: all accounts receivable and all proceeds as such term is defined by Article 9 of the UCC. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On March 6, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement (the “UFS Agreement”) with Unique Funding Solutions (“UFS”) pursuant to which the Company sold $323,350 in future receivables to UFS (the “UFS Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $200,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay UFS $9,798.49 each week until the UFS Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to UFS under the UFS Agreement, the Company granted to UFS a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
Cedar Agreements
On January 29, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Cedar Advance LLC (the “Cedar Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $1,183,200 in future receivables to Cedar Advance LLC (the “Cedar Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $752,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay Cedar Advance LLC (“Cedar”) $39,440 each week until the Cedar Receivable Amount is paid in full. In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Cedar under the Cedar Agreement, the Company granted to Cedar a security interest in the following collateral: all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On April 3, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Cedar (the “Second Cedar Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $438,000 in future receivables to Cedar (the “Second Cedar Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $285,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay UFS $14,600 each week until the Second Cedar Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Cedar under the Second Cedar Agreement, the Company granted to Cedar a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On April 22, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Cedar (the “Third Cedar Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $481,800 in future receivables to Cedar (the “Third Cedar Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $310,200 in cash. The Company agreed to pay UFS $18,530.77 each week until the Third Cedar Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Cedar under the Third Cedar Agreement, the Company granted to Cedar a security interest in all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
Meged Agreements
On June 8, 2023, the Company entered into a merchant cash advance agreement with Meged Funding Group (“Meged”) pursuant to which the Company sold $315,689 in future receivables to Meged (the “Meged Receivables Purchased Amount”) to in exchange for payment to the Company of $210,600 in cash less fees of $10,580. The Company agreed to pay Meged $17,538 each week until the Meged Receivables Purchased Amount is paid in full.
On September 19, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with Meged (the “Second Meged Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $423,000 in future receivables to Meged (the “Meged Second Receivable Amount”) in exchange for paying the then outstanding balance of $70,153.20 of the Meged Receivables Purchased Amount in full with the balance being retained by the Company in cash for general purposes. The Company agreed to pay Meged $15,107.14 each week until the Meged Second Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Meged under the Second Meged Agreement, the Company granted to Meged a security interest in the following collateral: all accounts receivable and all proceeds as such term is defined by Article 9 of the UCC. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
Agile Capital Funding Agreements
On November 16, 2023, the Company entered into an agreement with Agile Capital Funding (the “ACF Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $693,500 in future receivables to ACF (the “ACF Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $450,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay ACF $28,895.83 each week until the ACF Receivable Amount is paid in full.
In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to ACF under the ACF Agreement, the Company granted to ACF a security interest in the following collateral: all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral.
On January 10, 2024, the Company entered into an agreement with Agile Capital Funding, LLC (the “Agile Jan Agreement”) pursuant to which the Company sold $1,460,000 in future receivables to Agile Capital Funding, LLC (the “Agile Jan Receivable Amount”) in exchange for $1,000,000 in cash. The Company agreed to pay Agile Capital Funding, LLC (“Agile”) $52,142.86 each week until the Agile Receivable Amount is paid in full. In order to secure payment and performance of the Company’s obligations to Agile under the Agile Jan Agreement, the Company granted to Agile a security interest in the following collateral: all present and future accounts receivable. The Company also agreed not to create, incur, assume, or permit to exist, directly or indirectly, any lien on or with respect to any of such collateral. The proceeds from the sale of future receivables were used, in part, to pay the outstanding balance of the ACF Receivable Amount.
Note 10: RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
In support of the Company’s efforts and cash requirements, it may rely on advances from related parties until such time that the Company can support its operations or attain adequate financing through sales of its equity or traditional debt financing. There is no formal written commitment for continued support by officers, directors, or shareholders. Amounts represent advances, amounts paid in satisfaction of liabilities, or accrued compensation that has been deferred. The advances are considered temporary in nature and have not been formalized by a promissory note.
The Company has outstanding notes payable of $1,169,291 and $1,953,842 and accrued interest of $917,957 and $917,957 due to a related party as of April 30, 2024 and April 30, 2023, respectively (see Note 7).
The Company recognized net sales of $177,219 and $164,661 during the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, to related parties. As of April 30, 2024 and 2023, related parties had accounts receivable due to the Company of $17,720 and $28,800, respectively.
Note 11: SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT)
Common Stock
The Company had 300,000,000 shares authorized as at April 30, 2024 and, as at the date hereof, has 1,000,000,000 shares of common stock authorized with a par value of $0.001 per share. As of April 30, 2024 and April 30, 2023, the Company had 1,828,541 and 16,929 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, respectively.
