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Management’s
−Removed: Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
+Added: Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in
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Management’s report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting
−Removed: firm pursuant to SEC rules that permit us to provide only management’s report in this annual report.
−Removed: have been no changes in our internal controls over financial reporting during the fourth quarter of the year ended December 31,
−Removed: 2019 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: firm pursuant to SEC rules applicable to smaller reporting companies that permit us to provide only management’s
+Added: report in this annual report.
+Added: in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
+Added: have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the fourth quarter of the year ended December 31,
+Added: 2020 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
OTHER INFORMATION
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Technology Officer
−Removed: Rice was appointed as a director on February 15, 2017 became our Chief Executive Officer on June 21, 2018 and was appointed
−Removed: as our President on October 10, 2018.
−Removed: Additional information regarding Mr.
−Removed: Rice is set forth below under “Board of Directors
−Removed: and Corporate Governance.”
−Removed: Ruport was appointed Executive Chairman on December 3, 2019.
+Added: Ruport served as Executive Chairman from December 3, 2019 until April 30, 2020 and became our President and
+Added: Chief Executive Officer on April 30, 2020.
Additional information regarding Mr.
−Removed: Ruport is set forth below
−Removed: under “Board of Directors and Corporate Governance.”
+Added: Ruport is set forth below under “Board
+Added: of Directors and Corporate Governance.”
Orzechowski has served as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, principal accounting officer, principal financial officer,
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Prior to joining the Company, Mr.
−Removed: served as the Chief Financial Officer of StormHarbour Partners LP, an independent global markets and financial advisory firm since
−Removed: September 2013.
−Removed: From May 2013 to August 2013, Mr.
−Removed: Orzechowski served as a contract CFO for Etouches Inc., a cloud-based event
−Removed: management software company, to assist with financial matters in connection with that company’s planned equity financing.
−Removed: Prior to that, he served as President and Owner/Operator of Four-O Technologies Inc.
−Removed: from August 2009 to December 2012, where
−Removed: he successfully launched and guided operations for two Cartridge World franchise units in Connecticut.
−Removed: From February 2006 to July
−Removed: Orzechowski served as President and Chief Financial Officer of Nikko Americas Holding Company Inc., where he was responsible
−Removed: for managing all of the support and infrastructure for that company’s U.S.
−Removed: business, as well as investment manager selection
−Removed: and due diligence functions for its World Series Platform.
−Removed: Orzechowski began his career at Coopers & Lybrand in 1982,
−Removed: received his CPA certification in 1984 and received his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Accounting
−Removed: from Georgetown University in 1982.
+Added: Orzechowski served as the Chief Financial Officer
+Added: of StormHarbour Partners LP, an independent global markets and financial advisory firm since September 2013.
+Added: From May 2013 to
+Added: August 2013, Mr.
+Added: Orzechowski served as a contract CFO for Etouches Inc., a cloud-based event management software company, to assist
+Added: with financial matters in connection with that company’s planned equity financing.
+Added: Prior to that, he served as President
+Added: and Owner/Operator of Four-O Technologies Inc.
+Added: from August 2009 to December 2012, where he successfully launched and guided operations
+Added: for two Cartridge World franchise units in Connecticut.
+Added: From February 2006 to July 2009, Mr.
+Added: Orzechowski served as President and
+Added: Chief Financial Officer of Nikko Americas Holding Company Inc., where he was responsible for managing all of the support and infrastructure
+Added: for that company’s U.S.
+Added: business, as well as investment manager selection and due diligence functions for its World Series
+Added: Orzechowski began his career at Coopers & Lybrand in 1982, received his CPA certification in 1984 and received
+Added: his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Accounting from Georgetown University in 1982.
Beckett served as our Engineering Manager beginning on September 25, 2017, was appointed as our Vice President of Engineering
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Measurement Systems from 2004 until 2013, and a Partner and COO of Laszeray Technology, LLC from 2013 until 2014.
−Removed: a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the University of Akron as well as an MBA from Kent State
+Added: a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from the University of Akron as well as an MBA from Kent
+Added: State University.
OF DIRECTORS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
following table sets forth the names, ages as of March 24, 2021, and certain other information regarding our directors:
−Removed: and Chief Executive Officer, Director and Chairman of the Board
−Removed: Chairman of the Board
+Added: of the Board and Director
+Added: and Chief Executive Officer
Battinelli(1)(2)(3)
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Rice was appointed to our Board of Directors on February 15, 2017, was appointed as Chairman of our Board on April 19, 2017,
−Removed: he was appointed as our interim Chief Executive Officer on July 24, 2017, became our Chief Executive Officer on June 21, 2018
+Added: was appointed as our interim Chief Executive Officer on July 24, 2017, became our Chief Executive Officer on July 14, 2017
and was appointed as our President on October 10, 2018.
+Added: Effective April 30, 2020, Mr.
+Added: Rice resigned from his position as President
+Added: and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Rice remains a director on the Board of Directors and continues to serve as Chairman of the Board.
Rice has extensive experience in business operations.
−Removed: Rice founded ASiQ, LLC, a firm specializing in operations management services ranging from launching successful startups and executing
−Removed: business turnarounds to financings, crisis management and the repositioning of enterprises for sale at optimum market prices.
+Added: Rice founded ASiQ, LLC, a firm specializing in operations
+Added: management services ranging from launching successful startups and executing business turnarounds to financings, crisis management
+Added: and the repositioning of enterprises for sale at optimum market prices.
Rice presently serves as ASiQ’s CEO and President.
−Removed: He also served as CEO of Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Santa Fe,
−Removed: a client of ASiQ’s, from 2009 to 2015.
−Removed: From 2010 to 2012, Mr.
−Removed: Rice served as Director and Contracts Officer of Detector
−Removed: Networks International.
−Removed: Rice frequently lectures on breakout growth strategies, crisis management, corporate turnarounds,
−Removed: venture capital, and financial structuring and strategies.
−Removed: He has also served on a number of boards.
+Added: He also served as CEO of Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Santa Fe, a client of ASiQ’s, from 2009 to 2015.
+Added: From 2010 to 2012,
+Added: Rice served as Director and Contracts Officer of Detector Networks International.
+Added: Rice frequently lectures on breakout
+Added: growth strategies, crisis management, corporate turnarounds, venture capital, and financial structuring and strategies.
+Added: also served on a number of boards.
Since 2005, Mr.
−Removed: served as Director of New Mexico Angels, Inc., a New Mexico based group of accredited individual angel investors.
+Added: Rice has served as Director of New Mexico Angels, Inc., a New Mexico based
+Added: group of accredited individual angel investors.
+Added: Since 2016, Mr.
Rice has served as Director of Akal Security, Inc.
−Removed: He was also a Director of Detector Networks International from 2010-2012,
−Removed: where he successfully negotiated the principal component of a business turnaround for the company.
−Removed: Rice is an honors graduate
−Removed: of Harvard College.
+Added: a Director of Detector Networks International from 2010-2012, where he successfully negotiated the principal component of a business
+Added: turnaround for the company.
+Added: Rice is an honors graduate of Harvard College.
Board of Directors believes that Mr.
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investor and shareholder values.
−Removed: Salvatore Battinelli
−Removed: was appointed to our Board of Directors on August 16, 2017.
−Removed: Battinelli is currently the President and Chief Executive
−Removed: Officer of Bello e Preciso Co., a manufacturer and wholesaler of Italian-made fashion watches and has served in those roles
−Removed: since early 2017.
+Added: Battinelli was appointed to our Board of Directors on August 16, 2017.
+Added: Battinelli is currently the President and Chief
+Added: Executive Officer of Bello e Preciso Co., a manufacturer and wholesaler of Italian-made fashion watches and has served in those
+Added: roles since early 2017.
Prior to joining Bello e Preciso Co., from 2011 to 2013, Mr.
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Battinelli served as an executive officer or director
−Removed: for certain of the family owned entities and successfully managed several portfolio company IPOs, as well as serving as CEO and
−Removed: COO for Designhouse International, a Scandinavian furniture company operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, which was previously listed
−Removed: on NASDAQ in 1983.
+Added: for certain of the family-owned entities and successfully managed several portfolio company IPOs, as well as serving as
+Added: CEO and COO for Designhouse International, a Scandinavian furniture company operating out of Atlanta, Georgia, which was previously
+Added: listed on NASDAQ in 1983.
1970 to 1974, Mr.
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Ruport was appointed as Executive Chairman and as a director on December 3, 2019.
−Removed: Ruport brings more than 30 years
−Removed: of public and private company experience in the software sector to his position at Sigma Labs.
+Added: Effective April 30, 2020, Mr.
+Added: became our President and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Ruport remains a director on the Board of Directors but no longer serves
+Added: as Executive Chairman.
+Added: Ruport brings more than 30 years of public and private company experience in the software sector to
+Added: his position at Sigma Labs.
Prior to joining Sigma Labs, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport served since 2010 as the President of Step Function Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm that provides strategic consulting
−Removed: services to early and mid-stage portfolio software companies.
−Removed: Ruport also served from 2014 to 2017 as the Executive Chairman
−Removed: of the Board of Directors of Content Analyst Company, a leading developer of advanced analytics software for searching and analyzing
−Removed: unstructured text, and before that served as its Vice Chairman from 2012 to 2013.
+Added: Ruport served since 2010 as the President of Step Function Consulting,
+Added: LLC, a consulting firm that provides strategic consulting services to early and mid-stage portfolio software companies.
+Added: also served from 2014 to 2017 as the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Content Analyst Company, a leading developer
+Added: of advanced analytics software for searching and analyzing unstructured text, and before that served as its Vice Chairman from
+Added: 2012 to 2013.
From 2005 to 2009, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport served as the
−Removed: President and Chief Executive Officer of Configuresoft, Inc., a venture-backed Enterprise Systems Management company, where he
−Removed: orchestrated an OEM agreement which later led to its acquisition by EMC Corp.
+Added: Ruport served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Configuresoft, Inc., a venture-backed
+Added: Enterprise Systems Management company, where he orchestrated an OEM agreement which later led to its acquisition by EMC Corp.
Prior to Configuresoft, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport served from 2004
−Removed: to 2005 as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Stellent, Inc., which was subsequently acquired by Oracle,
−Removed: Inc., and from 1995 to 2005 as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Optika, Inc.,
−Removed: a venture-backed Enterprise Content Management Company that he led through its initial public offering and merger with Stellent,
+Added: Ruport served from 2004 to 2005 as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations at Stellent,
+Added: Inc., which was subsequently acquired by Oracle, Inc., and from 1995 to 2005 as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
+Added: of the Board of Directors of Optika, Inc., a venture-backed Enterprise Content Management Company that he led through its initial
+Added: public offering and merger with Stellent, Inc.
From 1990 to 1994, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Interleaf, Inc., a public software company.
−Removed: He also held various senior executive positions from 1985 to 1989 at Informix, Inc., a relational database management system company
−Removed: later acquired by IBM, and from 1985 to 1989 at Cullinet, Inc., a mainframe database management system and enterprise resource
−Removed: planning company later acquired by Computer Associates, Inc.
−Removed: Ruport received his Bachelor of Science degree and MBA from Bowling
−Removed: Green State University.Mr.
−Removed: Ruport received a Bachelor of Science in Business and an MBA from Bowling Green State University.
+Added: Ruport served as the President and Chief Executive Officer
+Added: of Interleaf, Inc., a public software company.
+Added: He also held various senior executive positions from 1985 to 1989 at Informix,
+Added: Inc., a relational database management system company later acquired by IBM, and from 1985 to 1989 at Cullinet, Inc., a mainframe
+Added: database management system and enterprise resource planning company later acquired by Computer Associates, Inc.
+Added: Ruport received
+Added: his Bachelor of Science degree and MBA from Bowling Green State University.Mr.
+Added: Ruport received a Bachelor of Science in Business
+Added: and an MBA from Bowling Green State University.
Board of Directors believes that Mr.
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He subsequently served as President for
−Removed: a consumer products company with direct responsibility for marketing, retail, and fulfillment operations, until forming
−Removed: Duitch Consulting Group in 2003 to serve clients in advisory, C-level, and board of director roles.
+Added: a consumer products company with direct responsibility for marketing, retail, and fulfillment operations, until forming Duitch
+Added: Consulting Group in 2003 to serve clients in advisory, C-level, and board of director roles.
Duitch is a Certified Family Business and Estate Advisor, and mediator for matters including partner/shareholder agreements and
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Board of Directors currently consists of five members.
−Removed: As a result of his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Mr.
−Removed: not considered an independent director.
−Removed: As a result of his appointment as Executive Chairman, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport is also not considered
−Removed: an independent director.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has determined that our other directors, Salvatore Battinelli, Dennis Duitch
−Removed: and Kent Summers, constituting a majority of our directors, are “independent”
−Removed: as that term is defined under Rule 5605(a)(2)
−Removed: of the NASDAQ marketplace rules.
−Removed: Pursuant to NASDAQ rules, our board must consist of a majority of independent directors.
+Added: As a result of his previous role as Chief Executive Officer, Mr.
+Added: Rice is not considered an independent director.
+Added: As a result of his April 30, 2020 appointment as Chief Executive
+Added: Ruport is also not considered an independent director.
+Added: Our Board of Directors has determined that our other
+Added: directors, Salvatore Battinelli, Dennis Duitch and Kent Summers, constituting a majority of our directors, are “independent”
+Added: as that term is defined under Rule 5605(a)(2) of the NASDAQ marketplace rules.
+Added: Pursuant to NASDAQ rules, our board must consist
+Added: of a majority of independent directors.
NASDAQ independence definition includes a series of objective tests, including that the director is not, and has not been for
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Class III directors are Dennis Duitch and Kent Summers, with terms expiring at our 2023 annual meeting of stockholders.
−Removed: Board of Directors appointed Mark Ruport as Executive Chairman of the Board on December 3, 2019.
−Removed: Our amended and restated bylaws
−Removed: provide that the authorized number of directors may be changed by resolution of the Board of Directors.
−Removed: Any additional directorships
−Removed: resulting from an increase in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible,
−Removed: each class will consist of one-third of the directors.
−Removed: The division of our Board of Directors into three classes with staggered
−Removed: three-year terms may delay or prevent a change of our management or a change in control of our company.
+Added: amended and restated bylaws provide that the authorized number of directors may be changed by resolution of the Board of Directors.
+Added: Any additional directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes
+Added: so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of the directors.
+Added: The division of our Board of Directors
+Added: into three classes with staggered three-year terms may delay or prevent a change of our management or a change in control of our
Structure of the Board
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Rice as Chairman of the Board.
−Removed: On December 3, 2019, our Board of Directors
−Removed: appointed Mr.
−Removed: Ruport as Executive Chairman of the Board.
−Removed: The Chairman of the Board and the Executive Chairman preside at all meetings
−Removed: of our Board of Directors and exercise and perform such other powers and duties as may be assigned to them from time to time by
−Removed: the Board or prescribed by our amended and restated bylaws.
−Removed: The Chairman of the Board is appointed by our Board of Directors on
−Removed: an annual basis.
+Added: The Chairman of the Board presides
+Added: at all meetings of our Board of Directors and exercises and performs such other powers and duties as may be assigned
+Added: to him from time to time by the Board or prescribed by our amended and restated bylaws.
+Added: The Chairman of the Board is appointed
+Added: by our Board of Directors on an annual basis.
Board of Directors has no established policy on whether it should be led by a Chairman who is also the Chief Executive Officer,
−Removed: but periodically considers whether combining, or separating, the role of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is appropriate.
−Removed: At this time, our Board is committed to the combined role given the circumstances of our Company, including Mr.
−Removed: Rice’s knowledge
−Removed: of our Company’s strategy, and has also determined at this time that having an Executive Chairman together with a Chairman
−Removed: is in the best interest of the Company based on Mr.
−Removed: Ruport’s leadership experience in the technology industry.
−Removed: believes that having a Chairman who also serves as the Chief Executive Officer allows timely communication with our board on company
−Removed: strategy and critical business issues, facilitates bringing key strategic and business issues and risks to the Board’s attention,
−Removed: avoids ambiguity in leadership within the Company, provides a unified leadership voice externally and clarifies accountability
−Removed: for Company business decisions and initiatives.
−Removed: However, our Board of Directors continually evaluates our leadership structure
−Removed: and could, in the future, decide to separate the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer positions if it believes that doing so would
−Removed: serve the best interests of our Company and our stockholders.
+Added: and has in the past combined the roles of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
+Added: Our Board currently is committed
+Added: to the separated roles given the circumstances of our Company.
+Added: However, our Board of Directors continually evaluates
+Added: our leadership structure and could, in the future, decide to combine the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer positions
+Added: if it believes that doing so would serve the best interests of our Company and our stockholders.
Meetings and Committees
−Removed: our fiscal year ended December 31, 2019, the Board of Directors held four meetings, and each director attended at least 75% of
+Added: our fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, the Board of Directors held five meetings, and each director attended at least 75% of
the aggregate of (i) the total number of meetings of our Board of Directors held during the period for which he has been a director
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Nasdaq Capital Market, we were not required to establish or maintain an audit, nominating or compensation committee.
−Removed: Each committee
−Removed: charter has been posted on the Investors section of our website at www.sigmalabsinc.com.
−Removed: The reference to our website address
−Removed: does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained at or available through our website, and you should
−Removed: not consider it to be a part of this Annual Report.
+Added: committee charter has been posted on the Investors section of our website at www.sigmalabsinc.com.
+Added: The reference to our website
+Added: address does not constitute incorporation by reference of the information contained at or available through our website, and you
+Added: should not consider it to be a part of this Annual Report.
Audit Committee’s responsibilities include:
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Our Board of Directors has determined that each of Messrs.
−Removed: Duitch, Battinelli and Summers is an independent director under NASDAQ
−Removed: rules and under SEC Rule 10A-3.
−Removed: All members of our Audit Committee meet the requirements for financial literacy under the applicable
−Removed: rules and regulations of the SEC and NASDAQ.
−Removed: Our Board of Directors has determined that each member of our Audit Committee is
−Removed: an “audit committee financial expert”
−Removed: as defined by applicable SEC rules and has the requisite financial sophistication
−Removed: as defined under the applicable NASDAQ rules and regulations.
−Removed: The Audit Committee met four times during 2019.
+Added: Duitch, Battinelli and Summers is an independent director under the
+Added: applicable Nasdaq rules and under SEC Rule 10A-3.
+Added: All members of our Audit Committee meet the requirements for financial literacy
+Added: under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and Nasdaq.
+Added: Our Board of Directors has determined that each member
+Added: of our Audit Committee is an “audit committee financial expert”
+Added: as defined by applicable SEC rules and has the requisite
+Added: financial sophistication as defined under the applicable Nasdaq rules and regulations.
