−Removed: Financial Statements
−Removed: and Supplementary Data.
−Removed: KAIVAL BRANDS INNOVATIONS
+Added: Financial Statements and Supplementary
+Added: KAIVAL BRANDS INNOVATIONS GROUP, INC.
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
−Removed: Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID:
−Removed: Balance Sheets
−Removed: Statements of Operations
−Removed: Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
−Removed: Statements of Cash Flows
−Removed: to Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
+Added: Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (PCAOB ID:
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
+Added: Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
To the Shareholders and Board of Directors of
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Opinion on the Financial Statements
−Removed: We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance
−Removed: sheet s of Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
−Removed: and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”)
−Removed: as of October 31, 2023 and 2022, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash
−Removed: flows for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
−Removed: In our opinion,
−Removed: the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of October 31, 2023 and 2022,
−Removed: and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally
−Removed: accepted in the United States of America.
+Added: We have audited the accompanying consolidated
+Added: balance sheets of Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
+Added: and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) as of October 31,
+Added: 2024 and 2023, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the years
+Added: then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).
+Added: In our opinion, the financial
+Added: statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of October 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results
+Added: of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the
+Added: United States of America.
Going Concern Matter
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As discussed in Note 3 to the financial statements, the Company
−Removed: has suffered recurring losses and negative cash flows from operations which raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a
−Removed: going concern.
+Added: has suffered recurring losses and negative cash flows from operations which raised substantial doubt about its ability to continue as
+Added: a going concern.
Management's plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 3.
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February 7, 2025
−Removed: Kaival Brands Innovations
−Removed: Balance Sheets
−Removed: receivable - related party - short term
−Removed: Inventories, net
−Removed: tax receivable
−Removed: current assets
−Removed: receivable - related party - net of current portion
+Added: Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
+Added: Consolidated Balance Sheets
+Added: receivable, net
+Added: Total current
+Added: Fixed assets,
of use asset - operating lease
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payable - related party
+Added: Loans payable,
lease obligation - short term
−Removed: current liabilities
−Removed: TERM LIABILITIES:
+Added: Total current
lease obligation, net of current portion
+Added: and Contingencies (Note 11)
STOCKHOLDERS’
5,000,000 shares authorized
−Removed: A Convertible Preferred stock ($ 0.001 par value, 3,000,000 shares authorized, none issued and outstanding as
−Removed: of October 31, 2023 and October 31, 2022, respectively)
−Removed: B Convertible Preferred stock ($ 0.001 par value, 900,000 shares authorized, 900,000 and none issued and outstanding
−Removed: as of October 31, 2023 and October 31, 2022, respectively)
+Added: A Convertible Preferred stock ($ 0.001 par value, 3,000,000 shares authorized, none issued and outstanding as of October 31, 2024 and
+Added: October 31, 2023)
+Added: Series B Convertible
+Added: Preferred stock ($ 0.001 par value, 900,000 shares authorized, 900,000 issued and outstanding as of October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023)
+Added: Common stock ($ .001
par value, 1,000,000,000 shares authorized, 8,517,302 and 2,793,386 shares issued and outstanding as of October 31, 2024 and October
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STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
−Removed: LIABILITIES & EQUITY
−Removed: The accompanying notes
−Removed: are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Kaival Brands Innovations
−Removed: Statements of Operations
−Removed: the Years Ended October 31,
−Removed: - related party
−Removed: tax on products
+Added: LIABILITIES & STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Operations
+Added: For the Years Ended October 31,
Revenues, net
−Removed: of revenue - related party
−Removed: of revenue - other
−Removed: cost of revenue
−Removed: and promotion
−Removed: and administrative expenses
+Added: Revenues - related party
+Added: Royalty revenue
+Added: Excise tax on products
+Added: Total revenues, net
+Added: Cost of revenues
+Added: Cost of revenue - related party
+Added: Total cost of revenue
Operating expenses
−Removed: income (expense)
−Removed: other income (expense)
−Removed: before income taxes provision
−Removed: for (benefit from) income taxes
−Removed: stock dividend
−Removed: loss attributable to common shareholders
−Removed: loss per common share - basic and diluted
−Removed: average number of common shares outstanding - basic and diluted
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an
−Removed: integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Advertising and promotion
+Added: General and administrative expenses
+Added: Total operating expenses
+Added: Other expense
+Added: Loss on extinguishment of debt
+Added: Loss on settlement of payables
+Added: Interest expense, net
+Added: Total other expense
+Added: Loss before income taxes provision
+Added: Provision for income taxes
+Added: Preferred stock dividend
+Added: Net loss attributable to common shareholders
+Added: Net loss per common share - basic and diluted
+Added: Weighted average number of common shares outstanding - basic and diluted
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
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the years ended October 31, 2024, and 2023
−Removed: Preferred Shares
−Removed: Value Convertible Preferred Shares
−Removed: Preferred Shares
−Removed: Value Convertible Preferred Shares
−Removed: Value Common Shares
−Removed: Paid-in Capital
+Added: Convertible Preferred Shares (Series B)
+Added: Par Value Convertible Preferred Shares (Series B)
+Added: Common Shares
+Added: Par Value Common Shares
+Added: Additional Paid-in Capital
+Added: Accumulated Deficit
Balances, October 31, 2022
−Removed: Issued for Services - RSUs
−Removed: shares settled and cancelled
−Removed: stock issued for compensation
−Removed: common stock warrants
−Removed: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: option expense
+Added: Common shares issued for purchase of intangible assets
+Added: Preferred series B shares issued for purchase of intangible assets
+Added: Stock warrants issued for purchase of intangible assets
+Added: Common shares issued for services
+Added: Common shares issued for loan
+Added: Stock option expense, net of forfeitures
+Added: Stock warrant expense
+Added: Preferred stock dividend
Balances, October 31, 2023
−Removed: shares issued for purchase of intangible assets
−Removed: series B shares issued for purchase of intangible assets
−Removed: warrants issued for purchase of intangible assets
−Removed: shares issued for services
−Removed: shares issued for loan
−Removed: option expense
−Removed: warrant expense
−Removed: stock dividend
+Added: Rounding shares issued for reverse split
+Added: Common shares issued for services
+Added: Issuance of common shares, warrants, and pre-funded warrants, net of issuance costs
+Added: Exercises of pre-funded warrants
+Added: Exercises of warrants
+Added: Common shares issued to settle related party accounts payable
+Added: Preferred stock dividend
+Added: Stock option expense, net of forfeitures
Balances, October 31, 2024
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an
−Removed: integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Kaival Brands Innovations
−Removed: Statements of Cash Flows
−Removed: the Year Ended
−Removed: the Year Ended
−Removed: FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Adjustments to reconcile net loss
−Removed: to net cash used in operating activities:
+Added: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
+Added: consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Kaival Brands Innovations Group, Inc.
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
+Added: For the Year Ended
+Added: For the Year Ended
+Added: October 31, 2024
+Added: October 31, 2023
+Added: CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES
+Added: Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Stock based compensation
Stock options expense
−Removed: Stock warrants expense
+Added: Stock warrant expense
Depreciation and amortization
−Removed: of debt discount
+Added: Amortization of debt discount
+Added: Loss on extinguishment of debt
Bad debt expense
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Write-off of inventory
−Removed: Changes in current assets and
+Added: Loss on settlement of payables
+Added: Changes in current assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable
−Removed: ( 1,342,397 )
Other receivable - related party
Prepaid expenses
−Removed: Inventory deposit - related party
Income tax receivable
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Customer refunds due
−Removed: Right of use liabilities - operating
+Added: Operating lease obligations
Net cash used in operating activities
−Removed: FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
+Added: CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Cash paid for equipment
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Net cash used in investing activities
−Removed: FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Proceeds from the exercise of
−Removed: Settled RSU shares with cash
+Added: CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from loans payable
Payments on loans payable
−Removed: Net cash provided by financing
+Added: Payments on loans payable - related party
+Added: Proceeds from the issuance of common stock, warrants, and pre-funded warrants
+Added: Payments for issuance costs
+Added: Proceeds from exercises of pre-funded warrants
+Added: Proceeds from exercises of warrants
+Added: Net cash provided by financing activities
Net change in cash
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Ending cash balance
−Removed: DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
+Added: SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:
Interest paid
Income taxes paid
−Removed: Common shares issued for
−Removed: acquisition of intangible assets
−Removed: Common shares issued for services-transaction
−Removed: Series B preferred stock shares issued for acquisition of intangible assets
−Removed: Stock warrants issued for acquisition of intangible assets
+Added: NON-CASH TRANSACTIONS
Preferred stock dividend
+Added: Cashless exercise of pre-funded warrants
Insurance financed by third party
−Removed: stock issued for note payable financing
−Removed: Conversion of Series A Preferred
−Removed: Stock Shares to Common Stock Shares
−Removed: New ROU leased asset recognized
−Removed: The accompanying notes are an integral part of these
−Removed: consolidated financial statements.
+Added: Franchise fees paid by related party
+Added: Common shares issued to settle related party accounts payable
+Added: Common shares issued for acquisition of intangible assets
+Added: Common shares issued for services-transaction cost
+Added: Series B preferred stock shares issued for acquisition of intangible assets
+Added: Stock warrants issued for acquisition of intangible assets
+Added: Common stock issued for note payable financing
+Added: The accompanying notes are an
+Added: integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
KAIVAL BRANDS INNOVATIONS GROUP, INC.
−Removed: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL
+Added: NOTES TO THE CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 – Organization and Description of Business
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was incorporated on September 4, 2018, in the State of Delaware.
−Removed: Current Description of Business
−Removed: Company is focused on growing and incubating innovative and profitable products into mature, dominant brands.
−Removed: On March 9, 2020, the Company
−Removed: entered into an exclusive distribution agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”) of certain electronic nicotine delivery systems
−Removed: (“ENDS”) and related components (the “Products”) with Bidi Vapor, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Bidi”),
−Removed: a related party company that is also owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the Chief Science and Regulatory Officer and director of the Company.
−Removed: The Distribution Agreement was amended and restated on May 21, 2020, again on April 20, 2021, again on June 10, 2022 ,
+Added: Description of Business
+Added: On March 9, 2020, the Company entered into an exclusive
+Added: distribution agreement (the “Distribution Agreement”) of certain electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS”)
+Added: and related components (the “Products”) with Bidi Vapor, LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“Bidi”).
+Added: Distribution Agreement was amended and restated on May 21, 2020, again on April 20, 2021, again on June 10, 2022 ,
and again on November 17, 2022 (collectively the “A&R Distribution Agreement”), in order to clarify some of the
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Bidi granted the Company an exclusive worldwide right to distribute the Products for sale and resale to non-retail level customers.
−Removed: the Products consist primarily of the “Bidi Stick.” The Company ceased all direct-to-consumer sales in February 2021.
+Added: the Products consist primarily of the “Bidi Stick.”
On August 31, 2020, the Company formed Kaival Labs,
−Removed: Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as “Kaival Labs”), as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, for the
−Removed: purpose of developing Company-branded and white-label products and services.
−Removed: The Company has not yet launched any Kaival-branded product,
−Removed: nor has it begun to provide white label wholesale solutions for other product manufacturers.
+Added: Inc., a Delaware corporation (herein referred to as “Kaival Labs”), as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, for the purpose
+Added: of developing Company-branded and white-label products and services.
+Added: The Company has not yet launched any Kaival-branded product, nor
+Added: has it begun to provide white label wholesale solutions for other product manufacturers.
On March 11, 2022, the Company formed Kaival
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a wholly owned affiliate of Philip Morris International Inc.
−Removed: On June 13, 2022, the Company’s wholly
−Removed: owned subsidiary, KBI, entered into the PMI License Agreement with PMPSA, a wholly owned affiliate of PMI, for the development and distribution
+Added: On June 13, 2022, the Company’s wholly owned
+Added: subsidiary, KBI, entered into the PMI License Agreement with PMPSA, a wholly owned affiliate of PMI, for the development and distribution
of ENDS products in certain markets outside of the United States, subject to market (or regulatory) assessment.
The PMI License Agreement
−Removed: grants to PMPSA a license of certain intellectual property rights relating to Bidi’s ENDS device, known as the BIDI® Stick
−Removed: in the United States, as well as potentially newly developed devices, to permit PMPSA to manufacture, promote, sell, and distribute such
+Added: grants to PMPSA a license of certain intellectual property rights relating to Bidi’s ENDS device, known as the BIDI® Stick in
+Added: the United States, as well as potentially newly developed devices, to permit PMPSA to manufacture, promote, sell, and distribute such
ENDS device and newly developed devices, in international markets, outside of the United States.
−Removed: Current Product Offerings
+Added: Product Offerings
Pursuant to the A&R Distribution Agreement, the
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any of the Products it resells.
−Removed: The BIDI ® Stick is manufactured by Bidi.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the A&R Distribution
−Removed: Agreement, Bidi provides the Company with all branding, logos, and marketing materials to be utilized by the Company in connection with
−Removed: its marketing and promotion of the Products.
−Removed: In January 2020, the World
−Removed: Health Organization (the “WHO”) announced a global health emergency because of a new strain of coronavirus (“COVID-19”)
−Removed: originating in Wuhan, China and the risks to the international community as the virus spread globally beyond its point of origin.
−Removed: March 2020, the WHO classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic based on the rapid increase in global exposure.
−Removed: The Company was indirectly
−Removed: impacted by supply chain issues and regulatory oversight.
−Removed: The Company believes that many retailers and distributers relaxed their compliance
−Removed: standards as an indirect result of COVID-19 for two reasons:
−Removed: (i) government enforcement of regulations was very limited due to imposed
−Removed: social restrictions, resulting in less in-person monitor enforcement by government officials and (ii) retail stores experienced light
−Removed: foot traffic from customers due to COVID-19 restrictions and fears, which resulted in relaxed compliance in an effort to generate additional
−Removed: Impact of FDA PMTA Determinations and August 2022
−Removed: 11 th Circuit Decision
−Removed: In September 2021, in connection with the PMTA process,
−Removed: the FDA effectively “banned” flavored ENDS by denying nearly all then-pending PMTAs for such products.
−Removed: Following the issuance
−Removed: of Marketing Denial Orders (“MDO”), manufacturers are required to stop selling non-tobacco flavored ENDS products.
+Added: The BIDI ® Stick is manufactured by Bidi, who uses a contract manufacturer in China.
+Added: to the terms of the A&R Distribution Agreement, Bidi provides the Company with all branding, logos, and marketing materials to be
+Added: utilized by the Company in connection with its marketing and promotion of the Products.
+Added: Impact of the FDA PMTA Decision and Subsequent
+Added: Court Actions
+Added: In September 2021, in connection with the Bidi’s
+Added: Premarket Tobacco Product Application (“PMTA”) process, the U.S.
+Added: Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”)
+Added: effectively “banned” flavored ENDS by denying nearly all then-pending PMTAs for such products.
+Added: Following the issuance of Marketing
+Added: Denial Orders (“MDO”), manufacturers are required to stop selling non-tobacco flavored ENDS products.
Bidi, along with nearly every other company in the
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BIDI® Sticks, including its Arctic (menthol) BIDI® Stick.
−Removed: As a result, beginning in September 2021, Bidi challenged the MDO.
+Added: As a result, beginning in September 2021, Bidi pursued multiple avenues
+Added: to challenge the MDO.
First, on September 21, 2021, separate from the judicial appeal of the MDO in its entirety, Bidi filed a 21 C.F.R.
−Removed: §10.75 internal
−Removed: the FDA review request specifically of the decision to include the Arctic (menthol) BIDI® Stick in the MDO.
−Removed: In May 2022, the FDA
−Removed: issued a determination that it views the Arctic BIDI® Stick as a flavored ENDS product, and not strictly a menthol flavored product.
+Added: § 10.75 internal FDA supervisory review request specifically of the decision to include the Arctic (menthol) BIDI® Stick in the
+Added: In May 2022, the FDA issued a determination that it views the Arctic BIDI® Stick as a non-tobacco flavored ENDS product, and
+Added: not strictly a menthol flavored product.
On September 29, 2021, Bidi petitioned the U.S.
−Removed: of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the “11 th Circuit”) to review the FDA’s denial of the PMTAs for its
−Removed: non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Stick ENDS, arguing that it was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”),
−Removed: as well as ultra vires, for the FDA not to conduct any scientific review of Bidi’s comprehensive applications, as required by the
−Removed: Tobacco Control Act (“TCA”), to determine whether the BIDI® Sticks are “appropriate for the protection of the public
−Removed: Bidi further argued that the FDA violated due process and the APA by failing to provide fair notice of the FDA’s
−Removed: new requirement for ENDS companies to conduct long-term comparative smoking cessation studies for their flavored products, and that the
−Removed: FDA should have gone through the notice and comment rulemaking process for this requirement.
−Removed: On October 14, 2021, Bidi requested that the FDA
−Removed: re-review the MDO and reconsider its position that Bidi did not include certain scientific data in its applications sufficient to allow
−Removed: the PMTAs to proceed to scientific review.
+Added: of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (the “11 th Circuit”) to review the FDA’s denial of the comprehensive
+Added: PMTAs for its non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Stick ENDS, arguing that it was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure
+Added: Act (“APA”), as well as ultra vires, for the FDA not to conduct any scientific review of Bidi’s comprehensive applications,
+Added: as required by the Tobacco Control Act (“TCA”), to determine whether the BIDI® Sticks are “appropriate for the protection
+Added: of the public health”.
+Added: Bidi further argued that the FDA violated due process and the APA by failing to provide fair notice of the
+Added: FDA’s new requirement for ENDS companies to conduct long-term comparative smoking cessation studies for their flavored products,
+Added: and that the FDA should have gone through the notice and comment rulemaking process for this requirement.
+Added: On October 14, 2021, Bidi requested that the FDA re-review
+Added: the MDO and reconsider its position that Bidi did not include certain scientific data in its applications sufficient to allow the PMTAs
+Added: to proceed to scientific review.
In light of this request, on October 22, 2021, pursuant to 21 C.F.R.
−Removed: § 10.35(a), the
−Removed: FDA issued an administrative stay of Bidi’s MDO pending its re-review.
−Removed: Subsequently, the FDA decided not to rescind the MDO and
−Removed: lifted its administrative stay on December 17, 2021.
−Removed: Following the lifting of the FDA’s administrative stay, Bidi filed a renewed
−Removed: motion to stay the MDO with the 11th Circuit.
