As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 12, 2014

 

Registration No. 333-193522

 

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Amendment No. 1

to

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

( Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter )

 

Delaware     335900   46-1318953
( State or other jurisdiction of   ( Primary Standard Industrial   ( I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)   Classification Code Number)   Identification No.)

 

303 Ray Street

Pleasanton, CA, 94566

(925) 344-4200

( Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal
executive offices
)

 

Stephen R. Rizzone

Chief Executive Officer

Energous Corporation

303 Ray Street

Pleasanton, CA, 94566

(925) 344-4200

 ( Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service )

 

Copies to :

 

Mark R. Busch

K&L Gates LLP

214 North Tryon St. , 47th Floor

Charlotte, North Carolina 28202

Telephone: (704) 331-7440

Fax: (704) 353-3140

Andrew Hudders

Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP

437 Madison Avenue - 40th Floor

New York, New York 10022

Telephone: (212) 907-7349

Fax: (212) 754-0330

 

As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

( Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public )

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box. x

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

 

 
 

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ¨

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act (check one):

 

Large accelerated filer  ¨   Accelerated filer                   ¨
Non-accelerated filer    ¨   Smaller reporting company  x
( Do not check if a smaller reporting company )    

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class of Securities to be
Registered
  Amount to be
Registered (1)
    Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
Per Share
    Proposed
Maximum
Aggregate
Offering Price
    Amount of
Registration Fee
 
Common stock (2)     4,600,000     $ 5.00     $ 23,000,000     $ 2,962.40  
Underwriter Warrant  (3)(4)     1             $ 100     $ 0.01  
Shares of common stock underlying Underwriter Warrant (5)     460,000     $ 6.25     $ 2,875,000     $ 370.30  
Total Registration Fee (6)                   $ 25,875,100     $ 3,332.71  

 

(1) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(2) Includes 600,000 shares of common stock representing 15% of the shares offered to the public that the underwriter has the option to purchase to cover over-allotments, if any.

 

(3) No registration fee required pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

(4) Represents a warrant granted to the underwriter to purchase shares of common stock in an amount up to 10% of the number of shares sold to the public in this offering. See “Underwriting” beginning on page 54 of the prospectus contained within this Registration Statement for information on underwriting arrangements relating to this offering.

 

(5) Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, there is also being registered hereby such indeterminate number of additional shares of common stock of the registrant as may be issued or issuable because of stock splits, stock dividends, stock distributions, and similar transactions.

 

(6) $3,317.90 Previously paid.

 

The registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment, which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 
 

 

THE INFORMATION IN THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT COMPLETE AND MAY BE CHANGED. THESE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD UNTIL THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION IS EFFECTIVE. THIS PROSPECTUS IS NOT AN OFFER TO SELL THESE SECURITIES AND WE ARE NOT SOLICITING AN OFFER TO BUY THESE SECURITIES IN ANY STATE WHERE THE OFFER OR SALE IS NOT PERMITTED.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED MARCH 12, 2014

 

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

4,000,000 Shares of Common Stock

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

 

We are offering 4,000,000 shares of our common stock, $0.00001 par value, in a firm commitment underwritten offering, which share number reflects our proposed one for 3.99 reverse stock split (the “reverse stock split”) described in this prospectus.  After the effectiveness of the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, and concurrently with the pricing of the offering, we will effect the reverse stock split.

 

This is an initial public offering of our common stock.  We expect the public offering price to be $5.00 per share (assuming the reverse stock split).  There is presently no public market for our common stock.  We have applied for listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “ENER,” which listing we expect to occur upon consummation of this offering.  No assurance can be given that our application will be approved.  If our application to the Nasdaq Capital Market is not approved or we otherwise determine that we will not be able to secure the listing of the common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will not complete the offering or effect the reverse stock split.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” under the federal securities laws and will have the option to use reduced public company reporting requirements.  Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 9 for a discussion of information that should be considered in connection with an investment in our securities.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete.  Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

MDB Capital Group, LLC is the underwriter for our initial public offering.   MDB Capital Group, LLC has rendered advisory services to us in the past and has acted as our placement agent in connection with the placement of our senior secured convertible promissory notes completed in May 2013. 

 

If we sell all of the common stock we are offering, we will pay to MDB Capital Group, LLC $1.7 million, or, 8.5% of the gross proceeds of this offering and non-accountable expenses equal to $175,000.  For a more complete discussion of the compensation we will pay to the underwriter, please see the section of this prospectus titled “Underwriting.”  In connection with this offering, we have also agreed to issue to MDB Capital Group, LLC a warrant to purchase shares of our common stock in an amount up to 10% of the shares of common stock sold in the public offering, with an exercise price equal to 125% of the per-share public offering price.

 

 
 

 

    Per Share     Total  
Public offering price   $ 5.000     $ 20,000,000  
Underwriting discount   $ 0.425     $ 1,700,000  
Proceeds, before expenses, to us   $ 4.575     $ 18,300,000  

 

(1) Does not include a non-accountable expense allowance equal to $175,000 payable to MDB Capital Group, LLC, the underwriter. See “Underwriting” for a description of compensation payable to the underwriter.

 

The underwriter may also purchase an additional 600,000 shares of our common stock (assuming the reverse stock split) amounting to 15% of the number of shares offered to the public, within 45 days of the date of this prospectus, to cover over-allotments, if any, on the same terms set forth above.

 

The underwriter expects to deliver the shares on or about _____________________, 2014.

 

MDB Capital Group, LLC

 

T he date of this prospectus is _______________, 2014.

 

 
 

 

Table of Contents

 

  Page
   
Prospectus Summary 1
   
THE OFFERING 5
   
SUMMARY SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION 8
   
RISK FACTORS 9
   
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS 21
   
BUSINESS 23
   
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 33
   
DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 39
   
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 42
   
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK 46
   
MARKET FOR OUR COMMON STOCK, DIVIDEND POLICY AND OTHER STOCKHOLDER MATTERS 49
   
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT 50
   
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE 51
   
UNDERWRITING 53
   
USE OF PROCEEDS 57
   
CAPITALIZATION 58
   
DILUTION 59
   
LEGAL MATTERS 59
   
EXPERTS 60
   
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION 60
   
DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES 60

 

Unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, the terms “Energous,” “DvineWave”, “we,” “us,” “our” and the “Company” refer to Energous Corporation.

 

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus.  We have not authorized anyone to provide you with additional or different information.  The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date on the front cover of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock.

 

No dealer, salesperson or any other person is authorized in connection with this offering to give any information or make any representations about us, the securities offered hereby or any matter discussed in this prospectus, other than those contained in this prospectus and, if given or made, the information or representations must not be relied upon as having been authorized by us.  This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security other than the securities offered by this prospectus, or an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities by anyone in any circumstance in which the offer or solicitation is not authorized or is unlawful.

 

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Prospectus Summary

 

This summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere in this prospectus and does not contain all of the information that you need to consider in making your investment decision.  You should carefully read this entire prospectus, as well as the information to which we refer you, before deciding whether to invest in our common stock.  You should pay special attention to the “Risk Factors” section of this prospectus to determine whether an investment in our common stock is appropriate for you.

 

This registration statement, including the exhibits and schedules thereto, contains additional relevant information about us and our securities.  With respect to the statements contained in this prospectus regarding the contents of any agreement or any other document, in each instance, the statement is qualified in all respects by the complete text of the agreement or document, a copy of which has been filed or incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement.

 

About Energous Corporation

 

We are a development stage technology company. We are developing technology that can enable wireless charging or powering of electronic devices at distance. We believe our technology is a novel approach, in that it charges or powers devices by surrounding them with a three dimensional (“3D”) pocket of energy formed by radio frequencies (“RF pocket”). In our laboratory, our prototype devices have enabled wireless transmission of energy from a transmitter (similar in size and shape to a Wi-Fi router) to multiple receiver test boards at a distance of up to 15 feet. Our test boards are constructed from commercially available parts and components, are not optimized for our receiver application and are too large to be incorporated in commercially marketed products. We intend to develop a receiver chip to integrate into additional test devices. We believe this receiver chip will optimize our technology into a significantly smaller space and allow for the incorporation or our receiver technology into various products. If the receiver chip we expect to develop is integrated into a low-power (under 10 watts) electronic device, the chip should be able to utilize the received energy to either power the device directly or charge the battery that powers the device. We are also developing management and control of our solution through a software application that will ultimately reside on the device being charged. We believe that if our development efforts are successful, our transmitter/receiver solution will initially be able to power or charge multiple electronic devices at up to 1.5 watts at distances of up to 30 feet. Subsequent development efforts will focus on increasing the charging wattage, increasing the distance of charging, enhancing reliability, enhancing management and control of the solution and reducing design cost.

 

We were incorporated in Delaware on October 30, 2012 under the name of DvineWave Inc. and changed our name to Energous Corporation in January 2014. The address of our corporate headquarters is 303 Ray Street, Pleasanton, CA, 94566 and our telephone number is (925) 344-4200.  Our website can be accessed at www.energous.com.  The information contained on, or that may be obtained from, our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this prospectus.

 

Our Technology

 

The wireless charging solution we are developing employs 3D “pocketforming.” The solution has two main hardware components: a transmitter, which creates the RF pocket; and one or many receivers connected to electronic devices, which receive the power from the RF pocket. Today this solution is able to send wattage from the transmitter to individual receiver test boards.

 

Our transmitter locates the receiver(s) in a 3-dimensional space. Next, the transmitter generates a proprietary waveform to create an RF pocket around the receiver(s). We expect that the receiver chips we intend to develop will gather power from this RF pocket. We believe that these proposed receiver chips would then be able to either charge rechargeable-battery devices, or power low–power (under 10 watts) devices that would otherwise need a battery or a connection to a power outlet. Our transmitter uses proprietary software algorithms to dynamically direct, focus and control our proprietary waveform in three dimensions. We believe this control will allow for transmission of energy to a moving object (such as a mobile phone in a user’s pocket).

 

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Our Business Strategy

 

We intend to license our technology to various consumer electronics companies. We intend to pursue this path because we believe there are several market verticals to which our technology can apply, and we believe that this is the most capital-efficient manner in which we can address many of them at once. We intend to target all aspects of the consumer electronics supply chain. This includes:

 

· Manufacturers of individual electronic components, such as antennae and integrated batteries.

 

· Original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), which manufacture products for sale under another firm’s brand.

 

· Original design manufacturers (“ODMs”), which also manufacture products for sale under another firm’s brand, but differ from OEMs in that they also design these products (either collaboratively with their customers or on their own). An ODM may engage multiple companies with similar designs that are then marketed under several different end customers’ brands.

 

· Branded consumer electronics firms, some of which design their own products and manufacture them through OEMs, and some of which are value-added resellers that rely on an ODM to design and manufacture their products.

 

Collectively, we refer to these firms as the “consumer electronics supply chain”. We believe strategic relationships with key consumer electronics supply chain licensees will enable our technology to penetrate the marketplace much faster than it would if we manufactured, marketed and distributed products ourselves.  We believe this business model will allow us to concentrate our resources on projects more aligned to our core competency in generating licensable intellectual property through research-and-development. As we develop new applications for our technology, we expect to target new strategic relationships in different market sectors.

 

Nasdaq Listing and Reverse Stock Split

 

We have applied for listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If our application to the Nasdaq Capital Market is not approved or we otherwise determine that we will not be able to secure the listing of the common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will not complete the offering.

 

On December 12, 2013 our board of directors and stockholders holding a majority of our outstanding voting power, approved resolutions authorizing our board of directors to effect a reverse split of our common stock at an exchange ratio of between one-for-two and one-for-ten, with our board of directors retaining the discretion as to whether to implement the reverse split and which exchange ratio to implement.  The reverse stock split is intended to allow us to meet the minimum share price requirement of The Nasdaq Capital Market.  In March 2014, our board of directors determined that following the effectiveness of the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, and prior to the closing of this offering, the board of directors will effect the reverse stock split at a ratio of 1 share for each 3.99 shares.

 

Except as otherwise indicated and except in our financial statements, all information regarding share amounts of common stock and prices per share of common stock contained in this prospectus assume the consummation of the reverse stock split to be effected following effectiveness of the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, and prior to the closing of this offering.

 

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Status as an Emerging Growth Company

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as that term is defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (the “JOBS Act”).  Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act exempts emerging growth companies from being required to comply with new or revised financial accounting standards until private companies (that is, those that have not had a Securities Act registration statement declared effective or do not have a class of securities registered under the Securities Exchange Act) are required to comply with the new or revised financial accounting standard.  The JOBS Act also provides that a company can elect to opt out of the extended transition period provided by Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act and comply with the requirements that apply to non-emerging growth companies but any such election to opt out is irrevocable.  We have irrevocably elected to opt out of this extended transition period provided by Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act.  Even though we have elected to opt out of the extended transition period, we may still take advantage of all of the other provisions of the JOBS Act, which include, but are not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements and the exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.

 

Ability to Continue our Operations

 

Our net loss for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 31, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, was $5,521,081, $21,287 and $5,542,368, respectively.

 

We will need financing to continue our operations, particularly for the support of our research and development efforts.  Beyond this offering, we have no committed sources of capital and do not know whether additional financing will be available when needed on terms that are acceptable, if at all.  The failure to satisfy our capital requirements will adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

 

Sale of Common Stock

 

On March 7, 2014, we entered into a stock purchase agreement with a strategic investor pursuant to which the investor agreed to purchase 210,526 shares of our common stock for gross proceeds of $1,000,000. In connection with this sale, we will pay MDB Capital Group a fee of $100,000. The shares issued are subject to the one year lock-up and voting control agreement.

 

Convertible Promissory Notes

 

We issued $5.5 million in senior secured convertible promissory notes that bear simple interest at 6% and must be paid or converted into shares of our common stock on or before August 16, 2014.  We refer to these promissory notes as the “Convertible Notes” in this prospectus.   Upon consummation of a public offering of our common stock yielding gross proceeds of at least $10 million, all of the outstanding principal and interest accrued on the Convertible Notes will be converted in full into shares of our common stock. Assuming that this offering was completed on December 31, 2013, based on interest accrued through such date the Convertible Notes would have been converted into 2,283,181 shares of our common stock.

 

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Risks Related to Our Business

 

Our business is subject to a number of risks.  You should understand these risks before making an investment decision.  If any of these risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition or results of operations would likely be materially adversely affected.  In such case, the trading price of our common stock would likely decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment.  Below is a summary of some of the principal risks we face.  The risks are discussed more fully in the section of this prospectus below titled “Risk Factors.” 

 

· We are a development-stage technology company, have no history of generating revenue, have a history of operating losses, and we may never achieve or maintain profitability.

 

· We expect that, unless we are able to obtain non-dilutive financing through licensing revenues or other strategic partner transactions, we will need additional capital and if we are unable to raise additional capital when and as needed in the future, we will not have sufficient funds to continue operations.

 

· We may raise additional financing by issuing new securities that may have terms or rights superior to those of our shares of common stock, which could adversely affect the market price of our shares of common stock and our business.

 

· Our technology under development is subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission and by other governmental agencies and we may have difficulty complying with applicable regulations.

 

· Even if we do successfully commercialize our technology, it may never achieve widespread market acceptance.

 

· Our industry is subject to intense competition and rapid technological change, which may result in products or new solutions that are superior to our technology under development or other future products we may bring to market from time to time. If we are unable to anticipate or keep pace with changes in the marketplace and the direction of technological innovation and customer demands, our technology may become less useful or obsolete and our operating results will suffer.

 

· We may be unable to protect our intellectual property.

 

· We expect to depend on third-party licensors to manufacture, market and distribute our technology under development or other future products. If these strategic partners and distributors fail to successfully manufacture, market and distribute our technology under development or other future products, our business will be materially harmed.

 

· We could become subject to product liability claims, product recalls, and warranty claims that could be expensive, divert management’s attention and harm our business.

 

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THE OFFERING

 

The following summary contains basic information about our initial public offering and our common stock and is not intended to be complete.  It does not contain all of the information that may be important to you.  For a more complete understanding of our common stock, please refer to the section of this prospectus titled “Description of Capital Stock.”

 

Issuer   Energous Corporation, a Delaware corporation.
     
Common Stock Offered By Us   4,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.00001 per share.
     
Over-allotment Option   We have granted an option to our underwriter to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares of common stock within 45 days of the date of this prospectus in order to cover over-allotments, if any.
     
Common Stock Outstanding Prior To This Offering   2,918,740 shares of common stock (1).
     
Public Offering Price   $5.00 per share
     
Common Stock Outstanding After This Offering   9,201,921 shares of common stock (1)(2)(3)
     
Use of Proceeds   We intend to use the net proceeds from our sale of common stock in this offering as follows: approximately $10.3 million will be used for product research, development, reference design development and product certifications, approximately $0.7 million will be used for the protection of our intellectual property, approximately $2.8 million will be used for sales and marketing activities, approximately $0.8 million will be used for the purchase of fixed assets which consists primarily of computer equipment and software, and the balance of the funds will be used for general and administrative expenses and other general corporate purposes.  See “Use of Proceeds” and “Plan of Operation” in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” for additional information.
     
Market And Trading Symbol For The Common Stock   There is currently no market for our common stock.  We have applied for listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “ENER”.

 

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Underwriter Common Stock Purchase Warrant   In connection with this offering, we have also agreed to sell to MDB Capital Group, LLC and its designees a warrant to purchase up to 10% of the shares of common stock sold in this offering.  If this warrant is exercised, each share may be purchased by MDB Capital Group, LLC at $6.25 per share (125% of the price of the shares sold in this offering.)  This warrant will have a five-year term and be subject to a six month lock-up.  See “Underwriting” for additional information.
     
Lock-Up Agreements   Our officers, directors and employees, and 5% or greater holders of our equity securities as determined pursuant to Rule 13d-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and MDB Capital, LLC and its transferees (with respect to the warrants originally issued on May 16, 2013) will have the securities they own locked up until the first anniversary of the Underwriting Agreement we will enter into in conjunction with this offering (the “One Year Lock-Up”).  The purchasers of our senior secured convertible promissory notes are subject to lock-up requirements for periods that may last no more than 180 days following the date of this prospectus (the “ 180 Days Lock-Up”).  The number of currently outstanding shares of common stock subject to the One Year Lock-Up totals 2,918,740 shares, the number of shares underlying options and warrants subject to the One Year Lock-Up totals 1,246,852 shares.  The number of shares of common stock to be issued to the holders of our senior secured convertible promissory notes that will be subject to the 180 Days Lock-Up as of December 31, 2013 totals 2,283,181 shares.  The warrant to purchase up to 10% of the shares of common stock sold in this offering we have agreed to issue MDB Capital Group, LLC in connection with this offering will also be subject to the 180 Days Lock-up.  For more information about the lock-up agreements and requirements, see the section titled “Underwriting - Lock-Up Agreements” in this prospectus.
     
Offering Termination   If our application to the Nasdaq Capital Market is not approved or we otherwise determine that we will not be able to secure the listing of the common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will not complete the offering

 

(1) The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding both before and after this offering is based on the number of shares outstanding as of March 11, 2014 (assuming the issuance of 210,526 shares of common stock issuable pursuant to a stock purchase agreement dated March 7, 2014) and excludes:

 

· 733,333 shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under stock option agreements issued pursuant to our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan at a weighted average exercise price of $2.19 per share;

 

· 513,519 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under outstanding warrants and non-statutory stock options at a weighted average exercise price of $1.46 per share (and 36,000 shares of common stock underlying warrants expected to be issued to a service provider following completion of the offering);

 

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· 1,547,882 shares of our common stock estimated to be reserved for future issuance under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan;

 

· 250,000 shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2014 Non-Employee Equity Compensation Plan;

 

· shares to be issued upon conversion of interest accrued on our senior secured convertible promissory notes after December 31, 2013; and

 

· shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant to be issued to the underwriter representing ten percent of the number of shares offered by this prospectus.

 

Unless otherwise specifically stated, information throughout this prospectus assumes that none of the outstanding options or warrants to purchase shares of our common stock are exercised.

 

(2) Unless otherwise indicated, the number of shares of common stock presented in this prospectus excludes shares issuable pursuant to the exercise of the underwriter’s over-allotment option.

 

(3) This number includes 4,000,000 shares of common stock that will be issued in this offering and 2,283,181 shares of common stock that will be issued to the holders of our senior secured convertible promissory notes upon the completion of this offering.

 

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SUMMARY SELECTED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The table below includes historical selected financial data for the year ended December 31, 2013, the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, derived from our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  

 

You should read the historical selected financial information presented below in conjunction with the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section and our financial statements and the notes to those financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.  Historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any future period. 

 

    For the Year Ended
December 31, 2013
    For the Period
October 30, 2012
(Inception)
through
December 31,
2012
    For the Period
October 30, 2012
(Inception)
through
December 31,
2013
 
                   
STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS:                        
Operating expenses:                        
Derivative instrument issuance expenses   $ 887,062     $ -     $ 887,062  
Research and development expenses     2,109,890       17,103       2,126,993  
General and administrative expenses     1,204,896       4,184       1,209,080  
Marketing expenses     233,622       -       233,622  
Loss from operations     (4,435,470 )     (21,287 )     (4,456,757 )
Other (expense) income:                        
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities     (177,000 )     -       (177,000 )
Interest expense     (908,611 )     -       (908,611 )
Other (expense) income, net     (1,085,611 )     -       (1,085,611 )
Net loss   $ (5,521,081 )   $ (21,287 )   $ (5,542,368 )
Basic and diluted net loss per common share   $ (0.53 )   $ (0.00 )        
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted     10,441,916       7,680,000          

 

    As of
December 31, 2013
    As of
December 31,
2012
         
BALANCE SHEET DATA:                        
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 1,953,780     $ 994          
Working capital (deficit)   $ (5,629,982 )   $ (11,287 )        
Total assets   $ 2,365,867     $ 994          
Total liabilities   $ 7,710,959     $ 12,281          
Total stockholders’ (deficit)   $ (5,345,092 )   $ (11,287 )        

  

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RISK FACTORS

 

We are subject to various risks that may materially harm our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations.  An investment in our common stock is speculative and involves a high degree of risk.  In evaluating an investment in shares of our common stock, you should carefully consider the risks described below, together with the other information included in this prospectus.

 

If any of the events described in the following risk factors actually occurs, or if additional risks and uncertainties that are not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial later materialize, then our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.  In that event, the trading price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment in our shares.  The risks discussed below include forward-looking statements, and our actual results may differ substantially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements.

 

Risks Related to Our Business

 

We are a development-stage technology company, have no history of generating revenue, have a history of operating losses, and we may never achieve or maintain profitability.

 

We are a development-stage technology company. We have a limited operating history and only a preliminary business plan upon which investors may evaluate our prospects. We have never generated revenues and we have a history of losses from operations. As of December 31, 2013, we had an accumulated deficit of approximately $5,542,368. Our ability to achieve revenue-generating operations and, ultimately, achieve profitability will depend on whether we can obtain additional capital when we need it, complete the development of our technology and find customers who will purchase our future products and services. There can be no assurance that we will ever generate revenues or achieve profitability.

 

Our efforts may never demonstrate the feasibility of our technology.

 

We have developed a working prototype of our technology but significant additional research and development activity will be required before we achieve a commercial product. Our research and development efforts remain subject to all of the risks associated with the development of new products based on emerging technologies, including without limitation unanticipated technical or other problems and the possible insufficiency of funds needed in order to complete development of these products and enable us to render services. Technical problems may result in delays and cause us to incur additional expenses that would increase our losses. If we cannot complete, or if we experience significant delays in developing our technology, and products and services based on such technology, for use in potential commercial applications, particularly after incurring significant expenditures, our business may fail. In particular, to our knowledge, the technological concepts we are applying to develop commercial applications of wireless power for fixed and mobile low-power rechargeable devices have not been previously successfully applied by anyone else, if we fail to develop a practical, efficient or economical commercial product based on those technological concepts, our business may fail.

 

We expect to need FCC approval for our technology, which may be difficult to achieve, and existing laws or regulations or future legislative or regulatory changes may affect our business.

 

Our remote charging technology involves the transmission of power using RF energy waves, which are subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), and may be subject to regulation by other federal, state and local agencies. We intend to design our technology so that it will operate in the 2.4/5.8 GHz radio frequency range, which is the same range as Wi-Fi routers and several other wireless consumer electronics. For those types of products, the FCC grants what is known as Part 15 approval if, among other things, the specific absorption rate (“SAR”) is below certain thresholds. In addition, because our technology involves the transmission of power greater than the power threshold limits of Part 15, we also expect to need to obtain FCC Part 18 approval. To our knowledge, the transmission of power using RF energy waves by a consumer product at the ranges we are proposing is novel and there can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain this FCC approval or that other governmental approvals will not be required. Our efforts to achieve required governmental approvals could be costly and time consuming and if we are unable to receive any such required approvals in a timely and cost-efficient manner our business and operating results may be materially adversely affected.

