−Removed: Red Cat Holdings, Inc.
−Removed: “Company”) is a Nevada corporation which was originally incorporated in the State of Colorado.
−Removed: In November 2016, we
−Removed: changed our name to TimefireVR Inc.
−Removed: and in July 2019, we changed our name to Red Cat Holdings.
−Removed: Since inception, there have been
−Removed: multiple corporate transactions which resulted in a change in the Company’s operating businesses.
−Removed: The most recent change
−Removed: occurred in May 2019 when the Company changed its operating business from the bitcoin industry to the drone industry.
−Removed: In connection
−Removed: with the acquisition of Rotor Riot in January 2020, the Company become the parent company of Propware and Rotor Riot.
−Removed: The Company’s primary business
+Added: The Company was incorporated under the laws of the
+Added: State of Colorado in 1984 under the name Oravest International, Inc.
+Added: In November 2016, we changed our name to TimefireVR, Inc.
+Added: and re-incorporated
+Added: Effective May 15, 2019, we closed a Share Exchange
+Added: Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Red Cat Propware, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Red Cat Propware”) and
+Added: its then current shareholders (the “Acquisition”) pursuant to which we acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital
+Added: stock of Red Cat Propware in exchange for our the issuance of our common stock and Series A Preferred Stock (“Series A Stock”)
+Added: to the Red Cat Propware shareholders which constituted approximately 83.33% of our issued an outstanding share capital on a fully-diluted
+Added: basis at that time.
+Added: In connection with the Share Exchange, we changed our name to Red Cat Holdings, Inc.
+Added: and changed our operating business
+Added: from the bitcoin industry to the drone industry.
+Added: On January 23, 2020, pursuant to the terms
+Added: of a merger agreement, we acquired Rotor Riot, LLC (“Rotor Riot”), in which our subsidiary merged with and into Rotor Riot,
+Added: resulting in Rotor Riot, LLC being the surviving entity in a merger and a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company.
+Added: On November 2, 2020, the Company acquired Fat Shark
+Added: Holdings, Ltd., a Cayman Islands Exempted Company (“Fat Shark”) through a share purchase agreement with our wholly-owned
+Added: subsidiary FS Acquisition Corp.
+Added: Fat Shark was founded in 2007.
+Added: Its primary business is the sale of consumer electronics products to the
+Added: first-person view (FPV) sector of the drone industry.
+Added: Fat Shark’s flagship products are headsets with a built in display (or “goggles”)
+Added: that allow a pilot to see a real-time video feed from a camera mounted on an aerial platform.
+Added: Fat Shark is also developing Shark Byte,
+Added: a digital video downlink to allow for the low latency transmission from the camera on the drone.
+Added: This technology is designed to replace
+Added: the analog platforms currently used for FPV.
+Added: On May 4, 2021, the Company closed a firm commitment
+Added: underwritten public offering (the “Underwritten Offering”) in which it sold an aggregate of 4,000,000 shares of the Company’s
+Added: common stock, par value $0.001 per share, at a public offering price of $4.00 per share to underwriters, ThinkEquity, a division of Fordham
+Added: Financial Management, Inc., as representative of the underwriters (the “ThinkEquity”), pursuant to a registration statement
+Added: on Form S-1, as amended (File No.
+Added: 333-253491), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”),
+Added: which was declared effective by the Commission on April 29, 2021.
+Added: The Company has also granted the underwriters a 45-day option
+Added: to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares of Common Stock to cover over-allotments, if any.
+Added: The Offering closed
+Added: on May 4, 2021.
+Added: On May 7, 2021, the Company closed the
+Added: acquisition of Skypersonic, Inc., (“Skypersonic”) a Michigan corporation.
+Added: The acquisition of Skypersonic was made pursuant
+Added: to Share Purchase and Liquidity Event Agreements among the Company, Red Cat Skypersonic, Inc., a Nevada corporation and our wholly-owned
+Added: subsidiary, Giuseppe Santangelo the founder and majority shareholder of Skypersonic, and certain holders of common stock and SAFE agreements
+Added: representing 97.46% of Skypersonic (the “Sellers”) and Wayne State University Anderson Engineering Ventures Institute.
