−Removed: We are a company engaged in the business of
−Removed: developing proprietary technology that enables a quick and safe installation by the use of a weight-bearing power plug for electrical
−Removed: fixtures, such as light fixtures and ceiling fans, into ceiling and wall electrical junction boxes.
−Removed: Our patented technology consists
−Removed: of a fixable socket and a revolving plug for conducting electric power and supporting an electrical appliance attached to a wall
−Removed: The socket is comprised of a non-conductive body that houses conductive rings connectable to an electric power supply
−Removed: through terminals in its side exterior.
−Removed: The plug, also comprised of a non-conductive body that houses corresponding conductive
−Removed: rings, attaches to the socket via a male post and is capable of feeding electric power to an appliance.
−Removed: The plug also includes
−Removed: a second structural element allowing it to revolve with a releasable latching which, when engaged, provides a retention force
−Removed: between the socket and the plug to prevent disengagement.
−Removed: The socket and plug can be detached by releasing the latch, disengaging
−Removed: the electric power from the plug.
−Removed: The socket is designed to replace the support bar incorporated in electric junction boxes, and
−Removed: the plug can be installed in light fixtures, ceiling fans, wall sconce fixtures and other electrical devices.
−Removed: The combined socket
−Removed: and plug technology is referred to throughout this prospectus as “the SQL Technology”.
−Removed: Corporate History and Information
+Added: are a company engaged in the business of developing proprietary technology that enables a quick and safe installation of electronics,
+Added: such as light fixtures and ceiling fans, into ceiling and wall electrical junction boxes by the use of a weight-bearing power
+Added: Our patented technology consists of a fixable socket and a revolving plug for conducting electric power and supporting an
+Added: electrical appliance attached to a wall or ceiling.
+Added: The socket is comprised of a non-conductive body that houses conductive rings
+Added: connectable to an electric power supply through terminals in its side exterior.
+Added: The plug, also comprised of a non-conductive body
+Added: that houses corresponding conductive rings, attaches to the socket via a male post and is capable of feeding electric power to
+Added: an appliance.
+Added: The plug also includes a second structural element allowing it to revolve with a releasable latching which, when
+Added: engaged, provides a retention force between the socket and the plug to prevent disengagement.
+Added: The socket and plug can be detached
+Added: by releasing the latch, disengaging the electric power from the plug.
+Added: The socket is designed to replace the support bar incorporated
+Added: in electric junction boxes, and the plug can be installed in light fixtures, ceiling fans, wall sconce fixtures and other electrical
+Added: Once installed, the socket can remain affixed to the junction box, enabling any electronic fixture installed with the
+Added: plug to be connected and/or removed in seconds.
+Added: The combined socket and plug technology is referred to throughout this prospectus
+Added: as “the SQL Technology”.
+Added: History and Information
SQL Technologies Corp.
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to “SQL Technologies
−Removed: The Company holds a number of worldwide patents, and has received a variety of final electrical code approvals, including
−Removed: UL Listing and CSA approval (for the United States and Canadian Markets), and CE (for the European market).
−Removed: The Company maintains
−Removed: offices in Georgia, Florida and in Foshan, Peoples Republic of China.
−Removed: Our principal executive offices are located
−Removed: at 4400 North Point Parkway, Suite 154, Alpharetta, Georgia, 30022 and our telephone number is (770) 754-4711.
−Removed: Our web address
−Removed: is http://www.safetyquicklight.com.
−Removed: We currently manufacture and sell ceiling
−Removed: fans and lighting fixtures branded with the General Electric logo and manufactured under General Electric’s guidance.
−Removed: ceiling fans and lighting fixtures offer unique designs, and are manufactured with and without the SQL Technology.
−Removed: The SQL Technology
+Added: The Company holds several worldwide patents and has received a variety of final electrical code approvals, including
+Added: Underwriters Laboratories (UL), United Laboratories of Canada (cUL) and C onformité
+Added: E uropéene (CE), and 2017 inclusion in the National Electrical Code book issued by the National Fire Protection
+Added: The Company maintains offices at 4400 North
+Added: Point Parkway, Suite 265, Alpharetta, Georgia, 30022 (our principal executive office);
+Added: McNab Road, Pompano Beach, FL 33069;
+Added: and Fochan, Peoples Republic of China.
+Added: Our telephone number is (770) 754-4711.
+Added: Our web address is http://www.skyplug.com.
+Added: Company currently sells ceiling fans and lighting fixtures manufactured under General Electric’s guidance and branded with
+Added: the General Electric logo.
+Added: We offer unique designs that are manufactured with and without the SQL Technology.
+Added: is currently in the process of transitioning its product portfolio to advanced technologies, along with a new sales methods and
+Added: marketing strategy, which will include unique, innovative advanced technologies (the “Smart SQL”).
+Added: SQL Technology
The SQL Technology is basically characterized
−Removed: as an attachment fitting plug and mounting receptacle used to install lighting fixtures and ceiling fans.
−Removed: The SQL Technology replaces
−Removed: the traditional mounting bar found in existing electrical junction boxes, converting the mounting system into a weight bearing
−Removed: plug with no exposed wires.
−Removed: Our technology could transform the lighting fixture and ceiling fan industry.
−Removed: Using the SQL Technology,
−Removed: anyone can safely install lighting fixtures and ceiling fans in minutes.
+Added: as a mounting receptacle that is affixed to electrical junction boxes and an attachment fitting plug that is installed in wall
+Added: and ceiling lighting fixtures and ceiling fans.
+Added: The SQL Technology replaces the traditional mounting bar found in existing electrical
+Added: junction boxes, converting the mounting system into a weight bearing plug with no exposed wires.
+Added: Using the SQL Technology, lighting
+Added: fixtures and ceiling fans can be installed in minutes, transforming the lighting fixture and ceiling fan devices into plug-and-play
Professional electricians as well as “Do it Yourself”
installers will benefit from our technology.
−Removed: The SQL Technology is Underwriters Laboratories (UL) listed for USA and Canada, is
−Removed: licensed by GE and achieved National Electrical Code (NEC) (or NFPA 70) status in its 2017 edition.
−Removed: Our SQL Technology is comprised of two parts:
+Added: SQL Technology is Underwriters Laboratories (UL), cUL and CE approved and achieved National Electrical Code (NEC) (or NFPA 70)
+Added: status in 2017.
+Added: SQL Technology is comprised of two parts:
a ‘female’
−Removed: socket receptacle that is secured to existing electrical junction boxes, into which electrical and ground
−Removed: wires are simply inserted and secured into terminals on the device, and a ‘male’
−Removed: plug fitting that is preinstalled
−Removed: on the lighting fixture or fan.
−Removed: The receptacle is easily attached to the junction box, and any lighting fixture or fan with the
−Removed: SQL Technology can be literally installed in seconds.
−Removed: Our manufacturing plan calls for the SQL Technology to be pre-installed
−Removed: in all types of lighting fixtures, including holiday themed lighting, and ceiling fans.
−Removed: In February 2015, we received an updated Underwriters
−Removed: Laboratories (UL) Listing for the SQL Technology, which expanded the type of products that we will be able to use with the SQL
−Removed: This listing expanded the voltage and amperage that our product is rated for and will allow for additional fixtures,
−Removed: such as heating elements to be incorporated into our ceiling fans.
−Removed: We have been working with several well established
−Removed: factories producing ceiling fans and lights in Peoples Republic of China.
−Removed: Most, if not all, of these factories have been in business
−Removed: for over 20 years and follow strict human rights and sustainability protocols.
−Removed: The Company is developing smart home technology
−Removed: applications for products using the SQL Technology called “Smart SQL”, which incorporate Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capabilities
−Removed: to enable remote control and automation of such products and appliances.
−Removed: The Company believes that the combination of its quick
−Removed: connect technology, the inclusion of Smart SQL and its growing product lines will uniquely position the Company in the marketplace.