−Removed: On February 1, 2022, the appellate court granted Bidi’s motion to stay (i.e., put
−Removed: on hold) the MDO, pending the litigation on the merits.
−Removed: Oral arguments in the merits-based proceeding were held on May 17, 2022.
+Added: § 10.35(a), the FDA issued
+Added: an administrative stay of Bidi’s MDO pending its re-review, permitting the Company to continue sales.
+Added: Subsequently, the FDA decided
+Added: not to rescind the MDO and lifted its administrative stay on December 17, 2021.
+Added: Following the lifting of the FDA’s administrative
+Added: stay, Bidi filed a renewed motion to stay the MDO with the 11 th Circuit.
+Added: On February 1, 2022, the appellate court granted Bidi’s
+Added: motion to stay (i.e., put on hold) the MDO, again allowing the Company to continue sales pending the litigation on the merits.
+Added: Oral arguments
+Added: in the merits-based proceeding were held on May 17, 2022.
On August 23, 2022, the U.S.
Court of Appeals for
−Removed: the Eleventh Circuit set aside the MDO issued to the non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Sticks and remanded Bidi’s Premarket Tobacco
−Removed: Product Application (“PMTA”) back to the FDA for further review.
−Removed: Specifically, the Court held that the MDO was “arbitrary
−Removed: and capricious” in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”) because the FDA failed to consider the relevant
−Removed: evidence before it, specifically Bidi’s aggressive and comprehensive marketing and sales-access-restrictions plans designed to
−Removed: prevent youth appeal and access.
−Removed: The opinion further indicated that the FDA did not
−Removed: properly review the data and evidence that it has long made clear are critical to the appropriate for the protection of the public health
−Removed: (“APPH”) standard for PMTAs set forth in the Tobacco Control Act including, in Bidi’s case, “product information,
−Removed: scientific safety testing, literature reviews, consumer insight surveys, and details about the company’s youth access prevention
−Removed: measures, distribution channels, and adult-focused marketing practices,” which “target only existing adult vapor product
−Removed: users, including current adult smokers,” as well as the Company’s retailer monitoring program and state-of-the-art anti-counterfeit
−Removed: authentication system.
−Removed: Because a MDO must be based on a consideration of the relevant factors, such as the marketing and sales-access-restrictions
−Removed: plans, the denial order was deemed arbitrary and capricious, and vacated by the FDA.
−Removed: The FDA did not appeal the 11th Circuit’s decision.
−Removed: The Agency had until October 7, 2022 (45 days from the August 23, 2022 decision) to either request a panel rehearing or a rehearing “en
+Added: the Eleventh Circuit set aside the MDO issued to the non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Sticks and remanded Bidi’s back to the FDA for
+Added: further review.
+Added: Specifically, the Court held that the MDO was “arbitrary and capricious” in violation of the Administrative
+Added: Procedure Act (“APA”) because FDA failed to consider the relevant evidence before it, specifically Bidi’s aggressive
+Added: and comprehensive marketing and sales-access-restrictions plans designed to prevent youth appeal and access.
+Added: The FDA did not appeal to the 11 th Circuit’s decision.
+Added: FDA had until October 7, 2022 (45 days from the August 23, 2022, decision) to either request a panel rehearing or a rehearing “en
banc” (a review by the entire 11 th Circuit, not just the 3-judge panel that issued the decision), and until November
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and no petition for a writ of certiorari was made to the Supreme Court.
−Removed: In the meantime, the Company anticipates continued
−Removed: ability to market and sell the non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Sticks, subject to the FDA’s enforcement discretion, for the duration
−Removed: of the PMTA scientific review.
−Removed: Separately, on or about
−Removed: May 13, 2022, the FDA placed the tobacco-flavored Classic BIDI® Stick into the final Phase III scientific review.
−Removed: In March 2023, FDA issued a deficiency letter regarding the Classic BIDI® Stick PMTA, to which Bidi submitted in June 2023.
−Removed: Subsequently,
−Removed: on January 22, 2024, FDA issued a MDO for the Classic BIDI® Stick.
−Removed: On January 26, 2024, Bidi filed a petition for review of the MDO
−Removed: with the 11 th Circuit Court of Appeals, followed by a motion to stay the MDO.
−Removed: Bidi is arguing, among other things, that the
−Removed: MDO was arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.
−Removed: The Company cannot provide any assurances as to the
−Removed: timing or outcome.
+Added: On July 29, 2024, Bidi received a Recission of Marketing Denial
+Added: letter from FDA formally rescinding the MDO for the non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Stick PMTAs and putting those applications back into
+Added: the review process.
+Added: The Company is able to market and sell the non-tobacco flavored BIDI® Sticks, subject to the FDA’s enforcement
+Added: discretion, for the duration of the PMTA scientific review.
+Added: Separately, on or about May 13, 2022, the FDA placed
+Added: the tobacco-flavored Classic BIDI® Stick into the final Phase III scientific review.
+Added: In March 2023, FDA issued a deficiency letter
+Added: regarding the Classic BIDI® Stick PMTA, to which Bidi submitted in June 2023.
+Added: Subsequently, on January 22, 2024, FDA issued a MDO
+Added: for the Classic BIDI® Stick.
+Added: On January 26, 2024, Bidi filed a petition for review of the MDO with the 11 th Circuit Court
+Added: of Appeals, followed by a motion to stay the MDO.
+Added: Bidi is arguing, among other things, that the MDO was arbitrary and capricious in violation
+Added: of the Administrative Procedure Act.
+Added: On February 2, 2024, Bidi filed a Time Sensitive Motion for a Stay Pending Review, which the court
+Added: denied on February 18, 2024.
+Added: The case is now proceeding on the merits, with Bidi’s opening merits brief filed on April 15, 2024.
+Added: FDA filed its response brief on June 7, 2024, and Bidi filed its reply brief on July 29, 2024.
+Added: The 11 th Circuit has indicated
+Added: that the oral argument will be held in April 2025.
+Added: The Company cannot provide any assurance as to the timing or outcome.
+Added: Unless the MDO
+Added: is ultimately remanded by the 11 th Circuit, the Classic BIDI® Stick is considered an adulterated tobacco product, the continued
+Added: marketing and distribution of which is prohibited.
Risks and Uncertainties
−Removed: The FDA has indicated that it is prioritizing enforcement
−Removed: of unauthorized ENDS against companies (1) that never submitted PMTAs, (2) whose PMTAs have been refused acceptance or filing by the
−Removed: FDA, (3) whose PMTAs remain subject to MDOs, and (4) that are continuing to market unauthorized synthetic nicotine products after the
−Removed: July 13, 2022, cutoff.
−Removed: Subject to FDA’s enforcement discretion, until the scientific review process is complete on each of Bidi’s
−Removed: PMTA’s, the Company views the risk of FDA enforcement against Bidi as low.
−Removed: The Company anticipates FDA will move forward with a
−Removed: review of Bidi’s PMTA on remand, as directed by the Court;
−Removed: however, the Company cannot provide any assurances as to the timing
+Added: The FDA has indicated
+Added: that it is prioritizing enforcement of unauthorized ENDS against companies (1) that never submitted PMTAs, (2) whose PMTAs have been
+Added: refused acceptance or filing by the FDA, (3) whose PMTAs remain subject to MDOs, and (4) that are continuing to market unauthorized synthetic
+Added: nicotine products after the July 13, 2022, cutoff.
+Added: Subject to FDA’s enforcement discretion, until the scientific review process
+Added: is complete on each of Bidi’s PMTA’s, the Company views the risk of FDA enforcement against Bidi as low and is no longer
+Added: marketing the Classic BIDI® Stick per the MDO.
+Added: The Company anticipates FDA will move forward with a review of Bidi’s PMTA
+Added: on remand, as directed by the Court;
+Added: however, the Company cannot provide any assurances as to the timing or outcome.
+Added: Merger and Share Exchange Agreement
+Added: On September 23, 2024,
+Added: we agreed with Delta Delta Corp Holdings Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (“Delta”) to effect a business
+Added: combination between us and Delta by entering into
+Added: a Merger and Share Exchange Agreement (the “Merger Agreement”) among us, Delta, Delta Corp Holdings Limited, a Cayman Islands
+Added: exempted company (“Pubco”), KAVL Merger Sub Inc., a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Pubco (“Merger
+Added: Sub”), and the shareholders of Delta.
+Added: Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, we
+Added: will effect a merger and share exchange involving the following transactions:
+Added: shall acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Delta from each holder of Delta shares in exchange for the issuance by
+Added: Pubco of ordinary shares in the capital of Pubco (the “Share Exchange”);
+Added: following to the completion of the Share Exchange, Merger Sub shall merge with and into us (the “Merger”), with us continuing
+Added: as the surviving entity in the Merger.;
+Added: Upon consummation of the transactions contemplated by the
+Added: Merger Agreement, including the Share Exchange and the Merger, each of us and Delta will become wholly owned subsidiaries of Pubco.
Note 2 – Basis of Presentation and Significant
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The consolidated financial statements include the
−Removed: financial statements of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kaival Labs and Kaival Brands International.
−Removed: Intercompany transactions
−Removed: are eliminated.
+Added: financial statements of the Company’s wholly-owned subsidiaries, Kaival Labs and KBI.
+Added: Intercompany transactions are eliminated.
Basis of Presentation
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31, 2024, and October 31, 2023.
−Removed: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
−Removed: (“FDIC”) insures deposits according to the ownership category in which the funds are insured and how the accounts are
−Removed: The standard deposit insurance coverage limit is $ 250,000
−Removed: per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.
+Added: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”)
+Added: insures deposits according to the ownership category in which the funds are insured and how the accounts are titled.
+Added: The standard deposit
+Added: insurance coverage limit is $ 250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.
The Company had uninsured cash of $ 3,652,300
−Removed: and $ 2,912,793
−Removed: as of October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022, respectively.
+Added: and $ 252,586 as of October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, respectively.
Advertising and Promotion
−Removed: All advertising, promotion and marketing expenses, including commissions,
−Removed: are expensed when incurred.
−Removed: Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
−Removed: Receivables are stated at cost, net of an allowance
−Removed: for doubtful accounts.
−Removed: The Company establishes an allowance for doubtful accounts based on the management’s assessment of the collectability
−Removed: of accounts receivable.
−Removed: A considerable amount of judgment is required in assessing the amount of the allowance and the Company considers
−Removed: the historical level of credit losses and collection history and applies percentages to aged receivable categories.
−Removed: The Company makes
−Removed: judgments about the creditworthiness of debtors based on ongoing credit evaluations and monitors current economic trends that might impact
−Removed: the level of credit losses in the future.
−Removed: If the financial condition of the debtors were to deteriorate, resulting in their inability
−Removed: to make payments, a larger allowance may be required.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, based upon management’s assessment of the accounts
−Removed: receivable aging and the customers’ payment history, the Company has determined that no allowance for doubtful accounts is required.
−Removed: The Company also had no allowance for doubtful accounts as of October 31, 2022.
+Added: All advertising, promotion and marketing expenses,
+Added: including commissions, are expensed when incurred.
+Added: Accounts Receivable and Reserve for Credit Losses
+Added: Accounts receivable pertain to contracts with customers
+Added: who are granted credit by the Company in the ordinary course of business and are recorded at the invoiced amount.
+Added: Accounts receivable
+Added: does not bear interest.
+Added: Accounts receivable presented on the consolidated balance sheet are adjusted for any write-offs and net of allowance
+Added: for credit losses.
+Added: The Company’s reserve for credit losses is developed by using relevant available information including historical
+Added: collection and loss experience, current economic conditions, prevailing economic conditions, supportable forecasted economic conditions
+Added: and evaluations of customer balances.
+Added: Once a receivable is deemed uncollectible after collection efforts have been exhausted, it is written
+Added: off against the reserve for credit losses.
+Added: The Company closely monitors the credit quality of its customers and does not generally require
+Added: collateral or other security on receivables.
+Added: The reserve for credit losses is measured on a collective basis when similar risk characteristics
+Added: upon management’s assessment of the accounts receivable aging and the customers’ payment history, the Company has determined
+Added: that no reserve for credit losses is required as of October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023.
On January 22, 2024, the FDA issued an MDO on Bidi
−Removed: Vapor’s “Classic” BIDI ® Stick PMTA.
−Removed: The Company evaluated the impact of this MDO to the financial statements
−Removed: and recorded an estimated accrual for potential customer returns of the “Classic” products of $ 113,243 as of October 31, 2023
−Removed: which is included in accrued expenses in the consolidated balance sheets in order to comply with ASC 855 Subsequent Events.
+Added: Vapor’s “Classic” BIDI ® Stick PMTA, which Bidi is currently appealing before the 11 th Circuit Court
+Added: The Company evaluated the impact of this MDO to the financial statements and recorded an estimated accrual for potential customer
+Added: returns of the “Classic” products of $ 46,775 and $ 113,243 as of October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, respectively,
+Added: which is included in accrued expenses in the consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: Financial instruments, which are potentially subject
+Added: to concentrations of credit risk, consist primarily of purchases of inventories, accounts payable, accounts receivable, and revenue.
+Added: Company performs periodic credit evaluations of its customers and generally does not require collateral on trade receivables.
+Added: Historically,
+Added: the Company has not experienced significant credit losses.
All product inventory is purchased from a related
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costs of completion and the estimated costs necessary to make the sale.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, the inventories only consisted of finished
−Removed: goods and were located in three locations;
−Removed: the Kaival main warehouse and two customer warehouses whose service agreements are on
−Removed: a consignment basis with Kaival.
−Removed: During fiscal year 2023, the Company had a write-off of $ 105,057 related to short-coded Bidi sticks
−Removed: that were no longer able to be sold.
−Removed: Based upon fiscal year 2023 inventory management procedures and their results, the Company has determined
−Removed: that no allowance for inventory is required as of October 31, 2022.
+Added: During fiscal year 2024 and 2023, the Company recognized inventory write
+Added: offs of $ 61,927 and $ 105,057 , respectively, related to short-coded Bidi sticks that were no longer saleable.
On January 22, 2024, the FDA issued an MDO on Bidi
−Removed: Vapor’s “Classic” BIDI ® Stick PMTA.
−Removed: The Company evaluated the impact of this MDO to the financial statements
−Removed: and recognized a full reserve for all remaining “Classic” products on hand amounting to $381,512 as of October 31, 2023 in
−Removed: order to comply with ASC 855 Subsequent Events.
+Added: Vapor’s “Classic” BIDI ® Stick PMTA, which Bidi is currently appealing before the 11 th Circuit Court
+Added: The Company evaluated the impact of this MDO to the financial statements and recognized a full reserve for all remaining “Classic”
+Added: products on hand amounting to $ 313,654 and $ 381,512 as of October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: The Company determines if a contract contains a lease
+Added: at commencement of the arrangement based on whether it has the right to obtain substantially all of the economic benefits from the use
+Added: of an identified asset and whether it has the right to direct the use of an identified asset in exchange for consideration, which relates
+Added: to an asset which the Company does not own.
+Added: Right-of-use (“ROU”) assets represent the Company’s right to use an underlying
+Added: asset for the lease term and lease liabilities represent the Company’s obligation to make lease payments arising from the lease.
+Added: The Company recognizes lease liabilities at the present value of the future lease payments and a corresponding ROU asset at the lease
+Added: commencement date.
+Added: The interest rate used to determine the present value of the future lease payments is the rate implicit in the lease
+Added: unless that rate cannot be readily determined.
+Added: When the interest rate implicit in the lease is not readily determinable, the interest
+Added: rate used to determine the present value of the future lease payments is the Company’s Incremental Borrowing Rate (“IBR”).
+Added: The IBR is a hypothetical rate based on the Company’s understanding of what its credit rating would be to borrow and resulting interest
+Added: the Company would pay to borrow an amount equal to the lease payments in a similar economic environment over the lease term on a collateralized
+Added: Periods covered by the Company’s option to extend or terminate the lease are included in the lease term when it is reasonably
+Added: certain that the Company will exercise its option to extend or not exercise its option to terminate, as applicable.
+Added: Lease payments may be fixed or variable;
+Added: only fixed payments or in-substance fixed payments are included in the Company’s lease liability calculation.
+Added: Variable lease payments
+Added: may include costs such as common area maintenance, utilities, real estate taxes or other costs.
+Added: Variable lease payments are recognized
+Added: in operating expenses in the period in which the obligations for those payments are incurred.
+Added: The Company records rent expense for its
+Added: operating lease, which has escalating rent payments, on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
+Added: The Company does not have any financing
+Added: The Company made a policy election not to separate
+Added: non-lease components from lease components for all its leases;
+Added: therefore, it accounts for lease and non-lease components as a single lease
+Added: The Company also elected the short-term lease recognition exemption for all leases that qualify, such that leases with a term
+Added: of 12 months or less are not recognized on the balance sheet.
+Added: Impairment of Long-Lived Assets
+Added: The Company reviews its long-lived assets, which include
+Added: definite-lived intangibles, long-lived fixed assets and lease right-of-use assets, for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances
+Added: indicate the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable.
+Added: Factors that could trigger an impairment review include significant under-performance
+Added: relative to expected historical or projected future operating results, significant changes in the manner of the Company’s use of
+Added: the acquired assets or the strategy for the Company’s overall business or significant negative industry or economic trends.
+Added: evaluation indicates that the value of the long-lived asset may be impaired, the Company makes an assessment of the recoverability of
+Added: the net carrying value of the asset over its remaining useful life.
+Added: If this assessment indicates that the long-lived asset is not recoverable,
+Added: based on the estimated undiscounted future cash flows of the technology over the remaining useful life, the Company reduces the net carrying
+Added: value of the related asset to fair value and may adjust the remaining useful life.
+Added: An impairment analysis is subjective and assumptions
+Added: regarding future growth rates and operating expense levels can have a significant impact on the expected future cash flows and impairment
+Added: No impairment of long-lived assets was identified for the years ended October 31, 2024
+Added: and 2023, respectively.
Revenue Recognition
−Removed: The Company adopted ASC 606, Revenue from
−Removed: Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“ASC 606”), in the second quarter of fiscal year 2020, as this was the first
−Removed: quarter that the Company generated revenues.
−Removed: Under ASC 606, the Company recognizes revenue when a customer obtains control of promised
−Removed: goods, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for the goods.
−Removed: To determine revenue
−Removed: recognition for arrangements within the scope of ASC 606, the Company performs the following five steps:
−Removed: (1) identify the contracts with
+Added: The Company recognizes revenue in accordance with
+Added: ASC Topic 606, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” (“ASC 606”).