+Added: to the Agreements, we acquired all of the issued and outstanding share capital of Skypersonic in exchange for issuance of $3,000,000
+Added: of our common stock, at the Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) of our common stock on May 7, 2021 of $4.0154 per share.
+Added: we issued 857,124 shares common stock to the Sellers (the “Share Consideration”).
+Added: Skypersonic, Inc., is a provider of drone
+Added: products and software solutions that enable drone inspection flights that can be executed by pilots anywhere in the world.
+Added: powers drones to “Fly Anywhere”
+Added: and “Inspect the Impossible”.
+Added: Its patented software and hardware solutions allow
+Added: for inspection services in restricted spaces where GPS is not allowed or available.
+Added: Skycopter is a miniature drone fitted into a cage
+Added: to avoid damage to inspected areas and the drone.
+Added: Skyloc is a stand-alone, real time, software system which enables the drone to record
+Added: and transmit inspection data while being operated from thousands of miles away.
+Added: Skypersonic’s intellectual property portfolio includes
+Added: eight US and European patents.
+Added: On July 13, 2021, the Company entered
+Added: into an Agreement and Plan of Merger with Teal Drones, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Teal”) and Teal Acquisition I Corp.,
+Added: a Delaware corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (“Acquisition”), pursuant to which, and subject to the
+Added: satisfaction of certain closing conditions, Acquisition will acquire Teal by merger of Acquisition with and into Teal, with Teal as the
+Added: surviving corporation (the “Merger”
+Added: or the “Teal Transaction”).
+Added: It is contemplated that at the Effective Time
+Added: of the Merger.
+Added: all of the issued and outstanding share capital of Teal will be exchanged for an aggregate of Fourteen Million Dollars
+Added: ($14,000,000) of the Company common stock, par value $0.001 per share, (the “Common Stock”) and Series C Convertible Preferred
+Added: Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Series C Preferred”, and together with the Common Stock, the “Share Consideration”).
+Added: a condition to closing the Company has agreed that Teal shall enter into an employment agreement with George Matus, founder and CEO of
+Added: The closing of the Teal Transaction is
+Added: subject to customary closing conditions which include shareholder approval by the Company’s and Teal’s shareholders, approval
+Added: by NASDAQ of the issuance of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to the Merger, approval of the terms of the assumed debt to be
+Added: incurred by the Company, the lender and Teal, completion of an audit and provision of financial and other information
+Added: required by Regulation S-X (17 CFR 210.8-05) and approval of the Company’s shareholders following filing with the SEC and mailing
+Added: of the Company’s Information Statement on Schedule 14C and the necessary waiting periods required thereunder.
+Added: It is anticipated
+Added: that management which holds in excess of forty-nine (49%) percent of the voting power of the Company will vote in favor of the Merger.
+Added: On July 18, 2021, The Company entered
+Added: into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with ThinkEquity, a division of Fordham Financial Management,
+Added: Inc., as representative of the underwriters (the “ThinkEquity”), pursuant to which on July 21, 2021, the Company sold
+Added: to the underwriters in a firm commitment underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) an aggregate of 13,333,334 shares
+Added: of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at a public offering price of $4.50
+Added: The Company has also granted the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,000,000 shares of Common
+Added: Stock to cover over-allotments, if any.
+Added: The shares of Common Stock were offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement
+Added: on Form S-3, as amended (File No.
+Added: 333-256216), filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”),
+Added: which was declared effective by the Commission on June 14, 2021 (the “Registration Statement”), and a Supplement to the Prospectus
+Added: contained in the Registration Statement filed with the Commission on July 19, 2021.
+Added: The Company’s business
is to provide products, services and solutions to the drone industry.
−Removed: It operates in two sectors of the drone industry.
−Removed: designs and sells drones and related components, primarily focused on the First Person View (“FPV”) sector.
−Removed: the operator with a visual experience, using goggles, that simulates being in the cockpit of the drone.