Equity Transactions During the Year Ended April 30, 2024
The Company issued an aggregate of 1,811,612 shares of its common stock consisting of the following:
For the period May 1, 2023 through July 31, 2023, the Company issued 9,486 shares of common stock to ambassadors under their agreements (10), to vendors in settlement of accounts payable (3,375), for settlement with former owners of FSS (168), for the exercise of warrants (1,350) and to satisfy the profit guarantee on a note (4,819).
For the period August 1, 2023 through October 31, 2023, the Company issued 192,226 shares of common stock for services rendered (686), for settlement with former owners of Gameface and the remaining contingent consideration (99), for the exercise of warrants (185,408) and to satisfy the profit guarantee on a note (4,250). In addition, we issued 1,785 to satisfy our requirement under the 1 for 40 reverse split that occurred in this time period.
For the period November 1, 2023 through January 31, 2024, the Company issued 909,983 shares of common stock in exercises of warrants and in a securities purchase agreement with three investors (598,141), shares owed to shareholders of previously purchased companies (3), settlements (128,375), services rendered (37,804), and cashless exercises of warrants (2,145,661).
For the period February 1, 2024 through April 30, 2024, the Company issued 799,919 shares of common stock in cashless exercises of warrants (71), settlements (579,584) and for conversion of deferred compensation/services (220,265).
Equity Transactions During the Year Ended April 30, 2023
The Company issued an aggregate of 11,686 shares of its common stock consisting of the following:
On June 15, 2022, the Company issued 5,485 shares of common stock to the Convertible Noteholders upon conversion of convertible notes.
On June 15, 2022, the Company issued 1,311 shares to investors who participated in the Company’s Nasdaq uplist round.
On June 27, 2022, the Company issued 32 shares of common stock to Gabriel Goldman for consulting services performed in the first quarter of calendar 2022. Gabriel Goldman became a director of the Company on June 15, 2022.
On June 27, 2022, the Company issued 748 shares of common stock to the former Gameface shareholders in connection with the purchase of Gameface.
On August 25, 2022, the Company issued 1,500 shares of common stock to Midcity Capital Ltd (“Midcity”) pursuant to a cashless conversion of warrants Midcity received from its warrant agreement with the Company dated March 2020.
On September 28, 2022, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with a single institutional investor (the “Investor”) for the issuance and sale of (i) 1,274 shares of common stock and (ii) pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of 14,753 shares of its common stock, together with accompanying common stock warrants, at a combined purchase price of $312 per share of the common stock and associated common stock warrant and $311.92 per Pre-Funded Warrant and associated common stock warrants for an aggregate amount of approximately $5.0 million (the “Offering”). The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.008 per share of common stock and are exercisable until the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. The shares of common stock and Pre-Funded Warrants were sold in the offering together with common stock warrants to purchase 16,026 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $312 per share and a term of five years following the initial exercise date (the “5-Year Warrants”) and common stock warrants to purchase 32,052 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $344 per share and a term of seven and one half years (the “7.5-Year Warrants”) following the initial exercise date (collectively, the “Warrants”). The Warrants issued in the Offering contain variable pricing features. The Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants will be exercisable beginning on the date stockholder approval is received and effective allowing exercisability of the Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants under Nasdaq rules. Net proceeds to the Company were $4,549,882.
On October 12, 2022, the Company issued 2,405 shares of common stock, on November 21, 2022 issued 34 shares of common stock and January 26, 2023 issued 350 shares of common stock in connection with the acquisition of PlaySight.
On January 26, 2023, the Company issued 8 shares of common stock for services rendered to their ambassadors.
There were 2 shares issued in a fractional share issuance.
The Company granted the following warrants for the year ended April 30, 2024:
The Company granted 2,500 warrants to a consultant for services valued at $50,873.
The Company granted an investor an additional 38,590 warrants as a result of our reset provisions in the warrant agreements dated September 28, 2022. The Company recognized an $11,398,589 charge to derivative expense as a result of this issuance.
The Company granted 846 warrants in the amended loan agreement on October 1, 2023.
On December 6, 2023, the “Company entered into an inducement offer letter agreement (the “Inducement Letter”) with the Armistice Selling Shareholder of certain of the Company’s existing warrants to purchase up to a total of 24,862 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), consisting of: (i)7,051 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued on September 28, 2022 each at an exercise price of $709.20 per share with a term of five year (the “September 2022 Five Year Warrants”); (ii)15,548 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued on September 28, 2022 each at an exercise price of $3709.20 per share with a term of seven and one half years (the “September 2022 Seven and a Half Year Warrants”); and (iii)2,263 shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants issued on January 6, 2023 (the “January 2023 Warrants” and, together with the September 2022 Five Year Warrants and the September 2022 Seven and a Half Year Warrants, the “Existing Warrants).