 

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The cost of compliance with new laws or regulations governing our technology or future products could adversely affect our financial results. New laws or regulations may impose restrictions or obligations on us that could force us to redesign our technology under development or other future products, and may impose restrictions that are not possible or practicable to comply with, which could cause our business to fail. We cannot predict the impact on our business of any legislation or regulations related to our technology or future products that may be enacted or adopted in the future.

 

We anticipate future losses and negative cash flow, and it is uncertain if or when we will become profitable.

 

We have not yet demonstrated our ability to generate revenue, and we may never be able to produce material revenues or operate on a profitable basis. As a result, we have incurred losses since our inception and expect to experience operating losses and negative cash flow for the foreseeable future.

 

We expect to expend significant resources on hiring of personnel and startup costs, including payroll and benefits, product testing and development, intellectual property development and prosecution, marketing and promotion, capital expenditures, working capital, general and administrative expenses, and fees and expenses associated with this offering. We expect to incur costs and expenses related to prototype development, consulting costs, laboratory development costs, obtaining regulatory approvals required for our technology and reference product designs, marketing and other promotional activities, hiring of personnel, and the continued development of relationships with strategic business partners. We are attempting to obtain the necessary working capital for operations, of which this offering is a part, but we may not be able to obtain financing in a sufficient amount or at all. We anticipate our losses will continue to increase from current levels during our development stage.

 

If we cannot generate sufficient revenue to finance our operations, we will require additional financing.

 

We anticipate that our future cash requirements may be significant. Even following completion of this offering we do not expect to have sufficient funds to implement our business plan, which includes completing the development of our technology and the license of our technology to consumer electronics supply chain firms. We expect that, unless we are able to obtain non-dilutive financing through licensing revenues or other strategic partner transactions, we will need to raise capital through new financings. Such financings could include equity financing, which may be dilutive to stockholders, or debt financing, which would likely restrict our ability to borrow from other sources. In addition, such securities may contain rights, preferences or privileges senior to those of the rights of our current stockholders. There can be no assurance that additional funds will be available on terms attractive to us, or at all. If adequate funds are not available, we may be required to curtail the development of our technology or materially curtail or reduce our operations. We could be forced to sell or dispose of our rights or assets. Any inability to raise adequate funds on commercially reasonable terms could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operation and financial condition, including the possibility that a lack of funds could cause our business to fail and liquidate with little or no return to investors.

 

We may be unable to continue as a going concern if we do not successfully raise additional capital or if we fail to generate sufficient revenue from operations.

 

Our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an unqualified opinion with an explanatory paragraph to the effect that there is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. The factors giving rise to this unqualified opinion with an explanatory paragraph could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Liquidity and Capital Resources” and Note 2 to our financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

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Primarily as a result of our lack of revenue, history of losses to date and our lack of liquidity, there is substantial uncertainty as to our ability to continue as a going concern. If we are unable to raise additional capital or if we are unable to generate sufficient revenue from our operations, we may not stay in business. We have no committed sources of capital and there is no assurance whether additional financing will be available when needed on terms that are acceptable, if at all. We do not own any significant assets that we expect could serve as acceptable collateral for a bank or other commercial lender. The above circumstances may discourage some investors from purchasing our stock, lending us money, or from providing alternative forms of financing. The failure to satisfy our capital requirements would adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Unless we raise additional funds, either through the sale of equity securities or one or more collaborative arrangements, we will not have sufficient funds to continue operations. Even if we take these actions, they may be insufficient, particularly if our costs are higher than projected or unforeseen expenses arise.

 

We may have difficulty managing growth in our business.

 

As we expand our activities, there will be additional demands on our financial, technical, operational and management resources. The failure to continue to upgrade our technical, administrative, operating and financial control systems or the occurrence of unexpected expansion difficulties, including issues relating to our research and development activities and retention of experienced scientists, managers and engineers, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and our ability to timely execute our business plan. If we are unable to implement these actions in a timely manner, our results may be adversely affected.

 

If we successfully commercially launch a product, and our product does not achieve widespread market acceptance, we will not be able to generate the revenue necessary to support our business.

 

Achieving acceptance of a wireless recharging system as a preferred method to recharge low-power fixed and mobile electronic devices will be crucial to our continued success. Consumers and commercial customers will not begin to use or increase the use of our product unless they agree that the convenience of our solution would be worth the additional expense of purchasing our system. We have no history of marketing any product and we may fail to generate significant interest in our initial commercial product or any other product we may develop. These and other factors, including the following factors, may affect the rate and level of the market acceptance:

 

· our system’s price relative to other products or competing methods of recharging;

 

· the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts;

 

· perception by users, both individual and enterprise users, of our system’s convenience, safety, efficiency, and benefits compared to competing methods of recharging;

 

· press and blog coverage, social media coverage, and other publicity and public relations factors which are not within our control; and

 

· regulatory developments related to marketing our products or their inclusion in others’ products.

 

If we are unable to achieve or maintain market acceptance, our business would be significantly harmed.

 

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If we successfully commercially launch a product, we may experience seasonality or other unevenness in our financial results in consumer markets or a long and variable sales cycle in enterprise markets.

 

While we do not now have revenue or a commercial product, our strategy depends on developing a successful commercial product and effectively licensing our technology into the consumer and enterprise markets. We will need to understand enterprise procurement and consumer buying cycles to be successful in licensing our technology into those markets. If we eventually generate a substantial portion of our revenues from licensing arrangements, we anticipate it is possible that demand for our technology could vary similarly with the market for products with which our technology may be used, for example, the market for new purchases of laptops, tablet, mobile phones, gaming systems, toys and the like. Such consumer markets are often seasonal, with peaks in and around the December holiday season and the August-September back-to-school season. Enterprises may have annual or other budgeting and buying cycles that could affect us, and, particularly if we are designated as a capital improvement project, we may have a long or unpredictable sales cycle.

 

We may not be able to achieve all the product features we seek to include in our product.

 

We have developed a prototype of our product concept that displays limited functionality in a laboratory setting. There are a variety of features we seek to include in our product that we have not yet achieved. For example, our prototype transmitter is capable of sending some wattage to three devices. While recharging on a commercially acceptable level multiple devices from one transmitter may be possible theoretically by sharing the capabilities of the transmitter, we have not achieved these results, even in the laboratory. We believe our research and development efforts will yield additional functionality over time. However, there can be no assurance that we will be successful in achieving all the features we are targeting and our inability to do so may limit the appeal of our product to consumers.

 

Use of our technology under development or other future products may require the user to purchase additional products to use with existing devices. To the extent these additional purchases are inconvenient, the adoption of our technology under development or other future products could be slowed, which would harm our business.

 

All rechargeable devices will require our receiver technology, which may be embedded in a sleeve, case or other enclosure. Certain products, for example smoke detectors or toys equipped with replaceable AA size or other sized batteries, would need to be outfitted with enhanced batteries and other hardware that would enable the devices to be rechargeable by our system. In each case to use a device with our system, unless, for example, a consumer electronics supply chain firm has built compatible battery technology and a receiver into the device, an end user or enterprise customer will be required to retrofit the device with a receiver and may be required to upgrade the battery technology used with the device. These additional steps and expenses may offset the convenience for some users and discourage some users from purchasing our technology under development or other future products. Such factors may inhibit adoption of our technology, which would harm our business. We have not developed the enhanced battery to be used in devices, and our ability to enable use of our technology with devices that will require an enhanced battery will depend on our ability to develop a commercial version of such an enhanced battery that could be manufactured at a reasonable cost. If we fail to develop or enable a commercially practicable enhanced battery, we expect our business would be harmed, and we may need to change our strategy and target markets.

 

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Laboratory conditions differ from field conditions, which could affect the effectiveness of our technology under development or other future products. Failures to effectively move from laboratory to the field would harm our business.

 

Our technology, when used in the field, may not be able to match the observations, developments, test results and performance that our technology may be able to achieve (and we may be able to document) under controlled laboratory circumstances. As one example of the difference between ideal laboratory conditions and field use, consider that in the laboratory, we can arrange for the transmitter to have line-of-sight transmission to a receiver. If we intend to test the performance through obstructions, we can control the configurations of the obstructions and the materials from which such obstructions are made. In the field, however, the receiver may be obscured or obstructed, or placed around a corner. Also, in the field we will have no control over the configuration of the obstructions or the materials that comprise each obstruction. These conditions may significantly decrease or eliminate the power received at the receiver or the effective range, because the RF energy from the transmitter may be absorbed by obscuring or blocking material or may need to be reflected off of a surface to reach the receiver, making the transmission distance longer than straight-line distances. The failure of our technology under development or other future products to be able to meet the demands of users in the field would harm our business.

 

Safety concerns and legal action by private parties may affect our business.

 

While we believe our technology is safe, it is possible that some people may be concerned with wireless transmission of power in a manner that has occurred with some other wireless technologies as they were put into residential and commercial use, such as the safety concerns that were raised by some regarding the use of cellular telephones and other devices to transmit data wirelessly in close proximity to the human body. While we plan to at least partially address this potential concern by developing our management software to be configurable by users to selectively recharge devices in ways that would be intended to avoid recharging in close proximity to a human body, such as recharging only during predetermined time periods or recharging only when the device is not moving, we do not plan to conduct any tests to determine whether RF waves produce harmful effects on humans or other animals. We may be unable to effectively prevent recharging in close proximity to a user’s body, which could affect the marketability of our technology or could result in requests for law or regulation governing our technology under development or a class of products in which our technology under development would be included. In addition, while we believe our technology is safe, users of our technology under development or other future products who suffer medical ailments may blame the use of our products, as occurred with a small number of users of cellular telephones. Any resulting legal action against us claiming our products caused harm could be expensive, divert management and adversely affect us or cause our business to fail, whether or not such legal actions were ultimately successful.

 

Our industry is subject to intense competition and rapid technological change, which may result in products or new solutions that are superior to our technology under development or other future products we may bring to market from time to time. If we are unable to anticipate or keep pace with changes in the marketplace and the direction of technological innovation and customer demands, our products may become less useful or obsolete and our operating results will suffer.

 

The consumer and commercial electronics industry in general and power, recharging and alternative recharging method segment of that industry in particular are subject to intense and increasing competition and rapidly evolving technologies. Because our products are expected to have long development cycles, we must anticipate changes in the marketplace and the direction of technological innovation and customer demands. To compete successfully, we will need to demonstrate the advantages of our products and technologies over well-established alternative solutions, products and technologies, as well as newer methods of power delivery and convince consumers and enterprises of the advantages of our products and technologies. Traditional wall plug-in recharging remains an inexpensive alternative to our technology under development. Also, directly competing products are offered by Powermat Technologies, Duracell’s wireless charging business, Energizer’s inductive charging business, PureEnergy Solutions, Inc., ecoupled and PowerCast Corporation, which have greater resources than us and are better established in the market than we are. We cannot be certain which other companies may have already decided to or may in the future choose to enter our markets. For example, consumer electronics products companies may invest substantial resources in wireless power or other recharging technologies and may decide to enter our target markets. Successful developments of competitors that result in new approaches for recharging could reduce the attractiveness of our products or render them obsolete.

 

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Our future success will depend in large part on our ability to establish and maintain a competitive position in current and future technologies. Rapid technological development may render our technology under development or future products based on our technology obsolete. Many of our competitors have or may have greater corporate, financial, operational, sales and marketing resources, and more experience in research and development than we have. We cannot assure you that our competitors will not succeed in developing or marketing technologies or products that are more effective or commercially attractive than our products or that would render our technologies and products obsolete. We may not have or be able to raise or develop the financial resources, technical expertise, marketing, distribution or support capabilities to compete successfully in the future. Our success will depend in large part on our ability to maintain a competitive position with our technologies.

 

Our competitive position also depends on:

 

· widespread awareness, acceptance and adoption by the consumer and enterprise markets of our technology under development and future products;

 

· our ability to design a product that may be sold at an acceptable price point;

 

· the development by us of new or enhanced technologies or features that improve the convenience, efficiency, safety or perceived safety, and productivity of our technology under development and future products;

 

· properly identifying customer needs and delivering new products or product enhancements to address those needs;

 

· limiting the time required from proof of feasibility to routine production;

 

· limiting the timing and cost of regulatory approvals;

 

· our ability to attract and retain qualified personnel;

 

· the extent of our patent protection or our ability to otherwise develop proprietary products and processes; and

 

· securing sufficient capital resources to expand both our continued research and development, and sales and marketing efforts.

 

If our technology under development is not or our future products are not competitive based on these or other factors, our business would be harmed.

 

It is difficult and costly to protect our intellectual property and our proprietary technologies, and we may not be able to ensure their protection.

 

Our success depends significantly on our ability to obtain, maintain and protect our proprietary rights to the technologies used in our products. Patents and other proprietary rights provide uncertain protections, and we may be unable to protect our intellectual property. For example, we may be unsuccessful in defending our patents and other proprietary rights against third party challenges.

 

As of March 11, 2014, we have 37 pending U.S. patents and provisional patent applications on file, but do not have any issued patents to protect our technology.

 

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In addition to patents, we expect to rely on a combination of trade secrets, copyright and trademark laws, nondisclosure agreements and other contractual provisions and technical security measures to protect our intellectual property rights. These measures may not be adequate to safeguard the technology underlying our products. If they do not protect our rights adequately, third parties could use our technology, and our ability to compete in the market would be reduced. Although we are attempting to obtain patent coverage for our technology where available and where we believe appropriate, there are aspects of the technology for which patent coverage may never be sought or received. We may not possess the resources to or may not choose to pursue patent protection outside the United States or any or every country other than the United States where we may eventually decide to sell our future products. Our ability to prevent others from making or selling duplicate or similar technologies will be impaired in those countries in which we have no patent protection. Although we have 37 pending U.S. patents and provisional patent applications on file in the United States protecting aspects of our technology under development, our patents may not issue as a result of those applications drawing priority or otherwise based on those patent applications, may issue only with limited coverage or may issue and be subsequently successfully challenged by others and held invalid or unenforceable.

 

Similarly, even if patents do issue based on our applications or future applications, any issued patents may not provide us with any competitive advantages. Competitors may be able to design around our patents or develop products that provide outcomes comparable or superior to ours. Our patents may be held invalid or unenforceable as a result of legal challenges by third parties, and others may challenge the inventorship or ownership of our patents and pending patent applications. In addition, if we choose to and are able to secure protection in countries outside the United States, the laws of some foreign countries may not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States. In the event a competitor infringes upon our patent or other intellectual property rights, enforcing those rights may be difficult and time consuming. Even if successful, litigation to enforce our intellectual property rights or to defend our patents against challenge could be expensive and time consuming and could divert our management’s attention. We may not have sufficient resources to enforce our intellectual property rights or to defend our patents against a challenge.

 

We may also in the future as one of our strategies to deploy our technology into the market, license patent and other proprietary rights to aspects of our technology to third parties. Disputes with our licensors may arise regarding the scope and content of these licenses. Further, our ability to expand into additional fields with our technologies may be restricted by our existing licenses or licenses we may grant to third parties in the future.

 

The policies we use to protect our trade secrets may not be effective in preventing misappropriation of our trade secrets by others. In addition, confidentiality agreements executed by our employees, consultants and advisors may not be enforceable or may not provide meaningful protection for our trade secrets or other proprietary information in the event of unauthorized use or disclosure. Litigating a trade secret claim is expensive and time consuming, and the outcome is unpredictable. In addition, courts outside the United States are sometimes less willing to protect trade secrets. Moreover, our competitors may independently develop equivalent knowledge methods and know-how. If we are unable to protect our intellectual property rights, we may be unable to prevent competitors from using our own inventions and intellectual property to compete against us, and our business may be harmed.

 

Because our industry is characterized by competing intellectual property, we may be sued for violating the intellectual property rights of others. Determining whether a product infringes a patent involves complex legal and factual issues, and the outcome of patent litigation actions is often uncertain. We have not conducted any significant search of patents issued to third parties, and no assurance can be given that third party patents containing claims covering our products, parts of our products, technology or methods do not exist, have not been filed, or could not be filed or issued. Because of the number of patents issued and patent applications filed in our technical areas or fields, our competitors or other third parties may assert that our products and the methods we employ in the use of our products are covered by United States or foreign patents held by them. In addition, because patent applications can take many years to issue and because publication schedules for pending applications vary by jurisdiction, there may be applications now pending of which we are unaware, and which may result in issued patents that our technology under development or other future products would infringe. Also, because the claims of published patent applications can change between publication and patent grant, there may be published patent applications that may ultimately issue with claims that we infringe. There could also be existing patents that one or more of our products or parts may infringe and of which we are unaware. As the number of competitors in the market for wireless power and alternative recharging solutions increases, and as the number of patents issued in this area grows, the possibility of patent infringement claims against us increases. Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of complex patent litigation more effectively than we can because they have substantially greater resources. In addition, any uncertainties resulting from the initiation and continuation of any litigation could have a material adverse effect on our ability to raise the funds necessary to continue our operations.

 

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In the event that we become subject to a patent infringement or other intellectual property lawsuit and if the relevant patents or other intellectual property were upheld as valid and enforceable and we were found to infringe or violate the terms of a license to which we are a party, we could be prevented from selling any infringing products of ours unless we could obtain a license or were able to redesign the product to avoid infringement. If we were unable to obtain a license or successfully redesign, we might be prevented from selling our technology under development or other future products. If there is an allegation or determination that we have infringed the intellectual property rights of a competitor or other person, we may be required to pay damages, or a settlement or ongoing royalties. In these circumstances, we may be unable to sell our products at competitive prices or at all, our business and operating results could be harmed.

 

We could become subject to product liability claims, product recalls, and warranty claims that could be expensive, divert management’s attention and harm our business.

 

Our business exposes us to potential liability risks that are inherent in the marketing and sale of products used by consumers. We may be held liable if our technology under development or other future products cause injury or death or are found otherwise unsuitable during usage. Our technology under development incorporates sophisticated components and computer software. Complex software can contain errors, particularly when first introduced. In addition, new products or enhancements may contain undetected errors or performance problems that, despite testing, are discovered only after installation. While we believe our technology is safe, because our products are designed to be used to perform complex functions involving RF energy, possibly in close proximity to users, users could allege or possibly prove defects, some of which could be alleged or proved to cause harm to users or others. A product liability claim, regardless of its merit or eventual outcome, could result in significant legal defense costs. The coverage limits of our insurance policies we may choose to purchase to cover related risks may not be adequate to cover future claims. If sales of our products increase or we suffer future product liability claims, we may be unable to maintain product liability insurance in the future at satisfactory rates or with adequate amounts. A product liability claim, any product recalls or excessive warranty claims, whether arising from defects in design or manufacture or otherwise, could negatively affect our sales or require a change in the design or manufacturing process, any of which could harm our reputation and business, harm our relationship with licensors of our products, result in a decline in revenue and harm our business.

 

In addition, if a product we designed is defective, whether due to design or manufacturing defects, improper use of the product or other reasons, we or our strategic partners may be required to notify regulatory authorities and/or to recall the product. A required notification to a regulatory authority or recall could result in an investigation by regulatory authorities of our products, which could in turn result in required recalls, restrictions on the sale of the products or other penalties. The adverse publicity resulting from any of these actions could adversely affect the perception of our customers and potential customers. These investigations or recalls, especially if accompanied by unfavorable publicity, could result in our incurring substantial costs, losing revenues and damaging our reputation, each of which would harm our business.

 

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We expect to depend on consumer electronics supply chain firms to manufacture, market and distribute our technology under development. If these strategic partners fail to successfully manufacture, market and distribute our technology under development, our business will be materially harmed.

 

We currently intend to license our system architecture, proprietary waveform and application specific integrated circuit design to consumer electronics supply chain firms rather than manufacture our technology under development ourselves. We will not be able to control the efforts and resources these consumer electronics supply chain firms would devote to marketing our technology under development or other future products. Those third parties may not be able to successfully market and sell the products they develop based on our technology, may not devote sufficient time and resources to support the marketing and selling efforts and may not market those products at prices that will permit the products to develop, achieve or sustain market acceptance. Finding new licensors could be an expensive and time-consuming process and we may not be able to find suitable consumer electronics supply chain firms and other distribution strategic partners on acceptable terms or at all. If we cannot find suitable third party partners or our third party partners experience difficulties, do not actively market our technology under development or future products or do not otherwise perform under our license agreements, our potential for revenue may be dramatically reduced, and our business could be harmed. We have not dedicated any resources to investigating foreign markets or planning to satisfy import or export requirements to deliver our product to consumers or businesses outside the U.S.

 

We intend to pursue licensing of our technology as a primary means of commercialization but we may not be able to secure advantageous license agreements. If we are not able to secure advantageous license agreements, our business and results of operations will be adversely affected.

 

We intend to pursue licensing of our technology as a primary means of commercialization. We believe there are many companies that could be interested in implementing our technology into their devices. Many of these companies are well-known, world-wide companies. To date we do not have any specific business relationships with any potential licensees. Creating a license or other business relationship with these classes of companies will take a substantial effort, as we expect to have to convince them of the efficacy of our technology, meet their design and manufacturing requirements, satisfy their marketing and product needs, and comply with their selection, review and contracting requirements. There can be no assurance that we will be able to gain entry to these companies, or that they will ultimately decide to integrate our technology with their products. We may not be able to secure license agreements with customers on terms that are advantageous to us. Furthermore, the timing and volume of revenue earned from license agreements will be outside of our control. If the license agreements we enter into do not prove to be advantageous to us, our business and results of operations will be adversely affected.

 

We are highly dependent on certain key members of our executive management team.  Our inability to retain these individuals could impede our business plan and growth strategies, which could have a negative impact on our business and the value of your investment.

 

Our ability to implement our business plan depends, to a critical extent, on the continued efforts and services of Steve Rizzone (Chief Executive Officer), Michael Leabman (Chief Technology Officer), George Holmes (Vice President of Sales and Marketing) and Thomas Iwanski (Interim Chief Financial Officer).  If we lose the services of any of these persons, we would likely be forced to expend significant time and money in the pursuit of replacements, which may result in a delay in the implementation of our business plan and plan of operations.  We can give no assurance that we could find satisfactory replacements for these individuals on terms that would not be unduly expensive or burdensome to us.  We do not currently carry a key-man life insurance policy that would assist us in recouping our costs in the event of the death or disability of either of these executives.

 

Risks Related to this Offering and Owning Our Common Stock

 

As an investor, you may lose all of your investment.

 

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. As an investor you may never recoup all, or even part of, your investment and you may never realize any return on your investment. You must be prepared to lose all of your investment.

 

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Prior to the completion of our initial public offering, there was no public trading market for our common stock.

 

The offering under this prospectus is an initial public offering of our securities.  Prior to the closing of the offering, there will have been no public market for our common stock.  While we plan to list our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we cannot assure you that our listing application will be approved, and that a public market for our common stock will develop.  If our application to the Nasdaq Capital Market is not approved or we otherwise determine that we will not be able to secure the listing of the common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will not complete the offering.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” under the JOBS Act of 2012 and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our common stock less attractive to investors.

 

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”), and we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.  We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive because we may rely on these exemptions.  If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile.

 

We will remain an “emerging growth company” for up to five years, although we will lose that status sooner if our revenues exceed $1 billion, if we issue more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt in a three year period, or if the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of any June 30.

 

Our status as an “emerging growth company” under the JOBS Act of 2012 may make it more difficult to raise capital as and when we need it.

 

Because of the exemptions from various reporting requirements provided to us as an “emerging growth company,” we may be less attractive to investors and it may be difficult for us to raise additional capital as and when we need it.  Investors may be unable to compare our business with other companies in our industry if they believe that our reporting is not as transparent as other companies in our industry.  If we are unable to raise additional capital as and when we need it, our financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

 

If a public market for our common stock develops, it may be volatile.  This may affect the ability of our investors to sell their shares as well as the price at which they sell their shares.

 

If a market for our common stock develops, the market price for the shares may be significantly affected by factors such as variations in quarterly and yearly operating results, general trends in the alternative energy industry, and changes in state or federal regulations affecting us and our industry.  Furthermore, in recent years the stock market has experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that are unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of the affected companies.  Such broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the market price of our common stock, if a market for it develops.

 

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We have not paid dividends in the past and have no immediate plans to pay dividends.

 

We plan to reinvest all of our earnings, to the extent we have earnings, in order to market our products and to cover operating costs and to otherwise become and remain competitive.  We do not plan to pay any cash dividends with respect to our securities in the foreseeable future.  We cannot assure you that we would, at any time, generate sufficient surplus cash that would be available for distribution to the holders of our common stock as a dividend.  Therefore, you should not expect to receive cash dividends on the common stock we are offering. 

 

Concentration of ownership among our existing executive officers, directors and significant stockholders may prevent new investors from influencing significant corporate decisions.

 

All decisions with respect to the management of the Company will be made by our board of directors and our officers, who, before this offering, beneficially own approximately 27% of our common stock, as calculated in accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  After the issuance of our common stock in this offering and the conversion of the Convertible Notes, management will beneficially own approximately 9% of our common stock, as calculated in accordance with Rule 13d-3. Additionally, the 210,526 shares issued to a strategic investor in March 2014 subject to a voting agreement between the Company and the investor pursuant to which the investor has agreed for a period of thirteen months to vote all of its shares in accordance with the recommendation of our board of directors on all matters brought to a stockholder vote.  In addition, before this offering DvineWave Holdings LLC beneficially owns approximately 66% of our common stock and after this offering will beneficially own approximately 21% of our common stock, as calculated in accordance with Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. As a result, these stockholders will be able to exercise a significant level of control over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors, amendment of our certificate of incorporation and approval of significant corporate transactions. This control could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of our Company or changes in management and will make the approval of certain transactions difficult or impossible without the support of these stockholders.

