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statements as a result of a number of factors, including those set forth under the risk factors and business sections in this Form 10-K.
−Removed: Impact of COVID-19
−Removed: on Our Operations, Financial Condition, Liquidity and Results of Operations
−Removed: Although the COVID-19
−Removed: vaccines have generally been introduced to the public, the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations is unknown and will
−Removed: depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the COVID-19
−Removed: outbreak, new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant increase in new and variant
−Removed: strains of COVID-19 cases, availability and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, the level of acceptance of the vaccine
−Removed: by the general population and any additional preventative and protective actions that governments, or us, may determine are needed.
−Removed: The occurrence of COVID-19
−Removed: pandemic had negative impact on our operations.
+Added: Impact of COVID-19 on Our Operations, Financial
+Added: Condition, Liquidity and Results of Operations
+Added: Although the COVID-19 vaccines have generally
+Added: been introduced to the public, the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations is unknown and will depend on future developments,
+Added: which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak, new information which
+Added: may emerge concerning the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, a significant increase in new and variant strains of COVID-19 cases, availability
+Added: and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, the level of acceptance of the vaccine by the general population and any additional
+Added: preventative and protective actions that governments, or us, may determine are needed.
+Added: The occurrence of COVID-19 pandemic had negative
+Added: impact on our operations.
Some of the universities and laboratories with which we collaborate were temporarily closed.
−Removed: Our general development operations have continued during the COVID-19 pandemic and we have not had significant disruption.
−Removed: are uncertain if the COVID-19 pandemic will impact future operations at our laboratory, or our ability to collaborate with other laboratories
−Removed: and universities.
−Removed: In addition, we are unsure if the COVID-19 pandemic will impact future clinical trials.
−Removed: Given the dynamic nature of
−Removed: these circumstances, the duration of business disruption and reduced traffic, the related financial effect cannot be reasonably estimated
−Removed: at this time but is expected to adversely impact the Company’s business for the year of 2022.
−Removed: We have limited cash
−Removed: available to fund planned operations and although we have other sources of capital described below under “Liquidity and Capital
−Removed: Resources,” management continues to pursue various financing alternatives to fund our operations so we can continue as a going concern.
−Removed: However, the COVID-19 pandemic has created significant economic uncertainty and volatility in the credit and capital markets.
−Removed: plans to secure the necessary financing through the issue of new equity and/or the entering into of strategic partnership arrangements
−Removed: but the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to raise additional capital is unknown and will depend on future developments,
−Removed: which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and new information
−Removed: which may emerge concerning the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: We may not be able to raise sufficient additional capital and may tailor
−Removed: our operations based on the amount of funding we are able to raise in the future.
−Removed: Nevertheless, there is no assurance that these initiatives
−Removed: will be successful.
+Added: Our general development
+Added: operations have continued during the COVID-19 pandemic and we have not had significant disruption.
+Added: However, we are uncertain if the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic will impact future operations at our laboratory, or our ability to collaborate with other laboratories and universities.
+Added: we are unsure if the COVID-19 pandemic will impact future clinical trials.
+Added: Given the dynamic nature of these circumstances, the duration
+Added: of business disruption and reduced traffic, the related financial effect cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
+Added: We have limited cash available to fund planned
+Added: operations and although we have other sources of capital described below under “Liquidity and Capital Resources,” management
+Added: continues to pursue various financing alternatives to fund our operations so we can continue as a going concern.
+Added: However, the COVID-19
+Added: pandemic has created significant economic uncertainty and volatility in the credit and capital markets.
+Added: Management plans to secure the
+Added: necessary financing through the issue of new equity and/or the entering into of strategic partnership arrangements but the ultimate impact
+Added: of the COVID-19 pandemic on our ability to raise additional capital is unknown and will depend on future developments, which are highly
+Added: uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak and new information which may emerge
+Added: concerning the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: We may not be able to raise sufficient additional capital and may tailor our operations
+Added: based on the amount of funding we are able to raise in the future.
+Added: Nevertheless, there is no assurance that these initiatives will be
Further, there is no assurance that capital available to us in any future financing will be on acceptable terms.
−Removed: The Company is a clinical-stage,
−Removed: vertically integrated, leading CellTech bio-developer dedicated to advancing and empowering innovative, transformative immune effector
−Removed: cell therapy, exosome technology, as well as COVID-19 related diagnostics and therapeutics.
−Removed: The Company also provides strategic advisory
−Removed: and outsourcing services to facilitate and enhance its clients’ growth and development, as well as competitiveness in healthcare
−Removed: and CellTech industry markets.
−Removed: Through its subsidiary structure with unique integration of verticals from innovative R&D to automated
−Removed: bioproduction and accelerated clinical development, the Company is establishing a leading role in the fields of cellular immunotherapy
−Removed: (including CAR-T/NK), exosome technology (ACTEX™), and COVID-19 related vaccine and therapeutics.
−Removed: Avalon achieves and fosters
−Removed: seamless integration of unique verticals to bridge and accelerate innovative research, bio-process development, clinical programs and
−Removed: product commercialization.
+Added: The Company is a clinical-stage biotechnology
+Added: company dedicated to developing and delivering innovative, transformative cellular therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and clinical laboratory
+Added: The Company also provides strategic advisory and outsourcing services to facilitate and enhance its clients’ growth and
+Added: development, as well as competitiveness in healthcare and CellTech industry markets.
+Added: Through its subsidiary structure with unique integration
+Added: of verticals from innovative research and development to automated bioproduction and accelerated clinical development, the Company is
+Added: establishing a leading role in the fields of cellular immunotherapy (including CAR-T/NK), exosome technology (ACTEX™), and regenerative
+Added: therapeutics.
+Added: Avalon achieves and fosters seamless integration
+Added: of unique verticals to bridge and accelerate innovative research, bio-process development, clinical programs and product commercialization.
Avalon’s upstream innovative research includes:
−Removed: ● Development
−Removed: of Avalon Clinical-grade Tissue-specific Exosome (“ACTEX™”)
−Removed: therapeutic and diagnostic targets development utilizing QTY-code protein design technology with Massachusetts Institute of Technology
−Removed: (MIT) including using the QTY code protein design technology for development of a hemofiltration device to treat Cytokine Storm.
−Removed: ● Co-development
−Removed: of next generation, transposon-based, multi-target CAR-T, CAR-NK and other immune effector cell therapeutic modalities with Arbele Limited.
−Removed: partnership with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna, Austria to develop an S-layer vaccine that can
−Removed: be administered by an intranasal or oral route against SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease.
−Removed: Avalon’s midstream
−Removed: bio-processing and bio-production facility is located in Nanjing, China with state-of-the-art, automated GMP and QC/QA infrastructure
−Removed: for standardized bio-manufacturing of clinical-grade cellular products involved in our clinical programs in immune effector cell therapy,
−Removed: regenerative therapeutics, as well as bio-banking.
−Removed: Avalon’s downstream
−Removed: medical team and facility consists of top-rated affiliated hospital network and experts specialized in hematology, oncology, cellular
−Removed: immunotherapy, hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell transplant, as well as regenerative therapeutics.
+Added: ● Development of Avalon Clinical-grade Tissue-specific
+Added: Exosome (“ACTEX™”);
+Added: ● Novel therapeutic and diagnostic targets development
+Added: utilizing QTY-code protein design technology with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) including using the QTY code protein design
+Added: technology for development of a hemofiltration device to treat Cytokine Storm;
+Added: ● Co-development of next generation, mRNA-based
+Added: immune effector cell therapeutic modalities with Arbele Limited.
+Added: Avalon’s midstream bio-processing and bio-production
+Added: facility is co-developed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) with state-of-the-art infrastructure and standardization
+Added: accredited with cGMP, FACT, aaBB, CLIA and CAP, as well as stringent QC/QA facility for standardized bio-manufacturing of clinical-grade
+Added: cellular products involved in our clinical programs in immune effector cell therapy and ACTEX-based regenerative therapeutics.
+Added: Avalon’s downstream medical team and facility
+Added: consists of top-rated affiliated hospital network and experts specialized in hematology, oncology, cellular immunotherapy, hematopoietic
+Added: stem/progenitor cell transplant, as well as regenerative therapeutics.
Our major clinical programs include:
−Removed: Avalon has initiated its first-in-human clinical trial of CD19 CAR-T candidate, AVA-001 in August 2019 at the Hebei Yanda Lu Daopei Hospital
−Removed: and Beijing Lu Daopei Hospital in China (the world’s single largest CAR-T treatment network with over 600 patients being treated
−Removed: with CAR-T) for the indication of relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.
−Removed: The AVA-001 candidate
−Removed: (co-developed with China Immunotech Co.
−Removed: Ltd) is characterized by the utilization of 4-1BB (CD137) co-stimulatory signaling pathway, conferring
−Removed: a strong anti-cancer activity during pre-clinical study.
−Removed: It also features a shorter bio-manufacturing time which leads to the advantage
−Removed: of prompt treatment to patients where timing is important related hematologic malignancies.
−Removed: Avalon has successfully completed the first-in-human
−Removed: clinical trial of its AVA-001 anti-CD19 CAR-T cell therapy as a bridge to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for patients with relapsed/refractory
−Removed: B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the Lu Daopei Hospital (registered clinical trial number NCT03952923) with excellent efficacy
−Removed: (90% complete remission rate) and minimal adverse side effects.