−Removed: Rotor Riot is focused on
−Removed: the consumer market and sells its products through its e-commerce platform operated at www.rotorriot.com.
−Removed: Rotor Riot purchases
−Removed: drones and components from manufacturers, and then resells such items and custom designs and builds its own line of branded products.
−Removed: Rotor Riot generates approximately 50% of its revenues as a reseller, and 50% from the sale of its branded products.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: principal marketing strategy is to maintain a visible social media presence to attract buyers to its e-commerce platform.
−Removed: Riot accomplishes this through its Facebook page, where it sponsors a monthly internet episode, as well as its sponsorship of a
−Removed: leading drone racing team.
−Removed: The Company is also developing software
−Removed: solutions to provide secure cloud-based analytics, storage and services for the drone industry.
−Removed: Its initial product candidate is
−Removed: Dronebox, a blockchain technology that records, stores and analyzes flight data and information from a drone, much like the “black
−Removed: utilized by the airline industry.
−Removed: Dronebox initially records data and then transmits data and information directly to
−Removed: a third party server, commonly referred to as “the cloud”
−Removed: or “cloud computing”, where it can be viewed
−Removed: using the Company’s analytics platform.
−Removed: Blockchain technology is utilized to ensure that the data has not changed since it
−Removed: was initially recorded.
−Removed: The Company plans to offer Dronebox as a Software-as-a-Service platform.
−Removed: Potential customers include regulators
−Removed: to track and review flight data, insurance companies for coverage and claims administration, and pilots to maintain compliance
−Removed: with regulations.
−Removed: In May 2020, the Company launched Dronebox for beta testing by a limited number of users in order to test the
−Removed: platform and get user feedback on their real time experience and existing features as well as recommendations for new features.
−Removed: Initial user feedback has been positive and we continue to enhance and prepare the product for commercial release.
−Removed: We are currently
−Removed: targeting the fourth quarter of 2020 for the commercial release of Dronebox although no assurances can be provided regarding the
−Removed: actual release date.
−Removed: Our strategy is to provide products, services
−Removed: and solutions to the drone industry.
−Removed: We hope to grow our business in the FPV retail consumer market and by develop new solutions
−Removed: to the broader drone industry such as our Dronebox software product.
−Removed: Key components of our strategy include:
−Removed: Grow market share of
−Removed: existing products.
−Removed: The Rotor Riot brand name is highly recognized in the drone industry.
−Removed: We believe that we are regarded as
−Removed: a leader in the FPV sector of the market.
−Removed: We hope to increase our market share by continuing to leverage and market the visibility
−Removed: that we enjoy in social media outlets such as Facebook and YouTube, and through our strong relationship with leading FPV racing
−Removed: Deliver innovative new
−Removed: solutions into existing and new markets.
−Removed: Innovation is a key driver of our growth.
−Removed: We plan to continue internal research and
−Removed: development to develop better, more capable products that we can offer for sale through our Rotor Riot e*commerce platform.
−Removed: some cases, these products will be developed in response to customer inquiries and requests.
−Removed: In addition, we hope to leverage our
−Removed: relationships with pilots to introduce entirely new, innovative products, in addition to our FPV products.
−Removed: The commercial launch
−Removed: of Dronebox will represent our entry into an entirely new market in the drone industry.
−Removed: Foster our entrepreneurial
−Removed: culture to attract and retain highly skilled personnel.
−Removed: We believe that our corporate culture encourages creativity and an
−Removed: entrepreneurial spirit which is attractive to highly skilled professionals.
−Removed: We provide our employees with a wide range of workplace
−Removed: autonomy which fosters innovation and increases retention.
+Added: We design, develop, market, and sell drone software and products.
+Added: Our business emphasis focusses on drones piloted with wearable display devices.
+Added: These are head mounted displays (“HMDs”)
+Added: HMDs give pilots “first person view”
+Added: (“FPV”) perspective to control their drone in flight.
+Added: a unique experience where the pilot is interacting with an aircraft through visual immersion.
+Added: In this augmented virtual reality, the
+Added: pilot sees only what the drone sees, as if sitting in the pilot seat.