Pursuant to the Inducement Letter, Armistice agreed to exercise for cash the 2022 and 2023 Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 248,611 shares of Common Stock at a reduced exercise price of $5.88 per share in consideration of the Company’s agreement to issue common stock purchase warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 497,221 shares of Common Stock (the “December Warrants”). The Company received aggregate gross proceeds of $1,461,827.68 from the exercise of the 2022 and 2023 Warrants by the Holder, before deducting offering expenses payable by it. The transaction closed on December 7, 2023.
On January 19, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with three investors (the “January 2024 Investors”) for the issuance and sale to each investor of (i) 116,510 shares of Common Stock and (ii) the Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,258,490 shares of Common Stock at a combined purchase price of $0.40 per share of Common Stock for an aggregate amount of approximately $16.5 million. The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.0002 per share of Common Stock and are exercisable beginning on May 15, 2024, the date stockholder approval was received and effective, allowing exercisability of Pre-Funded Warrants under Nasdaq rules until the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. The aggregate number of Shares issued to the January 2024 Investors is 349,530 and the aggregate number of Pre-Funded Warrants is 3,775,470.
The resale of the shares of the Common Stock underlying the Existing Warrants and 11,224 shares of Common Stock owned by Sapir LLC, a consultant engaged by the Company were registered pursuant to an existing registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-275407), declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on December 4, 2023.
The Company also agreed to file a registration statement on Form S-1 (or other appropriate form if it is not then Form S-1 eligible) providing for the resale of the New Warrant Shares issued or issuable upon the exercise of the New Warrants (the “Resale Registration Statement”), within sixty (60) days after the Closing Date, and to use commercially reasonable efforts to have such Resale Registration Statement declared effective by the SEC within 120 days following the Closing Date and to keep the Resale Registration Statement effective at all times until no holder of the New Warrants owns any New Warrants or New Warrant Shares. The Company will have to pay partial liquidated damages pursuant to the Resale Registration Statement provision of the Inducement Letter if certain deadlines and requirements are not met. In the Inducement Letter, the Company agreed not to issue any shares of Common Stock or Common Stock equivalents or to file any other registration statement with the SEC (in each case, subject to certain exceptions) until sixty (60) days after the Closing Date. The Company also agreed not to effect or agree to effect any Variable Rate Transaction (as defined in the Inducement Letter) until one (1) year after the Closing Date (subject to an exception). In addition, the Company agreed in the Inducement Letter to grant the Holder a participation right in future financings until the date the principal amount of a promissory note issued to the Holder in January 2023 and as modified in October 2023 has been fully repaid.
On January 20, 2024 the Company granted an officer 317,514 warrants with a strike price of $0.02 and a term often years in conversion of $1,187,500 in deferred compensation that was accrued for them.
Warrants Granted During the Year Ended April 30, 2024 and April 30, 2023
On September 28, 2022, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with a single institutional investor (the “Investor”) for the issuance and sale of (i) 1,274 shares of common stock and (ii) pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) to purchase an aggregate of 14,753 shares of its common stock, together with accompanying common stock warrants, at a combined purchase price of $312 per share of the common stock and associated common stock warrant and $311.92 per Pre-Funded Warrant and associated common stock warrants for an aggregate amount of approximately $5.0 million (the “Offering”). The Pre-Funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.008 per share of common stock and are exercisable until the Pre-Funded Warrants are exercised in full. The shares of common stock and Pre-Funded Warrants were sold in the offering together with common stock warrants to purchase 16,026 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $312 per share and a term of five years following the initial exercise date (the “5-Year Warrants”) and common stock warrants to purchase 32,052 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $344 per share and a term of seven and one half years (the “7.5-Year Warrants”) following the initial exercise date (collectively, the “Warrants”). The Warrants issued in the Offering contain variable pricing features. The Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants will be exercisable beginning on the date stockholder approval is received and effective allowing exercisability of the Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants under Nasdaq rules. Net proceeds to the Company were $4,549,882. The exercise price of the Warrants was reset in January 2023 to $176.80 per share and in October 2023 to $70.92 per share.
