Form 10-Q for TAURIGA SCIENCES, INC.
17-Feb-2015
Quarterly Report
We are a Florida corporation formed on April 8, 2001. We were originally organized to be a blank check company.
On June 8, 2009, the Board of Directors approved the change of name to “Novo Energies Corporation”. As described in a report filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 26, 2009, a majority of shareholders executed a written consent in lieu of an Annual Meeting (the “Written Consent”) effecting the change of the name of our business from “Atlantic Wine Agencies, Inc.” to “Novo Energies Corporation” on June 8, 2009 to better reflect what we then intended to be our future operations. We filed an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation on June 8, 2009 with the Florida Secretary of State to affect this name change after receiving the requisite corporate approval.
On June 23, 2009, the Board of Directors approved a 3-for-1 forward stock split. Accordingly, all share and per share amounts have been retroactively adjusted in the accompanying financial statements.
On July 30, 2009, Novo Energies Corporation (“Novo”) formed a wholly-owned subsidiary, WTL Renewable Energy, Inc. (“WTL”). WTL was established as a Canadian Federal Corporation whose business is to initially research available technologies capable of transforming plastic and tires into useful energy commodities. Simultaneously, WTL also intended to plan, build, own, and operate renewable energy plants throughout Canada utilizing a third party technology and using plastic and tire waste as feedstock. On May 8, 2012, the name was changed to Immunovative Canada, Inc.
On May 17, 2011, Novo entered into an exclusive memorandum of understanding with Immunovative Clinical Research, Inc. (“ICRI”), a Nevada corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Immunovative Therapies, Ltd. (“ITL”), an Israeli corporation pursuant to which the Company and ICRI intended to pursue a merger resulting in Novo owning ICRI.
In April 2012, the Board of Directors approved the change of name to “Immunovative, Inc.” As described in a report filed with the United States (“U.S.”) Securities and Exchange Commission on April 30, 2012, a majority of shareholders executed a written consent in lieu of an Annual Meeting (the “Written Consent”) effecting the change of the name of our business from “Novo Energies Corporation” to “Immunovative, Inc.” on April 2, 2012 to better reflect what we then intended to be our future operations. We filed an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation on April 30, 2012 with the Florida Secretary of State to affect this name change after receiving the requisite corporate approval.
On January 8, 2013, the Company received from ITL, a notice by which ITL purported to terminate the License Agreement dated December 9, 2011 between the Company and ITL (the “ITL Notice”), along with alleged damages. It is the Company’s position that ITL breached the License Agreement by delivering the ITL Notice and, that prior to the ITL Notice, the License Agreement was in full force and, on January 17, 2013 and that the Company had complied in all material respect with the License Agreement therefore the Company believes that there are no damages to ITL. As such, on January 17, 2013, the Company filed a lawsuit against ITL, which included the request for various injunctive relief against ITL for damages stemming from this breach.
On February 19, 2013, the Company and ITL entered into a settlement agreement whereby the parties have agreed to the following: (1) the Company will submit a letter to the Court advising the Court that the parties have reached a settlement and that the Company is withdrawing its motion, (2) ITL will pay the Company $20,000, (3) ITL will issue to the Company, ITL’s share capital equivalent to 9% of the issued and outstanding shares of ITL, (4) the Company will change its name and (5) the settling parties agree that the license agreement will be terminated.
On March 13, 2013, the Board of Directors approved the change of name to “Tauriga Sciences, Inc.” from “Immunovative, Inc.” We filed an amendment to our Articles of Incorporation on March 13, 2013 with the Florida Secretary of State to affect this name change after receiving the requisite corporate approval. The Company’s symbol change to “TAUG” was approved by FINRA effective April 9, 2013.