+Added: The Audit Committee met four times
Compensation Committee’s responsibilities include:
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Nasdaq rules and regulations and is a “non-employee director”
−Removed: as defined in Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the Securities
−Removed: Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
−Removed: The Compensation Committee was established effective February
−Removed: 15, 2017 (i.e., when our common stock became listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market).
+Added: as defined in Rule 16b-3 promulgated under the
+Added: Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
+Added: The Compensation Committee was established effective
+Added: February 15, 2017 (i.e., when our common stock became listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market).
and Corporate Governance Committee
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has the potential to encourage excessive risk-taking by our management.
−Removed: 16(a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance
+Added: Section 16(a) Reports
16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the Company’s executive officers and directors, and persons who own
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Company believes that during its most recent fiscal year ended December 31, 2020, its executive officers, directors and greater
−Removed: than 10% stockholders complied with the filing requirements under Section 16(a), except that (i) Ronald Fisher filed a Form
−Removed: 4 late in connection with (a) the forfeiture of shares of common stock with respect to an applicable milestone not being satisfied,
−Removed: and (b) the receipt of shares of common stock based on an applicable milestone being achieved, and (ii) John Rice filed a Form
−Removed: 4 late relating to his acquisition of two stock options as compensation in his capacity as an officer.
+Added: than 10% stockholders complied with the filing requirements under Section 16(a), except that each of Salvatore Battinelli and
+Added: Mark Ruport filed a Form 4 late in connection with their respective purchase of shares of the Company’s Series E Preferred
+Added: Stock and warrants to purchase shares of common stock.
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
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Awards ($) (5)
+Added: Awards ($) (6)
Other Compensation ($)
−Removed: Rice - President, Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer) and Director
+Added: Rice - Former President & Chief
+Added: Officer (1) and Director
of the Board)
+Added: Ruport - President & Chief
+Added: Officer and Director (2)
Fisher - Vice President
−Removed: Beckett –
−Removed: Chief Technology
+Added: Beckett - Chief Technology Officer
+Added: Rice served as President and Chief Executive Officer from January 1, 2020 through April 30, 2020.
+Added: Ruport has served as President and Chief Executive Officer since April 30, 2020.
amounts paid or accrued.
−Removed: Fair Value of option awards is calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718.
−Removed: The amount recognized for all awards
−Removed: is calculated using the Black Scholes option-pricing model.
+Added: February 25, 2021, the Compensation Committee granted Mr.
+Added: Ruport a $50,000 performance bonus for the fiscal year ended December
+Added: In October 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett a performance
+Added: bonus of $10,000, and in December 2020, Mr.
+Added: Beckett was granted an additional performance bonus of $8,000.
+Added: April 10, 2020 Messrs.
+Added: Ruport, Fisher, and Beckett were granted 969, 1,125, and 1,125 shares of our common stock, respectively,
+Added: at the closing price of $2.05 on the date of the grant.
+Added: The shares fully vested on December 31, 2020.
+Added: option awards and stock appreciation rights awards.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, we adopted the 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan.
+Added: The Plan only provides for incentive awards that are only made in the form of stock appreciation rights (“SARs”)
+Added: payable in cash.
+Added: No shares of common stock were reserved in connection with the adoption of the Plan since no shares will
+Added: be issued pursuant to the Plan.
+Added: The Fair Value of option
+Added: and SARs awards are calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718.
+Added: The amount recognized for all awards is
+Added: calculated using the Black Scholes pricing model.
+Added: May 1, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Rice an option to purchase up to 16,044 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive
+Added: Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The option has an exercise price of $2.28, is fully vested, and
+Added: had an aggregate grant date fair value of $29,583.
each of the first day of each month commencing January 1, 2019 and ending on August 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
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$21,291, $25,405, and $13,546, respectively
−Removed: April 19, 2018, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice three options (the “Options”) to purchase up to 2,000 shares of our common
−Removed: stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The Options have an exercise price
−Removed: per share equal to $18.80, $15.40 and $14.80, respectively, and each is fully vested.
−Removed: The options had an aggregate grant date
−Removed: fair value of $31,010, $25,402 and $24,412, respectively.
−Removed: The Company also granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice an option to purchase up to 2,000
−Removed: shares on each of April 30, 2018, May 31, 2018, June 30, 2018 and July 31, 2018.
−Removed: Such options have an exercise price per share
−Removed: equal to $11.00, $14.70, $11.90 and $8.70, respectively, and each is fully vested.
−Removed: The options had an aggregate grant date
−Removed: fair value of $18,184, $24,248, $19,460 and $13,975, respectively.
−Removed: On November 1, 2018 the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: vested option to purchase up to 6,875 shares at an exercise price of $17.90 The option had an aggregate grant day fair value
−Removed: On December 1, 2018 the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice a fully vested option to purchase up to 2,292 shares at an exercise
−Removed: price of $15.70.
−Removed: The option had an aggregate grant day fair value of $28,038.
−Removed: January 10, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Fisher an option to purchase 1,183 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive
+Added: May 28, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Ruport an option to purchase 116,654 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive
Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $20.20 and is fully
−Removed: The option had a grant date fair value of $18,271.
+Added: The option has an exercise price of $2.50 and vests as follows:
+Added: 29,164 shares vested and became exercisable on June 15, 2020, and the remaining 87,490 shares will vest in equal monthly
+Added: installments over the next three years.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 43,744 shares were vested and exercisable.
+Added: had an aggregate grant date fair value of $254,474.
On November 24, 2020, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Fisher an option to purchase
+Added: Ruport and option to purchase 114,915
shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: has an exercise price per share equal to $5.20 and is fully vested.
−Removed: The option had a grant date fair value of $420.
−Removed: On November 26, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: option has an exercise price of $2.55 and vests over three years in equal monthly installments beginning one month from the
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 3,192 shares were fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: The option had an aggregate grant
+Added: date fair value of $236,519.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, pursuant to our 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, we granted Mr.
+Added: 60,094 Stock Appreciation Rights (“SAR’s).
+Added: The SAR’s have an exercise price of $2.63 and will vest and become
+Added: exercisable in three equal installments on each of the first, second, and third anniversaries of the grant date.
+Added: The SAR’s
+Added: had an aggregate grant date fair value of $127,987.
+Added: December 3, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Ruport (i) an option to purchase up to 10,000 shares of our common stock with an exercise
+Added: price of $11.20, which fully vested and became exercisable on January 3, 2020;
+Added: and (ii) an option to purchase up to 40,000
+Added: shares of our common stock with an exercise price of $11.20, which will vest and become exercisable in equal monthly installments
+Added: over three years from the grant date.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 14,053 shares were fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: had aggregate grant date fair values of $90,366 and $361,457, respectively.
+Added: May 28, 2020, we granted Mr.
Fisher an option to purchase 23,331 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive
Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $8.20 and is fully
−Removed: The option had a grant date fair value of $661.
+Added: The option has an exercise price of $2.50 and vests as follows:
+Added: 5,833 shares vested and became exercisable on June 15, 2020, and the remaining 17,498 shares will vest in equal monthly installments
+Added: over the next three years.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 8,749 shares were fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: The option had
+Added: an aggregate grant date fair value of $50,895.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, pursuant to our 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, we
+Added: Fisher 12,019 Stock Appreciation Rights (“SAR’s).
+Added: The SAR’s have an exercise price of $2.63
+Added: and will vest and become exercisable in three equal installments on each of the first, second, and third anniversaries of
+Added: the grant date.
+Added: The SAR’s had an aggregate grant date fair value of $25,598.
+Added: January 10, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher an option to purchase 1,184 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise
+Added: price equal to $20.20 per share and is fully vested.
+Added: On November 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher an option to purchase
+Added: 100 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise price equal to $5.20 per share and is fully vested.
+Added: 26, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher an option to purchase 100 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise price equal
+Added: to $8.20 per share and is fully vested.
On December 3, 2019, we granted Mr.
Fisher an option to purchase 500
−Removed: 500 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: has an exercise price per share equal to $11.20 and is fully vested.
−Removed: The option had a grant date fair value of $4,518.
−Removed: April 19, 2018, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Fisher an option to purchase 2,875 shares of our common
−Removed: stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $12.20, and is vested as to 281
−Removed: shares, and the balance of the shares under the stock option will vest in three
−Removed: additional annual installments as follows:
−Removed: 410 shares will vest and become exercisable
−Removed: on April 19, 2020;
−Removed: 683 shares will vest and become exercisable April 19, 2021;
−Removed: and 1,501 shares will vest and become exercisable on April 19, 2022.
−Removed: had a grant date fair value of $28,927.
+Added: shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise price equal to $11.20 per share and is fully vested.
+Added: had aggregate grant date fair value of $18,271, $420, $661, and $4,518, respectively.
+Added: May 28, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase 46,661 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive
+Added: Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The option has an exercise price equal to $2.50 per share
+Added: and vests as follows:
+Added: 25%, or 11,665 shares vested and became exercisable on June 15, 2020, and the remaining 34,996 shares
+Added: will vest in equal monthly installments over the next three years.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 17,497 shares were fully
+Added: vested and exercisable.
+Added: The option had an aggregate grant date fair value of $101,788.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, pursuant to our
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett 24,038 Stock Appreciation Rights (“SAR’s).
+Added: The SAR’s
+Added: have an exercise price of $2.63 and will vest and become exercisable in three equal installments on each of the first, second,
+Added: and third anniversaries of the grant date.
+Added: The SAR’s had an aggregate grant date fair value of $51,196.
January 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
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the remaining 281 shares will vest and become
−Removed: exercisable equally on the second through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
−Removed: The option has an aggregate grant
−Removed: date fair value of $4,358.
+Added: exercisable in equal installments on the second through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2020, 94 shares were fully vested and exercisable.
On July 18, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 500 shares of our common
−Removed: stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $12.40.
−Removed: The option vests and
−Removed: will become exercisable equally on the first through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
−Removed: The option has an aggregate
−Removed: grant date fair value of $4,885.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase up to 500
+Added: shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: has an exercise price per share equal to $12.40.
+Added: The option vests and will become exercisable in equal installments on the
+Added: first through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 125 shares were fully vested and exercisable.
On October 11, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 5,000 shares of our
−Removed: common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase up to 5,000 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity
+Added: Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
The option has an exercise price per share equal to $6.70.
−Removed: The option is
−Removed: fully vested and exercisable.
−Removed: The option has an aggregate grant date fair value of $26,857.
−Removed: February 26, 2018 and October 18, 2018, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 1,500 and 2,000 shares of our common
−Removed: stock, respectively, under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The options have
−Removed: an exercise price per share equal to $15.60 and $12.10, respectively.
−Removed: The February 2018 option vests as follows:
−Removed: shares vested and became exercisable on October 13, 2018;
−Removed: 225 shares vested and became exercisable on October 13, 2019;
−Removed: shares will vest and become exercisable on October 13, 2020;
−Removed: and 825 shares will vest and become exercisable on October 13,
−Removed: The October 2018 option vests in equal annual installment over four years from the date of grant.
−Removed: The options have an
−Removed: aggregate grant date fair value of $22,790 and $18,784, respectively.
+Added: option is fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: The options had aggregate grant date fair values of $4,358, $4,885,
+Added: and $26,857, respectively.
Executive Officer Employment Agreements
−Removed: August 8, 2017, we entered into an “at will”
−Removed: unwritten employment arrangement with Mr.
−Removed: John Rice, pursuant to which
−Removed: Rice served as our interim Chief Executive Officer and interim principal executive officer, will receive a monthly salary
−Removed: of $9,000, and is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits, life insurance, and long term and short term disability coverage.
−Removed: Rice is eligible under his employment arrangement to participate in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan,
−Removed: with equity compensation to Mr.
−Removed: Rice to be determined by our Compensation Committee at a later date.
−Removed: Effective as of Mr.
−Removed: appointment as interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr.
−Removed: Rice is no longer entitled to receive compensation for his service as a director
−Removed: of the Company during his service as our interim Chief Executive Officer.
−Removed: On April 19, 2018, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice three options
−Removed: (the “Options”) to purchase up to 2,000 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: Options have an exercise price per share equal to $18.80, $15.40 and $14.80, respectively, which is greater than
−Removed: the closing price of our common stock on the date of grant (the “Grant Date”), and each is fully vested as of the
−Removed: Company also granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice an option to purchase up to 2,000 shares on each of April 30, 2018, May 31, 2018, June 30, 2018
−Removed: and July 31, 2018 (each, a “Monthly Option”), and agreed that that Mr.
−Removed: Rice is entitled to a bonus of ( x) 10,000
−Removed: shares of common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan if the average closing price of our common stock is $60.00, $70.00,
−Removed: $80.00 or $90.00 for three consecutive months (for a total possible bonus of up to 40,000 shares if each of the foregoing performance
−Removed: milestones is satisfied), and (y) the balance of any portion of the foregoing 40,000 shares if the Company is sold for a price
−Removed: equivalent to at least $80.00 per outstanding share of common stock while Mr.
−Removed: Rice serves as our Chief Executive Officer (or during
−Removed: the 12-month period thereafter), and that in the event that our Board of Directors determines that Mr.
−Removed: Rice is unable to perform
−Removed: his duties as our Chief Executive Officer due to an accident, illness or other event or condition which physically or mentally
−Removed: incapacitates Mr.
−Removed: Rice for a period of 45 consecutive days (“Disability”), (x) if Mr.
−Removed: Rice ceases to be employed by
−Removed: the Company as a result of a Disability, the Options will remain exercisable for the 5-year term of such Options, unless the Options
−Removed: are terminated pursuant to a “Corporate Transaction”
−Removed: (as defined in the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan);
−Removed: and (y) if Mr.
−Removed: Rice ceases to be employed by the Company as a result of a Disability, the Monthly Options will remain exercisable for the 5-year
−Removed: term of such Monthly Options, unless the Monthly Options are terminated pursuant to a Corporate Transaction.
−Removed: June 21, 2018, Mr.
−Removed: Rice’s title was changed to Chief Executive Officer of the Company.
−Removed: On August 1, 2018, the Company increased
−Removed: the annual base salary of Mr.
−Removed: Rice from $108,000 to $155,000.
−Removed: On November 1, 2018, the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice an option to purchase
−Removed: 6,875 shares of the Company’s common stock under the 2013 Plan at an exercise price of $17.90 per share, with such option
−Removed: having a term of five years and being fully vested on the grant date.
−Removed: The Company also agreed to grant Mr.
−Removed: Rice an option under
−Removed: the 2013 Plan to purchase up to (i) 2,292 shares on the first day of each month commencing on December 1, 2018 and ending on August
−Removed: 1, 2019 (collectively, the “Monthly Options”), so long as Mr.
−Removed: Rice remains an employee of the Company as of the applicable
−Removed: grant date (except that if Mr.
−Removed: Rice ceases to be employed by the Company as a result of an accident, illness or other event or
−Removed: condition which physically or mentally incapacitates Mr.
−Removed: Rice for a period of 45 consecutive days, any Monthly Option that has
−Removed: not been granted as of such date will still be granted on the applicable grant date), with each Monthly Option to have a 5-year
−Removed: term, an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant, to be vested in full
−Removed: on the date of grant and otherwise to be on such other terms set forth in the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock
+Added: to April 30, 2020, Mr.
+Added: Rice served as President, Chief
+Added: Executive Officer, and principal executive officer of the Company at an annual base salary of $155,000.
+Added: On April 30, 2020,
+Added: he resigned from such positions.
+Added: Rice has remained a director on the Board of Directors and has continued to serve as
+Added: Chairman of the Board.
+Added: Rice was compensated as a non-employee director (on a pro-rata basis for 2020 based on the partial
+Added: year during which Mr.
+Added: Rice served as a non-employee director) under the Company’s director compensation program,
+Added: as may be adjusted from to time for all non-employee directors.
+Added: On May 1, 2020, we entered into a consulting agreement with Mr.
+Added: Rice, pursuant to which Mr.
+Added: Rice was engaged to provide, among other services to be determined by the Company, advice regarding
+Added: the structure of certain financial and other strategic transactions involving the Company, on an as-needed basis.
+Added: The consulting
+Added: agreement expired on December 31, 2020.
+Added: December 3, 2019, we entered into an “at-will’
+Added: employment letter agreement with Mark Ruport, effective as of December
+Added: 3, 2019 (the “effective date”), pursuant to which Mr.
+Added: Ruport agreed to serve as our Executive Chairman on an
+Added: “at-will”
+Added: Additionally, Mr.
+Added: Ruport was appointed to serve as a member of our Board of Directors, effective
+Added: as of December 3, 2019, with a term expiring at the 2021 annual meeting of stockholders.
+Added: As of April 30, 2020, Mr.
+Added: appointed as President, Chief Executive Officer, and principal executive officer of the Company, and no longer serves as Executive
+Added: the employment letter agreement, Mr.
+Added: Ruport is entitled to (i) an annual base salary of $155,000 (such base salary is not subject
+Added: to decrease, but may be increased in the discretion of the Company’s Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors based
+Added: on annual or special case assessments of Mr.
+Added: Ruport’s performance and other factors), and (ii) all benefits that
+Added: we elect in our sole discretion to provide from time to time to our other executive officers, and received a grant of (1)
+Added: a five-year stock option to purchase up to 10,000 shares of common stock of the Company, which has an exercise price
+Added: equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the effective date, and vested and became exercisable
+Added: in full on the first month’s anniversary of the effective date, and (2) a five-year stock option to purchase up to
+Added: 40,000 shares of common stock of the Company, which has an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s
+Added: common stock on the effective date, and will vest and become exercisable in equal (as closely as possible) monthly installments
+Added: over three years from the effective date, provided, in each case, that Mr.
+Added: Ruport remains an employee of the Company through
+Added: such vesting date.
+Added: options are on such other terms and provisions as are contained in the Company’s standard form nonqualified stock
option agreement;
−Removed: October 18, 2018, Darren Beckett’s title was changed from Vice President of Engineering to Chief Technology Officer of the
−Removed: On October 18, 2018, the Company also increased the annual base salary of Mr.
−Removed: Beckett from $135,000 to $180,000, effective
−Removed: retroactive to September 16, 2018, and granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase 2,000 shares of common stock under the 2013 Plan
−Removed: at an exercise price of $12.10 per share.
−Removed: The option has a term of five years and vests in equal annual installment over
−Removed: four years from the date of grant subject, in each case, to Mr.
−Removed: Beckett being in the continuous employ of the Company on the applicable
−Removed: vesting date.
+Added: provided, however, that (x) upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the employment letter
+Added: agreement), any unvested portion of the options as of the date of such Change of Control will immediately and automatically vest;
+Added: provided, however, that, the options may be assumed or, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, an equivalent option may
+Added: be substituted by an applicable successor corporation or any subsidiary of the successor corporation in connection with a Change
+Added: of Control), and (y) in the event that the Board of Directors determines that Mr.
