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The risk factors described below should be read together with the other
−Removed: information set forth in this Amended Report, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes, as well as in other documents
+Added: information set forth in this Report, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes, as well as in other documents
that we file with the SEC.
−Removed: Relating to the Internal Investigation, Restatement of our Consolidated Financial Statements, Our Ability to Continue as a Going Concern,
−Removed: Our Internal Controls and Related Matters
+Added: Risks Relating to the Restatements of our
+Added: Consolidated Financial Statements, Our Ability to Continue as a Going Concern, Our Internal Controls and Related Matters
findings of the previously disclosed Internal Investigation and other matters have exposed us to a number of legal proceedings, investigations
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among other adverse impacts.
−Removed: As disclosed in the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K, initially filed with the SEC on July 6, 2022 and July 22, 2022,
−Removed: the Board retained outside counsel to conduct the Internal Investigation that revealed instances of non-compliance with state and federal
−Removed: laws concerning the state in which tickets are procured as well as order fulfillment, and issues pertaining to the Company’s internal
−Removed: accounting controls.
+Added: As disclosed in the Company’s
+Added: Reports on Form 8-K, initially filed with the SEC on July 6, 2022 and July 22, 2022, the Board retained outside counsel to conduct an
+Added: Internal Investigation that revealed past instances of non-compliance with state and federal laws concerning the state in which tickets
+Added: are procured as well as order fulfillment, and issues pertaining to the Company’s internal accounting controls.
of these issues contributed to the Company’s auditors’ determination that the Company’s audited financial statements
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of its year-end report for December 31, 2021 and for the quarter ended March 31, 2022.
−Removed: aforementioned issues have had and could continue to have material adverse impacts on the Company.
−Removed: The Company and certain of our former
−Removed: officers are the subject of a number of legal proceedings, investigations and inquiries with respect to cited issues and have been named
−Removed: as a defendant in a number of lawsuits, including class action lawsuits.
−Removed: The Company incurred significant costs in connection with the
−Removed: Internal Investigation, including legal expenses and costs associated with the restatement and adjustment of our financial statements.
−Removed: We may also incur material costs associated with our indemnification arrangements with our current and former directors and certain of
−Removed: our officers, as well as other indemnitees.
−Removed: Moreover, an unfavorable outcome in any of these matters could result in significant damages,
−Removed: additional penalties or other remedies imposed against the Company, and/or our current or former directors or officers, which could harm
−Removed: our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flows.
−Removed: In addition, an unfavorable outcome in any of these
−Removed: matters could exceed coverage provided, if any, under potentially applicable insurance policies, which is limited.
−Removed: For example, we currently
−Removed: do not have an effective director and officer liability insurance policy in place for our current officers and directors, and may not
−Removed: have the financial resources or otherwise be able to obtain a director and officer liability insurance at reasonable cost or terms in
−Removed: These issues have also led to material adverse impacts on our operations, our reputation and our relationships with business
−Removed: partners, as well as material adverse impacts on our financial position, including incurred costs and expenses and our ability to raise
−Removed: new capital in the future.
−Removed: Further, our senior management team has devoted significant time to facilitate the Internal Investigation
−Removed: and is expected to continue to devote significant time and efforts to address the impacts associated with or arising from the Internal
−Removed: Investigation.
+Added: The aforementioned issues have
+Added: had and could continue to have material adverse impacts on the Company.
+Added: The Company and certain of our former officers are the subject
+Added: of a number of legal proceedings, investigations and inquiries with respect to cited issues and have been named as a defendant in a number
+Added: of lawsuits, including class action lawsuits.
+Added: The Company incurred significant costs in connection with its internal investigations, including
+Added: legal expenses and costs associated with the restatement and adjustments to its financial statements.
+Added: We may also incur material costs
+Added: associated with our indemnification arrangements with our current and former directors and certain of our officers, as well as other indemnitees.
+Added: Moreover, an unfavorable outcome in any of these matters could result in significant damages, additional penalties or other remedies imposed
+Added: against the Company, or the Company’s former directors or officers, which could harm our reputation, business, financial condition,
+Added: results of operations or cash flows.
+Added: In addition, an unfavorable outcome in any of these matters could exceed coverage provided, if any,
+Added: under potentially applicable insurance policies, which is limited.
+Added: For example, we currently do not have an effective director and officer
+Added: liability insurance policy in place for our current officers and directors and may not have the financial resources or otherwise be able
+Added: to obtain a director and officer liability insurance at reasonable cost or terms in the future.
+Added: These issues have also led to material
+Added: adverse impacts on our operations, our reputation and our relationships with business partners, as well as material adverse impacts on
+Added: our financial position, including incurred costs and expenses and our ability to raise new capital in the future.
cannot predict all impacts on the Company in connection with or arising from any of the foregoing.
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result in additional claims and material liabilities.
−Removed: of our former officers are currently the subject of investigations and inquiries by the SEC and the U.S.
+Added: Company and certain of our former officers are currently the subject of investigations and inquiries by the SEC and the U.S.
Department of Justice (the “DOJ”).
The Company is cooperating fully with such investigations and inquiries.
−Removed: In the future, we or our officers and directors
−Removed: may become the subject of legal proceedings, investigations, and inquiries by governmental agencies in various jurisdictions relating
−Removed: to the findings of Internal Investigation and other matters.
+Added: future, we or our officers and directors may become the subject of legal proceedings, investigations, and inquiries by governmental
+Added: agencies in various jurisdictions relating to the findings of Internal Investigation and other matters.
investigations and inquiries and any other similar or related future legal proceedings, investigations or inquiries are subject to inherent
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We are unable to predict
−Removed: the outcome of any of these legal proceedings, investigations, and inquiries, and we could be forced to expend significant resources in
−Removed: the defense of one or more of these actions.
+Added: the outcome of any of these legal proceedings, investigations, and inquiries, and we could be forced to expend significant resources
+Added: in the defense of one or more of these actions.
There is also the risk that we may not prevail in any proceeding involving us.
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It is possible that we could, in the future, incur judgments or enter into settlements of claims for monetary damages.
−Removed: adverse to our interests in these actions could result in damages, fines, penalties, consent orders or other sanctions against the Company
−Removed: and/or our officers, or in changes to our business practices, among others, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our
+Added: adverse to our interests in these actions could result in damages, fines, penalties, consent orders or other sanctions against the Company or our officers, or in changes to our business practices, among others, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our
cash flow, results of operations and financial position.
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As a result, such proceedings, investigations and inquiries could have a material adverse
−Removed: effect on our reputation, business, financial condition, including our ability to raise new capital, cash flows and results of operations
−Removed: and could cause our securities to decline in value or become worthless.
+Added: effect on our reputation, business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations, and could cause our securities to decline
+Added: in value or become worthless.
have been named as a defendant in a number of lawsuits filed by purchasers of our securities, including class action lawsuits that could
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and inquiries, and we cannot assure you with any certainty that we will be able to obtain such coverage in the future.
−Removed: Matters relating to or arising from the financial filing restatements, the
−Removed: investigations and regulatory inquiries, including adverse publicity connected to these matters as well as other concerns, coupled with
−Removed: potential concerns from our users, customers or others with whom we do business, have had and could continue to have an adverse effect
−Removed: on our business and financial condition.
+Added: relating to or arising from the financial filing restatements, the investigations and regulatory inquiries, including adverse publicity
+Added: connected to these matters as well as other concerns, coupled with potential concerns from our users, customers or others with whom we
+Added: do business, have had and could continue to have an adverse effect on our business and financial condition.
have been and could continue to be the subject of negative publicity focusing on the Internal Investigation and the restatements and
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business partners or others could harm our business and have an adverse effect on our financial condition.
−Removed: In July 2022, the Company furloughed the majority of its employees and suspended lottery game sales operations after determining that
−Removed: it did not have sufficient financial resources to fund its operations or pay certain existing obligations, including payroll and related
−Removed: As a result, the Company may not be able to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: July 2022, the Company furloughed the majority of our employees and ceased its operations after determining that it did not have sufficient
−Removed: financial resources to fund our operations or pay certain existing obligations, including payroll and related obligations.
−Removed: As of December
−Removed: 31, 2023, the Company owed approximately $3.85 million in outstanding payroll obligations, which amount remains unpaid.
−Removed: business is largely dependent on the efforts and talents of our employees and contractors, particularly those who are our developers
−Removed: and engineers, and the provision of ongoing services to customers by our employees and contractors, the loss of these employees and contractors
−Removed: has and may continue to result in the inability of the Company to operate its business and technology, meet its obligations to customers,
−Removed: maintain key customer relationships and revenue, and fulfill its contractual obligations.
−Removed: order for the Company to fully restart its operations, it must raise sufficient capital to re-hire or hire additional employees.
−Removed: Qualified employees may not be available for hire, and/or may require salaries or benefits in excess of what we paid persons in
−Removed: similar positions previously, due to among other things, inflation and other economic factors, the need to hire such persons away
−Removed: from their current jobs and the negative impact that the furlough has had on our reputation.
+Added: In July 2022, the Company
+Added: furloughed the majority of its U.S.
+Added: employees and suspended U.S.
+Added: lottery game sales operations after determining that it did not have
+Added: sufficient financial resources to fund these operations or pay certain existing obligations, including U.S.
+Added: payroll and related obligations.
+Added: As a result, the Company may not be able to continue as a going concern in the U.S.
+Added: In July 2022, the Company furloughed
+Added: the majority of our employees and ceased its operations after determining that it did not have sufficient financial resources to fund
+Added: our operations or pay certain existing obligations, including payroll and related obligations.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, the Company owed
+Added: approximately $3.94 million in outstanding U.S.
+Added: payroll obligations, which amount remains unpaid.
+Added: business is largely
+Added: dependent on the efforts and talents of our employees and contractors, particularly those who are our developers and engineers, and the
+Added: provision of ongoing services to customers by our employees and contractors, the loss of these employees and contractors has and may
+Added: continue to result in the inability of the Company to operate its business and technology, meet its obligations to customers, maintain
+Added: key customer relationships and revenue, and fulfill its contractual obligations.
+Added: In order for the Company to fully
+Added: restart its U.
+Added: operations, it must raise sufficient capital to re-hire or hire additional employees.
+Added: Qualified employees may not be
+Added: available for hire, or may require salaries or benefits in excess of what we paid persons in similar positions previously, due to
+Added: among other things, inflation and other economic factors, the need to hire such persons away from their current jobs and the negative
+Added: impact that the furlough has had on our reputation.
we are not able to restart our operations, hire new employees and engage new contractors, and obtain funding sufficient to support and
−Removed: restart our operations, we may be forced to permanently cease our operations, sell off our assets and operations, and/or seek bankruptcy
+Added: restart our operations, we may be forced to permanently cease our operations, sell off our assets and operations, or seek bankruptcy
protection or a corporate reorganization, which could cause the value of our securities to become worthless, or at best, become devalued
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The financial statements included herein also include a going concern footnote.
−Removed: need additional capital to, among other things, support and restart our operations, re-hire or hire employees and engage contractors
−Removed: and pay our expenses.
+Added: We need additional capital
+Added: to, among other things, support and restart our U.S.
+Added: operations, re-hire or hire employees and engage contractors and pay our expenses.
Such capital may not be available on commercially acceptable terms, if at all.
−Removed: If we do not receive the additional
−Removed: capital, we may be forced to curtail or abandon our plans to recommence our operations and we may need to permanently cease our operations.
−Removed: need to raise capital to, among other things, support and restart our operations, re-hire or hire employees, engage contractors and
−Removed: pay our expenses.
−Removed: The most likely source of future funds presently available to us will be through future borrowings under one or
−Removed: more loan agreements or through the sale of equity or debt.
−Removed: We may have difficulty obtaining additional funding, and we may have to
−Removed: accept terms that would adversely affect our stockholders.
−Removed: For example, the terms of any future financings, similar to the UCIL Loan Agreement, may impose restrictions on the manner in which we conduct our business, including our ability
−Removed: to pay dividends.