 

We will incur significant increased costs as a result of becoming a public company that reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission and our management will be required to devote substantial time to meet compliance obligations.

 

As a public company reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company.  We will be subject to reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the Securities and Exchange Commission that impose significant requirements on public companies, including requiring establishment and maintenance of effective disclosure and financial controls and changes in corporate governance practices.  In addition, on July 21, 2010, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Protection Act was enacted.  There are significant corporate governance and executive compensation-related provisions in the Dodd-Frank Act that are expected to increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and may also place undue strain on our personnel, systems and resources.  Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to these new compliance initiatives.  In addition, we expect these rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage.  As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified people to serve on our board of directors, our board committees or as executive officers.

 

Assuming a market for our common stock develops, shares eligible for future sale may adversely affect the market for our common stock.

 

After March 2014, we have agreed to register for resale 2,283,181 shares of common stock expected to be issued upon conversion of our senior secured convertible promissory notes and 461,561 shares of common stock underlying warrants. Furthermore, from time to time after we become subject to the reporting requirements of section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”) for at least 90 days, certain of our stockholders may be eligible to sell all or some of their shares of common stock by means of ordinary brokerage transactions in the open market pursuant to Rule 144, promulgated under the Securities Act, subject to certain limitations.  In general, pursuant to Rule 144, non-affiliate stockholders may sell freely after six months subject only to the current public information requirement (which disappears after one year).  Of the 9,201,921 shares of our common stock expected to be outstanding following completion of the offering, approximately 6,528,571 shares will be held by “non-affiliates” and will be freely tradable without restriction pursuant to Rule 144, although all but 4,000,000 of such shares will be subject to either a six-month or one year lock-up.

 

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Any substantial sale of our common stock pursuant to Rule 144 or pursuant to any resale prospectus (including sales by investors of securities acquired in connection with this offering) may have a material adverse effect on the market price of our common stock.

 

We may allocate the net proceeds from this offering in ways that differ from the estimates discussed in the section titled “Use of Proceeds” and with which you may not agree.

 

The allocation of net proceeds of the offering set forth in the “Use of Proceeds” section below represents our estimates based upon our current plans and assumptions regarding industry and general economic conditions, and our future revenues and expenditures.  The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including market conditions, cash generated by our operations, business developments and related rate of growth.  We may find it necessary or advisable to use portions of the proceeds from this offering for other purposes.  Circumstances that may give rise to a change in the use of proceeds and the alternate purposes for which the proceeds may be used are discussed in the section entitled “Use of Proceeds” below.  You may not have an opportunity to evaluate the economic, financial or other information on which we base our decisions on how to use our proceeds.  As a result, you and other stockholders may not agree with our decisions.  See “Use of Proceeds” for additional information.

 

You will experience immediate dilution in the book value per share of the common stock you purchase.

 

Because the price per share of our common stock being offered is substantially higher than the book value per share of our common stock, you will experience substantial dilution in the net tangible book value of the common stock you purchase in this offering.  Based on the offering price of $5.00 per share, if you purchase shares of common stock in this offering, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution of $2.81 per share in the net tangible book value of the common stock at December 31, 2013.   See the section titled “Dilution” below for a more detailed discussion of the dilution you will incur if you purchase common stock in this offering.

 

Our charter documents and Delaware law may inhibit a takeover that stockholders consider favorable.

 

Upon the closing of this offering, provisions of our Certificate of Incorporation (“Certificate”) and bylaws and applicable provisions of Delaware law may delay or discourage transactions involving an actual or potential change in control or change in our management, including transactions in which stockholders might otherwise receive a premium for their shares, or transactions that our stockholders might otherwise deem to be in their best interests.  The provisions in our Certificate and bylaws:

 

· authorize our board of directors to issue preferred stock without stockholder approval and to designate the rights, preferences and privileges of each class; if issued, such preferred stock would increase the number of outstanding shares of our capital stock and could include terms that may deter an acquisition of us;

 

· limit who may call stockholder meetings;

 

· do not permit stockholders to act by written consent;

 

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· do not provide for cumulative voting rights; and

 

· provide that all vacancies may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of directors then in office, even if less than a quorum.

 

In addition, once we become a publicly traded corporation, Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law may limit our ability to engage in any business combination with a person who beneficially owns 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock unless certain conditions are satisfied.  This restriction lasts for a period of three years following the share acquisition.  These provisions may have the effect of entrenching our management team and may deprive you of the opportunity to sell your shares to potential acquirers at a premium over prevailing prices.  This potential inability to obtain a control premium could reduce the price of our common stock. See “Anti-Takeover Effects of Certain Provisions of Delaware Law and Our Charter Documents” for additional information.

 

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS AND OTHER INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS PROSPECTUS

 

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements.  Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events.  You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts.  You can find many (but not all) of these statements by looking for words such as “approximates,” “believes,” “hopes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may” or other similar expressions in this prospectus.  These statements may be found under the sections entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business” included in this prospectus, as well as in this prospectus generally.  In particular, these include statements relating to future actions, prospective products, applications, customers, technologies, future performance or results of anticipated products, expenses, and financial results.  These forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from our historical experience and our present expectations or projections.  Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

 

· our limited cash and a history of losses;

 

· our ability to achieve profitability;

 

· our limited operating history;

 

· emerging competition and rapidly advancing technology;

 

· customer demand for the products we develop;

 

· our ability to secure required FCC or other governmental approvals;

 

· the impact of competitive or alternative products, technologies and pricing;

 

· our ability to successfully license any products we develop to consumer electronics supply chain firms;

 

· general economic conditions and events and the impact they may have on us and our potential customers;

 

· the adequacy of protections afforded to us by the patents that we own and the cost to us of maintaining, enforcing and defending those patents;

 

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· our ability to obtain, expand and maintain patent protection in the future, and to protect our non-patented intellectual property;

 

· our exposure to and ability to defend third-party claims and challenges to our patents and other intellectual property rights;

 

· our ability to obtain adequate financing in the future;

 

· our ability to continue as a going concern;

 

· our success at managing the risks involved in the foregoing items; and

 

· other factors discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of this prospectus.

 

The forward-looking statements are based upon management’s beliefs and assumptions and are made as of the date of this prospectus. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements included in this prospectus or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those contained in such statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by federal securities laws.  Actual future results may vary materially as a result of various factors, including, without limitation, the risks outlined under the section entitled “Risk Factors” and matters described in this prospectus generally.  In light of these risks and uncertainties, we cannot assure you that the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus will in fact occur.  You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

 

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BUSINESS

 

Our Company

 

We are a development stage technology company. We are developing technology that can enable wireless charging or powering of electronic devices at distance. We believe our technology is a novel approach, in that it charges or powers devices by surrounding them with a three dimensional (“3D”) pocket of energy formed by radio frequencies (“RF pocket”). In our laboratory, our prototype devices have enabled wireless transmission of energy from a transmitter (similar in size and shape to a Wi-Fi router) to multiple receiver test boards at a distance of up to 15 feet. Our receiver test boards are constructed from commercially available parts and components, are not optimized for our receiver application and are too large to be incorporated in commercially marketed products. We intend to develop a receiver chip that we can integrate into additional test devices. We believe this receiver chip will optimize our technology into a significantly smaller space and allow for the incorporation or our receiver technology into various products. If the receiver chip we expect to develop is integrated into a low-power (under 10 watts) electronic device, the chip should be able to utilize the received energy to either power the device directly or charge the battery that powers the device. We are also developing management and control of our solution through a software application that will ultimately reside on the device being charged. We believe that if our development efforts are successful, our transmitter/receiver solution will initially be able to power or charge multiple electronic devices at up to 1.5 watts at distances of up to 30 feet. Subsequent development efforts will focus on increasing the charging wattage, increasing the distance of charging, enhancing reliability, enhancing management and control of the solution and reducing design cost.

 

In our operating history, we have developed a beta system consisting of a base station transmitter, a smart phone receiver case, receiver test boards and management software. In addition, we have designed and submitted for manufacturing an application specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) to optimize our transmitter technology. Furthermore, we have designed but not yet submitted for manufacturing, an ASIC for the receiver. In connection with the receiver technology, we have designed multiple smart phone charging cases, which are still under development. Complementing our hardware designs, we have developed a software application that we believe allows for management, control, statistics and prioritization of the charging for the remote devices via a smartphone, tablet or PC.

 

We have pursued an aggressive intellectual property strategy and are developing new patents. As of March 11, 2014, we have 37 pending U.S. patents and provisional patent applications. Thus far we have identified more than 80 specific inventions we believe to be novel and patentable, and we intend to continue filing these inventions for patent protection.

 

Importantly, we have recruited and hired a seasoned management team with public company and relevant industry experience to develop and execute the company’s operating plan. In addition, we have hired and have identified additional engineering resources which are expected to engage with the Company to build up the engineering capability of the internal team. Finally, we have identified and started the selection process for our independent board of directors whom we believe will provide valuable assistance to the Company in terms of industry credibility, corporate governance, and strategic direction. We were incorporated in Delaware in October 2012. Our corporate headquarters is at 303 Ray Street, Pleasanton, CA 94566. Our website can be accessed at www.energous.com. The information contained on, or that may be obtained from our website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, part of this prospectus.

 

Our Technology

 

The remote charging solution we are developing employs 3D “pocketforming” via a transmitter which creates a mobile, target specific area (“RF pocket”) in a room around a receiving device which may be mobile or fixed.



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Figure 1 below shows a simple diagram of our solution. Today this solution is able to send wattage from the transmitter to individual receiver boards in our laboratory.

 

 

Figure 1: Our Remote Charging Solution Diagram

 

First, our proprietary transmitter locates the client receiver(s) in a 3-dimensional space. Next, the transmitter generates a proprietary waveform to create an RF pocket around the client receiver(s). We expect that the receiver chips that we intend to develop will gather power from this RF pocket. We believe that these proposed receiver chips will then be able to either charge rechargeable-battery devices or power low–power devices, such as smart phones, tablets, keyboards, mice, remote controls, rechargeable lights or any other device with similar charging requirements that would otherwise need a battery or a connection to a power outlet.

 

Our transmitter uses proprietary software algorithms to dynamically direct, focus and control our proprietary waveform in three dimensions. This control allows for very efficient transmission of energy to a moving object (such as a mobile phone in a user’s pocket).

 

Figure 2 below shows our prototype transmitter in its current enclosure. This enclosure has dimensions of approximately 12” x 8.5” x 2”.

 

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Figure 2: Prototype Transmitter in Plastic Enclosure

 

 

Figure 3 below shows internal and external views, respectively, of the front and back of a smart phone case that integrates our receiver technology and will, if used with our transmitter within the appropriate range, wirelessly charge a smart phone.

 

Figure 3: Front and back of our prototype smart phone cover with embedded Energous receiver technology

 

 

Below, in Figure 4, are additional prototype receiver devices under development, including an e-book reader wirelessly charged cover and wirelessly charged universal receiver.

 

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Figure 4: Computer generated images of additional prototype devices under development

 

 

Currently, our demonstration system is able to output wattage to three devices at a distance of 15 feet with the ability to refocus the RF pocket within 1 second. While our demonstration system employs off-the-shelf components, we are developing several ASICs that we believe will enable our future system designs to deliver multiple watts at a distance of up to 30 feet, and to refocus the RF pocket within fractions of a second. We believe our ASICs in development will allow us to significantly reduce our transmitter size and costs and achieve higher delivered power.

 

We submitted our first design for production of our initial ASIC to our ASIC manufacturer in November 2013. We expect to receive the ASIC in our laboratory in late May 2014, after which it will be tested by our team and, if deemed acceptable by us, integrated into a newly designed prototype transmitter unit. Depending on the results of the initial transmitter ASIC and adequate funding, we expect to submit our second transmitter ASIC design for manufacturing in August 2014. Additional ASIC designs and manufacturing will be scheduled based upon the performance, attributes and cost efficiencies of each prior ASIC as determined by us.

 

Our Competition

 

There are numerous existing, widely commercially available methods to provide power to rechargeable low-power fixed and mobile devices, including wall plug-in recharging, inductive recharging, power-mat recharging, battery recharging stations and more. To our knowledge, almost all mobile consumer electronic devices equipped with a rechargeable battery come bundled with a method to recharge the device (for example, a power cord). This bundling makes the bundled recharging system effectively free to the user. We are depending on the development of a market that will sufficiently value the convenience of wireless recharging to pay the additional cost to purchase our remote charging solutions.

 

We believe that the main advantage of our remote charging technology, as compared to traditional charging technologies, will be the ability to charge multiple devices anywhere within the charging area (expected to be up-to 30 feet) without the use of a charging pad. We believe our technology is unique and flexible allowing us to target a fixed or mobile device, track that device if it moves or is moving, and focus and transmit pockets of energy to the targeted device to charge the device without having to remove the battery or plug in the device.

 

We are not currently aware of any company or researcher looking to develop a 3-D pocket-forming approach similar to our remote charging technology. However, there are other wireless charging technologies on the market today. These fall into the following categories:

 

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Magnetic Induction : Magnetic Induction is the most commercially available wireless charging technology, and has been available for 10+ years in products such as rechargeable electric toothbrushes. It uses a magnetic coil to create resonance, which can transmit energy over very short distances. Magnetic induction delivers power as a function of coil size (the larger the coil, the more power), which must be directly paired (one receiver coil to one transmitter coil = directly coupled pair) over a typical distance of less than 1 inch.

 

The companies that have launched products using this technology are members of the wireless Power Consortium (Qi) and the Power Matters Alliance (PMA), the most prominent company being PowerMat. There is a new consortium called Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) which is working on a new inductive transmitter which uses overlapping coils in the transmitter, so that one transmitter will support multiple receivers over distances of less than 10 inches. Though we are not aware of a commercial product that utilizes the A4WP standard, prominent companies that are part of the A4WP consortium include Broadcom, HTC, and Intel.

 

Magnetic Resonance : Magnetic Resonance is similar to magnetic induction, as it uses coils to transmit energy. This technology uses coils that range in size depending on the power being transmitted and has the ability to transmit power up to ~11 inches (30CM) which can be increased with the use of resonance repeaters.

 

We are aware of only one company working with magnetic resonance, which is WiTricity. WiTricity has evaluation systems available for purchase but we are not aware of any sales to commercial customers.

 

Conductive : Conductive wireless charging (or simply conductive charging) uses conductive power transfer to eliminate wires between the charger (often a charging mat) and the charging device. It requires the use of a charging board as the power transmitter to deliver the power, and a charging device, with a built-in receiver, to receive the power. This technology requires direct metal contact between the charging board and the receiver. Once the charging board recognizes the valid receiver, the charging begins.

 

The company that commercialized this technology was PureEnergy (formerly WildCharge), which brought the technology to market under its own brand and under license to Duracell and RadioShack. In 2011, Duracell terminated its license with PureEnergy and partnered with PowerMat to bring to market an inductive solution. To our knowledge, RadioShack has since exited the conductive charging sector.

 

RF Harvesting : At the core of what we are doing at Energous is the harvesting of RF energy. These approaches typically utilize directional antennas to target and deliver energy. To our knowledge, there are only two other companies attempting to utilize a directional pocket of energy similar to that being developed by Energous.

 

PowerCast was the first company to commercialize RF harvesting. PowerCast products deliver only milliwatts of power at distances of up to 30 feet, so they are targeted for use in extremely low-power applications (such as radio frequency identification “RFID” tags).

 

A new entrant into the RF-Harvesting space is Ossia. Ossia, which is developing a product under the name Cota, has received some recent press coverage with a large 4’ x 8’ proof-of-concept transmitter that utilizes roughly 200 individually controlled antennas. In demonstrations, Ossia has been able to show Cota delivering wireless power at an unspecified level to a smart phone.

 

Laser : This technology uses very short wavelengths of light to create a collimated beam that maintains its size over distance, using what is described as distributed resonance to deliver power to an optical receiver.

 

There are two companies that are currently developing wireless power solutions using laser technology. LaserMotive & Wi-Charge are both working to commercialize laser-based solutions.

 

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Ultrasound : This technology converts electric energy into acoustic energy in the form of ultrasound waves. Then it reconverts those waves through an “energy-harvesting” receiver. The challenge with this technology is that acoustic energy only goes in a straight line and any obstacles in the path will drastically reduce performance.

 

Ubeam is the only company we have identified that is working with this technology.

 

Our Business Strategy

 

We intend to license our solution to the designers of devices that would benefit from remote charging. We intend to pursue this licensing path because we believe there are several market verticals to which our technology can apply, and we believe that this is the most capital-efficient manner in which we can address many of them at once.

 

In addition, we believe that our greatest market opportunity is to create a standard protocol for wireless charging at a distance, in much the same way that Wi-Fi is the standard for wireless data. The goal is to ensure interoperability between base stations and receivers that are based on our technology, regardless of who made them, installed them into finished goods, or marketed them. The implementation of previous standards such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth should help to illustrate our goal; Wi-Fi routers, regardless of their designer or manufacturer, work with Wi-Fi receivers installed in various consumer electronic devices, regardless of the manufacturer.

 

In order to make our solution the standard for charging at distance, we intend to pursue an ecosystem strategy for our solution, engaging not only potential licensees for our base station and transmitter, but also their upstream and downstream value chain partners. We also intend to prioritize protecting our intellectual property portfolio, as we believe that keeping a firm grasp on that will make it less likely that a competing platform will be able to compete with our technology in a “standards battle.”

 

We believe strategic relationships with key licensees will enable us to reap the benefits of our technology much faster, with greater penetration, than by manufacturing, distributing or installing products ourselves.  We believe this business model will also allow us to concentrate our efforts and resources on projects more in line with our expertise as a research-and-development oriented company that is focused on generating licensable intellectual property. As we develop new applications for our technology, we expect to target new strategic relationships in different market sectors.

 

In order to demonstrate the capability of our technology to potential partners, we are currently developing complete products, which our licensees modify and remanufacture to fit their own needs. These products are what are known as “reference designs” of our integrated solution. These reference designs will be licensed to key potential partners, which we believe will allow them to speed up incorporation of technology into their product lines, create awareness and demand, and bring our power solution to market faster. Our initial reference designs currently under development are being designed for use with smart phones and e-book readers. However, we believe that there is a wide variety of potential uses for our proprietary technology, including tablets, keyboards, mice, remote controls, rechargeable lights or any other device with similar charging requirements that would otherwise need a battery or a connection to a power outlet.

 

Since we are a development stage company, we have not yet finalized some aspects of our strategy. For example, we may decide to sell our ASICs ourselves, rather than licensing the design of those ASICs. The decision to sell ASICs would be dependent on the business case evaluation of our perceived market demand for our ASIC to potential customers who would require such a component in order to provide their solution to the marketplace. However, we do not intend to manufacture our own ASICs; if we decide to sell ASICs rather than license their designs, we will utilize a contract manufacturer to manufacture the ASICs. In any event, we do not intend to produce finished goods consumer products.

 

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Our Initial Target Markets

 

We believe that our technology will be compelling to many end markets, each of which may have several potential customers. In an effort to focus our activities, we have selected certain initial target markets based on the potential value we would be able to create in these markets. As we continue to develop our technology, we may find that it creates more value in other markets; if that is the case, we intend to shift our focus to those other markets. As we have already discussed, our solution consists of two components: our base station and our receiver. Consequently, we view our initial target markets in these two categories.

 

Base Station Target Markets

 

Wi-Fi Routers

 

We believe that consumers will be best able to understand our technology in the context of the wireless data industry, since our technology allows devices to receive power while unplugged in much the same way that the Wi-Fi router allowed devices to receive data while unplugged. In addition, we believe our base station technology can integrate well into form factors of a similar size to that of existing wireless data routers. Our current prototype is approximately 12” X 8.5” X 2”, which is slightly larger than a typical commercial wireless data router; after our transmitter ASIC is complete, we expect to be able to integrate our technology into the form factor demanded by branded consumer electronics router marketers. We also believe that our 3-D pocketforming technology may be able to enhance the data signal of a Wi-Fi router, which we believe will provide an even stronger value proposition to wireless data router manufacturers.

 

According to Infonetics Research, the wireless local area network (“WLAN”) market was approximately $4 billion in 2012. This includes enterprise access points, WLAN controllers, and Wi-Fi phone access points. The Wi-Fi router market has two segments: commercial and residential. The key differentiator between these segments is that commercial routers tend to have much more robust security features, including virtual private networks and advanced content filtering. We believe that our technology is applicable to both the commercial and residential Wi-Fi router markets. Consequently, we have begun to engage with some of these leading firms in both of these segments.

 

In addition, the Wi-Fi router market has other key players. These include consumer electronics supply chain firms, including OEMs, ODMs, component manufacturers and branded consumer electronics firms. We believe that each of these categories of players can help to integrate our technology into a commercially available Wi-Fi router.

 

An ODM designs products either collaboratively with their customers or on their own and manufactures them for sale to companies under the end customer’s brand. Additionally, an ODM may engage multiple companies with similar designs that are then marketed under several different end customers’ brands. An OEM manufactures products for sale under another firm’s brand. We believe that engaging with both types of organizations will be necessary to speed our entry into the market and extend our market reach.

 

Component suppliers are also a key part of our go-to-market strategy, as most ODMs and OEMs do not design their own components. We expect to be actively engaged with component companies that supply, antennas, mixed signal, power and RF components to the major ODM and OEMs in the Wi-Fi router market.

 

As part of our go-to-market strategy, we will be marketing to major infrastructure developers, both for the consumer and commercial applications. The consumer market will primarily include engagements with the major residential home builders. For commercial installations we will be engaging with the wireless network operators and private Wi-Fi system operators. We will also be engaging with concentrated consumer destinations (for example, coffee shop and restaurant chains, airport lounges and airports). We will be educating these concentrated consumer destinations on the benefits of our solutions to drive them to specify and demand our solution from their vendors and suppliers.

 

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Receiver Target Markets

 

Cases for Mobile Devices (Phones and Tablets)

 

We believe that aftermarket cases for mobile devices (which include both phones and tablets) are an attractive initial market for our receiver. This is because this market is large and growing. According to ABI Research, the smartphone accessory market (which includes headphones and chargers as well as cases) was $20 billion in 2012. According to the NPD Group, the mobile phone case industry was approximately 36% of the overall mobile phone market for the first half of 2012. If both of these estimates are correct, the smartphone case market was approximately $7 billion in 2012. According to the NPD Group, this market grew 69% year-over-year from the first half of 2011 to the first half of 2012.

 

In addition, this is a fiercely competitive market, with dozens of players looking for a way to differentiate themselves. There are hundreds of different types of mobile phone cases that range in price from under $10 to over $100, and are made of materials from simple polymers to full-grain leather. Some of these cases differentiate themselves by being thin and light, while others differentiate themselves by providing advanced features such as external battery packs, waterproofing or credit card slots. We believe that this competition makes it more likely that we will be able to find a partner that chooses to differentiate itself by licensing our technology. We have begun to engage some of the leading firms in this space in our initial conversations.

 

We further believe that this is an attractive market because the design cycles for these cases tend to be much shorter than those for the devices themselves. Though our longer-term goal remains integrating our receiver technology into the mobile devices themselves (through the branded consumer electronics firms that market them or the OEM or ODM that manufactures them), we believe that initially putting our receivers into cases will provide industry validation and “pull” our technology into the original manufacture of mobile devices.

 

Mobile Devices (Phones and Tablets)

 

Our medium-term goal is to be “pulled” into original manufacture of mobile devices because we believe our technology scales well into that market; while there are potentially dozens of licensees for phone cases, as discussed above, there are relatively fewer and larger manufacturers of mobile devices. In January 2013, Gartner estimated that the size of the smart phone industry was approximately $117.5 billion in 2012, and would grow to approximately $175.4 billion in 2016 (which would represent a compound annual growth rate of approximately 10.5%). Gartner also estimated that the size of the combined media tablet and premium tablet industry was approximately $32 billion in 2012, and would grow to approximately $62.8 billion in 2016 (which would represent a compound annual growth rate of 19.5%).

 

The major issue we confront in having our receiver integrated into mobile devices is that building relationships with branded consumer electronics firms and their large OEM/ODM partners is complicated, because these firms tend to be risk-averse.

 

Therefore, we believe that our best strategy in approaching these firms is to also build relationships across the value chain of these devices. We believe that triangulating mobile device branded consumer electronics firms and their OEM/ODM partners across their value chains is the best route to providing them with comfort that our solution will work for their devices.

 

We have identified the key players in this value chain. We categorize these players as upstream providers (which produce components for OEMs and ODMs, such as baseband integrated circuits, application processors, Bluetooth modules, memory and batteries), midstream providers (which assemble devices for branded firms and test components for OEMs and ODMs) and downstream providers (which provide end-use services for consumers of devices sold by branded consumer electronics firms and include telecom operators and channel distributors). We have begun to engage key players in each of these segments.