−Removed: Avalon is currently expanding the patient recruitment for AVA-001
+Added: Avalon has initiated its first-in-human
+Added: clinical trial of CD19 CAR-T candidate, AVA-001 in August 2019 at the Hebei Yanda Lu Daopei Hospital and Beijing Lu Daopei Hospital in
+Added: China (the world’s single largest CAR-T treatment network with over 1,200 patients being treated with CAR-T) for the indication
+Added: of relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia and non-Hodgkin Lymphoma).
+Added: The AVA-001 candidate (co-developed with China Immunotech
+Added: Ltd) is characterized by the utilization of 4-1BB (CD137) co-stimulatory signaling pathway, conferring a strong anti-cancer activity
+Added: during pre-clinical study.
+Added: It also features a shorter bio-manufacturing time which leads to the advantage of prompt treatment to patients
+Added: where timing is important related hematologic malignancies.
+Added: Avalon has successfully completed the first-in-human clinical trial of its
+Added: AVA-001 anti-CD19 CAR-T cell therapy as a bridge to allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for patients with relapsed/refractory B-cell
+Added: acute lymphoblastic leukemia at the Lu Daopei Hospital (registered clinical trial number NCT03952923) with excellent efficacy (90% complete
+Added: remission rate) and minimal adverse side effects.
+Added: Avalon is currently expanding the patient recruitment and indication for AVA-001
to include relapsed/refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients.
−Removed: and FLASH-CAR™:
−Removed: The Company advanced its next generation immune cell therapy using RNA-based, non-viral FLASH-CAR™ technology
−Removed: co-developed with the Company’s strategic partner Arbele Limited.
−Removed: The adaptable FLASH-CAR™ platform can be used to create
−Removed: personalized cell therapy from a patient’s own cells, as well as off-the-shelf cell therapy from a universal donor.
−Removed: candidate, AVA-011, is currently at process development stage to generate clinical-grade cell-therapy products for subsequent clinical
−Removed: On July 8, 2021, the Company and the University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System
−Removed: of Higher Education (the “University”) entered into a Corporate Research Agreement (the “University Agreement”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the University Agreement, for a term of two years the University agreed to use its reasonable efforts to perform academic
−Removed: research funded by the Company in connection with the development of point-of-care modular autonomous processing system to generate clinical-grade
−Removed: AVA-011, a RNA-based chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy candidate (the “Project”) subject to the appointment
−Removed: Yen Michael S.
−Removed: Hsu as Principal Investigator.
−Removed: During the term, the Company agreed to make eight payments of $125,000 to
−Removed: the University.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the Company did not make any payment.
−Removed: The Company and the University shall each own an undivided,
−Removed: one half interest in any intellectual property rights jointly developed by both parties.
−Removed: The Company has been granted a worldwide,
−Removed: irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty free, fully paid-up, perpetual right to use intellectual property developed by the University in
−Removed: connection with the Project for commercial purposes research activities and other purposes.
−Removed: Further, the Company will have an exclusive
−Removed: right of first offer to an exclusive royalty-bearing license to intellectual property developed by the University or co-developed by
−Removed: the Company and the University in connection with the Project.
−Removed: Stem cell-derived Avalon Clinical-grade Tissue-specific Exosomes (ACTEX™) is one of the core technology platforms that has been
−Removed: co-developed by Avalon GloboCare and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
−Removed: The Company formed a strategic partnership with HydroPeptide,
−Removed: LLC, a leading epigenetics skin care company, to engage in co-development and commercialization of a series of clinical-grade, exosome-based
−Removed: cosmeceutical and orthopedic products.
−Removed: As part of this agreement, the Company signed a three-way Material Transfer Agreement between
−Removed: Avalon GloboCare, HydroPeptide and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
−Removed: Avalon’s AVA-Trap™ therapeutic program plans to enter animal model testing followed by expedited clinical studies with the
−Removed: goal of providing an effective therapeutic option to combat COVID-19 and other life-threatening conditions involving cytokine storms.
−Removed: The Company initiated a sponsored research and co-development project with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) led by Professor
−Removed: Shuguang Zhang as Principal Investigator in May 2019.
−Removed: Using the unique QTY code protein design platform, six water-soluble variant cytokine
−Removed: receptors have been successfully designed and tested to show binding affinity to the respective cytokines.
−Removed: the year ended December 31, 2021 we generated revenue by providing medical related consulting services in advanced areas of immunotherapy
−Removed: and second opinion/referral services through our wholly-owned subsidiary Avalon (Shanghai) Healthcare Technology Co., Ltd., or Avalon
−Removed: We also own and operate rental commercial real property in New Jersey, where we are headquartered.
+Added: ● AVA-011 and FLASH-CAR™:
+Added: The Company advanced
+Added: its next generation immune cell therapy using RNA-based, non-viral FLASH-CAR™ technology co-developed with the Company’s strategic
+Added: partner Arbele Limited.
+Added: The multiplex FLASH-CAR™ platform can be used to create personalized (“autologous’) cell therapy from
+Added: a patient’s own cells, as well as “off-the-shelf” cell therapy from a universal donor.
+Added: Our leading candidate, AVA-011,
+Added: is a dual-target (anti-CD19/CD22) CAR-T which has completed pre-clinical research stage, and currently at IND-enabling process development
+Added: stage at UPMC (Dr.
+Added: Yen-Michael Hsu as Principal Investigator) to generate clinical-grade cell-therapy products for subsequent clinical
+Added: Stem cell-derived Avalon Clinical-grade
+Added: Tissue-specific Exosomes (ACTEX™) is one of the core technology platforms that has been co-developed by Avalon GloboCare and the
+Added: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
+Added: The Company formed a strategic partnership with HydroPeptide, LLC, a leading epigenetics skin
+Added: care company, to engage in co-development and commercialization of a series of clinical-grade, exosome-based cosmeceutical and orthopedic
+Added: As part of this agreement, the Company signed a three-way Material Transfer Agreement between Avalon GloboCare, HydroPeptide
+Added: and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
+Added: Avalon’s AVA-Trap™
+Added: therapeutic program plans to enter animal model testing followed by expedited clinical studies with the goal of providing an effective
+Added: therapeutic option to combat COVID-19 and other life-threatening conditions involving cytokine storms.
+Added: The Company initiated a sponsored
+Added: research and co-development project with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) led by Professor Shuguang Zhang as Principal Investigator
+Added: Using the unique QTY code protein design platform, six water-soluble variant cytokine receptors have been successfully designed
+Added: and tested to show binding affinity to the respective cytokines.
Going Concern
−Removed: The Company is a clinical-stage, vertically integrated,
−Removed: leading CellTech bio-developer dedicated to advancing and empowering innovative, transformative immune effector cell therapy, exosome
−Removed: technology, as well as COVID-19 related diagnostics and therapeutics.
−Removed: The Company also provides strategic advisory and outsourcing services
−Removed: to facilitate and enhance its clients’ growth and development, as well as competitiveness in healthcare and CellTech industry markets.
−Removed: Through its subsidiary structure with unique integration of verticals from innovative R&D to automated bioproduction and accelerated
−Removed: clinical development, the Company is establishing a leading role in the fields of cellular immunotherapy (including CAR-T/NK), exosome
−Removed: technology (ACTEX™), and COVID-19 related vaccine and therapeutics.
−Removed: In addition, the Company
−Removed: owns commercial real estate that houses its headquarters in Freehold, New Jersey and provides outsourced and customized international
−Removed: healthcare services to the rapidly changing health care industry primarily focused in the People’s Republic of China.
−Removed: These consolidated
−Removed: financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates, among other things,
−Removed: the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business.
−Removed: As reflected in the accompanying
−Removed: consolidated financial statements, the Company had a working capital deficit of $3,078,616 as of December 31, 2021 and has incurred recurring
−Removed: net losses and generated negative cash flow from operating activities of $9,090,499 and $5,024,479 for the year ended December 31, 2021,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The Company has a limited operating history and its continued growth is dependent upon the continuation of providing medical
−Removed: related consulting services to its only few clients who are related parties and generating rental revenue from its income-producing real
−Removed: estate property in New Jersey;
−Removed: hence generating revenues, and obtaining additional financing to fund future obligations and pay liabilities
−Removed: arising from normal business operations.
−Removed: In addition, the current cash balance cannot be projected to cover the operating expenses for
−Removed: the next twelve months from the release date of this report.
−Removed: These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to
−Removed: continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The ability of the Company to continue as a going concern is dependent on the Company’s ability to
−Removed: raise additional capital, implement its business plan, and generate significant revenues.
−Removed: There are no assurances that the Company will
−Removed: be successful in its efforts to generate significant revenues, maintain sufficient cash balance or report profitable operations or to
−Removed: continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The Company plans on raising capital through the sale of equity to implement its business plan.
−Removed: there is no assurance these plans will be realized and that any additional financings will be available to the Company on satisfactory
−Removed: terms and conditions, if any.
−Removed: The occurrence of an
−Removed: uncontrollable event such as the COVID-19 pandemic had negatively impact on the Company’s operations.
−Removed: Our general development operations
−Removed: have continued during the COVID-19 pandemic and we have not had significant disruption.
−Removed: However, we are uncertain if the COVID-19 pandemic
−Removed: will impact future operations at our laboratory, or our ability to collaborate with other laboratories and universities.
−Removed: we are unsure if the COVID-19 pandemic will impact future clinical trials.
