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Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrant Agreements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
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Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrant Agreements

NOTE 8 – Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrant Agreements

 

Convertible Promissory Notes

In November 2016 and then amended in June 2017, the Company’s Board of Directors authorized the Company to issue convertible promissory notes (the “Convertible Notes”) and common stock purchase warrants for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $2.5 million.

 

As of September 30, 2017, the Company has issued $1,625,120 of Convertible Notes and common stock purchase warrants to investors. The Convertible Notes are unsecured. The Convertible Notes bear interest at a fixed rate of 8 percent per annum and require the Company to repay the principal and accrued and unpaid interest thereon at the earlier of November 21, 2017 or the consummation of the next equity or equity-linked round of financing resulting in more than $3.0 million in gross proceeds (a “Qualified Financing”). If a Qualified Financing occurs before November 21, 2017, the outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest on the Convertible Notes automatically converts into the securities issued by the Company in such financing based on the greater number of securities resulting from either the outstanding principal and accrued interest on the Convertible Notes divided by $1.80, or the outstanding principal and accrued interest on the Convertible Notes multiplied by 1.25, divided by the price paid per security in the Qualified Financing. If the Company fails to complete a Qualified Financing by November 21, 2017, the Convertible Notes will be immediately due and payable on such date.


If a change of control transaction or initial public offering occurs prior to a Qualified Financing, the Convertible Notes would, at the election of the holders of a majority of the outstanding principal of the Convertible Notes, either become payable on demand as of the closing date of such transaction or become convertible into shares of common stock immediately prior to such transaction at a price per share equal to the lesser of the per share value as determined by the Company’s Board of Directors as if in connection with the granting of stock based compensation, or in a private sale to a third party in an arms’ length transaction, or at the per share consideration to be paid in such transaction. Change of control means a merger or consolidation with another entity in which the Company’s stockholders do not own more than 50 percent of the outstanding voting power of the surviving entity or the disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company.

 

The warrants granted holders the option to purchase either (i) if exercised after conversion of the Convertible Notes, the number of shares issuable upon the conversion of the Convertible Notes, or (ii) if exercised prior to conversion of the Convertible Notes, the number of shares of common stock equal to the outstanding principal and accrued interest on the Convertible Note held by such warrant holder divided by $1.80. The warrants were immediately exercisable on the date of issuance and expire on November 21, 2021. In June 2017, however, the Company amended the terms of the common stock purchase warrants under the Convertible Notes to be exercisable only in the event of conversion of the outstanding principal and accrued interest on the related Convertible Notes. The amount of warrant shares to be issued are now fixed to the number of shares of common stock received by the holder of the Convertible Notes upon conversion of such holder’s Convertible Notes, and to an exercise price equal to the price at which the Convertible Notes convert into common shares.

 

The warrants were accounted for as a liability because there is no set exercise price. A Monte Carlo simulation model was used to estimate the aggregate fair value of the warrants as of September 30, 2017. Input assumptions used were as follows: risk-free interest rate 1.79 percent; expected volatility 50 percent; expected life 4.14 years; and expected dividend yield 0 percent. The underlying stock price used in the analysis is on a non-marketable basis and is according to a separate 409A valuation analysis. The convertible promissory note proceeds assigned to the warrants were $440,919 and $345,640 during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and for the period from October 7, 2016 to December 31, 2016, respectively, which represented their fair value at issuance, and were discounted from the Convertible Notes and reflected as a warrant liability. The discount is being amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes using the straight-line method which approximates the effective interest method. The amortization expense was $284,637 and $601,794 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively. The Company recorded the fair value changes of the warrant liability associated with the Convertible Notes to interest expense which amounted to $6,546 and $(12,707) for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively.

 

At the time of their issuance, the Convertible Notes contained a 125% conversion premium in the event that a Qualified Financing occurs at a price under $2.25 per common share. The Company determined that the redemption feature under the Convertible Notes qualified as an embedded derivative and was separated from its debt host. The bifurcation of the embedded derivative from its debt host resulted in a discount to the Convertible Notes in the amount of $213,961 and $137,564 during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and during the period from October 7, 2016 to December 31, 2016, respectively. The discount is being amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes using the straight-line method which approximates the effective interest method. The amortization expense was $133,367 and $266,848 for the three and nine month period ended September 30, 2017, respectively. The embedded derivative was accounted for separately on a fair market value basis. The Company recorded the fair value changes of the premium debt conversion derivative associated with the Convertible Notes to interest expense which amounted to $15,406 and $90,212 for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively.

 

In connection with the Convertible Notes, the Company incurred issuance costs in the amount of $151,915, which included (i) a placement agent cash fee, which was $113,610 for the Convertible Notes issued through June 19, 2017 (ii) the obligation to issue a warrant to the placement agent (the “placement agent warrant”) which will have an exercise price of $2.00 per share of common stock and had a total fair value of $4,855 at September 30, 2017 and (iii) legal expenses of $33,450. The placement agent warrant is issuable at the time the private placement transaction closes. The placement agent warrant will be immediately exercisable on the date of issuance and will expire five years following the date of issuance. The placement agent is to receive a placement agent warrant to purchase shares of common stock in an amount equal to 8 percent of the common stock (or common stock equivalents) purchased by investors in the private placement transaction. As of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the Company has an obligation to issue a placement agent warrant for the purchase of approximately 63,000 and 29,000 shares of common stock, respectively. The Company recorded an issuance cost discount to the Convertible Notes in the amount of $39,781 and $37,469 for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and for the period from October 7, 2016 to December 31, 2016, respectively, of which $27,317 and $59,184 was amortized to interest expense during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively. The balance of the issuance costs in the amount of zero and $38,119 was attributed to the common stock purchase warrants and was immediately recorded as interest expense upon issuance during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively.

 

The placement agent is also entitled to receive warrants to purchase common stock in an amount equal to 10 percent of the common stock (common stock equivalents) purchased by certain investors in subsequent equity financing rounds (see Note 13 – Subsequent Events). Such warrants if issued will have an exercise price determined in relation to the pricing of the subsequent financing rounds and will be immediately exercisable once issued.