+Added: This experience is accomplished by live streaming footage from
+Added: a camera mounted on the nose of the drone directly into specially-designed goggles worn by the pilot.
+Added: The image is transmitted via radio
+Added: (traditionally analog but increasingly digital) to the pilot.
+Added: The drone remote control unit, the drone device, and the FPV goggles are
+Added: all inter-connected via radio.
+Added: This effect requires sophisticated electronics that transmits visual information with sufficient speed
+Added: and reliability to allow pilot control over the drone in real-time.
+Added: Pilots routinely achieve speeds of over 90 mph in racing and other
+Added: mission critical applications.
+Added: An FPV pilot must experience a near complete transfer of their visual consciousness into the body of their
+Added: piloted device.
+Added: There are three common categories
+Added: of FPV flight –
+Added: freestyle flight, racing and aerial photography.
+Added: In freestyle the pilot navigates around obstacles, focused on
+Added: acrobatics and exploring the environment around the aircraft through the HMD.
+Added: This type of flight includes remote utility and crop inspection
+Added: with onboard navigation and special equipment, such as moisture or heat sensors, and package delivery.
+Added: FPV racing describes a growing
+Added: spectator sport where pilots fly their drones in competitions through a series of obstacles, flags, and gates in a racetrack.
+Added: photography is the process of viewing and recording a subject matter from the air from the viewpoint of the pilot.
+Added: We sell FPV flight systems are
+Added: sold through our Rotor Riot and Fat Shark subsidiaries.
+Added: We sell flight design cameras, video transmitters, goggles, as well as the mounts,
+Added: airframes and accessories to build or operate drone aircraft.
+Added: We design, develop, assemble and sell each of these FPV components individually
+Added: and in packages.
+Added: We believe our products have become favorites in FPV racing and we sponsor several racing teams and pilots.
+Added: and resell drones and components from leading manufacturers, including industry leader DJI and custom design and build our own line of
+Added: branded products.
+Added: Prior to our acquisition of Fat Shark, approximately 50% of our revenue had been generated as a reseller and the balance
+Added: from the sale of our branded products.
+Added: We market through social media
+Added: and attract buyers to our ecommerce platforms.
+Added: We maintain a robust presence on Facebook and YouTube where we sponsor competitions and
+Added: provide education.
+Added: Sports networks, and sponsors such as NBC, Sky, Liberty Media, Fox Sports, MGM, Hearst, Twitter, ProSieben, Groupe
+Added: AB and Weibo broadcast and sponsor global events where professional pilots and amateurs compete for prizes and sponsorships.
+Added: is a global sport with chapters, leagues, and pilots and established guidelines, rules and regulations for participation adopted by organizations
+Added: such as MultiGP, Drone Racing League (“DRL”), IUDRO, DR1 Racing, Rotomatch League, FPVR, and Freespace Drone Racing.
+Added: specially design their custom built aircraft, selecting and customizing frames, motors, propellors and controllers for speed and maneuverability
+Added: from Rotor Riot.
+Added: Rotor Riot sponsors a team of six of the leading pilots on the competitive FPV racing circuit, including the 2019 and
+Added: 2018 Drone Racing League champion.
+Added: Drone pilots and spectators alike experience real-time flight through their own HMD.
+Added: In 2015 Fat Shark
+Added: sponsored the first annual US National Drone Racing Championships held at the California State Fair with a prize of $25,000.
+Added: events featured prizes of up to $1 million.
+Added: On November 2, 2020 we acquired
+Added: The Company believes Fat Shark and its subsidiaries are leaders in the design, development, marketing and sale of HMDs for
+Added: The operations of Fat Shark are
+Added: expected to constitute a significant majority of our revenue and results of operations and will position us to become a fully-integrated
+Added: drone business with a strong supply chain while we continue to develop and promote industry standards through our blockchain-based distributed
+Added: network that provides secure data storage, operational analytics, reporting, and SaaS solutions for the drone industry.
+Added: We are also developing
+Added: the means to accurately track, report and review flight data, which we believe will be the mainstay of future regulatory specifications
+Added: and insurability.