−Removed: Given the dynamic nature of these circumstances, the duration
−Removed: of business disruption and reduced traffic, the related financial effect cannot be reasonably estimated at this time but is expected to
−Removed: adversely impact the Company’s business for the year of 2022.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated
−Removed: financial statements do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability or classification of asset-carrying amounts or the amounts
−Removed: and classification of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: Accounting Policies
−Removed: Our discussion and analysis
−Removed: of our financial condition and results of operations are based upon our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in
−Removed: accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
−Removed: The preparation of these consolidated financial statements
−Removed: requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related
−Removed: disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities.
−Removed: We continually evaluate our estimates, including those related to the useful life of
−Removed: property and equipment and investment in real estate, assumptions used in assessing impairment of long-term assets, valuation of deferred
−Removed: tax assets and the associated valuation allowances, and valuation of stock-based compensation.
−Removed: We base our estimates
−Removed: on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believed to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which
−Removed: form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources.
−Removed: Any future changes to these estimates and assumptions could cause a material change to our reported amounts of revenues, expenses, assets
−Removed: and liabilities.
−Removed: Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
+Added: The Company is a clinical-stage biotechnology
+Added: company dedicated to developing and delivering innovative, transformative cellular therapeutics, precision diagnostics, and clinical laboratory
+Added: The Company also provides strategic advisory and outsourcing services to facilitate and enhance its clients’ growth and
+Added: development, as well as competitiveness in healthcare and CellTech industry markets.
+Added: Through its subsidiary structure with unique integration
+Added: of verticals from innovative research and development to automated bioproduction and accelerated clinical development, the Company is
+Added: establishing a leading role in the fields of cellular immunotherapy (including CAR-T/NK), exosome technology (ACTEX™), and regenerative
+Added: therapeutics.
+Added: In addition, the Company owns commercial real
+Added: estate that houses its headquarters in Freehold, New Jersey.
+Added: These consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that
+Added: the Company will continue as a going concern, which contemplates, among other things, the realization of assets and the satisfaction of
+Added: liabilities in the normal course of business.
+Added: As reflected in the accompanying consolidated financial statements,
+Added: the Company had working capital deficit of $1,206,279 at December 31, 2022 and had incurred recurring net losses and generated negative
+Added: cash flow from operating activities of $11,930,847 and $7,037,224 for the year ended December 31, 2022, respectively.
+Added: The Company has
+Added: a limited operating history and its continued growth is dependent upon the generating rental revenue from its income-producing real estate
+Added: property in New Jersey and obtaining additional financing to fund future obligations and pay liabilities arising from normal business
+Added: In addition, the current cash balance cannot be projected to cover the operating expenses for the next twelve months from
+Added: the release date of this report.
+Added: These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The ability of the Company to continue as a going concern is dependent on the Company’s ability to raise additional capital, implement
+Added: its business plan, and generate significant revenues.
+Added: There are no assurances that the Company will be successful in its efforts to generate
+Added: significant revenues, maintain sufficient cash balance or report profitable operations or to continue as a going concern.
+Added: plans on raising capital through the sale of equity to implement its business plan.
+Added: However, there is no assurance these plans will be
+Added: realized and that any additional financings will be available to the Company on satisfactory terms and conditions, if any.
+Added: The occurrence of an uncontrollable event such
+Added: as the COVID-19 pandemic had negatively impact on the Company’s operations.
+Added: Our general development operations have continued during
+Added: the COVID-19 pandemic and we have not had significant disruption.
+Added: However, we are uncertain if the COVID-19 pandemic will impact future
+Added: operations at our laboratory, or our ability to collaborate with other laboratories and universities.
+Added: In addition, we are unsure if the
+Added: COVID-19 pandemic will impact future clinical trials.
+Added: Given the dynamic nature of these circumstances, the duration of business disruption
+Added: and reduced traffic, the related financial effect cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
+Added: do not include any adjustments related to the recoverability or classification of asset-carrying amounts or the amounts and classification
+Added: of liabilities that may result should the Company be unable to continue as a going concern.
+Added: Critical Accounting Policies
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity
+Added: with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S.
+Added: GAAP”) requires management to make estimates
+Added: and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the
+Added: date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
+Added: Changes in these estimates
+Added: and assumptions may have a material impact on the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes.
+Added: Making estimates requires
+Added: management to exercise significant judgment.
+Added: It is at least reasonably possible that the estimate of the effect of a condition, situation
+Added: or set of circumstances that existed at the date of the financial statements, which management considered in formulating its estimate,
+Added: could change in the near term due to one or more future confirming events.
+Added: Accordingly, the actual results could differ significantly
+Added: from those estimates.
+Added: Significant estimates during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 include the useful life of property and
+Added: equipment and investment in real estate, assumptions used in assessing impairment of long-term assets, valuation of deferred tax assets
+Added: and the associated valuation allowances, valuation of stock-based compensation, and assumptions used to determine fair value of warrants
+Added: and embedded conversion features of convertible note payable.
Revenue Recognition
−Removed: We recognize revenue
−Removed: under Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”).
−Removed: The core principle of the revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services
−Removed: to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services.
−Removed: The following five steps are applied to achieve that core principle:
+Added: The Company recognizes revenue under Accounting
+Added: Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (“ASC 606”).
+Added: The core principle
+Added: of the revenue standard is that a company should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in
+Added: an amount that reflects the consideration to which the company expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services.
+Added: The following
+Added: five steps are applied to achieve that core principle:
Identify the contract with the customer
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Recognize revenue when the company satisfies a performance obligation
−Removed: In order to identify
−Removed: the performance obligations in a contract with a customer, a company must assess the promised goods or services in the contract and identify
−Removed: each promised goods or service that is distinct.
−Removed: A performance obligation meets ASC 606’s definition of a “distinct”
−Removed: goods or service (or bundle of goods or services) if both of the following criteria are met:
−Removed: ● The customer can benefit from the goods or service either
−Removed: on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer (i.e., the goods or service is capable of being
−Removed: ● The entity’s promise to transfer the goods or service
−Removed: to the customer is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract (i.e., the promise to transfer the goods or service is
−Removed: distinct within the context of the contract).
−Removed: If a goods or service
−Removed: is not distinct, the goods or service is combined with other promised goods or services until a bundle of goods or services is identified
−Removed: that is distinct.
−Removed: The transaction price
−Removed: is the amount of consideration to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a
−Removed: customer, excluding amounts collected on behalf of third parties (for example, some sales taxes).
−Removed: The consideration promised in a contract
−Removed: with a customer may include fixed amounts, variable amounts, or both.
−Removed: Variable consideration is included in the transaction price only
−Removed: to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty
−Removed: associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved.
−Removed: The transaction price
−Removed: is allocated to each performance obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis.
−Removed: The transaction price allocated to each performance
−Removed: obligation is recognized when that performance obligation is satisfied, at a point in time or over time as appropriate.
−Removed: The Company’s revenues
−Removed: are derived from providing medial related consulting services for its’ related parties.
−Removed: Revenues related to its service offerings
−Removed: are recognized at a point in time when service is rendered.
−Removed: Any payments received in advance of the performance of services are recorded
−Removed: as deferred revenue until such time as the services are performed.
−Removed: We have determined that
−Removed: the ASC 606 does not apply to rental contracts, which are within the scope of other revenue recognition accounting standards.
−Removed: Rental income from operating
−Removed: leases is recognized on a straight-line basis under the guidance of ASC 842.
−Removed: Lease payments under tenant leases are recognized on a straight-line
−Removed: basis over the term of the related leases.
−Removed: The cumulative difference between lease revenue recognized under the straight-line method and
−Removed: contractual lease payments are included in rent receivable on the consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: We do not offer promotional
−Removed: payments, customer coupons, rebates or other cash redemption offers to our customers.
−Removed: We are governed by the
−Removed: income tax laws of China and the United States.
−Removed: Income taxes are accounted for pursuant to ASC 740 “Accounting for Income Taxes,”
−Removed: which is an asset and liability approach that requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future
−Removed: tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our financial statements or tax returns.
−Removed: The charge for taxes is based on the
−Removed: results for the period as adjusted for items, which are non-assessable or disallowed.
−Removed: It is calculated using tax rates that have been
−Removed: enacted or substantively enacted by the balance sheet date.
−Removed: Deferred tax is accounted
−Removed: for using the balance sheet liability method in respect of temporary differences arising from differences between the carrying amount
−Removed: of assets and liabilities in the financial statements and the corresponding tax basis used in the computation of assessable tax profit.
−Removed: In principle, deferred tax liabilities are recognized for all taxable temporary differences, and deferred tax assets are recognized to
−Removed: the extent that it is probably that taxable profit will be available against which deductible temporary differences can be utilized.
−Removed: Deferred tax is calculated
−Removed: using tax rates that are expected to apply to the period when the asset is realized or the liability is settled.
−Removed: Deferred tax is charged
−Removed: or credited in the income statement, except when it is related to items credited or charged directly to equity, in which case the deferred
−Removed: tax is changed to equity.
−Removed: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when they related to income taxes levied by the same taxation
−Removed: authority and we intend to settle its current tax assets and liabilities on a net basis.
+Added: In order to identify the performance obligations
+Added: in a contract with a customer, a company must assess the promised goods or services in the contract and identify each promised goods or
+Added: service that is distinct.
+Added: A performance obligation meets ASC 606’s definition of a “distinct” goods or service (or bundle
+Added: of goods or services) if both of the following criteria are met:
+Added: ● The customer can benefit from the goods or service
+Added: either on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer (i.e., the goods or service is capable of
+Added: being distinct).
+Added: ● The entity’s promise to transfer the goods
+Added: or service to the customer is separately identifiable from other promises in the contract (i.e., the promise to transfer the goods or
+Added: service is distinct within the context of the contract).