+Added: Ruport is unable to perform his duties due to
+Added: an accident, illness or other event or condition which physically or mentally incapacitates him for a period of 45 consecutive
+Added: days (“Disability”), if he ceases to be employed by the Company as a result of a Disability, the options will continue
+Added: to vest and remain exercisable for the 5-year term of the options in accordance with the terms of the option agreements.
+Added: Additionally,
+Added: during the term of his employment, Mr.
+Added: Ruport is eligible to receive one or more bonuses relating to each fiscal year in
+Added: recognition of his achievement of individual and Company goals established by the Board of Directors from time to time.
+Added: the decision to provide any such bonuses and the amount and terms of any such bonuses is in the sole discretion of the
+Added: Board of Directors.
+Added: On February 25, 2021, Mr.
+Added: Ruport received a performance bonus of $50,000 for 2020.
Beckett has served as an employee of the Company since September 25, 2017, pursuant to an “at will”
−Removed: employment agreement with the Company, under which he was engaged to serve as our Engineering Manager.
+Added: employment agreement
+Added: with the Company, under which he was engaged to serve as our Engineering Manager.
+Added: On October 18, 2018, his title was changed from Vice President of Engineering to Chief Technology
+Added: Officer of the Company.
+Added: On October 18, 2018, the Company also increased the annual base salary of Mr.
+Added: Beckett from $135,000 to
+Added: $180,000, effective retroactive to September 16, 2018, and granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase 2,000 shares of common stock
+Added: under the 2013 Plan at an exercise price of $12.10 per share.
+Added: The option has a term of five years and vests in equal annual installments
+Added: over four years from the date of grant subject, in each case, to Mr.
+Added: Beckett being in the continuous employ of the Company
+Added: on the applicable vesting date.
Under the agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Beckett was entitled to receive an annual base salary of $135,000 prior to the foregoing increase, and is eligible to receive
−Removed: medical and dental benefits, life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, and to participate in the Company’s
−Removed: Section 125 cafeteria plan, vision plan and 401K plan.
−Removed: On January 1, 2019 the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase
−Removed: up to 375 shares of common stock under the 2013 Plan at an exercise price of $15.00.
−Removed: The option has a term of five years and vests
−Removed: in equal annual installments over four years form the date of grant.
+Added: Beckett is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits, life insurance,
+Added: short and long-term disability coverage, and to participate in the Company’s Section 125 cafeteria plan, vision plan and
+Added: On October 13, 2017, in connection with his employment, Mr.
+Added: Beckett was granted an option to purchase up to
+Added: 1,500 shares of our common stock with an exercise price equal to $19.20 per share.
+Added: Such option is vested and exercisable as to
+Added: 675 shares at December 31, 2020, and the remaining 825 shares will vest on October 23, 2021 provided Mr.
+Added: Beckett is an employee
+Added: of the Company on that date.
have entered into an “at will”
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Pursuant to the employment agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Fisher also was granted, as a signing bonus, a stock option to purchase
−Removed: up to 2,375 shares of common stock of the Company, at an exercise price equal to $118.00 per share, which was the closing market
−Removed: price of the Company’s common stock on August 10, 2015 (i.e., the date of grant), under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: Such option vested and became exercisable as to 138 shares on the first anniversary of the grant date, as to 338 shares on the
−Removed: second anniversary of the grant date, as to 638 shares on the third anniversary of the grant date, and will vest and become exercisable
−Removed: as to 1,263 shares on the fourth anniversary of the grant date, provided that Mr.
−Removed: Fisher remains an employee of the Company through
−Removed: such vesting date.
−Removed: The option has a ten - year term and is on such other terms set forth in the Company’s standard
−Removed: form of non-qualified stock option agreement.
+Added: Fisher also was granted, as a signing bonus, (i) a stock option
+Added: to purchase up to 2,375 shares of common stock of the Company, at an exercise price equal to $118.00 per share, which was the
+Added: closing market price of the Company’s common stock on August 10, 2015 (i.e., the date of grant), under the 2013 Equity Incentive
+Added: Such option is fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: The option has a ten - year term and is on such other terms
+Added: set forth in the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option agreement, and (ii) 125 shares of common stock
+Added: of the Company with a value equal to the closing price of our common stock on the date of grant and is on such other terms and
+Added: provisions as are contained in Sigma Labs’
+Added: standard form of restricted stock letter agreement under the Plan.
+Added: are fully vested.
Additionally, the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Fisher under the 2013 Plan, effective as of
−Removed: August 11, 2016, a stock option to purchase up to 500 shares of common stock of the Company.
−Removed: Such option has an exercise price
−Removed: equal to the closing price of our common stock on the date of grant, and vests and becomes exercisable as to (i) 30 shares on
−Removed: August 11, 2017, (ii) 70 shares on August 11, 2018, (iii) 135 shares on August 11, 2019, and (iv) 265 shares on August 11, 2020,
−Removed: Fisher is in the employ of the Company on August 11, 2019 and 2020.
−Removed: Fisher is eligible to participate
−Removed: in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan and is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits, life insurance, short
−Removed: and long-term disability coverage, and to participate in the Company’s Section 125 cafeteria plan, vision plan and 401K
+Added: Fisher under the 2013 Plan, effective as of August 11, 2016, a stock
+Added: option to purchase up to 500 shares of common stock of the Company.
+Added: Such option has an exercise price equal to the closing price
+Added: of our common stock on the date of grant and is fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: Fisher is eligible to
+Added: participate in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan and is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits, life insurance,
+Added: short and long-term disability coverage, and to participate in the Company’s Section 125 cafeteria plan, vision plan and
September 18, 2017, we and Mr.
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Equity Awards at 2020 Fiscal Year-End
−Removed: following table sets forth outstanding equity awards issued under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan as of December 31, 2019 that
−Removed: are held by our named executive officers.
+Added: following tables set forth outstanding equity awards issued under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan and 2020 Stock Appreciation
+Added: Rights Plan as of December 31, 2020 that are held by our named executive officers.
of securities underlying unexercised options (#) exercisable
of securities underlying unexercised options (#) unexercisable
+Added: On June 23, 2020, we adopted the 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan.
+Added: The Plan only provides for incentive awards that are only
+Added: made in the form of stock appreciation rights (“SARs”) payable in cash.
+Added: No shares of common stock were reserved in
+Added: connection with the adoption of the Plan since no shares will be issued pursuant to the Plan.
On April 19, 2018, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice three options (the “Options”) to purchase up to 2,000 shares of our common
−Removed: stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The Options have an exercise price per
−Removed: share equal to $18.80, $15.40 and $14.80, respectively, and each is fully vested.
−Removed: The Company also granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice an option
−Removed: to purchase up to 2,000 shares on each of April 30, 2018, May 31, 2018, June 30, 2018 and July 31, 2018.
−Removed: Such options have an
−Removed: exercise price per share equal to $11.00 $14.70, $11.90 and $8.70, respectively, and each is fully vested.
−Removed: On November 1, 2018
−Removed: the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice a fully vested option to purchase up to 6,875 shares at an exercise price of $17.90.
−Removed: 1, 2018 the Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice a fully vested option to purchase up to 2,292 shares at an exercise price of $15.70.
−Removed: of the first day of each month commencing January 1, 2019 and ending on August 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Rice an option to purchase
−Removed: up to 2,292 shares of our common stock, under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: options are fully vested and have the following exercise prices:
+Added: Rice three options (the “Options”)
+Added: to purchase up to 2,000 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The Options have an exercise price per share equal to $18.80, $15.40 and $14.80, respectively, and each is fully vested.
+Added: also granted Mr.
+Added: Rice an option to purchase up to 2,000 shares on each of April 30, 2018, May 31, 2018, June 30, 2018 and July
+Added: Such options have an exercise price per share equal to $11.00 $14.70, $11.90 and $8.70, respectively, and each is fully
+Added: On November 1, 2018 the Company granted Mr.
+Added: Rice a fully vested option to purchase up to 6,875 shares at an exercise price
+Added: On December 1, 2018 the Company granted Mr.
+Added: Rice a fully vested option to purchase up to 2,292 shares at an exercise
+Added: price of $15.70.
+Added: On each of the first day of each month commencing January 1, 2019 and ending on August 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Rice an option to purchase up to 2,292 shares of our common stock, under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his
+Added: employment arrangement.
+Added: The options are fully vested and have the following exercise prices:
$15.00, $19.30, $20.40, $14.70, $15.00,
−Removed: The options had an aggregate grant date fair value of $26,630, $34,254, $36,418, $26,161, $26,642, $21,291, $25,405,
−Removed: and $13,546, respectively, calculated in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718.
−Removed: The amount recognized for this award was calculated
−Removed: using the Black Scholes option-pricing model.
−Removed: In August 2015, in conjunction with the hiring of Ronald Fisher, the Company’s Vice President of Business Development,
−Removed: the Company granted to Mr.
−Removed: Fisher a stock option (the “Option”) to purchase up to 2,375 shares of common stock of
−Removed: the Company, at an exercise price equal to $118.00 per share, which was the closing market price of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock on August 10, 2015 (i.e., the date of grant), under the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: The Option is fully vested.
−Removed: has a ten-year term and is on such other terms set forth in the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option
+Added: $12.00, $14.00, and $7.40.
+Added: On May 1, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Rice an option to purchase up to 16,044 shares of our common stock under
+Added: our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The option has an exercise price of $2.28
+Added: and is fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: On December 3, 2019, in conjunction with the hiring of Mark
+Added: Ruport, the Company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, the Company granted to Mr.
+Added: Ruport (i) an option to purchase
+Added: 10,000 shares of our common stock with an exercise price of $11.20, which fully vested and became exercisable on January 3,2020;
+Added: and (ii) an option to purchase up to 40,000 shares of our common stock, with an exercise price of $11.20, which will vest and
+Added: become exercisable in equal monthly installments over three years from the date of grant.
+Added: On May 28, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: an option to purchase 116,654 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment
+Added: The option has an exercise price of $2.50 and vests as follows:
+Added: 29,164 shares vested and became exercisable on June
+Added: 15, 2020, and the remaining 87,490 shares will vest in equal monthly installments over the next three years.
+Added: As of December 31,
+Added: 2020, a total of 43,744 shares were vested and exercisable.
+Added: On November 24, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Ruport an option to purchase
+Added: up to 114,915 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise price of $2.55 and vests over three years in equal monthly
+Added: installments beginning one month from the grant date.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, 3,192 shares were vested and exercisable.
+Added: June 23, 2020, pursuant to our 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, we granted Mr.
+Added: Ruport 60,094 SARs.
+Added: The SARs have an exercise
+Added: price of $2.63 and will vest and become exercisable in three equal installments on each of the first, second, and third anniversaries
+Added: of the grant date.
+Added: In August 2015, in conjunction with the hiring of Ronald Fisher,
+Added: the Company’s Vice President of Business Development, the Company granted to Mr.
+Added: Fisher a stock option (the “Option”)
+Added: to purchase up to 2,375 shares of common stock of the Company, at an exercise price equal to $118.00 per share, which was the
+Added: closing market price of the Company’s common stock on August 10, 2015 (i.e., the date of grant), under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: Option is fully vested.
+Added: The Option has a ten-year term and is on such other terms set forth in the Company’s standard form
+Added: of non-qualified stock option agreement.
The Company granted Mr.
−Removed: Fisher under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, effective as of August 11, 2016, a stock
−Removed: option to purchase up to 500 shares of common stock of the Company.
−Removed: Such option has an exercise price equal to the closing
−Removed: price of our common stock on the date of grant, and vested and became exercisable (i) as to 30 shares on August 11,
−Removed: 2017, as to (ii) 70 shares on August 11, 2018, and (iii) as to 135 shares on August 11, 2019, and will vest
−Removed: and become exercisable as to 265 shares on August 11, 2020, provided Mr.
−Removed: Fisher is in the employ of the Company on such
−Removed: On April 19, 2018, we granted to Mr.
−Removed: Fisher an option to purchase 2,875 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: Such option has a
−Removed: five-year term with an exercise price equal to the closing price of our common stock on the date of the grant.
−Removed: The option is
−Removed: vested as to 281 shares and the remaining shares vest as follows:
−Removed: 410 shares will vest on April 19, 2020, 683 shares will
−Removed: vest on April 19, 2021, and the remaining 1,501 shares will vest on April 19, 2022.
−Removed: On January 10, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, effective as of
+Added: August 11, 2016, a stock option to purchase up to 500 shares of common stock of the Company.
+Added: Such option has an exercise price
+Added: equal to the closing price of our common stock on the date of grant and is fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: On April 19, 2018, we
+Added: granted to Mr.
Fisher an option to purchase 2,875 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $20.20 and
−Removed: is fully vested.
−Removed: On November 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Such option has a five-year term with an exercise
+Added: price equal to the closing price of our common stock on the date of the grant.
+Added: The option is vested as to 691 shares and the remaining
+Added: shares vest as follows:
+Added: 683 shares will vest on April 19, 2021, and the remaining 1,501 shares will vest on April 19, 2022.
+Added: January 10, 2019, we granted Mr.
Fisher an option to purchase 1,183 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: has an exercise price per share equal to $5.20 and is fully vested.
+Added: The option has an exercise price
+Added: per share equal to $20.20 and is fully vested.
On November 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Fisher an option to
−Removed: purchase 100 shares of our common stock.
+Added: Fisher an option to purchase 100 shares of
+Added: our common stock.
The option has an exercise price per share equal to $5.20 and is fully vested.
−Removed: December 3, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: On November 26, 2019, we granted
Fisher an option to purchase 100 shares of our common stock.
−Removed: The option has an exercise
−Removed: price per share equal to $11.20 and is fully vested.
−Removed: On February 26, 2018 and October 18, 2018, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 1,500 and 2,000 shares of our common
−Removed: stock, respectively, under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The options have an exercise
−Removed: price per share equal to $15.60 and $12.10, respectively.
−Removed: The February 2018 option vests as follows:
−Removed: 75 shares vested and
−Removed: became exercisable on October 13, 2018;
−Removed: 225 shares vested and became exercisable on October 13, 2019;
−Removed: will vest and become exercisable on October 13, 2020;
−Removed: and 825 shares will vest and become exercisable on October 13, 2021.
−Removed: October 2018 option vests in equal annual installment over four years from the date of grant.
−Removed: On October 13, 2017, we granted
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 1,500 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with
−Removed: his employment arrangement.
−Removed: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $19.20.
−Removed: The option vests as follows:
−Removed: vested and became exercisable on October 13, 2018;
−Removed: 225 shares vested and became exercisable on October 13, 2019;
−Removed: 375 shares will vest and become exercisable on October 13, 2020;
−Removed: and 825 shares will vest and become exercisable on October 13,
−Removed: On January 1, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 375 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity
−Removed: Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $8.20 and
+Added: is fully vested.
+Added: On December 3, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher an option to purchase 500 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has
+Added: an exercise price per share equal to $11.20 and is fully vested.
+Added: On May 28, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher an option to purchase
+Added: 23,331 shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $2.50 and vests as follows:
+Added: vested and became exercisable on June 15, 2020, and the remaining 17,498 shares will vest in equal monthly installments over the
+Added: next three years.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, a total of 8,749 shares were vested and exercisable.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, pursuant
+Added: to our 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, we granted Mr.
+Added: Fisher 12,019 SARs.
+Added: The SARs have an exercise price of $2.63 and will
+Added: vest and become exercisable in three equal installments on each of the first, second, and third anniversaries of the grant date.
+Added: On February 26, 2018 we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase
+Added: up to 1,500 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: option has an exercise price per share equal to $15.60 and is vested as to 300 shares.
+Added: The remaining shares will vest as follows:
+Added: 375 shares will vest and become exercisable on February 26, 2021;
+Added: and 825 shares will vest and become exercisable on February
+Added: On October 18, 2018, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase up to 2,000 shares of our common stock.
+Added: option has an exercise price per share equal to $12.10 and is vested as to 400 shares.
+Added: The remaining shares vest as follows:
+Added: shares will vest and become exercisable on September 16, 2021, and 1,100 shares will vest and become exercisable on September
+Added: On October 13, 2017, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase up to 1,500 shares of our common stock under our 2013
+Added: Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
The option has an exercise price per share equal to $19.20.
−Removed: option vests as follows:
−Removed: 94 shares vested and became exercisable on January 1, 2020;
−Removed: the remaining 281 shares will vest and become
−Removed: exercisable in equal installments on the second through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
−Removed: On July 18, 2019,
+Added: The option is vested as to 675 shares and the remaining 825 shares will vest and become exercisable on October 13, 2021.
1, 2019, we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 500 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection
−Removed: with his employment arrangement.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase up to 375 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan
+Added: in connection with his employment arrangement.
The option has an exercise price per share equal to $15.00.
−Removed: The option vests and will become
−Removed: exercisable in equal installments on the first through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
−Removed: On October 11, 2019,
−Removed: we granted Mr.
−Removed: Beckett an option to purchase up to 5,000 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection
−Removed: with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The option vests as
+Added: 94 shares vested and became exercisable on January 1, 2020;
+Added: the remaining 281 shares will vest and become exercisable
+Added: in equal installments on the second through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
+Added: On July 18, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: an option to purchase up to 500 shares of our common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment
The option has an exercise price per share equal to $12.40.
−Removed: The option is fully vested and exercisable.
−Removed: offer stock options and stock awards to certain of our employees, including our executive officers, as the long-term incentive
−Removed: component of our compensation program.
−Removed: We generally grant equity awards to new hires upon their commencing employment with us.
−Removed: Our stock options allow employees to purchase shares of our common stock at a price per share equal to the fair market value of
−Removed: our common stock on the date of grant and may or may not be intended to qualify as “incentive stock options”
+Added: The option vests and will become exercisable in equal
+Added: installments on the first through the fourth anniversaries of the date of grant.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the option was vested
+Added: as to 125 shares.
+Added: On October 11, 2019, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase up to 5,000 shares of our common stock under
+Added: our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan in connection with his employment arrangement.
+Added: The option has an exercise price per share equal
+Added: to $6.70 and is fully vested and exercisable.
+Added: On May 28, 2020, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett an option to purchase 46,661
+Added: shares of our common stock.
+Added: The option has an exercise price per share equal to $2.50 and vests as follows:
+Added: 11,665 shares vested
+Added: and became exercisable on June 15, 2020, and the remaining 34,996 shares will vest in equal monthly installments over the next
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, a total of 17,497 shares were vested and exercisable.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, pursuant to our
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan, we granted Mr.
+Added: Beckett 24,038 SARs.
+Added: The SARs have an exercise price of $2.63 and will vest
+Added: and become exercisable in three equal installments on each of the first, second, and third anniversaries of the grant date.
+Added: offer stock options, stock appreciation rights, and stock awards to certain of our employees, including our executive officers,
+Added: as the long-term incentive component of our compensation program.
+Added: We generally grant equity awards to new hires upon their commencing
+Added: employment with us.