+Added: We maintain a commitment to deliver unparalleled innovation to make drones, pilots, and products accountable and the
+Added: sky a safer place.
+Added: In addition, we are developing
+Added: a blockchain-based black box to enhance reliability and reporting of drone performance and operations as software as a service (“SaaS”).
+Added: Red Cat’s Dronebox software and platform enable an easy-to-use flight log system that keeps clients compliant with regulators and
+Added: helps track and collect critical drone data and feed the data to various applications.
+Added: The software and platform use a patent-pending
+Added: blockchain-based cloud architecture.
+Added: To keep the data secure, we hash each log file on our private block chain, proving that the data
+Added: is immutable and reliable.
+Added: Reliable data is mandatory for regulators and insurance companies and is essential for analyzing drone flights
+Added: and effective drone fleet management.
+Added: Through our blockchain-based black box for drones, we can offer one easy to use system for analytics
+Added: and services.
+Added: By applying machine learning to the log files, we can prevent drone flight problems before they happen through artificial
+Added: intelligence.
+Added: We charge a monthly recurring fee for each drone in the customer’s drone fleet.
+Added: We store all flight logs, photos,
+Added: and videos from the black box service, which allows detailed flight replay.
+Added: Business Strategy
+Added: Prior to 2020, we were focused on research and development
+Added: of software solutions that could provide secure cloud-based analytics, storage and services for the drone industry.
+Added: In May 2020, we launched
+Added: “Dronebox”
+Added: for beta testing.
+Added: Our current strategy involves expanding into product design, development and sales while continuing
+Added: research and development into SaaS software opportunities.
+Added: We principally focus on commercial and consumer (non-military) markets for
+Added: drone products and services, although we are continually exploring opportunities to expand into governmental and military applications.
The Drone Industry
−Removed: Similar to the internet and GPS (global positioning
−Removed: system) technologies, drones are moving beyond their military origin to become both a powerful business tool and a recreational
−Removed: activity for consumers.
−Removed: Both of these markets are projected to grow dramatically according to a wide range of investment banks
−Removed: and research firms.
−Removed: Insider Intelligence estimates that commercial use of drones will reach 2.4 million
−Removed: in 2023, representing a 66% compounded annual growth rate and that drones will be most
−Removed: employed by the agriculture, construction and mining, insurance, media and telecommunications
−Removed: FAA, in a 2019 forecast report, predicted a 300% increase in commercial drones from 2019
−Removed: Insider Intelligence estimates that the drone services market will grow from $4.4 billion
−Removed: in 2018 to more than $60 billion by 2025;
−Removed: MarketsandMarkets
−Removed: estimated the small drones market size at $13.4 billion in 2018 and projected it to increase
−Removed: to $40 billion by 2025;
−Removed: Insider Intelligence estimates that consumer drone shipments will reach 29 million by
−Removed: International
−Removed: Data Corporation estimates that spending on drones will reach more than $16 billion in
−Removed: 2020 and experience a compounded annual growth rate of 33% through 2025.
−Removed: Rotor Riot sells to the consumer marketplace
−Removed: through its e*commerce site located at www.
−Removed: Rotorriot.com.
−Removed: Its target customer is the drone hobbyist with a passion for flying.
−Removed: Rotor Riot has a core strength in the FPV sector of the market.
−Removed: FPV refers to drones which are piloted via a video feed from the
−Removed: drone which provides a view that simulates being in the pilot seat of the drone.
−Removed: LOS, or line-of-sight, refers to a more conventional
−Removed: experience of standing on the ground and controlling the flight of the drone based on what the user can visually see.
−Removed: We plan to market Dronebox in each sector of
−Removed: the drone industry, including military, commercial, civil, and consumer.
+Added: Drones are rapidly moving beyond
+Added: their military origin to become a powerful business tool and recreational activity.
+Added: We expect both of these markets to continue to grow.
+Added: According to Business Insider Intelligence, industry reports project that
+Added: commercial use of drones will reach 2.4 million by 2023, a 66% compounded annual growth rate.