−Removed: Additionally, lending institutions or private investors may impose restrictions on a future decision by us to make
−Removed: capital expenditures, acquisitions or significant asset sales.
−Removed: Obtaining additional financing involves certain risks,
+Added: If we do not receive the additional capital, we may be
+Added: forced to curtail or abandon our plans to recommence our operations and we may need to permanently cease our operations.
+Added: We need to raise capital to,
+Added: among other things, support and restart our U.S.
+Added: operations, re-hire or hire employees, engage contractors and pay our expenses.
+Added: likely source of future funds presently available to us will be through future borrowings under one or more loan agreements or through
+Added: the sale of equity or debt.
+Added: We may have difficulty obtaining additional funding, and we may have to accept terms that would adversely
+Added: affect our stockholders.
+Added: For example, the terms of any future financings, similar to the UCIL Loan Agreement, may impose restrictions
+Added: on the manner in which we conduct our business, including our ability to pay dividends.
+Added: Additionally, lending institutions or private
+Added: investors may impose restrictions on a future decision by us to make capital expenditures, acquisitions or significant asset sales.
+Added: additional financing involves certain risks, including:
equity or debt financing may not be available to us on satisfactory terms, if at all;
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or privileges senior to the rights of our currently issued and outstanding equity or debt, and our existing stockholders may experience
−Removed: or other debt instruments may have terms and/or conditions, such as interest rate, restrictive covenants and control or revocation
+Added: or other debt instruments may have terms or conditions, such as interest rate, restrictive covenants and control or revocation
provisions, which are not acceptable to management or our Board;
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current environment in capital markets combined with our capital constraints may prevent us from being able to obtain adequate debt
−Removed: funds advanced under our current loan agreements are inadequate to meet our needs, and/or we are unable to raise additional funds, we
+Added: funds advanced under our current loan agreements are inadequate to meet our needs, or we are unable to raise additional funds, we
may not be able to raise enough capital to recommence our operations and operate our business.
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negatively impacted by the Company’s lack of liquidity.
−Removed: If these relationships were to become strained or be terminated
−Removed: entirely, it could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition, including our ability to raise new
−Removed: capital, cash flows and results of operations.
+Added: If these relationships were to become strained or be terminated entirely,
+Added: it could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, financial condition, including our ability to raise new capital,
+Added: cash flows and results of operations.
we fail to implement and maintain an effective system of internal controls, we may be unable to accurately report our results of operations,
−Removed: meet our reporting obligations or prevent fraud, and, as a result, investor confidence and the trading price of our common stock and warrants may be
−Removed: materially and adversely affected.
+Added: meet our reporting obligations or prevent fraud, and, as a result, investor confidence and the trading price of our common stock and
+Added: warrants may be materially and adversely affected.
connection with the audit of our consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2021, we and our independent
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or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
−Removed: material weaknesses as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 identified include:
+Added: Past material weaknesses identified
of sufficient number of personnel with an appropriate level of knowledge and experience in accounting for complex or non-routine
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were either not designed and in place or not operating effectively;
−Removed: in the design and operations of the procedures relating to the timely closing of financial books at the quarter and fiscal year end;
+Added: in the design and operations of the procedures relating to the timely closing of financial books at quarter and fiscal year end;
segregation of duties in certain types of transactions and processes.
−Removed: a result of the material weaknesses, management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was ineffective as of
−Removed: December 31, 2022 and 2021, and these deficiencies remain uncorrected as of December 31, 2023.
+Added: As a result of the material weaknesses,
+Added: management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting remained ineffective as December 31, 2024.
intend to implement measures to remediate the identified material weaknesses.
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Controls and Procedures-Material Weaknesses in Internal Control Over Financial
−Removed: there can be no guarantee that the Internal Investigation and subsequent inquiries revealed all instances of inaccurate disclosure or
−Removed: other deficiencies, or that other existing or past inaccuracies or deficiencies will not be revealed in the future.
−Removed: Our failure to correct
−Removed: these deficiencies or our failure to discover and address any other deficiencies could result in inaccuracies in our financial statements
−Removed: and could also impair our ability to comply with applicable financial reporting requirements and related regulatory filings on a timely
−Removed: As a result, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, as well as the trading price of our shares
−Removed: of common stock and warrants, may be materially adversely affected.
+Added: Further, there can be no guarantee
+Added: that the Company’s internal investigations and subsequent inquiries revealed all instances of inaccurate disclosure or other deficiencies,
+Added: or that other existing or past inaccuracies or deficiencies will not be revealed in the future.
+Added: Our failure to correct these deficiencies
+Added: or our failure to discover and address any other deficiencies could result in inaccuracies in our financial statements and could also
+Added: impair our ability to comply with applicable financial reporting requirements and related regulatory filings on a timely basis.
+Added: our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, as well as the trading price of our shares of common stock and
+Added: warrants, may be materially adversely affected.
addition, these deficiencies could cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, limiting our access to capital
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Additionally, ineffective internal controls could expose us to increased risks of fraud or misappropriation of corporate assets and subject
−Removed: us to further litigation and/or regulatory investigations and civil or criminal sanctions.
+Added: us to further litigation or regulatory investigations and civil or criminal sanctions.
We could also be required to further restate
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in light of our lack of current financial information.
−Removed: Accordingly, any investment in our shares and/or warrants may involve a greater
+Added: Accordingly, any investment in our shares or warrants may involve a greater
degree of risk than other companies who are current on their public filings.
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market share, expand offerings, and broaden their geographic scope of operations.
−Removed: If we are not able to achieve some market share, if
−Removed: our offerings are not popular, or if we are not able to provide competitive products, our business, financial condition, and results
+Added: If we are not able to achieve sufficient market share,
+Added: if our offerings are not popular, or if we are not able to provide competitive products, our business, financial condition, and results
of operations could be harmed.
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and results of operations.
−Removed: financial performance is subject to U.S.
−Removed: and global economic conditions and their impact on levels of spending by potential users and
−Removed: customers of our Platform and acquirers of our Data Service.
−Removed: Economic recessions, or other economic conditions such as rising inflation
−Removed: and interest rates, have had, and may continue to have, far reaching adverse consequences across many industries, including the global
−Removed: entertainment, lottery, sweepstakes and promotions, and gaming industries, which may adversely affect our business, financial condition,
−Removed: and results of operations.
−Removed: Tepid growth was experienced in the U.S.
−Removed: and globally following the financial crisis in 2008 through 2009,
−Removed: and there may be an increasing risk of a recession or inflationary economic impacts due to international trade and monetary policy, rising
−Removed: interest rates and inflation, and acts or threats of acts of war (including the ongoing war in the Ukraine and Middle East), along with
−Removed: other economic challenges.
−Removed: If the national and international economic recovery slows or stalls, these economies experience another recession,
−Removed: or any of the relevant regional or local economies suffers a downturn, or if inflationary effects accelerate, we may experience a material
−Removed: adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: Our financial performance is
+Added: subject to U.S.
+Added: and global economic conditions and their impact on levels of spending by potential users and customers of our Platform
+Added: and acquirers of our Data Service.
+Added: Economic recessions, or other economic conditions such as rising inflation and interest rates, have
+Added: had, and may continue to have, far reaching adverse consequences across many industries, including the global entertainment, lottery,
+Added: sweepstakes and promotions, and gaming industries, which may adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: There may be an increasing risk of a recession or inflationary economic impacts due to international trade and monetary policy, variations
+Added: in interest rates and inflation, and acts or threats of acts of war, along with other economic challenges.
+Added: If the national and international
+Added: economic recovery slows or stalls, these economies experience another recession, or any of the relevant regional or local economies suffers
+Added: a downturn, or if inflationary effects accelerate, we may experience a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or
+Added: results of operations.
addition, changes in general market, economic, and political conditions in domestic and foreign economies or financial markets, including
those resulting from, for example:
−Removed: the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic;
rising interest rates and inflation;
−Removed: geopolitical challenges,
−Removed: including global security concerns in response to Russia’s continued war in Ukraine and regional wars in the Middle East;
−Removed: and credit market instability or the unavailability of credit;
−Removed: and fluctuation in stock markets, may reduce users’, customers’,
−Removed: or subscribers’ disposable income and corporate budgets.
−Removed: Any one of these changes could have a material adverse effect on our business,
−Removed: financial condition, or results of operations and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
+Added: geopolitical challenges, including global security concerns in
+Added: response to Russia’s continued war in Ukraine and regional wars in the Middle East;
+Added: financial and credit market instability or
+Added: the unavailability of credit;
+Added: and fluctuation in stock markets, may reduce users’, customers’, or subscribers’ disposable
+Added: income and corporate budgets.
+Added: Any one of these changes could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or
+Added: results of operations and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
+Added: in the sports media market could impair our ability to generate revenue from Sports.com
+Added: landscape of the sports content industry is changing as traditional media companies are putting on a focus on developing original sports
+Added: In recent years, Apple, Netflix, Warner Brothers Discovery, and Amazon have produced original sports content and entered into
+Added: agreements to broadcast live sporting events.
+Added: Their entry into the market could limit our ability to acquire streaming rights for live
+Added: sports events.
+Added: Costs to produce original content may increase to the point where we cannot compete in the sector.
+Added: trends in paying for streaming content may have an adverse impact on the Sports.com subscription service.
+Added: global video streaming market is expected to experience a compound annual growth rate of 17.8% over the next eight years, reaching a
+Added: value of $2.4 trillion by 2032.
+Added: With more than 200 global streaming services, consumers are presented with a wide array of choices
+Added: where to spend their discretionary entertainment dollars.
+Added: Since 2022, 25% of streaming subscribers have cancelled three or more
+Added: Additionally, 21% of subscribers indicated they intended to cancel at least one additional service in 2024.
+Added: This trend may
+Added: negatively impact our ability to attract new customers or may increase the costs of both customer acquisition and
in discretionary consumer spending could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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opinion can significantly influence our business.
−Removed: Unfavorable publicity regarding, for example, our company, members of our management and Board,
−Removed: our technology, our implementation of upgrades and changes to our technology, the quality of our Platform and its interfaces, our product
−Removed: offerings, our other services and systems, actual or threatened litigation or regulatory activity, the actions of third parties with
−Removed: whom we have relationships, our ability to recommence our business operations, or the conduct of the lottery authorities and the products
−Removed: they offer, including declining popularity of a particular lottery game or lottery games in general, could seriously harm our reputation.
−Removed: In addition, a negative shift in the perception of lottery games by the public or by politicians, lobbyists, or others could affect future
−Removed: legislation regarding the mobile purchase of lottery games from third-party providers, including with respect to the regulation or licensure
−Removed: of couriers, or with respect to the legalization of online lottery game sales (“Online Lottery”), either of which may impact
−Removed: our operations.
−Removed: Negative public perception could also lead to new restrictions on or to the prohibition of mobile lottery play in jurisdictions
−Removed: in which we currently operate.
−Removed: Such negative publicity could also adversely affect the size, demographics, engagement, and loyalty of
−Removed: our new players and established user base, and it could result in decreased revenue or slower user growth rates, which could seriously
−Removed: harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
+Added: Unfavorable publicity regarding, for example, our company, members of our management
+Added: and Board, our technology, our implementation of upgrades and changes to our technology, the quality of our Platform and its interfaces,
+Added: our product offerings, our other services and systems, actual or threatened litigation or regulatory activity, the actions of third parties
+Added: with whom we have relationships, our ability to recommence our business operations, or the conduct of the lottery authorities and the
+Added: products they offer, including declining popularity of a particular lottery game or lottery games in general, could seriously harm our
+Added: In addition, a negative shift in the perception of lottery games by the public or by politicians, lobbyists, or others could
+Added: affect future legislation regarding the mobile purchase of lottery games from third-party providers, including with respect to the regulation
+Added: or licensure of couriers, or with respect to the legalization of online lottery game sales (“Online Lottery”), either of
+Added: which may impact our operations.