On May 31, 2013, the Company signed an exclusive North American license agreement with Green Innovations, Inc. (“Green Innovations”) for the commercialization of Bamboo-Based “100% Tree Free” products including hospital grade biodegradable disinfectant wipes. This 5 year license agreement functioned such that profits were to be split equally between Tauriga and Green Innovations. In consideration for such agreement Tauriga agreed to pay Green Innovations $250,000 USD and 4,347,826 shares of TAUG common stock. Tauriga received 625,000 shares of Green Innovations common stock as well. The agreement was later amended and completed for the following consideration: Tauriga paid Green Innovations a total of $143,730 USD and an additional 2,500,000 shares of TAUG common stock (for an aggregate share issuance of 6,847,826 shares). As of Year End March 31, 2014, Tauriga has not generated any revenues from the license agreement. And this agreement expires on June 01, 2018.
On October 29, 2013 the Company entered into a Strategic Alliance with Synthetic Biology Pioneer Bacterial Robotics LLC to Develop And Commercialize Industry Specific Bacterial Robots “BactoBots”. Under terms of the Agreement the companies will jointly develop a nuclear industry-specific Bacterial Robot (“BactoBots(TM)”). BactoBots are ubiquitous microscopic robots applicable to therapeutics, wastewater, and chemicals. Specifically, Bacterial Robotics owns a family of intellectual property beginning with U.S Patent # 8,354,267 B2 that relates generally to genetically enhanced bacteria that conduct specific functions. Bacterial Robotics initial focus with Tauriga is developing a proprietary BactoBot to remediate wastewater generated by nuclear energy production.
On November 25, 2013, the Company entered a definitive agreement to acquire Cincinnati, Ohio based Pilus Energy LLC (“Pilus Energy”), a developer of alternative cleantech energy platforms using proprietary microbial solutions that creates electricity while consuming polluting molecules from wastewater. Upon consummation of the proposed transaction, which has been unanimously ratified by Tauriga’s board of directors, Pilus Energy will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tauriga. In addition certain advisors of Pilus Energy will be incorporated into the existing management team of Tauriga and will report directly to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stella M. Sung. A total of $100,000 was paid by Tauriga to Bacterial Robotics in connection with the execution of this November 2013 definitive agreement for the acquisition of Pilus Energy.
On January 28, 2014, the Company completed the acquisition of Cincinnati, Ohio based synthetic biology pioneer Pilus Energy LLC (“Pilus Energy”). Structurally Pilus Energy will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Tauriga (pursuant to the terms of the definitive agreement) and will maintain its headquarters location in the State of Ohio. The management of Pilus Energy will report directly to both the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of Tauriga with the expectation that at least one board seat of Tauriga will be allocated to a Pilus Energy affiliate. The Board of Directors of Tauriga Sciences unanimously approved both the previously announced definitive merger agreement on October 25, 2013 as well as the completion of the acquisition inclusive of amended closing terms. In consideration for early closing of this acquisition, shareholders of Pilus Energy received a warrant to purchase 100,000,000 shares of Tauriga Sciences, Inc. common stock at $0.02 per share.
Both management teams are highly confident that the capital and liquidity needs will be sufficiently met through commitments from existing institutional investors and progress in non-dilutive funding initiatives (i.e., grants, low interest loans). The main benefits in accelerating the closing of this acquisition are to enhance Tauriga’s access to capital markets and enable the intrinsic value of Pilus Energy’s technology to be realized sooner through demonstrable progress in the commercialization process. Pilus Energy utilizes a proprietary clean technology to convert industrial customer “wastewater” into value. This wastewater-to-value (“WTV”) proposition provides customers with substantial revenue-generating and cost-saving opportunities. Pilus Energy is converging digester, fermenter, scrubber, and other proven legacy technologies into a single scalable Electrogenic Bioreactor (“EBR”) platform. This transformative microbial fuel cell technology is the basis of the Pilus Cell(TM). The EBR harnesses genetically enhanced bacteria, also known as bacterial robots, or BactoBots(TM), that remediate water, harvest direct current (DC) electricity, and produce economically important gases and chemicals. The EBR accomplishes this through bacterial metabolism, specifically cellular respiration of nearly four hundred carbon and nitrogen molecules typically called pollutants in wastewater. Pilus Energy’s highly metabolic bacteria are non-pathogenic. Because of the mediated biofilm formation, these wastewater-to-value BactoBots(TM) resist heavy metal poisoning, swings of pH, and survive in a 4-to-45 degree Celsius temperature range. Additionally, the BactoBots(TM) are anaerobically and aerobically active, even with low biological oxygen demand (“BOD”) and chemical oxygen demand (“COD”).