+Added: If a goods or service is not distinct, the goods
+Added: or service is combined with other promised goods or services until a bundle of goods or services is identified that is distinct.
+Added: The transaction price is the amount of consideration
+Added: to which an entity expects to be entitled in exchange for transferring promised goods or services to a customer, excluding amounts collected
+Added: on behalf of third parties (for example, some sales taxes).
+Added: The consideration promised in a contract with a customer may include fixed
+Added: amounts, variable amounts, or both.
+Added: Variable consideration is included in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable
+Added: that a significant reversal in the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable
+Added: consideration is subsequently resolved.
+Added: The transaction price is allocated to each performance
+Added: obligation on a relative standalone selling price basis.
+Added: The transaction price allocated to each performance obligation is recognized
+Added: when that performance obligation is satisfied, at a point in time or over time as appropriate.
+Added: The Company’s revenues are derived from
+Added: providing medial related consulting services for its’ related parties.
+Added: Revenues related to its service offerings are recognized
+Added: at a point in time when service is rendered.
+Added: Any payments received in advance of the performance of services are recorded as deferred
+Added: revenue until such time as the services are performed.
+Added: The Company has determined that the ASC 606 does
+Added: not apply to rental contracts, which are within the scope of other revenue recognition accounting standards.
+Added: Rental income from operating leases is recognized
+Added: on a straight-line basis under the guidance of ASC 842.
+Added: Lease payments under tenant leases are recognized on a straight-line basis over
+Added: the term of the related leases.
+Added: The cumulative difference between lease revenue recognized under the straight-line method and contractual
+Added: lease payments are included in rent receivable on the consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: The Company does not offer promotional payments,
+Added: customer coupons, rebates or other cash redemption offers to its customers.
+Added: We are governed by the income tax laws of China
+Added: and the United States.
+Added: Income taxes are accounted for pursuant to ASC 740 “Accounting for Income Taxes,” which is an asset
+Added: and liability approach that requires the recognition of deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of
+Added: events that have been recognized in our financial statements or tax returns.
+Added: The charge for taxes is based on the results for the period
+Added: as adjusted for items, which are non-assessable or disallowed.
+Added: It is calculated using tax rates that have been enacted or substantively
+Added: enacted by the balance sheet date.
+Added: Deferred tax is accounted for using the balance
+Added: sheet liability method in respect of temporary differences arising from differences between the carrying amount of assets and liabilities
+Added: in the financial statements and the corresponding tax basis used in the computation of assessable tax profit.
+Added: In principle, deferred tax
+Added: liabilities are recognized for all taxable temporary differences, and deferred tax assets are recognized to the extent that it is probably
+Added: that taxable profit will be available against which deductible temporary differences can be utilized.
+Added: Deferred tax is calculated using tax rates that
+Added: are expected to apply to the period when the asset is realized or the liability is settled.
+Added: Deferred tax is charged or credited in the
+Added: income statement, except when it is related to items credited or charged directly to equity, in which case the deferred tax is changed
+Added: Deferred tax assets and liabilities are offset when they related to income taxes levied by the same taxation authority and
+Added: we intend to settle its current tax assets and liabilities on a net basis.
Recent Accounting Standards
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Years Ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
−Removed: For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, we had real property rental revenue of $1,203,560, as compared to $1,206,854 for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease
−Removed: of $3,294, or 0.3%.
−Removed: We expect that our revenue from real property rent will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near
−Removed: For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, we had medical related consulting services revenue from related party of $187,412, as compared to $170,908 for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020, an increase of $16,504, or 9.7%.
−Removed: In 2021, we strengthened our efforts in expanding our services to various medical
−Removed: related fields.
−Removed: Therefore, our medical related consulting services revenue increased.
−Removed: We expect our revenue from medical related consulting
−Removed: services will remain at or near the current level for the near future.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had real
+Added: property rental revenue of $1,202,169, as compared to $1,203,560 for the year ended December 31, 2021, a decrease of $1,391, or 0.1%.
+Added: We expect that our revenue from real property rent will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near future.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we did not
+Added: have any medical related consulting services revenue since there was no demand for our consulting service from our related parties and
+Added: there were no orders for our medical related consulting services from third party in 2022.
+Added: Due to the winding down of the medical related
+Added: consulting services segment in 2022, the Company decided to cease all operations of this segment and no longer has any material revenues
+Added: or expenses in this segment.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2021, we had medical related consulting services revenue from related party
Costs and Expenses
−Removed: Real property operating
−Removed: expenses consist of property management fees, property insurance, real estate taxes, depreciation, repairs and maintenance fees, utilities
−Removed: and other expenses related to our rental properties.
−Removed: For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, our real property operating expenses amounted to $829,287, as compared to $851,754 for the year ended December 31, 2020, a decrease
−Removed: of $22,467, or 2.6%.
−Removed: The decrease was mainly due to a decrease in repairs and maintenance fees of approximately $16,000 and a decrease
−Removed: in other miscellaneous items of approximately $6,000.
−Removed: Costs of medical related
−Removed: consulting services include the cost of labor and related benefits, travel expenses related to medical related consulting services, and
−Removed: other overhead costs.
−Removed: For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, costs of medical related consulting services amounted to $147,167, as compared to $135,805 for the year ended December 31, 2020,
−Removed: an increase of $11,362, or 8.4%.
−Removed: The increase was primarily attributable to increase in medical related consulting services revenue.
−Removed: Real Property Operating
−Removed: Our real property operating
−Removed: income for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $374,273, representing an increase of $19,173, or 5.4%, as compared to $355,100 for the
−Removed: year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The increase was mainly attributable to the decrease in real property operating expenses as described above.
−Removed: We expect our real property operating income will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near future.
−Removed: Gross Profit from
−Removed: Medical Related Consulting Services and Gross Margin
−Removed: Gross profit from medical related consulting services
−Removed: for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $40,245, as compared to $35,103 for the year ended December 31, 2020, a change of $5,142, or
−Removed: Gross margin increased to 21.5% for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2021 from gross margin of 20.5% for the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The different medical related consulting services agreement
−Removed: in the year ended December 31, 2021 had an effect of improving gross margin as compared to the year ended December 31 2020.
−Removed: that our gross margin from medical related consulting services segment will remain at its current level.
+Added: Real property operating expenses consist of property
+Added: management fees, property insurance, real estate taxes, depreciation, repairs and maintenance fees, utilities and other expenses related
+Added: to our rental properties.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, our real
+Added: property operating expenses amounted to $929,441, as compared to $829,287 for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $100,154,
+Added: The increase was mainly due to an increase in building cleaning fees of approximately $15,000, an increase in property
+Added: management fees of approximately $21,000, an increase in repairs and maintenance fee of approximately $32,000, an increase in utilities
+Added: of approximately $30,000, and an increase in other miscellaneous items of approximately $2,000.
+Added: Costs of medical related consulting services include
+Added: the cost of labor and related benefits, travel expenses related to medical related consulting services, and other overhead costs.
+Added: There were no comparative revenue and related
+Added: costs of revenue from our medical related consulting services for the year ended December 31, 2022 since there was no demand for our consulting
+Added: service from our related parties and there were no orders for our medical related consulting services from third party in 2022.
+Added: year ended December 31, 2021, costs of medical related consulting services amounted to $147,167.
+Added: Real Property Operating Income
+Added: Our real property operating income for the year
+Added: ended December 31, 2022 was $272,728, representing a decrease of $101,545, or 27.1%, as compared to $374,273 for the year ended December
+Added: The decrease was primarily attributable to the increase in real property operating expenses as described above.
+Added: We expect our
+Added: real property operating income will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near future.
+Added: Gross Profit from Medical Related Consulting
+Added: Services and Gross Margin
+Added: We did not generate any gross profit from medical
+Added: related consulting services in the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: Our gross profit from medical related consulting services for the year
+Added: ended December 31, 2021 was $40,245, with a gross margin of 21.5%.
Other Operating Expenses
−Removed: the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, other operating expenses consisted of the following:
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021,
+Added: other operating expenses consisted of the following:
Years Ended December 31,
+Added: Advertising and marketing
Professional fees
1 unchanged sentence
Research and development
−Removed: Advertising expenses
−Removed: Travel and entertainment
+Added: Litigation settlement
Directors and officers liability insurance premium
+Added: Travel and entertainment
Rent and related utilities
Other general and administrative
−Removed: ● Professional fees primarily consisted of accounting fees,
−Removed: audit fees, legal service fees, consulting fees, investor relations service charges and other fees.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2021, in connection with the Purchase Agreement signed on June 13, 2021, we incurred Sen Lang BVI acquisition related costs of approximately
−Removed: $1,375,000 which were included in professional fees and the intended acquisition was terminated on January 1, 2022.
−Removed: For the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2021, professional fees decreased by $1,606,313, or 24.5%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: was primarily attributable to a decrease in consulting fees of approximately $2,027,000 mainly due to the decrease in use of consulting
−Removed: service providers, and a decrease in investor relations service fees of approximately $441,000 mainly due to the decrease in use of investor
−Removed: relations service providers, offset by an increase in legal service fees of approximately $653,000 mainly due to increased legal service
−Removed: related to our potential acquisition, an increase in valuation fee for our potential acquisition of $180,000, and an increase in other
−Removed: miscellaneous items of approximately $29,000.
−Removed: We expect that our professional fees will decrease in the near future.
−Removed: ● For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, compensation and related benefits decreased by $2,113,872, or 50.9%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The significant
−Removed: decrease was primarily attributable to a decrease in stock-based compensation of approximately $2,125,000 which reflected the value of
−Removed: options granted and vested to our management, offset by an increase in management’s compensation and related benefits of approximately
−Removed: We expect that our compensation and related benefits will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near future.