+Added: Negative public perception could also lead to new restrictions on or to the prohibition of mobile lottery
+Added: play in jurisdictions in which we currently operate.
+Added: Such negative publicity could also adversely affect the size, demographics, engagement,
+Added: and loyalty of our new players and established user base, and it could result in decreased revenue or slower user growth rates, which
+Added: could seriously harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations and could cause the value of our securities to decline
+Added: or become worthless.
future growth will depend largely on our ability to attract players and retain users, and the loss of our users, failure to attract new
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and results of operations.
−Removed: ability to achieve growth in revenue in the future will depend, in large part, upon our ability to attract new players to our
−Removed: offerings, retain existing users of our offerings, and reactivate users in a cost-effective manner.
−Removed: Achieving growth in our
−Removed: community of users may require us to increasingly engage in sophisticated and costly sales and marketing efforts, which may not make
−Removed: sense in terms of return on investment.
−Removed: We have used and expect to continue to use a variety of free and paid marketing channels, in
−Removed: combination with the promotional activity of in-state and multi-state issued lottery games, to achieve our objectives.
−Removed: marketing, we intend to leverage a broad array of advertising channels, which may include a combination of radio and social media
−Removed: platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter), affiliate marketing, paid and organic search engines, and other
−Removed: digital channels, such as mobile display.
−Removed: If the search engines on which we rely modify their algorithms, change their terms around
−Removed: gaming and lottery, or if the prices at which we may purchase listings increase, then our costs could increase, and fewer users may
−Removed: click through to our websites or download our application.
−Removed: If links to our websites or application are not displayed prominently in
−Removed: online search results, if fewer users click through to our websites or application, if our other digital marketing campaigns are not
−Removed: effective, or if the costs of attracting users via any of our current methods significantly increase, then our ability to
−Removed: efficiently attract new users could be reduced, our revenue could decline, and our business, financial condition, and results of
−Removed: operations could be harmed and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
+Added: ability to achieve growth in revenue in the future will depend, in large part, upon our ability to attract new players to our offerings,
+Added: retain existing users of our offerings, and reactivate users in a cost-effective manner.
+Added: Achieving growth in our community of users may
+Added: require us to increasingly engage in sophisticated and costly sales and marketing efforts, which may not make sense in terms of return
+Added: on investment.
+Added: We have used and expect to continue to use a variety of free and paid marketing channels, in combination with the promotional
+Added: activity of in-state and multi-state issued lottery games, to achieve our objectives.
+Added: For paid marketing, we intend to leverage a broad
+Added: array of advertising channels, which may include a combination of radio and social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and
+Added: X (formerly Twitter), affiliate marketing, paid and organic search engines, and other digital channels, such as mobile display.
+Added: search engines on which we rely modify their algorithms, change their terms around gaming and lottery, or if the prices at which we may
+Added: purchase listings increase, then our costs could increase, and fewer users may click through to our websites or download our application.
+Added: If links to our websites or application are not displayed prominently in online search results, if fewer users click through to our websites
+Added: or application, if our other digital marketing campaigns are not effective, or if the costs of attracting users via any of our current
+Added: methods significantly increase, then our ability to efficiently attract new users could be reduced, our revenue could decline, and our
+Added: business, financial condition, and results of operations could be harmed and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become
addition, our ability to increase the number of users of our offerings will depend on user adoption of playing lottery games remotely
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and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
−Removed: to the Operational Cessation, Internet search engines drove traffic to our B2C Platform and our user growth could decline and our business,
+Added: Prior to the U.S.
+Added: Operational Cessation, Internet search engines drove traffic to our U.S.
+Added: B2C Platform and our user growth could decline and our business,
financial condition, and results of operations would be adversely affected if we fail to appear prominently in search results when we
−Removed: recommence operations.
−Removed: success depends in part on our ability to attract users through unpaid Internet search results on search engines like Google, Yahoo!,
−Removed: The number of users we attract to our B2C Platform from search engines is due, in large part, to how and where our website
−Removed: ranks in unpaid search results.
−Removed: These rankings can be affected by a number of factors, many of which are not under our direct control
−Removed: and may change frequently.
+Added: recommence U.S.
+Added: success depends in part on our ability to attract users through unpaid Internet search results on search engines like Google and Yahoo!.
+Added: The number of users we attract to our B2C Platform from search engines is due, in large part, to how and where our website ranks in unpaid
+Added: search results.
+Added: These rankings can be affected by a number of factors, many of which are not under our direct control and may change
For example, a search engine may change its ranking algorithms, methodologies, or design layouts.
−Removed: links to our web-based properties may not be prominent enough to drive traffic, and we may not know how or otherwise be in a position
−Removed: to influence the results.
−Removed: In some instances, search engine companies may change these rankings in a way that promotes their own competing
−Removed: products or services or the products or services of one or more of our competitors.
+Added: As a result, links to our
+Added: web-based properties may not be prominent enough to drive traffic, and we may not know how or otherwise be in a position to influence
+Added: In some instances, search engine companies may change these rankings in a way that promotes their own competing products
+Added: or services or the products or services of one or more of our competitors.
Search engines may also adopt a more aggressive auction-pricing
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our business, financial condition, and results of operations and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
−Removed: are subject to risks related to corporate social responsibility, responsible gaming, reputation, and ethical
+Added: are subject to risks related to corporate social responsibility, responsible gaming, reputation, and ethical conduct.
factors influence our reputation and the value of our brands, including the perception held by our users, customers, business partners,
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have incurred net losses in the past with negative cash flows and suspended operations and may not be able to generate and sustain profitability.
−Removed: have a history of incurring net losses and have suspended significantly our operations since July 2022, the Operational Cessation.
−Removed: We may not be able to achieve or maintain a needed level of profitability in the future.
−Removed: We experienced net losses of approximately
−Removed: $24.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, and approximately $60.0 million and $53.0 million for
−Removed: the years ended December 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2023, we had an accumulated deficit of
−Removed: approximately $235.1 million.
−Removed: While we have received some limited revenue since the Operational Cessation, we cannot predict when or
−Removed: whether we will be able to fully restart our operations and/or whether or not we will be able to reach profitability at any time in
−Removed: also expect our operating expenses to increase in the future as we continue to invest for our future growth, which will negatively
−Removed: affect our results of operations if our total revenue does not increase.
−Removed: We cannot ensure that these investments will result in
−Removed: substantial increases in our total revenue or improvements in our results of operations.
−Removed: In addition to the anticipated costs to
−Removed: grow our business, we also expect to incur significant additional legal, accounting, and other expenses as a public company.
−Removed: fully restart our operations, any failure to increase our revenue or to manage our costs could prevent us from achieving or
−Removed: maintaining profitability or positive cash flow.
−Removed: online lottery market is still in relatively early stages of growth, and if such market does not continue to grow, grows slower than
−Removed: we expect, or fails to grow as we forecast, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Online Lottery market has grown rapidly since we launched our Platform in 2016, but it is still relatively new, and it is uncertain to
−Removed: what extent market acceptance will continue to grow, if at all.
−Removed: Our success will depend to a substantial extent on the willingness of
−Removed: users to purchase Online Lottery games, i.e.
−Removed: , through mobile applications and web properties.
−Removed: If the public does not perceive
−Removed: these services as beneficial, or chooses not to use them as a result of concerns regarding security, safety, affordability, or for other
−Removed: reasons, whether as a result of incidents on our Platform or on our competitors’ applications or otherwise, or instead adopts alternative
−Removed: solutions that may arise, then the market for our Platform may not further develop, may develop slower than we expect, or may not achieve
−Removed: the growth potential we expect, any of which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations and
−Removed: could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
+Added: We have a history of incurring
+Added: net losses and have suspended significantly our U.S.
+Added: operations since July 2022, the Operational Cessation.
+Added: We may not be able to achieve
+Added: or maintain a needed level of profitability in the future.
+Added: On a fully consolidated basis we experienced net losses of approximately $23.9
+Added: million for the year ended December 31, 2024, and approximately $60.0 million and $25.6 million for the years ended December 31, 2023
+Added: and December 31, 2022, respectively.
+Added: As of December 31, 2024, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $258.9 million.
+Added: have received some limited revenue since the U.S.
+Added: 2022 Operational Cessation, we cannot predict when or whether we will be able to fully
+Added: restart our operations or whether or not we will be able to reach profitability at any time in the future.
+Added: also expect our operating expenses to increase in the future as we continue to invest for our future growth, which will negatively affect
+Added: our results of operations if our total revenue does not increase.
+Added: We cannot ensure that these investments will result in substantial
+Added: increases in our total revenue or improvements in our results of operations.
+Added: In addition to the anticipated costs to grow our business,
+Added: we also expect to incur significant additional legal, accounting, and other expenses as a public company.
+Added: Once we fully restart our operations,
+Added: any failure to increase our revenue or to manage our costs could prevent us from achieving or maintaining profitability or positive cash
business may be materially adversely affected if our products, technology, services, and solutions do not achieve and maintain broad
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Expanding into new markets and investing resources towards increasing the depth of our coverage within existing
−Removed: markets impose additional burdens on our research, systems development, sales, marketing, and general managerial resources.
−Removed: unable to manage our expansion efforts effectively, obtain greater market share or obtain widespread adoption of new or upgraded products,
−Removed: services, and systems, we may not be able to offset the expenses associated with the launch and marketing of the new or upgraded products,
−Removed: services, and systems, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
−Removed: If we introduce new or expand existing offerings
−Removed: for our business, we may incur losses or otherwise fail to enter these markets successfully.
−Removed: Our expansion into these markets will place
−Removed: us in competitive and regulatory environments with which we are unfamiliar and involve various risks, including the need to invest significant
−Removed: resources and the possibility that returns on such investments will not be achieved for several years, if at all.
+Added: markets will impose additional burdens on our research, systems development, sales, marketing, and general managerial resources.
+Added: are unable to manage our expansion efforts effectively, obtain greater market share or obtain widespread adoption of new or upgraded
+Added: products, services, and systems, we may not be able to offset the expenses associated with the launch and marketing of the new or upgraded
+Added: products, services, and systems, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial results.
+Added: If we introduce new or expand existing
+Added: offerings for our business, we may incur losses or otherwise fail to enter these markets successfully.
+Added: Our expansion into these markets
+Added: will place us in competitive and regulatory environments with which we are unfamiliar and involve various risks, including the need to
+Added: invest significant resources and the possibility that returns on such investments will not be achieved for several years, if at all.
we are unable to develop new or upgraded offerings or decide to combine, shift focus from, or phase out a service, then our users or
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of future performance.
−Removed: lottery games are offered on a year-round basis, there is seasonality in lottery games purchasing that may impact our operations and
−Removed: operations of our customers.
−Removed: The broad geographical mix of our user and customer base also impacts the effect of seasonality, as users
−Removed: and customers in different territories typically place differing importance on different lottery games and those games often have different
−Removed: For example, some multi-state games can have occasional increasingly high jackpot opportunities, which increase user attention
−Removed: and ticket purchases, which further increases the jackpot.
+Added: lottery games are offered on a year-round basis, there is seasonality in lottery game purchasing that may impact our operations and operations
+Added: of our customers.
+Added: The broad geographical mix of our user and customer base also impacts the effect of seasonality, as users and customers
+Added: in different territories typically place differing importance on different lottery games and those games often have different calendars.
+Added: For example, some multi-state games can have occasional increasingly high jackpot opportunities, which increase user attention and ticket
+Added: purchases, which further increases the jackpot.
Such events may cause increases in our revenues.
−Removed: By contrast, low jackpot
−Removed: lottery games or periods in which there is little promotional activity connected to lottery games in general may negatively impact the
−Removed: purchase of lottery games.
+Added: By contrast, low jackpot lottery games
+Added: or periods in which there is little promotional activity connected to lottery games in general may negatively impact the purchase of
+Added: lottery games.