+Added: The Company recognizes revenue when a customer
+Added: obtains control of promised goods, in an amount that reflects the consideration that the Company expects to receive in exchange for the
+Added: To determine revenue recognition for arrangements within the scope of ASC 606, the Company performs the following five steps:
+Added: identify the contracts with a customer;
(2) identify the performance obligations in the contract;
(3) determine the transaction price;
−Removed: (4) allocate the transaction
−Removed: price to the performance obligations in the contract;
−Removed: and (5) recognize revenue when or as the entity satisfies a performance obligation.
−Removed: The Company only applies the five-step model to contracts when it is probable that the entity will collect the consideration it is entitled
−Removed: to in exchange for the goods it transfers to the customer.
−Removed: Under ASC 606, disaggregated revenue from contracts with customers depicts
−Removed: the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows affected by economic factors.
+Added: (4) allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract;
+Added: and (5) recognize revenue when or as the entity satisfies
+Added: a performance obligation.
+Added: The Company only applies the five-step model to contracts when it is probable that the entity will collect the
+Added: consideration it is entitled to in exchange for the goods it transfers to the customer.
+Added: Under ASC 606, disaggregated revenue from contracts
+Added: with customers depicts the nature, amount, timing, and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows affected by economic factors.
Deferred Revenue
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As of October 31, 2024, and October 31,
−Removed: 31, 2022, the Company has $ 0 and $ 44,973 in deposits from customers, respectively, which is included with the Company’s current
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022, the Company has $ 0 and $ 235,274 in deferred income from PMI guaranteed royalty
−Removed: revenue prepayments, respectively, which is included with the Company’s current liabilities.
+Added: 2023, the Company has no amounts in deposits from customers.
Customer Refunds
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receivable from customers, the Company recognizes such excess amounts as customer refunds which will be applied against future product
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022, the Company had $ 392,406 and $ 0 refunds due to various customers, respectively.
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, the Company had zero 0 and $ 392,406 refunds due to various customers, respectively.
Products Revenue
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The Company recognizes revenue at a point in time based on management’s
−Removed: evaluation of when performance obligations under the terms of a contract with the customer are satisfied and control of the Products
−Removed: has been transferred to the customer.
−Removed: In most situations, transfer of control is considered complete when the products have been shipped
−Removed: to the customer.
+Added: evaluation of when performance obligations under the terms of a contract with the customer are satisfied and control of the Products has
+Added: been transferred to the customer.
+Added: In most situations, transfer of control is considered complete when the products have been shipped to
+Added: the customer.
The Company determined that a customer obtains control of the Product upon shipment when title of such product and risk
of loss transfer to the customer.
−Removed: The Company’s shipping and handling costs are fulfillment costs, and such amounts are classified
−Removed: as part of cost of sales.
−Removed: The Company offers credit sales arrangements to non-retail (or wholesale) customers and monitors the collectability
−Removed: of each credit sale routinely.
+Added: However, when the Company enters a consignment agreement with a new customer, once it ships and delivers
+Added: the requested amount of ordered Products to its distribution center for its retail sales locations, the Company retains ownership of the
+Added: delivered Products until they are delivered to the actual retail stores (as opposed to the Company’s consignment customer).
+Added: Company’s shipping and handling costs are fulfillment costs, and such amounts are classified as part of cost of sales.
+Added: offers credit sales arrangements to non-retail (or wholesale) customers and monitors the collectability of each credit sale routinely.
Revenue is measured by the transaction price, which
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Royalty Revenue
−Removed: On June 13, 2022, KBI entered into the PMI
−Removed: License Agreement with PMPSA, effective as of May 13, 2022 (the “PMI Commencement Date”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the PMI License Agreement,
−Removed: KBI granted PMPSA an exclusive irrevocable license to use its technology, documentation, and intellectual property to make, distribute,
−Removed: and sell disposable nicotine e-cigarettes Products based on the intellectual property in certain international markets set forth in the
−Removed: PMI License Agreement (the “PMI Markets”).
−Removed: The Company has the exclusive international distribution rights to the Products
−Removed: and, in order to allow KBI to fulfill its obligations set forth in the PMI License Agreement, has contributed the international distribution
+Added: On June 13, 2022, KBI entered into the PMI License
+Added: Agreement with PMPSA, effective as of May 13, 2022 (the “PMI Commencement Date”).
+Added: Pursuant to the PMI License Agreement, KBI
+Added: granted PMPSA an exclusive irrevocable license to use its technology, documentation, and intellectual property to make, distribute, and
+Added: sell disposable nicotine e-cigarettes Products based on the intellectual property in certain international markets set forth in the PMI
+Added: License Agreement (the “PMI Markets”).
+Added: The Company has the exclusive international distribution rights to the Products and,
+Added: in order to allow KBI to fulfill its obligations set forth in the PMI License Agreement, has contributed the international distribution
rights for the PMI Markets to KBI as set forth in a Capital Contribution Agreement, dated June 10, 2022.
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rights with respect to potential future products.
−Removed: The initial term of the PMI License Agreement is
−Removed: five (5) years and automatically renews for an additional five-year period unless PMPSA has failed to meet the agreed upon minimum key
−Removed: performance indicators set forth in the PMI License Agreement, in which case the PMI License Agreement will automatically terminate at
−Removed: the end of the initial license term.
+Added: The initial term of the PMI License Agreement is five
+Added: (5) years and automatically renews for an additional five-year period unless PMPSA has failed to meet the agreed upon minimum key performance
+Added: indicators set forth in the PMI License Agreement, in which case the PMI License Agreement will automatically terminate at the end of
+Added: the initial license term.
In consideration for the grant of the licensed rights,
PMPSA agreed to pay to KBI a royalty equal to a percentage of the base price of the first sale of each unit of Product manufactured.
−Removed: In addition, before the launch of the first product in a market and each anniversary of such launch, PMPSA agrees to pre-pay to KBI a
−Removed: guaranteed minimum royalty based on the estimated royalties payable by PMPSA to KBI in relation to all markets in the twelve (12)-month
−Removed: period following the first launch or each successive anniversary of the first launch, subject to an aggregate maximum guaranteed royalty
−Removed: payment for all markets for each applicable twelve (12)-month period.
−Removed: PMPSA may require modification of certain products to be sold under
−Removed: the PMI Licensing Agreement to be modified for a PMI Market.
−Removed: Pursuant to the PMI Licensing Agreement, PMPSA has absolute discretion over
−Removed: sales, marketing, product branding and packaging pertaining to sales in the PMI Markets, as well as the right to select the specific
−Removed: PMI Markets in which to launch commercialization and determine what product types are to be promoted in each market, subject to sales
−Removed: and marketing plans and annual business plans set by PMPSA and certain expansion criteria agreed between PMPSA and KBI.
−Removed: Royalty revenue
−Removed: earned from the PMI License Agreement is recognized in the period the sales of the Product manufactured occurs.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023,
−Removed: amounts receivable from PMPSA in connection with the PMI License Agreement totaled $ 1,002,196 of which $ 289,672 and $ 712,524 pertain
−Removed: to royalties and reimbursement of certain non-recurring engineering costs, respectively.
+Added: addition, before the launch of the first product in a market and each anniversary of such launch, PMPSA agrees to pre-pay to KBI a guaranteed
+Added: minimum royalty based on the estimated royalties payable by PMPSA to KBI in relation to all markets in the twelve (12)-month period following
+Added: the first launch or each successive anniversary of the first launch, subject to an aggregate maximum guaranteed royalty payment for all
+Added: markets for each applicable twelve (12)-month period.
+Added: PMPSA may require modification of certain products to be sold under the PMI Licensing
+Added: Agreement to be modified for a PMI Market.
+Added: Pursuant to the PMI Licensing Agreement, PMPSA has absolute discretion over sales, marketing,
+Added: product branding and packaging pertaining to sales in the PMI Markets, as well as the right to select the specific PMI Markets in which
+Added: to launch commercialization and determine what product types are to be promoted in each market, subject to sales and marketing plans and
+Added: annual business plans set by PMPSA and certain expansion criteria agreed between PMPSA and KBI.
+Added: Royalty revenue earned from the PMI License
+Added: Agreement is recognized in the period the sales of the Product manufactured occurs.
The PMI License Agreement contains customary representations,
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of the PMI Markets that PMI may enter has been expanded to cover certain additional territories.
−Removed: Net Reconciliation Payment
−Removed: As a result of the changes to the PMI License Agreement described in paragraphs 1 thought 3 above, the value of such changes
−Removed: was calculated and reconciled as of the date of commencement of the PMI Licensing Agreement through June 30, 2023.
−Removed: On September 8, 2023,
−Removed: the Company received the Net Reconciliation Payment from PMPSA of $ 134,981 pursuant to this provision.
−Removed: The KBI License Agreement
−Removed: provides that KBI shall pay Bidi license fees equivalent to 50% of the adjusted earned royalty payments, after any offsets due to jointly
−Removed: agreed costs such development costs incurred for entry to specific international markets.
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the
−Removed: Company paid license fees of approximately $150,000 to Bidi.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023 and 2022, no additional license fees are owed to Bidi.
+Added: Net Reconciliation Payment to
+Added: As a result of the changes to the PMI License Agreement described in paragraphs 1 through 3 above, the value of such changes was
+Added: calculated and reconciled as of the date of commencement of the PMI Licensing Agreement through June 30, 2023.
+Added: On September 8, 2023, the
+Added: Company received the Net Reconciliation Payment from PMPSA of $ 134,981 pursuant to this provision.
+Added: The KBI License Agreement provides that KBI shall
+Added: pay Bidi license fees equivalent to 50% of the adjusted earned royalty payments, after any offsets due to jointly agreed costs such development
+Added: costs incurred for entry to specific international markets.
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company paid license fees of
+Added: approximately $ 220,000 to Bidi.
+Added: As of October 31, 2024 and 2023, $ 131,683
+Added: respectively, of license fees are owed to Bidi.
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, amounts receivable from PMPSA
+Added: in connection with the PMI license agreement pertaining to royalties totaled $ 263,367 .
+Added: As of October 31, 2023, amounts receivable from
+Added: PMPSA in connection with the PMI License Agreement totaled $ 1,002,196 of which $ 289,672 and $ 712,524 pertain to royalties
+Added: and reimbursement of certain non-recurring engineering costs, respectively.
+Added: Net Loss Per Share
+Added: Basic net loss per share
+Added: is computed by dividing net loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the
+Added: period, without consideration of potential common stock equivalents.
+Added: Diluted net loss per share
+Added: is calculated by dividing net loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of common stock outstanding plus common
+Added: share equivalents from conversion of dilutive stock options and warrants using the treasury method and preferred stock using the if-converted
+Added: method, except when antidilutive.
+Added: In the event of a net loss, the effects of all potentially dilutive shares are excluded from the diluted
+Added: net loss per share calculation as their inclusion would be antidilutive.
+Added: of October 31, 2024, and 2023, there were 5,944,276 and 691,654 , respectively, units of common stock equivalents that consists of options
+Added: and warrants units, as well as 357,120 shares issuable upon preferred stock conversions, that were excluded from the current and prior
+Added: period diluted loss per share calculation as their effect is anti-dilutive.
Concentration of Revenues and Accounts Receivable
−Removed: For the fiscal year 2023, (i) approximately 15% or
−Removed: $ 1,986,970 of the revenue from the sale of Products, solely consisting of the BIDI® Stick, was generated from GPM Investments, LLC,
−Removed: (ii) approximately 14% or $ 1,842,511 was generated from H.T.
−Removed: Hackney Co, (iii) approximately 14% or $ 1,817,310 was generated from FAVS
−Removed: Business, LLC, (iv) approximately 13% or $ 1,759,563 was generated from C Store Master, and (v) approximately 11% or $ 1,501,439 was generated
−Removed: from QuikTrip Corporation.
−Removed: For the fiscal year 2022, (i) approximately 30% or
−Removed: $ 3,945,534 of the revenue from the sale of Products, solely consisting of the BIDI ® Stick, was generated from Favs Business,
−Removed: (ii) approximately 15% or $ 1,892,245 of the revenue from the sale of the Products was generated from H.T.
−Removed: Hackney Co., and (iii) approximately
−Removed: 11% or $ 1,472,888 of the revenue from the sale of Products, solely consisting of the BIDI Stick, was generated from GPM.
+Added: For the year then ended October 31, 2024, (i) 21%
+Added: or $ 1,236,491 of the revenue from the sale of Products, solely consisting of the BIDI® Stick, was generated from QuikTrip Corporation,
+Added: (ii) 12% or $ 678,562 was generated from GPM Investments, LLC, and (iii) 11% or $ 655,583 was generated from FAVS Business, LLC.
+Added: 2, 2024, QuikTrip Corporation terminated its consignment arrangement with the Company.
+Added: For the year then ended October 31, 2023, (i) 16%
+Added: or $ 1,986,970 of the revenue from the sale of Products, solely consisting of the BIDI® Stick, was generated from GPM Investments,
+Added: LLC, (ii) 15% or $ 1,842,511 was generated from H.T.
+Added: Hackney Co, (iii) 15% or $ 1,817,310 was generated from FAVS Business, LLC, (iv) 14%
+Added: or $ 1,759,563 was generated from C Store Master, and (v) approximately 12% or $ 1,501,439 was generated from QuikTrip Corporation.
+Added: QuikTrip Corporation with an outstanding balance of
+Added: $ 205 accounted for 100 % of the total accounts receivable from customers as of October 31, 2024.
FAVS Business LLC with an outstanding balance of $ 302,400 ,
−Removed: $ 302,400 , C Store Master with an outstanding balance of $ 300,590 , and QuikTrip Corporation with an outstanding balance of $ 164,987 accounted
−Removed: for approximately 35%, 35%, and 19% of the total accounts receivable from customers, respectively, as of October 31, 2023.
−Removed: Favs Business with an outstanding balance of $ 375,425
−Removed: and QuikTrip Corporation, with an outstanding balance of $ 85,510 , accounted for approximately 65% and 15% of the total accounts receivable
−Removed: from customers, respectively, as of October 31, 2022.
+Added: C Store Master with an outstanding balance of $ 300,590 , and QuikTrip Corporation with an outstanding balance of $ 164,987 accounted for
+Added: approximately 35 % , 35 % , and 19 % of the total accounts receivable from customers, respectively, as of October 31, 2023.
Share-Based Compensation
−Removed: The Company measures the cost
−Removed: of services received in exchange for an award of equity instruments (share-based payments, referred to herein as “SBP”) based
−Removed: on the grant-date fair value of the award.
−Removed: That cost is recognized over the period during which a recipient is required to provide service
−Removed: in exchange for the SBP award—the requisite service period (vesting period).
−Removed: For SBP awards subject to performance conditions, compensation
−Removed: is not recognized until the performance condition is probable of occurrence.
−Removed: The grant-date fair value of share options is estimated using
−Removed: the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model based on certain assumptions which include the expected term, expected volatility and discount
+Added: The Company measures the cost of services received
+Added: in exchange for an award of equity instruments (share-based payments, referred to herein as “SBP”) based on the grant-date
+Added: fair value of the award.
+Added: That cost is recognized over the period during which a recipient is required to provide service in exchange for
+Added: the SBP award—the requisite service period (vesting period).
+Added: For SBP awards subject to performance conditions, compensation is not
+Added: recognized until the performance condition is probable of occurrence.
+Added: The grant-date fair value of share options is estimated using the
+Added: Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model.
+Added: The fair value of each option granted during the years
+Added: then ended October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model
+Added: with the weighted average assumptions in the following table:
+Added: Schedule of weighted average assumptions
+Added: As of October
+Added: As of October
+Added: Expected dividend yield
+Added: Expected option term (years)
+Added: Expected volatility
+Added: 214.72 - 225.52
+Added: 270.98 – 286.91
+Added: Risk-free interest rate
The expected term of options granted represents the
period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding.
−Removed: The expected volatility is based on the volatility in the trading
−Removed: of the Common Stock over the expected term of the award.
−Removed: The assumed discount rate is the default risk-free ten-year interest rate for
−Removed: Treasury bills.
−Removed: Net Loss Per Share
−Removed: income (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of
−Removed: common shares outstanding during the period, without consideration of potential common stock equivalents.
−Removed: Diluted net income
−Removed: (loss) per share is calculated by dividing net income (loss) available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of
−Removed: common stock outstanding plus common share equivalents from conversion of dilutive stock options and warrants using the treasury
−Removed: method and preferred stock using the as-converted method, except when antidilutive.
−Removed: In the event of a net loss, the effects of all
−Removed: potentially dilutive shares are excluded from the diluted net loss per share calculation as their inclusion would be antidilutive.
−Removed: For the year ended October 31, 2023 the outstanding common stock equivalents excluded from the computation of diluted net loss were 449,106 shares
−Removed: for stock options, 242,548 shares
−Removed: for warrants and 357,120 shares
−Removed: for series B convertible preferred stock.
−Removed: For the year ended, October 31, 2022 the outstanding common stock equivalents excluded
−Removed: from the computation of diluted net loss were 152,489 shares
−Removed: for stock options and 110,396 shares
−Removed: for warrants .
−Removed: Income taxes are provided for the tax effects of
−Removed: transactions reported in the financial statements and consist of taxes currently due plus deferred taxes related primarily to differences
−Removed: between the recorded book basis and the tax basis of assets and liabilities for financial and income tax reporting.
−Removed: Deferred tax assets
−Removed: and liabilities represent the future tax return consequences of those differences, which will either be taxable or deductible when the
−Removed: assets and liabilities are recovered or settled.
−Removed: Deferred taxes are also recognized for operating losses that are available to offset
−Removed: future taxable income and tax credits that are available to offset future federal income taxes.
−Removed: The Company believes that its income
−Removed: tax filing positions and deductions will be sustained on audit and does not anticipate any adjustments that will result in a material
−Removed: adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow.
+Added: The expected volatility was based on the volatility in the trading
+Added: of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: The risk-free interest rate used is based on the published U.S.
+Added: Department of Treasury interest rates
+Added: in effect at the time of stock option grant for zero coupon U.S.
+Added: Treasury notes with maturities approximating each grant’s expected
+Added: Forfeitures and cancellations are recorded as they occur.
+Added: Income taxes are provided for the tax effects of transactions
+Added: reported in the financial statements and consist of taxes currently due plus deferred taxes related primarily to differences between the
+Added: recorded book basis and the tax basis of assets and liabilities for financial and income tax reporting.