−Removed: ● For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, research and development expenses increased by $141,154, or 16.0%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: was mainly attributable to we increased research and development projects in year 2021.
−Removed: We expect that our research and development expenses
−Removed: will continue to increase in the near future .
−Removed: ● For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, advertising expenses increased by $34,213 or 11.6% as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The increase was primarily
−Removed: due to increased advertising activities.
−Removed: We expect that our advertising expenses will remain in its current level with minimal increase
−Removed: in the near future.
−Removed: ● For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, travel and entertainment expense decreased by $18,817, or 10.7%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: was mainly due to decreased business travel activities and decreased entertainment expenditure resulting from COVID-19.
−Removed: ● For the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2021, Directors and Officers Liability Insurance premium increased by $91,337, or 33.1%, as compared to the year ended December 31,
−Removed: The increase was mainly due to different insurance provider with different premium.
−Removed: ● For the year ended December 31, 2021,
−Removed: rent and related utilities expenses decreased by $13,823, or 15.0%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The decrease was
−Removed: mainly due to the decreased monthly rent in Avalon Shanghai’s office.
−Removed: ● Other general and administrative
−Removed: expenses mainly consisted of NASDAQ listing fee, office supplies, and other miscellaneous items.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2021,
−Removed: other general and administrative expenses decreased by $109,753, or 26.6%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: was primarily attributable to a decrease in bad debt expense of approximately $47,000, a decrease in depreciation expense of approximately
−Removed: $50,000, and a decrease in other miscellaneous items of approximately $12,000 .
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, advertising
+Added: and marketing expenses increased by $996,748 or 303.4% as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The increase was primarily due
+Added: to increased advertising activities to enhance the visibility and marketability of our company and to improve brand recognition and awareness.
+Added: We expect that our advertising expenses will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near future.
+Added: ● Professional fees primarily consisted of
+Added: accounting fees, audit fees, legal service fees, consulting fees, investor relations service charges, valuation service fees and
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, professional fees decreased by $2,037,044, or 41.2%, as compared to the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2021, which was primarily attributable to a decrease in consulting fees of approximately $1,648,000 mainly due to the
+Added: decrease in use of consulting service providers, a decrease in legal service fees of approximately $262,000 mainly due to the
+Added: decrease in use of legal service providers related to the acquisition of a British Virgin Island company which was terminated on January 1, 2022, and a decrease in one time valuation service fees of $180,000, offset by an increase in
+Added: other miscellaneous items of approximately $53,000.
+Added: We expect that our professional fees will remain in its current level with
+Added: minimal increase in the near future.
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, compensation
+Added: and related benefits decreased by $179,090, or 8.8%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021, which was primarily attributable
+Added: to the decrease in stock-based compensation which reflected the value of options granted and vested to our management.
+Added: We expect that
+Added: our compensation and related benefits will remain in its current level with minimal increase in the near future.
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, research
+Added: and development expenses decreased by $293,681, or 28.7%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The decrease was mainly attributable
+Added: to decreased research and development projects in year 2022.
+Added: We expect that our research and development expenses will remain in its current
+Added: level with minimal decrease in the near future.
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, litigation
+Added: settlement increased by $1,350,000, or 100.0%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The increase was due to a settlement signed
+Added: in June 2022 related to Research Institute litigation.
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, Directors
+Added: and Officers Liability Insurance premium increased by $47,392, or 12.9%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: was mainly due to different insurance provider with different premium.
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, travel
+Added: and entertainment expense increased by $6,730, or 4.3%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The increase was mainly due to
+Added: increased business travel activities in year 2022.
+Added: ● For the year ended December 31, 2022, rent and
+Added: related utilities expenses decreased by $1,195, or 1.5%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: ● Other general and administrative expenses mainly
+Added: consisted of NASDAQ listing fee, office supplies, and other miscellaneous items.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, other general and
+Added: administrative expenses decreased by $72,585, or 23.9%, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: The decrease was mainly attributable
+Added: to a decrease in depreciation of approximately $19,000, which was primarily due to certain office equipment and furniture had reached
+Added: the end of depreciation period and no further depreciation is required for these fixed assets in year 2022, a decrease in office supplies
+Added: of approximately $13,000, and a decrease in other miscellaneous items of approximately $40,000 due to our efforts at stricter controls
+Added: on corporate expenditure.
Loss from Operations
−Removed: As a result of the foregoing,
−Removed: for year ended December 31, 2021, loss from operations amounted to $8,833,830, as compared to $12,454,019 for the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2020, a decrease of $3,620,189, or 29.1%.
−Removed: Other Income (Expense)
−Removed: (expense) mainly includes interest expense and loss from equity method investment.
−Removed: Other expense,
−Removed: net, totaled $256,669 for the year ended December 31, 2021, as compared to $225,419 for the year ended December 31, 2020, an increase
−Removed: of $31,250, or 13.9%, which was primarily attributable to an increase in interest expense of approximately $32,000, and an increase in
−Removed: loss from equity method investment of approximately $9,000, offset by a decrease in other miscellaneous expense of approximately $9,000.
−Removed: We did not have any income
−Removed: taxes expense for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020 since we incurred losses in these periods.
−Removed: As a result of the factors
−Removed: described above, our net loss was $9,090,499 for the year ended December 31, 2021, as compared to $12,679,438 for the year ended December
−Removed: 31, 2020, a decrease of $3,588,939 or 28.3%.
−Removed: Net Loss Attributable
−Removed: to Avalon GloboCare Corp.
+Added: As a result of the foregoing, for the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2022, loss from operations amounted to $8,792,895, as compared to $8,833,830 for the year ended December 31, 2021, a decrease
+Added: of $40,935 or 0.5%.
+Added: Other (Expense) Income
+Added: Other (expense) income mainly includes third party
+Added: and related party interest expense, conversion inducement expense, loss from equity method investment, change in fair value of derivative
+Added: liability, and other miscellaneous income.
+Added: Other expense, net, totaled $3,137,952 for the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2022, as compared to $256,669 for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $2,881,283, or 1,122.6%, which was primarily attributable
+Added: to an increase in third party interest expense of approximately $3,496,000 mainly driven by the amortization of debt discount and debt
+Added: issuance cost of approximately $3,311,000 and the increased interest expense of approximately $186,000 from third party debts in year
+Added: 2022, and an increase in conversion inducement expense of approximately $344,000 resulted from the reduction in the conversion price,
+Added: offset by an increase in gain from change in fair value of derivative liability of approximately $601,000, an increase in other miscellaneous
+Added: income of approximately $219,000, mainly driven by reagent sale in year 2022, a decrease in interest expense – related party of
+Added: approximately $121,000 due to the decrease in outstanding borrowing in year 2022, and a decrease in loss from equity method investment
+Added: of approximately $19,000.
+Added: We did not have any income taxes expense for the
+Added: years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 since we incurred losses in these periods.
+Added: As a result of the factors described above, our net loss was $11,930,847
+Added: for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to $9,090,499 for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $2,840,348 or 31.2%.
+Added: Net Loss Attributable to Avalon GloboCare
Common Shareholders
−Removed: net loss attributable to Avalon GloboCare Corp.
−Removed: common shareholders was $9,090,499 or $0.11 per share (basic and diluted) for the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2021, as compared with $12,679,438, or $0.16 per share (basic and diluted) for the year ended December 31, 2020, a
−Removed: change of $3,588,939 or 28.3%.
−Removed: Foreign Currency
−Removed: Translation Adjustment
−Removed: Our reporting currency
−Removed: The functional currency of our parent company, AHS, Avalon RT 9, Genexosome, Avactis, and Exosome, is the U.S.
−Removed: and the functional currency of Avalon Shanghai and Beijing Genexosome is the Chinese Renminbi (“RMB”).
−Removed: The financial statements
−Removed: of our subsidiaries whose functional currency is the RMB are translated to U.S.
−Removed: dollars using period end rates of exchange for assets
−Removed: and liabilities, average rate of exchange for revenues, costs, and expenses and cash flows, and at historical exchange rates for equity.
−Removed: Net gains and losses resulting from foreign exchange transactions are included in the results of operations.
−Removed: As a result of foreign currency
−Removed: translations, which are a non-cash adjustment, we reported a foreign currency translation gain of $25,244 and $67,237 for the years ended
−Removed: December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: This non-cash gain had the effect of decreasing our reported comprehensive loss.
−Removed: Comprehensive Loss
−Removed: of our foreign currency translation adjustment, we had comprehensive loss of $9,065,255 and $12,612,201 for the years ended December 31,
+Added: The net loss attributable to Avalon GloboCare Corp.
+Added: common shareholders
+Added: was $11,930,847 or $1.28 per share (basic and diluted) for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $9,090,499 or $1.07 per
+Added: share (basic and diluted) for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $2,840,348 or 31.2%.
+Added: Foreign Currency Translation Adjustment
+Added: Our reporting currency is the U.S.
+Added: functional currency of our parent company, AHS, Avalon RT 9, Genexosome, Avactis, and Exosome, is the U.S.
+Added: dollar and the functional currency
+Added: of Avalon Shanghai is the Chinese Renminbi (“RMB”).
+Added: The financial statement of our subsidiary whose functional currency is
+Added: the RMB are translated to U.S.
+Added: dollars using period end rate of exchange for assets and liabilities, average rate of exchange for revenues,
+Added: costs, and expenses and cash flows, and at historical exchange rate for equity.