On January 6, 2023, the Company entered into a loan and security agreement (the “Loan and Security Agreement”) with one or more institutional investors (the “Lenders”) and Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd. as agent for the Lenders (the “Agent”) for the issuance and sale of (i) a note in an aggregate principal amount of up to $2,000,000 (the “Note”) with the initial advance under the Loan and Security Agreement being $1,400,000 and (ii) warrants (the “Warrants”) to purchase a number of shares of common stock of the Company equal to 200% of the face amount of the Note divided by the closing price of the common stock of the Company on the date of the issuance of the Notes (collectively, the “Initial Issuance”). The closing price of the Company’s common stock on January 6, 2023, as reported by Nasdaq, was $176.80 per share, so the Warrants in respect of the initial advance under the Note are exercisable for up to 90,498 shares of the Company’s common stock. The Warrants have an exercise price per share equal to the closing price of the common stock of the Company on the date of the issuance of the Note, or $4.42 per share and a term of five- and one-half (5½) years following the initial exercise date. The initial exercise date of the Warrants was September 13, 2023, the date stockholder approval was received and effective allowing exercisability of the Warrants under Nasdaq rules. Pursuant to the terms of the Loan and Security Agreement, an additional advance of $600,000 was made to the Company under the Note in February 2023. The Company’s obligations under the terms of the Loan and Security Agreement were fully and unconditionally guaranteed by all of the Company’s subsidiaries (the “Guarantors”).
The following represents a summary of the warrants:
| Year Ended April 30, 2024 | Year Ended April 30, 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Weighted Average Exercise Price | Number | Weighted Average Exercise Price | |
| Beginning balance | 89,615 | $684.20 | 4,853 | $8,890.00 |
| Granted | 5,254,438 | 0.59 | 85,706 | 234.00 |
| Exercised | (472,651) | - | - | - |
| Forfeited | - | - | - | - |
| Expired | (179) | - | (944) | - |
| Ending balance | 4,871,223 | $1.44 | 89,615 | $684.20 |
| Intrinsic value of warrants | $3,712,223 | $2,344,529 | ||
| Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (Years) | 9.25 | 6.45 | ||
As of April 30, 2024,4,871,223 warrants are vested.
Note 12: COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Leases
The Company leases office space under short-term leases with terms under a year. Total rent expense for the nine months ended April 30, 2024 and 2023 amounted to $9,426 and $4,900, respectively.
Contingencies
In connection with the Gameface acquisition on February 2, 2022, the Company agreed to earn-out consideration of common shares of the Company’s common stock with a fair value of $1,334,000.
The Company issued 14,960 common shares to the former Gameface shareholders in June 2022. The remaining balance of the contingent consideration of $418,455 was converted on October 23, 2023.
From time to time, the Company may become involved in legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. The Company is not presently a party to any legal proceedings that it currently believes would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business or financial statements.
On February 8, 2023, Oasis Capital, LLC (“Oasis”) filed a complaint against the Company in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking damages (i) in the amount of $764,647.53 in for an alleged breach of the terms of the 8% senior convertible note and the securities purchase agreement entered into between Oasis and the Company in connection with the Note (as defined below), which in December 2021 was increased to $600,000 in principal amount (the “Note”) and (ii) an unspecified amount of damage for an alleged breach of the exclusivity provisions of a term sheet that the Company and Oasis entered into on July 7, 2022 plus an actual damages in an amount to be proven at trial, interest and costs, reasonable attorney’s fees and such other legal and equitable relief as the court deems just and proper. On June 30, 2023, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the Company’s motion to dismiss this complaint but with leave to amended complaint. On July 31, Oasis filed an amended complaint against the Company and its Chief Executive Officer, Mike Ballardie, seeking damages in an amount to be proven at trial, interest and costs for breach of fiduciary duty and violations of Section 10(b) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. On February 28, 2024, the Company and Oasis settled this matter by entering into a settlement agreement pursuant to which the Company paid Oasis $225,000 in cash in exchange for a dismissal of the action by Oasis and a full release.
We know of no pending proceedings to which any director, member of senior management, or affiliate is either a party adverse to us or has a material interest adverse to us.