+Added: Drones will be employed by the agriculture,
+Added: construction and mining, insurance, and media and telecommunications industries.
+Added: The drone services market is expected to grow to over
+Added: $60 billion by 2025, from $4.4 billion in 2018.
+Added: Consumer drone shipments will reach 29 million by 2021.
+Added: Spending on drones is projected to reach more than $16 billion in 2020 and
+Added: experience a compounded annual growth rate of 33% through 2025 as reported by International Data Corporation.
+Added: The small drone market size is projected to increase to $40 billion by 2025
+Added: from $13.4 billion in 2018 according to Markets and Markets,
+Added: The FAA has forecasted a 300% increase in commercial drones from 2019 to
+Added: 2023 as per businessinsider.com.
+Added: Our revenue is principally derived from online sales.
+Added: We currently market our products and services to recreational and professional drone pilots and hobbyists.
+Added: During 2019, sales to GetFPV,
+Added: RCCarMax, and BangGood each represented more than 10% of Fat Shark’s revenue.
+Added: Our SaaS software under development is expected to
+Added: be marketed to a significantly larger marketplace, namely fleet operators, insurance, and government, including military, commercial
+Added: and civil aviation.
+Added: The FAA continues to issue new rules and regulations which are designed to build a traffic management ecosystem for
+Added: drones which is separate from, but complementary to, existing air traffic control.
+Added: For example, in December 2019, the FAA proposed a
+Added: rule which would require drones to be capable of remote identification, similar to civilian and military aviation.
+Added: We plan to market
+Added: Dronebox in each sector of the drone industry, including military, commercial, civil, and consumer.
Rotor Riot competes with a number of significantly
larger, better capitalized companies.
−Removed: SZ DJI Technology Company, Ltd., commonly known as DJI, is the dominant market leader in
−Removed: the civilian drone industry with a global market share estimated at more than 70%, according to many industry research firms.
−Removed: competitors include Parrotand Lumenier.
+Added: SZ DJI Technology Company, Ltd., commonly known as DJI, is the dominant market leader in the civilian
+Added: drone industry with a global market share estimated at more than 70%, according to many industry research firms.
+Added: Other competitors include
+Added: Parrotand Lumenier.
Race Day Quads is a larger, direct competitor in the FPV sector.
−Removed: We compete against these
−Removed: financially stronger companies by leveraging our visibility on the internet through our Facebook page which has more than 33,000
−Removed: members and our Rotor Riot channel which has more than 192,000 subscribers.
−Removed: The Rotor Riot brand has been at the center of the
−Removed: racing and freestyle culture of drones since registering its domain name in 2015.
−Removed: Rotor Riot sponsors a team of six of the leading
−Removed: FPV pilots on the competitive racing circuit, including the Drone Racing League champion pilot in 2019 and 2018.
−Removed: Dronebox will compete against a
−Removed: smaller number of companies, most of which are also smaller in size.
−Removed: These competitors include Airdata, Kittyhawk, DroneLogbook
−Removed: and Skyward, which was acquired by Verizon in 2017.
−Removed: While these companies provide certain drone tracking capabilities, we believe
−Removed: that Dronebox will elevate the quality and quantity of features offered through the platform.
−Removed: For example, we plan to enhance the
−Removed: user interface experience and introduce new functionality including a ticketing system which will enable users to track the resolution
−Removed: of mechanical and other flight issues that need to be resolved.
−Removed: Rotor Riot presently purchases approximately
−Removed: 56% of its inventory from approximately three suppliers of Dà-Jiāng Innovations.
−Removed: sourced drones and parts.
−Removed: is in the process of balancing purchasing activity from these three suppliers.
−Removed: Approximately 20% of inventory is purchased equally
−Removed: from two specialty vendors of frames and electronics.
−Removed: The remaining 24% is purchased from a much wider range of suppliers and vendors.
−Removed: Government Regulation
+Added: We compete against these financially stronger companies
+Added: by leveraging our visibility on the internet through our Facebook page which has more than 33,000 members and our Rotor Riot channel
+Added: which has more than 192,000 subscribers.