+Added: Net gains and losses resulting from foreign exchange transactions
+Added: are included in the results of operations.
+Added: As a result of foreign currency translations, which are a non-cash adjustment, we reported
+Added: a foreign currency translation loss of $47,871 and a foreign currency translation gain of $ 25,244 for the years ended December 31, 2022
and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: Liquidity and Capital
−Removed: has a limited operating history and its continued growth is dependent upon the continuation of providing medical related consulting services
−Removed: to its only few clients who are related parties and generating rental revenue from its income-producing real estate property in New Jersey;
−Removed: hence generating revenues, and obtaining additional financing to fund future obligations and pay liabilities arising from normal business
−Removed: In addition, the current cash balance cannot be projected to cover the operating expenses for the next twelve months from
−Removed: the release date of this report.
−Removed: These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: The ability of the Company to continue as a going concern is dependent on the Company’s ability to raise additional capital, implement
−Removed: its business plan, and generate significant revenues.
−Removed: There are no assurances that the Company will be successful in its efforts to generate
−Removed: significant revenues, maintain sufficient cash balance or report profitable operations or to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: plans on raising capital through the sale of equity to implement its business plan.
−Removed: However, there is no assurance these plans will be
−Removed: realized and that any additional financings will be available to the Company on satisfactory terms and conditions, if any.
−Removed: The occurrence
−Removed: of an uncontrollable event such as the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to negatively affect the Company’s operations.
−Removed: Efforts to contain
−Removed: the spread of the coronavirus have intensified, including social distancing, travel bans and quarantine, and these are likely
−Removed: to negatively impact our tenants, employees and consultants.
−Removed: These, in turn, will not only impact our operations, financial condition
−Removed: and demand for our medical related consulting services but our overall ability to react timely to mitigate the impact of this event.
−Removed: the dynamic nature of these circumstances, the duration of business disruption and reduced traffic, the related financial effect cannot
−Removed: be reasonably estimated at this time but is expected to adversely impact our business for the year of 2022.
−Removed: is the ability of a company to generate funds to support its current and future operations, satisfy its obligations and otherwise operate
−Removed: on an ongoing basis.
−Removed: At December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had cash balance of approximately $808,000 and $727,000, respectively.
−Removed: funds are kept in financial institutions located as follows:
+Added: This non-cash loss/gain had the effect of increasing/decreasing our reported comprehensive loss.
+Added: Comprehensive Loss
+Added: As a result of our foreign currency translation adjustment, we had
+Added: comprehensive loss of $11,978,718 and $9,065,255 for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
+Added: Liquidity and Capital Resources
+Added: The Company has a limited operating history and
+Added: its continued growth is dependent upon generating rental revenue from its income-producing real estate property in New Jersey and obtaining
+Added: additional financing to fund future obligations and pay liabilities arising from normal business operations.
+Added: In addition, the current
+Added: cash balance cannot be projected to cover the operating expenses for the next twelve months from the release date of this report.
+Added: matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The ability of the Company to continue
+Added: as a going concern is dependent on the Company’s ability to raise additional capital, implement its business plan, and generate
+Added: significant revenues.
+Added: There are no assurances that the Company will be successful in its efforts to generate significant revenues, maintain
+Added: sufficient cash balance or report profitable operations or to continue as a going concern.
+Added: The Company plans on raising capital through
+Added: the sale of equity to implement its business plan.
+Added: However, there is no assurance these plans will be realized and that any additional
+Added: financings will be available to the Company on satisfactory terms and conditions, if any.
+Added: The occurrence of an uncontrollable event such
+Added: as the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to negatively affect the Company’s operations.
+Added: Efforts to contain the spread of the coronavirus
+Added: have intensified, including social distancing, travel bans and quarantine, and these are likely to negatively impact our tenants, employees
+Added: and consultants.
+Added: These, in turn, will not only impact our operations, financial condition and demand for our medical related consulting
+Added: services but our overall ability to react timely to mitigate the impact of this event.
+Added: Given the dynamic nature of these circumstances,
+Added: the duration of business disruption and reduced traffic, the related financial effect cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.
+Added: Liquidity is the ability of a company to generate
+Added: funds to support its current and future operations, satisfy its obligations and otherwise operate on an ongoing basis.
+Added: At December 31,
+Added: 2022 and 2021, we had cash balance of approximately $1,991,000 and $808,000, respectively.
+Added: These funds are kept in financial institutions
+Added: located as follows:
December 31, 2022
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United States
−Removed: Under applicable PRC
−Removed: regulations, foreign invested enterprises, or FIEs, in China may pay dividends only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined
−Removed: in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations.
−Removed: In addition, a foreign invested enterprise in China is required to set aside
−Removed: at least 10% of its after-tax profit based on PRC accounting standards each year to its general reserves until the cumulative amount of
−Removed: such reserves reach 50% of its registered capital.
+Added: Under applicable PRC regulations, foreign invested
+Added: enterprises, or FIEs, in China may pay dividends only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with PRC accounting
+Added: standards and regulations.
+Added: In addition, a foreign invested enterprise in China is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax
+Added: profit based on PRC accounting standards each year to its general reserves until the cumulative amount of such reserves reach 50% of its
+Added: registered capital.
These reserves are not distributable as cash dividends.
−Removed: In addition, a portion
−Removed: of our businesses and assets are denominated in RMB, which is not freely convertible into foreign currencies.
−Removed: All foreign exchange transactions
−Removed: take place either through the People’s Bank of China or other banks authorized to buy and sell foreign currencies at the exchange
−Removed: rates quoted by the People’s Bank of China.
−Removed: Approval of foreign currency payments by the People’s Bank of China or other regulatory
−Removed: institutions requires submitting a payment application form together with suppliers’ invoices, shipping documents and signed contracts.
−Removed: These currency exchange control procedures imposed by the PRC government authorities may restrict the ability of our PRC subsidiary to
−Removed: transfer its net assets to the Parent Company through loans, advances or cash dividends.
−Removed: The current PRC Enterprise
−Removed: Income Tax (“EIT”) Law and its implementing rules generally provide that a 10% withholding tax applies to China-sourced income
−Removed: derived by non-resident enterprises for PRC enterprise income tax purposes unless the jurisdiction of incorporation of such enterprises’
−Removed: shareholder has a tax treaty with China that provides for a different withholding arrangement.
−Removed: The following
−Removed: table sets forth a summary of changes in our working capital from December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2021 :
+Added: In addition, a small portion of our assets are
+Added: denominated in RMB, which is not freely convertible into foreign currencies.
+Added: All foreign exchange transactions take place either through
+Added: the People’s Bank of China or other banks authorized to buy and sell foreign currencies at the exchange rates quoted by the People’s
+Added: Bank of China.
+Added: Approval of foreign currency payments by the People’s Bank of China or other regulatory institutions requires submitting
+Added: a payment application form together with suppliers’ invoices, shipping documents and signed contracts.
+Added: These currency exchange control
+Added: procedures imposed by the PRC government authorities may restrict the ability of our PRC subsidiary to transfer its net assets to the
+Added: Parent Company through loans, advances or cash dividends.
+Added: The current PRC Enterprise Income Tax (“EIT”)
+Added: Law and its implementing rules generally provide that a 10% withholding tax applies to China-sourced income derived by non-resident enterprises
+Added: for PRC enterprise income tax purposes unless the jurisdiction of incorporation of such enterprises’ shareholder has a tax treaty
+Added: with China that provides for a different withholding arrangement.
+Added: The following table sets forth a summary of changes
+Added: in our working capital deficit from December 31, 2021 to December 31, 2022:
Working capital deficit:
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$ (3,078,616 )
−Removed: $ (1,772,560 )
−Removed: Our working capital deficit
−Removed: increased by $1,772,560 to $3,078,616 at December 31, 2021 from $1,306,056 at December 31, 2020.
−Removed: The increase in working capital
−Removed: deficit was primarily attributable to a decrease in prepaid expenses and other current assets of approximately $101,000, an increase in
−Removed: accrued professional fees of approximately $669,000, mainly due to an increase in professional services providers, an increase in accrued
−Removed: research and development fees of approximately $415,000, an increase in accrued payroll liability and directors’ compensation of
−Removed: approximately $153,000, an increase in accrued liabilities and other payables – related parties of approximately $200,000, and an
−Removed: increase in note payable – related party of $390,000, offset by an increase in prepaid professional fees of approximately $108,000.
−Removed: Because the exchange
−Removed: rate conversion is different for the consolidated balance sheets and the consolidated statements of cash flows, the changes in assets
−Removed: and liabilities reflected on the consolidated statements of cash flows are not necessarily identical with the comparable changes reflected
−Removed: on the consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: Flows for the Year Ended December 31, 2021 Compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2020
−Removed: following summarizes the key components of our cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020:
+Added: Our working capital deficit decreased by $1,872,337
+Added: to $1,206,279 at December 31, 2022 from $3,078,616 at December 31, 2021.