Nasdaq Compliance
On July 26, 2023, the Company received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of Nasdaq indicating that the Company’s stockholders’ equity as reported in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended January 31, 2023 did not satisfy the continued listing requirement under Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(b)(1), which requires that a listed company’s stockholders’ equity be at least $2.5 million (the “Minimum Stockholders’ Equity Requirement”). In addition, the Company did not meet the alternatives of listed securities or net income from continuing operations as of the date of the letter. The Company timely submitted a compliance plan to the Panel and on August 23, 2023 received notice from Nasdaq that it has until January 22, 2024 to demonstrate compliance with the Minimum Stockholders’ Equity Requirement. On January 22, 2024, the Company consummated and received a cash investment of $16,500,000 (as described in more detail below), which increased the Company’s stockholder equity to $4,045,326, which has brought the Company back into compliance with the Minimum Stockholders’ Equity Requirement. On January 30, 2024, the Company received a letter from Nasdaq confirming that following the receipt of a an investment of $16.5 million as disclosed in the Company’s current report filed on Form 8-K on January 24, 2024 (i) the Company has regained compliance with the minimum shareholder equity requirement in Listing Rule 5550(b)(1) (the “Equity Rule”), as required by the Nasdaq Hearing Panel’s decision dated April 12, 2023, and (ii) in application of Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(B), the Company will be subject to a mandatory panel monitor for a period of one year from the date of such letter. If, within that one-year monitoring period, the Company is no longer in compliance with the Equity Rule, then, notwithstanding Rule 5810(c)(2), the Company will not be permitted to provide Nasdaq with a plan of compliance with respect to such deficiency and Nasdaq will not be permitted to grant additional time for the Company to regain compliance with respect to such deficiency, nor will the Company be afforded an applicable cure or compliance period pursuant to Ruel 5810(c)(3). Instead, Nasdaq will issue a delist determination letter and the Company will have the opportunity to request a new hearing. The Company will have the opportunity to respond/present to the hearing panel as provided by Listing Rule 5815(d)(4)(C) and the Company’s securities may at that time be delisted from Nasdaq.
On December 12, 2023, the Company received a letter (the “Notice”) from the Staff informing the Company that because the closing bid price for the Common Stock listed on Nasdaq was below $1.00 for 30 consecutive trading days, the Company was not in compliance with the minimum bid price requirement for continued listing on Nasdaq as set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2) (the “Minimum Bid Price Requirement”). In accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A), the Company was given a period of 180 calendar days from December 12, 2023, or until June 10, 2024, to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement.
On June 11, 2024, the Company received a letter from the Listing Qualifications Department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) indicating that (i) the Company did not regained compliance with the Rule within the prescribed time period and is not eligible for a second 180-day remediation period. Specifically, the Company did not comply with the $5,000,000 minimum stockholders’ equity initial listing requirement for The Nasdaq Capital Market under the Equity Standard and (ii) unless the Company requests an appeal by June 18, 2024, of this determination, Nasdaq has determined that the Company’s securities will be scheduled for delisting from Nasdaq and will be suspended at the opening of business on June 21, 2024, and a Form 25-NSE will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), which will remove the Company’s securities from listing and registration on The Nasdaq Stock Market (the “Delisting Determination”).
The Company appealed of the Delisting Determination on June 18, 2024 by requesting a hearing before the Panel to stay the suspension of the Company’s securities and the filing of the Form 25-NSE with the SEC. On June 27, 2024, the Company effected a 1-20 reverse stock split, which brought its share price to $8.71, which, in turn, caused the Company to regain compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement and on July 11, 2024, the Company completed 10 consecutive trading days with the bid price in excess of $1 and on July 18, 2024 received Nasdaq confirmation that the hearing panel has been cancelled and the Delisting Determination has been withdrawn.
Note 13: YYEM PURCHASE AGREEMENT
On March 18, 2024, the Company entered into a share purchase agreement (the “Share Purchase Agreement”) and a share exchange agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement,” and together with the Share Purchase Agreement, the “Agreements”) to acquire a total of 70% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of Yuanyu Enterprise Management Co., Limited (“YYEM”), a Hong Kong company, from the sole shareholder of YYEM, Mr. Hongyu Zhou (the “Seller”), for a combined $56 million. The consummation of the transactions contemplated in the Agreements will result in a change in control of the Company as the shareholders of YYEM will become the owners 82.4% of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company (the “Common Stock”). As part of this transaction, as further described below under the heading of “The Separation Agreement”, the Company has agreed to sell its wholly owned subsidiary, Slinger Bag Americas Inc., to a newly established entity to be majority owned by Yonah Kalfa and Mike Ballardie.
Pursuant to the Share Purchase Agreement, the Company agreed to purchase, and the Seller agreed to sell,2,000 ordinary shares of YYEM, representing 20% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of YYEM, for the purchase price of $16,500,000 (the “Share Purchase Consideration”), payable in cash (the “Share Purchase Transaction”). The Share Purchase Transaction closed on March 20, 2024. The $16,500,000 has been classified as an investment on the consolidated balance sheet as of April 30, 2024.
Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company has agreed to purchase, and the Seller has agreed to sell,5,000 ordinary shares of YYEM, representing 50% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares of YYEM, for 8,127,572 newly issued shares of Common Stock to the Seller (the “Share Exchange Transaction,” and together with the Share Purchase Transaction, the “Transactions”). The shares are expected to represent 82.4% of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of the closing of the Share Exchange Transaction (the “Share Exchange Consideration”).