 

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Other Markets

 

We believe there are many more potential markets for our technology in the longer term. We are pursuing a licensing strategy so that we can bring our technology to multiple markets simultaneously.

 

Some potential long-term markets for our technology include:

 

· Light switches

 

· Audio speakers

 

· Sensors (such as thermostats or smoke detectors)

 

· Remote controls

 

· Toys

 

· Rechargeable batteries

 

· Automotive accessories

 

· Personal care products (such as toothbrushes or shavers)

 

· Retail inventory management (such as RFID tags)

 

· Hand-held industrial devices (such as scanners or keypads)

 

· Hand-held healthcare devices (such as tablets or electronic thermometers)

 

This list is meant for illustrative purposes only; we cannot guarantee that we will address any of these markets, and we may decide to address a market that is not on the above list. We intend to continuously evaluate our target markets and choose new markets based on factors including (but not limited to) time-to-market, market size and growth, and the strength of our value proposition for a specific application.

 

Our Intellectual Property

 

As a company primarily focused on licensing, we expect that our most valuable asset will be our intellectual property. This includes U.S. and foreign patents, patent applications and know-how. We are pursuing an aggressive intellectual property strategy and developing new patents.  

 

As of March 11, 2014, we have 37 pending U.S. patents and provisional patent applications. Thus far we have identified more than 80 specific inventions we believe to be novel and patentable, and we intend to continue filing these inventions for patent protection.

 

Government Regulation

 

Our remote charging technology involves the transmission of power using RF energy waves, which are subject to regulation by the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”), and may be subject to regulation by other federal, state and local agencies. To our knowledge, the transmission of power in this manner by a consumer product at the ranges we are proposing is novel. We believe our technology is safe, and we intend to demonstrate that to the FCC as soon as practicable.

 

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We believe our technology is safe because our proprietary waveform operates in the 2.4/5.8 GHz radio frequency range, which is the same range as Wi-Fi routers and several other wireless consumer electronics. For those types of products, the FCC grants what is known as Part 15 approval if, among other things, the specific absorption rate (“SAR”) is below certain thresholds. Based on our preliminary calculations, the SAR at our receiver should be well below that of a typical cellular signal, so we believe we will be able to gain FCC Part 15 approval for each of our reference designs currently in development. In addition, because our technology involves the transmission of power greater than the power threshold limits of Part 15, we also expect to need to obtain FCC Part 18 approval. To our knowledge, the transmission of power in this manner by a consumer product at the ranges we are proposing is novel and there can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain this approval or that other governmental approvals will not be required.

 

We also plan to combat any perception of safety risk by developing the management software of our transmitter to be configurable by users to selectively transmit power to devices based on the device’s proximity to the human body, such as only transmitting during certain times or transmitting only when the device is not moving. We do not believe users will need to use that configuration to ensure safety, and we expect that we will get FCC approval that will confirm our belief. However, we believe that offering that configuration option will assuage users who need more assurance on safety.

 

Employees

 

As of March 11, 2014, we had 8 full-time employees.  None of these employees are covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we believe our relationship with our employees is good.  We also employ consultants, including technical advisors, on an as-needed basis to supplement existing staff.  Consultants and technical advisors provide us with expertise in electrical engineering, software development, and other specialized areas of engineering and science.

 

Industry Certifications

 

It is our expectation that our products and/or the reference designs will undergo UL/CE as well as FCC Part 15, FCC Part 18, SAR, California Energy Star and Apple compliance testing. While this list of required certifications may change or expand from time to time, it is our expectation, based on similar products and designs developed by our team, that completing these certification tests will be conducted as part of the Company’s standard course of business and planning process.

 

Properties

 

Our principal office is located at 303 Ray Street, Pleasanton, CA 94566.  We currently lease approximately 3,500 square feet of office and laboratory space under a lease that is due to expire in June 2014. The rent is approximately $6,000 per month.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

We are not a party to any pending legal proceedings.

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the section of this prospectus titled “Summary Selected Financial Information” and our financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.  In addition to historical information, this discussion and analysis here and throughout this prospectus contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions.  Our actual results may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of certain factors, including, but not limited, to those set forth under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

Overview

 

We were incorporated in Delaware on October 30, 2012 under the name DvineWave Inc. and in January 2014 we changed our name to Energous Corporation. We were formed to develop and commercialize our technology, which enables wireless charging of electronic devices at a distance. We are located in Pleasanton, CA. To date, our operations have been funded through the sale of our common stock and convertible debt. We have not generated any revenue to date.

 

We intend to license our technology to various consumer electronics companies, including component manufacturers, OEMs, ODMs and branded consumer electronics firms. We believe strategic relationships with key consumer electronics supply chain licensees will enable us to reap the benefits of our technology much faster than by manufacturing, distributing or installing products ourselves.

 

In our operating history, we have developed a beta system consisting of a base station transmitter, a smart phone receiver case, receiver test boards and management software. In addition, we have designed and submitted for manufacturing an application specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) to optimize our transmitter technology. Furthermore, we have designed, but not yet submitted for manufacturing, an ASIC to optimize our receiver technology. In connection with the receiver technology, we have designed multiple smart phone charging cases, which are still under development. Complementing our hardware designs, we have developed a software application that we believe allows for management, control, statistics and prioritization of the charging for the remote devices via a smartphone, tablet or PC.

 

We have pursued an aggressive intellectual property strategy and are developing new patents. As of March 11, 2013, we have 37 pending U.S. patents and provisional patent applications. Thus far we have identified more than 80 specific inventions we believe to be novel and patentable, and we intend to continue filing these inventions for patent protection.

 

We have recruited and hired a seasoned management team with public company and relevant industry experience to develop and execute our operating plan. In addition, we have hired and have identified additional engineering resources, which we expect will build up the engineering capability of our internal team. Finally, we have started the selection process for the independent members of our board of directors, which we intend to rely upon for valuable assistance in terms of industry credibility, corporate governance, and strategic direction.

 

Our financial statements contemplate the continuation of our business as a going concern. We are subject to the risks and uncertainties associated with a new business, including lack of operating capital, lack of personnel and lack of demand for our products. We are a development stage company and have not yet generated any revenue, have no established source of capital, and we have incurred significant debt and significant losses from operations since inception. These matters raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.

 

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Plan of Operation

 

Our strategy is to continue to focus on the development of our remote charging technology with our current goal being to license this technology to consumer electronics supply chain firms or manufacturers or developers of toys and other devices that would benefit from remote charging. We expect that our remote charging technology will be made commercially available to potential licensees during the fourth quarter of 2014; however, we believe that potential licensees of our remote charging technology will take at least one to two years to incorporate the Company’s technology into commercial products available for sale. We expect to use the net proceeds received from this offering to continue our remote charging technology development, develop product reference designs, complete certification testing, protect our intellectual property, pursue licensing partners and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. The net proceeds from this offering are anticipated to be approximately $17.55 million, which we expect to be sufficient to fund our activities through April 30, 2016. We intend to use the net proceeds from our sale of common stock in this offering as follows: approximately $10.3 million will be used for product research, development, reference design development and product certifications, approximately $0.7 million will be used for the protection of our intellectual property, approximately $2.8 million will be used for sales and marketing activities, approximately $0.8 million will be used for the purchase of fixed assets which consists primarily of computer equipment and software, and the balance of the funds will be used for general and administrative expenses and other general corporate purposes. Our anticipated costs include employee salaries and benefits, compensation paid to consultants and independent contractors, capital costs for research and other equipment, cost for ASIC manufacturing and testing, cost associated with governmental certification testing, costs associated with development activities including travel and administration, legal expenses, sales and marketing costs, general and administrative expenses, and other costs associated with an early stage, publicly-traded technology company. We anticipate increasing the number of employees by up to approximately 39 employees; however, this is highly dependent on the progress of our development efforts. We anticipate adding employees in the areas of research and development, sales and marketing, operations and general and administrative functions required to support our efforts. We expect to incur consulting expenses related to technology development and other efforts as well as legal and related expenses to protect our intellectual property. We expect annual capital expenditures to be approximately $0.5 million and $0.3 million for 2014 and 2015, respectively.

 

The amounts that we actually spend for any specific purpose may vary significantly and will depend on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the pace of progress of our development and licensing efforts, unexpected difficulties arising in the process of protecting our intellectual property, market conditions, and changes in or revisions to our marketing strategies. In addition, we may use a portion of any net proceeds to acquire complementary products, technologies or businesses; however, we do not have plans for any acquisitions at this time. We will have significant discretion in the use of any net proceeds. Investors will be relying on the judgment of our management regarding the application of the proceeds of any sale of our common stock.

 

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

The following discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations is based upon our financial statements, which have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.  Certain accounting policies and estimates are particularly important to the understanding of our financial position and results of operations and require the application of significant judgment by our management or can be materially affected by changes from period to period in economic factors or conditions that are outside of our control.  As a result, they are subject to an inherent degree of uncertainty.  In applying these policies, our management uses their judgment to determine the appropriate assumptions to be used in the determination of certain estimates.  Those estimates are based on our historical operations, our future business plans and projected financial results, the terms of existing contracts, our observance of trends in the industry, information provided by our customers and information available from other outside sources, as appropriate.  Please see Note 3 to our financial statements for a more complete description of our significant accounting policies.

 

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Basis of Presentation .  Our financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which contemplate continuation of the Company as a going concern.  However, we are subject to the risks and uncertainties associated with a new business, we have limited sources of revenue, and we have incurred significant losses from operations since inception.  Our operations are dependent upon it raising additional capital.  These matters raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.  The financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities that could result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

Research and Development.   Research and development expenses are charged to operations as incurred. For internally developed patents, all costs incurred to the point when a patent application is to be filed are expended as incurred as research and development expense. Patent application costs, generally legal costs, are expensed as research and development costs until such time as the future economic benefits of such patents become more certain.

 

Income Taxes.  The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of items that have been included or excluded in the financial statements or tax returns. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined on the basis of the difference between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and their respective financial reporting amounts (“temporary differences”) at enacted tax rates in effect for the years in which the temporary differences are expected to reverse.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2013 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, the Company had approximately $2,108,000 and $17,000, respectively, of research and development expenses capitalized for federal income tax purposes, with amortization commencing upon the Company receiving an economic benefit from the related research. For the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, $4,000 of organization costs were capitalized and will be amortized for federal income tax purposes over 15 years.  Accordingly, as of December 31, 2013, the Company had approximately $2,263,391 gross federal and state net operating loss carryovers (“NOLs”). For the year ended December 31, 2013 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, the deferred tax assets in connection with the net operating loss carryover, the research and development costs and the organizational costs were fully reserved, and the Company’s effective tax rate was 0%.

 

In assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the future generation of taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and taxing strategies in making this assessment. Based on this assessment, management has established a full valuation allowance against all of the net deferred tax assets for each period, since it is more likely than not that all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

 

Tax benefits are recognized only for tax positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities. The amount recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement. A liability for “unrecognized tax benefits” is recorded for any tax benefits claimed in the Company’s tax returns that do not meet these recognition and measurement standards.   As of December 31, 2013, no liability for unrecognized tax benefits was required to be reported. The guidance also discusses the classification of related interest and penalties on income taxes.  The Company’s policy is to record interest and penalties on uncertain tax positions as a component of income tax expense.   No interest or penalties were recorded for the year ended December 31, 2013 or for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012.

 

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Convertible Instruments . The Company accounts for hybrid contracts that feature conversion options in accordance with ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging Activities,” (“ASC 815”) and ASC 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity” (“ASC 480”), which require companies to bifurcate conversion options from their host instruments and account for them as free standing derivative financial instruments according to certain criteria. The criteria includes circumstances in which (i) the economic characteristics and risks of the embedded derivative instrument are not clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics and risks of the host contract, (ii) the hybrid instrument that embodies both the embedded derivative instrument and the host contract is not re-measured at fair value under otherwise applicable generally accepted accounting principles with changes in fair value reported in earnings as they occur and (iii) a separate instrument with the same terms as the embedded derivative instrument would be considered a derivative instrument. The Company accounts for convertible instruments that have been determined to be free standing derivative financial instruments (when the Company has determined that the embedded conversion options should be bifurcated from their host instruments) in accordance with ASC 815.  Under ASC 815, a portion of the proceeds received upon the issuance of the hybrid contract are allocated to the fair value of the derivative. The derivative is subsequently marked to market at each reporting date based on current fair value, with the changes in fair value reported in results of operations.

 

Conversion options that contain variable settlement features such as provisions to adjust the conversion price upon subsequent issuances of equity or equity linked securities at exercise prices more favorable than that featured in the hybrid contract generally result in their bifurcation from the host instrument.

 

The Company accounts for convertible debt instruments, when the Company has determined that the embedded conversion options should not be bifurcated from their host instruments, in accordance with ASC 470-20 “Debt with Conversion and Other Options”. The Company records, when necessary, discounts to convertible notes for the intrinsic value of conversion options embedded in debt instruments based upon the differences between the fair value of the underlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note. Debt discounts under these arrangements are amortized under the effective interest method over the term of the related debt.

 

Common Stock Purchase Warrants and Other Derivative Financial Instruments. The Company classifies as equity any contracts that (i) require physical settlement or net-share settlement or (ii) provides a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in the Company’s own shares (physical settlement or net-share settlement) providing that such contracts are indexed to the Company's own stock as defined in ASC 815-40 “Contracts in Entity's Own Equity” (“ASC 815-40”). The Company classifies as assets or liabilities any contracts that (i) require net-cash settlement (including a requirement to net cash settle the contract if an event occurs and if that event is outside the Company’s control) or (ii) gives the counterparty a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in shares (physical settlement or net-share settlement).  The Company assesses classification of common stock purchase warrants and other free standing derivatives at each reporting date to determine whether a change in classification between assets and liabilities or equity is required.

 

RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

 

Revenues .  To date we have not generated any revenues.

 

Operating Expenses and Loss from Operations .    Operating expenses   are made up of derivative issuance, research, development and general and administrative and marketing expenses. Loss from operations for the year ended December 31, 2013, the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 were $4,435,470, $21,287 and. $4,456,757, respectively. General and administrative expenses include costs for general and corporate functions, including facility fees, travel, telecommunications, insurance, professional fees, consulting fees and other overhead.

 

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Change in Fair Value of Derivative Liabilities. Change in fair value of derivative liabilities for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 was $177,000, $0 and $177,000, respectively.

 

Interest Expense.   Interest expense for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 was $908,611, $0 and $908,611, respectively, and included amortization of debt discount for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 of $705,289, $0 and $705,289, respectively.

 

Net Loss .    Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 was $5,521,081, $21,287 and $5,542,368, respectively.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company’s cash on hand was $1,953,780. The Company has not generated revenues since its inception and has incurred net losses of $5,521,081 for the year ended December 31, 2013, $21,287 for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, and $5,542,368 for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013. During the year ended December 31, 2013, the Company has met its liquidity requirements principally through the private placement of convertible notes.

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company had a working capital deficiency and a stockholders’ deficit of $5,629,982 and $5,345,092, respectively.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013, cash flows used in operating activities were $3,430,978, consisting of a net loss of $5,521,081 less non-cash expenses aggregating $1,631,879 (representing principally amortization of debt discount of $705,289, warrant expense of $724,000 and change in fair value of derivative liabilities of $177,000), offset by net changes in operating assets and liabilities of $458,224. During the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, cash flows used in operating activities were $9,006, consisting of a net loss of $21,287 less $1,875 and $10,406 representing increases in accounts payable and accrued expenses, respectively. During the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, cash flows used in operating activities were $3,439,984, consisting of a net loss of $5,542,368 less non-cash expenses aggregating $1,631,879 (representing principally amortization of debt discount of $705,289, warrant expense of $724,000 and change in fair value of derivative liabilities of $177,000), offset by net changes in operating assets and liabilities of $470,505.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013 and during the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, and during the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, cash flows from investing activities were $199,054, $0 and $199,054, respectively. The increase for the year ended December 31, 2013 and during the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, consisted principally of $194,329 for the costs incurred for the purchase of property and equipment.

 

During the year ended December 31, 2013, cash flows from financing activities were $5,582,818 and consisted of $5,500,009 in proceeds from the issuance of Convertible Notes and $200,681 in proceeds from the sale of the Company’s common stock offset by $29,553 used to repurchase restricted common stock and $88,319 used in the payment of deferred offering costs. During the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, cash flows from financing activities were $10,000 and consisted of proceeds from the sale of the Company’s common stock. During the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, cash flows from financing activities were $5,592,818 and consisted of $5,500,009 in proceeds from the issuance of Convertible Notes and $210,681 in proceeds from the sale of the Company’s common stock offset by $29,553 used to repurchase restricted common stock and $88,319 used in the payment of deferred offering costs.

 

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Off Balance Sheet Transactions

 

We do not have any off-balance sheet transactions.

 

Trends, Events and Uncertainties

 

Research and development of new technologies is, by its nature, unpredictable.  Although we will undertake development efforts with commercially reasonable diligence, there can be no assurance that the net proceeds from this offering will be sufficient to enable us to develop our technology to the extent needed to create future revenues to sustain operations as contemplated herein.  Accordingly, we expect that we may require additional financing which could include follow-on equity offerings, debt financing, co-development agreements or other alternatives.

 

We cannot assure you that our technology will be adopted, that we will ever earn revenues sufficient to support our operations, or that we will ever be profitable.  Furthermore, since we have no committed source of financing, we cannot assure you that we will be able to raise money as and when we need it to continue our operations.  If we cannot raise funds as and when we need them, we may be required to severely curtail, or even to cease, our operations.

 

Other than as discussed above and elsewhere in this prospectus, we are not aware of any trends, events or uncertainties that are likely to have a material effect on our financial condition.

 

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DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

 

The following table sets forth the names and ages of all of our directors and executive officers.  Our officers are appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of, the board of directors.

 

Name   Age   Position
Stephen R. Rizzone   64   President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
Michael Leabman   40   Chief Technology Officer and Director
Thomas Iwanski   56   Interim Chief Financial Officer
George B. Holmes   50   Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Billy Crotty   46   Vice President of Operations
Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos   72   Director
Gregory S. Brewer   50   Director
Robert J. Griffin   47   Director


Biographical information with respect to our executive officers and directors is provided below.  There are no family relationships between any of our executive officers or directors.

 

Stephen R. Rizzone – President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

 

Mr. Stephen R. Rizzone joined the Company as President, Chief Executive Officer and chairman of the board of directors in October 2013. Mr. Rizzone has more than 35 years of executive management, marketing, sales and entrepreneurial experience in the data communications hardware, networking hardware and software, silicon and optical components markets. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rizzone served as Chief Executive Officer and chairman of the board of directors of Active Storage, Inc. from June 2011 until December 2012 and as the Chief Executive Officer and chairman of the board of directors of Communicado, Inc. from April 2006 to September 2009. Mr. Rizzone previously served as member of the board of directors of Katzkin Leather from June 2011 to November 2013 and the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance (LARTA) from February 2009 to November 2011. Mr. Rizzone holds a BA in Public Administration from California State University at Fullerton.  Mr. Rizzone’s extensive industry, executive and board experience position him well to serve as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors.

 

Michael Leabman – Chief Technology Officer, Director and Founder

 

Mr. Leabman founded the Company in October 2012 and became the Company’s Chief Technology Officer in October 2013. Mr. Leabman has been a member of the Company’s board of directors since its founding and served as the Company’s President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary until October 2013. From September 2010 to September 2013, Mr. Leabman served as President of TruePath Wireless, a service provider and equipment provider in the broadband communications industry. Mr. Leabman has served on the board of directors of TruePath Wireless since 2010 and continues to serve on the board today. From 2008 to 2010, Mr. Leabman served as Chief Technology Officer for DataRunway Inc., a wireless communication company providing broadband internet to airlines. Mr. Leabman received both his Bachelor of Science degree and Master of Engineering degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Leabman’s extensive knowledge the Company, its technology and the consumer and commercial electronics industry position him well for service on our board of directors.

 

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Thomas Iwanski – Interim Chief Financial Officer

 

Mr. Iwanski joined the Company in October 2013 as a financial consultant and in December 2013 was appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Iwanski has more than 23 years (18 years of which were with publicly traded companies) of executive management and financial experience in the data communications hardware, networking and storage hardware and software, silicon and optical components markets in addition to almost 10 years of prior auditing experience at KPMG LLP. Mr. Iwanski was self-employed as a financial consultant from May 2007 until he joined the Company. In addition, Mr. Iwanski has served as an independent director at Pacific Health Care Organization, Inc. a publicly traded healthcare management and claims administration company, since 2004. Mr. Iwanski filed a personal bankruptcy petition in June 2013 in connection with alleged guarantees of debt of Live-Vu Communications, Inc., a private company in which Mr. Iwanski made a significant personal investment and for which he served as a key consultant, officer and director. Mr. Iwanski holds a bachelor of business administration with a major in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a Certified Public Accountant.

 

George Holmes – Vice President of Sales and Marketing

 

Mr. Holmes joined the Company as Vice President of Sales and Marketing in October 2013. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Holmes served as Vice President of Sales at SolarBridge Technologies from February 2011 until June 2013 where he was responsible for all sales, business development, applications and sales operations activities for the company. Mr. Holmes served as Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing from January 2008 until December 2010 for PureEnergy Solutions, a developer and manufacturer of wireless power products. Since 2007, Mr. Holmes has served as been a partner at aAgave Solutions, LLC, a provider of sales at marketing consulting services. He has served in strategic executive management and sales roles for companies including PowerCast, X1 Technologies, Agere Systems (formerly Lucent MicroElectronics), Ortel Corp. (acquired by Lucent), Level One Communications and Symmetricom. Mr. Holmes holds a B.A. in business from the University of Puget Sound, a diploma in international business from Nyenrode University and has completed the AEA Executive Institute, Management of Technology Companies program at Stanford University.

 

Billy Crotty – Vice President of Operations

 

Billy Crotty joined the Company as Vice President of Operations in October 2013. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Crotty served a General Manager Strategic Business Unit at Personal Communications Devices, LLC from October 2012 until October 2013, where he was charged with expanding the company’s offerings into the accessory world and establishing its e-commerce business. From January 2011 to October 2012, Mr. Crotty served as Executive Vice President of Global Operations at Skinit Inc., a leading supplier of personalized for electronic devices. From March 2010 to January 2011, Mr. Crotty served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Pure Energy, a developer and manufacturer of wireless power products. From July 2007 to March 2010 Mr. Crotty served as Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Superior Communications, a leading provider of accessories to big box and carrier retail stores. Prior to jointing Superior Communications, Mr. Crotty held executive positions at Airgain, Esmertec AG and Cellon Inc. Mr. Crotty received the 2009 Top 25 Supply Chain Executives Award from the Global Supply Chain Leaders Group and led the Skinit team that was named to the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine’s 100 list in 2012. Mr. Crotty holds a B.S., Production Engineering from UCL Ireland and a MBA in International Studies from the Babson School of Business.

 

Nicolaos G. Alexopoulos – Director

 

Dr. Nicolaos (Nick) G. Alexopoulos joined the Company’s board of directors in February 2014. Dr. Alexopoulos is Vice President for RF Technologies, Antennas and University Relations at Broadcom Corporation, where he has been employed since August 2008. Prior to joining Broadcom, Dr. Alexopoulos served as the Dean of the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine from 1997 until 2008 and Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA from 1987 until 1992. Dr. Alexopoulos holds a BSEE, MSEE and PhD Degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has an Honorary Doctorate from the National Technical University of Athens and has published extensively on the topics of antennas and microwave circuits, artificial materials and other technologies. In addition, he has served over the years as a consultant to various high tech corporations, founded Kimalink Inc. (bought by Broadcom Corporation in 2001) and holds many US patents. In addition, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has been elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering and serves on university advisory boards. Dr. Alexopoulos’ unique and extensive scientific/technical and business expertise position him well to serve on our board of directors.

 

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Gregory S. Brewer – Director

 

Mr. Brewer has been a member of the board of directors of the Company since October 2012. Mr. Brewer is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Prosoft Engineering, Inc., a software company focused on data recovery software and other utilities which help protect and manage personal data. Mr. Brewer founded Prosoft Engineering in 1985 and beyond executive and board leadership his responsibilities have included software/firmware engineering, project and product management, partnership development, strategic alliance and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Brewer’s extensive leadership and operational experience in the computing industry, including his extensive knowledge of the development and sale of computing peripherals, position him well for service on our board of directors.

 

Robert J. Griffin - Director

 

Mr. Robert J. Griffin joined the Company’s board of directors in February 2014. Mr. Griffin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Griffin International Companies, a Minneapolis-based retail sales and marketing firm. Since founding Griffin International Companies in 1997, Mr. Griffin has led the expansion of the company’s business across three continents and secured the license of brands and technologies from a number of large, well known companies. Prior to founding Griffin International Companies, Mr. Griffin spent 6 years at Best Buy Co. in various management roles. Mr. Griffin holds a BA in Economics from Gustavus Adolphus College. Mr. Griffin’s extensive executive leadership experience and his in-depth knowledge of the retail industry and technology licensing make him well qualified to serve on our board of directors.