+Added: Deferred tax assets and liabilities
+Added: represent the future tax return consequences of those differences, which will either be taxable or deductible when the assets and liabilities
+Added: are recovered or settled.
+Added: Deferred taxes are also recognized for operating losses that are available to offset future taxable income and
+Added: tax credits that are available to offset future federal income taxes.
+Added: The Company believes that its income tax filing positions and deductions
+Added: will be sustained on audit and does not anticipate any adjustments that will result in a material adverse effect on the Company’s
+Added: financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow.
The Company has Federal net operating loss (“NOL”)
−Removed: carryforwards, consisting of total deferred tax assets, totaling approximately $ 23.8 million and state NOL carryforwards, consisting
−Removed: of total deferred tax liabilities, totaling approximately $ 0.2 million.
−Removed: With the changes instituted by the CARES Act, the Federal NOLs
−Removed: have an indefinite life and will not expire.
−Removed: The Company’s federal and state tax returns for the 2020, 2021, and 2022 tax years
−Removed: generally remain subject to examination by U.S.
+Added: carryforwards, consisting of total deferred tax assets, totaling approximately $ 29.8 million and state NOL carryforwards, consisting of
+Added: total deferred tax liabilities, totaling approximately $ 0.3 million.
+Added: With the changes instituted by the CARES Act, the Federal NOLs have
+Added: an indefinite life and will not expire.
+Added: The Company’s federal and state tax returns for the 2021, 2022, and 2023 tax years generally
+Added: remain subject to examination by U.S.
and various state authorities.
−Removed: A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce the deferred
−Removed: tax asset if, based on the weight of the evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax asset will
−Removed: not be realized.
−Removed: After consideration of all the evidence, both positive and negative, management has determined that a valuation allowance
−Removed: of $ 7,319,289 for the -year ended on October 31, 2023, and a valuation allowance of $ 4,286,289 for the year ended on October 31, 2022
−Removed: were necessary to reduce the total net deferred tax asset to the amount that will more likely than not be realized pursuant to ASC 740
−Removed: for those fiscal years.
+Added: A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce the deferred tax asset
+Added: if, based on the weight of the evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax asset will not be realized.
+Added: After consideration of all the evidence, both positive and negative, management has determined that a valuation allowance of $ 8,703,742
+Added: for the year ended on October 31, 2024, and a valuation allowance of $ 7,319,289 for the year ended on October 31, 2023 were necessary
+Added: to reduce the total net deferred tax asset to the amount that will more likely than not be realized pursuant to ASC 740 for those fiscal
Fair Value of Financial Instruments
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are described below:
−Removed: 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets or
−Removed: 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or
−Removed: indirectly, including quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets;
−Removed: quoted prices for identical or similar assets
−Removed: or liabilities in markets that are not active;
−Removed: inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability (e.g.,
−Removed: interest rates);
−Removed: and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.
+Added: 1 – Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets that are accessible at the measurement date for identical, unrestricted assets
+Added: or liabilities.
+Added: 2 – Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly
+Added: or indirectly, including quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets;
+Added: quoted prices for identical or similar
+Added: assets or liabilities in markets that are not active;
+Added: inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability
+Added: (e.g., interest rates);
+Added: and inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or
3 – Inputs that are both significant to the fair value measurement and unobservable.
−Removed: Fair value estimates discussed herein are based upon
−Removed: certain market assumptions and pertinent information available to management as of October 31, 2023 and 2022.
−Removed: The respective carrying
−Removed: value of certain on-balance-sheet financial instruments approximated their fair values due to the short-term nature of these instruments.
−Removed: These financial instruments include cash, restricted cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued expenses.
−Removed: As of October
−Removed: 31, 2023, and 2022, the Company did not have any financial assets or liabilities measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring
−Removed: Recent Accounting
−Removed: Pronouncements
−Removed: In August 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)
−Removed: issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2020-06, Debt – Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470- 20)
−Removed: and Derivatives and Hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40):
−Removed: Accounting for Convertible Instruments and
−Removed: Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity (“ASU 2020-06”).
−Removed: ASU 2020-06 simplified the accounting for certain financial instruments
−Removed: with characteristics of liabilities and equity.
−Removed: This ASU (1) simplified the accounting for convertible debt instruments and convertible
−Removed: preferred stock by removing the existing guidance in ASC 470-20, Debt:
−Removed: Debt with Conversion and Other Options, that required entities
−Removed: to account for beneficial conversion features and cash conversion features in equity, separately from the host convertible debt or preferred
−Removed: (2) revised the scope exception from derivative accounting in ASC 815-40 for freestanding financial instruments and embedded features
−Removed: that are both indexed to the issuer’s own stock and classified in stockholders’ equity, by removing certain criteria required
−Removed: for equity classification;
−Removed: and (3) revised the guidance in ASC 260, Earnings Per Share, to require entities to calculate diluted earnings
−Removed: per share (“EPS”) for convertible instruments by using the if-converted method.
−Removed: In addition, entities must presume share settlement
−Removed: for purposes of calculating diluted EPS when an instrument may be settled in cash or shares.
−Removed: ASU 2020-06 was effective for the Company
−Removed: for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, including interim periods within those fiscal years.
−Removed: Early adoption was permitted.
−Removed: The Company has elected to early adopt ASU 2020-06 effective beginning November 1, 2022.
−Removed: There was no impact on the consolidated financial
−Removed: statements as a result of adopting this standard.
−Removed: The Company does not believe
−Removed: that any recently issued effective pronouncements, or pronouncements issued but not yet effective, if adopted, would have a material
−Removed: effect on the accompanying financial statements.
−Removed: However, In March 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-02, “Financial Instruments-Credit
−Removed: Losses (Topic 326), Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures.” ASU 2022-02 addresses areas identified by the FASB as
−Removed: part of its post-implementation review of the credit losses standard (ASU 2016-13) that introduced the current expected credit loss (“CECL”)
−Removed: The amendments eliminate the accounting guidance for troubled debt restructurings (“TDRs”) by creditors that have
−Removed: adopted the CECL model and enhance the disclosure requirements for certain loan refinancings and restructurings by creditors when a borrower
−Removed: is experiencing financial difficulty.
−Removed: In addition, the amendments require a public business entity to disclose current-period gross write-offs
−Removed: for financing receivables and net investment in leases by year of origination in the vintage disclosures.
−Removed: The amendments in this ASU
−Removed: should be applied prospectively, except for the transition method related to the recognition and measurement of TDRs, where an entity
−Removed: has the option to apply a modified retrospective transition method resulting in a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings in
−Removed: the period of adoption.
−Removed: This is not effective for the Company until November 1, 2023
+Added: Fair value estimates discussed herein are based
+Added: upon certain market assumptions and pertinent information available to management as of October 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: The respective
+Added: carrying value of certain on-balance-sheet financial instruments approximated their fair values due to the short-term nature of
+Added: these instruments.
+Added: These financial instruments include cash, accounts receivable, accounts payable, accrued expenses and
+Added: loans payable .
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, and 2023, the Company did not have any financial assets or liabilities measured
+Added: and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis.
+Added: Recent Accounting Pronouncements – Not
+Added: In December 2023, the Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
+Added: 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740) - Improvements
+Added: to Income Tax Disclosures (“ASU 2023-09”).
+Added: ASU 2023-09 requires additional disclosures reconciling the rates of different
+Added: categories of income tax (i.e.
+Added: federal, state, foreign, etc.) and a disaggregation of taxes paid and refunded.
+Added: ASU 2023-09 is effective
+Added: for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, and for interim periods in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2025, although
+Added: early adoption is permitted.
+Added: The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adopting this standard on its income tax disclosures.
+Added: In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, “Segment
+Added: Reporting (Topic 280):
+Added: Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures,” which is intended to improve reportable segment disclosure
+Added: requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses.
+Added: The purpose of the amendment is to enable investors
+Added: to better understand an entity’s overall performance and assess potential future cash flows.
+Added: The guidance is effective for fiscal
+Added: years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, with early adoption
+Added: The guidance is to be applied retrospectively to all prior periods presented in the financial statements.
+Added: The Company is continuing
+Added: to evaluate the impact of adopting this new guidance but does not expect it to have a material impact on the Company’s financial
Note 3 – Going Concern
−Removed: The accompanying financial statements
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
of the Company are prepared in accordance with U.S.
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satisfaction of liabilities in the normal course of business within one year after the date the consolidated financial statements are
−Removed: In accordance with Financial Accounting
−Removed: Standards Board (“FASB”), Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No.
−Removed: 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements
−Removed: – Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40), the Company’s management evaluates whether there are conditions or events, considered
−Removed: in aggregate, that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the
−Removed: date that the accompanying financial statements are issued.
−Removed: The Company will need significant
−Removed: additional funds to satisfy its outstanding payables, fund its working capital, and fully implement its business plan as the Company seeks
−Removed: to grow its revenues and ultimately achieve positive cash flow and profitability.
+Added: In accordance with FASB, ASU No.
+Added: 2014-15, Presentation of Financial Statements – Going Concern (Subtopic 205-40),
+Added: the Company’s management evaluates whether there are conditions or events, considered in aggregate, that raise substantial doubt
+Added: about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year after the date that the accompanying consolidated financial
+Added: statements are issued.
+Added: Company has incurred recurring losses and negative cash flows from operations for the years ended October 31, 2024 and 2023.
+Added: will need significant additional funds to satisfy its
+Added: outstanding payables, fund its working capital, and fully implement its business plan.
In addition, the Company’s ability to continue
as a going concern is adversely affected by the uncertainty surrounding Bidi’s PMTA process with FDA and outcome of Bidi’s
−Removed: petition with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the FDA’s January 2024 MDO relating to Classic Bidi ® Stick
−Removed: as well as the Company’s negative cash flows from operations, significant recurring losses and present need for additional funding.
−Removed: All of these factors raise substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: plans to continue similar operations with increased marketing and enhanced efforts to increase sales, which the Company believes will
−Removed: result in increased revenue and ultimately net income and positive cash flow from operations.
−Removed: However, there is no assurance
−Removed: that the Company’s plans will be able to generate expected or greater amounts of revenues or ever achieve profitability due to the
−Removed: factors listed above as well as the regulation and public perception of ENDS products and the various other risks faced by the Company.
−Removed: The accompanying consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability
−Removed: and classification of assets or the amounts and classification of liabilities that may result from the outcome of these or other risks
−Removed: or uncertainties.
+Added: petition with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the FDA’s January 2024 MDO relating to Classic Bidi ®
+Added: Stick as well as the uncertainty in the Company’s ability to continue to sell the Bidi Stick given the patent infringement claim
+Added: filed by RJ Reynolds.
+Added: Our management plans
+Added: to continue developing strategies on similar or expanded
+Added: operations of our business to help our ability to determine where our business will be viable going forward.
+Added: such time, if ever, we can generate substantial product revenues, management plans to finance our cash needs through public or private
+Added: equity offerings or debt financing.
+Added: there is no assurance that the Company will be able to raise additional capital, generate revenues or achieve profitability due to
+Added: the factors listed above as well as the regulation and public perception of ENDS products and the various other risks faced by the
+Added: The accompanying consolidated financial statements
+Added: do not include any adjustments to reflect the possible future effects on the recoverability and classification of assets or the amounts
+Added: and classification of liabilities that may result from the outcome of these or other risks or uncertainties.
Note 4 – Acquisition of GoFire Assets
−Removed: On May 30, 2023 (the “Closing Date”), the Company and Kaival Labs
−Removed: entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “GoFire APA”) with GoFire, Inc.
−Removed: (“GoFire”) to purchase certain intellectual
−Removed: property assets of GoFire consisting of various patents concerning electronic vaporizers and related technologies (the “Purchased
−Removed: Assets”) in exchange for equity securities of the Company and certain contingent cash consideration.
−Removed: The Company participated in
−Removed: this transaction with the intent to diversify its product offerings and create both near and long-term revenue opportunities.
−Removed: The Purchased
−Removed: Assets consist of 19 existing and 47 pending patents with novel technologies related to vaporization and inhalation.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the GoFire
−Removed: APA, the Company paid to GoFire, in addition to certain contingent cash consideration described below, consideration in the form of equity
−Removed: securities of the Company consisting of (i) an aggregate of 95,239 shares of Common Stock (the “APA Shares”); (ii)
−Removed: 900,000 shares of newly-designated Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $ 0.001 per share, (the “Series B Preferred Stock”
−Removed: and the shares of Common Stock underlying the Series B Preferred, the “Series B Conversion Shares”), the rights, preferences
−Removed: and terms of which are set forth in a Certificate of Designation of Rights and Preferences of the Series B Preferred Stock (the “Certificate
+Added: On May 30, 2023
+Added: (the “Closing Date”), the Company and Kaival Labs entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “GoFire
+Added: APA”) with GoFire, Inc.
+Added: (“GoFire”) to purchase certain intellectual property assets of GoFire consisting of
+Added: various patents concerning electronic vaporizers and related technologies (the “Purchased Assets”) in exchange for
+Added: equity securities of the Company and certain contingent cash consideration.
+Added: The Company participated in this transaction with the
+Added: intent to diversify its product offerings and create both near and long-term revenue opportunities.
+Added: The Purchased Assets consist of
+Added: 19 existing and 47 pending patents with novel
+Added: technologies related to vaporization and inhalation.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the GoFire APA, the Company
+Added: paid to GoFire, in addition to certain contingent cash consideration described below, consideration in the form of equity securities of
+Added: the Company consisting of (i) an aggregate of 95,239 shares of Common Stock (the “APA Shares”); (ii) 900,000 shares of
+Added: newly-designated Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $ 0.001 per share, (the “Series B Preferred Stock” and the
+Added: shares of Common Stock underlying the Series B Preferred, the “Series B Conversion Shares”), the rights, preferences and terms
+Added: of which are set forth in a Certificate of Designation of Rights and Preferences of the Series B Preferred Stock (the “Certificate
of Designation”), and (iii) a common stock purchase warrant to purchase 95,239 shares of Common Stock (the “Warrant”
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As additional consideration for the Purchased
−Removed: Assets, any cannabis-specific (meaning cannabis, hemp or cannabinoid) royalties that are generated by Kaival Labs from or due to the
−Removed: Purchased Assets, from the Closing Date until January 1, 2027, will be subject to a contingent cash payment (“CCP”).
−Removed: to the earlier of:
−Removed: (i) the Company achieving less than or equal to $15,000,000 in aggregate gross cannabis-specific royalties from any
−Removed: Kaival Labs licensing agreements, and (ii)
+Added: Assets, any cannabis-specific (meaning cannabis, hemp or cannabinoid) royalties that are generated by Kaival Labs from or due to the Purchased
+Added: Assets, from the Closing Date until January 1, 2027, will be subject to a contingent cash payment (“CCP”).
+Added: Prior to the earlier
+Added: (i) the Company achieving less than or equal to $15,000,000 in aggregate gross cannabis-specific royalties from any Kaival Labs licensing
+Added: agreements, and (ii)
January 1, 2027, the Company shall pay GoFire a CCP equal to 50% of the aggregate gross cannabis-specific royalties generated by the
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(180) days from the Closing Date.
−Removed: The Company has determined that
−Removed: the acquisition of the Purchased Assets constitutes an asset acquisition and has recorded the assets under a cost accumulation model.
−Removed: Assets acquired and liabilities assumed are recognized at cost, which is the consideration the acquirer transferred to the seller, as
−Removed: well as direct transaction costs, on the acquisition date.
−Removed: The cost of the acquisition is then allocated to the assets acquired based
−Removed: on their relative fair values.
−Removed: The cost of acquisition does not include any contingent consideration related to contingent cash payments
−Removed: as those obligations are contingent in future amount of royalties and will be recognized when the contingency is resolved, and the consideration
−Removed: is paid or becomes payable.
−Removed: Goodwill is not recognized in asset acquisition.
−Removed: The Purchased Assets have been recorded at a cost of $11,795,975
−Removed: and are included in Intangible Assets in the consolidated balance sheet.
−Removed: The consideration paid for the GoFire APA was as
−Removed: follows (see Note 5):
+Added: The Company has determined that the acquisition
+Added: of the Purchased Assets constitutes an asset acquisition and has recorded the assets under a cost accumulation model.
+Added: acquired and liabilities assumed are recognized at cost, which is the consideration the acquirer transferred to the seller, as well
+Added: as direct transaction costs, on the acquisition date.
+Added: The cost of the acquisition is then allocated to the assets acquired based on
+Added: their relative fair values.
+Added: The cost of acquisition does not include any contingent consideration related to contingent cash
+Added: payments as those obligations are contingent in future amount of royalties and will be recognized when the contingency is resolved,
+Added: and the consideration is paid or becomes payable.
+Added: Goodwill is not recognized in an asset acquisition.
+Added: The Purchased Assets have been
+Added: recorded at a cost of $11,795,975 and are included in Intangible Assets in the consolidated balance sheet.
+Added: The consideration paid for the GoFire APA was as follows
+Added: (see Note 5):
Schedule of consideration paid
−Removed: B Preferred Stock
−Removed: Stock Warrants
−Removed: consideration
−Removed: The fair value of the Common Stock
−Removed: is based on the publicly traded share price as of the acquisition date and represents a Level 1 measurement.
−Removed: The fair value of the Series B
−Removed: Preferred Stock and Common Stock Warrants were determined using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing model.
−Removed: The fair value measurements are
−Removed: based on significant unobservable inputs, including management estimates and assumptions, and thus represent Level 3 measurements.
−Removed: 5 – Intangible Assets, net
−Removed: The Company’s intangible assets include
−Removed: patents and technology that were acquired pursuant to the GoFire APA.
−Removed: The cost and accumulated amortization of the intangible assets
−Removed: amounted to $ 11,795,975 and
−Removed: of October 31, 2023, respectively.
−Removed: Amortizable patents and technology have a useful life of 15 .0 years
−Removed: with a weighted average remaining useful life of 14.6 years.
+Added: Series B Preferred Stock
+Added: Common Stock Warrants
+Added: Transaction Costs
+Added: Total consideration
+Added: The fair value of the Common Stock is based on the
+Added: publicly traded share price as of the acquisition date and represents a Level 1 measurement.
+Added: The fair value of the Series B Preferred Stock and
+Added: Common Stock Warrants were determined using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing model.