The Exchange Shares will be issued without registration under the Securities Act, in reliance upon a safe harbor for offshore transactions or an exemption from registration for transactions not involving a public offering and, as such, will constitute “restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Under Rule 144, the Exchange Shares generally may not be offered or sold publicly unless they have been held for at least six months and subject to other conditions.
In connection with the Exchange Transaction, the Company has agreed that at or prior to the closing date of the Acquisition (the “Closing Date”), it will enter into a separation agreement to sell, transfer and assign all or substantially all of its legacy business, assets and liabilities related to or necessary for the operations of its “Slinger Bag” business or products (the “Legacy Business”) to a newly established entity (“NewCo”), and that after the Closing Date, NewCo will have the sole right to and obligations of the Legacy Business and will be liable to the Company for any losses arising from third-party claims against the Company that arise from liabilities related to the Legacy Business (the “Separation”). NewCo will be owned by Yonah Kalfa and Mike Ballardie.
On a pro forma basis, as of April 30, 2024, the Legacy Business’ assets were approximately $5.1 million (which represents the assets of the Company as of January 31, 2024, minus, on a pro forma basis, the $16.5 million used for the purchase of 20% ownership of YYEM in April 2024), and the liabilities of the Legacy Business were $12.0 million (which represents the liabilities of the Company as of April 30, 2024).
As an inducement to the Company to complete the Transactions, the Agreements provide that aggregate payments of (a) $4,500,000 shall be made to the Company in cash by YYEM and (b) $500,000 shall be made to NewCo (as defined under the header “The Separation Agreement”) in cash by YYEM, as follows: (i) $800,000 payable within two (2) business days of the date of the Agreements; (ii) $1,200,000 payable within three (3) business days of the Company changing its ticker symbol from “CNXA” to “YYAI,” or such other symbol as the parties may agree; (iii) $2,000,000 payable at the Closing and (iv) $500,000 to be paid within 30 days from the Closing Date and paid to NewCo. Out of the $4,500,000, the Company paid $2,142,857 to certain companies for arranging the Transactions.
At or after the Closing, the board of directors of Connexa (the “Board”) shall comprise those individuals designated by YYEM Seller, and all current members of the Board shall resign with such resignation being effective on the later of the Closing or the appointment or election of the new directors.
| ● | on or before the Closing Date, the Company shall obtain approval from holders of shares of Common Stock for the Share Exchange Transaction and other matters related to the Share Exchange Transaction. Such stockholder approval was received on May 15, 2024; |
| ● | on or before the Closing Date, the Company shall obtain approval from Nasdaq for the Reverse Stock Split of the Common Stock at a ratio to be determined by the parties; |
| ● | as a condition to Closing, from the date of the Exchange Agreement through the Closing Date, the existing shares of Common Stock shall have been continually listed on Nasdaq, and the Company shall have not received a determination from Nasdaq indicating that the Common Stock will be delisted from Nasdaq; and |
| ● | the Company and YYEM shall cooperate to effectuate a reverse stock split, obtain approval from Nasdaq of a new listing application to be submitted to Nasdaq in connection with the Share Exchange Transaction, and provide such information as is necessary for the Company to obtain shareholder approval of the Share Exchange Transaction and other matters relating thereto. The shareholder approval was obtained on May 15, 2024, and a new listing application was submitted to Nasdaq in May 2024, which is currently under review by Nasdaq and the 1:20 reverse split took place on 27 June 2024. |
We cannot provide assurance as to when, or if, all of the closing conditions will be satisfied or waived by the relevant party. As of the date of this prospectus, we have no reason to believe that any of the conditions will not be satisfied.