+Added: Our stock options allow employees to purchase shares of our common stock at a price per share equal to the
+Added: fair market value of our common stock on the date of grant and may or may not be intended to qualify as “incentive stock
+Added: options”
federal income tax purposes.
−Removed: We sometimes also offer stock options and stock awards to our consultants in lieu of cash.
−Removed: options allow consultants to purchase shares of our common stock at a price per share equal to the fair market value of our common
−Removed: stock on the date of grant and are not intended to qualify as “incentive stock options”
−Removed: federal income tax
−Removed: Stock options and stock awards granted to our executive officers may be subject to accelerated vesting in certain circumstances.
+Added: Our stock appreciation rights allow employees to receive a cash payment for
+Added: the difference between the market price of our common stock on the date of exercise and the strike price.
+Added: We sometimes also offer
+Added: stock options, stock appreciation rights and stock awards to our consultants in lieu of cash.
+Added: Our stock options allow consultants
+Added: to purchase shares of our common stock at a price per share equal to the fair market value of our common stock on the date of
+Added: grant and are not intended to qualify as “incentive stock options”
+Added: federal income tax purposes.
+Added: appreciation rights allow consultants to receive a cash payment for the difference between the market price of our common
+Added: stock on the date of exercise and the strike price.
+Added: Stock options, stock appreciation rights, and stock awards granted to our
+Added: executive officers may be subject to accelerated vesting in certain circumstances.
maintain a qualified 401(k) plan, in which all eligible employees may participate.
−Removed: We have elected to match 100% of each participant’s
−Removed: contribution up to 3% of salary, and 50% of the next 2% of salary contributed.
−Removed: We may also elect, on an annual basis, to make
−Removed: a discretionary contribution to the plan, but have not done so to date.
−Removed: Our matches and elective contributions vest to participant
−Removed: accounts as follows:
−Removed: 20% after two years of service, and 20% per year thereafter until the participant reaches 6 years of service,
−Removed: at which time, employer contributions vest 100%.
−Removed: As a tax-qualified retirement plan, contributions to the 401(k) plan and earnings
−Removed: on those contributions are not taxable to the employees until distributed from the 401(k) plan.
+Added: We make safe harbor contributions to
+Added: match 100% of each participant’s contribution up to 3% of salary, and 50% of the next 2% of salary contributed.
+Added: harbor contributions are 100% vested.
+Added: We may also elect, on an annual basis, to make a discretionary contribution to the plan,
+Added: but have not done so to date.
+Added: Our elective matches and elective contributions vest to participant accounts as follows:
+Added: 20% after two years of service, and 20% per year thereafter until the participant reaches 6 years of service, at which time, employer
+Added: contributions vest 100%.
+Added: As a tax-qualified retirement plan, contributions to the 401(k) plan and earnings on those contributions
+Added: are not taxable to the employees until distributed from the 401(k) plan.
Tax Gross-Ups
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Equity Incentive Plan
−Removed: August 23, 2019, our Board of Directors terminated the 2011 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: Equity Incentive
Board of Directors adopted the 2013 Plan to (1) encourage selected employees, officers, directors, consultants and advisers to
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Subject to the 2013 Plan
−Removed: to the provisions of the 2013 Plan relating to adjustments upon changes in common stock, an aggregate of 240,000 shares of common
−Removed: stock are currently subject to outstanding awards under the 2013 Plan or future awards under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: to the provisions of the 2013 Plan relating to adjustments upon changes in common stock, an aggregate of 890,000 shares
+Added: of common stock are currently subject to outstanding awards under the 2013 Plan or future awards under the 2013 Plan.
awards granted under the 2013 Plan expire or otherwise terminate or are cancelled without being exercised in full, the shares
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or a subsidiary.
−Removed: The Administrator will determine from time to time which directors, employees, consultants and advisers will
−Removed: be granted awards under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: The Administrator will determine from time-to-time which directors, employees, consultants and advisers
+Added: will be granted awards under the 2013 Plan.
award under the 2013 Plan will be evidenced by an agreement in a form approved by the Administrator.
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and 9,681 shares were available for future issuance under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: Stock Appreciation Rights Plan
+Added: June 23, 2020, our Board of Directors adopted the Sigma Labs, Inc.
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan (the “Plan”).
+Added: The purposes of the Plan are to:
+Added: (i) enable the Company to attract and retain the types of employees, consultants, and
+Added: directors (collectively, “Service Providers”) who will contribute to the Company’s long-range success;
+Added: (ii) provide incentives that align the interests of Service Providers with those of the shareholders of the Company;
+Added: promote the success of the Company’s business.
+Added: The Plan only provides for incentive awards that are only made in the form
+Added: of stock appreciation rights payable in cash (“SARs”).
+Added: No shares of common stock were reserved in connection with
+Added: the adoption of the Plan since no shares will be issued pursuant to the Plan.
+Added: Plan will be administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board or, in the Board’s sole discretion, by the Board.
+Added: Compensation Committee will have the authority to, among other things, (i) construe and interpret the Plan and apply its provisions;
+Added: (ii) promulgate, amend, and rescind rules and regulations relating to the administration of the Plan;
+Added: (iii) delegate its authority
+Added: to one or more persons who is an officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
+Added: as amended (the “Exchange Act”), and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder with respect to SARs that do
+Added: not involve “insiders”
+Added: within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act;
+Added: (iv) determine when SARs are to be granted
+Added: under the Plan and the applicable grant date;
+Added: (v) prescribe the terms and conditions of each SAR, including, without limitation,
+Added: the exercise price and medium of payment and vesting provisions, and to specify the provisions of the SAR Agreement relating to
+Added: (vi) amend any outstanding SARs, subject, in certain cases, to the participant’s consent;
+Added: and (vii) make all
+Added: other determinations which may be necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan.
+Added: may be granted only to persons who are Service Providers, and those persons whom the Committee determines are reasonably expected
+Added: to become Service Providers following the grant date.
+Added: The Committee may from time to time designate those Service Providers, if
+Added: any, to be granted SARs under the Plan, the number of SARs which will be granted to each such person, and any other terms or conditions
+Added: relating to SARs as it may deem appropriate to the extent consistent with the provisions of the Plan.
+Added: A participant who has been
+Added: granted a SAR may, if otherwise eligible, be granted additional incentive awards at any time.
+Added: The Committee may grant SARs to any Service Provider.
+Added: A SAR is the right to receive an amount equal to the Spread with respect
+Added: to a share of the Company’s common stock upon the exercise of the SAR.
+Added: The “Spread”
+Added: is the difference between
+Added: the exercise price per share specified in a SAR agreement on the date of grant and the fair market value per share on the date
+Added: of exercise of the SAR.
+Added: The terms and conditions of each SAR will be evidenced by a SAR agreement.
+Added: The exercise price per share will not
+Added: be less than 100% of the fair market value of a Share on the date of grant of the SAR.
+Added: The term of the SAR will be determined
+Added: by the Committee but may not be greater than ten years from the date of grant.
+Added: SARs are exercisable subject to such terms and conditions as the Committee may specify in the SAR agreement for the SAR.
+Added: may be exercised by the delivery of a signed written notice of exercise to the Company, which must be received and accepted by
+Added: the Company as of a date set by the Company in advance of the effective date of the proposed exercise.
+Added: The notice must set forth
+Added: the number of SARs being exercised, together with any additional documents the Company may require.
+Added: Upon exercise of a SAR, the Grantee will receive an amount equal to the Spread.
+Added: The Spread, less applicable withholdings, will
+Added: be payable only in cash.
+Added: In no event may any SAR be settled in any manner other than by delivery of a cash payment from the Company.
+Added: of SAR Agreement
+Added: participant to whom a SAR is granted will be required to enter into a SAR agreement with the Company, in such a form as is provided
+Added: by the Committee.
+Added: The SAR agreement will contain specific terms as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, with respect
+Added: to the participant’s particular SAR.
+Added: Such terms need not be uniform among all participants or any similarly situated participants.
+Added: The SAR agreement may include, without limitation, vesting, forfeiture and other provisions particular to the particular participant’s
+Added: SAR, as well as, for example, provisions to the effect that the participant must abide by all the terms and conditions of the
+Added: Plan and such other terms and conditions as may be imposed by the Committee.
+Added: A SAR will include such terms and conditions as are
+Added: determined by the Committee, in its discretion, to be appropriate with respect to any participant.
+Added: Committee may specify in a SAR agreement that the participant’s rights, payments, and benefits with respect to a SAR will
+Added: be subject to forfeiture upon the occurrence of certain specified events, in addition to any otherwise applicable vesting or performance
+Added: conditions of the incentive award.
+Added: Such events may include, but are not limited to, termination with cause or other conduct by
+Added: the participant that is detrimental to the business or reputation of the Company.
+Added: of Employment
+Added: otherwise expressly provided in the participant’s SAR agreement, if the participant’s employment is terminated for
+Added: any reason other than due to cause, death or disability, any non-vested portion of any outstanding SAR at the time of such termination
+Added: will automatically expire and terminate and no further vesting will occur after the termination date.
+Added: In such event, except as
+Added: otherwise expressly provided in the SAR agreement, the participant will be entitled to exercise such participant’s rights
+Added: only with respect to the portion of the SAR that was vested as of the termination date for a period that will end on the earlier
+Added: of (i) the expiration date set forth in the SAR agreement or (ii) ninety days after the date of termination.
+Added: otherwise expressly provided in the participant’s SAR agreement, in the event of the termination of a participant’s
+Added: employment for cause, all vested and non-vested SARs granted to such participant will immediately expire, and will not be exercisable
+Added: to any extent.
+Added: otherwise expressly provided in the participant’s SAR agreement, upon termination of employment as a result of the participant’s
+Added: disability or death, (i) any non-vested portion of any outstanding SAR will immediately terminate upon termination and no further
+Added: vesting will occur, and (ii) any vested SAR will expire on the earlier of either (A) the expiration date set forth in the SAR
+Added: agreement or (B) 12 months following the participant’s termination of employment.
+Added: to the conditions and limitations of the Plan and applicable law, in the event that a participant ceases to be an employee, outside
+Added: director or consultant, as applicable, for whatever reason, the Committee and participant may mutually agree with respect to any
+Added: outstanding SAR then held by the participant (i) for an acceleration or other adjustment in any vesting schedule applicable to
+Added: the SAR award;
+Added: (ii) for a continuation of the exercise period following termination for a longer period than is otherwise provided
+Added: under such SAR;
+Added: or (iii) to any other change in the terms and conditions of the SAR.
+Added: In the event of any such change to an outstanding
+Added: SAR, a written amendment to the participant’s SAR agreement will be required.
+Added: No amendment to a participant’s SAR
+Added: will be made to the extent compensation payable pursuant thereto as a result of such amendment would be considered deferred compensation
+Added: that is not excepted from taxation or penalties under Code Section 409A, unless otherwise determined by the Committee.
+Added: granted under the Plan are not transferable other than to a designated beneficiary upon the Participant’s death or by will
+Added: or the laws of descent and distribution.
+Added: otherwise provided in a SAR Agreement, notwithstanding any contrary provision in the Plan, in the event of a Change in Control
+Added: (as defined in the Plan), all outstanding SARs will become 100% vested and immediately and fully exercisable.
+Added: Board at any time, and from time to time, may amend or terminate the Plan.
+Added: The Committee at any time, and from time to time, may
+Added: amend the terms of any one or more SAR agreements, except that the Committee may not affect any amendment which would otherwise
+Added: constitute an impairment of the rights under any SAR unless the participant consents in writing.
+Added: of March 24, 2021, there were 127,629 SARs previously issued under the 2020 Plan.
believe that a combination of cash and equity compensation is appropriate to attract and retain the individuals we desire to serve
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and our executives both during and between formal meetings as well as compensate our directors for their time and effort.
−Removed: we believe it is important to align the long-term interests of our non-employee directors (i.e.
−Removed: directors who are not employed
−Removed: by us as officers or employees) with those of the Company and its stockholders, and that awarding equity compensation to, and
−Removed: thereby increasing ownership of our common stock by, our non-employee directors is an appropriate means to achieve this alignment.
+Added: we believe it is important to align the long-term interests of our non-employee directors (i.e., directors who are not
+Added: employed by us as officers or employees) with those of the Company and its stockholders, and that awarding equity compensation
+Added: to, and thereby increasing ownership of our common stock by, our non-employee directors is an appropriate means to achieve this
Directors who are also employees of our company do not receive compensation for their service on our Board of Directors.
−Removed: our director compensation program, each non-employee director received annual compensation of $27,000 and 5,000 shares
−Removed: of restricted common stock, which vested ratably each quarter.
+Added: our director compensation program for 2020, each non-employee director received annual compensation of $18,500, 2,500 shares
+Added: of restricted common stock, which is fully vested, and an option to purchase 25,000 shares of our common stock, which is also
+Added: fully vested.
+Added: Such grants were fully vested because the directors agreed to defer the payment of their cash compensation for
+Added: the first two quarters of 2020 as a cash saving measure.
In addition, the Chairperson of the Audit Committee received a $2,500
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All cash fees are paid quarterly.
−Removed: Also, each non-employee director may be reimbursed for his
−Removed: reasonable expenses incurred in the performance of his duties as a director as our Board of Directors determines from time to
−Removed: Our Compensation Committee periodically evaluates our director compensation program and determines whether any changes
−Removed: should be recommended to the Board.
−Removed: In that regard, while the foregoing director compensation program will continue for
−Removed: 2020, in February 2020, our directors agreed to defer the payment of their cash compensation for the first two quarters of
−Removed: 2020 as a cash saving measure, and to defer the issuance of shares of common stock.
+Added: Also, each non-employee director may be reimbursed for his reasonable
+Added: expenses incurred in the performance of his duties as a director as our Board of Directors determines from time to time.
+Added: Our Compensation
+Added: Committee periodically evaluates our director compensation program and determines whether any changes should be recommended to
+Added: In that regard, under our director compensation program for 2021, each non-employee director will receive a quarterly
+Added: cash payment of $2,500, and received a stock option to purchase 50,000 shares of our common stock, which option will vest ratably
+Added: each month through December 31, 2021 (26,000 of such shares will only be exercisable upon approval by the Company’s stockholders
+Added: at the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders of an increase in the aggregate number of shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock that may be issued or issuable under the Plan) .
following table sets forth certain information concerning the compensation paid to non-employee directors in 2020 for their services
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The compensation of Mr.
−Removed: Rice, who serves as a director and serves as our President and Chief Executive
+Added: Ruport, who serves as a director and serves as our President and Chief Executive
Officer, is described in the Summary Compensation Table of Executive Officers.
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Battinelli (2)
−Removed: Dennis Duitch (2)
−Removed: Frank Garofalo (3)
−Removed: Kent Summers (4)
fees shown were paid to Mr.
+Added: Rice for services as a non-employee director from May 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020.
+Added: 31, 2020, the Company issued 834 shares of the Company’s common stock to Mr.
+Added: Rice, pursuant to the Company’s 2013
+Added: Equity Incentive Plan, in connection with his service as a director, with such shares immediately vested.
+Added: Such shares were
+Added: valued at $2,243 or $2.69 per share.
+Added: Also on July 31, 2020, the Company granted Mr.
+Added: Rice an option to purchase
+Added: up to 25,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in connection with his service as a director.
+Added: The exercise price of
+Added: the option is equal to $2.69 per share, is fully vested, and had a grant date fair value of $54,366.
+Added: The compensation of Mr.
+Added: Rice for the period January 1, 2020 through April 30, 2020, during which time he served as President and Chief Executive officer
+Added: in addition to his service as a director, is described in the Summary Compensation Table of Executive Officers.
+Added: fees shown were paid to Mr.
Battinelli for services as a director.
−Removed: In January 2019, the Company issued 5,000 shares of the
+Added: On July 31, 2020, the Company issued 2,500 shares of the
Company’s common stock to Mr.
Battinelli, pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, in connection
−Removed: with his service as a director, with such shares to vest in four equal, successive quarterly installments.
−Removed: Such shares were
−Removed: valued at $75,000 or $15.00 per share.
+Added: with his service as a director, with such shares immediately vested.
+Added: Such shares were valued at $6,725 or $2.69
+Added: Also on July 31, 2020, the Company granted Mr.
+Added: Battinelli an option to purchase up to 25,000 shares of the
+Added: Company’s common stock in connection with his service as a director.
+Added: The exercise price of the option is equal to $2.69
+Added: per share, is fully vested, and had a grant date fair value of $54,366.
fees shown were paid to Mr.
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of the Audit Committee.
−Removed: In January 2019, the Company issued 5,000 shares of the Company’s common stock to Mr.
+Added: On July 31, 2020, the Company issued 2,500 shares of the Company’s common stock to Mr.
pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, in connection with his service as a director, with such shares
−Removed: to vest in four equal, successive quarterly installments.
+Added: immediately vested.
Such shares were valued at $6,725 or $2.69 per share.
+Added: Also on July 31, 2020, the Company
+Added: Duitch an option to purchase up to 25,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in connection with his service
+Added: as a director.
+Added: The exercise price of the option is equal to $2.69 per share, is fully vested, and had a grant date fair value
fees shown were paid to Mr.
Garofalo for services as a director.
−Removed: In January 2019, the Company issued 5,000 shares, of the
−Removed: Company’s common stock to Mr.
−Removed: Garofalo, pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, in connection with
−Removed: his service as a director, with such shares to vest in four equal, successive quarterly installments.
−Removed: Such shares were valued
−Removed: at $75,000 or $15.00 per share.
Garofalo resigned from the Board of Directors on February
fees shown were paid to Mr.
−Removed: Summers for services as a director, including $45,000 for his additional services as a director
−Removed: in his capacity as the Chairman of the Special Projects Committee.
−Removed: In January 2019, the Company issued 5,000 shares of the
−Removed: Company’s common stock to Mr.
−Removed: Summers, pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, in connection with
−Removed: his appointment and service as a director, with such shares to vest in four equal, successive quarterly installments.
−Removed: shares were valued at $75,000 or $15.00 per share.
−Removed: column represents the aggregate grant date fair value of stock awards computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718.
−Removed: amounts do not correspond to the actual value that will be recognized by the named directors from these awards.
+Added: Summers for services as a director.
+Added: On July 31, 2020, the Company issued 2,500 shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock to Mr.
+Added: Summers, pursuant to the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, in connection with his service as
+Added: a director, with such shares immediately vested.
+Added: Such shares were valued at $6,725 or $2.69 per share.
+Added: on July 31, 2020, the Company granted Mr.
+Added: Summers an option to purchase up to 25,000 shares of the Company’s common
+Added: stock in connection with his service as a director.
+Added: The exercise price of the option is equal to $2.69 per share, is fully
+Added: vested, and had a grant date fair value of $54,366.
