Risks Related to our Business and Industry
+Added: financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis, we must complete the sale of our facility to fund our operations in
+Added: order to alleviate as a going concern.
+Added: Our current liquidity position raises substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a
+Added: going concern.
+Added: If we are able to improve our liquidity position by completing the sale of our facility, we may alleviate our going concern.
+Added: While we believe the sale of the facility and the sale of real estate as a whole to be less speculative as a whole, we acknowledge that
+Added: the transaction still remains to be completed and the risks remain in completion of that transaction.
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial
+Added: statements do not include any adjustments that might result.
We have a history of operating losses, and
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December 31, 2023, we had an accumulated deficit of $22,582,170.
−Removed: If we are not successful in growing revenues and controlling
−Removed: costs, we will not maintain profitable operations or positive cash flow, and even if we achieve profitability in the future, we may not
−Removed: be able to sustain profitability in subsequent periods.
+Added: If we are not successful in growing revenues and controlling costs, we
+Added: will not maintain profitable operations or positive cash flow, and even if we achieve profitability in the future, we may not be able
+Added: to sustain profitability in subsequent periods.
Because we have a limiting operating history
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our limited financial resources and operating history.
−Removed: In addition, the loss of any key employees or the inability to attract or retain
−Removed: qualified personnel could delay our plan of operations and harm our ability to provide services to our current customer, Hydrofarm, and
−Removed: harm the market’s perception of us.
Regulatory actions could limit our ability
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to use regulatory actions to reduce the market opportunity for our products or to increase the market opportunity for their own products.
−Removed: We outsource our product manufacturing
−Removed: and are susceptible to problems in connection with procurement, decreasing quality, reliability and protectability.
+Added: We outsource our product manufacturing and
+Added: are susceptible to problems in connection with procurement, decreasing quality, reliability and protectability.
We assemble our Ubiquitor devices by using fully
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Internal system or service failures, including
−Removed: as a result of cyber or other security incidents, could disrupt business operations, result in the loss of critical and confidential
−Removed: information, and adversely impact our reputation, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
−Removed: Our connected
−Removed: products potentially expose our business to cybersecurity threats.
+Added: as a result of cyber or other security incidents, could disrupt business operations, result in the loss of critical and confidential information,
+Added: and adversely impact our reputation, our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
+Added: Our connected products potentially
+Added: expose our business to cybersecurity threats.
Some of our products connect to the internet and
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with operations as we diversify away from a single dominant customer.
−Removed: While in the past we were subject to volatility as
−Removed: a result of having only one dominant customer, diversification away from a single customer also poses some risks associated with the migration,
−Removed: While the company will possess more revenues streams, the migration away from a single steady customer poses risks as we begin to build
−Removed: new relationships.
−Removed: Along with new marketing efforts, we need to continue to cater to the needs of these new customers or the business
−Removed: may fluctuate or vanish.
+Added: While in the past we were subject to volatility
+Added: as a result of having only one dominant customer, diversification away from a single customer also poses some risks associated with the
+Added: migration, While the company will possess more revenues streams, the migration away from a single steady customer poses risks as we begin
+Added: to build new relationships.
+Added: Along with new marketing efforts, we need to continue to cater to the needs of these new customers or the
+Added: business may fluctuate or vanish.
Our air filtration business segment could
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of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: A material weakness in our internal control over
−Removed: financial reporting could adversely impact our ability to provide timely and accurate financial information.
−Removed: If we are unsuccessful in
−Removed: implementing or following our remediation plan, we may not be able to timely or accurately report our financial condition, results of
−Removed: operations or cash flows or maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures.
−Removed: If we are unable to report financial information timely
−Removed: and accurately or to maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures, we could be subject to, among other things, regulatory or
−Removed: enforcement actions by the SEC, any one of which could adversely affect our business prospects.
+Added: material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting could adversely impact our ability to provide timely and accurate financial
+Added: If we are unsuccessful in implementing or following our remediation plan, we may not be able to timely or accurately report
+Added: our financial condition, results of operations or cash flows or maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures.
+Added: If we are unable
+Added: to report financial information timely and accurately or to maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures, we could be subject
+Added: to, among other things, regulatory or enforcement actions by the SEC, any one of which could adversely affect our business prospects.
Our executive officers and directors collectively
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Our CEO and one of our directors, Dr.
−Removed: Wang, owns 33.345% of the outstanding shares of our common stock as of the date of this report.
+Added: Desheng Wang,
+Added: owns 33.343% of the outstanding shares of our common stock as of the date of this report.
Two of our directors together own over 50%
of the outstanding shares of our common stock.
−Removed: Accordingly, our directors have a significant influence in determining the outcome
−Removed: of all corporate transactions or other matters, including mergers, consolidations, and the sale of all or substantially all of our assets.
+Added: Accordingly, our directors have a significant influence in determining the outcome of
+Added: all corporate transactions or other matters, including mergers, consolidations, and the sale of all or substantially all of our assets.
They also have the power to prevent or cause a change in control.
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other stockholders and thus result in corporate decisions that are disadvantageous to other shareholders.
−Removed: Management currently beneficially owns most of
−Removed: our outstanding common stock.
−Removed: Consequently, management can influence control of the operations of the Company and, acting together, will
−Removed: have the ability to influence or control substantially all matters submitted to stockholders for approval, including:
+Added: Management currently beneficially
+Added: owns most of our outstanding common stock.