−Removed: Intellectual Property
−Removed: We believe the SQL Technology and the forthcoming
−Removed: Smart SQL provides the Company with a competitive advantage in the lighting and ceiling fan fixture marketplace.
−Removed: We protect the
−Removed: SQL Technology through the use of an intellectual property protection strategy that is focused on patent protection.
−Removed: 15, 2016, we have three issued U.S.
+Added: socket receptacle that is secured to existing electrical junction
+Added: boxes, into which electrical and ground wires are simply inserted and secured into terminals on the device.
+Added: The receptacle is
+Added: easily attached to the junction box.
+Added: The ‘male’
+Added: plug fitting is preinstalled on a lighting fixture or ceiling fan.
+Added: Lighting fixtures or ceiling fans with the SQL Technology can be literally installed in seconds.
+Added: Our manufacturing plan calls
+Added: for the SQL Technology to be pre-installed in all types of lighting fixtures, including holiday themed lighting, and ceiling fans.
+Added: February 2015, we received an updated Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Listing for the SQL Technology, which expanded the type of
+Added: products that we will be able to use with the SQL Technology.
+Added: This listing expanded the voltage and amperage rating of our product
+Added: and allows for additional fixtures, such as heating elements to be incorporated into our ceiling fans.
+Added: have been working with several well-established factories producing ceiling fans and lights in Peoples Republic of China.
+Added: if not all, of these factories have been in business for over 20 years and follow strict human rights and sustainability protocols.
+Added: rely on a combination of copyright, trademark and trade secret laws as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions
+Added: to protect our proprietary technology and our brand.
+Added: We enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements with our
+Added: employees, consultants and other third parties.
+Added: We protect the SQL Technology through the use
+Added: of an intellectual property protection strategy that is focused on patent protection.
+Added: As of July 15, 2016, we have three issued
patents relating to our quick connect device for electrical fixtures.
−Removed: We also have patents
−Removed: in China (two issued patents) and India (one issued patent and one pending patent application), which protects different aspects
−Removed: of the same SQL Technology as the three issued U.S.
−Removed: The Company sought intellectual property protection of the SQL Technology
−Removed: in China due to its current manufacturing operations and prospective sales in China’s market, and sought protection in India
−Removed: in anticipation of future growth into India’s developing market, both with respect to the sales of the SQL Technology and
−Removed: potential operations of the Company.
−Removed: We intend to maintain this intellectual property protection for the SQL Technology.
+Added: We also have patents in China (two issued patents) and
+Added: India (one issued patent and one pending patent application), which protects different aspects of the same SQL Technology as the
+Added: three issued U.S.
+Added: The Company sought intellectual property protection of the SQL Technology in China due to its current
+Added: manufacturing operations and prospective sales in China’s market and sought protection in India in anticipation of future
+Added: growth into India’s developing market, both with respect to the sales of the SQL Technology and potential operations of the
+Added: We intend to diligently maintain this intellectual property protection for the SQL Technology.
The issued patents are directed to various
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The issued patents provide patent protection
−Removed: for our quick connect device, regardless of the electrical fixture used with the quick connect device.
−Removed: As further innovations
−Removed: are developed, we intend to seek additional patent protection to enhance our competitive advantage.
−Removed: Company Name Change
−Removed: The development of smart home applications
−Removed: into the SQL Technology inspired management to change the Company’s name to one that better denotes the diversification
−Removed: in its product line introduced by the inclusion of its Smart SQL.
−Removed: The Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”),
−Removed: and on June 8, 2016, a majority of the shareholders of the Company, approved a name change from Safety Quick Lighting &
+Added: for our quick connect device, regardless of the electrical fixture or electric powered product used with the quick connect device.
+Added: As further innovations are developed, we intend to seek additional patent protection to enhance our competitive advantage.
+Added: development of smart home applications into the SQL Technology inspired management to change the Company’s name to one that
+Added: better denotes the diversification in its product line introduced by the inclusion of its Smart SQL.
+Added: The Company’s Board
+Added: of Directors (the “Board”), and on June 8, 2016, a majority of the shareholders of the Company, approved a name change
+Added: from Safety Quick Lighting & Fans Corp.
to SQL Technologies Corp.
−Removed: Henceforth, further reference to the Company will be “SQL Technologies Corp.”
+Added: Henceforth, further reference to the Company
+Added: will be “SQL Technologies Corp.”
or the “Company”.
Our Business Model and Strategy
−Removed: Safety Quick Light LLC began marketing the
−Removed: SQL Technology in 2007 for installation in light fixtures and ceiling fans during manufacturing and as a kit for installing the
−Removed: SQL Technology in existing light fixtures and ceiling fans.
−Removed: The Company sold 800,000 units of the SQL Technology OEM (“Original
−Removed: Equipment Manufacturer”) to lighting manufacturers and retailers who installed the socket and plug technology into their
−Removed: lighting fixtures for sale at retail stores.
−Removed: The Company also sold, directly to the retailers, 100,000 ceiling fans with the SQL
−Removed: Technology embedded into the product.
−Removed: With the achievement of the License Agreement (as defined below) with General Electric, our
−Removed: management team determined that it could improve its gross margins if it were to market light fixtures and ceiling fans with the
−Removed: SQL Technology already installed on fixtures, instead of marketing the SQL Technology as an add-on device.
−Removed: Our management team
−Removed: also determined that it might be necessary to offer light fixtures and ceiling fans under the License Agreement without the SQL
−Removed: Technology for initial orders from big box retailers, to achieve acceptance as a supplier and to provide retailers time to determine
−Removed: market demand for the GE labeled products (collectively, our “Business Model”).
−Removed: During the first quarter of 2010, the
−Removed: Company’s management took the first of several steps toward implementing our Business Model and discontinued marketing the
−Removed: SQL Technology as an add-on device.
−Removed: To support the Company’s marketing efforts to its target market, entered into a sales
−Removed: and marketing agreement with Design Solutions International, Inc.
−Removed: (“DSI”), a privately held, lighting industry design
−Removed: and marketing firm, which was acquired by NBG Home, a leading global designer, manufacturer and marketer of home décor products,
−Removed: In the latter half of 2016, the Company took further steps to bolster its sales and marketing effort by hiring electronic
−Removed: and lighting industry executives, all of whom had previously worked at General Electric.
−Removed: The License Agreement
−Removed: Company management then took the next step
−Removed: in furtherance of our Business Model and sought the endorsement of the SQL Technology from General Electric.
−Removed: During 2010 and 2011,
−Removed: GE tested the SQL Technology and in June 2011, GE and SQL Lighting & Fans, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, entered into
−Removed: a trademark licensing agreement (the “License Agreement”) under which SQL Lighting & Fans, LLC was licensed to
−Removed: use the GE monogram logo on its devices and certain other trademarks on its ceiling fans and light fixtures through December 31,
−Removed: The License Agreement requires the Company to pay a percent of revenue generated on our products using the GE monogram logo
−Removed: as a license fee, including a minimum license fee payment during the term, and in exchange, the License Agreement enables the
−Removed: Company to market ceiling fans and light fixtures with and without the SQL Technology using the GE logo.
+Added: Safety Quick Light LLC, a subsidiary of the
+Added: Company, began marketing the SQL Technology in 2007 for installation in light fixtures and ceiling fans during manufacturing and
+Added: as a kit for installing the SQL Technology in existing light fixtures and ceiling fans.
+Added: The Company sold approximately 800,000
+Added: units of the SQL Technology to lighting manufacturers and retailers who installed the socket and plug technology into their lighting
+Added: fixtures for sale at retail stores.
+Added: The Company also sold 100,000 ceiling fans with the SQL Technology embedded into the product
+Added: directly to retailers.