 

Director Independence

 

Our board of directors has determined that Dr. Alexopoulos, Mr. Griffin and [●] are “independent directors” as such term is defined by Nasdaq Marketplace Rule 5605(a)(2).  We have established an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.  Each of Dr. Alexopoulos, Mr. Griffin and [●] serve as members of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Our board of directors has determined that [●] is an audit committee financial expert, as defined under the applicable rules of the SEC, and that all members of the Audit Committee are “independent” within the meaning of the applicable Nasdaq listing standards and the independence standards of rule 10A-3 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Each of the members of the Audit Committee meets the requirements for financial literacy under the applicable rules and regulations of the SEC and The Nasdaq Stock Market.

 

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

Our compensation philosophy is to offer our executive officers compensation and benefits that are competitive and meet our goals of attracting, retaining and motivating highly skilled management, which is necessary to achieve our financial and strategic objectives and create long-term value for our stockholders. We believe the levels of compensation we provide should be competitive, reasonable and appropriate for our business needs and circumstances. The principal elements of our executive compensation program have to date included base salary, and long-term equity compensation in the form of stock options. We believe successful long term Company performance is more critical to enhancing stockholder value than short term results. For this reason and to conserve cash and better align the interests of management and our stockholders, we emphasize long-term performance-based equity compensation over base annual salaries.

 

The following table sets forth information concerning the compensation earned by the individual that served as our Principal Executive Officer during 2013 and our two most highly compensated executive officers other than the individual who served as our Principal Executive Officer during 2013 (collectively, the “named executive officers”):

 

2013 Summary Compensation Table 

 

Name and Principal Position   Year   Salary ($)     Bonus ($)     Option
Awards
($)(1)
    All Other
Compensation
($)
    Total ($)  
Stephen R. Rizzone   2013     37,500       -       258,373       -       295,873  
Chief Executive Officer and   2012     -       -       -       -       -  
President                                            
                                             
Michael Leabman   2013     86,500       100,000 (2)     -       -       186,500  
Chief Technology Officer   2012     -       -       -       -       -  
                                             
Thomas Iwanski   2013     37,500       -       -       -       37,500  
Chief Financial Officer   2012     -       -       -       -       -  

 

 

 

(1) The amounts shown in this column indicate the grant date fair value of option awards granted in the subject year computed in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 718. For additional information regarding the assumptions made in calculating these amounts, see notes 3 and 9 to our audited financial statements included herein.

 

(2) Mr. Leabman’s bonus must be repaid in full if his employment with the Company is terminated for any reason prior to September 27, 2014.

 

In December 2013, Mr. Rizzone was granted an option award covering 275,689 shares of common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan that vests over four years in 48 equal monthly installments beginning October 1, 2013.

 

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Outstanding Equity Awards at 2013 Fiscal Year-End

 

The following table provides information regarding equity awards held by the named executive officers as of December 31, 2013.

 

Name   Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable
    Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable
    Option
Exercise
Price ($)
    Option
Expiration
Date
Stephen R. Rizzone     17,230       258,459 (1)   $ 1.68     12/12/23

 

 

 

(1) Reflects the unvested portion of an option grant which vests in equal monthly installments through October 2017 .

 

Employment Agreements and ‘Change of Control Arrangements

 

Employment Agreements

 

The following is a summary of the employment arrangements with our executive officers as currently in effect.

 

Stephen Rizzone . We entered into an employment agreement with Stephen Rizzone, our President, Chief Executive Officer and chairman of our board of directors, effective October 1, 2013. The employment agreement has no specific term and constitutes at-will employment. Mr. Rizzone’s current annual base salary is $150,000, although his annual base salary will increase to $300,000 immediately following our initial public offering, and he is eligible for up to five annual cash bonuses of up to $30,000 each (one each with respect to our fiscal quarters and one with respect to our fiscal year) based upon achievement of performance-based objectives established by our board of directors. Pursuant to Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement, he was granted a ten year option to purchase 275,689 shares of common stock on December 12, 2013 under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan that vests over four years in 48 equal monthly installments beginning October 1, 2013, the start of the requisite service period. Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement provides that upon the consummation of our initial public offering he will receive an additional option award so that together with Mr. Rizzone’s December 2013 option award the two option awards combined represent six percent (6%) of the Company’s outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis. The second option award, if issued, will vest over the same vesting schedule as Mr. Rizzone’s December, 2013 option award.

 

If Mr. Rizzone’s employment is terminated due to his death or disability, by the Company without cause or if Mr. Rizzone resigns for good reason, Mr. Rizzone will be entitled to receive (i) one year of his base salary at the rate then in effect, (ii) five performance bonuses (each equal to the average of the performance bonus paid with respect to the two fiscal quarters, or the fiscal quarter-end and fiscal year-end, as applicable, immediately preceding Mr. Rizzone’s termination or resignation) (iii) reimbursement of Mr. Rizzone’s cost of COBRA coverage for one year, and (iv) twenty-five percent (25%) of the options to purchase shares of common stock subject to Mr. Rizzone’s option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable, and, along with any previously vested and unexercised options, may be exercised by Mr. Rizzone within one year following his termination or resignation. However, if a Liquidation Event (as defined below) shall occur within one year of Mr. Rizzone’s termination without cause or his resignation for good reason, all of Mr. Rizzone’s option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable.

 

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Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement provides that if the Company experiences a Liquidation Event (as defined below), Mr. Rizzone’s employment with the Company will be terminated and the Company will enter into a consulting agreement with Mr. Rizzone that entitles him to the following during its term: (i) continued payment of Mr. Rizzone’s base salary at the rate then in effect, (ii) continued payment of Mr. Rizzone’s performance bonuses described above, and (iii) continued payment of benefits that are substantially similar to those of the Company’s other senior executive officers, and (iv) continuation of the vesting period of the option awards described above. The term of the consulting agreement between the Company and Mr. Rizzone shall expire on the later of two years from the date of the Liquidation event or October 1, 2017. For purposes of Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement, a Liquidation Event means a merger, acquisition, consolidation or other transaction (other than an equity financing) following which our stockholders prior to such transaction hold less than fifty percent (50%) of our outstanding voting securities of the acquiring or surviving entity, or a sale, license or transfer of all or substantially all of our assets.

 

If Mr. Rizzone resigns without good reason, he will be entitled to his base salary at the rate then in effect up to and through the effective date of his resignation, along with any unreimbursed reasonable, out-of-pocket business expenses incurred by Mr. Rizzone in the performance of his duties.

 

Mr. Rizzone is also eligible to receive benefits that are substantially similar to those of the Company’s other senior executive officers. Mr. Rizzone is subject to certain restrictive covenants, including non-solicitation of employees, consultants and customers and non-competition each for a period one year following termination of his employment with the Company.

 

Michael Leabman . We entered into an employment agreement with Michael Leabman, our Chief Technology Officer, effective October 1, 2013. The employment agreement has no specific term and constitutes at-will employment. Mr. Leabman’s current annual base salary is $250,000, and he is eligible for an annual performance based bonus award of up to twenty percent (20%) of his base salary based upon achievement of performance-based objectives established by our Chief Executive Officer and board of directors. Pursuant to Mr. Leabman’s employment agreement, in January 2013, he was granted a ten year option to purchase 57,644 shares of common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan that vested 3/48 ths on the date of grant, and will vest 1/48 th monthly over the following 45 months. Mr. Leabman’s employment agreement provides that upon the consummation of our initial public offering, if Mr. Leabman’s option award plus any Company securities he currently owns represent less than three percent (3%) of the Company’s outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis, he shall be entitled to a second option award which will entitle him to purchase that number of shares of our common stock such that the two option awards combined plus any Company securities he currently owns represent three percent (3%) of the Company’s outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis. The second option award, if issued, will vest over the same vesting schedule as Mr. Leabman’s initial option award.

 

If Mr. Leabman’s employment is terminated due to his death or disability, by the Company without cause or if Mr. Leabman resigns for good reason, Mr. Leabman will be entitled to receive (i) one year of his base salary at the rate then in effect, (ii) a performance bonuses each equal to the total performance bonuses paid to Mr. Leabman in the calendar year immediately preceding Mr. Leabman’s termination or resignation (iii) reimbursement of Mr. Leabman’s cost of COBRA coverage for one year, and (iv) twenty-five percent (25%) of the options to purchase shares of common stock subject to Mr. Leabman’s option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable, and, along with any previously vested and unexercised options, may be exercised by Mr. Leabman within one year following his termination or resignation. However, if a Liquidation Event (as defined below) shall occur within one year of Mr. Leabman’s termination without cause or his resignation for good reason, all of Mr. Leabman’s options to purchase shares of common stock pursuant to the option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable.

 

In addition to those benefits described above, if Mr. Leabman’s employment is terminated by the Company without cause or he resigns for Good Reason within 18 months of a Liquidation Event (as defined below), all of Mr. Leabman’s options to purchase shares of common stock pursuant to the option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable. For purposes of Mr. Leabman’s employment agreement, a Liquidation Event has the same meaning as in Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement.

 

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If Mr. Leabman resigns without good reason, he will be entitled to his base salary at the rate then in effect up to and through the effective date of his resignation, along with any unreimbursed reasonable, out-of-pocket business expenses incurred by Mr. Leabman in the performance of his duties.

 

Mr. Leabman is also eligible to receive benefits that are substantially similar to those of the Company’s other senior executive officers. Mr. Leabman is subject to certain restrictive covenants, including non-solicitation of employees, consultants and customers and non-competition each for a period one year following termination of his employment with the Company.

 

Thomas Iwanski and George Holmes. Mr. Iwanski and Mr. Holmes are currently providing services to the Company pursuant to consulting arrangements under which they are being paid $12,500 and $10,000 per month, respectively.

 

Director Compensation

 

Members of our board of directors did not receive compensation for their service as directors for the year ended December 31, 2013.  In March 2014 we adopted a non-employee director policy pursuant to which our non-employee directors receive on an annual basis $50,000 of cash compensation and an annual equity award with a value of $50,000. In February 2014, Dr. Alexopoulos and Mr. Griffin were each granted a non-statutory stock option award for 2014 covering 25,979 shares of common stock.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

 

The following is a brief description of our capital stock. This summary does not purport to be complete in all respects. This description is subject to and qualified entirely by the terms of our Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and our bylaws, copies of which have been filed with the SEC and are also available upon request from us.

 

Authorized Capitalization

 

We have 40,000,000 shares of capital stock authorized under our Certificate of Incorporation, consisting of 40,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.00001 per share. As of March 11, 2014, we had 2,918,740 shares of common stock outstanding.  Our authorized but unissued shares of common stock are available for issuance without further action by our stockholders, unless such action is required by applicable law or the rules of any stock exchange or automated quotation system on which our securities may be listed or traded.

 

Common Stock

 

Holders of our common stock are entitled to such dividends as may be declared by our board of directors out of funds legally available for such purpose. The shares of common stock are neither redeemable nor convertible. Holders of common stock have no preemptive or subscription rights to purchase any of our securities.

 

Each holder of our common stock is entitled to one vote for each such share outstanding in the holder’s name.  No holder of common stock is entitled to cumulate votes in voting for directors.

 

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, the holders of our common stock are entitled to receive pro rata our assets, which are legally available for distribution, after payments of all debts and other liabilities.  All of the outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and non-assessable.  The shares of common stock offered by this prospectus will also be fully paid and non-assessable.

 

There is no public market for our common stock.  We have applied for listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market. If our application to the Nasdaq Capital Market is not approved or we otherwise determine that we will not be able to secure the listing of the common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will not complete the offering.

 

Stock Options and Warrants

 

As of March 11, 2014, we had reserved the following shares of common stock for issuance pursuant to stock options, warrants and equity plans:

 

· 733,333 shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under stock option agreements issued pursuant to our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan at a weighted average exercise price of $2.19 per share;

 

· 513,519 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under outstanding warrants and non-statutory stock options at a weighted average exercise price of $1.46 per share (and 36,000 shares of common stock underlying warrants expected to be issued to a service provider following completion of the offering);

 

· 1,547,882 shares of our common stock estimated to be reserved for future issuance under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan; and

 

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· 250,000 shares of our common stock for future issuance under our 2014 Non-Employee Equity Compensation Plan.

 

In March 2014, our board of directors and stockholders approved an amendment to our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan pursuant to which effective following completion of the offering, the total number of such available shares under such plan shall equal 18% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately following the completion of the offering (assuming for this purpose the issuance of all shares issuable under the Company’s equity plans, the conversion into common stock of all outstanding securities that are convertible by their terms into common stock and the exercise of all options and warrants exercisable for shares of common stock and including shares and warrants issued to the underwriter pursuant to such offering upon exercise of its over-allotment option, if any).

 

Holders of our outstanding warrants are entitled to one-time demand registration rights and certain piggyback registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise thereof.

 

Convertible Promissory Notes

 

We have issued $5.5 million in senior secured convertible promissory notes that bear simple interest at 6% and must be paid or converted into shares of our common stock on or before August 16, 2014. We refer to these promissory notes as the “Convertible Notes” in this prospectus. Upon consummation of a public offering of our common stock yielding gross proceeds of at least $10 million in this offering, all of the outstanding principal and interest accrued on the Convertible Notes will be converted in full into shares of our common stock. Assuming that this offering was completed on December 31, 2013, based on interest accrued through such date the Convertible Notes would have been converted into 2,283,181 shares of our common stock. Because interest that accrues after December 31, 2013 will also be converted, the actual number of shares to be issued upon conversion of the Convertible Notes will exceed this number of shares of common stock. Holders of the Convertible Notes are entitled to one-time demand registration rights and certain piggyback registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion thereof.

 

Anti-Takeover Effects of Certain Provisions of Delaware Law and Our Charter Documents

 

The following is a summary of certain provisions of Delaware law, our Certificate of Incorporation and our bylaws. This summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the corporate law of Delaware and our Certificate of Incorporation and bylaws.

 

Effect of Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute.   We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, an anti-takeover law.  In general, Section 203 prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any business combination (as defined below) with any interested stockholder (as defined below) for a period of three years following the date that the stockholder became an interested stockholder, unless:

 

· prior to that date, the board of directors of the corporation approved either the business combination or the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder;

 

· upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding for purposes of determining the number of shares of voting stock outstanding (but not the voting stock owned by the interested stockholder) those shares owned by persons who are directors and officers and by excluding employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

 

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· on or subsequent to that date, the business combination is approved by the board of directors of the corporation and authorized at an annual or special meeting of stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding voting stock that is not owned by the interested stockholder.

 

Section 203 defines “business combination” to include the following:

 

· any merger or consolidation involving the corporation and the interested stockholder;

 

· any sale, transfer, pledge or other disposition of 10% or more of the assets of the corporation involving the interested stockholder;

 

· subject to certain exceptions, any transaction that results in the issuance or transfer by the corporation of any stock of the corporation to the interested stockholder;

 

· subject to limited exceptions, any transaction involving the corporation that has the effect of increasing the proportionate share of the stock of any class or series of the corporation beneficially owned by the interested stockholder; or

 

· the receipt by the interested stockholder of the benefit of any loans, advances, guarantees, pledges or other financial benefits provided by or through the corporation.

 

In general, Section 203 defines an interested stockholder as any entity or person beneficially owning 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation, or who beneficially owns 15% or more of the outstanding voting stock of the corporation at any time within a three-year period immediately prior to the date of determining whether such person is an interested stockholder, and any entity or person affiliated with or controlling or controlled by any of these entities or persons.

 

Effect of California Corporation Long-Arm Statute . We are a Delaware corporation, governed by the Delaware General Corporation Law; however, our headquarters, property and officers are located in California. Section 2115 of the California Corporations Code (the “California Corporation Long-Arm Statute”) purports to impose on corporations like the Company certain portions of California’s laws governing corporations formed under the laws of the State of California. While disputes have arisen regarding the enforceability of the California Corporation Long-Arm Statute, the statute purports to apply the California Corporations Code in the following areas of governance to corporations that meet the test for applicability for the California Corporation Long-Arm Statute: Chapter 1 (general provisions and definitions), to the extent applicable to the following provisions; Section 301 (annual election of directors); Section 303 (removal of directors without cause); Section 304 (removal of directors by court proceedings); Section 305, subdivision (c) (filling of director vacancies where less than a majority in office elected by shareholders); Section 309 (directors’ standard of care); Section 316 (excluding paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) and paragraph (3) of subdivision (f)) (liability of directors for unlawful distributions); Section 317 (indemnification of directors, officers, and others); Sections 500 to 505, inclusive (limitations on corporate distributions in cash or property); Section 506 (liability of shareholder who receives unlawful distribution); Section 600, subdivisions (b) and (c) (requirement for annual shareholders’ meeting and remedy if same not timely held); Section 708, subdivisions (a), (b), and (c) (shareholder’s right to cumulate votes at any election of directors); Section 710 (supermajority vote requirement); Section 1001, subdivision (d) (limitations on sale of assets); Section 1101 (provisions following subdivision (e)) (limitations on mergers); Section 1151 (first sentence only) (limitations on conversions); Section 1152 (requirements of conversions); Chapter 12 (commencing with Section 1200) (reorganizations); Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 1300) (dissenters’ rights); Sections 1500 and 1501 (records and reports); Section 1508 (action by Attorney General); Chapter 16 (commencing with Section 1600) (rights of inspection).

 

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We believe it is likely that we meet the test for the application of the California Corporation Long-Arm Statute and do not anticipate a specific time in the future when we would not meet such test. The California Corporation Long-Arm Statute, if applicable, would purport to require a different outcome for certain important activities fundamental to the governance of corporations, and you are encouraged to review the effect of the California Long-Arm Statute to determine whether the differences from the Delaware General Corporation Law are important to you.

 

Our Charter Documents.   Our charter documents include provisions that may have the effect of discouraging, delaying or preventing a change in control or an unsolicited acquisition proposal that a stockholder might consider favorable, including a proposal that might result in the payment of a premium over the market price for the shares held by our stockholders.  Certain of these provisions are summarized in the following paragraphs.

 

Effects of authorized but unissued common stock.   One of the effects of the existence of authorized but unissued common stock may be to enable our board of directors to make more difficult or to discourage an attempt to obtain control of our Company by means of a merger, tender offer, proxy contest or otherwise, and thereby to protect the continuity of management.  If, in the due exercise of its fiduciary obligations, the board of directors were to determine that a takeover proposal was not in our best interest, such shares could be issued by the board of directors without stockholder approval in one or more transactions that might prevent or render more difficult or costly the completion of the takeover transaction by diluting the voting or other rights of the proposed acquirer or insurgent stockholder group, by putting a substantial voting block in institutional or other hands that might undertake to support the position of the incumbent board of directors, by effecting an acquisition that might complicate or preclude the takeover, or otherwise.

 

Cumulative Voting.   Our Certificate of Incorporation does not provide for cumulative voting in the election of directors, which would allow holders of less than a majority of the stock to elect some directors.

 

Vacancies.   Our Certificate of Incorporation provides that all vacancies may be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of directors then in office, even if less than a quorum.

 

Special Meeting of Stockholders.   A special meeting of stockholders may only be called by the President, the Chief Executive Officer, or the board of directors at any time and for any purpose or purposes as shall be stated in the notice of the meeting, or by request of the holders of record of at least 10% of the outstanding shares of common stock.  This provision could prevent stockholders from calling a special meeting because, unless certain significant stockholders were to join with them, they might not obtain the percentage necessary to request the meeting.  Therefore, stockholders holding less than 10% of the issued and outstanding common stock, without the assistance of management, may be unable to propose a vote on any transaction that would delay, defer or prevent a change of control, even if the transaction were in the best interests of our stockholders.

 

MARKET FOR OUR COMMON STOCK, DIVIDEND POLICY AND OTHER STOCKHOLDER MATTERS

 

There is no established public trading market for our common stock.   We have never paid cash dividends on our securities and we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our shares of common stock in the foreseeable future.  We intend to retain any future earnings for reinvestment in our business.  Any future determination to pay cash dividends will be at the discretion of our board of directors, and will be dependent upon our financial condition, results of operations, capital requirements and such other factors as our board of directors deems relevant.

 

We have applied for the listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market but we cannot assure you that our application will be approved. If our application to the Nasdaq Capital Market is not approved or we otherwise determine that we will not be able to secure the listing of the common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, we will not complete the offering.

 

As of March 11, 2014, we had 2,918,740 shares of common stock outstanding, held of record by six stockholders.  

 

The name, address and telephone number of our stock transfer agent is Wells Fargo Shareowner Services; 1110 Centre Pointe Curve, Suite 101, Mendota Heights, MN 55120-4101; 1 (800) 689-8788.

 

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

 

We have set forth in the following table certain information regarding our common stock beneficially owned by (i) each stockholder we know to be the beneficial owner of 5% or more of our outstanding common stock, (ii) each of our directors and named executive officers, and (iii) all executive officers and directors as a group.  Generally, a person is deemed to be a “beneficial owner” of a security if that person has or shares the power to dispose or to direct the disposition of such security.  A person is also deemed to be a beneficial owner of any securities of which the person has the right to acquire beneficial ownership within 60 days pursuant to options, warrants, conversion privileges or similar rights.  Unless otherwise indicated, ownership information is as of March 11, 2014, and is based on 2,918,740 shares of common stock outstanding on that date.  The percentage ownership after the offering is based on 9,201,921 shares of common stock outstanding.

 

Name and Address of
Beneficial Owner (1)
  Common Stock     Shares
Underlying
Options
    Number of
Shares
Beneficially
Owned (2)
    Percentage
of Class
Prior to the
Offering
    Percentage
of Class
After the
Offering
 
Directors and Executive Officers                                        
Nicolaus Alexopoulos     -       6,495       6,495 (3)      *       *  
Gregory Brewer     668,337       -       668,337 (4)     22.9 %     7.3 %
Billy Crotty     -       -       -     *       *  
Robert Griffin     -       6,495       6,495 (3)      *       *  
George Holmes     -       -       -       *       *  
Thomas Iwanski     -       -       -       *       *  
Michael Leabman     80,201       8,406       88,607 (5)     3.0 %     *  
Stephen Rizzone     -       40,205       40,205 (6)     1.4 %     *  
Directors and Executive Officers as a group (8 persons)     748,538       61,601       810,139       27.2 %     8.7 %
                                         
Five Percent Stockholders                                        
DvineWave Holdings LLC (7)     1,924,812       -       1,924,812       65.9 %     20.9 %
Absolute Ventures LLC (8)     668,337       -       668,337       22.9 %     7.3 %
Hanbit Electronics Co. Ltd. (9)     210,526       -       210,526       7.2 %     2.3 %

 

(1) Except as set forth below, the address of each officer and director and 5% owner is 303 Ray Street, Pleasanton, CA, 94566.

 

(2) Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and is generally determined by voting powers and/or investment powers with respect to securities. Unless otherwise noted, the shares of common stock listed above are owned as of March 11, 2014, and are owned of record by each individual named as beneficial owner and such individual has sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares of common stock owned by each of them.

 

(3) Includes 6,495 shares subject to options to purchase common stock.

 

(4) Includes 668,337 shares of common stock held by Absolute Ventures, LLC.

 

(5) Includes 6,005 shares subject to options to purchase common stock.

 

(6) Includes 28,718 shares subject to options to purchase common stock.

 

(7) DvineWave Holdings LLC was formed by the parents of Mr. Leabman to make an investment in the Company when it was founded. DvineWave Irrevocable Trust dated December 12, 2012 is the manager of DvineWave Holdings LLC. Gregory Tamkin, the trustee of the DvineWave Irrevocable Trust, has sole voting and investment power with respect to the entity’s shares of common stock. The address is for DvineWave Holdings LLC is 8010 East Cedar Ave, Denver CO 80230.

 

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(8) Gregory Brewer, a director of the Company, has sole voting and investment power with respect to Absolute Ventures, LLC’s shares of common stock. The address for Absolute Ventures, LLC is 1599 Greenville Road, Livermore, CA 94568.

 

(9) On March 7, 2014, we entered into a stock purchase agreement with Hanbit Electronics Co. Ltd. pursuant to which Hanbit agreed to purchase 210,526 shares of our common stock for gross proceeds of $1,000,000. These shares are subject to a voting agreement pursuant to which the stockholder has agreed for a period of thirteen months to vote all of its shares in accordance with the recommendation of our board of directors on all matters (including election of the board of directors) brought to a stockholder vote. The address for Hanbit Electronics Co. Ltd. is 494, Gajang-ro, Gajang-dong, Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.

 

CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE

 

We have applied for the listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market, therefore, our determination of the independence of directors is made using the definition of “independent” contained in the listing standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market. On the basis of information solicited from each director, the board has determined that each of Dr. Alexopoulos, Mr. Griffin and [●] has no material relationship with the Company and is independent within the meaning of such rules.