+Added: columns represent the aggregate grant date fair value of stock awards and stock options computed in accordance with FASB ASC
+Added: These amounts do not correspond to the actual value that will be recognized by the named directors from these awards.
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
following table sets forth certain information regarding beneficial ownership of our common stock as of March 24, 2021
−Removed: (a) by each person known by us to own beneficially 5% or more of any class of our common stock, (b) by our named executive officers
−Removed: and each of our directors (and director nominees) and (c) by all executive officers and directors of the Company as a group.
+Added: (a) by each person known by us to own beneficially 5% or more of any class of our common stock, (b) by our named executive
+Added: officers and each of our directors (and director nominees) and (c) by all executive officers and directors of the Company as a
number of shares beneficially owned by each stockholder is determined in accordance with SEC rules.
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rights held by such person that are currently convertible or exercisable or will become convertible or exercisable within 60 days
−Removed: of March 24, 2020 are considered outstanding, although these shares are not considered outstanding for purposes of computing the
−Removed: percentage ownership of any other person.
−Removed: otherwise stated, the address of each 5% or greater beneficial holder is c/o Sigma Labs, Inc., 3900 Paseo del Sol, Santa Fe, New
−Removed: Mexico 87507.
−Removed: We believe, based on information provided to us, that each of the stockholders listed below has sole voting and
−Removed: investment power with respect to the shares beneficially owned by the stockholder unless noted otherwise, subject to community
−Removed: property laws where applicable.
−Removed: and Address of Beneficial Owner
+Added: of March 24, 2021 are considered outstanding, although these shares are not considered outstanding for purposes of computing
+Added: the percentage ownership of any other person.
+Added: of March 24, 2021, there are no 5% or greater beneficial holders
+Added: of our common shares.
+Added: We believe, based on information provided to us, that each of the stockholders listed below has sole
+Added: voting and investment power with respect to the shares beneficially owned by the stockholder unless noted otherwise, subject to
+Added: community property laws where applicable.
+Added: of Beneficial Owner
of Shares Beneficially Owned
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Executive Officers and Directors
−Removed: Ronald Fisher (2)
−Removed: Darren Beckett (3)
Battinelli (5)
executive officers and directors as a group (8 persons) (8)
−Removed: or Greater Stockholders
−Removed: 41,500 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 upon the exercise of outstanding stock options.
−Removed: 5,183 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 upon the exercise of outstanding stock options.
−Removed: 5,794 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 upon the exercise of outstanding stock options
−Removed: 3,084 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 pursuant to the conversion of shares of the
−Removed: Company’s Series E Preferred Stock.
+Added: 4,000 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise of outstanding stock
+Added: (a) 13,406 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the
+Added: exercise of outstanding stock options;
+Added: (b) 6,166 shares that may be acquired now or within
+Added: 60 days of March 24, 2021 pursuant to the conversion of the shares of the Company’s
+Added: Series E Preferred Stock;
+Added: and (c) 4,855 shares that may be acquired now or within 60
+Added: days of March 24, 2021 upon exercise of outstanding Class A Warrants.
+Added: 1,655 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise of outstanding stock
+Added: 1,944 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise of outstanding stock
(a) 4,000 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise of outstanding stock
−Removed: and (b) 6,166 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 pursuant to the conversion
−Removed: of the shares of the Company’s Series E Preferred Stock.
+Added: options, (b) 3,127 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 pursuant to the conversion of shares
+Added: of the Company’s Series E Preferred Stock, and (c) 2,428 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March
+Added: 24, 2021 upon exercise of outstanding Class A Warrants.
+Added: 4,000 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise
+Added: of outstanding stock options.
4,000 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise of outstanding stock options.
−Removed: and 12,334 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 pursuant to the conversion of the shares
−Removed: of the Company’s Series E Preferred Stock.
−Removed: 49,321 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 20, 2020 pursuant to the conversion of the Company’s
−Removed: Series E Preferred Stock The address of Carl I.
−Removed: Schwartz is 3750 Las Vegas Blvd.
−Removed: South, Apartment 4303, Las Vegas, Nevada,
+Added: 34,463 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 upon the exercise of outstanding
+Added: stock options and 9,293 shares that may be acquired now or within 60 days of March 24, 2021 pursuant to the
+Added: conversion of the shares of the Company’s Series E Preferred Stock.
Compensation Plan Information
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of Securities to be Issued Upon Exercise of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights
−Removed: Weighted-average
−Removed: Exercise Price of Outstanding Options, Warrants and Rights
+Added: Outstanding Options,
of Securities Remaining Available for Future Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans (Excluding Securities Reflected in Column
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As of December 31, 2020,
−Removed: the Company issued an aggregate of 50,886 shares of the Company’s common stock, as well as options to purchase up to 180,903
−Removed: shares of the Company’s common stock, some of which are subject to vesting restrictions, pursuant to the Company’s
−Removed: 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
−Removed: On July 18, 2018, an amendment to our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan was approved by holders of at least
−Removed: a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, to increase the number of shares of our common
−Removed: stock subject to the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan to 240,000.
+Added: the Company issued an aggregate of 74,237 shares of the Company’s common stock, as well as options to purchase up
+Added: to 713,010 shares of the Company’s common stock, some of which are subject to vesting restrictions, pursuant to the
+Added: Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.
+Added: On June 15, 2020, an amendment to our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan was approved
+Added: by holders of at least a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, to increase the number
+Added: of shares of our common stock subject to the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan to 890,000.
+Added: On June 23, 2020, our Board of Directors adopted the Sigma Labs, Inc.
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan (the “Plan”).
+Added: The purposes of the Plan are to:
+Added: (i) enable the Company to attract and retain the types of employees, consultants, and directors
+Added: who will contribute to the Company’s long-range success;
+Added: (ii) provide incentives that align the interests of Service Providers
+Added: with those of the shareholders of the Company;
+Added: and (iii) promote the success of the Company’s business.
+Added: The Plan only provides
+Added: for incentive awards that are only made in the form of stock appreciation rights payable in cash (“SARs”).
+Added: of common stock were reserved in connection with the adoption of the Plan since no shares will be issued pursuant to the Plan.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, the Company issued an aggregate of 127,679 SARs pursuant to the Plan.
Equity Compensation
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In connection
−Removed: with our January 27, 2020 private placement of equity securities, we issued Dawson James a warrant to purchase up to 17,004
−Removed: shares of common stock at an initial exercise price of $11.30.
+Added: with our January 27, 2020 private placement of equity securities, we issued Dawson James a warrant to purchase up to 17,004 shares
+Added: of common stock at an initial exercise price of $11.30.
+Added: During 2020, we issued Dawson James additional warrants to purchase
+Added: up to 21,870 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $11.70 per share in connection with the exercise of Series D Preferred
+Added: Warrants by certain institutional investors,
+Added: January 8, 2021, we entered into an underwriting agreement with H.C.
+Added: Wainwright & Co., for which compensation has been paid
+Added: with equity securities that have been previously disclosed in our filings with the SEC, including warrants issued in January 2021
+Added: to purchase up to 146,943 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $3.75 per share.
August 5, 2019 we entered into an agreement with MHZCI, LLC to provide investor relations services to the Company.
−Removed: the terms of the agreement, as partial compensation for services to be rendered 5,000 shares of common stock of the Company are
−Removed: to be issued to MHZCI, LLC as follows (1) 2,500 shares on or before the 10th day following the Effective Date of the agreement,
−Removed: and (2) 2,500 shares on or before the 10th day following the six month anniversary of the agreement, if the agreement is still
−Removed: then in effect.
+Added: the terms of the agreement, as partial compensation for services to be rendered 5,000 shares of common stock of the Company were
+Added: issued to MHZCI, LLC as follows (1) 2,500 shares on or before the 10th day following the Effective Date of the agreement,
+Added: and (2) 2,500 shares on or before the 10th day following the six-month anniversary of the agreement, if the agreement is
+Added: still then in effect.
Accordingly, on August 15, 2019 the Company issued 2,500 shares of common stock to MHZCI, LLC, and on February
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agreed to issue to Iron Dome Ventures LLC each month, beginning on the Effective Date, and subsequently on the 18th of each month
−Removed: during the term of the agreement, a warrant to purchase 833 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of
+Added: during the first three months of the agreement, a warrant to purchase 833 shares of the Company’s common stock at
+Added: an exercise price of $0.10.
+Added: Effective November 18, 2020, we entered into a new six-month contract with Iron Dome Ventures,
+Added: LLC in which we granted 13,500 Stock Appreciation Rights, payable in cash only, with an exercise price of $2.47 per share.
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE
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with Directors and Officers
−Removed: August 8, 2017, we engaged Garofalo & Associates, LLC, a limited liability company owned and controlled by Mr.
−Removed: former director of the Company, to provide services to the Company as corporate development consultant and financial advisor.
−Removed: Under the engagement letter agreement, Garofalo & Associates, LLC, is entitled to receive in consideration for its services
−Removed: a monthly retainer of $3,000 in cash during the term of the engagement (the engagement may be terminated by both parties upon
−Removed: 30 days’
−Removed: written notice), and (i) 10,500 shares of common stock of the Company upon the closing of an acquisition by the
−Removed: Company of all or substantially all of the equity or assets (or a controlling interest therein) (the “Closing”) with
−Removed: respect to a specified entity (the value of such shares would have been $238,350 if such shares would have been issued on August
−Removed: 8, 2017, based on a closing price per share of $22.70 on such date), and (ii) 7,500 shares of common stock of the Company upon
−Removed: the Closing with respect to at least one of two other specified entities (the value of such shares would have been $170,250 if
−Removed: such shares would have been issued on August 8, 2017, based on a closing price per share of $22.70 on such date).
−Removed: As of the date
−Removed: of this Annual Report, there are no agreements with respect to the acquisition by the Company of any third party, and there can
−Removed: be no assurance that any agreements will be entered into or, if entered into, that any acquisition or other transaction will be
−Removed: December 3, 2019, we entered into an employment letter agreement with Mark Ruport, effective as of December 3, 2019 (the “Effective
−Removed: Date”), pursuant to which Mr.
−Removed: Ruport has agreed to serve as our Executive Chairman on an “at-will”
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: Ruport was appointed to serve as a member of our Board of Directors, effective as of December 3, 2019, with a term expiring
−Removed: at the 2021 annual meeting of stockholders.
−Removed: Under the employment
−Removed: letter agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport is entitled to (i) an annual base salary of $155,000 (such base salary is not subject to decrease,
−Removed: but may be increased in the discretion of the Company’s Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors based on annual
−Removed: or special case assessments of Mr.
−Removed: Ruport’s performance and other factors), (ii) all benefits that we elect in our sole
−Removed: discretion to provide from time to time to our other executive officers, and (iii) a grant of (1) a five-year stock option to
−Removed: purchase up to 10,000 shares of common stock of the Company, which will have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the
−Removed: Company’s common stock on the Effective Date, and will vest and become exercisable in full on the first month’s anniversary
−Removed: of the Effective Date, and (2) a five-year stock option to purchase up to 40,000 shares of common stock of the Company, which
−Removed: will have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the Effective Date, and will vest
−Removed: and become exercisable in equal (as closely as possible) monthly installments over three years from the Effective Date, provided,
−Removed: in each case, that Mr.
−Removed: Ruport remains an employee of the Company through such vesting date.
−Removed: options will be on such other terms and provisions as are contained in the Company’s standard form nonqualified stock option
−Removed: provided, however, that (x) upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the employment letter agreement),
−Removed: any unvested portion of the options as of the date of such Change of Control will immediately and automatically vest;
−Removed: however, that, the options may be assumed or, in the discretion of the Board of Directors, an equivalent option may be substituted
−Removed: by an applicable successor corporation or any subsidiary of the successor corporation in connection with a Change of Control),
−Removed: and (y) in the event that the Board of Directors determines that Mr.
−Removed: Ruport is unable to perform his duties as the Company’s
−Removed: Executive Chairman due to an accident, illness or other event or condition which physically or mentally incapacitates him for
−Removed: a period of 45 consecutive days (“Disability”), if he ceases to be employed by the Company as a result of a Disability,
−Removed: the options will continue to vest and remain exercisable for the 5-year term of the options in accordance with the terms of the
−Removed: option agreements.
−Removed: Additionally,
−Removed: during the term of his employment, Mr.
−Removed: Ruport will be eligible to receive one or more bonuses relating to each fiscal year in
−Removed: recognition of his achievement of individual and Company goals established by the Board of Directors from time to time.
−Removed: the decision to provide any such bonuses and the amount and terms of any such bonuses will be in the sole discretion of the Board
−Removed: of Directors.
have entered into an “at will”
−Removed: employment agreement,
−Removed: effective as of July 1, 2019, with Frank Orzechowski under which he was engaged to serve as our Chief Financial
−Removed: Officer, Treasurer, Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Secretary of the Company.
−Removed: Orzechowski is entitled to receive
−Removed: an annual base salary of $135,000.
−Removed: Pursuant to the employment agreement, Mr.
−Removed: Orzechowski was granted (1) a stock option to purchase
−Removed: up to 250 shares of common stock of the Company, at an exercise price equal to $14.00 per share, which was the closing market
−Removed: price of the Company’s common stock on July 1, 2019 (i.e., the Effective Date), and (2) to purchase up to 6,000 shares of
−Removed: common stock of the Company, with an exercise price of $14.00, and will vest and become exercisable as follows:
−Removed: 387 shares will
−Removed: vest and become exercisable on the one-year anniversary of the Effective Date, 900 shares will vest and become exercisable on
−Removed: the second-year anniversary of the Effective Date, 1,413 shares will vest and become exercisable on the third-year anniversary
−Removed: of the Effective Date, and 3,300 shares will vest and become exercisable on the fourth-year anniversary of the Effective Date,
−Removed: provided, in each case, that Mr.
−Removed: Orzechowski remains an employee of the Company through such vesting dates.
−Removed: is eligible to participate in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, and is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits,
−Removed: life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, and to participate in the Company’s Section 125 cafeteria plan,
−Removed: vision plan and 401K plan.
−Removed: On February 19, 2020 the Company increased Mr.
−Removed: Orzechowski’s annual base salary to $155,000 effective
−Removed: March 1, 2020.
−Removed: On January 27, 2020 the Company entered into a Securities Purchase
−Removed: Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain of its directors (Mark K.
−Removed: Ruport, Salvatore Battinelli and Frank Garofalo, a former
−Removed: director) and Carl Schwartz, the Company’s largest shareholder.
−Removed: Pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued and sold 333.33 shares
−Removed: of the Company’s Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series E Preferred Stock”), and Class A Warrants
−Removed: to purchase 48,544 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Common Warrants”) for a total gross purchase price
−Removed: The Series E Preferred Stock is initially convertible into 48,544 shares of Common Stock, and the Class A Warrants
−Removed: have an initial exercise price of $11.30 per share.
+Added: employment agreement, effective as of July 1, 2019, with Frank Orzechowski under which
+Added: he was engaged to serve as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, Principal Accounting Officer and Corporate Secretary of the
+Added: Orzechowski’s employment agreement, he was entitled to receive an annual base salary of $135,000, which
+Added: was increased to $155,000 effective March 1, 2020, and which was increased to $180,000 on January 1, 2021.
+Added: Pursuant to the employment
+Added: agreement, Mr.
+Added: Orzechowski was granted (1) a stock option to purchase up to 250 shares of common stock of the Company, at an exercise
+Added: price equal to $14.00 per share, which was the closing market price of the Company’s common stock on July 1, 2019 (i.e.,
+Added: the Effective Date), and (2) to purchase up to 6,000 shares of common stock of the Company, with an exercise price of $14.00,
+Added: and will vest and become exercisable as follows:
+Added: 387 shares vested and became exercisable on the one-year anniversary of the Effective
+Added: Date, 900 shares will vest and become exercisable on the second-year anniversary of the Effective Date, 1,413 shares will vest
+Added: and become exercisable on the third-year anniversary of the Effective Date, and 3,300 shares will vest and become exercisable
+Added: on the fourth-year anniversary of the Effective Date, provided, in each case, that Mr.
+Added: Orzechowski remains an employee of the
+Added: Company through such vesting dates.
+Added: Orzechowski is eligible to participate in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive
+Added: Plan, and is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits, life insurance, short and long-term disability coverage, and to
+Added: participate in the Company’s Section 125 cafeteria plan, vision plan and 401K plan.
+Added: January 27, 2020, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain of its
+Added: directors (Mark K.
+Added: Ruport, Salvatore Battinelli and Frank Garofalo, a former director) and Carl Schwartz, who was the Company’s
+Added: largest shareholder.
+Added: Pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued and sold 333.33 shares of the Company’s Series E Convertible
+Added: Preferred Stock (the “Series E Preferred Stock”), and Class A Warrants to purchase 48,544 shares of the Company’s
+Added: Common Stock (the “Common Warrants”) for a total gross purchase price of $500,000.
+Added: The Series E Preferred Stock is
+Added: initially convertible into 48,544 shares of Common Stock (61,651 shares of common stock including the “make-whole dividend),
+Added: and the Class A Warrants have an initial exercise price of $11.30 per share.
Indemnification
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PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTING FEES AND SERVICES
−Removed: Audit Committee has approved Haynie & Company (“H&C”) to continue as our independent registered public accounting
−Removed: firm to audit our financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019.
−Removed: the Company’s two most recent fiscal years, neither we nor anyone acting on our behalf consulted with H&C regarding
−Removed: either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed, or the type of audit
−Removed: opinion that might be rendered on our financial statements, and neither a written report nor oral advice was provided to the Company
−Removed: that H&C concluded was an important factor considered by the Company in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing
−Removed: or financial reporting issue, or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv)
−Removed: of Regulation S-K and the related instructions to Item 304 of Regulation S-K) or a reportable event (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v)
−Removed: of Regulation S-K).
−Removed: Paid to the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
−Removed: following table sets forth fees billed with respect to the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018:
+Added: following is a summary of the fees billed to the Company by Haynie & Company for professional services rendered
+Added: with respect to the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019:
the above table, in accordance with the SEC’s definitions and rules, “audit fees”
are fees that Sigma Labs,
−Removed: paid for professional services for the audit of our financial statements included in our Form 10-K and for services that
−Removed: are normally provided by the registered public accounting firm in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements;
+Added: paid for professional services for the audit of our financial statements included in our Form 10-K and review of the interim
+Added: financial statements included in quarterly reports, and for services that are normally provided by the registered public accounting
+Added: firm in connection with statutory and regulatory filings or engagements;
“audit-related fees”
−Removed: are fees for assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of
−Removed: the audit or review of our financial statements;
−Removed: and “tax fees”
+Added: are fees for assurance
+Added: and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of our financial statements;
+Added: and “tax
are fees for tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning.
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exhibits previously have been filed with the SEC and are incorporated herein by reference.
−Removed: Placement Agency Agreement, dated as of March 13, 2019, between Sigma Labs, Inc.