+Added: The decrease in working capital deficit was primarily attributable
+Added: to an increase in cash of approximately $1,183,000 mainly due to the issuance of convertible debt and balloon promissory note in year
+Added: 2022, a decrease in accrued professional fees of approximately $208,000 which was mainly due to payments made to our professional service
+Added: providers in the year ended December 31, 2022, a decrease in accrued research and development fees of approximately $90,000 resulting
+Added: from payments made to research and development service providers in the year ended December 31, 2022, a decrease in accrued payroll liability
+Added: and directors’ compensation of approximately $83,000, a decrease in accrued liabilities and other payables – related parties
+Added: of approximately $368,000 which was mainly attributable to the accrued and unpaid related party interest was settled in shares in the
+Added: year ended December 31, 2022, a decrease in operating lease obligation of approximately $140,000, a decrease in note payable – related
+Added: party of $390,000 due to repayment made to this related party in the year ended December 31, 2022, offset by a decrease in other current
+Added: assets of approximately $200,000, which was mainly attributable to the decrease in prepaid professional fee of approximately $93,000,
+Added: which were recognized as expense over the related service period in year 2022, and the decrease in recoverable VAT of approximately $20,000
+Added: and the decrease in other miscellaneous items of approximately $87,000, and an increase in accrued settlement of lawsuit of $450,000 due
+Added: to a settlement signed in June 2022.
+Added: Because the exchange rate conversion is different
+Added: for the consolidated balance sheets and the consolidated statements of cash flows, the changes in assets and liabilities reflected on
+Added: the consolidated statements of cash flows are not necessarily identical with the comparable changes reflected on the consolidated balance
+Added: Cash Flows for the Year Ended December 31,
+Added: 2022 Compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2021
+Added: The following summarizes the key components of
+Added: our cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021:
Years Ended December 31,
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Net cash provided by financing activities
−Removed: Effect of exchange rate on cash
−Removed: Net increase (decrease) in cash
−Removed: Net cash flow used in
−Removed: operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $5,024,479, which primarily reflected our consolidated net loss of approximately
−Removed: $9,090,000, and the changes in operating assets and liabilities, primarily consisting of a decrease in operating lease obligation of approximately
−Removed: $121,000, offset by an increase accrued liabilities and other payables of approximately $1,331,000, and an increase in accrued liabilities
−Removed: and other payables – related parties of approximately $200,000, and the non-cash items adjustment primarily consisting of depreciation
−Removed: of approximately $312,000, amortization of right-of-use asset of approximately $127,000, and stock-based compensation and service expense
−Removed: of approximately $2,110,000.
+Added: Effect of exchange rate on cash and restricted cash
+Added: Net increase in cash and restricted cash
+Added: Net cash flow used in operating activities for the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2022 was $7,037,224, which primarily reflected our consolidated net loss of approximately $11,931,000, and the non-cash item adjustment
+Added: consisting of change in fair market value of derivative liability of approximately $601,000, and the changes in operating assets and liabilities,
+Added: primarily consisting of a decrease in operating lease obligation of approximately $142,000, offset by an increase in accrued liabilities
+Added: and other payables of approximately $331,000, an increase in accrued liabilities and other payables – related parties of approximately
+Added: $80,000, and the non-cash items adjustment primarily consisting of depreciation of approximately $331,000, amortization of right-of-use
+Added: asset of approximately $136,000, stock-based compensation and service expense of approximately $1,107,000, amortization of debt discount
+Added: of approximately $3,281,000 mainly resulting from the conversion of convertible debt in July 2022, and conversion inducement expense of
+Added: approximately $344,000 resulted from the reduction in the conversion price.
Net cash flow used in operating activities for
the year ended December 31, 2021 was $5,024,479, which primarily reflected our consolidated net loss of approximately $9,090,000, and
−Removed: the changes in operating assets and liabilities, primarily consisting of an increase in prepaid expenses and other current assets of approximately
−Removed: $207,000, a decrease in accrued liabilities and other payables of approximately $846,000, offset by a decrease in accounts receivable
−Removed: – related party of approximately $217,000, an increase in accrued liabilities and other payables – related parties of approximately
−Removed: $119,000, and the non-cash items adjustment primarily consisting of depreciation of approximately $315,000, and stock-based compensation
−Removed: and service expense of approximately $5,494,000.
−Removed: our cash used in operating activities to increase due to the following :
−Removed: ● the development and
−Removed: commercialization of new products;
−Removed: ● an increase in professional
−Removed: staff and services;
−Removed: ● an increase in
−Removed: public relations and/or sales promotions for existing and/or new brands as we expand within existing markets or enter new markets.
−Removed: cash flow used in investing activities was $68,135 for the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to $169,185 for the year ended
−Removed: December 31, 2020.
+Added: the changes in operating assets and liabilities, primarily consisting of a decrease in operating lease obligation of approximately $121,000,
+Added: offset by an increase accrued liabilities and other payables of approximately $1,331,000, which was mainly attributable the increase in
+Added: accrued professional fees of approximately $669,000 due to increased professional service providers, the increase in accrued research
+Added: and development fees of approximately $415,000 which was primarily attributable to we increased research and development projects in 2021,
+Added: and the increase in accrued payroll liability and directors’ compensation of approximately $153,000, and an increase in accrued
+Added: liabilities and other payables – related parties of approximately $200,000 resulting from the increase in accrued interest for related
+Added: party borrowings, and the non-cash items adjustment primarily consisting of depreciation of approximately $312,000, amortization of right-of-use
+Added: asset of approximately $127,000, and stock-based compensation and service expense of approximately $2,110,000.
+Added: We expect our cash used in operating activities
+Added: to increase due to the following:
+Added: ● the development and commercialization of new
+Added: ● an increase in professional staff and services;
+Added: ● an increase in public relations and/or sales
+Added: promotions for existing and/or new brands as we expand within existing markets or enter new markets.
+Added: Net cash flow used in investing activities was
+Added: $5,053,748 for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to $68,135 for the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: During the year ended December
+Added: 31, 2022, we made payments for purchase of property and equipment of approximately $2,000 and made additional investment in Epicon equity
+Added: method investment of approximately $52,000 and made payments for acquisition of 40% interest in Laboratory Services MSO, LLC of approximately
During the year ended December 31, 2021, we made payments for purchase of property and equipment of approximately $18,000
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approximately $40,000.
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, we made payment for improvement of commercial real estate
−Removed: of approximately $111,000 and made additional investment in equity method investment of approximately $58,000.
−Removed: Net cash flow provided
−Removed: by financing activities was $5,170,132 for the year ended December 31, 2021 as compared to $7,664,281 for the year ended December 31,
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2021, we received proceeds from related party borrowings of approximately $2,550,000 and net
−Removed: proceeds from equity offering of approximately $2,620,000 (net of cash paid for commission and other offering costs of approximately $240,000).
−Removed: During the year ended December 31, 2020, we received proceeds from related party borrowings of $600,000 and net proceeds from equity offering
−Removed: of approximately $7,264,000 (net of cash paid for commission and other offering costs of approximately $540,000), offset by repayments
−Removed: made for note payable – related party of $200,000.
−Removed: Our capital requirements
−Removed: for the next twelve months primarily relate to working capital requirements, including salaries, fees related to third parties’
−Removed: professional services, reduction of accrued liabilities, mergers, acquisitions and the development of business opportunities.
−Removed: of cash will depend on numerous factors including our sales and other revenues, and our ability to control costs.
−Removed: All funds received have
−Removed: been expended in the furtherance of growing the business.
−Removed: The following trends are reasonably likely to result in a material decrease
−Removed: in our liquidity over the near to long term:
−Removed: ● an increase in working capital requirements to finance our
−Removed: current business, including ongoing research and development programs, clinical studies, as well as commercial strategies;
−Removed: ● the use of capital for mergers, acquisitions and the development
−Removed: of business opportunities;
−Removed: ● addition of administrative personnel as the business grows;
+Added: Net cash flow provided by financing activities
+Added: was $17,263,989 for the year ended December 31, 2022 as compared to $5,170,132 for the year ended December 31, 2021.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: December 31, 2022, we received proceeds from related party borrowings of $100,000, and proceeds from issuance of convertible debt and
+Added: warrants of approximately $3,719,000, and net proceeds from issuance of balloon promissory note of approximately $4,534,000 (net of cash
+Added: paid for debt issuance costs of approximately $266,000), and net proceeds from equity offering of approximately $712,000 (net of cash
+Added: paid for commission and other offering costs of approximately $24,000), and proceeds from issuance of Series A preferred stock of $9,000,000
+Added: to fund our working capital needs, offset by repayments made for note payable – related party of $390,000 and repayments made for
+Added: loan payable – related party of $410,000.
+Added: During the year ended December 31, 2021, we received proceeds from related party borrowings
+Added: of approximately $2,550,000 and net proceeds from equity offering of approximately $2,620,000 (net of cash paid for commission and other
+Added: offering costs of approximately $240,000) to fund our working capital needs.
+Added: Our capital requirements for the next twelve months
+Added: primarily relate to working capital requirements, including salaries, fees related to third parties’ professional services, reduction
+Added: of accrued liabilities, mergers, acquisitions and the development of business opportunities.
+Added: These uses of cash will depend on numerous
+Added: factors including our revenues and our ability to control costs.
+Added: All funds received have been expended in the furtherance of growing the
+Added: The following trends are reasonably likely to result in a material decrease in our liquidity over the near to long term:
+Added: ● an increase in working capital requirements to
+Added: finance our current business, including ongoing research and development programs, clinical studies, as well as commercial strategies;
+Added: ● the use of capital for mergers, acquisitions
+Added: and the development of business opportunities;
+Added: ● addition of administrative personnel as the business
● the cost of being a public company.
−Removed: In the third quarter
−Removed: of 2019, we had secured a $20 million credit facility (Line of Credit) provided by our Chairman, Wenzhao Lu.