+Added: With the achievement of the License Agreement with General Electric (as defined below), our management team
+Added: determined that it could improve its gross margins if it were to market light fixtures and ceiling fans with the SQL Technology
+Added: preinstalled, instead of marketing the SQL Technology solely as an add-on device.
+Added: Our management team also determined that it might
+Added: be necessary to offer light fixtures and ceiling fans under the License Agreement without the SQL Technology for initial orders
+Added: from big box retailers, to achieve acceptance as a supplier and to provide retailers time to determine market demand for the GE
+Added: labeled products (collectively, our “Business Model”).
+Added: During the first quarter of 2010, the Company’s management
+Added: took the first of several steps toward implementing our Business Model and discontinued marketing the SQL Technology solely as
+Added: an add-on device.
+Added: To further support the Company’s marketing
+Added: efforts to its target market, it entered into a sales and marketing agreement with Design Solutions International, Inc.
+Added: (“DSI”),
+Added: a privately held, lighting industry design and marketing firm, which was acquired by NBG Home, a leading global designer, manufacturer
+Added: and marketer of home décor products, in 2015.
+Added: In the latter half of 2016, the Company took further steps to bolster its
+Added: sales and marketing effort by hiring former General Electric electronic and lighting industry executives.
The License Agreement
−Removed: imposes certain manufacturing and quality control conditions that we must maintain.
−Removed: In addition to marketing ceiling fans and
−Removed: light fixtures under the GE logo and trademarks, the Company has the right to offer private label ceiling fans and light fixtures
−Removed: with its technology installed to retailers that market private label products.
+Added: The Company sought the endorsement of the SQL
+Added: Technology from General Electric.
+Added: During 2010 and 2011, GE tested the SQL Technology and in June 2011, GE and SQL Lighting &
+Added: Fans, LLC, a subsidiary of the Company, entered into a trademark licensing agreement (the “License Agreement”) under
+Added: which SQL Lighting & Fans, LLC was licensed to use the GE monogram logo on its devices and certain other trademarks on its
+Added: ceiling fans and light fixtures.
The License Agreement was amended in April
−Removed: 2013 to extend its term through December 31, 2017 and to revise the required minimum license fees, and in July 2014 to remove
−Removed: minimum license fees for 2014.
−Removed: The License Agreement was further amended in August 2014 to, among other things, extend the term
−Removed: through November 30, 2018 and set forth a new royalty calculation beginning December 1, 2013 and continuing through the term of
−Removed: the License Agreement.
−Removed: The current License Agreement provides that royalties due to GE will be tiered, based on a declining percentage
−Removed: of net sales in each Contract Year, paid quarterly, as follows:
+Added: 2013 to extend its term through December 31, 2017 and to revise the required minimum license fees, and in July 2014 to remove minimum
+Added: license fees for 2014.
+Added: The License Agreement was further amended in August 2014 to, among other things, extend the term through
+Added: November 30, 2018 and set forth a new royalty calculation beginning December 1, 2013 and continuing through the term of the License
+Added: The current License Agreement provides that royalties due to GE will be tiered, based on a declining percentage as net
+Added: sales increase in each Contract Year, paid quarterly, as follows:
Sales in Contract Year
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1 through November 30
−Removed: The Company is obligated to pay to GE a royalty
−Removed: minimum of $12,000,000 in the aggregate during the term of the License Agreement.
−Removed: If, at the end of the term of the License Agreement,
−Removed: the total of all royalty payments paid pursuant to the License Agreement does not total $12,000,000, the Company must pay to GE
−Removed: the difference between $12,000,000 and the amount of royalties actually paid to GE through the end of the term of the License
−Removed: Trade Distribution Channels
−Removed: In furtherance of our Business Model, the
−Removed: Company sought to establish trade distribution channels with key retailers.
−Removed: In July 2012, the Company entered into a sales and
−Removed: marketing agreement with Design Solutions International, Inc.
−Removed: (“DSI”), a privately held, lighting industry design
−Removed: and marketing firm.
−Removed: In 2015, DSI was acquired by NBG Home, a leading global designer, manufacturer and marketer of home décor
−Removed: Under the terms of the DSI Agreement, which remains in effect, DSI serves as the Company’s exclusive sales representative
−Removed: for all its products and goods in the United States and Canada.
+Added: Company is obligated to pay to GE a royalty minimum of $12,000,000 in the aggregate during the term of the License Agreement.
+Added: If, at the end of the term of the License Agreement, the total of all royalty payments paid pursuant to the License Agreement
+Added: does not total $12,000,000, the Company must pay to GE the difference between $12,000,000 and the amount of royalties actually
+Added: paid to GE through the end of the term of the License Agreement.
+Added: Distribution Channels
+Added: furtherance of our Business Model, the Company sought to establish trade distribution channels with key retailers.
+Added: In July 2012,
+Added: the Company entered into a sales and marketing agreement with Design Solutions International, Inc.
+Added: (“DSI”), a privately
+Added: held, lighting industry design and marketing firm.
+Added: In 2015, DSI was acquired by NBG Home, a leading global designer, manufacturer
+Added: and marketer of home décor products (the “DSI Agreement”).
+Added: Under the terms of the DSI Agreement, which remains
+Added: in effect, DSI serves as the Company’s exclusive sales representative for all its products and goods in the United States
For its services, DSI receives a commission based on net sales.
−Removed: In addition to DSI’s sales and marketing support, the Company’s products will also be sold through GE’s lighting
−Removed: sales group as a condition of the License Agreement.
−Removed: With the recent addition of lighting and electronic
−Removed: sales and marketing professionals to its management team, the Company is further strengthening its distribution efforts to key
−Removed: retailers and is launching a distribution effort to commercial entities such as home builders and hotels.
−Removed: In addition, the Company
−Removed: expanded its target market to include commercial entities.
−Removed: Third Party Manufacturing
+Added: In addition to DSI’s sales and marketing support,
+Added: the Company’s products will also be sold through GE’s lighting sales group as a condition of the License Agreement.
+Added: the recent addition of lighting and electronic sales and marketing professionals to its management team, the Company is further
+Added: strengthening its distribution efforts to key retailers and expanded its target market to include commercial entities such as
+Added: home builders and hotels.
+Added: Party Manufacturing
The Company’s Business Model entails
the use of third party manufactures to produce the SQL Technology and the ceiling fans and light fixtures in which SQL Technology
−Removed: The manufacturers currently used by the Company are located in Guangdong province of China and, as required by the
−Removed: Licensing Agreement with GE, must be approved by GE to ensure quality standards are met.
−Removed: To further ensure that quality specifications
−Removed: are maintained, the Company maintains an office in the Guangdong province staffed with GE trained auditors who will regularly
−Removed: inspect its products produced by the third party manufacturer.
−Removed: Line of Credit
+Added: The manufacturers currently used by the Company are located in Guangdong province of China and with respect to products
+Added: that bear the GE logo, as required by the Licensing Agreement with GE, such manufacturers must be approved by GE to ensure quality
+Added: standards are met.
+Added: To further ensure that quality specifications are maintained, the Company maintains an office in the Guangdong
+Added: province staffed with GE trained auditors who will regularly inspect its products produced by the third-party manufacturer.
On April 13, 2016, the Company entered into
a Line of Credit Promissory Note with a third party (the “Line of Credit”) in the principal sum of up to ten million
−Removed: Dollars (USD $10,000,000).
−Removed: The Line of Credit provides for monthly payments of interest at eight percent (8%) per annum on
−Removed: outstanding principal, and matures on December 31, 2017, at which time the full principal amount and accrued but unpaid interest
−Removed: The Line of Credit is used to fund the production of our products with our third-party manufacturers and is repaid
−Removed: upon the sale or delivery of the product to our customers.
−Removed: Management and Personnel
−Removed: Beginning in 2015 and throughout 2016, we
−Removed: began building our sales and marketing team by hiring electronic and lighting industry executives, many of whom had previously
−Removed: worked at General Electric.