+Added: Consequently, management can influence control of the operations of the Company and, acting
+Added: together, will have the ability to influence or control substantially all matters submitted to stockholders for approval, including:
Election of our board of directors;
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stockholders could cause our stock price to decline.
−Removed: If our existing stockholders sell substantial shares
−Removed: of our common stock in the public market, then the market price of our common stock could decrease significantly.
−Removed: The perception in the
−Removed: public market that our stockholders might sell shares of common stock also could depress the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: approximately 43,229,653 shares of our common stock outstanding as of March 22, 2023, of which approximately 17,946,923 shares are currently
−Removed: freely tradable.
+Added: If our existing stockholders sell substantial
+Added: shares of our common stock in the public market, then the market price of our common stock could decrease significantly.
+Added: The perception
+Added: in the public market that our stockholders might sell shares of common stock also could depress the market price of our common stock.
+Added: There are approximately 64,771,817 shares of our common stock outstanding as of April 1, 2024, of which approximately 26,989,222 shares
+Added: are currently freely tradable.
Certain existing holders of most of our common
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stock may not be maintained.
−Removed: Our common stock is currently listed on the Nasdaq
−Removed: Global Market under the symbol “FCUV,” but we can provide no assurance that we will be able to maintain an active trading
−Removed: market on this or any other exchange in the future.
−Removed: A lack of an active market may impair the ability of our stockholders to sell shares
−Removed: at the time they wish to sell or at a price that they consider favorable.
−Removed: The lack of an active market may also reduce the fair market
−Removed: value of our common stock, impair our ability to raise capital by selling shares of capital stock and may impair our ability to use common
−Removed: stock as consideration to attract and retain talent or engage in business transactions (including mergers and acquisitions).
−Removed: our common stock was listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
+Added: Our common stock is currently
+Added: listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “FCUV,” but we can provide no assurance that we will be able to maintain
+Added: an active trading market on this or any other exchange in the future.
+Added: A lack of an active market may impair the ability of our stockholders
+Added: to sell shares at the time they wish to sell or at a price that they consider favorable.
+Added: The lack of an active market may also reduce
+Added: the fair market value of our common stock, impair our ability to raise capital by selling shares of capital stock and may impair our ability
+Added: to use common stock as consideration to attract and retain talent or engage in business transactions (including mergers and acquisitions).
+Added: In 2021, our common stock was listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market.
Our stock was uplisted onto the Nasdaq Global Market on January 28,
+Added: On March 20, 2024 and March 22, 2024, we received two separate letters from the Listing Qualifications Department (the “Staff”)
+Added: of the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”).
+Added: The March 20, 2024 letter was notifying the Company that based upon the closing bid
+Added: price for the last 30 consecutive business days, the Company no longer meets the Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) (the “Bid Price
+Added: In addition, on March 22, 2024, Nasdaq notified the Company that since the Company’s Market Value of Listed Securities
+Added: (“MVLS”) has fallen below $50,000,000 the Company no longer satisfies the requirements to qualify for the Nasdaq Global Market
+Added: pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(b)(2)(A) (the “MVLS Rule”).
+Added: The notification received has no immediate effect on the
+Added: Company’s Nasdaq listing.
+Added: In accordance with Nasdaq
+Added: Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A) and 5810(c)(3)(C) (the “Compliance Period Rule”), the Company has been provided an initial period
+Added: of 180 calendar days, or until September 16, 2024 and September 18, 2024, (the “Compliance Date”), to regain compliance with
+Added: the Bid Price Rule and the MVLS Rule, respectively.
+Added: If, at any time before the Compliance Date, the bid price of the Company’s security
+Added: is at least $1 for a minimum of ten consecutive business days, the Staff will provide written confirmation of compliance to the Company
+Added: and this matter will be closed with respect to the Bid Price Rule.
+Added: Concurrently, if, at any time before the Compliance date the Company’s
+Added: MVLS is over $50,000,000 or more for a minimum of ten consecutive business days then this matter will be closed with respect to the MVLS
+Added: If the Company is not
+Added: in compliance with the Bid Price Rule by September 16, 2024, the Company may be afforded a second 180 calendar day period to regain compliance.
+Added: Pursuant to Rule 5810(c)(3)(A)(i)-(ii), to qualify, the Company would be required to transfer to The Nasdaq Capital Market and then meet
+Added: the continued listing requirement for market value of publicly held shares and all other initial listing standards for The Nasdaq Capital
+Added: Market, with the exception of the bid price requirement, and would need to provide written notice of its intention to cure the deficiency
+Added: during the second compliance period, by effecting a reverse stock split, if necessary.
+Added: For the MVLS Rule, if the Company does not regain
+Added: compliance by September 18, 2024, then the Company will be required to transfer to the Nasdaq Capital Market where the MVLS is $35,000,000.
+Added: The Company will continue
+Added: to actively monitor the closing bid price of its common stock and will evaluate available options, including, without limitation, submitting
+Added: a transfer application to the Nasdaq Capital Market and/or seeking to effect a reverse stock split, in order to resolve the deficiency
+Added: and regain compliance with the Bid Price Rule and the MVLS Rule.
+Added: The Company’s common stock will continue to be listed and traded
+Added: on The Nasdaq Global Market during the first 180-day compliance period that ends on the Compliance Date, subject to the Company’s
+Added: compliance with the other continued listing requirements of the Nasdaq Global Market.
Our shares of common stock are only recently
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in this market segment.
−Removed: UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
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