−Removed: The unsecured credit facility
−Removed: bears interest at a rate of 5% and provides for maturity on drawn loans 36 months after funding.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the total principal
−Removed: amount outstanding under the Credit Line was $2.8 million and we have approximately $14.2 million remaining available under the Line
−Removed: On December 13,
−Removed: 2019, we entered into an Open Market Sale Agreement SM (the “Sales Agreement”) with Jefferies LLC, as sales
−Removed: agent (“Jefferies”), pursuant to which we may offer and sell, from time to time, through Jefferies, shares of our common stock,
−Removed: par value $0.0001 per share, having an aggregate offering price of up to $20.0 million.
−Removed: On April 6, 2020, the date on which we filed our
−Removed: Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, our registration statement became subject to the
−Removed: offering limits set forth in General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
−Removed: As of April 6, 2020, the aggregate market value of our outstanding
−Removed: common stock held by non-affiliates, or public float, was $39,564,237, based on 23,691,160 shares of our outstanding common
−Removed: stock that were held by non-affiliates on such date and a price of $1.67 per share, which was the price at which our common
−Removed: stock was last sold on The Nasdaq Capital Market on February 19, 2020 (a date within 60 days of the date hereof), calculated in accordance
−Removed: with General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
−Removed: We have not offered any securities pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of
−Removed: Form S-3 in the 12 calendar months preceding the date of this prospectus supplement.
−Removed: We filed a prospectus supplement to amend
−Removed: and supplement the information in our prospectus and original prospectus supplement based on the amount of securities that we are eligible
−Removed: to sell under General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
−Removed: After giving effect to the $13,000,000 offering limit imposed by General
−Removed: Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, we may offer and sell additional shares of our common stock having an aggregate offering
−Removed: price of up to $13,000,000 from time to time through Jefferies acting as our sales agent in accordance with the terms of the sales
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, we sold a total of 6,258,846 shares of our common stock through Jefferies with an aggregate offering
−Removed: price of $9,938,140 and we have approximately $5.0 million offering price remaining available under the Sales Agreement.
−Removed: estimate that based on current plans and assumptions, that our available cash will be insufficient to satisfy our cash requirements under
−Removed: our present operating expectations through cash available under our Credit Line and sales of equity through our Sales Agreement.
−Removed: than funds received from the sale of our equity and advances from our related party, and cash resource generating from our operations,
−Removed: we presently have no other significant alternative source of working capital.
−Removed: We have used these funds to fund our operating expenses,
−Removed: pay our obligations and grow our company.
−Removed: We will need to raise significant additional capital to fund our operations and to provide working
−Removed: capital for our ongoing operations and obligations.
−Removed: Therefore, our future operation is dependent on our ability to secure additional financing.
−Removed: Financing transactions may include the issuance of equity or debt securities, obtaining credit facilities, or other financing mechanisms.
+Added: In the third quarter of 2019, we had secured a
+Added: $20 million credit facility (Line of Credit) provided by our Chairman, Wenzhao Lu.
+Added: The unsecured credit facility bears interest at a rate
+Added: of 5% and provides for maturity on drawn loans 36 months after funding.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the total principal amount outstanding
+Added: under the Credit Line was $0 and we used approximately $5.9 million of the credit facility and have approximately $14.1 million remaining
+Added: available under the Line Credit.
+Added: On December 13, 2019, we entered into an
+Added: Open Market Sale Agreement SM (the “Sales Agreement”) with Jefferies LLC, as sales agent (“Jefferies”),
+Added: pursuant to which we may offer and sell, from time to time, through Jefferies, shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001 per share,
+Added: having an aggregate offering price of up to $20.0 million.
+Added: On April 6, 2020, the date on which we filed our Annual Report on Form 10-K for
+Added: the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, our registration statement became subject to the offering limits set forth in General Instruction
+Added: I.B.6 of Form S-3.
+Added: As of April 6, 2020, the aggregate market value of our outstanding common stock held by non-affiliates, or
+Added: public float, was $39,564,237, based on 2,369,116 shares of our outstanding common stock that were held by non-affiliates on
+Added: such date and a price of $16.7 per share, which was the price at which our common stock was last sold on The Nasdaq Capital Market on
+Added: February 19, 2020 (a date within 60 days of the date hereof), calculated in accordance with General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
+Added: have not offered any securities pursuant to General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3 in the 12 calendar months preceding the date
+Added: of this prospectus supplement.
+Added: We filed a prospectus supplement to amend and supplement the information in our prospectus and original
+Added: prospectus supplement based on the amount of securities that we are eligible to sell under General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3.
+Added: giving effect to the $13,000,000 offering limit imposed by General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, we may offer and sell
+Added: additional shares of our common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $13,000,000 from time to time through Jefferies acting
+Added: as our sales agent in accordance with the terms of the sales agreement.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we sold a total of 642,949 shares
+Added: of our common stock through Jefferies with an aggregate offering price of $10,073,707 and we have approximately $4.9 million offering
+Added: price remaining available under the Sales Agreement.
+Added: We estimate that based on current plans and assumptions,
+Added: that our available cash will be insufficient to satisfy our cash requirements under our present operating expectations through cash available
+Added: under our Credit Line and sales of equity through our Sales Agreement.
+Added: Under the Line of Credit, the Company received a loan from the
+Added: Lender of $750,000 in March 2023.
+Added: Other than funds received from the sale of our equity and advances from our related party, and cash
+Added: resource generating from our operations, we presently have no other significant alternative source of working capital.
+Added: We have used these
+Added: funds to fund our operating expenses, pay our obligations and grow our company.
+Added: We will need to raise significant additional capital to
+Added: fund our operations and to provide working capital for our ongoing operations and obligations.
+Added: Therefore, our future operation is dependent
+Added: on our ability to secure additional financing.
+Added: Financing transactions may include the issuance of equity or debt securities, obtaining
+Added: credit facilities, or other financing mechanisms.
However, the trading price of our common stock and a downturn in the U.S.
−Removed: equity and debt markets could make it more difficult to obtain
−Removed: financing through the issuance of equity or debt securities.
−Removed: Even if we are able to raise the funds required, it is possible that we could
−Removed: incur unexpected costs and expenses or experience unexpected cash requirements that would force us to seek alternative financing.
−Removed: if we issue additional equity or debt securities, stockholders may experience additional dilution or the new equity securities may have
−Removed: rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing holders of our common stock.
−Removed: The inability to obtain additional capital
−Removed: may restrict our ability to grow and may reduce our ability to continue to conduct business operations.
−Removed: If we are unable to obtain additional
−Removed: financing, we will be required to cease our operations.
−Removed: To date, we have not considered this alternative, nor do we view it as a likely
−Removed: Contractual Obligations and Off-Balance Sheet
−Removed: Contractual Obligations
−Removed: certain fixed contractual obligations and commitments that include future estimated payments.
−Removed: Changes in our business needs, cancellation
−Removed: provisions, and other factors may result in actual payments differing from the estimates.
−Removed: We cannot provide certainty regarding the timing
−Removed: and amounts of payments.
−Removed: We have presented below a summary of the most significant assumptions used in our determination of amounts presented
−Removed: in the tables, in order to assist in the review of this information within the context of our consolidated financial position, results
−Removed: of operations, and cash flows.
−Removed: The following tables summarize our contractual obligations as of December 31, 2021, and the effect these
−Removed: obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods .
−Removed: Payments Due by Period
−Removed: Contractual obligations:
−Removed: Less than 1 year
−Removed: Operating lease commitment
−Removed: Acquisition consideration
−Removed: Borrowings from related party (principal)
−Removed: Accrued interest – related party
−Removed: Epicon equity investment obligation
−Removed: AVAR joint venture commitment
+Added: debt markets could make it more difficult to obtain financing through the issuance of equity or debt securities.
+Added: Even if we are able to
+Added: raise the funds required, it is possible that we could incur unexpected costs and expenses or experience unexpected cash requirements
+Added: that would force us to seek alternative financing.
+Added: Furthermore, if we issue additional equity or debt securities, stockholders may experience
+Added: additional dilution or the new equity securities may have rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of existing holders of our
+Added: common stock.
+Added: The inability to obtain additional capital may restrict our ability to grow and may reduce our ability to continue to conduct
+Added: business operations.
+Added: If we are unable to obtain additional financing, we will be required to cease our operations.
+Added: To date, we have not
+Added: considered this alternative, nor do we view it as a likely occurrence.
Off-balance Sheet Arrangements
−Removed: do not have off-balance sheet arrangements.
+Added: We presently do not have off-balance sheet arrangements.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk
−Removed: A portion of our operations
−Removed: are in China.
−Removed: Thus, a portion of our revenues and operating results may be impacted by exchange rate fluctuations between RMB and US dollars.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, we had an unrealized foreign currency translation gain of approximately $25,000 and $67,000,
−Removed: respectively, because of changes in the exchange rate.
−Removed: of inflation on our revenue and operating results was not significant.
+Added: In November of 2022, we decided to cease all operations
+Added: in China with the exception of a small administrative office, Avalon Shanghai.
+Added: We do not expect nor do we plan that there will be further
+Added: revenue generated from PRC operations in the foreseeable future.
+Added: Thus, exchange rate fluctuations between RMB and US dollars do not have
+Added: a material effect on us.
+Added: For the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, we had an unrealized foreign currency translation loss of approximately
+Added: $48,000 and an unrealized foreign currency translation gain of approximately $25,000, respectively, because of changes in the exchange
+Added: The effect of inflation on our revenue and operating
+Added: results was not significant.
QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES
ABOUT MARKET RISK
−Removed: As a smaller reporting company,
−Removed: as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, we are not required to provide the information required by this Item.
+Added: As a smaller reporting company, as defined in
+Added: Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act, we are not required to provide the information required by this Item.
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
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