−Removed: Michael Perrillo, former CEO from DSI, joined the Company as a full-time consultant to enhance and
−Removed: expand sales objectives, particularly toward construction/builders, hotels and other sales channels that the Company is targeting.
−Removed: In June 2015, Mark Wells joined the Company as a consultant to provide product promotion and other sale consulting services, and
−Removed: in August 2016, Mark Wells was hired as our President.
−Removed: Also during 2016, we hired a Vice President of Retail Sales, Vice President
−Removed: of Commercial Sales and Senior Vice President or Product Development.
−Removed: During 2016, the Company continued to expand
−Removed: its staff and team of engineers to develop the SQL Technology and Smart SQL.
−Removed: Capital Fundraising, Previous Offerings
−Removed: and Stock Sales
−Removed: In 2013 and 2014, the Company obtained capital
−Removed: resources necessary to begin implementation of its Business Model pursuant to the Notes Offering (as defined below), and during
−Removed: 2015 and 2016, through additional stock offering and private sales, the Company obtained additional capital resources to further
−Removed: implement its Business Model.
−Removed: The Notes Offering;
−Removed: Issuance of Series
−Removed: A Preferred Stock
−Removed: From November 2013 through June 2014, the Company
−Removed: raised capital resources pursuant to an offering (the “Notes Offering”) of its 12% and 15% Secured Convertible Promissory
−Removed: Notes, convertible into shares of Common Stock at $0.25 per share (each a “Convertible Note”
−Removed: and collectively, the
−Removed: “Convertible Notes”), and five (5) year common stock warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock at $0.375 per share
−Removed: (each a “Note Warrant”
+Added: Dollars (US $10,000,000) to support purchase orders, inventory and general working capital needs.
+Added: On January 31, 2018, the
+Added: Company entered into an agreement to extend the Line of Credit through January 10, 2019.
+Added: The Company may draw and/or repay this
+Added: Line of Credit from time to time until the maturity hereof.
+Added: The note provides for monthly payments of interest at nine percent
+Added: (9%) per annum on outstanding principal and matures on January 10, 2019, at which time the full principal amount and accrued but
+Added: unpaid interest become due.
+Added: and Personnel
+Added: Beginning in 2015 and throughout 2017, Rani
+Added: Kohen, the Company’s founder and executive chairman, entrepreneur, and inventor of the SQL Technology, began building the
+Added: Company’s sales and marketing team by hiring electronic and lighting industry executives, many of whom had previously worked
+Added: at General Electric.
+Added: John Campi, former executive vice president of Chrysler and senior vice president of procurement and vendor
+Added: management for Home Depot and DuPont, as its chief executive officer;
+Added: Patricia Barron, former president of LTG Services (a product
+Added: compliance safety testing company), as chief operating officer;
+Added: Michael Perrillo, former CEO of DSI, joined the Company as a full-time
+Added: consultant to enhance and expand sales objectives, particularly toward construction/home builders, hotels and other sales channels
+Added: that the Company is targeting.
+Added: Mark Wells, former General Manager of Consumer Lighting for GE, joined the Company in August 2016
+Added: as our President.
+Added: In addition, through 2017 we hired John Poole, former general manager of sales for GE Lighting, as Vice President
+Added: of Retail Sales;
+Added: Steve Briggs, former general manager of Global Product Lighting for GE, as Senior Vice President of Product Development.
+Added: The Company also began building its accounting IT infrastructure and internal controls with the hiring of Julio Plutt, CPA, a former
+Added: auditor with KPMG as Executive VP of Accounting & Finance
+Added: 2017, the Company continued to expand its staff and team of engineers to develop the SQL Technology and Smart SQL.
+Added: Fundraising, Previous Offerings and Stock Sales
+Added: 2013 and 2014, the Company obtained capital resources necessary to begin implementation of its Business Model pursuant to the
+Added: Notes Offering (as defined below), and during 2016 and 2017, through additional stock offering and private sales, the Company
+Added: obtained additional capital resources to further implement its Business Model.
+Added: Notes and Warrants Offering;
+Added: Issuance of Series A Preferred Stock
+Added: November 2013 through June 2014, the Company raised capital resources pursuant to an offering (the “Notes Offering”)
+Added: of its 12% and 15% Secured Convertible Promissory Notes, convertible into shares of Common Stock at $0.25 per share (each a “Convertible
+Added: and collectively, the “Convertible Notes”), and five (5) year Common Stock warrants to purchase shares
+Added: of Common Stock at $0.375 per share (each a “Note Warrant”
and collectively, the “Note Warrants”).
−Removed: On November 26, 2013, May 8, 2014 and June
−Removed: 25, 2014 we concluded closings of the Notes Offering with certain accredited investors (which in all cases herein, is as defined
−Removed: under Regulation D, Rule 501 of the Securities Act), in the aggregate principal amount of $4,270,100.
−Removed: Investors in the Notes Offering
−Removed: also received registration rights, whereby the Company agreed to prepare and file a registration statement registering the shares
−Removed: underlying the Convertible Notes and Note Warrants within sixty (60) days after the applicable closing, and to cause such registration
−Removed: statement declared effective by the SEC within ninety (90) days thereafter (the “Note RRAs”).
−Removed: Notes Offering Related Issuances
−Removed: Pursuant to a letter agreement, dated January
−Removed: 23, 2015, between the Company and most holders of the November 26, 2013 and May 8, 2014 Convertible Notes, the Company issued 2,343,191
−Removed: shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the following amounts, as applicable, at a price of $0.25 per share:
−Removed: (i) penalties accrued
−Removed: under the Note RRAs, because the Company was unable to file a registration statement and to have it declared effective on time,
−Removed: pursuant to the terms of the Note RRAs dated as of November 26, 2013 or May 8, 2014;
−Removed: (ii) interest accrued pursuant to an Agreement
−Removed: and Waiver, dated December 11, 2014, between the Company and most holders of the November 26, 2013 Convertible Notes, which extended
−Removed: the due date for the first interest payment under such holders’
−Removed: Convertible Notes for 90 days, in exchange for capitalization
−Removed: of such interest due at a rate of 12% per annum;
−Removed: and (iii) the first interest payment due under each such holder’s November
−Removed: 26, 2013 Convertible Note.
−Removed: Between November 2015 and July 2016, most holders
−Removed: of the Convertible Notes agreed to forbear making an election under their respective Convertible Notes until (ultimately) August
−Removed: 15, 2016, pursuant to one or more forbearance agreements, as applicable, during such time interest under their respective Convertible
−Removed: Notes continued to accrue.
−Removed: Interest amounts due through August 15, 2016 were paid in full by such date.
+Added: November 26, 2013, May 8, 2014 and June 25, 2014 we concluded closings of the Notes Offering with certain accredited investors
+Added: (which in all cases herein, is as defined under Regulation D, Rule 501 of the Securities Act), in the aggregate principal amount
+Added: of $4,270,100.
+Added: Investors in the Notes Offering also received registration rights, whereby the Company agreed to prepare and file
+Added: a registration statement registering the shares underlying the Convertible Notes and Note Warrants within sixty (60) days after
+Added: the applicable closing, and to cause such registration statement declared effective by the SEC within ninety (90) days thereafter
+Added: (the “Note RRAs”).
+Added: Offering Related Issuances
+Added: to a letter agreement, dated January 23, 2015, between the Company and most holders of the November 26, 2013 and May 8, 2014 Convertible
+Added: Notes, the Company issued 2,343,191 shares of Common Stock upon conversion of the following amounts, as applicable, at a price
+Added: of $0.25 per share:
+Added: (i) penalties accrued under the Note RRAs, because the Company was unable to file a registration statement
+Added: and to have it declared effective on time, pursuant to the terms of the Note RRAs dated as of November 26, 2013 or May 8, 2014;
+Added: (ii) interest accrued pursuant to an Agreement and Waiver, dated December 11, 2014, between the Company and most holders of the
+Added: November 26, 2013 Convertible Notes, which extended the due date for the first interest payment under such holders’
+Added: Notes for 90 days, in exchange for capitalization of such interest due at a rate of 12% per annum;
+Added: and (iii) the first interest
+Added: payment due under each such holder’s November 26, 2013 Convertible Note.
