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Subsequent Events
6 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

16. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

On January 10, 2024, CO-CEO, as administrator of the 2022 Equity Incentive plan, granted pursuant to the Plan non-qualified stock options to its employees to purchase an aggregate of 70,000 shares of common stock, at an exercise price of $11.16 per share, being the closing price as of January 10, 2024. These options shall vest over four years with the initial vesting of 25% of the awarded options vesting on the one-year anniversary date hereof, with the remaining 75% of the award vesting pro-rata on a monthly basis for the following 36 months thereafter based on continued service.

 

On February 1, 2024, the Company reported in Form 8-K that on January 31, 2024, the “Company entered into a Letter of Intent and Term Sheet (the “Term Sheet”) with Touch Point Worldwide Inc. d/b/a Berify (“Berify,” and together with the Company, the “Parties”), a technology company specializing in linking physical products to the digital world, digital engagement, and brand protection. Under the terms of the Term Sheet, the Parties intend to create a new joint venture that is a Delaware limited liability company (the “NewCo”) that will be 50% owned by the Company and 50% owned by Berify. Ispire’s contribution to NewCo will be up to $10 million in funding to support research and development, submission by NewCo of premarket tobacco product applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and software development. The Company expects that other parties, including strategic and financial partners, will participate in the joint venture and become shareholders of NewCo in the future. The Term Sheet also summarizes the terms of certain other commercial agreements to be entered into among the Parties and NewCo with respect to the development, production and exploitation of the assets and the operation of the NewCo business (the “Definitive Documents”).