On February 27, 2014, the Company appointed Dr. Stella M. Sung (its previous Chief Operating Officer) to the positions of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). In addition, Dr. Sung maintained her title as Chief Operating Officer as well as Interim Chief Financial Officer. At this time her employment agreement was modified and amended to reflect her new positions with the Company. The outgoing CEO Seth M. Shaw (“Mr. Shaw”) also resigned from the Board of Directors and accepted the position of Vice President, Strategic Planning.
On March 10, 2014, the Company entered into a definitive agreement (“definitive”) to acquire California based Honeywood LLC, developer of a topical medicinal cannabis product (Therapeutic Cream) that currently sells in numerous dispensaries across the state of California. This definitive agreement is valid for a period of 120 days and Tauriga advanced to Honeywood $217,000 USD to be applied towards the final closing requisite cash total and incurred 178,000 in legal fees as of march 31, 2014 in connection with the acquisition.
On March 26, 2014, the Company announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Pilus Energy LLC (“Pilus Energy”) has commenced a five-phase, $1,700,000 USD commercial pilot test (“commercial pilot”) with the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), utilizing Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. (NYSE:CBI) (“CB&I”) Federal Services serving as the third-party-contractor through the EPA’s Test and Evaluation (“T&E”) facility. This five phase commercial pilot will include significant testing of the Pilus Energy Electrogenic Bioreactor (“EBR”) synthetic biology platform for generating value from wastewater. This commercial pilot is of great importance to the Company, because it represents the scale up from the benchtop (laboratory) scale to commercial (industrial) scale. The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (“MSDGR”), which is co-located with EPA’s T&E facility, will host the commercial scale EBR prototype at its main treatment plant in Cincinnati.
On March 17, 2014, Black Mountain Equities submitted a conversion notice for the repayment of $65,000 USD principal amount. This conversion for a total of 11,500,000 TAUG shares was not settled until after the year end March 31, 2014, therefore this debt was not removed from the Company’s balance sheet until the first fiscal quarter 2015. Additionally Black Mountain Equities invested $75,000 USD into the Company’s 6 cent private placement during April 2014 (first fiscal quarter 2015).
On March 26, 2014, JMJ Financial sent a conversion notice to the Company for the repayment of $85,000 USD principal amount ($15,000 USD and $70,000 USD separate Notes). While the request was sent prior to year end, the conversion into 9,083,201 TAUG shares did not occur until April 02, 2014. Therefore the debt was not removed from the Company’s balance sheet until the first fiscal quarter of 2015.
On March 28 2014, The Company notified JMJ Financial that it would repay the final outstanding note in principal amount of $75,000 USD for $83,333.00 USD. The Company did not receive the wire instructions from JMJ Financial until April 01, 2014 and proceeded to wire this $83,333.00 USD cash payment to JMJ Financial on April 02, 2014. Therefore this debt was not removed from the Company’s balance sheet until first fiscal quarter of 2015.
On March 30, 2014, the Company notified Redwood Capital that it would repay the final outstanding note in principal amount of $60,000 USD for $77,615.00 USD. On April 14, 2014, the Company proceeded to wire this $77,615.00 USD cash payment to Redwood Capital. Therefore, this debt was not removed from the Company’s balance sheet until first fiscal quarter of 2015. The Company generated this $77,615 USD through its 6 cent private placement; 1,294,167 Restricted TAUG shares were issued for this $77,615.00 USD.