+Added: November 2015 and July 2016, most holders of the Convertible Notes agreed to forbear making an election under their respective
+Added: Convertible Notes until (ultimately) August 15, 2016, pursuant to one or more forbearance agreements, as applicable, during such
+Added: time interest under their respective Convertible Notes continued to accrue.
+Added: Interest amounts due through August 15, 2016 were
+Added: paid in full by such date.
The August 2016 Series A Preferred Stock
1 unchanged sentence
holder of Convertible Notes indicate its election to (i) redeem its Convertible Note, (ii) convert its Convertible Note into shares
−Removed: of Common Stock or (iii) convert its Convertible Note into shares of Class A Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Option”),
+Added: of Common Stock or (iii) convert its Convertible Note into shares of Series A Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Option”),
in each case by August 15, 2016.
−Removed: For those holders electing the Preferred Option, each holder received shares of Class A Preferred
+Added: For those holders electing the Preferred Option, each holder received shares of Series A Preferred
Stock on a 1 to 1 ratio to the number of shares of Common Stock which were then convertible as unpaid principal under such holder’s
respective Convertible Note.
−Removed: The Class A Preferred Stock is convertible into shares of Common Stock at the same conversion price
−Removed: as the Convertible Notes (i.e., USD $0.25 per share), and pays interest quarterly at a rate of six percent (6%).
−Removed: The Class A Preferred
−Removed: Stock will be convertible upon the election of the holder thereof.
−Removed: Each holder electing the Preferred Option entered
−Removed: into an amendment to its Convertible Note, providing that the Convertible Note is convertible into shares of Series A Preferred
−Removed: Stock, rather than shares of Common Stock (the “Note Amendment”).
−Removed: In addition, each holder entered into a lock-up agreement,
−Removed: whereby such holder agreed not to offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, give, donate, transfer or otherwise dispose of (i) the
−Removed: shares of Common Stock it then held, (ii) the shares of Series A Preferred Stock obtained upon conversion of its Convertible Note,
−Removed: and (iii) the shares of Common Stock underlying the Series A Preferred Stock (the “Note Lock-Up Agreement”).
−Removed: a majority of the holders of the then-outstanding Convertible Notes entered into the Note Amendment or otherwise consented to the
−Removed: Note Amendment, and the Note Amendments, conversion to Series A Preferred Stock and Note Lock-Up Agreement were entered into effective
−Removed: as of August 15, 2016.
−Removed: Prior to the August 2016 Election, several holders
−Removed: of the Convertible Notes had previously elected to receive payment in cash, or convert their Convertible Notes into shares of
−Removed: Common Stock, but most Convertible Notes remained outstanding.
−Removed: Pursuant to elections received and effective as of August 15, 2016,
−Removed: the Company thereafter redeemed or issued shares of Common Stock or Series A Preferred Stock, as applicable, in exchange for the
−Removed: principal balance of the Convertible Notes, as follows:
−Removed: (i) the payment of, in the aggregate, $200,000 in principal balance of
−Removed: two Convertible Notes;
−Removed: (ii) the issuance of 240,000 shares of Common Stock, representing $60,000 in outstanding Convertible Note
−Removed: principal balance;
−Removed: and (iii) the issuance of 13,256,936 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, representing $3,314,234 in outstanding
−Removed: Convertible Note principal balance.
−Removed: As of March 30, 2017, one Convertible Note
−Removed: remains outstanding, which will be converted into 200,000 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, subject to receipt of complete paperwork
−Removed: from the respective Convertible Note holder.
−Removed: Interest under all other Convertible Notes has been paid and all such Convertible
−Removed: Notes have been terminated.
−Removed: The 2015 Stock Offerings
−Removed: Beginning in May 2015, we conducted
−Removed: an offering of up to $4,000,000 of restricted shares of Common Stock, no par value per share, at $0.60 per share to certain accredited
−Removed: and non-accredited investors (the “May 2015 Stock Offering”), and beginning in November 2015, we conducted an offering
−Removed: of up to $2,000,000 of restricted shares of Common Stock, no par value per share, at $1.00 per share to certain accredited and
−Removed: non-accredited investors (the “November 2015 Stock Offering”).
−Removed: In both offerings, the Company entered into a registration
−Removed: rights agreement with each investor, whereby the Company agreed to, and did, file a registration statement to register the subscribed
−Removed: for shares of Common Stock within one hundred fifty (150) days after the date of such agreement.
−Removed: Between June 12, 2015 and November 6, 2015,
−Removed: the Company completed three closings of the May 2015 Stock Offering, representing aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $2,269,600,
−Removed: and issued 3,782,666 shares of Common Stock.
−Removed: Between December 24, 2015 and February 19, 2016, the Company completed two closings
−Removed: of the November 2015 Stock Offering, representing aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $800,000, and issued 800,000 shares
−Removed: of Common Stock.
−Removed: The 2016 Stock Sales
−Removed: On April 4, 2016, the Company entered into
−Removed: a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, pursuant to which the Company sold 2,000,000 shares of Common
−Removed: Stock at a purchase price of $2.50 per share, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company of $5,000,000 (the “April 2016 Stock
−Removed: Sale”).
−Removed: In addition, the Company issued to the investor a one-year warrant to purchase up to 1,666,667 shares of Common Stock
−Removed: at an exercise price of $3.00 per share.
−Removed: On March 24, 2017, such warrant was exercised in full, resulting in additional gross proceeds
−Removed: to the Company of $5,000,000, and the Company issued 1,666,667 shares of Common Stock.
−Removed: On May 10, 2016, the Company entered into a
−Removed: securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, pursuant to which the Company sold (i) 675,000 shares of Common
−Removed: Stock at a purchase price of $2.60 per share;
−Removed: (ii) a three-year warrant to purchase up to 1,350,000 shares of Common Stock at an
−Removed: exercise price ranging between $3.00 and $3.50 per share (depending on the date of exercise);
−Removed: and (iii) a right to subsequently
−Removed: receive Volume Warrants to purchase up to 1,350,000 shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share (the “May 2016 Stock Sale”).
−Removed: On September 22, 2016, the Company entered
−Removed: into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, pursuant to which the Company sold (i) 30,000 shares of
−Removed: Common Stock at a purchase price of $2.60 per share, (ii) an option to purchase an additional 30,000 shares of Common Stock at
−Removed: a purchase price of $2.60 per share within 90 days (which such investor has provided notice of an intent to exercise), (iii) a
−Removed: three-year warrant to purchase up to 60,000 shares of Common Stock (or 120,000 shares if the option in item (ii) is exercised)
−Removed: at an exercise price ranging between $3.00 and $3.50 per share (depending on the date of exercise), and (iii) a right to subsequently
−Removed: receive Volume Warrants to purchase up to 120,000 shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share (the “September 2016 Stock Sale”).
+Added: The Series A Preferred Stock is convertible into shares of Common Stock at the same conversion price
+Added: as the Convertible Notes (i.e., USD $0.25 per share), and pays dividends quarterly at a rate of six percent (6%).
+Added: Preferred Stock will be convertible upon the election of the holder thereof.
+Added: Pursuant to elections received and effective as of
+Added: August 15, 2016, the Company thereafter issued 13,456,936 shares of Series A Preferred Stock in exchange for $3,364,234 in outstanding
+Added: Convertible Note balance.