 

SEC regulations define the related person transactions that require disclosure to include any transaction, arrangement or relationship in which the amount involved exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of the Company’s total assets at year end for the last two completed fiscal years in which we were or are to be a participant and in which a related person had or will have a direct or indirect material interest. A related person is: (i) an executive officer, director or director nominee of the Company, (ii) a beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock, (iii) an immediate family member of an executive officer, director or director nominee or beneficial owner of more than 5% of our common stock, or (iv) any entity that is owned or controlled by any of the foregoing persons or in which any of the foregoing persons has a substantial ownership interest or control.

 

For the period from our inception, through the date of this prospectus (the “Reporting Period”), described below are certain transactions or series of transactions between us and certain related persons.

 

On November 8, 2012, DvineWave Holdings LLC, an entity formed by the parents of Michael Leabman, our Chief Technology Officer, to make an investment in the Company, purchased 1,924,812 shares of common stock in exchange for $10,000.

 

On January 28, 2013, Mr. Leabman purchased 80,201 shares of common stock in exchange for $417.

 

On March 1, 2013, Absolute Ventures LLC, an affiliate of a director of the Company, Greg Brewer, purchased 668,337 shares of common stock in exchange for $160,000.

 

Set forth in the table below is information relating to stock option grants made to our executive officers and directors.  The awards to our executive officers were granted under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.  The term of each grant is ten years.  The option award granted to Mr. Rizzone vests over four years in 48 equal monthly installments beginning October 1, 2013, the start of the requisite service period. The option award to Mr. Leabman vested 3/48 th on the grant date and 1/48 th monthly through Septmeber 30, 2017. The option awards granted to Mr. Iwanski, Mr. Holmes and Mr. Crotty vest 25% of award amount as of October 1, 2014 and 1/48 th of the award amount per month for the three years thereafter with the award fully vested on October 1, 2017. The option awards to Dr. Alexopoulus and Mr. Griffin vest in four equal installments on each of March 31, 2014, June 30, 2014, September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2014.

 

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Name of Officer/Director   Number of
Option
Shares
    Exercise
Price
 
Stephen Rizzone     275,689     $ 1.68  
Michael Leabman     57,644     $ 2.49  
George Holmes     80,201     $ 2.49  
Thomas Iwanski     80,201     $ 2.49  
Bill Crotty     64,160     $ 2.49  
Nicolaos Alexopoulos     25,980     $ 3.63  
Robert Griffin     25,980     $ 3.63  

 

Certain of our current officers have executed employment agreements with us or have received shares of common stock or options to purchase common stock as compensation.  Our independent directors also will receive compensation for their services to us.  See the section of this prospectus titled “Executive Compensation” for a discussion of these transactions.

 

On October 4, 2013, we entered into a Standard Industrial/Commercial Multi-Tenant Lease with ProSoft Engineering, Inc. for our principal office space located at 303 Ray Street, Pleasanton, CA 94566.  The lease covers approximately 3500 square feet of office and laboratory space and expires on June 4, 2014. The monthly rental rate under the lease is $6,055 and the aggregate amount payable to ProSoft Engineering under the lease is approximately $48,440 plus an additional security deposit of $6,055. Greg Brewer, a member of our board of directors, is the owner and founder of ProSoft Engineering, Inc.

 

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UNDERWRITING

 

We are offering the shares of common stock described in this prospectus through the underwriter, MDB Capital Group, LLC, which is acting as lead managing underwriter of the offering.  MDB Capital Group, LLC has rendered advisory services to us in the past and has acted as our placement agent in connection with the placement of our senior secured convertible promissory notes which was consummated in May 2013.

 

We have agreed to enter into an underwriting agreement with the underwriter prior to the closing of this offering. Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, we will agree to sell to the underwriter, and the underwriter will agree to purchase, at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, as it may be supplemented, shares of common stock.

 

The underwriter is committed to purchase all of the common shares offered by us, other than those covered by the option to purchase additional shares described below, if they purchase any shares.  The underwriting agreement provides that the underwriter’s obligations to purchase shares of our common stock are subject to conditions contained in the underwriting agreement.  A copy of the underwriting agreement has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

 

We have been advised by the underwriter that the underwriter proposes to offer shares of our common stock directly to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus and to certain dealers that are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Any securities sold by the underwriter to such securities dealers will be sold at the public offering price less a selling concession not in excess of $[●] per share. After the public offering of the shares, the offering price and other selling terms may be changed by the underwriter.

 

None of our securities included in this offering may be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, nor may this prospectus and any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the offer and sales of any of our common stock, be distributed or published in any jurisdiction, except under circumstances that will result in compliance with the applicable rules and regulations of that jurisdiction. Persons who receive this prospectus are advised to inform themselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to this offering of our common stock and the distribution of this prospectus. This prospectus is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of any offer to buy any of our common stock included in this offering in any jurisdiction where that would not be permitted or legal.

 

The underwriter has advised us that it does not intend to confirm sales to any accounts over which they exercise discretionary authority.

 

Underwriting Discount and Expenses

 

The following table summarizes the underwriting discount and commission to be paid to the underwriter by us.

 

    Without Over-
Allotment
    With Over-
Allotment
 
Public offering price   $ 20,000,000     $ 23,000,000  
Underwriting discount to be paid to the underwriter     1,700,000       1,955,000  
Non-accountable expense allowance     175,000       175,000  
Net proceeds, before other expenses   $ 18,125,000     $ 20,870,000  

 

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We estimate the total expenses payable by us for this offering to be approximately $2.45 million, which amount includes (i) the underwriting discount of $1.7 million ($2.0 million if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full), (ii) reimbursement of the non-accountable expenses of the underwriter equal to $175,000 (none of which has been paid in advance), including the legal fees of the underwriter being paid by us, and (iii) other estimated company expenses of approximately $575,000, which includes legal, accounting, printing costs and various fees associated with the registration and listing of our shares.  In no event will the aggregated expenses reimbursed to MDB Capital Group, LLC exceed $175,000.

 

Over-allotment Option

 

We have granted to the underwriter an option, exercisable not later than 45 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to an additional 600,000 shares of our common stock (up to 15% of the shares firmly committed in this offering) at the public offering price, less the underwriting discount, set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. The underwriter may exercise the option solely to cover over-allotments, if any, made in connection with this offering. If any additional shares of our common stock are purchased pursuant to the over-allotment option, the underwriter will offer these additional shares of our common stock on the same terms as those on which the other shares of common stock are being offered hereby.

 

Determination of Offering Price

 

There is no current market for our common stock. Our underwriter, MDB Capital Group, LLC, is not obligated to make a market in our securities, and even if it chooses to make a market, can discontinue at any time without notice. Neither we nor the underwriter can provide any assurance that an active and liquid trading market in our securities will develop or, if developed, that the market will continue.

 

The public offering price of the shares offered by this prospectus has been determined by negotiation between us and the underwriter. Among the factors considered in determining the public offering price of the shares were:

 

· our history and our prospects;

 

· the industry in which we operate;

 

· our past and present operating results;

 

· the previous experience of our executive officers; and

 

· the general condition of the securities markets at the time of this offering.

 

The offering price stated on the cover page of this prospectus should not be considered an indication of the actual value of the shares. That price is subject to change as a result of market conditions and other factors, and we cannot assure you that the shares can be resold at or above the public offering price.

 

Underwriter Warrant

 

We have agreed to issue to MDB Capital Group, LLC and its designees a warrant to purchase shares of our common stock (up to 10% of the shares of common stock sold in this offering). This warrant is exercisable at $6.25 per share (125% of the price of the common stock sold in this offering), commencing on the effective date of this offering and expiring five years from the effective date of this offering. The warrant and the shares of common stock underlying the warrant have been deemed compensation by FINRA and are therefore subject to a 180 days  lock up pursuant to Rule 5110(g)(1) of FINRA. MDB Capital Group, LLC (or permitted assignees under the Rule) will not sell, transfer, assign, pledge, or hypothecate this warrant or the securities underlying this warrant, nor will it engage in any hedging, short sale, derivative, put, or call transaction that would result in the effective economic disposition of this warrant or the underlying securities for a period of 180 days from the effective date of the offering.

 

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Pursuant to engagement agreements entered into on January 23, 2013 with MDB Capital Group, LLC, on May 16, 2013 we issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 461,561 shares of our common stock to MDB Capital Group, LLC.  These warrants are exercisable at any time commencing six months after completion of this offering through May 16, 2018.  278,228 of these warrants have an exercise price of $0.04 per share and 183,333 of these warrants have an exercise price of $3.00 per share.  We issued these warrants to MDB Capital Group, LLC for advisory services performed prior to May 16, 2013 and private placement agency services rendered in connection with the May 16, 2013 private placement of our senior secured convertible promissory notes. In January 2014 MDB Capital Group, LLC transferred 50% of these warrants to certain transferees.

 

Lock-Up Agreements

 

All of our officers, directors, employees, stockholders beneficially owning 5% or more of our common stock and MDB Capital Group, LLC and its transferees (with respect to the warrants originally issued on May 16, 2013) have agreed that, until the one year anniversary of the date of the Underwriting Agreement we will enter into in conjunction with this offering, they will not sell, contract to sell, grant any option for the sale or otherwise dispose of any of our equity securities, or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for our equity securities, without the consent of MDB Capital Group, LLC (and in the case of MDB Capital Group, also the Company), except for exercise or conversion of currently outstanding warrants, options and convertible securities, as applicable; and exercise of options under our stock incentive plan (the “One Year Lock-Up”).  The number of currently outstanding shares of common stock subject to the One Year Lock-Up totals 2,918,740 shares, the number of shares underlying options and warrants subject to the One Year Lock-Up totals 1,246,852 shares.

 

The purchasers of our senior secured convertible promissory notes are subject to lock-up requirements for periods that may last no more than 180 days following the date of this prospectus (the “180 Days Lock-Up”). The number of shares of common stock to be issued to the holders of our senior secured convertible promissory notes that will be subject to the 180 Days Lock-Up as of December 31, 2013 totals 2,283,181 shares. The warrant to purchase up to 10% of the shares of common stock sold in this offering that we have agreed to issue MDB Capital Group, LLC in connection with this offering will also be subject to the 180 Days Lock-up.

 

Other than in respect of the 10% warrant being issued to MDB Capital Group, LLC in connection with this offering, the underwriter may consent to an early release from the lock-up period if, in its opinion, the market for the common stock would not be adversely impacted by sales and in cases of a financial emergency of an officer, director or other stockholder. We are unaware of any security holder who intends to ask for consent to dispose of any of our equity securities during the relevant lock-up periods.

 

Indemnification

 

We will agree to indemnify the underwriter against certain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act, and to contribute to payments that the underwriter may be required to make for these liabilities.

 

Short Positions and Penalty Bids

 

The underwriter may engage in over-allotment, syndicate covering transactions, and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of the common stock, in accordance with Regulation M under the Exchange Act.

 

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· Over-allotment involves sales by the underwriter of shares in excess of the number of shares the underwriter is obligated to purchase, which creates a syndicate short position. The short position may be either a covered short position or a naked short position. In a covered short position, the number of shares over-allotted by an underwriter is not greater than the number of shares that it may purchase in the over-allotment option. In a naked short position, the number of shares involved is greater than the number of shares in the over-allotment option. The underwriter may close out any short position by either exercising its over-allotment option and/or purchasing shares in the open market.

 

· Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of the common stock in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. In determining the source of shares to close out the short position, the underwriter will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which it may purchase shares through the over-allotment option. If an underwriter sells more shares than could be covered by the over-allotment option, a naked short position, the position can only be closed out by buying shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if an underwriter is concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of the shares in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.

 

· Penalty bids permit an underwriter to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the shares originally sold by the syndicate member are purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions.

 

These syndicate covering transactions and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market price of our common stock or preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the common stock. As a result, the price of the common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. These transactions may be effected on the NASDAQ Capital Market, and if commenced, they may be discontinued at any time.

 

Neither we nor the underwriter make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of the common stock. In addition, neither we nor the underwriter make any representation that the underwriter will engage in these transactions or that any transaction, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.

 

Electronic Distribution

 

A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the Internet sites or through other online services maintained by the underwriter, or by its affiliates. In those cases, prospective investors may view offering terms online and, depending upon the underwriter, prospective investors may be allowed to place orders online. The underwriter may agree with us to allocate a specific number of shares for sale to online brokerage account holders. Any such allocation for online distributions will be made by the underwriter on the same basis as other allocations.

 

Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on the underwriter’s website and any information contained in any other website maintained by the underwriter is not part of the prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has not been approved and/or endorsed by us or the underwriter in its capacity as underwriter and should not be relied upon by investors.

 

The underwriter’s compensation in connection with this offering is limited to the fees and expenses described above under “Underwriting Discount and Expenses.”

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

 

We estimate the gross proceeds from the sale of 4,000,000 shares of common stock in this offering, prior to deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and the estimated offering expenses payable by us, will be approximately $20.00 million (approximately $23.00 million if the over-allotment option granted to the underwriter is exercised in full).

 

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds of approximately $17.55 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and our underwriter’s expense allowance, and other estimated expenses of approximately $2.45 million, which includes legal, accounting, printing costs and various fees associated with the registration and listing of our shares.  If the underwriter exercises its right to purchase an additional 600,000 shares of common stock to cover over-allotments, we will receive an additional approximately $2.75 million, after deducting $255,000 for underwriting discounts and commissions.

 

We intend to use the net proceeds from our sale of common stock in this offering as follows: approximately $10.3 million will be used for product research, development, reference design development and product certifications, approximately $0.7 million will be used for the protection of our intellectual property, approximately $2.8 million will be used for sales and marketing activities, approximately $0.8 million will be used for the purchase of fixed assets which consists primarily of computer equipment and software, and the balance of the funds will be used for general and administrative expenses and other general corporate purposes.

 

The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including market conditions, results from our research and development efforts, business developments and opportunities and related sales and marketing activities. Accordingly, our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds, and investors will be relying on the judgment of our management regarding the application of the proceeds from this offering. We may find it necessary or advisable to use portions of the proceeds from this offering for other purposes. Circumstances that may give rise to a change in the use of proceeds and the alternate purposes for which the proceeds may be used include: 

 

· the existence of unforeseen or other opportunities or the need to take advantage of changes in timing of our existing activities;

 

· the need or desire on our part to accelerate, increase, reduce or eliminate one or more existing initiatives due to, among other things, changing market conditions and competitive developments or interim results of research and development efforts;

 

· results from our business development and marketing efforts;

 

· the effect of federal, state, and local regulation on our business; and

 

· the presentation of strategic opportunities of which we are not currently aware (including acquisitions, joint ventures, licensing and other similar transactions).

 

From time to time, we evaluate these and other factors and we anticipate continuing to make such evaluations to determine if the existing allocation of resources, including the proceeds of this offering, is being optimized. 

 

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CAPITALIZATION

 

The following table sets forth our actual cash and cash equivalents and capitalization, each as of December 31, 2013:

 

· on an actual basis; and

 

· on a pro forma as adjusted basis to give effect to the reverse stock split, conversion of the convertible debt into common stock and issuance of the common stock offered hereby and the use of proceeds, as described in the section entitled “Use of Proceeds.”

 

You should consider this table in conjunction with our financial statements and the notes to those financial statements included in this prospectus. 

 

    Actual     As adjusted for
the effect of the
Reverse Stock
Split
    As adjusted for
the March 2014
private placement,
debt conversion
and the offering
(1)
 
                   
Total debt at face value, net of debt discount                        
Convertible debt  less debt discount   $ 829,298       829,298       -  
                         
Stockholders’ equity                        
Common stock, par value $0.00001 per share – 40,000,000 shares of common stock authorized at December 31, 2013; 10,805,773 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2013; 2,708,214 shares issued and outstanding after giving effect to the reverse stock split;  8,958,124 shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted.   $ 108       27       92  
Additional paid-in-capital     197,168       197,249       30,196,899  
                         
Accumulated deficit     (5,542,368 )     (5,542,368 )     (10,689,785 )
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)     (5,345,092 )     (5,345,092 )     19,507,206  
                         
Total capitalization     (4,515,794 )     (4,515,794 )     19,507,206  
                         
Stockholders’ equity (deficit) per share   $ (0.49 )   $ (1.97 )   $ 2.11  
                         
Shares outstanding     10,805,773       2,708,214       9,228,683  

 

(1) Assumes that 4,000,000 shares of common stock are sold in this offering and that the net proceeds thereof are approximately $17.55 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and our estimated expenses. If the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full, net proceeds will increase to approximately $20.30 million.

 

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DILUTION

 

On a pro forma basis after taking into account the reverse stock split , our net tangible book value as of December 31, 2013, was ($5,345,092), or ($1.97) per share of our common stock. Our net tangible book value per share represents our total tangible assets less total liabilities divided by the number of shares of our common stock outstanding on December 31, 2013. After giving effect to our sale of 210,526 shares of common stock pursuant to a stock purchase agreement dated March 7, 2014 and our sale of 4,000,000 shares in this offering at the public offering price of $5.00 per share, after deducting the commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, and the conversion of $5,707,904 of senior secured convertible promissory notes and accrued interest, our net tangible book value as of December 31, 2013, would have been $20,211,206, or $2.19 per share of our common stock. This amount represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $4.16 per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $2.81 per share to new investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering.

 

We determine dilution by subtracting the adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering and the conversion of the convertible notes and accrued interest from the public offering price per share of our common stock. The following table illustrates the dilution in net tangible book value per share to new investors: 

 

Public offering price           $ 5.00  
Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2013   $ (1.97 )        
Increase per share after this offering and the conversion of the convertible notes and accrued interest and the sale of shares in a private sale   $ 4.16          
As adjusted tangible book value per share after this offering and the conversion of the convertible notes and accrued interest           $ 2.19  
Dilution per share to new investors in this offering           $ 2.81  

 

The following shares were not included in the above calculation:

 

· 275,689 shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under stock option agreements outstanding at December 31, 2013 with a weighted average exercise price of $1.68 per share;

 

· 461,561 shares of common stock reserved for issuance under warrants outstanding at December 31, 2013 with a weighted average exercise price of $1.22 per share; and

 

· 766,478 shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan as of December 31, 2013;

 

· shares to be issued upon conversion of interest accrued on our senior secured convertible promissory notes after December 31, 2013; and

 

· shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant to be issued to the underwriter representing ten percent of the number of shares offered by this prospectus.

 

LEGAL MATTERS

 

K&L Gates LLP, with an office at Hearst Tower, 47th Floor, 214 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, North Carolina 28202, will pass upon the validity of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus and certain other legal matters. Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP, with an office at 437 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022-7020, is legal counsel to MDB Capital Group, LLC.

  

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EXPERTS

 

The financial statements of Energous Corporation (F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.) as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 and for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 30, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (Inception) through December 31, 2013 included in this prospectus have been audited by Marcum LLP, independent registered public accounting firm (which contain an explanatory paragraph related to our ability to continue as a going concern as described in Note 2 to our financial statements) as set forth in their report. We have included these financial statements in this prospectus in reliance upon the report of Marcum LLP, given on their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act that registers the shares of our common stock to be sold in this offering. Our SEC filings are and will become available to the public over the Internet at the SEC’s website at  www.sec.gov .  You may also read and copy any document we file with the SEC at its public reference facilities at 100 F Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You can also obtain copies of the documents upon the payment of a duplicating fee to the SEC. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference facilities.

 

This prospectus does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules thereto. Some items are omitted in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC. You should review the information and exhibits included in the registration statement for further information about us and the securities we are offering. Statements in this prospectus concerning any document we filed as an exhibit to the registration statement or that we otherwise filed with the SEC are not intended to be comprehensive and are qualified by reference to these filings. You should review the complete document to evaluate these statements.

 

DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION FOR SECURITIES ACT LIABILITIES

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling the Company, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

 

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Energous Corporation

 

(f/k/a DvineWave Inc.)

 

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

  Page(s)
   
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-1
   
Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 F-2
   
Statements of Operations for the year ended December 31, 2013, the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 F-3
   
Statement of Changes in Stockholders' Deficit for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 F-4
   
Statements of Cash Flows for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 F-5
   
Notes to Financial Statements F-6

 

 
 

 

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders

of Energous Corporation (f/k/a DvineWave Inc.)

 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of Energous Corporation (f/k/a DvineWave Inc.) (a development stage company) (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 and the related statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ deficit and cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period from October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013.  These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement.  The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. Our audit included consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.  An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Energous Corporation (a development stage company) as of December 31, 2013 and 2012, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period from October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period from October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 2013, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements, at December 31, 2013, the Company is in its development stage, has not yet generated revenues and is dependent upon future sources of equity or debt financing in order to fund its operations. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans regarding those matters also are described in Note 2. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

/s/ Marcum LLP  
Marcum LLP  
Melville, NY  
March 12, 2014  

 

F- 1
 

 

Energous Corporation

(f/k/a DvineWave Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

BALANCE SHEETS

 

    As of December 31,  
    2013     2012  
ASSETS                
Current assets:                
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 1,953,780     $ 994  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     127,197       -  
Total current assets     2,080,977       994  
                 
Property and equipment, net     189,612       -  
Deferred offering costs     88,319       -  
Other assets     6,959       -  
Total assets   $ 2,365,867     $ 994  
                 
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT                
Current liabilities:                
Accounts payable   $ 361,038     $ 1,875  
Accrued expenses     243,623       10,406  
Convertible promissory notes, net     829,298       -  
Derivative liabilities     6,277,000       -  
Total liabilities     7,710,959       12,281  
                 
Commitments and contingencies                
                 
Stockholders’ deficit                
Preferred Stock, $0.00001 par value, 0 and 5,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively;  no shares issued or outstanding.     -       -  
Common Stock, $0.00001 par value, 40,000,000 and 18,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively; 10,805,773 and 7,680,000 shares issued and  outstanding at December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively.     108       77  
Additional paid-in capital     197,168       9,923  
Deficit accumulated during the development stage     (5,542,368 )     (21,287 )
Total stockholders’ deficit     (5,345,092 )     (11,287 )
Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit   $ 2,365,867     $ 994  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

F- 2
 

 

Energous Corporation

(f/k/a DvineWave Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

 

    For the Year
Ended December
31, 2013
    For the Period
October 30, 2012
(inception)
through
December 31,
2012
    For the Period
October 30, 2012
(inception)
through
December 31, 2013
 
                   
Operating expenses:                        
Derivative instrument issuance   $ 887,062     $ -     $ 887,062  
Research and development     2,109,890       17,103       2,126,993  
General and administrative     1,204,896       4,184       1,209,080  
Marketing     233,622       -       233,622  
Loss from operations     (4,435,470 )     (21,287 )     (4,456,757 )
                         
Other (expense) income:                        
Change in fair value of derivative liabilities     (177,000 )     -       (177,000 )
Interest expense, net     (908,611 )     -       (908,611 )
Other (expense) income, net     (1,085,611 )     -       (1,085,611 )
                         
Net loss   $ (5,521,081 )   $ (21,287 )   $ (5,542,368 )
                         
Basic and diluted net loss per common share   $ (0.53 )   $ (0.00 )        
                         
Weighted average shares outstanding, basic and diluted     10,441,916       7,680,000          

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

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Energous Corporation

(f/k/a DvineWave Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT

 

    Common Stock     Additional
Paid-in
    Deficit  
Accumulated
During the
Development
    Total
Stockholders'
 
    Shares     Amount     Capital     Stage     Deficit  
                               
Balance, October 30, 2012 (inception)     -     $ -     $ -     $ -     $ -  
                                         
Common stock sold on November 8, 2012 to third party investor at $0.0013 per share     7,680,000       77       9,923       -       10,000  
                                         
Net loss for the period from October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012     -       -       -       (21,287 )     (21,287 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2012     7,680,000       77       9,923       (21,287 )     (11,287 )
                                         
Common stock sold on January 28, 2013 to founder at $0.0013 per share     320,000       3       414       -       417  
                                         
Common stock sold on March 4, 2013 to affiliate of a director at $0.06 per share     2,666,666       27       159,973       -       160,000  
                                         
Common stock sold on May 7, 2013 to third party  investor at $0.06 per share     80,000       1       4,799       -       4,800  
                                         
Restricted common stock sold on May 14, 2013 under the 2013 Stock Plan of DvineWave, Inc., to consultant at $0.10 per share     354,640       3       35,461       -       35,464  
                                         
Repurchase and retirement of restricted common stock from consultant on November 30, 2013 at $0.10 per share     (295,533 )     (3 )     (29,550 )     -       (29,553 )
                                         
Stock-based compensation     -       -       16,148       -       16,148  
                                         
Net loss for the year ended December 31, 2013     -       -       -       (5,521,081 )     (5,521,081 )
                                         
Balance, December 31, 2013     10,805,773     $ 108     $ 197,168     $ (5,542,368 )   $ (5,345,092 )

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

F- 4
 

 

Energous Corporation

(f/k/a DvineWave Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

    For the Year
Ended December
31, 2013
    For the Period
October 30, 2012
(inception)
through
December 31, 2012
    For the Period
October 30, 2012
(inception)
through
December 31, 2013
 
                   
Cash flows from operating activities:                        
Net loss   $ (5,521,081 )   $ (21,287 )   $ (5,542,368 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:                        
Depreciation and amortization     4,717       -       4,717  
Stock based compensation     16,148       -       16,148  
Amortization of debt discount     705,289       -       705,289  
Warrant expense     724,000       -       724,000  
Change is fair market value of derivative liabilities     177,000       -       177,000  
Write off of abandoned trademark     4,725       -       4,725  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                        
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     (127,197 )     -       (127,197 )
Other assets     (6,959 )     -       (6,959 )
Accounts payable     359,163       1,875       361,038  
Accrued expenses     233,217       10,406       243,623  
Net cash used in operating activities     (3,430,978 )     (9,006 )     (3,439,984 )
                         
Cash flows from investing activities:                        
Purchase of property and equipment     (194,329 )     -       (194,329 )
Costs of trademark     (4,725 )     -       (4,725 )
Net cash used in investing activities     (199,054 )     -       (199,054 )
                         
Cash flows from financing activities:                        
Proceeds from the sale of common stock     200,681       10,000       210,681  
Payment of deferred offering costs     (88,319 )     -       (88,319 )
Repurchase of restricted common stock     (29,553 )     -       (29,553 )
Proceeds from the sale of senior secured convertible notes     5,500,009       -       5,500,009  
Net cash provided by financing activities     5,582,818       10,000       5,592,818  
                         
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents     1,952,786       994       1,953,780  
Cash and cash equivalents - beginning     994       -       -  
Cash and cash equivalents - ending     1,953,780       994       1,953,780  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

 

F- 5
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

  

Note 1 - Business Organization, Nature of Operations

 

Energous Corporation (f/k/a DvineWave Inc.) (the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware on October 30, 2012 (inception). The Company is a development stage technology company focused on developing a solution to delivering a wireless charging system, as a means of providing convenient, adaptive wireless power charging capabilities to low power fixed and mobile devices, such as mobile phones, tablets, toys, videogame controllers, watches, remote controls, smoke alarms, window covering deployment and retraction motors, installed sensors and night and emergency lighting fixtures that use or are capable of using a rechargeable battery. The Company is targeting both consumer and commercial enterprise markets that use such rechargeable fixed and mobile devices.