On April 4, 2014, The Company made a cash payment of $50,000 USD to the law firm of Winston and Strawn LLP to settle ALL remaining outstanding legal debts (the arose from the 2013 litigation with Immunovative Therapies Ltd.). There is no longer any debt owed to this law firm and the Company received such acknowledgment from Winston and Strawn via email.
On April 7, 2014, an institutional investor Group 10 Holdings LLC invested $150,000 USD into the Company’s 6 cent private placement for a total of 2,500,000 Restricted TAUG shares.
On April 30, 2014, the Company repaid and retired a convertible note held by Union Capital for the principal amount of $75,000 USD. This was repaid in full for a cash payment of $75,000 USD and a one time restricted share issuance of 1,500,000 TAUG shares. Therefore this debt was not removed from the Company’s balance sheet until first fiscal quarter of 2015.
Between April 1, 2014 and April 30, 2014 (not reflected in the Year End Results due to the timing of settlements), the Company repaid and retired more than $400,000 USD of convertible notes (principal amounts). This activity was reflected on the Company’s balance sheet during the first fiscal quarter of 2015 (04/01/2014 – 06/30/2014).
On September 24, 2014, Tauriga Sciences, Inc., a Florida corporation (the “Company”), Honeywood LLC, a California limited liability company (“Honeywood”), and Doc Green’s Healing Collective, a California unincorporated nonprofit association (“DGHC,” and together with Honeywood, “Licensor”), entered into a License and Supply Agreement (the “License Agreement”). The License Agreement was entered into coincident with the consummation of the Unwinding Transaction (as defined in Item 2.01 below) as a result of which Honeywood ceased to be owned by the Company.
Pursuant to the License Agreement, Licensor granted to the Company, its affiliates and designees, a nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, sublicensable right and license to use, offer for sale, sell, import, distribute and otherwise exploit any products offered for distribution by Licensor (“Products”). The Company is free to change, modify, supplement, combine, enhance and otherwise manipulate Products in developing and commercializing its own products and services. Licensor also granted to the Company the nonexclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, fully paid-up, royalty-free, sublicensable license to use Licensor’s trademarks in connection with any Products. Licensor agreed to provide to the Company, its affiliates and designees, Products in such quantities as may be ordered by the Company in the ordinary course of business, and as such Products may be available for delivery. Licensor must fulfill the orders for Products by the Company, its affiliates and designees on a first priority basis when commercially reasonable. The payment, shipping and other terms related to fulfillment of the Company’s orders shall be at Licensor’s then-existing commercial wholesale terms. However, the price shall be Licensor’s wholesale price (for Products of any sort to be shipped for distribution in California, or Products shipped anywhere without Licensor’s trademarks) and Licensor’s wholesale price less a discount for Products for distribution under Licensor’s trademarks outside of California. The Company has a right of first negotiation for a supply agreement with respect to each new Product. Absent an uncured material breach of the License Agreement by the Company, Licensor may not terminate the License Agreement before September 24, 2020. In the event of a default under the Note (as defined below), the Company has the right to set-off against its obligations under the License Agreement any outstanding obligations under the Note.
On July 15, 2014 the Company completed its acquisition of Honeywood pursuant to the terms of an Agreement and Plan of Merger, as amended by Amendment No.1 to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated July 15, 2014 (collectively, the “Merger Agreement”) by and among the Company, Doc Greene’s Acquisition Sub, LLC, a limited liability company (“Honeywood Acquiror”), Honeywood, Elie Green (“Green”), Daniel Kosmal (“Kosmal”) and Ramona Rubin (“Rubin” and, collectively with Green and Kosmal, the “Honeywood Principals”). As contemplated by the Merger Agreement, Honeywood Acquiror merged with and into Honeywood, with Honeywood being the surviving entity and becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). In connection with the closing of the Merger, the Company, Honeywood and each of the Honeywood Principals entered a Standstill Agreement (the “Standstill Agreement”) in which Honeywood and the Honeywood Principals agreed to restrictions on acquisition of additional Company capital stock and transactions involving the Company and each Honeywood Principal entered into an employment agreement with Honeywood (collectively, the “Employment Agreements”). A description of the Merger was contained in the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 15, 2014.