+Added: The fair value measurements are based on significant
+Added: unobservable inputs, including management estimates and assumptions, and thus represent Level 3 measurements.
+Added: Note 5 – Intangible Assets
+Added: The Company’s intangible assets include patents
+Added: and technology that were acquired pursuant to the GoFire APA.
+Added: The cost and accumulated amortization of the intangible assets amounted
+Added: to $ 11,795,975 and $ 1,114,064 as of October 31, 2024, respectively and $ 11,795,975 and $ 327,666 as of October 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: Amortizable patents and technology have a useful life of 15.0 years with a weighted average remaining useful life of 13.7 years and 14.6
+Added: years as of October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023, respectively.
The Company recognized an amortization expense of
−Removed: $327,666 for the year ended October 31, 2023.
−Removed: Amortization expense is included under general and administrative expenses in the consolidated
−Removed: statement of operations.
−Removed: Future amortization expense of intangible assets
−Removed: is as follows:
+Added: $ 786,398 and $ 327,666 for the years then ended October 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
+Added: Amortization expense is included under general
+Added: and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: Future amortization expense of intangible assets is as follows:
Schedule of future amortization expense of intangible assets
+Added: Year ending October
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2026
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2027
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2028
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2029
Note 6 – Loans Payable
−Removed: On May 9, 2023, the Company entered into two
+Added: Insurance Loans
+Added: On May 10, 2024, the Company obtained two insurance
+Added: The first loan is a nine-month loan from First Insurance Bank to finance the annual D&O insurance, with the principal amount
+Added: of $ 381,077 and subject to an effective interest rate of 7.45 % .
+Added: The second loan is a nine-month loan from IPFS Corporation to finance
+Added: the annual D&O insurance, with the principal amount of $ 94,404 and subject to an effective interest rate of 11.15 % .
+Added: As of October
+Added: 31, 2024, the outstanding balance of the Insurance loans amounted to $ 207,616 .
+Added: On May 20, 2023, the Company obtained a
+Added: nine-month loan from Westfield Bank to finance the annual D&O insurance.
+Added: The principal amount was $ 342,001
+Added: and subject to an effective interest rate of 7.79 % .
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, the remaining balance was zero 0 and
+Added: respectively.
+Added: Loan Agreements
+Added: On May 9, 2023, the Company entered into two loan
+Added: agreements which are collateralized by all assets of the Company until the loans are repaid in full.
+Added: As illustrated in the following table,
+Added: under the terms of these agreements, the Company received the disclosed Purchase Price and agreed to repay the disclosed Purchase Amount,
+Added: which is collected by the lenders at the disclosed weekly payment rate.
+Added: The Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, Eric Mosser
+Added: personally guarantees the performance of these loans.
+Added: These loans were fully paid on December 4, 2023, upon their maturity.
+Added: On November 29, 2023, the Company entered into two
loan agreements which are collateralized by all assets of the Company until the loans are repaid in full.
−Removed: As illustrated in the
−Removed: following table, under the terms of these agreements, the Company received the disclosed Purchase Price and agreed to repay the
−Removed: disclosed Purchase Amount, which is collected by the lenders at the disclosed weekly payment rate.
−Removed: The Company’s former Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer, Eric Mosser personally guarantees the performance of these loans.
−Removed: The Company has accounted for these agreements as
−Removed: loans under ASC 860 because while we provided rights to current and future receipts, we still had control over the receipts.
−Removed: The difference
−Removed: between the Purchase Amount and the Purchase Price is imputed interest that is recorded as interest expense when paid.
−Removed: The following table shows our loan agreements as
−Removed: of October 31, 2023, and there were none as of October 31, 2022:
−Removed: of loan agreements
+Added: As illustrated in the following
+Added: table, under the terms of these agreements, the Company received the disclosed Purchase Price and agreed to repay the disclosed Purchase
+Added: Amount, which is collected by the lenders at the disclosed weekly payment rate.
+Added: The Company’s former Chief Executive Officer, Eric
+Added: Mosser personally guarantees the performance of these loans.
+Added: These loans were fully paid on June 13, 2024, upon their maturity.
+Added: The following table shows the loan agreements as of
+Added: October 31, 2024:
+Added: Schedule of loan agreements
+Added: Inception Date
+Added: Purchase Price
Purchased Amount
Outstanding Balance
−Removed: On August 9, 2023, the
−Removed: Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with AJB Capital Investments, LLC (“AJB”), pursuant
−Removed: to which the Company sold a Promissory Note in the principal amount of $650,000 (the “Note”) to AJB in a private transaction
−Removed: for a purchase price of $585,000 (giving effect to original issue discount of $65,000).
−Removed: The Note matures on February 8, 2024 (the “Maturity
−Removed: Date”) and bears interest at the rate of 10% per annum.
−Removed: Interest shall be payable on a monthly basis beginning on the date that
−Removed: is one month following the date of issuance of the Note.
−Removed: Provided no event of default (as defined in the Note) is in effect as of the
−Removed: Maturity Date, the Company may elect to extend the Maturity Date for a period of six (6) months.
−Removed: to the terms of the SPA, the Company paid a commitment fee to AJB in the form of 19,048
−Removed: shares of Common Stock (the “Commitment
−Removed: Fee Shares”) with
−Removed: a relative fair value of $130,478 which was recognized as discount to the note.
−Removed: The debt discount and issuance costs are amortized over
−Removed: the term of the note.
−Removed: Amortization expense amounted to $122,273 for the year ended October 31, 2023.
−Removed: Under the SPA, the Company has the
−Removed: right to repurchase half of the Commitment Fee Shares if the Note is repaid in full prior to maturity .
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023 the carrying value of the loan and unamortized debt discount and issuance costs were $513,295 and $136,705 respectively
−Removed: On May 20, 2023, the Company obtained a nine
−Removed: month loan from Westfield Bank to finance the annual D&O insurance.
−Removed: The principal amount was $ 342,001
−Removed: and subject to an effective interest rate of 7.79 %.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, the remaining balance was $ 152,000 .
+Added: Payment frequency
+Added: Deferred Finance Fees
+Added: November 29, 2023
+Added: November 29, 2023
+Added: The following table shows the loan agreements as of
+Added: October 31, 2023:
+Added: Inception Date
+Added: Purchase Price
+Added: Purchased Amount
+Added: Outstanding Balance
+Added: Payment frequency
+Added: Deferred Finance Fees
+Added: The Company has accounted for these agreements as
+Added: loans under ASC 860 because while the Company provided rights to current and future receipts, the Company still had control over the receipts.
+Added: The difference between the Purchase Amount and the Purchase Price is imputed interest that is recorded as interest expense when paid.
+Added: On August 9, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities
+Added: Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with AJB Capital Investments, LLC (“AJB”), pursuant to which the Company sold a
+Added: Promissory Note in the principal amount of $650,000 (the “Note”) to AJB in a private transaction for a purchase price of $585,000
+Added: (giving effect to original issue discount of $65,000).
+Added: The Note matures on February 8, 2024 (the “Maturity Date”) and bears
+Added: interest at the rate of 10% per annum.
+Added: Interest shall be payable on a monthly basis beginning on the date that is one month following
+Added: the date of issuance of the Note.
+Added: Provided no event of default (as defined in the Note) is in effect as of the Maturity Date, the Company
+Added: may elect to extend the Maturity Date for a period of six (6) months.
+Added: Pursuant to the terms of the
+Added: SPA, the Company paid a commitment fee to AJB in the form of 19,048 shares of Common Stock
+Added: (the “Commitment Fee Shares”) with a relative fair value of $ 130,478 which was recognized as discount to the note.
+Added: discount and issuance costs are amortized over the term of the note.
+Added: Amortization expense amounted to $ 38,273 and $ 122,273 for
+Added: the years ended October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023, respectively.
+Added: Under the SPA, the Company has the right to repurchase
+Added: half of the Commitment Fee Shares if the Note is repaid in full prior to maturity.
+Added: On December 1, 2023, the Company fully paid the loan
+Added: balance in advance of the maturity date.
+Added: In connection with the repayment of the Note, the Company agreed that AJB would be permitted
+Added: to retain all of the Commitment Fee Shares.
+Added: The Company recognized $ 98,432 as loss on extinguishment of debt for the year then ended October
+Added: As of October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023 the carrying value of the loan and unamortized debt discount and issuance costs
+Added: were 0 zero and zero and $ 513,295 and 136,705 , respectively.
Note 7 – Leases
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or less from Topic 842 as an accounting policy election and recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term.
−Removed: Company does not have financing leases and only one operating lease for office space and inventory storage space with a related party,
−Removed: as of October 31, 2023.
−Removed: Certain of the Company’s leases, have and may in the future, include renewal options, which have been and
−Removed: might be in the future, included in the calculation of the lease liabilities and right of use assets when the Company is reasonably certain
−Removed: to exercise the option.
−Removed: Office and Storage Space On November 1, 2021 the
−Removed: Company entered into a month-to-month lease agreement with Ranger Enterprises, LLC, located in Seymour, Indiana, to store product inventory
−Removed: at this satellite location.
−Removed: The Company made payments on this lease in the amount of $19,959.
−Removed: The lease was terminated in June 2022.
−Removed: On November 11, 2021 the Company entered into a month-
−Removed: to-month lease agreement with FFE Solutions Group, located in Salt Lake City Utah, to store additional product inventory at this satellite
−Removed: The Company made payments on this lease in the amount of $19,108.
−Removed: This lease was terminated in April 2022.
−Removed: On June 10, 2022, the Company entered into a Lease
−Removed: Agreement (the “2022 Lease”) with Just Pick for approximately 21,332 rentable square feet combined in the office building
−Removed: and warehouse located at 4460 Old Dixie Highway, Grant-Valkaria, Florida 32949 (the “Premises”), together with all improvements
−Removed: The Company must pay Just Pick base rent equal to $ 17,777 per month during the first year of the Lease Term with a five-year
−Removed: lease renewal option.
−Removed: Thereafter, the monthly base rent will be increased annually with a monthly base rent of $ 18,666 in the second
−Removed: year, $ 19,554 in the third year, $ 20,443 in the fourth year, $ 22,221 in the fifth year, $ 23,999 in the sixth year, and one
−Removed: twelfth (1/12th) of the market annual rent for the seventh through eleventh years, if applicable.
−Removed: In addition to the base rent, the Company
−Removed: must pay one hundred percent (100%) of operating expenses, insurance costs, and taxes for each calendar year during the Lease term.
−Removed: both the ROU asset and ROU liability, the lease renewal option was considered in the calculation with an incremental borrowing rate of
−Removed: The Company had $ 190,541 and $ 118,633 in operating lease expenses for the year ended October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022, respectively.
+Added: The Company does not have financing leases and only
+Added: one operating lease for office space and inventory storage space with Just Pick, LLC (“Just Pick”), a related party that was
+Added: owned and controlled by Nirajkumar Patel, the former Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company (see Note 9).
+Added: Certain of the
+Added: Company’s leases, have and may in the future, include renewal options, which have been and might be in the future, included in the
+Added: calculation of the lease liabilities and right of use assets when the Company is reasonably certain to exercise the option.
Cash flow information related to leases was as follows:
Schedule of cash flow information related to leases
−Removed: Lease Information
−Removed: paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
−Removed: cash flows from operating leases
−Removed: The following table summarizes the lease-related
−Removed: assets and liabilities recorded in the consolidated balance sheets on October 31, 2023, and 2022:
−Removed: Schedule of condensed balance sheet
−Removed: lease right-of-use assets
−Removed: of use liability operating lease, current portion
−Removed: of use liability operating lease, long term
−Removed: operating lease liabilities
−Removed: The following table provides the future minimum operating
−Removed: lease payments as of October 31, 2023:
−Removed: Schedule of lessee operating lease liability maturity
−Removed: minimum operating lease liabilities on October 31, 2023
−Removed: and thereafter
−Removed: future undiscounted lease payments
+Added: October 31, 2024
+Added: October 31, 2023
+Added: Other Lease Information
+Added: Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
+Added: Operating cash flows from operating leases
+Added: The following table provides the maturities of lease liabilities as of
+Added: October 31, 2024:
+Added: Schedule of maturities of lease liabilities
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2025
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2026
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2027
+Added: Year ending October 31, 2028
+Added: Total future undiscounted lease payments
Imputed interest
−Removed: value of lease liabilities
+Added: Present value of lease liabilities
As of October 31, 2024, the Company had no additional
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Note 8 – Stockholders’ Equity
−Removed: Common Shares
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company
−Removed: issued 95,239 shares of Common Stock as consideration for the acquisition of the GoFire Purchased Assets.
−Removed: The Company also issued 4,381
−Removed: shares of Common Stock as compensation for advisory services rendered in connection with the GoFire APA.
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company
−Removed: issued 19,048 common shares with a value of $ 130,478 as part of a loan issued on August 9, 2023.
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2022, the Company issued 1,888
−Removed: common shares for services rendered with a fair value of $ 65,323 .
−Removed: There were 1,190,477
−Removed: common shares issued for the conversion of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock to Common Stock, see preferred shares converted
−Removed: The Company issued 40,744
−Removed: for $ 1,625,650
−Removed: proceeds for the exercise of warrants.
−Removed: The Company’s stock-based compensation for Common Stock issued for
−Removed: services for the fiscal years ended October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022, was $ 0 and $ 237,702 , respectively.
−Removed: Restricted Stock Unit Awards
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2022, 5,870 shares
−Removed: of Common Stock were issued to seven employees of the Company pursuant to restricted stock unit (“RSU”) agreements, resulting
−Removed: in $ 172,379 of share-based compensation.
−Removed: Of the shares issued to employees, 2,130 shares were withheld by the Company
−Removed: to satisfy tax withholding obligations equal to $ 59,862 .
−Removed: On March 4, 2022, the Company’s Board approved
−Removed: the termination of the RSU agreements with the consent of the employees.
−Removed: At the time these agreements were terminated, there remained
−Removed: 1,564,166 unvested RSUs with approximately $ 4,457,875 of related unvested compensation.
−Removed: See Common Stock Compensation Transition
−Removed: Plan below for additional details.
−Removed: Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: Each share of the Series A Preferred Stock was initially
−Removed: convertible into 100 shares of Common Stock; However, it was affected by a subsequent reverse stock split also, the conversion rate
−Removed: was adjusted such that each share of the Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into approximately 0.3968 shares of Common Stock.
−Removed: 24, 2022, all 3,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock were converted into shares of Common Stock by Kaival Holdings.
−Removed: The conversion
−Removed: of 3,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, at a conversion rate of 0.3968 , equaled 1,190,477 shares of Common Stock.
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
−Removed: The Company issued 900,000 shares of the Series B
−Removed: Preferred Stock as consideration for the acquisition of the GoFire Purchased Assets.
−Removed: The Series B Preferred Stock carries no voting rights
−Removed: (i) with respect to the ability of the holders of a majority of the then outstanding Series B Preferred Stock (the “Majority
−Removed: Holders”), to nominate a director to the Company’s board of directors, and (ii) that the vote of the Majority Holders is
−Removed: necessary for effecting any amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Certificate of Designation that affects
−Removed: the Series B Preferred Stock.
−Removed: The Series B Preferred Stock is redeemable at the option of the Company at a redemption price of $ 15 per
−Removed: share, subject to potential downward adjustments based on the trading price of the Common Stock.
−Removed: Subject to additional limitations in
−Removed: the GoFire APA, the Series B Preferred Stock holds seniority over the Common Stock and each other class of series of securities now existing
−Removed: or hereafter authorized with respect to dividend rights, the distribution of assets upon liquidation, and dissolution and redemption
+Added: On May 30, 2023, the Company issued 900,000 shares
+Added: of the Series B Preferred Stock as consideration for the acquisition of the GoFire Purchased Assets.
+Added: The Series B Preferred Stock carries
+Added: no voting rights except:
+Added: (i) with respect to the ability of the holders of a majority of the then outstanding Series B Preferred Stock
+Added: (the “Majority Holders”), to nominate a director to the Company’s board of directors, and (ii) that the vote of the
+Added: Majority Holders is necessary for effecting any amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation or Certificate of Designation
+Added: that affects the Series B Preferred Stock.
+Added: The Series B Preferred Stock is redeemable at the option of the Company at a redemption price
+Added: of $ 15 per share, subject to potential downward adjustments based on the trading price of the Common Stock.
+Added: Subject to additional limitations
+Added: in the GoFire APA, the Series B Preferred Stock holds seniority over the Common Stock and each other class of series of securities now
+Added: existing or hereafter authorized with respect to dividend rights, the distribution of assets upon liquidation, and dissolution and redemption
Upon a liquidation and winding up of the Company, the holders of Series B Preferred Stock are entitled to a liquidation preference
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of the Liquidation Preference, accruing from the Closing Date and payable on the eighteen-month anniversary of the Closing Date.
−Removed: No preemptive
−Removed: rights are granted to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock.
−Removed: The Majority Holders have the ability to cause a voluntary conversion
−Removed: of the Series B Preferred Stock into Common Stock at a conversion rate of 0.3968 shares of Common Stock per share of Series B Preferred
−Removed: Stock which may only occur on or after the following dates 18 month, 24 month, 36, month, 48 month, and 60 month anniversary of the original
−Removed: issuance date;
−Removed: and only up to 180,000 number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock on each of the these dates.
−Removed: All shares of Series B
−Removed: Preferred Stock will automatically convert to Common Stock upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the GoFire APA).
+Added: payable in respect of the Series B Dividend shall begin to accrue on a daily basis, be cumulative from and including the Original Issue
+Added: Date, whether or not the Corporation has funds legally available for such dividends or such dividends are declared, shall compound on
+Added: each six month anniversary of the Original Issue Date and shall be payable in arrears on the 18-month anniversary of the Original Issue
+Added: No preemptive rights are granted to the holders of Series B Preferred Stock.
+Added: The Majority Holders have the ability to cause a voluntary
+Added: conversion of the Series B Preferred Stock into Common Stock at a conversion rate of 0.3968 shares of Common Stock per share of Series
+Added: B Preferred Stock which may only occur on or after the following dates 18-month, 24 month, 36 month, 48 month, and 60 month anniversary
+Added: of the original issuance date ;
+Added: and only up to 180,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock on each of these dates.
+Added: All shares of Series
+Added: B Preferred Stock will automatically convert to Common Stock upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the GoFire APA).
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, the Company had accrued a dividend
+Added: of $ 382,500 payable to Series B shareholders.