+Added: As of December 31, 2017, interest under all
+Added: Convertible Notes was paid and all Convertible Notes had been redeemed or converted into shares of either Common Stock or Series
+Added: A Preferred Stock.
+Added: 2017 Warrant Exercises and Issuance
+Added: August 30, 2017, the Company invited holders of shares of Series A Preferred Stock to (i) exercise their one or more Note Warrants
+Added: in full, on a cashless basis based on an exercise price of $5.00 per share, and (ii) receive new warrants to purchase a number
+Added: of shares of Common Stock which is equal to 10% of the number of shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by such holder (or the
+Added: number of shares of Common Stock that were issuable upon conversion of the principal balance of a holder’s Convertible Note(s)
+Added: prior to conversion), at an exercise price of $3.30 per share (the “2017 Exchange Warrants”).
+Added: In exchange, the Company
+Added: asked the holders to (a) lock-up their shares of Common Stock or derivatives thereof for one year and (b) waive their rights,
+Added: if any, under the one or more Note RRAs.
+Added: As of December 31, 2017, the Company received
+Added: notices to exercise Note Offering Warrants from 22 different Note Warrant holders (constituting 28 Note Warrants), electing to
+Added: exercise their Note Warrants, which equaled an aggregate of 4,367,100 shares of Common Stock, into 4,039,568 shares of Common Stock
+Added: on a cashless basis.
+Added: The Company thereafter issued all 4,039,568 shares of Common Stock and the 28 Note Warrants were terminated.
+Added: In addition, pursuant to the foregoing, the Company issued 23 2017 Exchange Warrants exercisable into, in the aggregate, up to
+Added: 838,040 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $3.30 per share.
+Added: The Company inadvertently issued 92,500 shares of Common
+Added: Stock in connection with the exercise of the Note Warrants and is in the process of cancelling such shares.
+Added: 2015 Stock Offerings
+Added: in May 2015, we conducted an offering of up to $4,000,000 of restricted shares of Common Stock, no par value per share, at $0.60
+Added: per share to certain accredited and non-accredited investors (the “First 2015 Stock Offering”), and beginning in November
+Added: 2015, we conducted an offering of up to $2,000,000 of restricted shares of Common Stock, no par value per share, at $1.00 per
+Added: share to certain accredited and non-accredited investors (the “Second 2015 Stock Offering”).
+Added: In both offerings, the
+Added: Company entered into a registration rights agreement with each investor, whereby the Company agreed to, and did, file a registration
+Added: statement to register the subscribed for shares of Common Stock within one hundred fifty (150) days after the date of such agreement.
+Added: June 12, 2015 and November 6, 2015, the Company completed three closings of the First 2015 Stock Offering, representing aggregate
+Added: gross proceeds to the Company of $2,269,600, and issued 3,782,666 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: Between December 24, 2015 and February
+Added: 19, 2016, the Company completed two closings of the Second 2015 Stock Offering, representing aggregate gross proceeds to the Company
+Added: of $800,000, and issued 800,000 shares of Common Stock.
+Added: 2016 Stock Sales
+Added: April 4, 2016, the Company entered into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, pursuant to which the
+Added: Company sold 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $2.50 per share, resulting in gross proceeds to the Company
+Added: of $5,000,000 (the “First 2016 Stock Sale”).
+Added: In addition, the Company issued to the investor a one-year warrant to
+Added: purchase up to 1,666,667 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $3.00 per share.
+Added: On March 24, 2017, such warrant was exercised
+Added: in full, resulting in additional gross proceeds to the Company of $5,000,000, and the Company issued 1,666,667 shares of Common
+Added: May 10, 2016, the Company entered into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, pursuant to which the
+Added: Company sold (i) 675,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $2.60 per share;
+Added: (ii) a three-year warrant to purchase
+Added: up to 1,350,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price ranging between $3.00 and $3.50 per share (depending on the date of
+Added: and (iii) a right to subsequently receive Volume Warrants to purchase up to 1,350,000 shares of Common Stock at $3.00
+Added: per share (the “Second 2016 Stock Sale”).
+Added: September 22, 2016, the Company entered into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, pursuant to which
+Added: the Company sold (i) 30,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $2.60 per share, (ii) an option to purchase an additional
+Added: 30,000 shares of Common Stock at a purchase price of $2.60 per share within 90 days (which such investor has provided notice of
+Added: an intent to exercise), (iii) a three-year warrant to purchase up to 60,000 shares of Common Stock (or 120,000 shares if the option
+Added: in item (ii) is exercised) at an exercise price ranging between $3.00 and $3.50 per share (depending on the date of exercise),
+Added: and (iii) a right to subsequently receive Volume Warrants to purchase up to 120,000 shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share
+Added: (the “Third 2016 Stock Sale”).
“Volume Warrants”
−Removed: refer to unissued
−Removed: warrants that will only become issuable upon (i) the Company meeting specified thresholds based on the Company generating earnings
−Removed: before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) in a fiscal year during the warrant term, (ii) completion of a
−Removed: private placement of a minimum of $15,000,000 at specified pre-money valuation thresholds, or (iii) the sale of at least fifty
−Removed: percent (50%) of the Company’s assets at pre-money valuation thresholds ranging from $350,000,000 to $1,000,000,000.
−Removed: The May 2016 Stock Sale resulted in aggregate
−Removed: gross proceeds to the Company of $1,755,000 and the September 2016 Stock Sale resulted in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company
−Removed: In addition, the Company could receive up to an amount between $4,230,000 and $4,935,000 in gross proceeds upon exercise
−Removed: of warrants issued in both sales, depending on the timing of such exercise, and could receive additional proceeds of up to $4,410,000,
−Removed: if all the Volume Warrants are subsequently issued and fully exercised by the holder thereof.
−Removed: Also on September 22, 2016, the Company issued
−Removed: 150,000 shares of Common Stock to an accredited investor, in exchange for $405,000 in cash, for a price of $2.70 per share.
−Removed: connection with the sale, the Company granted warrants to purchase up to 750,000 shares of Common Stock exercisable at a price
−Removed: per share of $3.00 per share, which expire on January 1, 2022.
−Removed: Industry Overview and Competition
−Removed: We currently face competition from traditional
−Removed: lighting technologies.
−Removed: There are numerous traditional light manufacturing companies, worldwide, many of which are significantly
−Removed: larger than us.
−Removed: Traditional lighting technologies have the advantage of a long history of market acceptance and developed relationships
−Removed: with retailers and distributors.
−Removed: We will actively seek to educate our target markets as to the advantages of our technology compared
−Removed: to traditional installation methods and believe the achievement of this objective is critical to our future.
−Removed: Although our technology
−Removed: is proprietary and patent protected, there can be no assurance that a large conventional lighting company will not invent a competing
−Removed: technology that offers similar installation efficiencies and enter the market and utilize its resources to capture significant
−Removed: market share and adversely affect our operating results.
−Removed: We believe our products with the SQL Technology
−Removed: can effectively compete against traditional lighting in the areas of installation, maintenance and safety.
−Removed: The SQL Technology
−Removed: offers the advantage of ease of installation and replacement.
−Removed: This feature is superior to other lighting systems, which can require
−Removed: the service of professional electricians to install and remove.
−Removed: Once SQL’s socket is correctly installed in a ceiling or
−Removed: wall electrical junction box, there is no exposure to live electrical wires resulting in an additional advantage in the area of
−Removed: Furthermore, the installation of our socket, which weighs approximately four (4) ounces, requires significantly less work
−Removed: and exertion compared to traditional ceiling light or fan fixtures, which ordinarily weigh in excess of ten (10) pounds and can
−Removed: weigh hundreds of pounds.
−Removed: There can be no assurance, however, that the current competitors directly involved in this industry
−Removed: or a new competitor will not develop processes or technology which will allow them to decrease their costs, and consequently,
−Removed: erode our price advantage.