Such fluctuations and uncertainties may negatively impact our cash flows.
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our future results of operations, cash flows, and financial condition are difficult to predict and may not grow at the rates we expect.
−Removed: the extent that we enter into any business that is determined to be internet gaming, any jurisdiction in which our existing business
−Removed: is deemed to be internet gaming, or our customers offer internet gaming, it is important to recognize that the laws relating to internet
−Removed: gaming are evolving literally by jurisdiction.
−Removed: To varying degrees, governments have taken steps to change the regulation of internet
−Removed: wagering through the implementation of new or revised licensing and taxation regimes, including the possible imposition of sanctions
−Removed: on unlicensed providers.
−Removed: We cannot predict the timing, scope or terms of the implementation or revision of any such state, federal or
−Removed: foreign laws or regulations, or the extent to which any such laws and regulations may facilitate or hinder our strategy or be applicable
−Removed: to or impactful on our business, operations and financial condition.
+Added: To the extent that we enter
+Added: into any business that is determined to be internet gaming, any jurisdiction in which our existing business is deemed to be internet
+Added: gaming, or our customers offer internet gaming, it is important to recognize that the laws relating to internet gaming are evolving
+Added: literally by jurisdiction.
+Added: To varying degrees, governments have taken steps to change the regulation of internet wagering through the
+Added: implementation of new or revised licensing and taxation regimes, including the possible imposition of sanctions on unlicensed providers.
+Added: We cannot predict the timing, scope or terms of the implementation or revision of any such state, federal or foreign laws or regulations,
+Added: or the extent to which any such laws and regulations may facilitate or hinder our strategy or be applicable to or impactful on our business,
+Added: operations and financial condition.
jurisdictions that authorize internet gaming, we may not be successful in offering our technology, content and services to internet gaming
−Removed: operators, We expect to face intense competition from our traditional competitors in the gaming and lottery industries, as well
−Removed: as a number of other domestic and foreign competitors (and, in some cases, the operators themselves), many of which have substantially
−Removed: greater financial resources or experience in this area than we do.
+Added: operators, We expect to face intense competition from our traditional competitors in the gaming and lottery industries, as well as a
+Added: number of other domestic and foreign competitors (and, in some cases, the operators themselves), many of which have substantially greater
+Added: financial resources or experience in this area than we do.
Know-your-customer
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It may require significant investment to restore the value in our brand, and the value of our brand may never return to prior
−Removed: levels and/or may be permanently reduced as a result of recent events.
+Added: levels or may be permanently reduced as a result of previous events.
our employees, our affiliates, and others with whom we have contractual relationships also use social media to communicate externally.
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and financial condition.
−Removed: operate in a public-facing industry where negative publicity, whether or not justified, can spread rapidly through, among other things,
+Added: operate in a public-facing industry where negative publicity, whether justified, can spread rapidly through, among other things,
social media.
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marketing efforts to help grow our business may not be effective.
−Removed: awareness of our Platform is important to our ability to grow our business and to attract new users and customers in the future, which
−Removed: can be costly.
−Removed: We believe that much of the growth in the number of users of our B2C Platform prior to the Operational Cessation was attributable
+Added: Promoting awareness of our Platform
+Added: is important to our ability to grow our business and to attract new users and customers in the future, which can be costly.
+Added: that much of the growth in the number of users of our U.S.-based B2C Platform prior to the 2022 Operational Cessation was attributable
to our paid marketing initiatives.
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social media engagement, radio, video, podcasts, search engine optimization, and keyword search campaigns.
−Removed: Our marketing initiatives
−Removed: may become increasingly expensive and generating a meaningful return on these initiatives may become difficult.
−Removed: Even if we successfully
−Removed: increase revenue as a result of these marketing efforts, it may not offset the additional marketing expenses we incur.
−Removed: If our marketing
−Removed: efforts intended to help grow our business are not effective, we expect that our business, financial condition, and results of operations
−Removed: would be adversely affected.
+Added: Our marketing initiatives may
+Added: become increasingly expensive and generating a meaningful return on these initiatives may become difficult.
+Added: Even if we successfully increase
+Added: revenue as a result of these marketing efforts, it may not offset the additional marketing expenses we incur.
+Added: If our marketing efforts
+Added: intended to help grow our business are not effective, we expect that our business, financial condition, and results of operations would
+Added: be adversely affected.
we fail to detect fraud or misappropriation of proprietary information, including by our users, customers, and employees and contractors,
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subject us to investigations and litigation.
−Removed: have in the past incurred, and may in the future, incur losses from various types of fraud, which may include the use of stolen or
−Removed: fraudulent payment card data, claims of unauthorized payments by a user and attempted payments by users with insufficient funds,
−Removed: referral fraud by affiliates, fraud with respect to background checks, fraud by employees or contractors, including our couriers,
−Removed: and account misappropriation by bad actors, or phishing.
−Removed: Bad actors use increasingly sophisticated methods to engage in illegal
−Removed: activities involving personal information, such as identity theft, payment or bank account information theft and the unauthorized
−Removed: acquisition of mobile phone numbers and other accounts.
+Added: have in the past incurred, and may in the future, incur losses from various types of fraud, which may include the use of stolen or fraudulent
+Added: payment card data, claims of unauthorized payments by a user and attempted payments by users with insufficient funds, referral fraud
+Added: by affiliates, fraud with respect to background checks, fraud by employees or contractors, including our couriers, and account misappropriation
+Added: by bad actors, or phishing.
+Added: Bad actors use increasingly sophisticated methods to engage in illegal activities involving personal information,
+Added: such as identity theft, payment or bank account information theft and the unauthorized acquisition of mobile phone numbers and other
of fraud may involve various tactics, including collusion.
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and results of operations and could cause the value of our securities to decline or become worthless.
−Removed: our user and customer base and engagement grows, and the amount and types of offerings we provide grow and evolve, we will need an increasing
+Added: our user and customer base and engagement grow, and the amount and types of offerings we provide grow and evolve, we will need an increasing
amount of technical infrastructure, including network capacity and computing power, to satisfy our users’ and customers’
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We plan to continue
−Removed: to devote significant resources to protect against security breaches or we may need to in the future to address problems caused by breaches,
+Added: to devote significant resources to protect against security breaches or we may need in the future to address problems caused by breaches,
including notifying affected users in accordance with regulatory requirements and responding to any resulting litigation, which in turn,
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would adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: it becomes operational, we expect to make significant investments to improve the availability of our Platform and to enable rapid releases
−Removed: of new features and services, funding permitting.
−Removed: However, it may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve the availability
−Removed: of our Platform, especially during peak usage times and as our Platform becomes more complex and if our user and customer traffic increase.
−Removed: If our Platform is unavailable when users and customers attempt to access it or it does not respond as quickly as they expect or it experiences
−Removed: capacity constraints due to an overwhelming number of users or customers accessing our Platform simultaneously, users or customers may
−Removed: seek other offerings, and may not return to our Platform as often in the future, or at all.
−Removed: This would adversely affect our ability to
−Removed: attract users and customers and decrease the frequency with which they use our Platform.
−Removed: To the extent that we do not effectively address
−Removed: capacity constraints, upgrade our systems as needed, or develop our technology and network architecture to accommodate actual and anticipated
−Removed: changes in technology, our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations would be adversely affected.
+Added: we fully resume operations, we expect to make significant investments to improve the availability of our Platform and to enable rapid
+Added: releases of new features and services, funding permitting.
+Added: However, it may become increasingly difficult to maintain and improve the
+Added: availability of our Platform, especially during peak usage times and as our Platform becomes more complex and if our user and customer
+Added: traffic increase.
+Added: If our Platform is unavailable when users and customers attempt to access it or it does not respond as quickly as they
+Added: expect or it experiences capacity constraints due to an overwhelming number of users or customers accessing our Platform simultaneously,
+Added: users or customers may seek other offerings and may not return to our Platform as often in the future, or at all.
+Added: This would adversely
+Added: affect our ability to attract users and customers and decrease the frequency with which they use our Platform.
+Added: To the extent that we
+Added: do not effectively address capacity constraints, upgrade our systems as needed, or develop our technology and network architecture to
+Added: accommodate actual and anticipated changes in technology, our business, reputation, financial condition, and results of operations would
+Added: be adversely affected.
Platform may be vulnerable to risks, both foreseen and unforeseen, arising from our application of distributed ledger technology.
−Removed: to the Operational Cessation, our Platform utilized distributed ledger technology by preserving a cryptographic ledger of the user identification,
−Removed: draw identification, ticket identification, and game numbers into an immutable ledger.
−Removed: The distributed ledger was append-only and kept
−Removed: a complete record of all changes to the provided data that could not be deleted, modified, or overwritten.
−Removed: Distributed ledger technology
−Removed: is a relatively new, evolving technology.
−Removed: Accordingly, the further development and future viability of this technology is generally undetermined
−Removed: with practical and ideological challenges which may affect its further development or integration into our Platform.
+Added: Prior to the U.S.
+Added: 2022 Operational
+Added: Cessation, our Platform utilized distributed ledger technology by preserving a cryptographic ledger of the user identification, draw identification,
+Added: ticket identification, and game numbers into an immutable ledger.
+Added: The distributed ledger was append-only and kept a complete record of
+Added: all changes to the provided data that could not be deleted, modified, or overwritten.
+Added: Distributed ledger technology is a relatively new,
+Added: evolving technology.
+Added: Accordingly, the further development and future viability of this technology is generally undetermined with practical
+Added: and ideological challenges which may affect its further development or integration into our Platform.
and Compliance Risks
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or by foreign governments.
−Removed: For example, in 2023, the State of Texas passed Senate Bill 1820 (the “Texas Bill”), which among
−Removed: other things, limited online lottery gaming and the use of courier services in Texas.
−Removed: Any proposal or passage of such laws may reduce
−Removed: our revenues or require us to expend a significant amount of our funds and resources and incur additional legal and other expenses, thereby
−Removed: creating a material adverse effect on us or our results of operations, cash flow, or financial condition.
+Added: Any proposal or passage of such laws may reduce our revenues or require us to expend a significant amount
+Added: of our funds and resources and incur additional legal and other expenses, thereby creating a material adverse effect on us or our results
+Added: of operations, cash flow, or financial condition.
in the executive branches of government in the U.S.
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For example, variations in the interpretation of The Federal Wire Act of 1961 (the “Wire Act”) by the Office of Legal Counsel
−Removed: (the “OLC”) of the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) has had a material impact on the online gaming and lottery
+Added: (the “OLC”) of the Department of Justice (the “DOJ”) have had a material impact on the online gaming and lottery
industry within the U.S.
−Removed: For more information, see “ If there is a final determination on the applicability of the Wire Act
−Removed: to our operations and it is determined or codified that the Wire Act extends to transmission of lottery games in interstate or foreign
−Removed: commerce, certain of our operations that are not currently restricted by statute or practice to a state’s territorial boundaries
−Removed: may be negatively impacted or eliminated, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial conditions, and results
−Removed: of operations.
−Removed: ” We have and may from time to time in the future retain government affairs specialists in domestic and international
−Removed: jurisdictions to advise elected and appointed officials regarding our perspectives on legislation and regulations related to lottery
−Removed: and other aspects of our business, to monitor such legislation and regulations, and to otherwise provide us with advice regarding our
−Removed: relations with such officials.
−Removed: Such efforts, however, may not be successful in whole or in part and changes in such laws or policies
−Removed: could have a material adverse effect on us or our results of operations, cash flow, or financial condition.
−Removed: We cannot ensure that our activities or the activities of those third parties with whom we do business will not become the subject of
−Removed: regulatory or law enforcement proceedings.
−Removed: Further, lottery regulatory associations, including the Multi-State Lottery Association (the
−Removed: “MUSL”), and certain lottery entities both domestically and internationally exercise significant authority regarding the
−Removed: means and manner in which the lottery and its products are marketed and sold as well as the equipment, technology and services deployed
−Removed: by retailers and resellers of such lottery products.