+Added: Reverse Stock Split
+Added: On January 22, 2024, the Company filed a
+Added: Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the
+Added: State of Delaware to affect a 1-for-21
+Added: reverse stock split (the “2024 Reverse Stock Split”) of the shares of the Common Stock.
+Added: Reverse Stock Split was effective on January 25, 2024, on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
+Added: No fractional shares were issued in connection
+Added: with the 2024 Reverse Stock Split.
+Added: Any fractional shares of the Company’s Common Stock that would have otherwise resulted from
+Added: the 2024 Reverse Stock Split were rounded up to the nearest whole number.
+Added: In connection with the 2024 Reverse Stock Split, the Board
+Added: approved appropriate and proportional adjustments to all outstanding securities or other rights convertible or exercisable into
+Added: shares of the Common Stock, including, without limitation, all preferred stock, warrants, options, and other equity compensation
+Added: All historical share and per-share amounts reflected throughout these accompanying consolidated
+Added: financial statements have
+Added: been retroactively adjusted to reflect the 2024 Reverse Stock Split as if the split occurred as of the earliest period presented.
+Added: The par value per share of the Common Stock was not affected by the 2024 Reverse Stock Split .
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 1,746,500
+Added: shares of common stock in connection with the June 2024 Public Offering (see below).
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 2,174,456
+Added: shares of common stock from exercises of pre-funded warrants (see below).
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 52,949
+Added: shares of common stock for rounding of shares related to the Reverse Split.
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 16,667
+Added: shares of common stock to a FINRA member broker-dealer in connection with the termination of its relationship with such broker
+Added: The fair value was $ 62,000
+Added: based on the closing price of the common stock on the termination date and recorded as stock-based compensation.
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 333,200
+Added: shares of common stock from exercises of warrants for total consideration of $ 385,746 .
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2024, the Company
+Added: issued 1,400,144
+Added: shares of common stock to settle the related party payable to Bidi of $ 1,275,000 .
+Added: The Company recognized a loss on the settlement of the payable of $ 142,786 .
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company
+Added: issued 95,239
+Added: shares of Common Stock as consideration for the acquisition of the GoFire Purchased Assets.
+Added: The Company also issued 4,381
+Added: shares of Common Stock as compensation for advisory services rendered in connection with the GoFire APA.
+Added: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company
+Added: issued 19,048
+Added: common shares with a value of $ 130,478
+Added: as part of a loan issued on August 9, 2023.
+Added: June 2024 Public Offering
+Added: On June 21, 2024, the Company entered into a securities
+Added: purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with the certain purchasers (the “Purchasers) for the purchase and sale
+Added: of an aggregate of $5,393,250 of the Company’s securities consisting of 3,525,000 units (the “Units’).
+Added: to (i) 1,350,000 of the Units (the “Common Units”), each such Common Unit consisted of one share of the Company’s common
+Added: stock, par value $0.001 per share (“Common Stock”) and one and one-half common warrants (“Common Warrants”) to
+Added: purchase one and one-half shares of Common Stock and (ii) the other 2,175,000 Units (the “Pre-funded Units”), each such Pre-funded
+Added: Unit consisted of a pre-funded warrant (“Pre-funded Warrant”) to purchase one share of Common Stock and one and one-half Common
+Added: Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Common Units were sold at a purchase price of $1.53 per Unit and the Pre-funded Units
+Added: were sold at a purchase price of $1.529 per Unit.
+Added: The sale of the Units to the Purchasers closed on June 24, 2024 (the “Closing
+Added: The Company also sold 396,500 Common Units to additional investors, who did not enter into the Purchase Agreement, under
+Added: the same terms sold to Purchasers.
+Added: The sale of securities by the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement combined with the concurrent
+Added: sale of securities to additional investors is referred to herein as the “June 2024 Public Offering’.
+Added: The aggregate gross proceeds
+Added: to the Company from the June 2024 Public Offering were approximately $ 5,997,720 , before deducting
+Added: placement agent fees and expenses and other transaction costs of $ 744,993 .
+Added: Of the total gross
+Added: proceeds, $ 2,672,145 and $ 3,325,575 were allocated
+Added: to the common stock and the pre-funded warrants, respectively.
+Added: See further Common Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants
+Added: details below.
Stock Options
Summary of stock options information is as follows:
−Removed: Schedule of stock options
−Removed: October 31, 2021
+Added: Schedule of stock options information
+Added: Aggregate Number
+Added: Aggregate Exercise Price
+Added: Exercise Price Range
+Added: Outstanding, October 31, 2022
21.63 - 602.28
10.08 - 20.72
−Removed: forfeited, or expired
+Added: Cancelled, forfeited, or expired
+Added: Outstanding, October 31, 2023
10.08 - 602.28
−Removed: October 31, 2022
+Added: Cancelled, forfeited, or expired
2.81 - 545.58
+Added: Outstanding, October 31, 2024
3.64 - 602.28
−Removed: forfeited, or expired
−Removed: October 31, 2023
+Added: Exercisable, October 31, 2024
3.64 - 602.28
+Added: During the years ended October 31, 2024, and 2023,
+Added: the Company recognized $ 108,234 and $ 3,168,430 , respectively of stock option expense related to outstanding stock options.
+Added: The weighted-average
+Added: grant-date fair value of the options granted during the fiscal years ended October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023 were $ 5.03 and $ 15.81 , respectively.
+Added: The total fair value of stock options that vested
+Added: during the fiscal years ended October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023 were $ 830,907 and $ 1,885,367 respectively.
+Added: On October 31, 2024, the Company had $ 54,935 of
+Added: unrecognized expenses related to options, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted-average period of approximately 1.52 years.
+Added: The weighted average remaining contractual life is approximately 3.53 years for stock options outstanding as of October 31, 2024.
+Added: The aggregate intrinsic value of these outstanding options as of October 31, 2024 was zero.
+Added: Compensation expense related to performance-based
+Added: options is recognized on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, provided that it is probable that performance conditions
+Added: will be achieved, with probability assessed on a quarterly basis and any changes in expectations recognized as an adjustment to earnings
+Added: in the period of the change.
+Added: Compensation cost is not recognized for service and performance-based awards that do not vest because service
+Added: or performance conditions are not satisfied, and any previously recognized compensation cost is reversed.
+Added: If vesting occurs prior to the
+Added: end of the requisite service period, expense is accelerated and fully recognized through the vesting date.
+Added: Warrant information as of the periods indicated is as follows:
+Added: Schedule of warrant information
October 31, 2022
12.39 - 126.00
−Removed: The fair value of each option granted during the
−Removed: year ended October 31, 2023 and 2022 was estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the
−Removed: weighted average assumptions in the following table:
−Removed: Schedule of assumptions
−Removed: Expected dividend yield
−Removed: Expected option term (years)
−Removed: Expected volatility
−Removed: 270.98 %- 286.91
−Removed: 279.81 %- 288.93
−Removed: Risk-free interest rate
−Removed: The expected term of options granted represents the
−Removed: period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding.
−Removed: The expected volatility was based on the volatility in the trading
−Removed: of the Common Stock.
−Removed: The assumed discount rate was the default risk-free ten-year interest rate for US Treasury bills.
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2022, the Company recognized stock option expense
−Removed: of $ 6,043,312 related to outstanding stock options.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2022, the Company had $ 1,716,795 of unamortized stock option expense.
−Removed: The weighted average remaining contractual life is approximately 9.52 years for stock options outstanding on October 31, 2022.
−Removed: As of October
−Removed: 31, 2022, the outstanding options have an intrinsic value of $ 50,000 .
−Removed: On February 27, 2022, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 9,524 shares of Common Stock were awarded to two consultants of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year
−Removed: term from the grant date, with one-half of the shares vesting on the grant date and the remaining one-half of the shares vesting on the
−Removed: first anniversary of the grant date.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant dates was $ 489,998 using a Black-Scholes option pricing
−Removed: model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 51.45 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed
−Removed: volatility of 288.93 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 1.83 %.
−Removed: On April 22, 2022, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 3,571 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one consultant of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from the
−Removed: grant date, with one-half of the shares vesting on June 30, 2022 and the remaining one-half of the shares vesting on October 31, 2022.
−Removed: fair value of the options on the grant date was 106,499 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: price $ 29.82 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 286.00 %, expected term of 10
−Removed: years, and a risk-free interest rate of 2.90 %.
−Removed: On May 18, 2022, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 23,810 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one consultant of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from
−Removed: the grant date, with the shares fully vesting on December 1, 2022.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 514,997 using
−Removed: a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 21.63 per share (based on the quoted trading price
−Removed: on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 284.70 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 2.89 %.
−Removed: On August 1, 2022, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 1,190 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one employee of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from the
−Removed: grant date, with the shares fully vesting on August 1, 2023.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 29,000 using a Black-Scholes
−Removed: option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 24.36 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant),
−Removed: a computed volatility of 281.14 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 2.60 %.
−Removed: On August 24, 2022, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 2,381 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one consultant of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from the
−Removed: grant date, with the shares fully vesting on grant date.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 65,999 using a Black-Scholes
−Removed: option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 27.72 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant),
−Removed: a computed volatility of 279.81 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.11 %.
−Removed: On March 4, 2022, options exercisable for up to an
−Removed: aggregate of 65,981 shares of Common Stock were granted from this new stock option program to the executive officers and employees, as
−Removed: a result of the transition.
−Removed: The fair values of the options on the grant dates, as noted above, were approximately $ 3,948,948 using
−Removed: a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 59.85 per share (based on the quoted trading price
−Removed: on the date of grant), volatility of 294.55 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate range of 1.62 %.
−Removed: The Company is
−Removed: amortizing the expense over the vesting terms of each option.
−Removed: Please reference the Common Stock Compensation Transition Plan below.
−Removed: On June 24, 2022, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 41,667 shares of Common Stock were awarded to two officers and three board members of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have
−Removed: a ten-year term from the grant date, with 17,858 fully vested on June 24, 2022, and 23,809 vest over the next 2 years on June 23, 2023,
−Removed: and June 23, 2024.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant dates was $ 1,504,990 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the
−Removed: following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 36.12 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of
−Removed: 283.12 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.13 %.
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company
−Removed: recognized stock option expense of $ 3,168,430 related to outstanding stock options.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, the Company had $ 3,904,525
−Removed: of unamortized stock option expense.
−Removed: The weighted average remaining contractual life is approximately 8.99 years for stock options outstanding
−Removed: on October 31, 2023.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, the outstanding options have an intrinsic value of $ 0 .
−Removed: On November 9, 2022, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 11,905 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one supplier of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year
−Removed: term from the grant date, with the shares fully vested on the issue date.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 246,747
−Removed: using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 20.72 per share (based on the quoted trading
−Removed: price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 275.68 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 4.12 %.
−Removed: On November 9, 2022, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 142,857 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one supplier of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from the
−Removed: grant date, with the shares fully vesting based on the achievement of certain net revenue and profit margin targets up to $ 180,000,000
−Removed: in total net revenues over a period of 3 years.
−Removed: However, the grant provides that if the Company’s gross profit margin in any year
−Removed: over the 3 year period exceeds 15%, a certain number of options will vest to be calculated based on the Company’s total revenues.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 2,960,968 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 20.72 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 275.68 %, expected term
−Removed: of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 4.12 %.
−Removed: Management determined that it is not probable that the performance condition related
−Removed: to the net revenue and profit margin to be met over a period of 3 years will be achieved.
−Removed: However, for the year ended October 31, 2023,
−Removed: total options of 10,387 vested due to the Company’s gross profit margin exceeding 15 % for the current year.
−Removed: On February 6, 2023, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 7,141
−Removed: shares of Common Stock were awarded to five employees of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from the grant date,
−Removed: with the shares vesting on 50% on February 6, 2024.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 109,499
−Removed: using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 15.33
−Removed: per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 270.98 %,
−Removed: expected term of 10
−Removed: years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.63 %.
−Removed: On February 6, 2023, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 47,620 shares of Common Stock were awarded to two senior executives of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a
−Removed: ten-year term from the grant date, with the shares fully vesting on February 6, 2023 and the remaining 50 % vesting on February 6, 2024.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date
−Removed: was $ 729,988 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 15.33 per share (based on the quoted
−Removed: trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 270.98 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.63 %.
−Removed: On February 6, 2023, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 17,856 shares of Common Stock were awarded to three independent board members of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options
−Removed: have a ten-year term from the grant date, with the shares fully vesting on February 6, 2024.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant
−Removed: date was $ 273,747 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 15.33 per share (based on the
−Removed: quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 270.98 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate
−Removed: On February 6, 2023, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 9,524 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one consultant acting as a sales broker for the Company.
−Removed: options have a ten-year term from the grant date, with the shares fully vesting based on the achievement of certain net revenue targets
−Removed: up to $ 100,000,000 in total net revenues over time to be generated from certain customers as listed in the sales broker agreement.
−Removed: fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 145,998 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: price $ 15.33 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 270.98 %, expected term of 10
−Removed: years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.63 %.
−Removed: Management determined that it would not be probable that the performance conditions will be met
−Removed: and as such no expense was recognized on this award for the year ended October 31, 2023.
−Removed: On March 3, 2023, non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 2,381
−Removed: shares of Common Stock were awarded to one interim senior executive of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from
−Removed: the grant date, with the shares fully vesting on June 30, 2023.
−Removed: The fair value $12.87 of the options on the grant date was $ 30,650
−Removed: using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 12.817
−Removed: per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 286.91 %,
−Removed: expected term of 10
−Removed: years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.97 %.
−Removed: On March 19, 2023, non-qualified stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 11,904 shares of Common Stock were awarded to two independent board members of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year
−Removed: term from the grant date, with the shares fully vesting on March 19, 2024.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 217,498
−Removed: using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 18.27 per share (based on the quoted trading
−Removed: price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 286.15 %, expected term of 10 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 3.47 %.
−Removed: On July 8, 2023, incentive stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 2,381
−Removed: shares of Common Stock were awarded to one employee of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from the grant date,
−Removed: with the shares vesting 25% annually through July 8, 2027.
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 39,409
−Removed: using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 16.56
−Removed: per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 280.34 %,
−Removed: expected term of 6.25 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 4.01 %.
−Removed: On August 1, 2023, incentive stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 39,095 shares of Common Stock were awarded to two senior executives of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term
−Removed: from the grant date, with the shares vesting as following:
−Removed: 1/4 of options on August 1, 2024 and thereafter 1/36 per month through August
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 485,000 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 12.41 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 270.03 %, expected term
−Removed: of 6.25 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 4.05 %.
−Removed: On August 22, 2023, incentive stock options exercisable
−Removed: for up to 7,524 shares of Common Stock were awarded to one senior executive of the Company.
−Removed: These stock options have a ten-year term from
−Removed: the grant date, with the shares vesting as following:
−Removed: 1/4 of options on August 22, 2024 and thereafter 1/36 per month through August 22,
−Removed: The fair value of the options on the grant date was $ 75,808 using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: stock price $ 10.08 per share (based on the quoted trading price on the date of grant), a computed volatility of 278.31 %, expected term
−Removed: of 6.25 years, and a risk-free interest rate of 4.34 %.
−Removed: Common Stock Compensation Transition Plan
−Removed: During the second quarter of fiscal year 2021 the
−Removed: Board and executive management began cost reduction discussions, including the reduction of non-cash items such as equity compensation
−Removed: Those discussions stalled primarily due to the focus on other corporate events of significant value.
−Removed: In the first and second fiscal quarters of 2022,
−Removed: the Board resumed discussions, assessments, and evaluations regarding the equity compensation awarded to its officers and employees.
−Removed: The Board ultimately approved a stock option program for equity awards granted to its officers and employees.
−Removed: The Compensation Committee
−Removed: of the Board finalized the program in February 2022 and approved it in March 2022.
−Removed: While evaluating and designing this program, the Compensation
−Removed: Committee did not utilize any aspects of value to the employees or other features.
−Removed: Therefore, the termination of the RSU program and
−Removed: the newly adopted stock option program were developed completely independent of each other and terminated and implemented, respectively,
−Removed: distinctly and simultaneously.
−Removed: Management concluded under ASC 718 these transactions are a cancelation and replacement whereby total
−Removed: compensation cost measured at the date of a cancellation and replacement is the portion of the grant-date fair value of the original
−Removed: award for which the service is expected to be rendered at that date plus the incremental cost resulting from the cancellation and replacement.
−Removed: Incremental cost is measured as the excess of the fair value of the replacement award over the fair value of the cancelled award at the
−Removed: cancellation date in which there was none since the fair value of the replacement award was less than the fair value of the canceled
−Removed: The outcomes of this decision and the transition
−Removed: on March 4, 2022, resulting in:
−Removed: (i) the termination of the RSU program for all executive officers and employees, consisting of 1,564,166
−Removed: unvested RSUs and (ii) the implementation a new stock option program for executive officers and employees.
−Removed: The stock options granted
−Removed: pursuant to the program will have ten-year terms from the grant date, with one-half of the shares vesting on the grant date and the remaining
−Removed: one-half of the shares vesting on the first anniversary of the grant date.
−Removed: Please reference the Stock Options disclosure above.
−Removed: Summary Warrant Shares information is as follows:
−Removed: October 31, 2021
forfeited, or expired
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$ 12.39 - 126.00
+Added: ( 2,508,200 )
forfeited, or expired
+Added: 12.39 - 15.33
October 31, 2024
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$ 1.16 - 126.00
−Removed: The outstanding warrants as of October 31, 2023 and
−Removed: 2022 have a weighted average remaining contractual life of 3.44 years and 3.92 years, respectively, and an intrinsic value of $ 0 for both
−Removed: As part of the Company’s underwritten
−Removed: public offering in September 2021, the Company issued warrants to purchase a total of 193,036 shares of Common Stock at an exercise
−Removed: price of $ 39.90 per share.
−Removed: These warrants expire in 2026.
−Removed: Warrants for 40,743 shares of Common Stock were exercised during the
−Removed: fiscal year ended October 31, 2022, for proceeds of $ 1,625,650 .
+Added: The weighted average remaining contractual life is
+Added: approximately 4.56 years for Common Stock warrants outstanding as of October 31, 2024.
+Added: of October 31, 2024, the intrinsic value of outstanding stock warrants was zero.
+Added: June 2024 Public Offering Warrants
The Company issued a common stock purchase warrant
+Added: to purchase an aggregate of 5,882,250 shares of Common Stock in connection with the June 2024 Public Offering with an initial exercise
+Added: price of $ 1.53 per share (equal to 100% of the public offering price of each unit sold in this offering).