| ● | copies of all resolutions of the Board authorizing the execution, delivery, and performance of the Exchange Agreement and the other agreements, instruments, and documents required to be delivered in connection with the Exchange Agreement or at the Closing to which the Company is a party and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby; |
| ● | the Exchange Shares; |
| ● | all documents, instruments, agreements and certificates that may be deliverable in connection with the performance or fulfillment of the conditions under Section 6.01 and Section 6.03 of the Exchange Agreement that are relevant to the Company; |
| ● | a duly executed bought and sold note, as applicable; and |
| ● | all other documents, instruments and writings which may be reasonably requested by YYEM Seller to be delivered by the Company at or prior to the Closing pursuant to the Exchange Agreement. |
| ● | payment of the Closing Cash Payment (as defined in the Exchange Agreement); |
| ● | a good standing certificate (or its equivalent) for YYEM from the relevant governmental authority of Hong Kong, if applicable, and each other jurisdiction where YYEM is qualified, registered, or authorized to do business, if any; |
| ● | if the YYEM shares are represented by certificates, such certificates duly endorsed for transfer by YYEM Seller, as applicable; |
| ● | a counterpart to any consents required in connection with the transactions contemplated by the Exchange Agreement; |
| ● | all documents, instruments, agreements and certificates that may be deliverable in connection with the performance or fulfillment of the conditions under Section 6.01 and Section 6.02 of the Exchange Agreement that are relevant to YYEM Seller; |
| ● | a duly executed bought and sold note as may be required under the law of Hong Kong; and |
| ● | all other documents, instruments and writings which may be reasonably requested by YYEM Buyer to be delivered by YYEM Seller and YYEM at or prior to the Closing pursuant to the Exchange Agreement. |
The Exchange Agreement may be terminated by mutual written consent of the Company and the YYEM Seller at any time before the Closing or by either the Company or the YYEM Seller at any time before the Closing if the Share Exchange Transaction has not been consummated by the date that is 180 days from the date of the Exchange Agreement (the “Termination Date”) or if any party breaches the Exchange Agreement with respect to the closing conditions and such breaches cannot be cured by the Termination Date. If the Exchange Agreement is terminated by the Company unilaterally and of its own volition other than due to the aforementioned termination conditions, the Company shall be liable for a termination fee in the amount of three times the fees and costs incurred by the YYEM Seller in connection with the Share Exchange Transaction up to a maximum amount in the aggregate of $600,000, with certain exceptions, including, but not limited to lack of SEC or Nasdaq approval of the Share Exchange Transaction or lack of approval from holders of shares of Common Stock.
Note 14: INCOME TAXES
The Company does business in the US through its subsidiaries Slinger Bag Inc. and Slinger Bag Americas. It also does business in Israel through SBL whose operations are reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The Company’s operations in Canada, Israel, and the UK were immaterial for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023.
Net deferred tax assets from operations in the US, using an effective tax rate of 21%, consisted of the following:
| 2024 · 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Deferred tax assets: | |||
| Loss carryforwards | $6,298,000 | $3,049,000 | |
| Stock options | 7,606,000 | 8,454,000 | |
| Capital loss carryforward/Disposal | 186,000 | 11,039,000 | |
| Related party accruals | 1,013,000 | 1,001,000 | |
| Inventory reserve | 63,000 | 133,000 | |
| Interest deferral | 223,000 | 221,000 | |
| Start-up costs | 66,000 | 81,000 | |
| Other | 138,000 | 131,000 | |
| Valuation allowance | (15,593,000) | (24,109,000) | |
| Net deferred tax assets | $ | - | $— |
The income tax provision differs from the amount of income tax determined by applying the applicable statutory income tax rate to pretax loss due to the following for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023:
| 2024 · 2023 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Income tax benefit based on book loss at US statutory rate | $2,808,000 | $(10,983,000) | |
| Share-based compensation and shares for services | — | — | |
| Debt discount amortization | 3,250,000 | 860,000 | |
| Related party accruals | (94,000) | 226,000 | |
| Stock options | — | (145,000) | |
| Interest expense | 132,000 | 79,000 | |
| Depreciation | 20,000 | (18,000) | |
| Inventory reserve | (107,000) | 26,000 | |
| Interest deferral | — | (5,000) | |
| Acquisition costs | 24,000 | 260,000 | |
| Accrued legal | — | (76,000) | |
| Loss on sale of capital assets | — | 8,713,000 | |
| Accrued payroll | — | — | |
| Change in fair value of derivatives | (1,603,000) | 481,000 | |
| Other | (274,000) | 40,000 | |
| Valuation allowance | 1,460,000 | 542,000 | |
| Total income tax provision | $ | - | $— |
The Company had net operating loss carryforwards of $37,481,805 and $17,038,000 as of April 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which may be available to be used to offset future taxable income in the US for the years ended 2024 through 2042. The utilization of the Company’s net operating losses may be subject to a U.S. federal limitation due to the “change in ownership provisions” under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code and other similar limitations in various state jurisdictions. Such limitations may result in a reduction of the amount of net operating loss carryforwards in future years and possibly the expiration of certain net operating loss carryforwards before their utilization. The Company has not completed a full study to assess whether an “ownership change” as defined in Section 382 has occurred or whether there have been multiple ownership changes since inception. Future changes in the Company’s stock ownership, which may be outside of the Company’s control, may trigger an “ownership change”. In addition, future equity offerings or acquisitions that have equity as a component of the purchase price could result in an “ownership change”. Tax years that remain subject to examination are 2018 and forward.