−Removed: There is significant competition in the ceiling
−Removed: lighting and fan market place;
−Removed: however, we believe we have a competitive advantage due to the strength of the SQL Technology.
−Removed: This competitive advantage extends to customers both in the residential as well as the commercial markets.
−Removed: The SQL Technology
−Removed: is patented or trademarked in the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, and Australia.
−Removed: The Company faces
−Removed: competitive forces from traditional approaches towards ceiling lighting and fans installations.
−Removed: While it is unclear whether SQL’s
−Removed: unique technology will gain significant market penetration, the Company believes that its safety and installation efficiency features
−Removed: will gain market acceptance since it significantly reduces the time necessary to install such fixtures and, after a one-time installation
−Removed: of the socket component, eliminates further exposure to electrical wires when used in conjunction with fixtures in which the plug
−Removed: is installed.
−Removed: To further bolster the Company’s competitive
−Removed: position, the Company has engaged the support of DSI, a lighting design and marketing firm whose existing customer base includes
−Removed: Walmart, Costco, The Home Depot, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Sam’s Club and other major retailers throughout North America.
−Removed: In 2015, DSI was acquired by NBG Home, a leading global designer, manufacturer and marketer of home décor products.
−Removed: the terms of the DSI Agreement, which remains in effect, DSI serves as the Company’s sales representative for all its products
−Removed: and goods in the United States and Canada.
−Removed: For its services, DSI receives a commission based on net sales.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: products will also be sold through GE’s lighting sales group as a condition of it License Agreement.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: recent addition of lighting and electronic sales and marketing professionals will further strengthen its distribution efforts
−Removed: to key retailers, in addition to launching a marketing program to commercial entities such as home builders and hotels.
−Removed: We market our product to retailers and other
−Removed: customers who purchase large quantities of ceiling fans and lighting fixtures.
−Removed: This includes OEM manufactures, electrical
−Removed: distributors, large “big box”
−Removed: retailers, builders, hotels, casinos and industrial and commercial lighting and fan
−Removed: manufactures.
−Removed: We believe that this market will benefit from
−Removed: the time saved in installing fixtures and the safety features achieved from the elimination of exposed electrical wires once the
−Removed: SQL Technology socket is installed in the junction box.
−Removed: As of March 25, 2017, we had ten full time
+Added: refer to unissued warrants that will only become issuable
+Added: upon (i) the Company meeting specified thresholds based on the Company generating earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation
+Added: and amortization (EBITDA) in a fiscal year during the warrant term, (ii) completion of a private placement of a minimum of $15,000,000
+Added: at specified pre-money valuation thresholds, or (iii) the sale of at least fifty percent (50%) of the Company’s assets at
+Added: pre-money valuation thresholds ranging from $350,000,000 to $1,000,000,000.
+Added: Second 2016 Stock Sale resulted in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $1,755,000 and the Third 2016 Stock Sale resulted
+Added: in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $78,000.
+Added: In addition, the Company could receive up to an amount between $4,230,000
+Added: and $4,935,000 in gross proceeds upon exercise of warrants issued in both sales, depending on the timing of such exercise, and
+Added: could receive additional proceeds of up to $4,410,000, if all the Volume Warrants are subsequently issued and fully exercised
+Added: by the holder thereof.
+Added: on September 22, 2016, the Company issued 150,000 shares of Common Stock to an accredited investor, in exchange for $405,000 in
+Added: cash, for a price of $2.70 per share.
+Added: In connection with the sale, the Company granted warrants to purchase up to 750,000 shares
+Added: of Common Stock exercisable at a price per share of $3.00 per share, which expire on January 1, 2022.
+Added: 2017 Stock Sales
+Added: February 21, 2017, the Company entered into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, whereby such investor
+Added: subscribed for and received 20,000 shares of Common Stock for $3.00 per share and a five-year option to purchase up to 100,000
+Added: shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share.
+Added: On February 23, 2017, the Company received gross proceeds of $60,000 from the subscriber,
+Added: and on May 2, 2017, the Company issued 20,000 shares of Common Stock pursuant thereto.
+Added: March 24, 2017, the Company entered into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, whereby such investor
+Added: subscribed for and received 33,000 shares of Common Stock for $3.00 per share and a five-year option to purchase up to 165,000
+Added: shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share.
+Added: On March 24, 2017, the Company received gross proceeds of $99,000 from the subscriber,
+Added: and on May 2, 2017, the Company issued 33,000 shares of Common Stock pursuant thereto.
+Added: April 11, 2017, the Company entered into a securities subscription agreement with an accredited investor, whereby such investor
+Added: subscribed for and received 16,666 shares of Common Stock for $3.00 per share and a five-year option to purchase up to 50,000
+Added: shares of Common Stock at $3.00 per share.
+Added: On April 4, 2017, the Company received gross proceeds of $50,000 from the subscriber,
+Added: and on May 2, 2017, the Company issued 16,666 shares of Common Stock pursuant thereto.
+Added: sales made in connection with securities subscription agreements dated February 21, 2017, March 24, 2017 and April 11, 2017 shall
+Added: hereinafter be referred to as the “2017 Stock Sales”.
+Added: The 2017 Stock Sales resulted in aggregate gross proceeds to
+Added: the Company of $209,000.
+Added: Overview and Competition
+Added: currently face competition from traditional lighting technologies.
+Added: There are numerous traditional light manufacturing companies,
+Added: worldwide, many of which are significantly larger than us.
+Added: Traditional lighting technologies have the advantage of a long history
+Added: of market acceptance and developed relationships with retailers and distributors.
+Added: We will actively seek to educate our target
+Added: markets as to the advantages of our technology compared to traditional installation methods and believe the achievement of this
+Added: objective is critical to our future.
+Added: Although our technology is proprietary, and patent protected, there can be no assurance that
+Added: a large conventional lighting company will not invent a competing technology that offers similar installation efficiencies and
+Added: enter the market and utilize its resources to capture significant market share and adversely affect our operating results.
+Added: believe our products with the SQL Technology can effectively compete against traditional lighting in the areas of installation,
+Added: maintenance and safety.
+Added: The SQL Technology offers the advantage of ease of installation and replacement.
+Added: This feature is superior
+Added: to other lighting systems, which can require the service of professional electricians to install and remove.
+Added: Once SQL’s
+Added: socket is correctly installed in a ceiling or wall electrical junction box, there is no exposure to live electrical wires resulting
+Added: in an additional advantage in safety.
+Added: Furthermore, the installation of our socket, which weighs approximately four (4) ounces,
+Added: requires significantly less work and exertion compared to traditional ceiling light or fan fixtures, which ordinarily weigh more
+Added: than ten (10) pounds and can weigh hundreds of pounds.
+Added: There can be no assurance, however, that the current competitors directly
+Added: involved in this industry or a new competitor will not develop processes or technology which will allow them to decrease their
+Added: costs, and consequently, erode our price advantage.
+Added: is significant competition in the ceiling lighting and fan market place;
+Added: however, we believe we have a competitive advantage due
+Added: to the strength of the SQL Technology.
+Added: This competitive advantage extends to customers both in the residential as well as the
+Added: commercial markets.
+Added: The SQL Technology is patented or trademarked in the United States of America, Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong,
+Added: China, and Australia.
+Added: The Company faces competitive forces from traditional approaches towards ceiling lighting and fans installations.
+Added: While it is unclear whether SQL’s unique technology will gain significant market penetration, the Company believes that
+Added: its safety and installation efficiency features will gain market acceptance since it significantly reduces the time necessary
+Added: to install such fixtures and, after a one-time installation of the socket component, eliminates further exposure to electrical
+Added: wires when used in conjunction with fixtures in which the plug is installed.