On September 24, 2014 (the “Unwinding Date”), the Company, Honeywood and each of the Honeywood Principals entered into a Termination Agreement (the “Termination Agreement”) to unwind the effects of the Merger (the “Unwinding Transaction”). Pursuant to the Termination Agreement, the Merger Agreement, the Standstill Agreement and the Employment Agreements were all terminated. As required by the Termination Agreement, on the Unwinding Date the Company entered into an Assignment of Interest (the “Assignment of Interest”) pursuant to which it conveyed its membership interest in Honeywood to the Honeywood Principals, as a result of which Honeywood ceased to be owned by the Company and became owned again by the Honeywood Principals.
In the Termination Agreement, the Honeywood Principals relinquished their right to any merger consideration pursuant to the Merger Agreement, including the right to any shares of capital stock of the Company (which had never been formally issued or delivered), and agreed that all indicia of any Company shares issuable as merger consideration reflected on the transfer books of the Company, if any, would be cancelled without any further action by the Honeywood Principals. The shares of the Company that would have been issuable as merger consideration pursuant to the Merger Agreement if the Unwinding Transaction had not been consummated consisted of: (i) shares of the Company’s common stock representing approximately 15.457% of the Company’s outstanding common stock as of the Merger (109,414,235 shares) payable to the Honeywood Principals, (ii) 18,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock payable to a consultant of Honeywood, and (iii) additional shares of the Company’s common stock representing up to 10% of the Company’s outstanding common as of the Merger payable to the Honeywood Principals as an earn-out upon the achievement of certain milestones. Because of the Unwinding Transaction, none of the foregoing shares will be issued by the Company and the stockholders of the Company will not experience the dilution that would have resulted from such issuance.
In accordance with the Termination Agreement, Honeywood agreed to repay to the Company substantially all of the advances made by the Company to Honeywood prior to and after the Merger by delivering to the Company on the Unwinding Date a Secured Promissory Note in the principal amount of $170,000 (the “Note”). The Note bears interest at 6% per annum and is repayable in six quarterly installments on the last day of each calendar quarter starting on March 31, 2015 and ending on June 30, 2016. The Note is secured by a blanket security interest in Honeywood’s assets pursuant to a Security Agreement entered into on the Unwinding Date between Honeywood and the Company (the “Security Agreement”).
The Termination Agreement contains a general release and covenant not to sue pursuant to which the Company, Honeywood and the Honeywood Principals released, and agreed not to sue with respect to, any and all rights they have against each other through the Unwinding Date except for their respective rights under the Termination Agreement, the Assignment of Interest, the Note, the Security Agreement, the License Agreement and the Release and Covenant Not to Sue dated July 15, 2014 entered into in connection with the closing of the Merger. The Termination Agreement also contains customary representations, warranties and covenants, including covenants regarding confidentiality and non-disparagement.
The following Management Discussion and Analysis should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included in this Form 10-Q.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Three months ended December 31, 2014 compared to the three months ended December 31, 2013
Revenue. The Company is currently developing its business and as a result it has not developed a material or consistent pattern of revenue generation. For the three months ended December 31, 2014, the Company generated $28,834 as compared to no revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2013.
The revenue was generated from the Company’s natural wellness cannabis compliment line launched in August of 2014. The Company expects to increase revenue slightly in the next quarter. Additionally, the Company is continuing its efforts to commercialize the other aspects of its business, although there can be no guaranty such efforts will result in material revenue production.
