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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2023
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent events

Note 16 – Subsequent events

 

On April 21, 2023, Mr. Hongxiang Yu tendered his resignation as the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of the Board and a director of GD Culture Group Limited (the “Company”), effective April 21, 2023. The resignation of Mr. Hongxiang Yu was not a result of any disagreement with the Company’s operations, policies or procedures.

 

On April 21, 2023, Ms. Yi Li tendered her resignation as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective April 21, 2023. The resignation of Ms. Yi Li Yu was not a result of any disagreement with the Company’s operations, policies or procedures.

 

On April 21, 2023, approved by the Board of Directors, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Compensation Committee, Mr. Xiao Jian Wang was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, President, Chairman of the Board and a director of the Company, effective April 21, 2023, and Mr. Zihao Zhao was appointed as the Chief Financial officer of the Company, effective April 21, 2023. 

 

On May 1, 2023, the Company entered into a placement agency agreement (the “Placement Agency Agreement”), with Univest Securities, LLC (the “Placement Agent” or “Univest”). Pursuant to the Placement Agency Agreement, the Placement Agent agrees to use its reasonable best efforts to sell the Company’s common stock (the “Common Stock”) in a registered direct offering (the “RD Offering”), and a concurrent private placement (the “PIPE Offering”, together with the RD Offering, collectively the “Offering”). The Placement Agent has no obligation to buy any of the securities from us or to arrange for the purchase or sale of any specific number or dollar amount of securities.

 

In the RD Offering, an aggregate of 310,168 shares of common stock (the “Common Shares”) of the Company, par value $0.0001 per share, and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 844,351 shares of common stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”, and the common stock underlying such warrants, the “Pre-Funded Warrant Shares”) are sold to certain purchasers (the “Purchasers”), pursuant to a securities purchase agreement, dated May 1, 2023 (the “RD Securities Purchase Agreement”). The purchase price of each Common Share is $8.27. The purchase price of each Pre-funded Warrant is $8.269, which equals the price per Common Share being sold to the public in this offering, minus $0.001. The RD Offering is being made pursuant to a shelf registration statement (No. 333-254366) on Form S-3, which was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on March 26, 2021, and related prospectus supplement.

 

In the concurrent PIPE Offering, warrants to purchase up to 1,154,519 shares of common stock (the “Unregistered Warrants”, and the common stock underlying such warrants, the “Unregistered Warrant Shares”) are also sold to the Purchasers, pursuant to a private warrant securities purchase agreement, dated May 1, 2023 (the “PIPE Securities Purchase Agreement”).

 

The net proceeds from the Offering, after deducting placement agent discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company, are approximately $8.53 million (assuming the Unregistered Warrants are not exercised). The Company intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for working capital and general corporate purposes