−Removed: activities or the activities of those third parties with whom we do business may become the subject of further inquiries, investigations
−Removed: or enforcement proceedings by such authorities or entities.
−Removed: Any such proceeding by regulatory or law enforcement or associations or entities
−Removed: may have a material adverse effect on us or our results of operations, cash flow, or financial condition.
+Added: For more information, see “ If there is a final determination on the applicability of the Wire Act to
+Added: our operations and it is determined or codified that the Wire Act extends to transmission of lottery games in interstate or foreign commerce,
+Added: certain of our operations that are not currently restricted by statute or practice to a state’s territorial boundaries may be negatively
+Added: impacted or eliminated, which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial conditions, and results of operations.
+Added: We have and may from time to time in the future retain government affairs specialists in domestic and international jurisdictions to
+Added: advise elected and appointed officials regarding our perspectives on legislation and regulations related to lottery and other aspects
+Added: of our business, to monitor such legislation and regulations, and to otherwise provide us with advice regarding our relations with such
+Added: Such efforts, however, may not be successful in whole or in part and changes in such laws or policies could have a material
+Added: adverse effect on us or our results of operations, cash flow, or financial condition.
+Added: cannot ensure that our activities or the activities of those third parties with whom we do business will not become the subject of regulatory
+Added: or law enforcement proceedings.
+Added: Further, lottery regulatory associations, including the Multi-State Lottery Association (the “MUSL”),
+Added: and certain lottery entities both domestically and internationally exercise significant authority regarding the means and manner in which
+Added: the lottery and its products are marketed and sold as well as the equipment, technology and services deployed by retailers and resellers
+Added: of such lottery products.
+Added: Our activities or the activities of those third parties with whom we do business may become the subject of
+Added: further inquiries, investigations or enforcement proceedings by such authorities or entities.
+Added: Any such proceeding by regulatory or law
+Added: enforcement or associations or entities may have a material adverse effect on us or our results of operations, cash flow, or financial
there is a final determination on the applicability of the Wire Act to our operations and it is determined or codified that the Wire
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and results of operations.
−Removed: In particular, should it ultimately be determined or codified that the Wire Act extends to transmission of
+Added: Should it ultimately be determined or codified that the Wire Act extends to transmission of
lottery games in interstate or foreign commerce, certain of our operations that are not currently restricted by statute or practice to
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In those states and other states with similar prohibitions,
−Removed: we will need to structure our business model to comply with the relevant laws while still endeavoring to operate profitably.
+Added: we need to structure our business model to comply with the relevant laws while still endeavoring to operate profitably.
jurisdiction prohibits our services, imposes onerous licensing or regulatory requirements, or imposes restrictions on the fees
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employee and the mandatory redemption or transfer of such person’s equity securities.
−Removed: currently hold a license issued by the Texas Lottery Commission to conduct the retail sale of lottery tickets in the State of Texas.
−Removed: We may determine or be required to secure additional licenses from other regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over lottery operations
+Added: may determine or be required to secure licenses from regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over lottery operations
in new markets in which we contemplate expansion.
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To the extent that any stockholder, director, officer or key employee is required to submit to required background checks and provide
−Removed: disclosure and fails to do so, or they or the Company fail to do so to the satisfaction of the relevant regulatory authority, such failure
−Removed: may jeopardize the grant of a license, provide grounds for termination of an existing license, or result in the imposition of penalties.
+Added: disclosure and fails to do so, or the Company fail to do so to the satisfaction of the relevant regulatory authority, such failure may
+Added: jeopardize the grant of a license, provide grounds for termination of an existing license, or result in the imposition of penalties.
Generally, any person or entity that fails or refuses to apply for a finding of suitability or a license within the prescribed period
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in the future.
−Removed: We cannot ensure that our
−Removed: activities will remain in compliance or that we will continue to receive all licenses or license renewals for which we apply.
−Removed: of a license that we currently hold, or failure to receive a license, could have a material adverse effect on us or on our business,
−Removed: financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: cannot ensure that our activities will remain in compliance or that we will continue to receive all licenses for
+Added: which we apply.
+Added: The failure to receive a license, could have a material adverse effect on
+Added: us or on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
and lottery authorities may revoke or suspend licenses, levy fines against us, or seize certain of our assets if we violate gaming regulations.
−Removed: We cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain or maintain the necessary licenses or approvals or that the licensing process will not
+Added: We cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain the necessary licenses or approvals or that the licensing process will not
result in delays or adversely affect our operations.
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such proceedings will not have a material adverse effect on our ability to retain and renew existing licenses or to obtain new licenses.
−Removed: plan to continually develop internal compliance programs and requirements in an effort to ensure that we comply with legal
−Removed: requirements imposed in connection with our activities and generally applicable to all publicly traded companies, however, we cannot
−Removed: ensure that they will prevent the violation of one or more laws, laws in any jurisdiction in which we conduct business, which may
−Removed: have an adverse impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: plan to continually develop internal compliance programs and requirements in an effort to ensure that we comply with legal requirements
+Added: imposed in connection with our activities and generally applicable to all publicly traded companies, however, we cannot ensure that they
+Added: will prevent the violation of one or more laws in any jurisdiction in which we conduct business, which may have an adverse impact on
+Added: our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
plan to continually develop internal compliance programs in ongoing efforts to ensure our compliance with legal requirements imposed
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or third parties.
−Removed: As a result, we and/or our directors, management, employees, agents, partners, customers, affiliates, or other related
−Removed: or third parties could be subject to investigations, criminal and civil penalties, sanctions and/or other enforcement measures that in
+Added: As a result, we or our directors, management, employees, agents, partners, customers, affiliates, or other related
+Added: or third parties could be subject to investigations, criminal and civil penalties, sanctions or other enforcement measures that in
turn could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, cash flow, or financial condition.
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laundering, and counter-terror financing.
−Removed: Our operations and our growth plans, including in connection with our intent to expand into new markets and undertake strategic acquisitions
+Added: operations and our growth plans, including in connection with our intent to expand into new markets and undertake strategic acquisitions
when we have sufficient funding to do so, may bring our officers, directors, employees, and representatives into contact with “foreign
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The loss of any of our key executives or other key employees could harm our business.
−Removed: currently have nine employees who manage and operate our business, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer
−Removed: and Chief Operating Officer, other employees as well as thirteen key outside contractors.
−Removed: While we have experienced significant
−Removed: turnover of our executive officers in past years, we expect that the leadership of our current key executives and employees will be
−Removed: a critical element of our success in the future.
−Removed: The departure, death or disability of any one of our executive officers or
−Removed: employees or other extended or permanent loss of any of their services, or any negative market or industry perception with respect
−Removed: to any of them or their loss, could have a material adverse effect on our business.
−Removed: addition, our failure to re-hire, or hire new employees in the future may limit our ability to restart our business operations and
−Removed: generate revenue.
−Removed: We believe our success and our ability to compete and grow following the Operational Cessation will depend in
−Removed: large part on the efforts and talents of our current and future employees and on our ability to retain highly skilled personnel.
−Removed: competition for these types of personnel is intense and we compete with other potential employers for the services of appropriately
−Removed: skilled employees.
−Removed: As a result, we may not succeed in hiring and retaining the executives and other key employees that we need.
−Removed: Employees, particularly highly skilled developers and engineers are in high demand, and we will need to devote significant resources
−Removed: to identifying, hiring, training, successfully integrating and retaining such employees, including significant financial resources,
−Removed: which we may not have when needed.
−Removed: We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to attract or retain such highly qualified
−Removed: personnel in the future.
−Removed: In addition, the loss of future employees or the inability to hire skilled employees as necessary could
−Removed: result in significant disruptions to our business, and the integration of replacement personnel could be time-consuming and
−Removed: expensive and cause additional disruptions to our business.
+Added: Except for those
+Added: employed in our foreign subsidiaries (e.g.
+Added: Aganar and JuegaLotto), we currently have nine employees who manage and operate our
+Added: business, including our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, other employees as well as
+Added: thirteen key outside contractors.
+Added: While we have experienced significant turnover of our executive officers in past years, we expect
+Added: that the leadership of our current key executives and employees will be a critical element of our success in the future.
+Added: departure, death or disability of any one of our executive officers or employees or other extended or permanent loss of any of their
+Added: services, or any negative market or industry perception with respect to any of them or their loss, could have a material adverse
+Added: effect on our business.
+Added: In addition, our failure to re-hire,
+Added: or hire new employees in the future may limit our ability to restart our business operations and generate revenue.
+Added: We believe our success
+Added: and our ability to compete and grow following the U.S.
+Added: 2022 Operational Cessation will depend in large part on the efforts and talents
+Added: of our current and future employees and on our ability to retain highly skilled personnel.
+Added: The competition for these types of personnel
+Added: is intense and we compete with other potential employers for the services of appropriately skilled employees.
+Added: As a result, we may not
+Added: succeed in hiring and retaining the executives and other key employees that we need.
+Added: Employees, particularly highly skilled developers
+Added: and engineers are in high demand, and we will need to devote significant resources to identifying, hiring, training, successfully integrating
+Added: and retaining such employees, including significant financial resources, which we may not have when needed.
+Added: We cannot provide assurance
+Added: that we will be able to attract or retain such highly qualified personnel in the future.
+Added: In addition, the loss of future employees or
+Added: the inability to hire skilled employees as necessary could result in significant disruptions to our business, and the integration of replacement
+Added: personnel could be time-consuming and expensive and cause additional disruptions to our business.
we do not succeed in attracting, hiring, and integrating excellent personnel, or retaining and motivating existing personnel, we may
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any of our third-party payment processors terminates its relationship with us or refuses to renew their agreements with us on commercially
−Removed: reasonable terms, we would need to find an alternate payment processor, and may not be able to secure similar terms or replace such
−Removed: payment processors in an acceptable time frame.
−Removed: Further, the software and services provided by our third-party payment processors may
−Removed: not meet our expectations, contain errors or vulnerabilities, be compromised or experience outages.
−Removed: Any of these risks could cause us
−Removed: to lose our ability to accept payments or other payment transactions or make timely payments to our users, any of which could make our
−Removed: technology less trustworthy and convenient and adversely affect our ability to attract and retain our users.
+Added: reasonable terms, we would need to find an alternate payment processor and may not be able to secure similar terms or replace such payment
+Added: processors in an acceptable time frame.
+Added: Further, the software and services provided by our third-party payment processors may not meet
+Added: our expectations, contain errors or vulnerabilities, be compromised or experience outages.
+Added: Any of these risks could cause us to lose
+Added: our ability to accept payments or other payment transactions or make timely payments to our users, any of which could make our technology
+Added: less trustworthy and convenient and adversely affect our ability to attract and retain our users.
all of our payments have been made by credit card, debit card, automated clearing house transactions, or through other third-party payment
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payments we accept from our users and customers, including with respect to money laundering, money transfers, privacy, and information
−Removed: If we fail to comply with applicable rules and regulations, we may be subject to civil or criminal penalties, fines and/or
+Added: If we fail to comply with applicable rules and regulations, we may be subject to civil or criminal penalties, fines or
higher transaction fees and may lose our ability to accept online payments or other payment card transactions, which could make our offerings
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condition, and results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: International
−Removed: Operations Risks
+Added: International Operations Risks
international scope of our operations may expose us to increased legal and regulatory risks, and our international operations and corporate
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and JuegaLotto, S.A.
+Added: The Company has recently launched additional international operations Sports.com Media Group Ltd.
+Added: and Lottery.com
+Added: International Ltd.
Accordingly, our
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our international operations may be negatively impacted.
−Removed: a result of the intended growth of the international scope of our operations and our corporate and financing structure, we may
−Removed: become subject to taxation in, and to the tax laws and regulations of, multiple jurisdictions.