+Added: The warrant is exercisable immediately
+Added: and will expire five years from the date of issuance.
+Added: However, if, on the date that is 30 calendar days immediately following the Closing
+Added: Date (the “Reset Date”), the Reset Price (as defined below) is less than the exercise price of the Common Warrants on the
+Added: Reset Date, then the exercise price of the Common Warrants shall be decreased to the Reset Price.
+Added: “Reset Price” means 100%
+Added: of the arithmetic average of the daily VWAPs during the five trading days immediately preceding the Reset Date, provided, that in no event
+Added: shall the Reset Price be less than $0.574 per share (subject to adjustment for reverse and forward stock splits, recapitalizations and
+Added: similar transactions following the date of the securities purchase agreement).
+Added: Immediately after the Reset Date, the Reset Exercise Price
+Added: is $ 1.1577 per share.
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, June 2024 Public Offering Warrants to purchase 5,549,050 shares of Common Stock remain outstanding.
+Added: GoFire Acquisition Warrants
+Added: The Company issued a common stock purchase warrant
to purchase an aggregate of 95,240 shares of Common Stock as consideration for the acquisition of the GoFire Purchased Assets.
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of the Warrant Shares.
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, GoFire Acquisition Warrants to purchase 95,240 shares of Common Stock remain outstanding.
+Added: September 2021 Public Offering Warrants
The Company issued a common stock purchase warrant
+Added: to purchase a total of 193,036 shares of Common Stock in connection with the Company’s underwritten public offering in September
+Added: 2021, at an exercise price of $ 39.90 per share.
+Added: These warrants expire in 2026.
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, September 2021 Public Offering
+Added: Warrants to purchase 110,396 shares of Common Stock remain outstanding.
+Added: Other Warrants
+Added: The Company issued a common stock purchase warrant
to purchase an aggregate of 17,524 shares of Common Stock as compensation for advisory services rendered directly related to the GoFire
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after the Closing Date.
−Removed: The Company determined the fair value of the warrant as of the acquisition date and included it as part of the
−Removed: asset acquisition cost (see Note 4).
−Removed: The Company entered into a financial advisor and
−Removed: placement agent agreement in April 2023 with an advisor.
−Removed: As part of the consideration for the advisor’s services, the Company will
−Removed: issue warrants to purchase an aggregate of 17,143 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $ 15.33 per share and a term of 5 years.
−Removed: During the twelve (12) month engagement period, the Company will grant the advisor warrants to purchase 1,429 shares of Common Stock
−Removed: The Company issued the first six (6) months of warrants to purchase 8,572 shares of Common Stock upon the execution of the
−Removed: agreement and will issue monthly warrants each month at a rate of 1,429 warrants per month until 17,143 warrants have been issued in
−Removed: For the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company issued warrants to purchase a total of 15,715 shares of Common Stock.
−Removed: the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company recognized stock warrant expense of $ 218,909 .
−Removed: The Company entered into a financial advisor and
−Removed: placement agent agreement in August 2023 with an advisor.
−Removed: As part of the consideration for the advisor’s services, the Company
−Removed: issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 3,673 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 12.39 per share and a term of 5 years.
−Removed: The Company determined the fair value of the warrants
−Removed: using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following assumptions:
−Removed: Schedule of fair value of the warrants
−Removed: 243.20 % - 247.90
−Removed: interest rate
−Removed: 3.81 % - 4.18
−Removed: The expected term represents the contractual term
−Removed: of the warrant.
−Removed: The expected volatility was based on the Company’s observed equity volatility over the period matching the term
−Removed: of the warrant.
−Removed: The assumed discount rate was the risk-free rate based on the rate of treasury securities with the same or similar term
+Added: The Company entered into a financial advisor and placement agent agreement in April 2023 with an advisor.
+Added: of the consideration for the advisor’s services, the Company will issue warrants to purchase an aggregate of 17,143 shares of Common
+Added: Stock at an exercise price of $ 15.33 per share and a term of 5 years.
+Added: During the twelve (12) month engagement period, the Company will
+Added: grant the advisor warrants to purchase 1,429 shares of Common Stock each month.
+Added: The Company issued the first six (6) months of warrants
+Added: to purchase 8,572 shares of Common Stock upon the execution of the agreement and will issue monthly warrants each month at a rate of 1,429
+Added: warrants per month until 17,143 warrants have been issued in aggregate.
+Added: The Company issued warrants to purchase a total of 15,715 shares
+Added: of Common Stock.
+Added: The Company entered into a financial advisor and placement
+Added: agent agreement in August 2023 with an advisor.
+Added: As part of the consideration for the advisor’s services, the Company issued warrants
+Added: to purchase an aggregate of 3,673 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $ 12.39 per share and a term of 5 years.
+Added: The total Other Warrants to purchase 36,912 shares
+Added: of Common Stock were cancelled on December 15, 2023.
+Added: Pre-Funded Warrants
+Added: The Company issued a pre-funded warrant to purchase
+Added: an aggregate of 2,175,000 shares of Common Stock in connection with the June 2024 Public Offering.
+Added: The Pre-funded Warrants were sold to
+Added: Purchasers whose purchase of Common Units in the June 2024 Public Offering would have otherwise resulted in such Purchaser beneficially
+Added: owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, 9.99%) of the Company’s outstanding Common Stock.
+Added: The exercise price
+Added: of each Pre-funded Warrant is $ 0.001 per share.
+Added: The Pre-funded Warrants are exercisable immediately and may be exercised at any time until
+Added: all of the Pre-funded Warrants are exercised in full.
+Added: Immediately after the Closing Date, the Purchasers
+Added: of the Pre-funded Units exercised all of the 2,175,000 Pre-funded Warrants and purchased shares of common stock.
+Added: The Company issued 2,174,456
+Added: shares of common stock from exercises of pre-funded warrants, consisting of 1,450,000 Pre-funded Warrants through cash exercise and 725,000
+Added: Pre-funded Warrants through cashless exercise.
+Added: The Company received proceeds amounting to $ 1,450 from the cash exercise of the Pre-funded
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, there were no Pre-Funded Warrants outstanding.
Note 9 – Related-Party Transactions
+Added: In March 2020, the Company commenced business
+Added: operations as a result of becoming the exclusive distributor of certain ENDS and related components (the “Products”) manufactured
+Added: by Bidi, a related party company that is also owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the former Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company.
+Added: On June 24, 2024, the Company obtained a short-term
+Added: loan from Bidi, a related party company to finance the state and franchise tax fees.
+Added: The principal amount was $218,787 and was not subject
+Added: The entire principal balance of this loan shall be due and payable in full immediately upon receipt of funds by the Company
+Added: pursuant to the June 2024 Public Offering noted above.
+Added: This loan was fully paid on June 25, 2024, and as of October 31, 2024, had
+Added: an outstanding balance of zero.
Revenue and Accounts Receivable
During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024, the
−Removed: Company recognized revenue of $ 10,828 from three companies owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the Chief Science Officer and Regulatory Officer
−Removed: and director of the Company, and/or his wife.
+Added: Company recognized revenue of $ 5,950 from one company owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the former Chief Executive Officer and former Director of
+Added: the Company, and/or his wife.
During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, the
−Removed: Company recognized revenue of $ $ 68,139 from five companies owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the Chief Science and Regulatory Officer and director
−Removed: of the Company, and/or his wife.
+Added: Company recognized revenue of $ 10,828 from three companies owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the
+Added: former Chief Executive Officer and a former Director of the Company, and/or his wife.
Purchases and Accounts Payable
−Removed: During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, the
−Removed: Company purchased Products equal to $ 12,747,006 from Bidi, a related party company that is also owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the Company’s
−Removed: Chief Science and Regulatory Officer and director.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, the Company had an accounts payable balance of $ 1,521,491
−Removed: During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022, the
−Removed: Company purchased Products equal to $ 1,505,390 from Bidi, a related party company that is also owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the Company’s
−Removed: Chief Science and Regulatory Officer and director.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2022, the Company did no t have an accounts payable balance to Bidi.
−Removed: The KBI License agreement provides that KBI shall
−Removed: pay Bidi license fees equivalent to 50 %
−Removed: of the adjusted earned royalty payments, after any offsets due to jointly agreed costs such development costs incurred for entry to specific
−Removed: international markets.
−Removed: During the year ended October 31, 2023, the Company paid license fees of approximately $150,000 to Bidi.
−Removed: October 31, 2023 and 2022, no additional license fees are owed to Bidi.
−Removed: of October 31, 2023, the Company has a payable to Bidi of $ 712,524
−Removed: for certain non-recurring engineering costs related to the PMI License Agreement which were fully paid in November 2023,
−Removed: and $240,802 for reimbursement of insurance expense.
−Removed: Office Space and Other Leases
−Removed: On June 10, 2022, the Company entered into a Lease
−Removed: Agreement (the “2022 Lease”) with Just Pick, LLC for approximately 21,332 rentable square feet combined in the office building
−Removed: and warehouse located at 4460 Old Dixie Highway, Grant-Valkaria, Florida 32949 (the “Premises”), together with all improvements
−Removed: Just Pick, LLC is considered a related party to the Company because the Company’s Chief Science Officer and director,
−Removed: Nirajkumar Patel, owns and controls Just Pick, LLC.
−Removed: See also Note 7.
−Removed: We believe our office space is sufficient to meet our current
+Added: During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2024, 100% of the inventories of Products,
+Added: consisting solely of the BIDI® Stick, were purchased from Bidi, a related party controlled by Nirajkumar Patel, the former Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and Director of the Company, in the amount of $ 250,560 , As of October 31, 2024, the Company had $ 0 in accounts payable
+Added: to Bidi from inventory purchases.
During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2023, the
−Removed: Company was part of a five-year lease agreement with Just Pick, LLC (a related party), which began on August 1, 2020.
−Removed: The Company was
−Removed: not yet being charged for the leased space under the terms and conditions of the lease between the Company and Just Pick, LLC.
−Removed: no payments were made on the lease during the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022.
−Removed: The lease ended in the same year of signing the previously
−Removed: mentioned lease with Just Pick, LLC on June 10, 2022.
−Removed: Concentration of Purchases and Other Receivable
−Removed: - Related Party
−Removed: For the year ended October 31, 2023, 100% of the
−Removed: inventories of Products, consisting solely of the BIDI® Stick, were purchased from Bidi, a related party company that is owned by
−Removed: Nirajkumar Patel, our Chief Science and Regulatory Officer and director, in the amount of $ 12,747,006 , as compared to $ 1,505,390 for
−Removed: the year ended October 31, 2022.
−Removed: On April 29, 2022, the
−Removed: Company and Bidi agreed to cancel the $2,295,000 inventory order paid in advance in fiscal year 2021 and this was a credit against
−Removed: the accounts payable due to Bidi.
−Removed: Inventory quality control expenses were paid by the Company
−Removed: on behalf of Bidi during the year ended October 31, 2022, in
−Removed: the amount of approximately $723,000, and were offset as a credit against the accounts payable balance-related party.
−Removed: A credit of $2,924,655
−Removed: was applied on August 1, 2022, resulting in a related-party receivable balance due from Bidi of $ 2,134,413 , to
−Removed: be applied on future product orders.
−Removed: On October 31, 2022, the Company and Bidi agreed to a return for short-coded or expiring inventory.
−Removed: An additional credit of $ 1,543,545 and $108,841 for
−Removed: recycling cost was applied on October 31, 2022, to the
−Removed: related-party receivable balance due from Bidi.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2022,
−Removed: the Company has a related-party receivable balance due from Bidi of $3,704,132, in which $1,539,486 of
−Removed: the receivable is classified as current and $2,164,646 is classified as non-current.
−Removed: The receivable balance will be realized though
−Removed: Bidi applying 5% credits on all future orders of product until the entire balance is extinguished.
−Removed: On October 31, 2023, the remaining related-party
−Removed: receivable balance from Bidi of $2,954,470 was applied against our related party accounts payable balance .
−Removed: After this was applied, we had no related party receivable balance.
−Removed: As of October 31, 2023, the related party accounts
−Removed: payable balance related to purchase of inventories was $1,521,491.
−Removed: There was no related
−Removed: party accounts payable balance as of October 31, 2022.
+Added: Company purchased Products equal to $ 12,747,006 from Bidi, a related party company that is
+Added: also owned by Nirajkumar Patel, the former Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Company.
+Added: As of October 31, 2023, the Company had
+Added: an accounts payable balance of $ 1,521,491 to Bidi.
+Added: The KBI License
+Added: agreement provides that KBI shall pay Bidi license fees equivalent to 50% of the adjusted earned royalty payments, after any offsets
+Added: due to jointly agreed costs such development costs incurred for entry to specific international markets.
+Added: During the year ended
+Added: October 31, 2024, the Company paid license fees of approximately $ 220,000 to
+Added: As of October 31, 2024, the Company has a payable to Bidi of $ 131,683
+Added: related to the PMI License Agreement of which $ 108,215
+Added: was paid in December 2024.
+Added: Leased Office Space and Storage Space
+Added: June 10, 2022, the Company entered into a Lease Agreement with Just Pick, owned and controlled by Nirajkumar Patel, the former Chief
+Added: Executive Officer and Director of the Company.
+Added: The Company had $ 198,392 and $ 190,541 in operating lease expenses for the years ended
+Added: October 31, 2024 and October 31, 2023, respectively.
Note 10 – Income Tax
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Tax, modified rules for expensing capital investment, and limited the deduction of interest expense for certain companies.
−Removed: fulfilled and shipped all the Products from Florida and, thus, it is subject to the state corporate income tax of Florida with a tax
−Removed: rate of 4.458 %.
−Removed: There is no difference between the income tax computed at the combined federal and state statutory rate to the income
−Removed: tax effective rate.
−Removed: Significant components of the tax expense (benefit)
−Removed: recognized in the accompanying statements of operations for the years ended October 31, 2023, and October 31, 2022, are as follows:
−Removed: of components of income tax expense
+Added: fulfilled and shipped all the Products from Florida and, thus, it is subject to the state corporate income tax of Florida with a tax rate
+Added: There is no difference between the income tax computed at the combined federal and state statutory rate to the income tax effective
+Added: Significant components of the tax expense recognized
+Added: in the accompanying statements of operations for the years ended October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, are as follows:
+Added: Schedule of components of income tax expense
Current Tax Expense:
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on October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023:
−Removed: of deferred tax assets and liabilities
−Removed: Compensation Expense – NQSO
−Removed: Operating Loss Carryforwards
−Removed: Deferred Tax Asset
−Removed: Tax Liabilities:
+Added: Schedule of deferred tax assets and liabilities
+Added: Deferred Tax Assets:
+Added: Stock Compensation Expense – NQSO
+Added: Net Operating Loss Carryforwards
+Added: Total Deferred Tax Asset
Deferred Tax Liabilities:
+Added: Prepaid Expenses
+Added: Right of Use Asset
+Added: Total Deferred Tax Liabilities
Valuation Allowance
−Removed: Deferred Tax Asset
+Added: Net Deferred Tax Asset
The Company has Federal NOL carryforwards of
−Removed: approximately $23.8 million and state NOL carryforwards of approximately $186,000.
+Added: approximately $ 29.8 million and state NOL carryforwards of approximately $ 0.4 million.
With the changes instituted by the CARES Act,
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and various state authorities.
−Removed: A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce
−Removed: the deferred tax asset if, based on the weight of the evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all the deferred tax
−Removed: assets will not be realized.
+Added: A valuation allowance is recorded to reduce the
+Added: deferred tax asset if, based on the weight of the evidence, it is more likely than not that some portion or all the deferred tax assets
+Added: will not be realized.
After consideration of all the evidence, both positive and negative, management has determined that a valuation
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There were no commitments or contingencies as of October 31, 2024, and October 31, 2023, other than the below:
−Removed: Consulting Agreements
−Removed: On March 17, 2021, the Company entered into a consulting
−Removed: agreement with Russell Quick, pursuant to which the Company granted stock options exercisable for up to 1,985
−Removed: shares of Common Stock in exchange for consulting services.
−Removed: The shares underlying the stock options fully vested on December 1,
−Removed: The exercise price per share was $ 602.28 .
−Removed: The Company recognized approximately $ 190,000
−Removed: in expense to account for the stock options during the fiscal year ended October 31,2022.
−Removed: Russell Quick is the Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer of QuikfillRx.
−Removed: On December 1, 2021, the Company and Russell Quick
−Removed: agreed to renew his consulting agreement for one year, pursuant to which on May 18, 2022, the Company granted non-qualified stock options
−Removed: exercisable for up to 23,810 shares of the Common Stock in exchange for on-going consulting services.
−Removed: The shares underlying the stock
−Removed: options fully vest on December 1, 2022.
−Removed: They have a 10 -year expiration.
−Removed: The exercise price per share is $ 21.63 .
−Removed: The Company recognized
−Removed: approximately $434,000 in expense to account for the stock options in the fiscal year ended October 31, 2022.
−Removed: The Company accrued approximately
−Removed: $ 33,871 for a quarterly bonus payable to QuikfillRx, based on the Applicable Gross Quarterly Sales results of the three months ended
−Removed: October 31, 2022.
−Removed: As of the date of these financial statements, Mr.
−Removed: Quick has not exercised any of his fully vested stock options.
−Removed: On February 4, 2022, the Company entered into a Consulting
−Removed: Agreement with Oakhill Europe Ltd (“Oakhill Europe”), pursuant to which the Company engaged Oakhill Europe to provide strategic
−Removed: advising and negotiation assistance for potential international distribution agreements (collectively, the “Oakhill Services”),
−Removed: in exchange for a $15,000 monthly retainer, incentive compensation bonuses of up to $175,000, and an incentive compensation bonus value
−Removed: of $75,000 paid in fully-vested non-qualified stock options, upon the achievement of certain events .
−Removed: On April 24, 2022, the Company
−Removed: approved amending the Consulting Agreement for Oakhill Europe, in order to modify the previously granted
−Removed: stock option award from “ an incentive compensation bonus value of $ 75,000 paid in fully-vested non-qualified stock options,
−Removed: upon the achievement of certain events” to the following amended terms;
−Removed: “Non-Qualified Stock Options exercisable for up to
−Removed: 3,572 shares of Common Stock of the Client with an exercise price equal to the market closing price upon the Effective Date of the Amendment,
−Removed: with a vesting schedule as follows:
−Removed: (a) 1,786 shares of the Common Stock underlying the granted stock options will vest upon the earlier
−Removed: (i) June 30, 2022 or (ii) the occurrence of the achievement of certain events;
−Removed: 1,786 shares of Common Stock underlying
−Removed: the granted stock options will vest upon the earlier of either:
−Removed: (i) October 31, 2022 or (ii) the achievement of certain events.”
