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Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrant Agreements

12 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2019

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrant Agreements

NOTE 8 - Convertible Promissory Notes and Warrant Agreements

		As of September 30,
		2019				2018

2017 convertible promissory notes, net of discounts		$	—			$	1,306,776
Accrued interest			—				87,028
Total		$	—			$	1,393,804

2016 Convertible Promissory Notes

From November 2016 to June 2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes (the "Convertible Notes") and common stock purchase warrants (the "Warrants") in an aggregate principal amount of $1,625,120 and entered into subscription agreements with subscribers (the "2016 Private Placement"). Effective July 2, 2018, however, the Company entered into debt conversion agreements (the "2016 Note Conversion Agreements") with each Convertible Note subscriber to (i) convert the Outstanding Balance under the Convertible Notes into shares of the Company's common stock based on the Outstanding Balance divided by $1.80 per share (the "2016 Note Conversion Shares"); (ii) cancel and extinguish the Convertible Notes; and (iii) amend and restate the Warrants as defined below to make them immediately exercisable upon the conversion, at a per share exercise price equal to $1.80 per share. As consideration for the early conversion of the Convertible Notes, the Company issued each subscriber an additional new warrant (the "2016 Note Payment Warrants"), exercisable for up to the number of shares of common stock equal to the number of 2016 Note Conversion Shares received by such subscriber; at a per share exercise price of $1.80 per share. The 2016 Note Payment Warrants became exercisable commencing on July 2, 2018 and expire on November 21, 2021.

Pursuant to the 2016 Note Conversion Agreements, $1,804,064 of the outstanding principal and interest of the 2016 Convertible Promissory Notes was converted into 1,002,258 shares of common stock and an additional 2,004,516 shares of common stock became issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and 2016 Note Payment Warrants. The conversion of the Convertible Notes was accounted for as an extinguishment. The difference in the carrying value of the Convertible Notes coupled with the fair value of the underlying Warrants upon conversion relative to the higher fair value of the underlying common stock and collective Warrants and new 2016 Note Payment Warrants issued was $979,480. The $979,480 differential total, inclusive of the unamortized discount remaining on the Convertible Notes of $11,143 as of July 2, 2018, was recorded as a loss on note extinguishments in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations during the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018.

The Warrants and 2016 Note Payment Warrants were deemed to be free-standing equity instruments upon execution of the 2016 Note Conversion Agreements. All of the warrant terms became fixed and the terms were identical. Due to the previously granted warrants now having fixed terms, the warrant liability value of $1,031,366 was reclassified to equity. The warrants associated with the Convertible Notes became immediately exercisable on July 2, 2018 and expire November 21, 2021. The Black-Scholes model was used to determine the July 2, 2018 fair value of the warrants associated with the Convertible Notes. Input assumptions used were as follows: a risk-free interest rate of 2.65 percent; expected volatility of 49.8% percent; expected life of 3.39 years; and expected dividend yield of 0 percent. The underlying stock price used in the analysis was on a non-marketable basis and was according to the market approach, considering both the traded price and forward multiples from guideline public companies, using allocation and marketability-discount methodologies.

During the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, interest on the principal was $65,727, and interest related to amortization of discounts related to the bifurcation of premium derivative liability, separation of warrants, revaluation discounts and issuance costs amounted to $70,324. The fair value changes related to the underlying premium conversion derivative amounted to a benefit of $(333,183) during the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018. The fair value changes relating to the warrant liability amounted to a benefit of $(14,865) during the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018.

As noted above, the Convertible Notes were converted into shares of common stock and were not outstanding during the year ended September 30, 2019.

2017 Convertible Notes

From October 2017 to May 2018, the Company issued convertible notes (the "2017 Convertible Notes") in an aggregate principal amount of $1,540,000 that bear interest at a fixed rate of 8% per annum and warrants to purchase shares of the Company's capital stock (the "New Warrants"). During the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period end September 30, 2018, interest on the principal was $51,333 and $80,022, respectively.

On February 28, 2019 following the 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing (see below for definition), the outstanding principal and interest of $1,678,361 on the 2017 Convertible Notes were converted into 839,179 shares of common stock and 839,179 common stock purchase warrants with an exercise term of approximately 4.8 years and an exercise price $3.00 per share. The conversion was accounted for as a debt extinguishment given the bifurcation of the embedded premium debt conversion feature. The fair value of the newly issued common shares and warrants associated with the 2017 Convertible Notes conversion relative to the carrying value of the debt and fair value of warrant liability and premium derivative liability on the conversion date was $553,447 and was recorded as a loss on note extinguishments in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations for the year ended September 30, 2019. In addition, the previously issued New Warrants became immediately exercisable for 839,179 shares of common stock.