−Removed: and Dawson James Securities, Inc.
−Removed: (filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed March 14, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Underwriting Agreement, dated July 30, 2019, by and among Sigma Labs, Inc.
−Removed: and Aegis Capital Corp.
−Removed: acting as the representative of the several underwriters named on Schedule I thereto (filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed August 1, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended (previously filed by the Company as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Form 10-K, filed on April 1, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Agreement, dated January 8, 2021, by and among Sigma Labs, Inc.
+Added: Wainwright & Co., LLC, as the representative
+Added: for the underwriters named therein (filed as Exhibit 1.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January
+Added: 12, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation of the Company, as amended .**
of Correction to Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, as filed with the Nevada Secretary of State on May 25, 2011
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2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Certificate of Change Pursuant to NRS 78.209.
−Removed: (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 28, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: of Change Pursuant to NRS 78.209.
+Added: (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed February 28,
+Added: 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
of Designation of Rights, Preference and Privileges of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s
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Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 26, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Certificate of Designations (Series D Convertible Preferred Stock) (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 30, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Certificate of Designations (Series EA Convertible Preferred Stock) (filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 30, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as amended (filed as Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Form 10-Q filed November 14, 2017,
−Removed: for the period ended September 30, 2017, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: of Designations (Series D Convertible Preferred Stock) (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
+Added: 8-K filed on January 30, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: of Designations (Series E Convertible Preferred Stock) (filed as Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Current Report on Form
+Added: 8-K filed January 30, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company, as amended .**
of Common Stock Purchase Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed April 6, 2018,
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incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant.(filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 8, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Form of Placement Agent Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 8, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Form of Institutional Common Warrant ( filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 30, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Form of Preferred Warrant ( filed as Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 30, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: of Common Stock Purchase Warrant.(filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 8, 2019,
+Added: and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: of Placement Agent Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 8, 2019, and
+Added: incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: of Institutional Common Warrant (filed as Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 30,
+Added: 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
Form of Class A Warrant(filed as Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 30, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrants (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed April 3, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Form of Underwriter Common Stock Purchase Warrant (filed as Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 12, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Form of Warrant to Purchase Common Stock (filed as Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 12, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
Description of Securities.
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Registration Statement on Form S-1, filed on July 28, 2016, and incorporated herein by reference).*
−Removed: of unwritten Employment Agreement between Sigma Labs, Inc.
−Removed: and John Rice entered into on August 8, 2017 (filed as Exhibit
−Removed: 10.2 to the Company’s Form 10-Q, filed on November 14, 2017, for the period ended September 30, 2017, and incorporated
−Removed: herein by reference).*
1, dated September 18, 2017, to Employment Offer Letter Agreement, effective August 10, 2015, between Sigma Labs, Inc.
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Form 10-Q, filed on November 14, 2018, for the period ended September 30, 2018, and incorporated herein by reference).*
−Removed: Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 7, 2019, between the Company and the Purchaser (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 8, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Employment letter agreement, effective as of July 1, 2019, between the Company and Frank D.
−Removed: (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference) *
−Removed: 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, of Sigma Labs, Inc.
−Removed: (previously filed by the Company as Annex A to the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on June 18, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).*
−Removed: Employment letter agreement, effective as of December 3, 2020, between the Company and Mark Ruport.***
+Added: Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 7, 2019, between the Company and the Purchaser (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s
+Added: Current Report on Form 8-K filed May 8, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: letter agreement, effective as of July 1, 2019, between the Company and Frank D.
+Added: (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the
+Added: Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed August 14, 2019, and incorporated herein by reference) *
+Added: Sigma Labs, Inc.
+Added: 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, as Amended (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 19, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Employment letter agreement, effective as of December 3, 2020, between the Company and Mark Ruport (filed by the Company as Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Form 10-K, filed on March 24, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).*
Securities Purchase Agreement (Institutional Investors) (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 27, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Registration Rights Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 27, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Securities Purchase Agreement (Other Investors) ( filed as Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 27, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Private Placement Agreement ( filed as Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 27, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
−Removed: Form of Limited Waiver ( filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed February 4, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Rights Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 27, 2020, and incorporated
+Added: herein by reference).
+Added: Purchase Agreement (Other Investors) (filed as Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January
+Added: 27, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Placement Agreement (filed as Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, filed January 27, 2020, and
+Added: incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 2, 2020, between the Company and Purchasers (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed April 3, 2020, and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Sigma Labs, Inc.
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 29, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).*
+Added: Form of Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement (Employees;
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan) (filed as Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 29, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).*
+Added: Form of Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement (Non-employee Directors;
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation Rights Plan) (filed as Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed June 29, 2020 and incorporated herein by reference).
+Added: Form of Waiver (filed as Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January 12, 2021, and incorporated herein by reference).
of Haynie & Company.**
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may voluntarily include a summary of information required by Form 10-K under this Item 16.
−Removed: We have elected not to include
−Removed: such summary information.
+Added: We have elected not to include such
+Added: summary information.
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report
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We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
+Added: Audit Matters
+Added: critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was
+Added: communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that:
+Added: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material
+Added: to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments.
+Added: The communication of
+Added: the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not,
+Added: by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matter or on the accounts
+Added: or disclosures to which it relates.
+Added: Recognition –
+Added: Multiple Deliverables in Revenue Contracts
+Added: of the Matter:
+Added: discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, Sigma Labs, Inc.’s revenue is derived primarily from the sale of software,
+Added: the related hardware suite, and engineering services.
+Added: The Company’s contracts with customers typically include the promise
+Added: to transfer multiple goods and/or services to the customer.
+Added: Management must assess whether each promised good or service is distinct
+Added: for the purpose of identifying the performance obligations within the contract and must then determine and allocate the transaction
+Added: price to the performance obligations.
+Added: This assessment can be subjective and requires management to make judgments about the individual
+Added: promised goods or services and whether such goods or services are separable and distinct from the other aspects of the contractual
+Added: relationship.
+Added: management’s assessment and recognition of revenue can be complex, involves judgment, and is based on a thorough understanding
+Added: of the Company’s offerings.
+Added: we Addressed the Matter in Our Audit:
+Added: obtained a thorough understanding of the controls the Company has in place to perform this assessment including walk-throughs
+Added: of the key controls and analysis of whether the controls are designed and operating effectively.
+Added: To evaluate Sigma Labs Inc.’s
+Added: assessment of performance obligations and allocation of price, our audit procedures included, among others, reading and evaluating
+Added: management’s assumptions used to determine the distinct performance obligations and price allocations.
+Added: We compared the stand-alone
+Added: price for each performance obligation to the allocated prices to ensure the allocation was reasonable.
+Added: We also obtained confirmations
+Added: from customers verifying the terms of the contracts.
Haynie & Company
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Receivable, net
−Removed: Receivable, net
Current Assets
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Current Liabilities
−Removed: & Contingencies
+Added: Appreciation Rights
+Added: Act Deferred Payroll Taxes
+Added: Long-Term Liabilities
Stockholders’
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10,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: none issued and outstanding
+Added: 715 and 0 issued and outstanding, respectively
Stock, $0.001 par;
−Removed: 2,250,000 shares authorized;
+Added: 12,000,000 authorized;
5,995,320 and 1,403,759 issued and outstanding, respectively
Paid-In Capital
−Removed: (26,095,594 )
−Removed: (19,774,745 )
Stockholders’
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& Public Relations
+Added: Organizational
& Professional Service Fees
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INCOME (EXPENSE)
−Removed: Bad Debt Expense
Rate Gain (Loss)
−Removed: on Disposal of Assets
+Added: on Dissolution of Joint Venture
Other Income (Expense)
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for Income Taxes
−Removed: $ (6,320,849 )
−Removed: $ (5,574,163 )
Loss applicable to Common Stockholders
−Removed: $ (6,320,849 )
−Removed: $ (5,589,288 )
Loss per Common Share - Basic and Diluted
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The Years Ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
+Added: Shares Outstanding
+Added: Shares Outstanding
+Added: Paid-in Capital
December 31, 2018
$ (19,774,745 )
−Removed: issued for services –
−Removed: net of forfeitures
−Removed: and warrants sold in public offering, net of offering costs
−Removed: preferred shares sold
−Removed: issued for conversion of preferred
−Removed: Shares issued
−Removed: from exercise of warrants
−Removed: issued for note & accrued interest conversion
−Removed: issued for cashless exchange of warrants
−Removed: dividends paid upon conversion
−Removed: based compensation
−Removed: Balance December
−Removed: $ (19,774,745 )
−Removed: issued for services –
−Removed: net of forfeitures
−Removed: and warrants sold in public offering, net of offering costs
−Removed: issued for services
−Removed: sold in PIPE, net of offering costs
−Removed: Shares issued
−Removed: from exercise of warrants
+Added: and Warrants Issued in Public Offering
+Added: Issued for Exercise of Warrants
Proceeds in Public Offering
−Removed: issued for cashless exchange of unit purchase options
−Removed: based compensation
+Added: Issued for Cashless Exchange of UPO’s
+Added: Sold in Private Placement
+Added: Issued to Directors for Services
+Added: Issued for Third Party Services
+Added: Awarded to Employees
December 31, 2019
$ (26,095,594 )
+Added: Shares Sold in Public Offering
+Added: Shares Sold in Public Offering
+Added: Stock Dividends
+Added: Shares Issued for Conversion of Preferred Shares
+Added: Shares Issued for Conversion of Series D Prefunded Warrants
+Added: Shares issued for Exercise of Preferred Warrants
+Added: Issued to Directors for Services
+Added: Issued for Third Party Services
+Added: Awarded to Employees
+Added: of Fractional Shares from Reverse Split
+Added: December 31, 2020
+Added: (33,105,008 )
accompanying notes to financial statements
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of Cash Flows
−Removed: $ (6,320,849 )
−Removed: $ (5,574,163 )
to reconcile Net Loss to Net Cash used in operating activities:
and Amortization
−Removed: Based Compensation
−Removed: Issued for Third Party Services
−Removed: Issued for Third Party Services
−Removed: on Write-off of Asset
+Added: Based Compensation - Employees
+Added: Based Compensation - Third Party Services
+Added: Based Compensation - Directors
in assets and liabilities:
+Added: portion of Stock Appreciation Rights
+Added: Term portion of Deferred
+Added: Payroll Taxes under the CARES Act
CASH USED IN OPERATING ACTIVITIES
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Received from Notes Receivable
−Removed: CASH PROVIDED BY (USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance of Convertible Preferred and Warrants
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance of Common Stock and Warrants
+Added: of Joint Venture
+Added: CASH USED IN INVESTING ACTIVITIES
+Added: Proceeds from Public and Private Issuances of Securities
Offering Costs
+Added: of Note Payable
from Exercise of Warrants
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investing and financing activities disclosure:
−Removed: of Convertible Debt for Stock
−Removed: Stock Issued for Conversion of Series B&C Preferred
−Removed: Stock Issued for Cashless Exchange of Warrants
−Removed: Stock Issued for Cashless Exchange of Unit Purchase Options
+Added: of Common Shares for Preferred Dividends
+Added: of Cash Received for:
+Added: of Preferred Stock for Exercise of Preferred Warrants
noncash operating activities disclosure:
−Removed: of Common Stock and Warrants for services
+Added: of Securities for services
of cash paid for:
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refer to Sigma Labs, Inc.
−Removed: Reverse Stock Split
−Removed: - Effective February 27, 2020, our Articles of Incorporation were amended to provide for a reverse stock split of the outstanding
−Removed: shares of our common stock on a 1-for-10 basis (the “Reverse Stock Split”), and a corresponding decrease in the number
−Removed: of shares of our common stock that we are authorized to issue (the “Share Decrease”).
−Removed: The effects of the stock split
−Removed: have been retroactively reflected to all periods presented.
+Added: Stock Split - Effective February 27, 2020, our Articles of Incorporation were amended to provide for a reverse stock split
+Added: of the outstanding shares of our common stock on a 1-for-10 basis (the “Reverse Stock Split”), and a corresponding
+Added: decrease in the number of shares of our common stock that we are authorized to issue (the “Share Decrease”).
+Added: of the stock split have been retroactively reflected to all periods presented.
of Presentation –
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cash flows at December 31, 2020 and 2019 and for the periods then ended have been made.
−Removed: Continuing Operations
+Added: Operations –
The Company has sustained losses and had negative cash flows from operating activities since its inception.
−Removed: in 2017, the company committed itself to a focused initiative to transition its product and its company culture from research
−Removed: and development into an enterprise with a commercial industrial product and a business-oriented operation culture.
−Removed: 2019, the Company relied on both public and private offerings to finance the commencement of commercialization by entering test
−Removed: and evaluation programs with large potential customers, both end-users and OEMs.
−Removed: On March 15, 2019, the Company closed a public
−Removed: offering of equity securities resulting in net proceeds of approximately $1,679,230, after deducting placement agent commissions
−Removed: and other offering expenses payable by the Company.
−Removed: In May 2019, the Company closed a private placement of equity securities resulting
−Removed: in net proceeds of approximately $515,000, after deducting placement agent commissions and other offering expenses payable by
−Removed: In August 2019, the Company closed a public offering of equity securities resulting in net proceeds of approximately
−Removed: $1,971,000, after deducting placement agent commissions and other offering expenses payable by the Company.
−Removed: In September 2019,
−Removed: Aegis Capital Corp.
−Removed: partially exercised its over-allotment option granted by the Company in the foregoing August 2019 public offering
−Removed: resulting in net proceeds of $148,800 after deducting placement agent commissions.
−Removed: The transition
−Removed: from 2018 and 2019 led into 2020 such that the continuing operations of the Company are no longer dependent upon financing the
−Removed: cost of product development in the absence of revenues, but rather now upon our abilities to finance our efforts to successfully
−Removed: ramp up commercialization, thus earning the product validation of both customer licensing and purchases and creating a dynamic
−Removed: in which public and private offerings facilitate the growth of revenues, thus attracting investor support for continuing investment
−Removed: even as the revenues begin the reduction of the company’s dependence on capital raises over time.
−Removed: In January 2020, the
−Removed: Company closed two private placements of equity securities resulting in net proceeds of approximately $1,711,124
−Removed: after deducting placement agent commissions and other offering expenses payable by the Company.
−Removed: As a result, the Company currently has
−Removed: sufficient cash and working capital to fund operations through the end of the first quarter of 2020 and is anticipating that contracts
−Removed: may be closed during fiscal 2020 generating additional cash flow in the near-term.
−Removed: In addition, the Company has access
−Removed: to public and private markets from which to derive additional financing to sustain operations beyond that term, if required;
−Removed: however the Company is unable to predict the extent to which the novel coronavirus may affect the financial markets and the Company’s
−Removed: access to such markets.
−Removed: There is no assurance that we will be successful in obtaining additional funding.
−Removed: If we fail to obtain
−Removed: sufficient funding when needed, we may be forced to delay, scale back or eliminate all or a portion of our commercialization efforts
−Removed: and operations.
+Added: Commencing in 2017, the company committed itself to a focused initiative to transition its product and its company culture from
+Added: research and development into an enterprise with a commercial industrial product and a business-oriented operation culture.
+Added: 2020, the Company relied on both public and private offerings to finance the commencement of commercialization by entering
+Added: test and evaluation programs with large potential customers, both end-users and OEMs.
+Added: In January 2020, we completed two private
+Added: placements consisting of shares of our newly created Series D and Series E Preferred Stock, warrants to purchase additional shares
+Added: of Series D Preferred Stock and warrants to purchase shares of our Common Stock resulting in net cash proceeds to us of approximately
+Added: On March 27, 2020, pursuant to the terms of the Agreement, we forced the exercise of a portion of the warrants to
+Added: purchase our Series D Preferred Stock which resulted in net cash proceeds to the Company of $460,000.
+Added: On April 6, 2020, the Company
+Added: closed an offering of equity securities in which the Company sold and issued to certain institutional investors (a) 493,027 shares
+Added: of the Company’s common stock (the “Common Shares”) and pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-funded Warrants”)
+Added: to purchase up to 22,438 shares of the Company’s common stock, and (b) Series A Warrants (the “Private Warrants”)
+Added: to purchase an aggregate of 515,465 shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to a private placement resulting in net
+Added: proceeds of approximately $1,230,000.
+Added: On April 14, 2020 we were granted a loan from BOKF, NA dba Bank of Oklahoma in the aggregate
+Added: amount of $361,700, pursuant to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “
+Added: ) under Division A, Title
+Added: I of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (the “
+Added: CARES Act ”
+Added: ), which was enacted March
+Added: The Company used the entire loan proceeds to fund payroll expenses, and as such, the loan was forgiven in full on January
+Added: During 2020, 6,146 Series D Preferred Warrants were exercised by institutional investors, resulting in net proceeds
+Added: to the company of 5,820,998.
+Added: In January 2021, the Company closed a public offering of our common stock resulting in net proceeds
+Added: of approximately $4,532,444 after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by the
+Added: continuing operations of the Company are no longer solely dependent upon financing the cost of product development in the absence
+Added: of revenues, but rather upon our abilities to finance our efforts to successfully ramp up commercialization, thus earning the
+Added: product validation of both customer licensing and purchases and creating a dynamic in which public and private offerings facilitate
+Added: the growth of revenues.
+Added: a result, the Company currently has sufficient cash and working capital to fund operations through the end of 2021 and
+Added: is anticipating that contracts may be closed during fiscal 2021 generating additional cash flow in the near-term.
+Added: the Company has access to public and private markets from which to derive additional financing to sustain operations beyond that
+Added: term, if required;
+Added: however, the Company is unable to predict the extent to which the novel coronavirus may affect the financial
+Added: markets and the Company’s access to such markets.
+Added: There is no assurance that we will be successful in obtaining additional
+Added: If we fail to obtain sufficient funding when needed, we may be forced to delay, scale back or eliminate all or a portion
+Added: of our commercialization efforts and operations.
Per Share –
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At December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company had the following common shares underlying these instruments:
−Removed: Year Ended December 31,
−Removed: Stock Options
−Removed: Convertible Note Payable
−Removed: Total Underlying Common Shares
+Added: Ended December 31,
+Added: Stock Warrants
+Added: Underlying Common Shares
and Equipment –
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The Company continuously evaluates the recoverability of its long-lived assets based on estimated future
−Removed: cash flows and the estimated liquidation value of such long-lived assets, and provides for impairment if such undiscounted cash
−Removed: flows are insufficient to recover the carrying amount of the long-lived assets.
−Removed: If impairment exists, an adjustment is made to
−Removed: write the asset down to its fair value, and a loss is recorded as the difference between the carrying value and fair value.
−Removed: values are determined based on quoted market values, discounted cash flows or internal and external appraisals, as applicable.
+Added: cash flows and the estimated liquidation value of such long-lived assets and provides for impairment if such undiscounted
+Added: cash flows are insufficient to recover the carrying amount of the long-lived assets.