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company had not yet completed the development of its product and has not yet recorded any revenues. Since inception, the Company’s primary activities have consisted of developing its business plan, raising capital, recruiting and hiring its executive team and developing its technology. To date, these activities have been funded through sales of common stock and the sale of Senior Secured Convertible Notes (“Convertible Notes”) (See Note 7, Private Placement).

 

The Company is considered to be in the development stage, and as such, the Company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with the Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) topic 915, “Development Stage Entities.” The Company is subject to all of the risks associated with development stage companies.

 

Note 2 – Going Concern and Management Plans

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company’s cash on hand was $1,953,780. The Company has not generated revenues since its inception and has incurred net losses for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013 of $5,521,081, $21,287 and $5,542,368, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2013, the Company has met its liquidity requirements principally through the private placement of convertible notes.

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company had a working capital deficiency and a stockholders’ deficit of $5,629,982 and $5,345,092, respectively.

 

The Company expects that the cash it has available as of March 12, 2014 will fund its operations only until May, 2014.  The Company intends to raise additional capital through its initial public offering (“IPO”), though there is no assurance that it will be able to do so. If the Company is unable to raise additional capital, the Company may have to curtail its research and development efforts, delay repayments of its Convertible Notes, delay payments to vendors, and/or initiate cost reductions, which would have a material adverse effect on the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations. These matters raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. The accompanying financial statement do not include any adjustments that might be necessary if the Company is unable to continue as a going concern.

 

F- 6
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying financial statements are presented in U.S. dollars and have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”), and pursuant to the accounting and disclosure rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”).

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the financial statements as well as the reported expenses during the reporting periods.

 

The Company’s significant estimates and assumptions include the valuation of the Company’s common stock and the valuation of derivative financial instruments, the amortization of deferred financing costs, the amortization and recoverability of capitalized patent costs and useful lives of long-lived assets, and income tax expense, some of these judgments can be subjective and complex, and, consequently, actual results may differ from these estimates. Although the Company believes that its estimates and assumptions are reasonable, they are based upon information available at the time the estimates and assumptions were made. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company maintains cash in bank accounts, consisting solely of deposits held at major banks, which, at times, may exceed federally insured limits. Cash equivalents include investments in open ended money market accounts held at the same major banks. The Company has not experienced any losses in such accounts and periodically evaluates the credit worthiness of the financial institutions and has determined the credit exposure to be negligible.

 

Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment are stated at cost net of accumulated depreciation, which is recorded using the straight line method at rates sufficient to charge the cost of depreciable assets to operations over their estimated useful lives, which range from 3 to 7 years. Maintenance and repairs are charged to operations as incurred.

 

F- 7
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Deferred Offering Costs

 

Deferred offering costs consist principally of legal, accounting and other fees incurred through the balance sheet date that are directly related to the Company’s IPO and that will be charged to stockholders’ equity upon the receipt of the capital raised.

 

Trademarks

 

Legal and filing fees incurred in connection with the registration of trademarks are capitalized.

 

Research and Development

 

Research and development expenses are charged to operations as incurred. For internally developed patents, all costs incurred to the point when a patent application is to be filed are expended as incurred as research and development expense. Patent application costs, generally legal costs, are expensed as research and development costs until such time as the future economic benefits of such patents become more certain. The Company incurred research and development costs of $2,109,890, $17,103 and $2,126,993 for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and during the period from October 31, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, respectively.

 

Impairment of Long-lived Assets

 

The Company reviews for the impairment of long-lived assets, including trademarks, whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. An impairment loss would be recognized when estimated future cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition is less than its carrying amount. Included in general and administrative expenses for the write off of an abandoned trademark is $4,725, $0 and $4,725 for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and during the period from October 31, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, respectively.

 

Income Taxes

 

The Company recognizes deferred tax assets and liabilities for the expected future tax consequences of items that have been included or excluded in the financial statements or tax returns. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined on the basis of the difference between the tax basis of assets and liabilities and their respective financial reporting amounts (“temporary differences”) at enacted tax rates in effect for the years in which the temporary differences are expected to reverse.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2013 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, the Company had approximately $2,108,000 and $17,000, respectively, of research and development expenses capitalized for federal income tax purposes, with amortization commencing upon the Company receiving an economic benefit from the related research. For the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, $4,000 of organization costs were capitalized and will be amortized for federal income tax purposes over 15 years. Accordingly, as of December 31, 2013, the Company had approximately $2,263,391 gross federal and state net operating loss carryovers (“NOLs”). For the year ended December 31, 2013 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, the deferred tax assets in connection with the net operating loss carryover, the research and development costs and the organizational costs were fully reserved, and the Company’s effective tax rate was 0%.

 

F- 8
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Income Taxes, continued

 

In assessing the realization of deferred tax assets, management considers whether it is more likely than not that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will be realized. The ultimate realization of deferred tax assets is dependent upon the future generation of taxable income during the periods in which those temporary differences become deductible. Management considers the scheduled reversal of deferred tax liabilities, projected future taxable income, and taxing strategies in making this assessment. Based on this assessment, management has established a full valuation allowance against all of the net deferred tax assets for each period, since it is more likely than not that all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.

 

Tax benefits are recognized only for tax positions that are more likely than not to be sustained upon examination by tax authorities. The amount recognized is measured as the largest amount of benefit that is greater than 50 percent likely to be realized upon settlement. A liability for “unrecognized tax benefits” is recorded for any tax benefits claimed in the Company’s tax returns that do not meet these recognition and measurement standards. As of December 31, 2013, no liability for unrecognized tax benefits was required to be reported. The guidance also discusses the classification of related interest and penalties on income taxes. The Company’s policy is to record interest and penalties on uncertain tax positions as a component of income tax expense. No interest or penalties were recorded for the year ended December 31, 2013 or for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012.

 

Net Loss Per Common Share

 

Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings per share are computed using the weighted average number of common shares and, if dilutive, potential common shares outstanding during the period. Potential common shares consist of the incremental common shares issuable upon the exercise of the conversion of the Company’s convertible notes and warrants (using the if-converted method). The computation of basic loss per share for the year ended December 31, 2013 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 excludes potentially dilutive securities of 14,068,358 and 0, respectively, because their inclusion would be antidilutive. As a result, the computations of net loss per share for each period presented is the same for both basic and fully diluted.

 

Potentially dilutive securities outlined in the table below have been excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per share, because the effect of their inclusion would have been anti-dilutive.

 

    For the Year Ended
December 31,
    For the Period October 30,
2012 (Inception) Through
December 31,
 
    2013     2012  
Convertible Notes – principal     10,576,923       -  
Convertible Notes – accrued interest     399,894       -  
Consulting Warrant to purchase common stock     1,110,131       -  
Financing Warrant to purchase common stock     881,410       -  
Options to purchase common stock     1,100,000       -  
Total potentially dilutive securities     14,068,358       -  

 

F- 9
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable and accrued expenses, approximate fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments.

 

Fair value is defined as an exit price, representing the amount that would be received upon the sale of an asset or payment to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. Fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or liability. A three-tier fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the inputs in measuring fair value as follows:  

 

Level 1   Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
Level 2   Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable, either directly or indirectly.
Level 3   Significant unobservable inputs that cannot be corroborated by market data.

 

The assets or liability’s fair value measurement within the fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The following table provides a summary of the assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

 

    Total     Quoted
Prices in
Active
Markets for
Identical
Assets or
Liabilities
(Level 1)
    Quoted
Prices for
Similar
Assets or
Liabilities in
Active
Markets
(Level 2)
    Significant
Unobservable
Inputs
(Level 3)
 
Derivative Liabilities:                                
December 31, 2012   $ -     $ -     $ -     $ -  
December 31, 2013:                                
Conversion Feature   $ 5,573,000     $ -     $ -     $ 5,573,000  
Financing Warrant     175,000       -       -       175,000  
Consulting Warrant     529,000       -       -       529,000  
Total   $ 6,277,000     $ -     $ -     $ 6,277,000  

 

F- 10
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Fair Value Measurements, continued

 

The following table sets forth a summary of the changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis: 

 

    For the Year Ended
December 31, 2013
    For the Period 
October 30, 2012
(inception) Through
December 31, 2012
 
Beginning balance   $ -     $ -  
Aggregate fair value of conversion feature and warrants upon issuance     6,100,000       -  
Change in fair value of conversion feature and warrants     177,000       -  
Ending balance   $ 6,277,000     $ -  

 

The conversion feature of the Convertible Notes was measured at fair value using a Monte Carlo simulation and is classified within Level 3 of the valuation hierarchy. The warrant liabilities for the Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant were measured at fair value using a Monte Carlo simulation and are classified within Level 3 of the valuation hierarchy. The significant assumptions and valuation methods that the Company used to determine fair value and the change in fair value of the Company’s derivative financial instruments are discussed in Note 7 – Private Placement.

 

Level 3 liabilities are valued using unobservable inputs to the valuation methodology that are significant to the measurement of the fair value of the derivate liabilities. For fair value measurements categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer determined its valuation policies and procedures. The development and determination of the unobservable inputs for Level 3 fair value measurements and fair value calculations are the responsibility of the Company’s Chief Financial Officer with support from the Company’s consultants and which are approved by the Chief Financial Officer.

 

Level 3 financial liabilities consist of the derivative liabilities for which there is no current market for these securities such that the determination of fair value requires significant judgment or estimation. Changes in fair value measurements categorized within Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy are analyzed each period based on changes in estimates or assumptions and recorded as appropriate.

 

The Company uses a Monte Carlo model to value Level 3 financial liabilities at inception and on subsequent valuation dates. This simulation incorporates transaction details such as the Company’s stock price, contractual terms, maturity, risk free rates, as well as, volatility. The Company also used a binomial simulation and Black-Scholes economic model as supplemental valuation tools in order to validate the reasonableness of the results of the Monte Carlo simulation when measuring the Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant.

 

F- 11
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Fair Value Measurements, continued

 

A significant decrease in the volatility or a significant decrease in the Company’s stock price, in isolation, would result in a significantly lower fair value measurement. Changes in the values of the derivative liabilities are recorded in Change in Fair Value of Derivative Liabilities within Other Expense (Income) on the Company’s Statements of Operations.

 

As of December 31, 2013 and 2012, there were no transfers in or out of level 3 from other levels in the fair value hierarchy.

 

In accordance with the provisions of ASC 815, the Company presented the conversion feature and warrant liabilities at fair value on its balance sheet, with the corresponding changes in fair value recorded in the Company’s statement of operations for the applicable reporting periods.

 

The fair value of the Company’s common stock was determined by a third party valuation consultant, and was derived from the valuation of the Company using a methodology which back-solved to the fair value of the common stock on May 16, 2013 and December 31, 2013, based upon the Company’s capitalization, existing dilutive securities and the proceeds received from the issuance of the Convertible Notes. For the purposes of this back-solve computation, management assumed that the Convertible Notes would convert at $0.52 per share (the floor level), and that the Financing Warrant would have an exercise price of $0.624 per common share or, 120% of the exercise price of the Convertible Notes.

 

Management determined that the results of its valuations are reasonable.

 

F- 12
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Convertible Instruments

 

The Company accounts for hybrid contracts that feature conversion options in accordance with ASC 815 “Derivatives and Hedging Activities,” (“ASC 815”) and ASC 480 “Distinguishing Liabilities from Equity” (“ASC 480”), which require companies to bifurcate conversion options from their host instruments and account for them as free standing derivative financial instruments according to certain criteria. The criteria includes circumstances in which (i) the economic characteristics and risks of the embedded derivative instrument are not clearly and closely related to the economic characteristics and risks of the host contract, (ii) the hybrid instrument that embodies both the embedded derivative instrument and the host contract is not re-measured at fair value under otherwise applicable generally accepted accounting principles with changes in fair value reported in earnings as they occur and (iii) a separate instrument with the same terms as the embedded derivative instrument would be considered a derivative instrument. The Company accounts for convertible instruments which have been determined to be free standing derivative financial instruments (when the Company has determined that the embedded conversion options should be bifurcated from their host instruments) in accordance with ASC 815.  Under ASC 815, a portion of the proceeds received upon the issuance of the hybrid contract are allocated to the fair value of the derivative. The derivative is subsequently marked to market at each reporting date based on current fair value, with the changes in fair value reported in results of operations.

 

Conversion options that contain variable settlement features such as provisions to adjust the conversion price upon subsequent issuances of equity or equity linked securities at exercise prices more favorable than that featured in the hybrid contract generally result in their bifurcation from the host instrument.

 

The Company accounts for convertible debt instruments, when the Company has determined that the embedded conversion options should not be bifurcated from their host instruments, in accordance with ASC 470-20 “Debt with Conversion and Other Options”. The Company records, when necessary, discounts to convertible notes for the intrinsic value of conversion options embedded in debt instruments based upon the differences between the fair value of the underlying common stock at the commitment date of the note transaction and the effective conversion price embedded in the note. Debt discounts under these arrangements are amortized over the term of the related debt.

 

F- 13
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 3 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, continued

 

Common Stock Purchase Warrants and Other Derivative Financial Instruments

 

The Company classifies as equity any contracts that (i) require physical settlement or net-share settlement or (ii) provides a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in the Company’s own shares (physical settlement or net-share settlement) providing that such contracts are indexed to the Company's own stock as defined in ASC 815-40 "Contracts in Entity's Own Equity" (“ASC 815-40”). The Company classifies as assets or liabilities any contracts that (i) require net-cash settlement (including a requirement to net cash settle the contract if an event occurs and if that event is outside the Company’s control) or (ii) gives the counterparty a choice of net-cash settlement or settlement in shares (physical settlement or net-share settlement).  The Company assesses classification of common stock purchase warrants and other free standing derivatives at each reporting date to determine whether a change in classification between assets and liabilities or equity is required.

 

Management’s Evaluation of Subsequent Events

 

The Company evaluates events that have occurred after the balance sheet date of December 31, 2013, through the date which the financial statements were available to be issued. Based upon the review, other than described in Note 12 – Subsequent Event, the Company did not identify any recognized or non-recognized subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the financial statements.

 

Note 4 – Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment are as follows:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2013     2012  
Computer software   $ 114,876       -  
Computer hardware     28,779       -  
Furniture and fixtures     35,919       -  
Leasehold improvements     14,755       -  
      194,329       -  
Less – Accumulated depreciation     (4,717 )     -  
Total property and equipment, net   $ 189,612       -  

 

Total depreciation and amortization expense of the Company’s property and equipment was $4,717, $0 and $4,717, for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, depreciation and amortization charged to general and administrative expenses was $3,102, $0 and $3,102 and charged to research and development expense was $1,615, $0 and $1,615, respectively.

 

F- 14
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 5 – Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities

 

Accrued expenses consist of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2013     2012  
Accrued interest payable   $ 207,945     $ -  
Accrued compensation     19,894       -  
Other accrued expenses     15,784       10,406  
Total   $ 243,623     $ 10,406  

 

Note 6 – Private Placement

 

Senior Secured Convertible Notes

 

On May 16, 2013, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with accredited investors (the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Company sold an aggregate of (i) $5,500,009 principal amount of senior secured convertible notes (the “Convertible Notes”). In connection with the sale of the Convertible Notes (the “Bridge Financing”), the Company entered into a registration rights agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) and a security agreement (the “Security Agreement”) with the Investors. The closing of the Bridge Financing was completed on May 16, 2013. The Convertible Notes bear interest at 6% per annum and mature on August 16, 2014.

 

The principal and interest of the Convertible Notes are convertible into the Company’s common stock at a conversion price between $0.52 and $1.04 per share depending on the facts and circumstances at the time of the conversion (see below). Upon issuance, the Convertible Notes bear simple interest at 6% per annum, and upon the occurrence of any specified event of default, the Convertible Notes would bear interest at 12% per annum. The Convertible Notes may be prepaid or converted into Common Stock with consent of the holder or the holders of a majority of the principal then outstanding under all the Convertible Notes (the "Required Holders") and upon certain events constituting a change in control of the Company. The Convertible Notes are required to be converted upon a qualifying initial public offering of at least $10,000,000 (the “IPO”), if any, in which case the conversion price is to be equal to 50% of the price to the public in such offering (but not more than $1.04 or less than $0.52 per share). A Convertible Note may also be converted in certain circumstances at the election of the holder of the Convertible Note in connection with a financing that is not an initial public offering, in which case the conversion price is to be equal to 50% of the price paid by the investors in such financing (but not more than $1.04 or less than $0.52 per share). In the event of an optional conversion by the holder of a Convertible Note during a continuing event of default, the conversion price would be $0.52; otherwise the optional conversion price would be $1.04. The conversion price under the Convertible Notes is further subject to adjustment in the event of stock splits, combinations or the like and upon certain other events, all as provided in the Convertible Notes.

 

The aggregate amount of accrued interest on the Convertible Notes was $207,945 and $0 as of December 31, 2013 and December 31, 2012, respectively. As of December 31, 2013, the principal and accrued interest on the Convertible Notes were convertible into 10,576,923 and 399,894 shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively, assuming a conversion price of $0.52 per share.

 

F- 15
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 6 – Private Placement, continued

 

Accounting for the Senior Secured Convertible Notes

 

Pursuant to the terms of the Convertible Notes, the conversion price is subject to adjustment in the event of an IPO, other financing and upon certain other events. The embedded conversion feature was not clearly and closely related to the host instrument and was bifurcated from the host Convertible Notes as a derivative, principally because the instrument’s variable exercise price terms would not qualify as being indexed to the Company’s own common stock. Accordingly, this conversion feature instrument has been classified as a derivative liability in the accompanying balance sheet as of December 31, 2013.  Derivative liabilities are initially recorded at fair value and are then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in fair value recognized in earnings during the reporting period.

 

The Company determined that the initial fair value of the embedded conversion option was $5,376,000.  From the gross proceeds upon the issuance of the Convertible Notes of $5,500,009, the Company deducted in full the fair value of the embedded conversion feature of $5,376,000 as a debt discount, as shown below. The debt discount is being amortized under the effective interest method over the term of the Convertible Notes. 

 

Face value of the Convertible Notes   $ 5,500,009  
Discount-fair value of embedded conversion feature     (5,376,000 )
Proceeds attributable to the Convertible Notes   $ 124,009  

 

The Company calculated the fair value of the embedded conversion feature of the Convertible Notes using a Monte Carlo simulation, with the observable assumptions as provided in the table below. The significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement of the reporting entity’s embedded conversion feature are expected stock prices, levels of trading and liquidity of the Company stock. Significant increases in the expected stock prices and expected liquidity would result in a significantly higher fair value measurement.  Significant increases in either the probability or severity of default of the host instrument would result in a significantly lower fair value measurement. 

 

    As of  
    May 16, 2013     December 31, 2013  
Stock price on valuation date   $ 0.42     $ 0.42  
Conversion price     0.52       0.52  
Term (years)     1.25       .26  
Expected volatility     60 %     60 %
Dividend yield     0 %     0 %
Weighted average risk-free interest rate     0.79 %     1.75 %
Trials     20,000       20,000  
Aggregate fair value   $ 5,376,000     $ 5,573,000  

 

The amortization of debt discount related to the Convertible Notes was $705,289, $0 and $705,289, respectively, for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013. As of December 31, 2013, the debt discount will be amortized over a remaining period of 0.6 years. The derivative liability related to the embedded conversion feature is revalued at each reporting period.  During the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2013, the Company recorded an increase of $197,000, $0 and $197,000, respectively, in the fair value of the derivative liability for the conversion feature of the Convertible Notes, which was recorded as a change in the fair value of derivative liabilities within the statement of operations.

 

F- 16
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 6 – Private Placement, continued

 

Placement Agent Agreement

 

On January 23, 2013, the Company entered into an agreement (the “Placement Agent Agreement”) with MDB Capital Group, Inc. (“MDB”), pursuant to which the Company appointed MDB to act as the Company’s placement agent in connection with the sale of the Company’s securities (“Offering or Offerings”). Specifically, MDB was the placement agent in connection with the sale of its Convertible Notes. The Placement Agent Agreement had an initial term of 180 days, and was renewed automatically upon the expiration of its initial term, after which it will continue in effect until it is terminated by either party with 60 days written notice to the other party.

 

In connection with the sale of the Convertible Notes, the Company paid MDB a cash fee of $538,393 and sold to MDB for $1,000 in cash, a warrant issued on May 16, 2013 (the “Financing Warrant”) to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock. The Financing Warrant was fully vested upon issuance, has a term of five years and may not be exercised until six months after the consummation of a qualifying firm commitment underwritten initial public offering. Pursuant to the terms of the Financing Warrant, the aggregate exercise price is fixed at $550,000, with the per share exercise price determined based upon 120% of the conversion price of the Convertible Notes upon the consummation of the IPO, or upon other events under which the Convertible Notes may convert. As of December 31, 2013, the Financing Warrant is exercisable into 881,410 shares of the Company’s common stock, respectively, assuming an exercise price of $0.624 per share (or 120% of the Convertible Notes conversion price of $0.52 per share)

 

In addition, in the event of a non-liquid exit transaction, as defined in the Financing Warrant agreement, the holder of the Financing Warrant may put the Financing Warrant back to the Company for a cash settlement at a fair value amount to be determined by appraisal and agreed to by both parties.

 

MDB shall have certain registration rights with respect to the common stock issued upon exercise of the Financing Warrant, including a one-time demand registration right with respect to such common stock.

 

Consulting Agreement

 

On January 23, 2013, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with MDB (the “Consulting Agreement”), pursuant to which MDB agreed to provide financial, strategic and intellectual property advisory services. The Consulting Agreement had an initial term of 180 days, and was renewed automatically upon the expiration of its initial term, after which it will continue in effect until it is terminated by either party with 30 days written notice to the other party.

 

As consideration for services provided under the Consulting Agreement prior to May 16, 2013, the Company sold to MDB for $1,500 in cash, a warrant (the “Consulting Warrant”) for the purchase of an aggregate of 1,110,131 shares of the Company’s common stock.

 

The Consulting Warrant was fully vested upon issuance, has a term of five years, an exercise price of $0.01 per share and may not be exercised until six months after the consummation of a qualifying firm commitment underwritten initial public offering. The Consulting Warrant may be exercised on a cashless basis. In addition, in the event of a non-liquid exit transaction, as defined in the Consulting Warrant, the holder of the Consulting Warrant may put the Consulting Warrant back to the Company for a cash settlement at a fair value amount to be determined by appraisal and agreed to by both parties.

 

MDB shall have certain registration rights with respect to the common stock issued upon exercise of the Consulting Warrant, including a one-time demand registration right with respect to such common stock.

 

F- 17
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 6 – Private Placement, continued

 

Accounting for the Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant

 

The Company determined, based upon authoritative guidance, that both the Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant qualified as derivative instruments.  Accordingly, these instruments have been classified as derivative liabilities in the accompanying balance sheet as of December 31, 2013.  Derivative liabilities are initially recorded at fair value and are then re-valued at each reporting date, with changes in fair value recognized in earnings during the reporting period.

 

The Company calculated the fair value of the Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant using a Monte Carlo simulation, with the observable assumptions as provided in the table below.   The significant unobservable inputs used in the fair value measurement of the reporting entity’s Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant are expected stock prices, levels of trading and liquidity of the Company’s common stock. Significant increases in the expected stock prices and expected liquidity would result in a significantly higher fair value measurement.  Significant increases in either the probability or severity of default of the host instrument would result in a significantly lower fair value measurement. 