−Removed: The option shares are exercisable at a price of $ 29.82 per share, which equaled the closing price of the
−Removed: Common Stock as of the date immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: The option has a ten-year term.
−Removed: The issuances were exempt from the registration
−Removed: requirements of the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) thereof as a transaction not involving a public offering.
−Removed: option shares issued to Oakhill Europe were cancelled on February 1, 2023.
−Removed: 1, 2022, the Company approved the grant of a stock option award to an employee, to acquire up to 1,191 shares of Common Stock under the
−Removed: Company’s Amended 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan.
−Removed: The option shares vest on August 1, 2023 and are exercisable at a
−Removed: price of $ 24.36 per share, which equaled the closing price of the Common Stock as of the date immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: option has a ten-year term.
−Removed: The issuances were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2)
−Removed: thereof as a transaction not involving a public offering.
−Removed: On August 24, 2022, Company
−Removed: approved amending the Consulting Agreement for Mark Thoenes, the Company’s then Interim Chief Financial Officer, in order to
−Removed: extend its term, modify the vesting terms of the previously granted stock option award, and approved the grant of a stock option
−Removed: award to acquire up to 2,381
−Removed: shares of Common Stock under the Company’s Amended 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan.
−Removed: The option shares vest on
−Removed: August 24, 2022 and are exercisable at a price of $ 27.72
−Removed: per share, which equaled the closing price of the Common Stock as of the date immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: The option has a
−Removed: ten-year term.
−Removed: The issuances were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2)
−Removed: thereof as a transaction not involving a public offering.
−Removed: On October 28, 2022, The Company
−Removed: entered into a settlement agreement with a customer in the amount of $ 150,000 .
−Removed: The full settlement released and discharged both parties
−Removed: from future claims and damages, neither party has any further obligations to the other party arising out of or relating to the customer
−Removed: Executive Compensation
−Removed: On May 28, 2020, the Board approved cash bonus awards
−Removed: to each of Nirajkumar Patel, the Company’s then Chief Executive Officer, and Eric Mosser, the Company’s then Chief Operating
−Removed: With respect to the Chief Executive Officer, the Board approved a cash bonus award equal to $30,000 for every $25 million in
−Removed: gross revenues generated by the Company.
−Removed: With respect to the Chief Operating Officer, the Board approved a cash bonus award equal to
−Removed: $20,000 for every $25 million in gross revenues generated by the Company.
−Removed: On May 28, 2020, the Board also approved an equity bonus award
−Removed: for each of the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Operating Officer.
−Removed: With respect to the Chief Executive Officer, the Board approved
−Removed: an award of 358 restricted shares of the Common Stock for every $50 million in accumulated gross revenues generated by the Company.
−Removed: respect to the Chief Operating Officer, the Board approved an award of 298 restricted shares of the Common Stock for every $50 million
−Removed: in accumulated gross revenues generated by the Company.
−Removed: The Company’s accumulated gross revenues will be evaluated on a quarterly
−Removed: basis, beginning with the second quarter of fiscal year 2020.
−Removed: On October 31, 2020, the Company determined that the fair value of the
−Removed: equity bonus shares, or $165,000, should be accrued as it was deemed likely that the $50 million revenue target would be met.
−Removed: issued these shares to the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer on January 1, 2021.
−Removed: During the quarter ended April 30,
−Removed: 2021, the $75 million and $100 million accumulated revenue targets were both achieved, and the Company determined that the fair market
−Removed: value of the 655 shares, or approximately $70,785, and the cash bonuses totaling $100,000 were accrued at April 30, 2021.
−Removed: During the quarter ended April 30, 2022, the $ 125
−Removed: million accumulated revenue targets were achieved, and the Company determined that cash bonuses totaling $ 50,000 were accrued on April
−Removed: On March 4, 2022, the Board terminated all future
−Removed: cash and equity bonus awards for the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and its Chief Operating Officer.
−Removed: On March 5, 2022, the Company granted a stock option
−Removed: award to Nirajkumar Patel, then the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, to acquire up to 28,572 shares of Common Stock under the
−Removed: Company’s 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan, as partial compensation for Mr.
−Removed: Patel’s services as Chief Executive
−Removed: The option shares are exercisable at a price of $59.85 per share, which equaled the closing price of the Common Stock as of
−Removed: the date immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: The issuances were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act by virtue
−Removed: of Section 4(a)(2) thereof as a transaction not involving a public offering.
−Removed: On March 5, 2022, the Company granted stock
−Removed: option awards to Eric Mosser, the Company’s then Chief Operating Officer, to acquire up to 23,810 shares of Common Stock under
−Removed: the Company’s 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan, as partial compensation for Mr.
−Removed: Mosser’s services as Chief
−Removed: Operating Officer.
−Removed: The option shares are exercisable at a price of $59.85 per share, which equaled the closing price of the Common
−Removed: Stock as of the date immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: The issuances were exempt from the registration requirements of the
−Removed: Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) thereof as a transaction not involving a public offering.
−Removed: On June 24, 2022, the Company granted a stock option
−Removed: award to Nirajkumar Patel, Chief Science and Regulatory Officer, to acquire up to 11,905 shares of Common Stock under the Company’s
−Removed: 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan, as partial compensation for Mr.
−Removed: Patel’s services as Chief Science and Regulatory Officer.
−Removed: The option shares are exercisable at a price of $ 36.12 per share, which equaled the closing price of the Common Stock as of the date
−Removed: immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: The issuances were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act by virtue of
−Removed: Section 4(a)(2) thereof as a transaction not involving a public offering.
−Removed: On June 24, 2022, the Company granted stock
−Removed: option awards to Eric Mosser, the Company’s then President and Chief Operating Officer, to acquire up to 11,905
−Removed: shares of Common Stock under the Company’s 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan, as partial compensation for Mr.
−Removed: Mosser’s services as President and Chief Operating Officer.
−Removed: The option shares are exercisable at a price of $ 36.12
−Removed: per share, which equaled the closing price of the Common Stock as of the date immediately prior to the grant date.
−Removed: The issuances
−Removed: were exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(a)(2) thereof as a transaction not
−Removed: involving a public offering.
QuikfillRx Service Agreement
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graphics, content, public communication, social media, management and analytics, and market and other research (collectively, the “Services”).
−Removed: The Services are provided by QuikfillRx as requested from time to time by the Company.
−Removed: On June 2, 2020, the Company entered into the First
−Removed: Amendment to the Service Agreement (the “First Amendment”) with QuikfillRx.
−Removed: Effective as of March 16, 2021, the Company entered
−Removed: into the Second Amendment to Service Agreement (the “Second Amendment”) with QuikfillRx.
−Removed: Effective as of September 17, 2021,
−Removed: the Company entered into the Third Amendment to the Service Agreement (the “Third Agreement”) with QuikfillRx.
−Removed: as of June 24, 2022, the Company entered into the Fourth Amendment to the Service Agreement (the “Fourth Agreement” and,
−Removed: collectively with the First Amendment, Second Amendment, Third Amendment, and the Service Agreement, the “Amended Service Agreement”)
−Removed: with QuikfillRx.
−Removed: Pursuant to the terms of the Amended Service Agreement, the parties agreed to the following “General Compensation”
−Removed: (i) for the Services provided in March 2020, the Company paid QuikfillRx an amount equal to $86,000;
−Removed: (ii) for the Services
−Removed: provided in April 2020, the Company paid QuikfillRx an amount equal to $100,000;
−Removed: (iii) each calendar month commencing May 2020 through
−Removed: October 2020, the Company paid QuikfillRx an amount equal to $100,000 per month for the Services to be performed during such calendar
−Removed: (iv) for each calendar month between November 1, 2020 and October 31, 2021, the Company paid QuikfillRx $125,000 per month for
−Removed: the Services to be performed during such calendar month;
−Removed: (iv) for the period between November 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022, the Company
−Removed: paid QuikfillRx $150,000 per month for the Services to be performed during such calendar month;
−Removed: (v) for the period between July 1, 2022
−Removed: and October 31, 2024, the Company will pay QuikfillRx $125,000 per month for the Services to be performed during such calendar month;
−Removed: and (vi) parties acknowledged that as a result of extensions to the term of the Service Agreement , such term of the Original Agreement
−Removed: will end on October 31, 2023.
−Removed: The parties have agreed to extend such term for an additional one year until October 31, 2024.
−Removed: the Company will pay the following quarterly bonuses:
−Removed: equal to 0.9% of the Applicable Gross Quarterly Sales (as defined in the Amended Service Agreement), which amount shall, at the Company’s
−Removed: option be paid in (a) cash or (b) shares of the Company’s Common Stock, or (c) a combination of cash and Common Stock.
−Removed: equal to 0.27% of the Applicable Gross Quarterly Sales, which amount must be paid in cash.
−Removed: During fiscal year 2023, the Company accrued approximately
−Removed: $ 81,300 for two quarterly bonuses payable to QuikfillRx based on our applicable gross quarterly sales for the six months ended October
−Removed: The Company accrued $33,871 for a quarterly bonus payable to QuikfillRx, based on the Applicable Gross Quarterly Sales results
−Removed: of the three months ended October 31, 2022.
+Added: Effective as of November 9, 2022, the Company entered
+Added: into its latest amendment to the Service Agreement with QuikfillRx (collectively with prior amendments, the “Amended Service Agreement”).
+Added: The November 9, 2022 amendment to the Service Agreement was captioned as the “Fourth Amendment” although it was the fifth
+Added: amendment to the Service Agreement.
+Added: Pursuant to the Amended Service Agreement:
+Added: (a) the term of the Amended Service Agreement was
+Added: extended (unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the Amended Service Agreement) from November 1, 2022 (the “Effective
+Added: Date”) until October 31, 2025, following which the term shall automatically renew for successive one (1) year period beginning November
+Added: (b) QuikfillRx agreed to change its “doing business
+Added: as” name to “Kaival Marketing Services” within thirty (30) days following the Effective Date;
+Added: (c) it was provided that either party may terminate
+Added: the Amended Service Agreement without cause upon not less than ninety (90) days prior written notice to the other party;
+Added: (d) QuikfillRx was granted a one-time, fully vested,
+Added: ten-year non-qualified option award to purchase up to 11,905 shares of Company common stock with an exercise price of $20.72 per share
+Added: (the closing price of the Company’s common stock on November 9, 2022).
+Added: The option grant was memorialized pursuant to a Nonqualified
+Added: Option Agreement, dated November 9, 2022, between the Company and QuikfillRx;
+Added: (e) the parties agreed to revise the compensation
+Added: for services as follows:
+Added: (i) payment of $125,000 per month;
+Added: (ii) bonus equivalent to 0.27% of the applicable gross quarterly sales and
+Added: (iii) a grant of 3,000,000 nonqualified stock options to purchase shares of Company common stock which shall vest based on achievement
+Added: of certain net revenue and profit margin targets up to $180,000,000 in total net revenues over a period of 3 years.
+Added: On February 21, 2024, the Company terminated the agreement
+Added: and all amendments with QuikFillRx.
+Added: Per the termination, the Company was required to pay $ 80,000 by March 1, 2024, in full satisfaction
+Added: of all obligations, debts, and prior services, including but not limited to stock incentives, bonuses, third party obligations, owed by
+Added: the Company to QuickfillRx.
+Added: The Company made the required payment on February 28, 2024.
+Added: International Trade Commission claims against the
+Added: On June 11, 2024, RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc., R.J.
+Added: Reynolds Vapor Company, R.J.
+Added: Reynolds Tobacco Company, and RAI Services Company (collectively, the “RJ Reynolds Entities”)
+Added: filed a patent infringement complaint with the International Trade Commission (the “ITC”) against Bidi, the Company, and forty
+Added: (40) other respondents (the “ITC Complaint”) pursuant to Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended.
+Added: Specifically,
+Added: the ITC Complaint alleges that one or more components or elements of the Bidi Stick infringe U.S.
+Added: 11,925,202, which is owned
+Added: by one of the RJ Reynolds Entities.
+Added: The ITC Complaint requests the ITC grant:
+Added: (a) temporary and permanent limited exclusion orders pursuant
+Added: to Section 337(e) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, which would prohibit the importation of the Bidi Stick in the United States;
+Added: and (b) issue temporary and permanent cease and desist orders pursuant to 337(f) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, which would prohibit
+Added: the sale and distribution of the Bidi Stick in the United States.
+Added: On July 17, 2024, the Company was dismissed from the ITC proceeding
+Added: and is no longer a defendant in the ITC proceeding.
+Added: No damages are recoverable in the proceedings before the ITC.
+Added: If Bidi is prohibited
+Added: from importing the Bidi Stick, then the Company’s business, operations, financial results, and reputation would be significantly
+Added: adversely impacted.
Note 12 – Subsequent Events
−Removed: Reverse Stock Split
−Removed: January 22, 2024, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
−Removed: with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to affect a 1-for-21 reverse stock split (the “2024 Reverse Stock Split”)
−Removed: of the shares of the Common Stock.
−Removed: The 2024 Reverse Stock Split was effective on January 25, 2024 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
−Removed: No fractional
−Removed: shares were issued in connection with the 2024 Reverse Stock Split.
−Removed: Any fractional shares of our Common Stock that would have otherwise
−Removed: resulted from the 2024 Reverse Stock Split were rounded up to the nearest whole number.
−Removed: In connection with the 2024 Reverse Stock Split,
−Removed: the Board approved appropriate and proportional adjustments to all outstanding securities or other rights convertible or exercisable
−Removed: into shares of the Common Stock, including, without limitation, all preferred stock, warrants, options, and other equity compensation
−Removed: All historical share and per-share amounts reflected throughout the accompanying consolidated financial statements and other
−Removed: financial information in this Report have been retroactively adjusted to reflect the 2024 Reverse Stock Split as if the split occurred
−Removed: as of the earliest period presented.
−Removed: The par value per share of the Common Stock was not affected by the 2024 Reverse Stock Split.
−Removed: December 1, 2023, the Company repaid all amounts due and owing under the Note to AJB in full, in an aggregate amount, including accrued
−Removed: interest, equal to $ 650,181 .
−Removed: In connection with the repayment of the Note, the Company
−Removed: agreed that AJB would be permitted to retain all of the Commitment Fee Shares.
−Removed: Purchase Transactions
−Removed: November 29, 2023, the Company entered into two receivables purchase transactions pursuant to:
−Removed: (i) a Future Receivables Sale and
−Removed: Purchase Agreement, dated November 29, 2023, between Clearview Funding Solutions LLC (“Clearview”) and the Company (the
−Removed: “Clearview Agreement”), and (ii) a Future Receivables Sale and Purchase Agreement, dated November 29, 2023, between
−Removed: Advance LLC (“Advance”) and the Company (the “Advance Agreement”).
−Removed: to the Clearview Agreement, the Company sold future receivables in the principal amount of $ 864,000 (the “Clearview Future
−Removed: Receivables”) to Clearview in a private transaction for a purchase price of $ 600,000 (giving effect to original issue discount
−Removed: of $ 264,000 ).
−Removed: In connection with the sale of the Clearview Future Receivables, the Company also paid an origination fee to Clearview
−Removed: for underwriting and application costs of $ 36,520 , resulting in net proceeds to the Company of $ 563,480 (gross of advisory fees).
−Removed: Company’s obligations under the Clearview Agreement are personally guaranteed by Eric Mosser, the Company’s former Chief
−Removed: Executive Officer and President.
−Removed: to the Advance Agreement, the Company sold future receivables in the principal amount of $ 864,000 (the “Advance Future Receivables”)
−Removed: to Advance in a private transaction for a purchase price of $ 600,000 (giving effect to original issue discount of $ 264,000 ).
−Removed: In connection
−Removed: with the sale of the Advance Future Receivables, the Company also paid an origination fee to Advance for underwriting and related expenses
−Removed: of $ 36,035 , resulting in net proceeds to the Company of $ 563,965 (gross of advisory fees).
−Removed: The Company’s obligations under the
−Removed: Advance Agreement are also personally guaranteed by Mr.
−Removed: Common Stock Transaction
−Removed: On December 15, 2023 the Company issued 16,667 shares
−Removed: of common stock to a FINRA member broker-dealer in connection with the termination of its relationship with such broker dealer.
−Removed: Options Transactions
−Removed: February 8, 2024 (the "Grant Date"), Barry M.
−Removed: Hopkins received a 10-year incentive stock option grantto purchase 63,881 shares
−Removed: of Common Stock in partial consideration of his employment services to the Company.
−Removed: The exercise price of such grant option is $5.25
−Removed: per share, equal to the fair market value of the Issuer's cCommon sStock on November 9, 2023, which is the effective date of the Reporting
−Removed: Hopkins’ employment agreement with the IssuerCompany.
−Removed: The option shall vest over four years.
−Removed: One-quarter of the option
−Removed: shall vest on the first anniversary of the Ggrant Ddate and afterward shall vest monthly at the rate of 1/36 per month until fully vested.
−Removed: connection with his appointment to the Company’s board of directors, on May 30, 2023, James P.
−Removed: Cassidy received a 10-year non-qualified
−Removed: stock option to purchase 5,953 shares of Common Stock with an exercise price of $11.76 per share, the fair market value of the Common
−Removed: Stock on May 30, 2023.
−Removed: In connection with Mr.
−Removed: Cassidy’s resignation from the board of directors on January 25, 2024, he agreed
−Removed: that such option should be terminated and cancelled.
−Removed: Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants
−Removed: on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.
+Added: On January 2, 2025, the Company issued 3,025,000 fully
+Added: vested shares of common stock to directors, officers and an employee pursuant to grants under the Company’s Amended and Restated
+Added: 2020 Stock and Incentive Compensation Plan.
+Added: On December 3, 2024, the Company paid accrued dividends
+Added: of $ 405,000 to Series B Preferred shareholders.
+Added: On various dates from November 2024 through January 2025, the Company received
+Added: reimbursements of non-recurring engineering costs from PMPSA totaling $ 932,937 which have been fully remitted to Bidi.
+Added: Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting
+Added: and Financial Disclosure.
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