+Added: The Rotor Riot brand has been at the center of the racing and freestyle culture of drones since
+Added: registering its domain name in 2015.
+Added: Rotor Riot sponsors a team of six of the leading FPV pilots on the competitive racing circuit, including
+Added: the Drone Racing League champion pilot in 2019 and 2018.
+Added: Dronebox will compete against a smaller
+Added: number of companies, most of which are also smaller in size.
+Added: These competitors include Airdata, Kittyhawk, DroneLogbook and Skyward,
+Added: which was acquired by Verizon in 2017.
+Added: While these companies provide certain drone tracking capabilities, we believe that Dronebox will
+Added: elevate the quality and quantity of features offered through the platform.
+Added: For example, we plan to enhance the user interface experience
+Added: and introduce new functionality including a ticketing system which will enable users to track the resolution of mechanical and other
+Added: flight issues that need to be resolved.
+Added: Rotor Riot purchases its inventory from over 60 suppliers.
+Added: this inventory is purchased from three vendors.
+Added: The two most critical components are electronics and frames.
+Added: 41% of Rotor Riot's electronics
+Added: and frames are purchased from two vendors.
+Added: The United States has continuously increased tariffs on the inventory that Rotor Riot purchases
+Added: Since 2019, tariffs ranging from 2% to 25% have been imposed on 88% of Rotor Riot’s inventory.
+Added: 68% of Rotor Riot's inventory
+Added: is purchased directly from Chinese based vendors, all of these items are subject to tariffs.
+Added: An additional 20% is purchased from vendors
+Added: that are affected by the tariffs resulting in increase in costs to Rotor Riot.
+Added: 28% of Rotor Riot’s inventory consists of DJI products
+Added: which are subject to the highest 25% tariff rate.
+Added: These tariffs increase the cost of goods which reduces the company’s profit margins.
+Added: Rotor Riot has been unable to find comparable non-Chinese products and vendors.
+Added: Government Regulation and Federal Policy of Drones
The Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”)
−Removed: of the United States Department of Transportation responsible is for the regulation and oversight of civil aviation within the
−Removed: Its primary mission is to ensure the safety of civil aviation.
−Removed: The FAA has adopted the name unmanned aircraft (“UA”)
−Removed: to describe aircraft systems without a flight crew on board.
−Removed: More common names include drone, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and remotely
−Removed: operated aircraft.
−Removed: The FAA began issuing regulations governing
−Removed: drones in 2005 with their scope and frequency expanding in recent years with the significant increase in the number of drones sold.
−Removed: In December 2015, the FAA announced that all drones weighing more than 250 grams, or 0.55 pounds, must be registered with the FAA.
−Removed: As of March 2020, the FAA reported the registration of 1,563,263 drones, of which 441,709 were commercial and 1,117,900 were recreational,
−Removed: and the certification of 171,744 remote pilots.
−Removed: In December 2019, the FAA announced a proposed
−Removed: rule that would continue the safe integration of drones into the nation’s airspace by requiring them to be identifiable remotely.
−Removed: The FAA believes that remote ID technologies will enhance safety and security by allowing the FAA, law enforcement, and federal
−Removed: security agencies to identify drones flying in their jurisdiction.
−Removed: These efforts lay the foundation for more complex operations,
−Removed: such as those beyond visual line of sight at low altitudes, as the FAA and the drone industry move toward a traffic management
−Removed: ecosystem for Unmanned Aircraft System flights separate from, but complimentary to, the air traffic management system.
−Removed: The Company believes that the oversight of
−Removed: the FAA is beneficial to the drone industry generally, and the Company specifically.
−Removed: Approximately 10 % of the drones sold by Rotor
−Removed: Riot are below the weight threshold required to register.
−Removed: The remaining 90% have more functionality, are more likely to be used
−Removed: for commercial purposes, and therefore, should be registered.
−Removed: The Company believes that the regulations issued by the FAA, such
−Removed: as the remote identification standard, will provide opportunities as such functionality could be offered through our Dronebox platform.
+Added: of the United States Department of Transportation responsible is for the regulation and oversight of civil aviation within the U.S.