Cost of Goods Sold. The Company’s cost of goods sold for the three months ended December 31, 2014 was $8,824, which resulted in a gross profit for that period of $20,010 at a gross margin of 69.4%. The Company had no revenue for the three months ended December 31, 2013 and therefore had no cost of goods sold for that period. The Company expects the gross margin to be relatively consistent in the next fiscal quarter.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. For the three months ended December 31, 2014, selling, general and administrative expenses were $717,134 compared to $1,162,138 for the same period in 2013. This decrease was primarily due to a decrease in stock based compensation.
Other Income (Expense). For the three months ended December 31, 2014, other income (expense) was ($657,865) compared to $269,946 for the same period in 2013. This change was due to $600,000 in non-cash financing expenses related to the settlement of litigation with a former lender. In the prior period, the Company had $377,829 in income from the change in value of derivative liabilities related to its’ convertible debentures
Net Loss. We generated net losses of $1,385,390 for the three months ended December 31, 2014 compared to $924,269 for the same period in 2013, an increase of 49.9%, primarily due to $600,000 in non-cash financing expenses.
Nine months ended December 31, 2014 compared to the nine months ended December 31, 2013
Revenue. The Company is currently developing its business and as a result it has not developed a material or consistent pattern of revenue generation. For the nine months ended December 31, 2014, the Company generated $39,665 as compared to no revenue for the nine months ended December 31, 2013.
The revenue was generated from the Company’s natural wellness cannabis compliment line launched in August of 2014. The Company expects to revenue increase slightly in the next quarter. Additionally, the Company is continuing its efforts to commercialize the other aspects of its business, although there can be no guaranty such efforts will result in material revenue production.
Cost of Goods Sold. The Company’s cost of goods sold for the nine months ended December 31, 2014 was $11,842, which resulted in a gross profit for that period of $27,823 at a gross margin of 70.1%. The Company had no revenue for the nine months ended December 31, 2013 and therefore had no cost of goods sold for that period. The Company expects the gross margin to be relatively consistent in next fiscal quarter.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses. For the nine months ended December 31, 2014, selling, general and administrative expenses were $3,564,426 compared to $4,460,880 for the same period in 2013. The expense for 2014 is primarily composed of stock-based compensation ($2,044,933), accounting fees ($282,152), legal fees ($251,921), and consulting fees ($235,301).
Other Income (Expense). For the nine months ended December 31, 2014, other income (expense) was ($1,153,612) compared to ($251,329) for the same period in 2013. This change was due to $600,000 in non-cash financing expenses related to the settlement of litigation with a former lender and $458,177 in non-cash financing expenses related to the issuance of a convertible debenture. In the prior period, the Company incurred $321,000 in expense in order to entice a lender to convert debt to common stock.
Net Loss. We generated net losses of $4,780,545 for the nine months ended December 31, 2014 compared to $4,760,293 for the same period in 2013, an increase of 0.4%.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We continue to fund our operations through private placement offerings and other financings.
During the nine months ending December 31, 2014, the Company sold 64,496,667 shares of common stock for a total of $1,013,500.
At December 31, 2014, we had cash and cash equivalents of $316,393 compared to $812,907 at March 31, 2014.
Cash Flows
Net cash used in operating activities amounted to $6,902,276 for the period from December 12, 2011 (inception of Development Stage) to December 31, 2014. Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended December 31, 2014 and 2013 was $1,602,118 and $1,505,163, respectively.
During the nine months ended December 31, 2014, we used $40,251 in investing activities, primarily as a result of the purchase of equipment and a deferred acquisition charge. During the nine months ended December 31, 2013, we used $243,884 in investing activities primarily the acquisition of a license agreement.
During the period from inception December 12, 2011 (inception of the Development Stage) to December 31, 2014, we generated $11,313,798 net of $678,956 in cash paid for commissions primarily from the sale of common stock and the issuance of convertible debentures.
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