Events Prior to the February 2019 Conversion

On December 31, 2018, the 2017 Convertible Notes were amended to extend the maturity date from December 31, 2018 to June 30, 2019. The amendment was accounted for as a troubled debt restructuring given the Company's financial condition and given the concession granted by the lenders with regards to pushing out the maturity date to June 30, 2019 with no corresponding compensation paid for the extension. The future undiscounted cash flows of the 2017 Convertible Notes as amended exceeded their carrying value as of December 31, 2018. As such, no gain was recognized on December 31, 2018 and no adjustments were made to the 2017 Convertible Note carrying value.

The 2017 Convertible Notes required the Company to repay the principal and accrued and unpaid interest thereon on June 30, 2019 (the "2017 Convertible Notes Maturity Date"). If the Company consummated an equity round of financing resulting in more than $3 million in gross proceeds before June 30, 2019 (the "2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing"), the outstanding principal and accrued and unpaid interest on the 2017 Convertible Notes would have automatically converted into the securities issued by the Company in the 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing equal to the outstanding principal and accrued interest on the 2017 Convertible Notes divided by 80% of the price per share of the securities issued by the Company in the 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing. The New Warrants would have also become exercisable upon a 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing for an amount of shares equal to the number of shares received by the holder in the 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing at the same price per share of the securities issued in the 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing.

Lastly, if a change of control transaction occurred prior to the earlier of a 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing or the 2017 Convertible Notes Maturity Date, the 2017 Convertible Notes would have, at the election of the holders of a majority of the outstanding principal of the 2017 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 (i) the per share value of the common stock as determined by the Board 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 (ii) at the per share consideration to be paid in such transaction. Change of control meant a merger or consolidation with another entity in which the Company's stockholders do not own more than 50% of the outstanding voting power of the surviving entity or the disposition of all or substantially all of the Company's assets. The New Warrants would have also become exercisable upon a change of control transaction for an amount of shares equal to the number of shares received by the holder upon conversion in connection with such transaction at the same price per share that the 2017 Convertible Notes converted in the change of control transaction.

The December 2017 amendment resulted in a substantial modification to the original 2017 Convertible Notes whereby the maturity date was moved up to December 2018 from October 2022 and the terms associated with the embedded features were revised as described above. The Company recorded the 2017 Convertible Note amendment under the provisions of extinguishment accounting. As of January 1, 2018, there remained a debt discount of $26,085 of which $6,575 and $19,510 was amortized during the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, respectively.

The 2017 Convertible Notes contained a conversion discount in the event of a 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing to equal the outstanding principal and accrued interest on the 2017 Convertible Notes divided by 80% of the price per share of the securities issued by the Company in the 2017 Convertible Notes Qualified Financing. The embedded feature 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 2017 Convertible Notes in the amount of $168,384 for the convertible debt issued during the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018; there were no issuances of 2017 Convertible Notes during the year ended September 30, 2019. The discount was being amortized to interest expense over the amended term of the 2017 Convertible Notes through December 31, 2018 using the straight-line method which approximated the effective interest method. The amortization expense was $62,158 and $143,166 during the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, 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 all of the 2017 Convertible Notes in the consolidated statements of operations which amounted to an expense of $111,195 and $11,020 during the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, respectively.

The New Warrants were deemed to be free-standing instruments and were accounted initially as a liability given the variable number of shares issuable in connection with a change of control conversion event and ultimately as equity upon conversion of the 2017 Convertible Notes on February 28, 2019 discussed above. A Monte Carlo simulation model was used to estimate the aggregate fair value of the New Warrants up to the conversion date of the 2017 Convertible Notes. Input assumptions used were as follows: risk-free interest rate of 2.52% and 2.94% as of February 28, 2019 and September 30, 2018, respectively; expected volatility of 50% as of February 28, 2019 and September 30, 2018; expected life of 5.0 and 5.21 years as of February 28, 2019 and September 30, 2018, respectively; and expected dividend yield of 0% as of February 28, 2019 and September 30, 2018. The underlying stock price used in the analysis was on a non-marketable basis and was according to the market approach, considering the traded price, forward multiples from guideline public companies and recent private placement transactions, using allocation and marketability-discount methodologies. The 2017 Convertible Note proceeds assigned to the New Warrants were $442,151 during the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018 and were recorded as a warrant liability. There were no proceeds assigned to warrants in connection with issuances of 2017 Convertible Notes during the year ended September 30, 2019. The discount was amortized to interest expense over the amended term of the 2017 Convertible Notes through December 31, 2018 using the straight-line method which approximated the effective interest method. The amortization expense was $163,060 and $375,076 for the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, respectively. The Company also recorded the fair value changes of the warrant liability associated with all of the 2017 Convertible Notes in the consolidated statements of operations which amounted to an expense of $18,568 and $39,770 for the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, respectively.

In connection with the 2017 Convertible Notes, the Company incurred original issuance costs in the amount of $8,133 which consisted of legal costs and were recorded as issuance cost discounts to the 2017 Convertible Notes, of which $1,431 and $2,944 was amortized to interest expense during the year ended September 30, 2019 and the nine month transition period ended September 30, 2018, respectively.