+Added: primary mission is to ensure the safety of civil aviation.
+Added: The FAA has adopted the name unmanned aircraft (“UA”) to describe
+Added: aircraft systems without a flight crew on board.
+Added: More common names include drone, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and remotely operated aircraft.
+Added: The FAA began issuing regulations governing drones
+Added: in 2005 with their scope and frequency expanding in recent years with the significant increase in the number of drones sold.
+Added: 2015, the FAA announced that all drones weighing more than 250 grams, or 0.55 pounds, must be registered with the FAA.
+Added: As of March 2020,
+Added: the FAA reported the registration of 1,563,263 drones, of which 441,709 were commercial and 1,117,900 were recreational, and the certification
+Added: of 171,744 remote pilots.
+Added: In December 2019, the FAA announced a proposed rule
+Added: that would continue the safe integration of drones into the nation’s airspace by requiring them to be identifiable remotely.
+Added: FAA believes that remote ID technologies will enhance safety and security by allowing the FAA, law enforcement, and federal security
+Added: agencies to identify drones flying in their jurisdiction.
+Added: These efforts lay the foundation for more complex operations, such as those
+Added: beyond visual line of sight at low altitudes, as the FAA and the drone industry move toward a traffic management ecosystem for Unmanned
+Added: Aircraft System flights separate from, but complimentary to, the air traffic management system.
+Added: The Company believes that the oversight of the FAA
+Added: is beneficial to the drone industry generally, and the Company specifically.
+Added: Approximately 10 % of the drones sold by Rotor Riot are
+Added: below the weight threshold required to register.
+Added: The remaining 90% have more functionality, are more likely to be used for commercial
+Added: purposes, and therefore, should be registered.
+Added: The Company believes that the regulations issued by the FAA, such as the remote identification
+Added: standard, will provide opportunities as such functionality could be offered through our Dronebox platform.
The FAA continues to issue new rules and regulations
which are designed to build a traffic management ecosystem for drones.
−Removed: For example, in December 2019, the FAA proposed a rule which
−Removed: would require drones to be identified remotely.
+Added: For example, in December 2019, the FAA proposed a rule which would
+Added: require drones to be identified remotely.
We plan to build this feature into Dronebox.
Environmental Considerations
−Removed: While the operation of many businesses have
−Removed: some form of negative impact on the environment, drones have a unique ability to provide a positive contribution.
−Removed: Many of these
−Removed: relate to a drone’s ability to reach places in a more efficient manner, and include such activities as:
+Added: While the operation of many businesses have some
+Added: form of negative impact on the environment, drones have a unique ability to provide a positive contribution.
+Added: Many of these relate to
+Added: a drone’s ability to reach places in a more efficient manner, and include such activities as:
aerial mapping and nature monitoring;
−Removed: maintenance of renewal energy sources
−Removed: such as solar panels and wind turbines;
−Removed: disaster relief monitoring and relief
+Added: maintenance of renewal energy
+Added: sources such as solar panels and wind turbines;
+Added: disaster relief monitoring and
+Added: relief delivery;
agricultural sustainability solutions
−Removed: Company holds trademarks on the Rotor Riot brand name and logo.
−Removed: The Company holds a provisional patent application for the
−Removed: tracking of unmanned aerial systems which expires in November 2020.
−Removed: As of August 5,
−Removed: 2020, the Company had ten full-time employees and one part-time employee.
−Removed: During the years
−Removed: ended April 30, 2020 and 2019, we incurred research and development costs of $488,990 and $366,590, respectively.
+Added: Intellectual Property
+Added: The Company holds trademarks on the Rotor Riot brand
+Added: name and logo.
+Added: The Company holds a provisional patent application for the tracking of unmanned aerial systems which expires in
+Added: November 2020.
+Added: As of July 28, 2021, the Company had 14 full-time
+Added: Research and Development
+Added: During the years ended April 30, 2021 and 2020, we
+Added: incurred research and development costs of $516,084 and $488,990, respectively, excluding $1,269,987 and $55,936 of stock-based compensation,
+Added: respectively.
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