+Added: further bolster the Company’s competitive position, the Company engaged the support of DSI, a lighting design and marketing
+Added: firm whose existing customer base includes Walmart, Costco, The Home Depot, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Sam’s Club and other
+Added: major retailers throughout North America.
+Added: In 2015, DSI was acquired by NBG Home, a leading global designer, manufacturer and marketer
+Added: of home décor products.
+Added: Under the terms of the DSI Agreement, which remains in effect, DSI serves as the Company’s
+Added: sales representative for all its products and goods in the United States and Canada.
+Added: For its services, DSI receives a commission
+Added: based on net sales.
+Added: The Company’s products will also be sold through GE’s lighting sales group as a condition of it
+Added: License Agreement.
+Added: The Company’s recent addition of lighting and electronic sales and marketing professionals will further
+Added: strengthen its distribution efforts to key retailers, in addition to launching a marketing program to commercial entities such
+Added: as home builders and hotels.
+Added: market our product to retailers and other customers who purchase large quantities of ceiling fans and lighting fixtures.
+Added: This includes OEM manufactures, electrical distributors, large “big box”
+Added: retailers, builders, hotels, casinos and
+Added: industrial and commercial lighting and fan manufactures.
+Added: believe that this market will benefit from the time saved in installing fixtures and the safety features achieved from the elimination
+Added: of exposed electrical wires once the SQL Technology socket is installed in the junction box.
+Added: As of March 31, 2018, we had Thirteen full time
employees in the United States of America and six full time employees in the Peoples Republic of China.
−Removed: We have not experienced
−Removed: any work stoppages and consider our relations with our employees to be good.
−Removed: These salaried employees include the Company’s
−Removed: founder, Executive Chairman and Chairman of our Board, Rani Kohen, who serves as an executive of the Company on operational activities;
+Added: We also employ independent
+Added: contractors to support our operations.
+Added: We have never had a work stoppage, and none of our employees are represented by a labor
+Added: We have not experienced any work stoppages and consider our relations with our employees to be good.
+Added: salaried employees include the Company’s founder, Executive Chairman and Chairman of our Board, Rani Kohen, who serves as
+Added: an executive of the Company on operational activities;
John Campi, who serves as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer;
Mark Wells, who serves as the Company’s President;
−Removed: and Patricia Barron, who serves as the Company’s Chief Operations Officer.
−Removed: In the second half of 201,6 the Company hired
−Removed: three former GE lighting executives:
−Removed: John Poole as Vice President of Retail Sales, David Martinsen as Vice President of Commercial
−Removed: Sales, and Steve Briggs as Senior Vice President of Product Development.
−Removed: Retailers purchase ceiling fans for early
−Removed: spring and summer sales.
−Removed: As a result, the Company sells more of this product in the October through February time period.
−Removed: Company has begun to market lighting fixtures that will reduce the impact of seasonal influences to its sales growth, as lighting
−Removed: products do not lend themselves to seasonal purchases.
−Removed: During periods of economic expansion or contraction our sales by quarter
−Removed: may vary significantly from this seasonal pattern.
−Removed: Government and Environmental Regulation
−Removed: Our facilities and operations are subject
−Removed: to federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to environmental protection and human health and safety.
−Removed: Some of these
−Removed: laws and regulations may impose strict, joint and several liabilities on certain persons for the cost of investigation or remediation
−Removed: of contaminated properties.
−Removed: These persons may include former, current or future owners or operators of properties and persons
−Removed: who arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances.
−Removed: Our leased real property may give rise to such investigation, remediation
−Removed: and monitoring liabilities under environmental laws.
−Removed: In addition, anyone disposing of certain products we distribute, such fluorescent
−Removed: lighting, must comply with environmental laws that regulate certain materials in these products.
−Removed: We believe that we are in compliance, in all
−Removed: material respects, with applicable environmental laws.
−Removed: As a result, we do not anticipate making significant capital expenditures
−Removed: for environmental control matters either in the current year or in the near future.
−Removed: Emerging Growth Company
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,”
−Removed: as defined in the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable
−Removed: to other public companies.
−Removed: Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act provides that
−Removed: an “emerging growth company”
−Removed: can take advantage of the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of
−Removed: the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
−Removed: In other words, an “emerging growth company”
−Removed: can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies.
−Removed: irrevocably opted out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards pursuant to Section
−Removed: 107(b) of the JOBS Act.
−Removed: We could remain an “emerging growth
−Removed: company”
−Removed: for up to five years, or until the earliest of (i) the last day of the first fiscal year in which our annual gross
−Removed: revenues are $1 billion, as adjusted, or more, (ii) the date that we become a “large accelerated filer”
−Removed: in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which would occur if the
−Removed: market value of Common Stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of our most recently
−Removed: completed second fiscal quarter, or (iii) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt during
−Removed: the preceding three-year period.
−Removed: As a “smaller reporting company”,
−Removed: we are not required to provide the information required by this Item.
+Added: Steve Briggs, who serves as the Company’s Senior Vice President
+Added: of Product Development;
+Added: Julio Plutt, who serves as the Company’s Executive VP of Accounting & Finance;
+Added: Patricia Barron,
+Added: who serves as the Company’s Chief Operations Officer, and John Poole, who serves as the Company’s Vice President of
+Added: Retail Sales;
+Added: purchase ceiling fans for early spring and summer sales.
+Added: As a result, the Company sells more of this product in the October through
+Added: February time period.
+Added: The Company has begun to market lighting fixtures that will reduce the impact of seasonal influences to
+Added: its sales growth, as lighting products do not lend themselves to seasonal purchases.
+Added: During periods of economic expansion or contraction
+Added: our sales by quarter may vary significantly from this seasonal pattern.
+Added: Furthermore, the Company’s entry into the commercial
+Added: sector of home and hotel building is expected to reduce the Company’s exposure to seasonality of its revenue creation.
+Added: and Environmental Regulation
+Added: facilities and operations are subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations relating to environmental protection and
+Added: human health and safety.
+Added: Some of these laws and regulations may impose strict, joint and several liabilities on certain persons
+Added: for the cost of investigation or remediation of contaminated properties.
+Added: These persons may include former, current or future owners
+Added: or operators of properties and persons who arranged for the disposal of hazardous substances.
+Added: Our leased real property may give
+Added: rise to such investigation, remediation and monitoring liabilities under environmental laws.
+Added: In addition, anyone disposing of
+Added: certain products we distribute, such fluorescent lighting, must comply with environmental laws that regulate certain materials
+Added: in these products.
+Added: believe that we are in compliance, in all material respects, with applicable environmental laws.
+Added: As a result, we do not anticipate
+Added: making significant capital expenditures for environmental control matters either in the current year or in the near future.
+Added: Growth Company
+Added: are an “emerging growth company,”
+Added: as defined in the JOBS Act, and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from
+Added: various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies.
+Added: 107(b) of the JOBS Act provides that an “emerging growth company”
+Added: can take advantage of the extended transition period
+Added: provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
+Added: In other words, an
+Added: “emerging growth company”
+Added: can delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise
+Added: apply to private companies.
+Added: We have irrevocably opted out of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised
+Added: accounting standards pursuant to Section 107(b) of the JOBS Act.
+Added: could remain an “emerging growth company”
+Added: for up to five years, or until the earliest of (i) the last day of the first
+Added: fiscal year in which our annual gross revenues are $1 billion, as adjusted, or more, (ii) the date that we become a “large
+Added: accelerated filer”
+Added: as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”),
+Added: which would occur if the market value of Common Stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business
+Added: day of our most recently completed second fiscal quarter, or (iii) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible
+Added: debt during the preceding three-year period.
+Added: a “smaller reporting company”, we are not required to provide the information required by this Item.
UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
−Removed: As a “smaller reporting company”,
−Removed: we are not required to provide the information required by this Item.
+Added: a “smaller reporting company”, we are not required to provide the information required by this Item.
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