+Added: If impairment exists, an adjustment is made
+Added: to write the asset down to its fair value, and a loss is recorded as the difference between the carrying value and fair value.
+Added: Fair values are determined based on quoted market values, discounted cash flows or internal and external appraisals, as applicable.
Assets to be disposed of are carried at the lower of carrying value or estimated net realizable value.
−Removed: $50,255 of dental patents
−Removed: were written off in January of 2018, and $23,909 of patents related to PrintRite3D ®
−Removed: Contour were written off in
−Removed: December of 2019.
+Added: No patents were written
+Added: off in 2020, and $23,909 of patents related to PrintRite3D ®
+Added: Contour were written off in December of 2019.
Equivalents - The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less at date
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components which will be sold to customers.
−Removed: Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value, using
−Removed: the first-in, first-out (FIFO) method.
+Added: Inventories are valued at the lower of cost or net realizable value, using the first-in,
+Added: first-out (FIFO) method.
and Development –
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the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 were $351,404 and $647,994, respectively.
−Removed: 2 - Notes Receivable
−Removed: On May 1, 2017, the Company made a loan
−Removed: in the principal amount of $250,000 to Jaguar Precision Machine, LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company (“Jaguar”),
−Removed: pursuant to a Secured Convertible Promissory Note dated May 1, 2017 delivered by Jaguar to the Company.
−Removed: The loan bears interest
−Removed: at the rate of 7% per annum, was originally due and payable in full on August 1, 2018, is secured by certain assets of Jaguar,
−Removed: and is convertible at the Company’s option into 10% of the outstanding shares of the common stock of Jaguar unless Jaguar
−Removed: exercises its right under specified circumstances to repay all principal and accrued interest on the loan.
−Removed: On June 15, 2018, the
−Removed: Company received a $150,000 payment from Jaguar, $17,803 of which was applied to accumulated interest through that date and $132,197
−Removed: was applied to the principal balance of the note.
−Removed: The December 31, 2018 principal balance of the note was $117,803 and the accumulated
−Removed: interest balance due was $4,110.
−Removed: During the year ended 2019 payments totaling $45,000 were received.
−Removed: The payments were
−Removed: applied first to the accumulated interest balance on the note and then to the remaining principal balance.
−Removed: On September 5, 2019,
−Removed: Jaguar paid the promissory note in full, including accrued interest.
2 - Inventory
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Property and Equipment
−Removed: The following is a summary of property and equipment, less accumulated
−Removed: depreciation, as of December 31, 2019 and 2018:
+Added: following is a summary of property and equipment, less accumulated depreciation, as of December 31, 2020 and 2019:
Ended December 31,
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at that time.
−Removed: 2019, the Company wrote off $23,909 of patent costs related to PrintRite3D ®
−Removed: Contour, which application was allowed
−Removed: In addition, $91,863 of costs related to patents issued to us during 2019 were reclassified from provisional patent
−Removed: application to patent status and began to be amortized as of the date of issue.
+Added: 2020, $70,175 of costs related to patents issued to us during 2020 were reclassified from provisional patent application
+Added: to patent status and began to be amortized as of the date of issue.
following is a summary of definite-life intangible assets less accumulated amortization as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively:
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5 - Notes Payable
−Removed: In April 2018, the Company entered into
−Removed: an amendment of the remaining $100,000 Secured Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrants which extended the payment
−Removed: due date to October 18, 2018, deleted the covenant providing for acceleration of the payment due date in the event of a public
−Removed: offering closing of at least $3,000,000 and required the Company to pay the balance of accrued and unpaid interest as of the effective
−Removed: date of the amendment.
−Removed: The Company paid the $8,761 balance of accrued interest to the holder in April 2018.
−Removed: May 2018 the Holder Converted $50,000 of the Note principal into 2,500 shares of common stock and executed a cashless exercise
−Removed: of 2,400 of the warrants for an additional 480 shares of common stock.
−Removed: October 2018, the Note was amended pursuant to which the due date was extended to April 18, 2019.
−Removed: Under the amendment, Sigma paid
−Removed: the $3,444 total accrued interest balance as of October 18, 2018 and agreed to make future payment dates of accrued interest on
−Removed: December 31, 2018 and April 18, 2019.
−Removed: April 2019, the Note was amended pursuant to which the due date was extended to October 18, 2019.
−Removed: Under the amendment, Sigma paid
−Removed: the $2,514 total accrued interest balance through April 18, 2019 and agreed to make future payment dates of accrued interest on
−Removed: October 19, 2019.
−Removed: October 2019, the Note was amended pursuant to which the due date was extended to January 3, 2020.
−Removed: Under the amendment, Sigma
−Removed: paid the $2,556 total accrued interest balance through October 18, 2019 and agreed to make future payment dates of accrued interest
−Removed: on January 3, 2020.
−Removed: December 31, 2019 the Company had the remaining $50,000 Convertible Note outstanding plus accrued interest of $1,028.
+Added: January 31, 2020, the Company paid off its Secured Convertible Promissory Note in full in the amount of $56,458, including accrued
+Added: interest of $1,458 and a late fee penalty of $5,000.
+Added: Paycheck Protection Plan Loan
+Added: April 14, 2020, the Company was granted a loan from BOKF, NA dba Bank of Oklahoma in the aggregate amount of $361,700, pursuant
+Added: to the Paycheck Protection Program (the “
+Added: ) under Division A, Title I of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief
+Added: and Economic Security Act (the “
+Added: CARES Act ”
+Added: ), which was enacted March 27, 2020.
+Added: Under the terms of the
+Added: PPP, PPP loans and accrued interest are forgivable after twenty-four weeks as long as the borrower uses the loan proceeds for
+Added: eligible purposes, including payroll, benefits, rent and utilities, and maintains its payroll levels.
+Added: The amount of loan forgiveness
+Added: will be reduced if the borrower terminates employees or reduces salaries during the forgiveness period.
+Added: of December 31, 2020, the Company has used the entire loan proceeds to fund its payroll expenses.
+Added: As a result, the Company believes
+Added: that it has met the PPP eligibility criteria for forgiveness and has concluded that the loan represents, in substance, a government
+Added: grant that is expected to be forgiven.
+Added: As such, the Company has recognized the entire loan amount as Other Income at December
+Added: January 2021, the Company received notice from the lender that the entire amount of the loan had been forgiven.
+Added: Deferral of Social Security Tax Payments
+Added: to sections 2302(a)(1) and (a)(2) of the CARES Act, the Company has elected to defer payments of its share of Social Security
+Added: tax due during the “payroll tax deferral period”.
+Added: The payroll tax deferral period began on March 27, 2020 and ended on
+Added: December 31, 2020.
+Added: At December 31, 2020 the total amount of such deferral was $75,455.
+Added: Per the terms of the deferral program,
+Added: 50% of the deferred amount is due on December 31, 2021, and the remaining 50% is due on December 31, 2022 at 0% interest.
Stockholders’
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of our common stock that we are authorized to issue (the “Share Decrease”).
−Removed: effects of the stock split have been retroactively reflected to all periods presented.
−Removed: In January 2019, the Company issued
−Removed: 20,000 shares of common stock to directors valued at $15.00 per share, or $300,000, with such shares to vest ratably over four
−Removed: quarterly installments, subject in each case to such director’s continuing service as a director.
+Added: The effects of the stock split have been
+Added: retroactively reflected to all periods presented.
+Added: March 27, 2020, at a special shareholders’
+Added: meeting, our authorized shares of common stock were increased from 2,250,000
+Added: to 8,000,000.
+Added: At our annual shareholders’
+Added: meeting held on June 15, 2020, our authorized shares of common stock were increased
+Added: from 8,000,000 to 12,000,000.
+Added: April 6, 2020, the Company closed a public offering of equity securities in which it issued 493,027 shares of common stock and
+Added: pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 22,438 shares of the Company’s common stock.
+Added: The Company also issued Series A Warrants
+Added: to purchase an aggregate of 515,465 shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to a private placement.
+Added: In connection
+Added: with this offering, the Company issued Dawson James Securities, Inc., its Placement Agent, a warrant to purchase an aggregate
+Added: of 41,237 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (which amount is based on the number of Common Shares and shares underlying
+Added: the Pre-Funded Warrants) at an exercise price of $3.64 per share.
+Added: Net proceeds to the Company after deducting offering expenses
+Added: were approximately $1,230,000.
+Added: On December 4, 2020, the Company issued 22,438 shares of common stock for the exercise of the pre-funded
+Added: the twelve months ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued 3,272,048 shares of common stock in exchange for the conversion
+Added: of 7,404 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred stock, and 774,940 shares of common stock as in-kind payment of preferred stock
+Added: the twelve months ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued 25,851 shares of common stock for services.
+Added: January 2019, the Company issued 20,000 shares of common stock to directors valued at $15.00 per share, or $300,000, with such
+Added: shares vesting ratably over four quarterly installments.
in January 2019, the Company issued 8,843 shares of common stock upon the cashless exercise of Unit Purchase Options issued in
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an exercise price of $10.80 resulting in gross cash proceeds of $75,848.
−Removed: In March 2019, the Company issued 150
−Removed: shares of common stock valued at $20.00 per share to the Company’s Vice President of Business Development in connection
−Removed: with his achievement of performance milestones, with such shares vesting immediately.
+Added: March 2019, the Company issued 150 shares of common stock valued at $20.00 per share to the Company’s Vice President of
+Added: Business Development in connection with his achievement of performance milestones, with such shares vesting immediately.
in March 2019, the Company closed a public offering of equity securities in which it issued 140,080 shares of common stock and
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in net proceeds of approximately $1,971,000, after deducting commissions and other offering expenses payable by the Company.
−Removed: On August 15, 2019, the Company issued
−Removed: 2,500 shares of common stock valued at $6.84 per share to MHZCI, LLC, an investor relations firm engaged by the Company,
−Removed: as partial compensation for services to be rendered.
+Added: August 15, 2019, the Company issued 2,500 shares of common stock valued at $6.84 per share to MHZCI, LLC, an investor relations
+Added: firm engaged by the Company, as partial compensation for services to be rendered.
September 13, 2019, Aegis Capital Corp.
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deducting commissions.
−Removed: During 2018, the Company issued 20,000
−Removed: shares of common stock valued at $12.80 per share as compensation for serviced, totaling $256,264.
−Removed: May 2018, we issued an aggregate of 100,000 shares of common stock upon conversion of the 1,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock
−Removed: issued in April 2018 (as described below under “Preferred Stock”).
−Removed: May 2018, the Company issued 2,980 shares of common stock as the result of a conversion of the $50,000 principal balance
−Removed: of Notes Payable and the cashless exercise of 2,400 warrants.
−Removed: June 2018, as part of its public offering of equity securities described in Note 1, the Company issued 350 shares of Series C
−Removed: convertible preferred stock, 204,000 shares of common stock, and warrants to purchase a total of 71,700 shares of common stock
−Removed: (including the warrants described under “Preferred Stock”
−Removed: below that were issued on June 26, 2018).
−Removed: Each warrant has
−Removed: an initial price of $10.80 per share.
−Removed: The net proceeds to the Company were approximately $2,068,900 after commissions and other
−Removed: offering expenses.
−Removed: The Company also issued to Dawson James Securities, Inc., its placement agent in the public offering, a Unit
−Removed: Purchase Option to acquire up to 19,120 Units, at an exercise price of $12.50 per Unit, consisting of 19,120 shares of common
−Removed: stock and warrants to purchase up to 5,736 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $10.80 as compensation.
−Removed: August and October 2018, the Company issued 35,000 shares of common stock upon conversion of 350 shares of Series C Preferred
−Removed: Stock issued in June 2018 (as described below under “Preferred Stock”).
−Removed: October and December 2018, the Company issued 17,790 shares of common stock as the result of the exercise of warrants resulting
−Removed: in cash proceeds of $192,132.
−Removed: previous years and 2019, the Company issued to various employees, directors, and contractors shares of the Company’s common
+Added: 2020 and 2019, the Company issued to various employees, directors, and contractors shares of the Company’s common
stock, subject to restrictions, pursuant to the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2013 Plan”).
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cost related to these issues was recognized.
−Removed: of December 31, 2019, and 2018, the balance of unvested compensation to be recognized was $0 and $21,355, respectively, and is
−Removed: recorded as prepaid stock compensation as of those dates.
Company is authorized to issue 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value.
−Removed: No shares of preferred stock were issued
−Removed: and outstanding at December 31, 2019 or 2018.
−Removed: April 2018, the Company issued 1,000 shares of the Company’s newly-created non-voting Series B Convertible Preferred Stock,
−Removed: which were convertible into 100,000 shares of common stock and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 75,000 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: common stock, for an aggregate purchase price of $1,000,000.
−Removed: The Series B Convertible Preferred Stock was fully converted into
−Removed: shares of common stock during 2018.
−Removed: The warrants have an initial exercise price of $14.70 per share, the closing price of
−Removed: the Company’s common stock reported on The NASDAQ Capital Market on April 6, 2018, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances.
−Removed: The net proceeds to the Company were approximately $877,500 after commissions and other offering expenses.
−Removed: The Company also issued
−Removed: to Dawson James Securities, Inc., its placement agent in the foregoing private placement, warrants to purchase up to 14,000 shares
−Removed: of common stock, at an exercise price of $14.70 per share, as compensation.
−Removed: The warrants issued pursuant to this transaction
−Removed: are unexercised as of December 31, 2019.
−Removed: June 2018, as part of the public offering described in Note 1, the Company issued 350 shares of the Company’s newly-created
−Removed: non-voting Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, which were convertible into 35,000 shares of common stock, and warrants to purchase
−Removed: an aggregate of 10,500 shares of the Company’s common stock.
−Removed: The warrants have an initial exercise price of $10.80 per share,
−Removed: 11% above the closing price of the Company’s common stock reported on The NASDAQ Capital Market on June 26, 2018, subject
−Removed: to adjustment in certain circumstances.
−Removed: July 2019, at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the
−Removed: 2013 Plan to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for issuance under the 2013 Plan by 75,000
+Added: 715 and 0 shares of
+Added: preferred stock were issued and outstanding at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
+Added: January 2020, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain institutional investors
+Added: (the “Institutional Private Placement”).
+Added: Pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued and sold 1,640 shares of the Company’s
+Added: newly created Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series D Preferred Stock”).
+Added: Under the Certificate of Designations
+Added: for the Series D Preferred Stock, the Series D Preferred Stock has an initial stated value of $1,000 per share (the “Stated
+Added: Value”).
+Added: Dividends accrue at a dividend rate of 9% per annum (subject to increase upon the occurrence (and during the continuance)
+Added: of certain triggering events described therein) and, on a monthly basis, shall be payable in kind by the increase of the Stated
+Added: Value of the Series D Preferred Shares by said amount.
+Added: The holders of the Series D Preferred Shares will have the right at any
+Added: time to convert all or a portion of the Series D Preferred Shares (including, without limitation, accrued and unpaid dividends
+Added: and make-whole dividends through the third anniversary of the closing date) into shares of the Company’s Common Stock at
+Added: the conversion price then in effect, which is $2.50 (subject to adjustment for stock splits, dividends, recapitalizations and
+Added: similar events and full ratchet price protection).
+Added: In addition, a holder may at any time, alternatively, convert all, or any part,
+Added: of its Series D Preferred Shares at an alternative conversion price, which equals the lower of the applicable conversion price
+Added: then in effect, and the greater of (x) $1.80 and (y) 85% of the average volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of
+Added: the Common Stock for a five (5) trading day period prior to such conversion.
+Added: Upon the occurrence of certain triggering events,
+Added: described in the Certificate of Designations, including, but not limited to payment defaults, breaches of transaction documents,
+Added: failure to maintain listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and other defaults set forth therein, the Series D Preferred Shares
+Added: would become subject to redemption, at the option of a holder, at a 125% premium to the underlying value of the Series D Preferred
+Added: Shares being redeemed.
+Added: December 31, 2020 there were 382 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred stock outstanding, which if converted as of December
+Added: 31, 2020, including the make-whole dividends, would have resulted in the issuance of 181,374 shares of common stock.
+Added: with the Institutional Private Placement, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with
+Added: certain of its directors and the Company’s largest shareholder (the “Other Private Placement”).
+Added: the SPA, the Company issued and sold 333 shares of the Company’s newly created Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the
+Added: “Series E Preferred Stock”).
+Added: Dividends accrue at a dividend rate of 9% per annum and, on a monthly basis, shall be
+Added: payable in kind by the increase of the Stated Value of the Series E Preferred Shares by said amount.
+Added: The Series E Preferred Stock
+Added: is initially convertible into 48,544 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: December 31, 2020, all of the issued Series E Convertible Preferred Stock were outstanding, which if converted as of December
+Added: 31, 2020, including the make-whole dividends, would have resulted in the issuance of 61,651 shares of common stock.
+Added: June 15, 2020, at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders of the Company, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to
+Added: the 2013 Plan to increase the number of shares of the Company’s common stock reserved for issuance under the 2013 Plan by
650,000 shares of our common stock to a total of 890,000 shares.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2019, an aggregate of 8,211 shares of common stock
−Removed: were reserved for issuance under the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: During 2019, the Company granted a total
−Removed: of 100,326 options to 22 employees and 2 consultants with vesting periods ranging from immediately/upon issue to 4 years beginning
−Removed: January 1, 2019.
−Removed: In 2019, 38,143 options vested and $494,240 of compensation cost was recognized during the year.
−Removed: December 31, 2019, there were options to purchase 180,903 shares issued and outstanding under the 2013 Plan.
−Removed: Of this amount, there
−Removed: are vested options exercisable for 88,163 shares of common stock.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, there were 152,753 shares available
+Added: for issuance under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: 2020, the Company granted a total of 579,998 options to 19 employees, 4 directors, and 5 consultants with
+Added: vesting periods ranging from immediately upon issue to three years beginning May 1, 2020.
+Added: In 2020, 294,373
+Added: options vested and $854,217 of compensation cost was recognized during the year.
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, there were
+Added: options to purchase 663,010 shares issued and outstanding under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: Of this amount, there are vested options
+Added: exercisable for 349,642 shares of common stock.
No options were exercised during the year ended December 31, 2020.
−Removed: 2018, the Company granted a total of 53,433 options to 18 employees and 1 consultant with vesting periods ranging from immediately/upon
−Removed: issue to 4 years beginning February 2018.
−Removed: In 2018, 41,549 options vested and $868,015 of compensation cost was recognized during
−Removed: As of December 31, 2018, there were options to purchase 82,627 shares issued and outstanding under the 2013 Plan.
+Added: 2019, the Company granted a total of 100,326 options to 22 employees and 2 consultants with vesting periods ranging from immediately
+Added: upon issue to 4 years beginning January 1, 2019.
+Added: In 2019, 38,143 options vested and $494,240 of compensation cost was recognized
+Added: during the year.