Net deferred tax assets from operations in Israel, using an effective tax rate of 23%, consisted of the following:
| 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Deferred tax assets: | ||
| Loss carryforwards | $295,000 | $241,000 |
| Start-up costs | — | — |
| Research and development costs | (113,000) | (113,000) |
| Valuation allowance | (182,000) | (128,000) |
| Net deferred tax assets | $— | $— |
The income tax provision differs from the amount of income tax determined by applying the applicable Israeli statutory income tax rate of 23% due to the following for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023:
| 2024 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Income tax provision (benefit) based on book income (loss) at Israeli statutory rate | $(54,000) | $(54,000) |
| Valuation allowance | 54,000 | 54,000 |
| Total income tax provision | $— | $— |
The Company had net operating loss carryforwards of approximately $6,298,000 and $3,049,000 as of April 30, 2024 and 2023, respectively, which may be available to be used to offset future taxable income in Israel. All of the Company’s tax years since inception are open for examination.
The Company’s policy is to record interest and penalties on uncertain tax positions as income tax expense. There were no interest or penalties recognized in the accompanying consolidated statements of comprehensive loss for the years ended April 30, 2024 and 2023.
Note 15:DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS
On November 27, 2022, the Company entered into a share purchase agreement (the “Agreement”) with PlaySight, Chen Shachar and Evgeni Khazanov (together, the “Buyer”) pursuant to which the Buyer purchased 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of PlaySight from the Company in exchange for(1) releasing the Company from all of PlaySight’s obligations towards its vendors, employees, tax authorities and any other (past, current and future) creditors of PlaySight; (2) waiver by the Buyer of 100% of the personal consideration owed to them under their employment agreements in the total amount of $600,000; and (3) cash consideration of $2,000,000 to be paid to the Company in the form of a promissory note that was to mature on December 31, 2023.
On December 5, 2022, the Company assigned 75% of its membership interest in Foundation Sports to Charles Ruddy, its founder and granted him the right for a period of three years to purchase the remaining 25% of its Foundation Sports membership interests for $500,000 in cash. As of December 5, 2022, the results of Foundation Sports will no longer be consolidated in the Company’s financial statements, and the investment was accounted for as an equity method investment. On December 5, 2022, the Company analyzed this investment and established a reserve for the investment at the full amount of $500,000.
Current reclassified the following operations as discontinued operations for the year ended April 30, 2023 –
| Revenue | $3,954,149 |
|---|---|
| Operating expenses | 8,416,117 |
| Other (income) loss | - |
| Net loss from discontinued operations | $(4,461,968) |
The following represents the calculation of the loss on disposal of PlaySight and Foundation Sports for the year ended April 30, 2023:
| Note receivable | $2,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Cash and restricted cash | (714,507) |
| Accounts receivable | (411,249) |
| Prepaid expenses | (106,031) |
| Inventory | (296,920) |
| Finished products used in operations | (4,117,986) |
| Contract assets | (298,162) |
| Right of use asset | (103,228) |
| Goodwill | (25,862,000) |
| Property and equipment | (116,505) |
| Intangible assets | (18,576,475) |
| Contract liabilities | 3,785,408 |
| Lease liabilities | 78,016 |
| Accounts payable and accrued expenses | 3,325,747 |
| Loss on disposal of discontinued operations | $(41,413,892) |
Note 16: SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
From May 1, 2024 through the date hereof, the Company issued the following shares of common stock:
On May 24, 2024, the Company issued 47,116 shares of common stock to Yonah Kalfa in satisfaction of deferred compensation obligations. On May 24, 2024, the Company issued 150,000 shares of common stock to its directors as compensation for the service and for their extraordinary contributions to the Company and warrants to purchase 50,000 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $0.02 and a term of 10 years to Mike Ballardie as compensation for his service and for his extraordinary contribution to the Company. On May 24, 2024, the Company issued 33,500 shares of common stock consisting of 16,750 shares of common stock to each of Juda Honickman and Mark Radom for their extraordinary contributions to the Company. On June 27, 2024, the Company issued 511,214 shares of common stock upon the exercise of warrants. On July 8, 2024, the Company issued 110,665 shares of common stock to satisfy DTC’s request for round-up shares as a result of the Company’s recent 1-20 reverse split. On July 23, 2024, the Company issued 10 shares of common stock to a former shareholder of PlaySight in satisfaction of the Company’s obligation to issue shares of its common stock in exchange for its shares of PlaySight. This issuance was delayed until July 23, 2024 due to administrative issues.
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