−Removed: Adverse developments in these laws or
−Removed: regulations, or any change in position regarding the application, administration or interpretation of these laws or regulations in
−Removed: any applicable jurisdiction, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Furthermore, changes in or to the interpretation of the tax laws or tax treaties of the countries in which we operate may adversely
−Removed: affect the manner in which we have structured our business operations and legal entity structure to efficiently realize income or
−Removed: capital gains and mitigate withholding taxes and may also subject us to tax and return filing obligations in such countries that do
−Removed: not currently apply to us.
−Removed: Such changes may increase our tax burden and/or may cause us to incur additional costs and expenses in
−Removed: compliance with such changes.
−Removed: In addition, the tax authorities in any applicable jurisdiction may disagree with the positions we
−Removed: have taken or intend to take regarding the tax treatment or characterization of any of our transactions, including the tax treatment
−Removed: or characterization of our indebtedness.
−Removed: If any applicable tax authorities were to successfully challenge the tax treatment or
−Removed: characterization of any of our transactions, it could result in the disallowance of deductions, the imposition of withholding taxes,
−Removed: the reallocation of income or other consequences that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and
−Removed: results of operations.
+Added: a result of the intended growth of the international scope of our operations and our corporate and financing structure, we may become
+Added: subject to taxation in, and to the tax laws and regulations of, multiple jurisdictions.
+Added: Adverse developments in these laws or regulations,
+Added: or any change in position regarding the application, administration or interpretation of these laws or regulations in any applicable
+Added: jurisdiction, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Furthermore, changes
+Added: in or to the interpretation of the tax laws or tax treaties of the countries in which we operate may adversely affect the manner in which
+Added: we have structured our business operations and legal entity structure to efficiently realize income or capital gains and mitigate withholding
+Added: taxes and may also subject us to tax and return filing obligations in such countries that do not currently apply to us.
+Added: may increase our tax burden or may cause us to incur additional costs and expenses in compliance with such changes.
+Added: the tax authorities in any applicable jurisdiction may disagree with the positions we have taken or intend to take regarding the tax
+Added: treatment or characterization of any of our transactions, including the tax treatment or characterization of our indebtedness.
+Added: applicable tax authorities were to successfully challenge the tax treatment or characterization of any of our transactions, it could
+Added: result in the disallowance of deductions, the imposition of withholding taxes, the reallocation of income or other consequences that
+Added: could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
addition, the U.S.
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Patent and Trademark Office.
−Removed: December 31, 2022, the registrations of our LOTTERY.COM, AUTOLOTTO and SPORTS.COM word marks and SPORTS.COM logo were pending with the
+Added: As of December
+Added: 31, 2024, the registrations of our LOTTERY.COM word marks was pending with the U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office.
In March 2023, the U.S.
−Removed: Patent and Trademark Office denied the registration of the SPORTS.COM word
−Removed: mark and the appeal period has expired.
−Removed: The registration of the SPORTS.COM logo has also been denied and the Company is currently considering
−Removed: whether to appeal such denial.
−Removed: We are also using and/or have common-law trademark rights in the trademarks AUTOLOTTO, SPORTS.COM, and
−Removed: “TAP, TAP, TICKET.”
+Added: Patent and Trademark Office denied the registration of the SPORTS.COM word mark and the appeal period has expired.
+Added: We are also using
+Added: or have common-law trademark rights in the trademarks AUTOLOTTO, SPORTS.COM, and “TAP, TAP, TICKET.”
may not be able to prevent the unauthorized disclosure or use of our technical knowledge or trade secrets.
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and Streicher may not have funds to pay us amounts due or make seek bankruptcy protection.
+Added: details are available in Item 3.
+Added: Legal Proceedings
Company Operating Risks
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requirements, including Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which will increase when we are no longer an “emerging growth company.”
−Removed: To meet these various requirements, we have and will continue to need to hire additional legal, accounting and financial staff and/or
+Added: To meet these various requirements, we have and will continue to need to hire additional legal, accounting and financial staff or
contractors, all with appropriate public company experience.
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Relating to Our Charter Documents and Delaware Law
−Removed: Charter includes certain redemption rights which may negatively affect the value our common stock and other securities and/or result
+Added: Charter includes certain redemption rights which may negatively affect the value our common stock and other securities or result
in the redemption of shares of common stock or other securities held by certain holders.
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able to redeem the shares of a stockholder deemed an unsuitable person by applicable regulatory authorities.
−Removed: for indemnification by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us
−Removed: and may reduce the amount of money available to us.
+Added: Claims for indemnification
+Added: by our directors and officers may reduce our available funds to satisfy successful third-party claims against us and may reduce the amount
+Added: of money available to us.
Charter and our amended and restated bylaws (the “Bylaws”) provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers, in
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will not be obligated pursuant to the indemnification agreements entered into with our directors and executive officers to indemnify
−Removed: a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person, except with respect to proceedings to enforce an indemnitees right
+Added: a person with respect to proceedings initiated by that person, except with respect to proceedings to enforce an indemnitee right
to indemnification or advancement of expenses, proceedings authorized by our board of directors and if offered by us in our sole
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Related to Our Common Stock and Warrants
−Removed: we are currently in full compliance with the continued listing standards of Nasdaq, we may not be able to remain in full compliance
−Removed: with Nasdaq’s continued listing standards in the future.
−Removed: common stock and warrants trade on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbols “LTRY” and “LTRYW,”
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: Our failure to remain in full compliance with these
−Removed: requirements may result in our securities being delisted from Nasdaq.
−Removed: August 17, 2022, the Company received a notice from Nasdaq indicating that, as a result of not having timely filed the Company’s
−Removed: Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2022 with the SEC, the Company was not in compliance with Nasdaq Listing
−Removed: Rule 5250(c)(1), which requires timely filing of all required periodic financial reports with the SEC.
−Removed: On November 28, 2022, the Company
−Removed: received an additional notice, dated November 16, 2022, from Nasdaq indicating that, as a result of an additional delinquency in the
−Removed: timely filing of the Company’s Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2022, the Company remained out of compliance with
−Removed: Nasdaq Listing Rule 5250(c)(1)
−Removed: August 24, 2022, the Staff notified the Company that the bid price of its common stock had closed at less than $1 per share over the
−Removed: previous 30 consecutive business days, and, as a result, did not comply with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(2).
−Removed: Therefore, in accordance
−Removed: with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5810(c)(3) (A), the Company was provided 180 calendar days, or until February 20, 2023, to regain compliance
−Removed: with such rule.
−Removed: On February 23, 2023, the Company received a determination letter from Nasdaq advising it that Nasdaq had determined
−Removed: that the Company had not regained compliance with such rule and that the Company was not eligible for a second 180 day period as the
−Removed: Company had not yet filed its periodic reports with the SEC.
−Removed: Nasdaq also confirmed to the Company in its February 23, 2023 letter that
−Removed: the failure to timely file those periodic reports each serve as separate and an individual basis for delisting.
−Removed: Company had until March 2, 2023 to request an appeal of Nasdaq’s determination, which appeal was timely requested.
−Removed: appeal were not granted, then, the Company’s common stock and warrants would be delisted from Nasdaq, trading of the
−Removed: Company’s securities would be suspended, and a Form 25-NSE would need to be filed with the SEC which would remove the
−Removed: Company’s securities from listing and registration on Nasdaq.
−Removed: April 4, 2023, the Company received an additional notice from Nasdaq that the Company’s failure to timely file its Annual Report
−Removed: on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, serves as an additional basis for delisting the Company’s securities from Nasdaq.
−Removed: April 24, 2023, the Company presented a plan to a Nasdaq hearing panel (the “Panel”) to regain compliance with the Nasdaq
−Removed: Listing Rules and to file the Company’s deficient quarterly reports for the quarters ended June 30, 2022 and September 30, 2022,
−Removed: as well as its annual report for the year ended December 31, 2022, and to cure the bid price deficiency.
−Removed: On May 8, 2023, the Company
−Removed: received notice that the Company’s plan to regain compliance was conditionally accepted by the Panel and the Company provided Nasdaq
−Removed: with certain requested information.
−Removed: On May 24, 2023, the Company received a letter from the Panel (the “May 24th Decision”),
−Removed: stating that as a result of its review of the requested information, it had determined to delist the Company’s common stock and
−Removed: warrants from Nasdaq on May 26, 2023, and consequently the Company’s common stock and warrants were suspended from trading on Nasdaq
−Removed: on that date.
−Removed: The Company responded to the May 24 th Decision and requested that the Panel reconsider the historic facts underlying
−Removed: its decision, the Company’s future prospects, the consequences of such delisting on the Company’s stockholders and the Company’s
−Removed: ability to continue to relaunch its business.
−Removed: May 31, 2023, the Panel requested additional information from the Company in order to conduct its reconsideration of the matter.
−Removed: Specifically,
−Removed: the Panel requested the Company’s projected cash flow for the next 12 months, the amount of anticipated drawdowns from the Company’s
−Removed: Loan Agreement with Woodford, and a breakdown of the Company’s revenue earned since it recommenced lottery ticket sales in April
−Removed: On June 2, 2023, the Company submitted a written response to the Panel’s May 31st request.
−Removed: consideration of the record and the additional documentation provided by the Company, on June 8, 2023, the Company received a letter
−Removed: (the June 8 th Decision”) from the hearings panel stating that it had determined to reverse its initial delisting decision
−Removed: and grant the Company’s request for an exception to the continued listing rules until August 17, 2023, subject to the satisfaction
−Removed: of certain conditions, which the Company met in a timely manner.
−Removed: In addition to the above, there are other requirements to be met in order to maintain a continued listing on The Nasdaq Global Market.
−Removed: These requirements include requiring that the Company maintain at least $10 million in stockholders’ equity, $5 million of Market
−Removed: Value of Publicly Held Shares (MVPHS) listed securities, or $50 million in total assets and total revenue over the prior two years or
−Removed: two of the prior three years and having a majority of independent directors.
−Removed: reported on form 8-K filed on December 7, 2023, on November 29, 2023, the Company received a letter from Nasdaq stating that based
−Removed: upon its review of the Company’s Market Value of Publicly Held Shares (“MVPHS”) for the last 30 consecutive
−Removed: business days, the Company no longer met the minimum requirement of $5,000,000 in MVPHS set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule
−Removed: 5450(b)(1)(C).
−Removed: However, under the Listing Rules, the Company was provided a 180-calendar day grace period to regain compliance,
−Removed: through May 28, 2024.
−Removed: at any time during the compliance period the Company’s MVPHS closes at $5,000,000 or more for a minimum of ten consecutive
−Removed: business days, Nasdaq will provide written confirmation of compliance and the matter will be closed.
−Removed: The Company met this
−Removed: requirement, notified Nasdaq and on April 10, 2024 received written notification from Nasdaq confirming that the Company has
−Removed: regained compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(b)(1)(C) and the matter is now closed .
+Added: we are currently in full compliance with the continued listing standards of Nasdaq, we may not be able to remain in full compliance with
+Added: Nasdaq’s continued listing standards in the future.
+Added: Our common stock and warrants
+Added: trade on The Nasdaq Global Market under the symbols “LTRY” and “LTRYW,” respectively.
+Added: Our failure to remain in
+Added: full compliance with these requirements may result in our securities being delisted from Nasdaq.
+Added: On September 11, 2024, the Staff
+Added: notified the Company that the bid price of its common stock had closed at less than $1 per share over the previous 30 consecutive business
+Added: days, and, as a result, did not comply with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5550(a)(1).
+Added: Therefore, in accordance with e Listing Rule 5810(c)(3)(A),
+Added: the Company was provided 180 calendar days to regain compliance with such rule.
+Added: reported on form 8-K filed on November 1, 2024, on October 28, 2024, the Company received a letter from Nasdaq stating that based upon
+Added: its review of the Company’s Market Value of Publicly Held Shares (“MVPHS”) for the last 30 consecutive business days,
+Added: the Company no longer met the minimum requirement of $5,000,000 in MVPHS set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(b)(1)(C).