+Added: As of December 31, 2019, there were options to purchase 180,903 shares issued and outstanding under the 2013
Of this amount, there are vested options exercisable for 88,163 shares of common stock.
−Removed: No options were exercised during the year
−Removed: ended December 31, 2018.
+Added: No options were exercised during
+Added: the year ended December 31, 2019.
Company generally grants stock options to employees and directors at exercise prices equal to the fair market value of the Company’s
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share-based compensation expense included in the statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 is $596,842,
−Removed: of which $494,240 is related to stock options, and $1,145,530, of which $868,015 is related to stock options, respectively.
−Removed: There was no capitalized share-based compensation cost as of December 31, 2019 and 2018, and there were no recognized tax benefits
−Removed: during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018.
+Added: of which $573,232 is related to stock options, and $497,240, of which $ 494,740 is related to stock options,
+Added: respectively.
+Added: There was no capitalized share-based compensation cost as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, and there were no recognized
+Added: tax benefits during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019.
estimate the value of an award, the Company uses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model.
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interest rate
−Removed: 105.2-112.1 %
−Removed: 104.9-137.3 %
life (in years)
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aggregate intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying awards and the quoted price
+Added: of our common stock for those awards that have an exercise price currently below the $3.38 closing price of our Common
+Added: Stock on December 31, 2020.
+Added: All of the 2020 option grants have an exercise price currently below $3.38.
+Added: December 31, 2020, there was $1,029,056 of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to unvested share options
+Added: with a weighted average remaining recognition period of 2.90 years.
+Added: Appreciation Rights
+Added: June 23, 2020, the board of directors (the “Board”) of the Company adopted the Sigma Labs, Inc.
+Added: 2020 Stock Appreciation
+Added: Rights Plan (the “Plan”).
+Added: The purposes of the Plan are to:
+Added: (i) enable the Company to attract and retain the types
+Added: of employees, consultants, and directors (collectively, “Service Providers”) who will contribute to the Company’s
+Added: long-range success;
+Added: (ii) provide incentives that align the interests of Service Providers with those of the shareholders of the
+Added: and (iii) promote the success of the Company’s business.
+Added: The Plan provides for incentive awards that are only made
+Added: in the form of stock appreciation rights payable in cash (“SARs”).
+Added: No shares of common stock were reserved in connection
+Added: with the adoption of the Plan since no shares will be issued pursuant to the Plan.
+Added: may be granted to any Service Provider.
+Added: A SAR is the right to receive an amount equal to the Spread with respect to a share of
+Added: the Company’s common stock (“Share”) upon the exercise of the SAR.
+Added: The “Spread”
+Added: is the difference
+Added: between the exercise price per share specified in a SAR agreement on the date of grant and the fair market value per share on
+Added: the date of exercise of the SAR.
+Added: The exercise price per share will not be less than 100% of the fair market value of a Share on
+Added: the date of grant of the SAR.
+Added: The administrator of the Plan will have the authority to, among other things, prescribe the terms
+Added: and conditions of each SAR, including, without limitation, the exercise price and medium of payment and vesting provisions, and
+Added: to specify the provisions of the SAR Agreement relating to such grant.
+Added: June 23, 2020, the Company granted, pursuant to the Plan, (i) 60,094 SARs to its President and Chief Executive Officer, (ii) 12,019
+Added: SARs to its Vice President of Business Development, (iii) 24,038 SARs to its Chief Technology Officer, and (iv) 18,028 SARs to
+Added: its Chief Financial Officer.
+Added: The exercise price of each such SAR is $2.63, which was the closing price of the Company’s
+Added: common stock on the date of grant.
+Added: Such SARs expire on the fifth anniversary of the grant date and may be settled only in cash.
+Added: Additionally, each such SAR will vest and become exercisable in three equal (as closely as possible) installments on each of the
+Added: first, second and third anniversaries of the grant date, subject, in each case, to the applicable SAR holder being in the continuous
+Added: employ of the Company on the applicable vesting date, and, in the event of a Change in Control (as defined in the Plan), will
+Added: become immediately vested and exercisable as long as the applicable holder is in the Company’s employ immediately prior
+Added: to the Change in Control, and will otherwise be on such other terms set forth in the form of Stock Appreciation Rights Agreement.
+Added: On November 19, 2020, we granted 13,500 SARs to a consultant as partial compensation for services pursuant to the consulting agreement.
+Added: Company recognizes compensation expense and a corresponding liability for the fair value of the SARs over the requisite service
+Added: period for each SAR award.
+Added: The SAR’s are revalued at each reporting date in accordance with ASC 718 “Compensation-Stock
+Added: Compensation”, and any changes in fair value are reflected in income as of the applicable reporting date.
+Added: fair value of SAR awards was estimated using the Black-Scholes model with the following weighted-average assumptions for the twelve
+Added: months ended December 31, 2020:
+Added: interest rate
+Added: life (in years)
+Added: activity for the twelve months ended December 31, 2020 was as follows:
+Added: outstanding at December 31, 2019
+Added: outstanding December 31, 2020
+Added: expected to vest in the future as of December 31, 2020
+Added: exercisable at December 31, 2020
+Added: vested, exercisable, and options expected to vest at December 31, 2020
+Added: aggregate intrinsic value is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the underlying awards and the quoted price
of our common stock for those awards that have an exercise price currently below the $3.38 closing price of our common stock on
December 31, 2020.
−Removed: Six of the 2019 option grants have an exercise price currently below $9.82.
−Removed: December 31, 2019, there was $793,796 of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to unvested share options with
−Removed: a weighted average remaining recognition period of 4.88 years.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, the Company had
−Removed: outstanding warrants to purchase a total of 363,727 shares of common stock;
−Removed: 162,150 warrants at an exercise price of $40.00 per
−Removed: share, which if not exercised, will expire on February 21, 2022, 89,000 warrants at an exercise price of $14.70 per share, which
−Removed: if not exercised, will expire on October 07, 2023, 46,887 warrants at an exercise price of $10.80 per share, which if not exercised,
−Removed: will expire on June 26, 2023, 42,024 warrants at an exercise price of $16.10 per share, which if not exercised, will expire on
−Removed: March 15, 2024, 20,000 warrants with an exercise price of $15.60 per share, which if not exercised, will expire on May 7,
−Removed: 2024, 2,000 warrants with an exercise price of $17.50 per share, which if not exercised, will expire on May 7, 2024, and
−Removed: 1,666 warrants with an exercise price of $0.10, which if not exercised, will expire on November 18, 2022.
+Added: All of the 2020 SARs grants have an exercise price currently below $3.38.
+Added: December 31, 2020, there was $216,149 of unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to unvested SARs with a weighted
+Added: average remaining recognition period of 2.48 years.
+Added: December 31, 2020, the Company had outstanding warrants to purchase a total of 1,881,429 shares of common stock.
+Added: warrants have exercise prices that range from $0.10 to $40.00, which if not exercised, will expire between February 21, 2022 and
+Added: December 9, 2025.
activity for the year ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 was as follows:
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outstanding at December 31, 2020
+Added: connection with its January 2020 private placement, the Company issued 6,156 warrants to purchase its Series D Preferred Stock
+Added: (the Preferred Warrants”).
+Added: As of December 31, 2020, there were 10 Preferred Warrants outstanding, which if exercised would
+Added: result in the issuance of 10 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock.
+Added: The Series D Convertible Preferred stock, including
+Added: make-whole dividends, was convertible into 4,748 shares of common stock on December 31, 2020.
Company accounts for income taxes in accordance with ASC Topic No.
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be applied against future taxable income and which expire in various years through 2040.
−Removed: However, if certain substantial changes
−Removed: in the Company’s ownership should occur, there could be an annual limitation on the amount of net operating loss carryforward
−Removed: which can be utilized.
−Removed: The amount of and ultimate realization of the benefits from the operating loss carryforwards for income
−Removed: tax purposes is dependent, in part, upon the tax laws in effect, the future earnings of the Company and other future events, the
−Removed: effects of which cannot be determined.
−Removed: Because of the uncertainty surrounding the realization of the loss carryforwards, the Company
−Removed: has established a valuation allowance equal to the tax effect of the loss carryforwards and other temporary differences of approximately
−Removed: $3,037,800 and $2,123,700 at December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, and, therefore, no deferred tax asset has been recognized
−Removed: for the loss carryforwards.
+Added: However, if certain substantial
+Added: changes in the Company’s ownership should occur, there could be an annual limitation on the amount of net operating loss
+Added: carryforward which can be utilized.
+Added: The amount of and ultimate realization of the benefits from the operating loss carryforwards
+Added: for income tax purposes is dependent, in part, upon the tax laws in effect, the future earnings of the Company and other future
+Added: events, the effects of which cannot be determined.
+Added: Because of the uncertainty surrounding the realization of the loss carryforwards,
+Added: the Company has established a valuation allowance equal to the tax effect of the loss carryforwards and other temporary differences
+Added: of approximately $4,170,100 and $3,037,800 at December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and, therefore, no deferred tax
+Added: asset has been recognized for the loss carryforwards.
tax assets are comprised of the following:
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& Entertainment
−Removed: on Asset Disposal
in valuation allowance
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Ended December 31
−Removed: from continuing
−Removed: stockholders (numerator)
+Added: from continuing Operations available to Common stockholders (numerator)
$ (7,009,414 )
$ (6,320,849 )
−Removed: Weighted average
−Removed: common shares
−Removed: in loss per share during
−Removed: Period (denominator)
−Removed: loss per share was not presented as the Company’s outstanding warrants, stock options and note conversion features common
−Removed: equivalent shares for the periods presented would have had an anti-dilutive effect.
−Removed: At December 31, 2019, the Company had outstanding
−Removed: 363,727 warrants which could be converted to 363,727 shares of common stock, a $50,000 note payable convertible into 2,500 shares
−Removed: of common stock, and 180,903 stock options exercisable for 180,903 shares of common stock resulting in a potential total
−Removed: additional 475,130 common stock shares outstanding in the future.
−Removed: At December 31, 2018, the Company had outstanding 305,050 warrants
−Removed: which could be converted to 305,060 shares of common stock, a $50,000 note payable convertible into 2,500 shares of common stock,
−Removed: and 82,627 stock options exercisable for 82,627 shares of common stock resulting in a potential total additional 390,187 common
−Removed: stock shares outstanding in the future.
+Added: average number of common shares Outstanding used in loss per share during the Period (denominator)
+Added: loss per share was not presented as the Company’s outstanding common and preferred warrants, stock options and preferred
+Added: stock common equivalent shares for the periods presented would have had an anti-dilutive effect.
+Added: At December 31, 2020, the
+Added: Company had outstanding 1,881,429 common warrants which could be converted to 1,881,429 shares of common stock,
+Added: and 713,010 stock options exercisable for 713,010 shares of common stock, 10 Series D Preferred Warrants exercisable
+Added: for 10 shares of Series D Preferred Stock, which in turn, are convertible into 4,748 shares of common stock, and 715 shares of
+Added: preferred stock, which could be converted into 243,024 shares of common stock, resulting in a potential total additional 2,842,211
+Added: common stock shares outstanding in the future.
+Added: At December 31, 2019, the Company had outstanding 363,728 warrants which
+Added: could be converted to 363,728 shares of common stock, a $50,000 note payable convertible into 2,500 shares of common stock,
+Added: and 180,903 stock options exercisable for 180,903 shares of common stock resulting in a potential total additional 547,131
+Added: common stock shares outstanding in the future.
Commitments and Contingencies
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was not consolidated, but rather was accounted for on the equity method of recording investments.
−Removed: There were no operating activities
−Removed: during the fiscal 2017 and net operations resulted in a loss on the investment of $105 in fiscal 2016.
−Removed: The Company and Arete agreed
−Removed: in 2017 to terminate the Joint Venture and are in the process of paying final costs.
−Removed: The remaining cash asset of the company will
−Removed: be distributed to the former partners in 2020.
+Added: The Company and Arete terminated
+Added: the Joint Venture in 2020 and distributed the remaining cash to the former partners.
14 - Defined Contribution Plan
−Removed: In 2014, the Company adopted a
−Removed: qualified 401(K) plan (“the Plan”), in which all employees over the age of 21 may participate.
−Removed: has elected to match 100% of each participant’s contribution up to 3% of salary, and 50% of the next 2% of salary contributed.
−Removed: The costs of matching contributions were $45,080 in 2019 and $51,415 in 2018.
+Added: 2014, the Company adopted a qualified 401(K) plan (“the Plan”), in which all employees over the age of 21 may participate.
+Added: The Company makes a Safe Harbor contribution match of 100% of each participant’s contribution up to 3% of
+Added: salary, and 50% of the next 2% of salary contributed.
+Added: The costs of matching contributions were $55,321 in 2020 and $45,080
Related Party Transactions
−Removed: On June 17, 2019, our Former Chief
−Removed: Financial Officer, Nannette Toups submitted notice to the Company of her resignation effective August 15, 2019.
−Removed: 12, 2019, Ms.
−Removed: Toups Separation Agreement was amended to change her Effective Date to September 15, 2019.
−Removed: Effective September 15,
−Removed: 2019 the Company entered into a one-year Consulting Agreement with Ms.
−Removed: Toups as an independent contractor to provide non-exclusive
−Removed: consulting services to the Company on as an-needed basis at the rate of $100 per hour.
−Removed: The agreement provides that as long as
−Removed: the Consulting Agreement remains in effect, the stock options of the Company held by Ms.
−Removed: Toups shall remain exercisable and continue
−Removed: to vest in accordance with the terms of the Consultants existing stock options agreements of the Company.
−Removed: Through December 31,
−Removed: Toups has accrued $4,000 in fees for services rendered under the Consulting Agreement.
+Added: of December 31, 2020, there are no related party transactions.
Subsequent Events
−Removed: January 2020, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain institutional investors
−Removed: (the “Institutional Private Placement”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued and sold 1,640 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series D Preferred Stock”), warrants to purchase 779,600 shares of the
−Removed: Company’s Common Stock (the “Common Warrants”) and warrants to purchase 6,156 shares of the Series D Preferred
−Removed: Stock (the “Preferred Warrants”) for a total gross purchase price of $1,600,000.
−Removed: The Series D Preferred Stock is initially
−Removed: convertible into 164,000 shares of Common Stock, the Preferred Warrants have an initial exercise price of $975.00 per share, and
−Removed: the Common Warrants have an initial exercise price of $10.00 per share.
−Removed: Concurrent with the Institutional Private Placement, the
−Removed: Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain of its directors and the Company’s
−Removed: largest shareholder (the “Other Private Placement”).
−Removed: Pursuant to the SPA, the Company issued and sold 333.33 shares
−Removed: of the Company’s Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series E Preferred Stock”), and Class A Warrants
−Removed: to purchase 48,544 shares of the Company’s Common Stock (the “Common Warrants”) for a total gross purchase price
−Removed: The Series E Preferred Stock is initially convertible into 48,544 shares of Common Stock, and the Class A Warrants
−Removed: have an initial exercise price of $11.30 per share.
−Removed: Sigma also issued Dawson James Securities, Inc., its placement agent in the
−Removed: foregoing private placement, warrants to purchase up to 17,004 shares of Common Stock, at an initial exercise price of $11.30
−Removed: per share as partial compensation.
−Removed: Total net proceeds from the private placements were approximately $1,711,124, after deducting
−Removed: placement commissions and other offering expenses payable by the Company.
−Removed: On January 31, 2020, the Company paid
−Removed: off its Secured Convertible Promissory Note in full in the amount of $56,458, including accrued interest of $1,458 and a late
−Removed: fee penalty of $5,000.
−Removed: February 27, 2020, our Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation were amended pursuant to a Certificate of Change Pursuant
−Removed: to Nevada Revised Statutes 78.209 (the “Certificate of Change”) filed with the Nevada Secretary of State.
−Removed: The Certificate
−Removed: of Change provided for both a reverse stock split of the outstanding shares of our common stock on a 1-for-10 basis (the “Reverse
−Removed: Stock Split”), and a corresponding decrease in the number of shares of our common stock that we are authorized to issue
−Removed: (the “Share Decrease”).
−Removed: a result of the Reverse Stock Split, the number of issued and outstanding shares of our common stock decreased from 14,500,823
−Removed: pre-Reverse Stock Split shares to 1,450,082 post-Reverse Stock Split shares (after adjustment for any fractional shares).
−Removed: to the Share Decrease, the number of authorized shares of our common stock decreased from 22,500,000 to 2,500,000 shares of common
−Removed: stock, $0.001 par value per share.
+Added: February and March of 2021, the Company issued 454,404 shares of common stock upon the exercise of warrants with an exercise price
+Added: of $2.50 per share, resulting in net cash proceeds to the Company of $1,136,010.
+Added: March of 2021, the Company issued 119,000 shares of common stock pursuant to the conversion of 250 Series D Preferred shares.
+Added: January 13, 2021, we were notified by our bank, BOKF, NA dba Bank of Oklahoma, that the SBA had forgiven 100% of our PPP loan
+Added: January 8, 2021, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with H.C.
+Added: (the “Underwriter”), which provided for the issuance and sale by the Company in an underwritten public offering
+Added: and the purchase by the Underwriter of 1,488,507 shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share.
+Added: closed on January 12, 2021.
+Added: to the terms and conditions contained in the Underwriting Agreement, the shares were sold to the Underwriter at a public offering
+Added: price of $3.00 per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions.
+Added: The Company also granted the Underwriters a 30-day option
+Added: to purchase up to 223,276 additional shares of the Company’s common stock on the same terms and conditions.
+Added: The Underwriter
+Added: fully exercised such option to purchase up to 223,276 additional shares of the Company’s common stock, for an aggregate
+Added: of 1,711,783 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, we have also issued to the Underwriter or its designee
+Added: warrants to purchase a number of shares equal to 8% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock sold in the Offering, including
+Added: shares issued upon exercise of the option to purchase additional shares (the “Underwriter Warrants”).
+Added: The Underwriter
+Added: Warrants have a term of five years from the commencement of sales in the Offering and an exercise price of $3.75 per share.
+Added: net offering proceeds to the Company from the Offering are approximately $3,919,552 (or approximately $4,532,444 taking into account
+Added: the Underwriter’s exercise of its option to purchase additional shares in full), after deducting underwriting discounts
+Added: and commissions and other estimated offering expenses.
+Added: January 8, 2021, the Company obtained a waiver (“Waiver”) from certain investors (“Investors”) with respect
+Added: to certain anti-dilution adjustment provisions of a January 2020 warrant and an April 2020 warrant issued to the Investors.
+Added: consideration for the Waiver, the Company issued an additional warrant (“Warrant”) to the Investors to purchase an
+Added: aggregate of 100,000 shares of common stock, each exercisable after six months for a five-year period with an exercise price equal
+Added: to 115% of the closing price of the Company’s stock on the date of the waiver.
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