+Added: However, under
+Added: the Listing Rules, the Company was provided a 180-calendar day grace period to regain compliance.
+Added: at any time during the compliance period the Company’s MVPHS closed at $5,000,000 or more for a minimum of ten consecutive business
+Added: days, Nasdaq would provide written confirmation of compliance and the matter would be closed.
+Added: The Company met this requirement, notified
+Added: Nasdaq and on March 6, 2025 received written notification from Nasdaq confirming that the Company has regained compliance with Nasdaq
+Added: Listing Rule 5450(b)(1)(C) and the matter is now closed.
+Added: The notification also stated that the Company had regained compliance with Nasdaq
+Added: Listing Rule 5550(a)(1) and that matter was also closed.
the requirement that we maintain a majority of independent directors and at least three members on our audit committee are Nasdaq requirements
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and warrants or to obtain accurate quotations, and the price of the Company’s common stock and warrants could suffer a material
−Removed: Delisting could also impair the Company’s ability to raise capital and/or trigger defaults and penalties under its outstanding
+Added: Delisting could also impair the Company’s ability to raise capital or trigger defaults and penalties under its outstanding
agreements or securities.
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These requirements could severely limit the market liquidity of our common stock
−Removed: and/or warrants and the ability of our stockholders to sell our common stock and/or warrants in the secondary market.
+Added: or warrants and the ability of our stockholders to sell our common stock or warrants in the secondary market.
If our common stock
−Removed: and/or warrants are delisted by Nasdaq, our common stock and/or warrants may be eligible to trade on an over-the-counter quotation system,
+Added: or warrants are delisted by Nasdaq, our common stock or warrants may be eligible to trade on an over-the-counter quotation system,
such as the OTCQB Market, where an investor may find it more difficult to sell our stock or obtain accurate quotations as to the market
−Removed: value of our common stock and/or warrants.
−Removed: In the event our common stock and/or warrants are delisted from The Nasdaq Global Market,
−Removed: we may not be able to list our common stock and/or warrants on another national securities exchange or obtain quotation on an over-the
+Added: value of our common stock or warrants.
+Added: In the event our common stock or warrants are delisted from The Nasdaq Global Market,
+Added: we may not be able to list our common stock or warrants on another national securities exchange or obtain quotation on an over-the
counter quotation system.
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of factors, including the following:
−Removed: announcements
−Removed: by us or our competitors of new products, features, or services;
−Removed: public’s reaction to our press releases, other public announcements, and filings with the SEC;
−Removed: and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;
−Removed: or anticipated changes in our results of operations or fluctuations in our results of operations;
−Removed: in the financial projections we may provide to the public or our failure to meet these projections;
−Removed: or anticipated developments in our business, our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally;
−Removed: or perceived privacy or data security incidents;
−Removed: related to the organic and inorganic growth of our business and the timing of expected business milestones, including those related
−Removed: to announced or completed acquisitions of businesses, products, services, or technologies by us or our competitors;
−Removed: or anticipated changes in applicable laws or regulations;
−Removed: in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations, or principles;
−Removed: ability to forecast or report accurate financial results;
−Removed: factors in the public trading market for our common stock and warrants that may produce price movements that may or may not comport
−Removed: with macro, industry or company-specific fundamentals, including, without limitation, the sentiment of retail investors (including
−Removed: as may be expressed on financial trading and other social media sites), the amount and status of short interest in our securities,
−Removed: access to margin debt, trading in options and other derivatives on our common stock and warrants and any related hedging and other
−Removed: technical trading factors.
+Added: announcements by us or
+Added: our competitors of new products, features, or services;
+Added: the public’s reaction
+Added: to our press releases, other public announcements, and filings with the SEC;
+Added: rumors and market speculation
+Added: involving us or other companies in our industry;
+Added: actual or anticipated changes
+Added: in our results of operations or fluctuations in our results of operations;
+Added: changes in the financial
+Added: projections we may provide to the public or our failure to meet these projections;
+Added: actual or anticipated developments
+Added: in our business, our competitors’ businesses or the competitive landscape generally;
+Added: actual or perceived privacy
+Added: or data security incidents;
+Added: risks related to the organic
+Added: and inorganic growth of our business and the timing of expected business milestones, including those related to announced or completed
+Added: acquisitions of businesses, products, services, or technologies by us or our competitors;
+Added: actual or anticipated changes
+Added: in applicable laws or regulations;
+Added: changes in accounting standards,
+Added: policies, guidelines, interpretations, or principles;
+Added: our ability to forecast
+Added: or report accurate financial results;
+Added: technical factors in the
+Added: public trading market for our common stock and warrants that may produce price movements that may or may not comport with macro,
+Added: industry or company-specific fundamentals, including, without limitation, the sentiment of retail investors (including as may be
+Added: expressed on financial trading and other social media sites), the amount and status of short interest in our securities, access to
+Added: margin debt, trading in options and other derivatives on our common stock and warrants and any related hedging and other technical
+Added: trading factors.
addition, the stock markets historically have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected the market prices
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Related to Our Loan Agreements and Loan Agreement Warrants
−Removed: United Capital Investments London Limited, (“UCIL”) may not loan us the amounts they agreed to under their amended and restated loan agreements, and
−Removed: Univest Securities, LLC (“Univest” or our “Placement Agent”) may not be successful in whole or in part in placing
−Removed: our Offering.
−Removed: If UCIL fails to provide us with funding, and the Placement Agent is less than fully successful, we
−Removed: may be forced to curtail or even abandon our plan to recommence our operations and we may need to permanently cease our operations.
+Added: Capital Investments London Limited, (“UCIL”) may not loan us the amounts they agreed to under their amended and restated
+Added: loan agreements, and Univest Securities, LLC (“Univest” or our “Placement Agent”) may not be successful in whole
+Added: or in part in placing our Offering.
+Added: If UCIL fails to provide us with funding, and the Placement Agent is less than fully successful,
+Added: we may be forced to curtail or even abandon our plan to recommence our operations and we may need to permanently cease our operations.
previously noted, we need to raise capital to, among other things, support and restart our operations, re-hire employees and pay our
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Univest funding was available on Dec 31 also.
−Removed: to the Woodford Amended and Restated Loan Agreement, Woodford agreed to fund up to $52.5 million, subject to certain conditions and requirements,
−Removed: of which, per our books and records, $885,734 was received by us through December 31, 2023.
−Removed: reported on form 8-K on August 1, 2023, the Company reported that it had not received the requisite funding on a timely basis that
−Removed: it expected from Woodford, despite making several requests to Woodford for said funding under the Woodford Amended and Restated Loan
−Removed: Moreover, the Board of Directors determined that it was in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders to enter
−Removed: into a new loan agreement with UCIL, as an alternative lender to Woodford, upon receiving an event of default notice on July 21,
−Removed: 2023 (the “Default Notice”) and an event of default and crystallization notice on July 25, 2023 (the
−Removed: “Crystallization Notice”) from Woodford under the Woodford Amended and Restated Loan Agreement.
−Removed: On July 24, 2023, the
−Removed: Company responded to the Default Notice disputing that an event of default had occurred.
−Removed: Further, on July 27, 2023, the Company
−Removed: replied to the Crystallization Notice denying that an event of default occurred or continued, and further asserted that
−Removed: Woodford’s attempt for crystallization was inappropriate and unlawful under its loan agreement.
+Added: Pursuant to the Woodford Amended
+Added: and Restated Loan Agreement, Woodford agreed to fund up to $52.5 million, subject to certain conditions and requirements, of which, per
+Added: our books and records, $798,351 was received by us through December 31, 2024.
+Added: reported on form 8-K on August 1, 2023, the Company reported that it had not received the requisite funding on a timely basis that it
+Added: expected from Woodford, despite making several requests to Woodford for said funding under the Woodford Amended and Restated Loan Agreement.
+Added: Moreover, the Board of Directors determined that it was in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders to enter into a new
+Added: loan agreement with UCIL, as an alternative lender to Woodford, upon receiving an event of default notice on July 21, 2023 (the “Default
+Added: Notice”) and an event of default and crystallization notice on July 25, 2023 (the “Crystallization Notice”) from Woodford
+Added: under the Woodford Amended and Restated Loan Agreement.
+Added: On July 24, 2023, the Company responded to the Default Notice disputing that
+Added: an event of default had occurred.
+Added: Further, on July 27, 2023, the Company replied to the Crystallization Notice denying that an event
+Added: of default occurred or continued, and further asserted that Woodford’s attempt for crystallization was inappropriate and unlawful
+Added: under its loan agreement.
The validity and application of the Woodford Loan Agreement Amendment is disputed by the Company.
−Removed: Despite requests
−Removed: from the Company, Woodford has repeatedly amongst other things:
−Removed: failed to prove the amounts borrowed by the Company or claimed to have
−Removed: been advanced by Woodford to the Company;
+Added: requests from the Company, Woodford has repeatedly amongst other things:
+Added: failed to prove the amounts borrowed by the Company or claimed
+Added: to have been advanced by Woodford to the Company;
failed to indicate if it would accept accelerated payment of those verified amounts;
−Removed: to provide an anti-money laundering acceptable account to which payment could be made by the Company and failed to explain failure to
−Removed: respond to requests for other funding to be accepted in the context of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
−Removed: failed to respond to requests for
−Removed: funding under the accordion facility of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
−Removed: and failed to respond to allegations of money laundering and conspiracy
−Removed: to defraud the Company and others.
−Removed: the uncertainty of continued financing under the Woodford Loan Agreement, on July 26, 2023, the Company secured and formalized
−Removed: alternative funding by entering into a Loan Agreement with UCIL which was further amended and restated on August 18,
−Removed: The UCIL agreement was approved by the shareholders on or about November 17, 2023 and attached to this 10-K/A as an exhibit.
+Added: failed to provide an anti-money laundering acceptable account to which payment could be made by the Company and failed to explain failure
+Added: to respond to requests for other funding to be accepted in the context of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
+Added: failed to respond to requests
+Added: for funding under the accordion facility of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
+Added: and failed to respond to allegations of money laundering and
+Added: conspiracy to defraud the Company and others.
+Added: the uncertainty of continued financing under the Woodford Loan Agreement, on July 26, 2023, the Company secured and formalized alternative
+Added: funding by entering into a Loan Agreement with UCIL which was further amended and restated on August 18, 2023.
+Added: The UCIL agreement was
+Added: approved by the shareholders on or about November 17, 2023 and attached to this 10-K/A as an exhibit.
UCIL loan agreement provides for a credit facility (the “Credit Facility”) consisting of (a) funding in the principal
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of default subject to customary notice and cure rights.
−Removed: The Univest placement agent agreement pertains to the Company’s offering
−Removed: (“Offering”) of units (“Units”) up to $5,000,000 to be offered to their investors;
−Removed: each Unit consisting of a convertible
−Removed: promissory note (each, a “Convertible Note” or collectively, the “Convertible Notes”), and a common stock purchase
−Removed: warrant (each, a “Warrant”, or collectively, the “Warrants”) to purchase shares of common stock of the Company,
−Removed: par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) which include specific registration rights (“Registration Rights”),
−Removed: for their investors.
+Added: As reported on form 8-K filed with the SEC on February 22, 2024, on February 16, 2024, the Company and UCIL entered into an “Amendment
+Added: and Restatement Agreement No.
+Added: 2” to the UCIL Loan Agreement to increase the amount of the UCIL Credit Facility from $49,000,0000
+Added: to $149,000,000 (the “UCIL Amendment”).
+Added: Univest placement agent agreement pertains to the Company’s offering (“Offering”) of units (“Units”) up
+Added: to $5,000,000 to be offered to their investors;
+Added: each Unit consisting of a convertible promissory note (each, a “Convertible Note”
+Added: or collectively, the “Convertible Notes”), and a common stock purchase warrant (each, a “Warrant”, or collectively,
+Added: the “Warrants”) to purchase shares of common stock of the Company, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”)
+Added: which include specific registration rights (“Registration Rights”), for their investors.
neither Woodford nor UCIL, nor any other potential lenders or investors (including those placed through Univest) are able or willing
−Removed: over time to advance us amounts owed under either of their amended and restated loan agreements and/or we are unable to raise
−Removed: additional funds from other third parties, we may not be able to raise enough capital to recommence our operations and run our
−Removed: Consequently, we may be forced to curtail or even abandon our plan to recommence our operations and we may need to
−Removed: permanently cease our operations.
+Added: over time to advance us amounts owed under either of their amended and restated loan agreements or we are unable to raise additional
+Added: funds from other third parties, we may not be able to raise enough capital to recommence our operations and run our business.
+Added: Consequently,
+Added: we may be forced to curtail or even abandon our plan to recommence our operations, and we may need to permanently cease our operations.
are subject to certain covenants while amounts are outstanding under the loan agreements which may restrict our ability to undertake
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The result of that may be a decrease in the value of our securities or our need to seek bankruptcy protection.
−Removed: The validity and application of the Woodford Loan Agreement Amendment is disputed by the Company.
+Added: The validity and application
+Added: of the Woodford Loan Agreement Amendment is disputed by the Company.
obligations under the loan agreements are secured by a first priority security interest in substantially all of our assets and if we
were to default, they could force us to curtail or abandon our business plans and operations.
−Removed: the amounts borrowed pursuant to the terms of the Woodford Loan Agreement are secured by substantially all of the present and
−Removed: subsequently acquired assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, the validity and application of the Woodford Loan Agreement
−Removed: Amendment is disputed by the Company.
−Removed: Under the Agreement, Woodford as a creditor, in the event of the occurrence of a default might
−Removed: have been able to enforce security interests over our assets and/or our subsidiaries which secure obligations, take control
−Removed: of such assets and operations, force us to seek bankruptcy protection, or force us to curtail or abandon our current business plans
−Removed: and operations.
−Removed: If that were to happen, any investment in the Company (including, but not limited to, any investment in our common
−Removed: stock) could become worthless.
−Removed: The validity and application of the Woodford Loan Agreement Amendment is disputed by the Company.
−Removed: Despite requests
−Removed: from the Company, Woodford has repeatedly amongst other things:
−Removed: failed to prove the amounts borrowed by the Company or claimed to have
−Removed: been advanced by Woodford to the Company;
+Added: the amounts borrowed pursuant to the terms of the Woodford Loan Agreement are secured by substantially all of the present and subsequently
+Added: acquired assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, the validity and application of the Woodford Loan Agreement Amendment is disputed
+Added: by the Company.
+Added: Under the Agreement, Woodford as a creditor, in the event of the occurrence of a default might have been able to enforce
+Added: security interests over our assets or our subsidiaries which secure obligations, take control of such assets and operations, force
+Added: us to seek bankruptcy protection, or force us to curtail or abandon our current business plans and operations.
+Added: If that were to happen,
+Added: any investment in the Company (including, but not limited to, any investment in our common stock) could become worthless.
+Added: and application of the Woodford Loan Agreement Amendment is disputed by the Company.
+Added: requests from the Company, Woodford has repeatedly amongst other things:
+Added: failed to prove the amounts borrowed by the Company or claimed
+Added: to have been advanced by Woodford to the Company;
failed to indicate if it would accept accelerated payment of those verified amounts;
−Removed: to provide an anti-money laundering acceptable account to which payment could be made by the Company and failed to explain failure to
−Removed: respond to requests for other funding to be accepted in the context of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
−Removed: failed to respond to requests for
−Removed: funding under the accordion facility of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
−Removed: and failed to respond to allegations of money laundering and conspiracy
−Removed: to defraud the Company and others.
+Added: failed to provide an anti-money laundering acceptable account to which payment could be made by the Company and failed to explain failure
+Added: to respond to requests for other funding to be accepted in the context of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
+Added: failed to respond to requests
+Added: for funding under the accordion facility of the Woodford Loan Agreement;
+Added: and failed to respond to allegations of money laundering and
+Added: conspiracy to defraud the Company and others.
issuance and sale of common stock upon conversion of the amounts owed or upon exercise of the warrants issued to either Woodford or UCIL
under each’s loan agreement may depress the market price of our common stock and cause substantial dilution.
−Removed: of December 31, 2023, per the Company’s books and records, we had borrowed $798,351 under the Loan Agreement to Woodford and
−Removed: $697,642 from UCIL.
−Removed: Amounts borrowed can be repaid at any time without penalty and accrue interest per the terms and conditions of
−Removed: each loan agreement.
−Removed: Amounts borrowed may, at each lender’s option, be converted into shares of common stock, beginning 60
−Removed: days after the first loan date at the rate of 80% of the lowest publicly available price per share of Company common
+Added: As of December 31, 2024,
+Added: per the Company’s books and records, we had borrowed $798,351 under the Loan Agreement to Woodford and $14,783 from UCIL [after
+Added: conversion of $682,859 from convertible debt to equity by UCIL in August of 2024].
+Added: Amounts borrowed can be repaid at any time without
+Added: penalty and accrue interest per the terms and conditions of each loan agreement.
+Added: Amounts borrowed may, at each lender’s option,
+Added: be converted into shares of common stock, beginning 60 days after the first loan date at the rate of 80% of the lowest publicly available
+Added: price per share of Company common stock.
addition, in connection with the loan agreements we agreed to grant warrants to each of Woodford and UCIL to purchase up to 15% of the
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In the event we fail to repay the amounts borrowed when due or either
−Removed: lender fails to convert the amount owed into shares of common stock, the exercise price of the warrants may be offset by amounts owed, and in such case, the exercise price of the warrants will be subject to a further discount.
+Added: lender fails to convert the amount owed into shares of common stock, the exercise price of the warrants may be offset by amounts owed,
+Added: and in such case, the exercise price of the warrants will be subject to a further discount.
sequential conversions of amounts owed under either loan agreement or warrants are exercised, and sales of such resulting shares of common
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currently owe a significant amount of money under our Loan Agreements which we may not be able to repay.
−Removed: of the date of this Amended Report per our books and records, we owe approximately:
−Removed: $798,351 under the Amended and Restated Woodford Loan
−Removed: $697,642 under the Amended and Restated UCIL Loan Agreement;
+Added: As of the date of this Report
+Added: per our books and records, we owe approximately:
+Added: $798,351 under the Amended and Restated Woodford Loan Agreement;
+Added: $697,642 under
+Added: the UCIL Amendment;
and $1,210,000 under the Univest Placement Agent Agreement.
−Removed: Currently, we do not have sufficient funds to repay such amounts.
−Removed: A high level of indebtedness increases the risk
−Removed: that we may default on our debt obligations.
−Removed: If the amounts owed under any undisputed loan agreements are not
−Removed: converted into common stock pursuant to the terms and conditions, we may not be able to pay the
−Removed: principal or interest on the loan, and future working capital, borrowings or equity financing may not be available to pay or
−Removed: refinance such debt.
+Added: Currently, we do not have sufficient
+Added: funds to repay such amounts.
+Added: A high level of indebtedness increases the risk that we may default on our debt obligations.
+Added: If the amounts
+Added: owed under any undisputed loan agreements are not converted into common stock pursuant to the terms and conditions, we may not be able
+Added: to pay the principal or interest on the loan, and future working capital, borrowings or equity financing may not be available to pay
+Added: or refinance such debt.
If we do not have sufficient funds and are otherwise unable to arrange financing or raise additional funds, we
−Removed: may have to sell significant assets or have a portion of our assets foreclosed upon which could have a material adverse effect on
−Removed: our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause any investment in the Company to decline in value or
−Removed: become worthless.
+Added: may have to sell significant assets or have a portion of our assets foreclosed upon which could have a material adverse effect on our
+Added: business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause any investment in the Company to decline in value or become worthless.
insurance coverage is not adequate to cover all possible losses that we could suffer, and our insurance costs may increase.
−Removed: currently do not have effective director and officer liability insurance and may not have the financial resources or otherwise be able
−Removed: to obtain director and officer liability insurance at reasonable cost or terms in the future.
−Removed: However, we have other insurance policies
−Removed: with coverage features and insured limits that we believe are customary in their breadth and scope.
−Removed: Nevertheless, in the event of a substantial
−Removed: loss, the insurance coverage we carry may not be sufficient to pay the full market value or replacement cost of our lost investment or
−Removed: could result in certain losses being totally uninsured.
−Removed: Market forces beyond our control may limit the scope of the insurance coverage
−Removed: we can obtain in the future or our ability to obtain coverage at reasonable rates.
−Removed: Certain catastrophic losses may be uninsurable or
−Removed: too expensive to justify obtaining insurance.
−Removed: As a result, if we suffer such a catastrophic loss, we may not be successful in obtaining
−Removed: future insurance without increases in cost or decreases in coverage levels.
+Added: currently do not have effective director and officer liability insurance and may not have the financial resources or otherwise
+Added: be able to obtain director and officer liability insurance at reasonable cost or terms in the future.
+Added: In the event of a substantial loss,
+Added: the insurance coverage we carry may not be sufficient to pay the full market value or replacement cost of our lost investment or could
+Added: result in certain losses being totally uninsured.
+Added: Market forces beyond our control may limit the scope of the insurance coverage we can
+Added: obtain in the future or our ability to obtain coverage at reasonable rates.
+Added: Certain catastrophic losses may be uninsurable or too expensive
+Added: to justify obtaining insurance.
+Added: As a result, if we suffer such a catastrophic loss, we may not be successful in obtaining future insurance
+Added: without increases in cost or decreases in coverage levels.
cash and cash equivalents may be exposed to failure of our banking institutions.
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access to, our cash and cash equivalents which would adversely affect our business.
−Removed: ultimate effect of the Reverse Stock Split on the market price of our common stock cannot be predicted with any certainty and may decrease
−Removed: the liquidity of our common stock and magnify any decrease in our overall market capitalization.
−Removed: ultimate effect of the Reverse Stock Split on the market price of our common stock cannot be predicted with any certainty, and we cannot
−Removed: assure you that the Reverse Stock Split will result in any or all of the expected benefits, including enabling the Company to regain
−Removed: compliance with the Nasdaq listing standards, for any meaningful period of time, or at all.
−Removed: While we expect that the reduction in the
−Removed: number of outstanding shares of common stock will proportionally increase the market price of our common stock, we cannot assure you
−Removed: that the Reverse Stock Split will increase the market price of our common stock by a multiple of the Reverse Stock Split ratio or result
−Removed: in any permanent or sustained increase in the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: The market price of our common stock depends on multiple
−Removed: factors, many of which are unrelated to the number of shares outstanding, including our business and financial performance, general market
−Removed: conditions and prospects for future success, any of which could have a counteracting effect to the Reverse Stock Split on the per share
−Removed: addition, the Reverse Stock Split also reduced the total number of outstanding shares of common stock, which may lead to reduced trading
−Removed: for our common stock.
−Removed: As a result of a lower number of shares outstanding, the market for our common stock may also become more volatile.
−Removed: The Reverse Stock Split also increased the number of stockholders who own “odd lots” of less than 100 shares of common stock.
−Removed: A purchase or sale of less than 100 shares of common stock (an “odd lot” transaction) may result in incrementally higher
−Removed: trading costs through certain brokers, particularly “full service” brokers.
−Removed: Therefore, those stockholders who own fewer than
−Removed: 100 shares of common stock following the Reverse Stock Split may be required to pay higher transaction costs if they sell their common
−Removed: the decline in the per share price of our common stock and the decline in our overall market capitalization may be greater following
−Removed: the Reverse Stock Split than would have occurred in the absence of a Reverse Stock Split.
−Removed: Any reduction in our market capitalization
−Removed: may be magnified as a result of the smaller number of total shares of common stock outstanding following the Reverse St
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