 

Provided below are the principal assumptions used in the measurement of the fair values of the Financings Warrant and the Consulting Warrant as of May 16, 2013 and December 31, 2013.

 

    As of May 16, 2012     As of December 31, 2013  
    Financing
Warrant
    Consulting
Warrant
    Financing
Warrant
    Consulting
Warrant
 
Stock price on valuation date   $ 0.42     $ 0.42     $ 0.42     $ 0.42  
Exercise price   $ 0.624     $ 0.01     $ 0.624     $ 0.01  
Term (years)     5.00       5.00       4.38       4.38  
Expected volatility     60 %     60 %     60 %     60 %
Dividend yield     0 %     0 %     0 %     0 %
Weighted average risk-free interest rate     0.79 %     0.79 %     1.75 %     1.75 %
Number of warrants     881,410       1,110,131       881,410       1,110,131  
Number of trials     20,000       20,000       20,000       20,000  
Aggregate fair value   $ 186,500     $ 537,500     $ 175,000     $ 529,000  

 

The initial fair value of the Financing Warrant was $186,500 and was accounted for as derivative issuance expense and along with the other derivative issuance expenses (see below), was expensed upon the issuance of the Convertible Notes. The initial fair value of the Consulting Warrant was $537,500, and was expensed immediately as a consulting fee and was recorded within general and administrative expenses in the statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2013. During the year ended of December 31, 2013, the Company recorded an aggregate decrease of $20,000 in the fair value of the derivative liability for the Financing Warrant and the Consulting Warrant, which was recorded as a change in the fair value of derivative liabilities within the statement of operations.

 

F- 18
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 6 – Private Placement, continued

 

Derivative Issuance Expenses

 

Derivative issuance expenses incurred in connection with the Private Placement are shown below and were expensed upon the issuance of the Convertible Notes, as substantially all the value was attributable to the derivative instruments.

 

    For the Year Ended
December 31, 2013
 
Fair value of Financing Warrant   $ 186,500  
Cash placement agent fee     538,393  
Legal and other expenses     162,169  
     Total   $ 887,062  

 

Patent Assignment

 

On May 16, 2013, the Company entered into a patent assignment and Security Agreement with the Investors, in order to grant a continuing security interest in the patents included as collateral pledged in connection with the Convertible Notes.

 

Note 7 – Commitments and Contingencies

 

Consulting Agreements

 

On May 14, 2013, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with Cheryl Sanchez, the sister of one of the directors and stockholders of the Company, for Ms. Sanchez to provide finance, accounting and other advisory services (“Finance Consulting Agreement”). Ms. Sanchez was paid at a rate of $21,550 per month. In connection with the execution of the Finance Consulting Agreement, Ms. Sanchez purchased for $35,464 in cash, 354,640 shares of the Company’s common stock, under the Company’s 2013 Stock Plan (See Note 9 – Stock Based Compensation). The Company’s board of directors determined that the purchase price of $0.10 per share represented the fair value of these shares upon issuance, and further concluded that no compensation was deemed to be awarded to Ms. Sanchez in connection with this share issuance. The Finance Consulting Agreement was terminated effective November 30, 2013. In connection with the termination of the Finance Consulting Agreement, the Company repurchased for $29,533 a total of 295,533 shares of restricted common stock from Ms. Sanchez.

 

Operating Lease

 

On October 4, 2013, the Company executed an eight month lease for 3,562 square feet of office space in Pleasanton California from an affiliate of Greg Brewer, one of the Company’s directors. The base rent is $6,055 per month. The Company has the right to terminate the lease upon 30 days written notice.

 

F- 19
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 7 – Commitments and Contingencies , continued

 

Employment Agreements

 

The following is a summary of the employment arrangements with our executive officers as currently in effect.

 

Stephen Rizzone

 

The Company entered into an employment agreement with Stephen Rizzone, the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and chairman of the board of directors, effective October 1, 2013. The employment agreement has no specific term and constitutes at-will employment. Mr. Rizzone’s current annual base salary is $150,000, although his annual base salary will increase to $300,000 immediately following our initial public offering, and he is eligible for up to five annual cash bonuses of up to $30,000 each (one each with respect to our fiscal quarters and one with respect to our fiscal year) based upon achievement of performance-based objectives established by our board of directors. Pursuant to Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement, he was granted a ten year option to purchase 1,100,000 shares of common stock on December 12, 2013 under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan that vests over four years in 48 equal monthly installments. Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement provides that upon the consummation of our initial public offering he will receive an additional option award so that together with Mr. Rizzone’s December 2013 option award the two option awards combined represent six percent (6%) of the Company’s outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis. The second option award, if issued, will vest over the same vesting schedule as Mr. Rizzone’s December, 2013 option award.

 

If Mr. Rizzone’s employment is terminated due to his death or disability, by the Company without cause or if Mr. Rizzone resigns for good reason, Mr. Rizzone will be entitled to receive (i) one year of his base salary at the rate then in effect, (ii) five performance bonuses (each equal to the average of the performance bonus paid with respect to the two fiscal quarters, or the fiscal quarter-end and fiscal year-end, as applicable, immediately preceding Mr. Rizzone’s termination or resignation) (iii) reimbursement of Mr. Rizzone’s cost of COBRA coverage for one year, and (iv) twenty-five percent (25%) of the options to purchase shares of common stock subject to Mr. Rizzone’s option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable, and, along with any previously vested and unexercised options, may be exercised by Mr. Rizzone within one year following his termination or resignation. However, if a Liquidation Event (as defined below) shall occur within one year of Mr. Rizzone’s termination without cause or his resignation for good reason, all of Mr. Rizzone’s option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable.   Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement provides that if the Company experiences a Liquidation Event (as defined below), Mr. Rizzone’s employment with the Company will be terminated and the Company will enter into a consulting agreement with Mr. Rizzone that entitles him to the following during its term: (i) continued payment of Mr. Rizzone’s base salary at the rate then in effect, (ii) continued payment of Mr. Rizzone’s performance bonuses described above, and (iii) continued payment of benefits that are substantially similar to those of the Company’s other senior executive officers, and (iv) continuation of the vesting period of the option awards described above. The term of the consulting agreement between the Company and Mr. Rizzone shall expire on the later of two years from the date of the Liquidation event or October 1, 2017. For purposes of Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement, a Liquidation Event means a merger, acquisition, consolidation or other transaction (other than an equity financing) following which our stockholders prior to such transaction hold less than fifty percent (50%) of our outstanding voting securities of the acquiring or surviving entity, or a sale, license or transfer of all or substantially all of our assets.

 

If Mr. Rizzone resigns without good reason, he will be entitled to his base salary at the rate then in effect up to and through the effective date of his resignation, along with any unreimbursed reasonable, out-of-pocket business expenses incurred by Mr. Rizzone in the performance of his duties.

 

F- 20
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 7 – Commitments and Contingencies, continued

 

Stephen Rizzone , continued

 

Mr. Rizzone is also eligible to receive benefits that are substantially similar to those of the Company’s other senior executive officers. Mr. Rizzone is subject to certain restrictive covenants, including non-solicitation of employees, consultants and customers and non-competition each for a period one year following termination of his employment with the Company.

 

Michael Leabman

 

We entered into an employment agreement with Michael Leabman, the Company’s Chief Technology Officer, effective October 1, 2013. The employment agreement has no specific term and constitutes at-will employment. Mr. Leabman’s current annual base salary is $250,000, and he is eligible for an annual performance based bonus award of up to twenty percent (20%) of his base salary based upon achievement of performance-based objectives established by our Chief Executive Officer and board of directors. Pursuant to Mr. Leabman’s employment agreement, he is entitled to a ten year option to purchase 230,000 shares of common stock under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan that vests over four years in 48 equal monthly installments. Mr. Leabman’s employment agreement provides that upon the consummation of our initial public offering, if Mr. Leabman’s option award plus any Company securities he currently owns represent less than three percent (3%) of the Company’s outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis, he shall be entitled to a second option award which will entitle him to purchase that number of shares of our common stock such that the two option awards combined plus any Company securities he currently owns represent three percent (3%) of the Company’s outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis. The second option award, if issued, will vest over the same vesting schedule as Mr. Leabman’s initial option award.

 

If Mr. Leabman’s employment is terminated due to his death or disability, by the Company without cause or if Mr. Leabman resigns for good reason, Mr. Leabman will be entitled to receive (i) one year of his base salary at the rate then in effect, (ii) a performance bonuses each equal to the total performance bonuses paid to Mr. Leabman in the calendar year immediately preceding Mr. Leabman’s termination or resignation (iii) reimbursement of Mr. Leabman’s cost of COBRA coverage for one year, and (iv) twenty-five percent (25%) of the options to purchase shares of common stock subject to Mr. Leabman’s option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable, and, along with any previously vested and unexercised options, may be exercised by Mr. Leabman within one year following his termination or resignation. However, if a Liquidation Event (as defined below) shall occur within one year of Mr. Leabman’s termination without cause or his resignation for good reason, all of Mr. Leabman’s options to purchase shares of common stock pursuant to the option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable.

 

In addition to those benefits described above, if Mr. Leabman’s employment is terminated by the Company without cause or he resigns for Good Reason within 18 months of a Liquidation Event (as defined below), all of Mr. Leabman’s options to purchase shares of common stock pursuant to the option awards described above will vest immediately and become exercisable. For purposes of Mr. Leabman’s employment agreement, a Liquidation Event has the same meaning as in Mr. Rizzone’s employment agreement.

 

If Mr. Leabman resigns without good reason, he will be entitled to his base salary at the rate then in effect up to and through the effective date of his resignation, along with any unreimbursed reasonable, out-of-pocket business expenses incurred by Mr. Leabman in the performance of his duties.

 

F- 21
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 7 – Commitments and Contingencies, continued

 

Michael Leabman, continued

 

Mr. Leabman is also eligible to receive benefits that are substantially similar to those of the Company’s other senior executive officers. Mr. Leabman is subject to certain restrictive covenants, including non-solicitation of employees, consultants and customers and non-competition each for a period one year following termination of his employment with the Company.

 

Note 8 – Stockholders’ Deficiency

 

Authorized Capital

 

The holders of the Company’s common stock are entitled to one vote per share. Holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared by the board of directors out of legally available funds. Upon the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, holders of common stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets of the Company that are legally available for distribution.

 

Series AA Preferred Stock

 

During the period from October 30, 2012 (inception) through May 9, 2013, the Company was authorized to issue shares of its Series AA Preferred Stock. The Series AA Preferred Stock ranked senior to the Company’s common stock. The Series AA Preferred Stock was subordinate and ranked junior to all indebtedness of the Company. No shares of the Series AA Preferred Stock were ever issued.

 

Common Stock Issued

 

On November 8, 2012, the Company sold 7,680,000 shares of its common stock at a price of approximately $.0013 per share and representing aggregate proceeds of $10,000 to DvineWave Holdings LLC, an entity formed by the parents of Michael Leabman, the Company’s founder and prior to September 30, 2013, also its President and its Chief Technology Officer, to make an investment in the Company.

 

On January 28, 2013, Company sold 320,000 shares of its common stock to Michael Leabman at a price of approximately $.0013 per share for aggregate proceeds of $417.

 

On March 4, 2013, the Company sold 2,666,666 shares of its common stock at a price of $0.06 per share to Absolute Ventures LLC, an affiliate of Mr. Greg Brewer, one of the Company’s directors for aggregate proceeds of $160,000.

 

On May 7, 2013, the Company sold 80,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $0.06 per share to MS Investments, an affiliate of one of the company’s legal firms, Much Shelist, P.C. for aggregate proceeds of $4,800.

 

Reverse Stock Split

 

In December 2013 the Company’s board of directors and stockholders holding a majority of outstanding voting power, approved resolutions authorizing the Company’s board of directors to effect a reverse split of the Company’s common stock at an exchange ratio of between one-for-two and one-for-ten, with the board of directors retaining the discretion as to whether to implement the reverse split and which exchange ratio to implement.  Share numbers in these financial statements do not reflect the effect of the anticipated reverse stock split.

 

F- 22
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 9 – Stock Based Compensation

 

Adoption of 2013 Stock Plan

 

Effective as of May 9, 2013, the Board adopted the 2013 Stock Plan of DvineWave Inc. (the “2013 Stock Plan”). The 2013 Stock Plan was administered by the Board, and provided for the issuance of incentive and non-incentive stock options, stock purchase rights and restricted stock units, for the purchase of up to a total of 4,217,352 shares of the Company’s common stock to the Company’s employees and consultants (as determined by the Board). The Board, or a committee of the Board, had the authority to determine the amount, type and terms of each award. Pursuant to the 2013 Stock Plan, each option grant must have had an exercise price at or above the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant in the case of a non-statutory stock option, or until the Company’s securities are listed on a recognized exchange, at 85% of fair value (as determined) under the 2013 Stock Plan of DvineWave Inc. (See Note 8 – Commitments and Contingencies).

 

Adoption of Equity Incentive Plan

 

In December 2013 the Company’s board and stockholders approved the “2013 Equity Incentive Plan”, providing for the issuance of equity based instruments aggregating an initial total of 4,158,245 shares which completely replaces the 2013 Stock Plan.

 

Grant of Stock Option

 

On December 12, 2013, Mr. Rizzone, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, was granted an option under the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan to purchase 1,100,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, at a price of $0.42 per share, with a term of ten years and which vests 1/48 for each completed month of service and for purposes of vesting only, the first completed month of service was determined to be October 2013.

 

The option has a grant date fair value of $258,373 utilizing the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The fair value of the employee stock option granted was estimated using the following assumptions:

 

    December 12, 2013  
Price of Company’s stock   $ 0.42  
Dividend yield     0.00 %
Expected volatility     60.0 %
Risk-free interest rate     1.79 %
Expected life     5.93 years  

 

As of December 31, 2013 unamortized compensation expense related to unvested stock options was $240,225 which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 3.7 years.

 

F- 23
 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements


Note 9 – Stock Based Compensation

 

Stock Option Award Activity

 

A summary of the status of the Company’s stock option plans and the changes during the years ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, is presented in the table below:

 

    Number of
Options
    Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
    Weighted
Average
Grant Date
Fair Value
    Weighted
Average
Remaining
Life In
Years
    Intrinsic
Value
 
Outstanding October 30, 2012 (inception)     -                                  
Issued     -                                  
Exercised     -                                  
Forfeited     -                                  
Outstanding December 31, 2012     -                                  
Issued     1,100,000     $ 0.42     $ 0.23                  
Exercised     -                                  
Forfeited     -                                  
Outstanding December 31, 2013     1,100,000     $ 0.42     $ 0.23       9.9 years     $ -  
                                         
Exercisable at December 31, 2013     68,750     $ 0.42     $ 0.23       9.9 years     $ -  

 

F- 24
 

   

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

10. Income Taxes

 

For the year ended December 31, 2013 and for the period October 30, 2012 (inception) through December 31, 2012, we incurred losses of $5,521,081 and $21,287, respectively.

 

Significant components of the Company’s net deferred tax assets at December 31, 2013 and 2012 are as follows:

 

    December 31,  
Deferred tax assets:   2013     2012  
Net operating loss carryforwards   $ 900,830     $ -  
Research and development costs     845,900       6,807  
Start-up and organizational costs     1,554       1,665  
Stock-based compensation     647       -  
Other accruals     90,680       -  
Total gross deferred tax assets     1,839,611       8,472  
Less: valuation allowance     (1,839,611 )     (8,472 )
Deferred tax assets, net   $ -     $ -  

 

As of December 31, 2013, the Company had approximately $2,263,391 of federal and state net operating losses (“NOL”), available for income tax purposes that may be carried forward to offset future taxable income, if any. The federal carryforwards expire in the year 2033.

 

If not used, these NOL’s may be subject to limitation under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”) should there be a greater than 50% ownership change as determined under the regulations. The Company’s net deferred tax assets are subject to a 100% valuation allowance because it is currently more likely than not that the benefit of the net deferred tax asset will not be realized in future periods. The valuation allowances related to the Company’s net deferred tax assets increased by approximately $1,831,139 and $8,472 for the periods ended December 31, 2013 and 2012, respectively.

 

A reconciliation of the statutory federal income tax rate to the Company’s effective tax rate is as follows:

 

    For the Year
Ended
December 31,
2013
    For the period
October 30, 2012
(Inception)
through December
31, 2012
 
Tax benefit at federal statutory rate     (34.0 )%     (34.0 )%
State income taxes     (5.8 )     (5.8 )
Permanent difference:            
Stock based compensation     0.1       -  
Derivative instrument issuance - financing warrant     1.3       -  
General and administrative expense - consulting warrant     3.9       -  
Change in fair value of derivative liability     1.3       -  
Increase in valuation allowance     33.2       39.8  
Effective income tax rate     0.0 %     0.0 %

 

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ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 11 – Subsequent Events

 

Employee Option Grants

 

On January 7, 2014, the Company’s board of directors granted to various employees and consultants, stock options to purchase an aggregate of 2,146,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.625 per share. Included in the grant was an option to purchase 230,000 shares of common stock to Michael Leabman, Chief Technical Officer pursuant to his employment contract and an option to purchase 320,000 shares of common stock to Thomas Iwanski, Interim Chief Financial Officer, 320,000 shares of common stock to George Holmes, Vice President of Sales and Marketing and 1,276,000 to other employees of the Company. These stock option grants were issued from the 2013 Stock Plan. The option awards granted to Mr. Leabman vested 3/48 ths on the date of grant, and will vest 1/48 th monthly over the following 45 months. The option award granted to Mr. Iwanski and Mr. Holmes will cliff vest 25% of the award on October 1, 2014 and then will vest 1/48 th of the initial award monthly for the following 36 months. Option awards granted to all other employees and consultants cliff vest 25% of the award on the later of the first anniversary of the date they started working for the Company or October 1, 2014 and then will vest 1/48 th of the initial award monthly for the following 36 months.

 

Investor Relations Agreement

 

Effective January 13, 2014, the Company entered into an agreement with a vendor (“IR Firm”) to provide investor relations services to the Company. Pursuant to the agreement, in addition to monthly cash compensation of $8,000 per month, upon the consummation of the IPO the Company will issue a consulting warrant (“IR Consulting Warrant”) for the purchase of 143,640 shares of common stock. The IR Consulting Warrant will have a strike price equivalent to 130% of the IPO price. The IR Consulting Warrant will have an initial catch up vesting equivalent to 11,970 shares per month of service, partial months to be prorated on a thirty (30) day basis, from the effective date of this agreement until the date the IPO is effective. Thereafter, the IR Consulting Warrant will vest at a rate of 11,970 shares per month of service. In addition, the Company will issue to the IR Firm incentive warrants (“IR Incentive Warrants”) to purchase 19,950 shares of common stock with a strike price equal to the IPO price plus 30% for each qualified investor, institutional or brokerage firm that purchases at least $250,000 in value of the Company’s common shares at the IPO price or greater in the open market on or after the 46th day following completion of the IPO. All IR Incentive Warrants granted during a six month period will collectively vest at each six month anniversary. Shares underlining both the IR Consulting Warrant and the IR Incentive Warrants will be subject to any Company lock-up period consistent with other stockholders. Both the IR Consulting Warrant and IR Incentive Warrants will have an expiration date four (4) years from the grant date. The shares underlying both the IR Consulting Warrant and the IR Incentive Warrants will either be registered at the next available opportunity or the warrants will include a cashless exercise provision.

 

Non-Employee Equity Compensation Plan

 

On March 6, 2014, after the Company received waivers and consents from MDB and greater than 50% of the holders of the Convertible Notes, the Company’s board of directors and stockholders approved the Non-Employee Equity Compensation Plan for the issuance of 997,000 shares of common stock to directors and other non-employees.

 

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ENERGOUS CORPORATION

(F/K/A DvineWave, Inc.)

(A Development Stage Company)

Notes to Financial Statements

 

Note 11 – Subsequent Events, continued

 

Amendment to 2013 Equity Incentive Plan

 

On March 6, 2014, after the Company received waivers and consents from MDB and greater than 50% of the holders of the Convertible Notes, the Company’s board of directors and stockholders approved the First Amendment to the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan which provided for an increase in the aggregate number of shares of common stock that may be issued pursuant to the Plan to equal 18% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately following the completion of the IPO (assuming for this purpose) the issuance of all shares issuable under the Company’s equity plans, the conversion into common stock of all outstanding securities that are convertible by their terms into common stock and the exercise of all options and warrants exercisable for shares of common stock and including shares and warrants issued to the underwriters for such IPO upon exercise of its over-allotment options.

 

Director Option Grants

 

On February 27, 2014, the Company granted non-qualified stock options for the purchase of 103,656 shares of the Company’s common stock each to two new independent directors of the Company as part of their compensation for serving on the Company’s board of directors. The options have an exercise price of $0.91 per share and have a term of ten years. The Options vest 25% on March 31, 2014, June 30, 2014, September 30, 2014 and December 31, 2014. Unless otherwise modified, the grantees have one year after separation of service to exercise any vested options. The shares underlining these options are subject to a one year lock up beginning with the effective date of the IPO.

 

Company Name Change

 

On January 2, 2014, the board of directors and stockholders approved the name change for the Company to Energous Corporation from DvineWave Inc.

 

Sale of Common Stock

 

The Company entered into a stock purchase agreement dated March 7, 2014, under which a strategic investor has agreed to purchase 840,000 shares of our common stock $0.0001 par value for gross proceeds of $1,000,000. In connection with this sale, the Company will pay a commission of $100,000 to MDB. The shares to be issued are subject to the one year lock-up and a one year voting control agreement.

 

Amendment to Certificate of Incorporation

 

On February 25, 2014, the Company’s board of directors and stockholders approved the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation which increased the authorized shares to 60,000,000 of which 10,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock. In addition, a special meeting of stockholders can only be called by the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President or the majority of the board of directors and shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of meeting. Any actions required, as a result of a special stockholder meeting, can only be taken upon the vote of the stockholders and not by written consent. The stockholders empowered the board of directors at any time prior to the effectiveness of the filing of this Second Amendment and Restated Certificate to abandon the proposed amendment.

 

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4,000,000 Shares of Common Stock

 

 

Energous Corporation

 

PROSPECTUS

 

MDB Capital Group, LLC

 

Until            , 2014, all dealers that effect transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus.  This is in addition to the dealers’ obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

 

 
 

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

ITEM 13.  OTHER EXPENSES OF ISSUANCE AND DISTRIBUTION

 

The following table sets forth the various expenses to be incurred in connection with the sale and distribution of our common stock being registered hereby, all of which will be borne by us (except any underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses incurred for brokerage, accounting, tax or legal services or any other expenses incurred in disposing of the shares). All amounts shown are estimates except the SEC registration fee.

 

SEC Filing Fee   $ 3,333  
FINRA Fee   $ 4,500  
Underwriter’s Legal Fees and Expenses.   $ 175,000  
Nasdaq Fee   $ 50,000  
Printing Expenses   $ 10,000  
Accounting Fees and Expenses   $ 100,000  
Legal Fees and Expenses   $ 250,000  
Transfer Agent and Registrar Expenses   $ 10,000  
Miscellaneous   $ 147,167  
         
Total   $ 750,000  

 

ITEM 14.  INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

 

The following summary is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of any statutes referred to below and the certificate of incorporation of Energous Corporation, a Delaware corporation.

 

Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”) permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the corporation) by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

In the case of an action by or in the right of the corporation, Section 145 of the DGCL permits a Delaware corporation to indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by reason of the fact that the person is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation and except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Court of Chancery or the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses that the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

 

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Section 145 of the DGCL also permits a Delaware corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against such person and incurred by such person in any such capacity, or arising out of such person’s status as such, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under Section 145 of the DGCL.

 

Article IX of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation states that our directors shall not be personally liable to us or to our stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to us or to our stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.  If the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after the date hereof to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of our directors shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.

 

Article X of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation authorizes us, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to provide indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) our directors, officers, employees and agents (and any other persons to which the Delaware General Corporation Law permits us to provide indemnification) through bylaw provisions, agreements with such directors, officers, employees, agents or other persons, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification and advancement otherwise permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, subject only to limits created by the Delaware General Corporation Law, with respect to actions for breach of duty to this corporation, its stockholders, and others.

 

Article VI of our Bylaws provides that we shall, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, indemnify each of our directors and officers against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was an agent of the Company. The right to indemnification conferred by Article VI is a contract right and includes the right to be paid by us the expenses incurred in defending any action or proceeding for which indemnification is required or permitted following authorization thereof by the Board of Directors shall be paid in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the indemnified party to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that the indemnified party is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in Article VI.  We may maintain insurance, at our expense, to protect the Company and any of our directors, officers, employees or agents against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not we have the power to indemnify such person.

 

As permitted by the DGCL, we have entered into indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers that require us to indemnify such persons against various actions including, but not limited to, third-party actions where such director or executive officer, by reason of his or her corporate status, is a party or is threatened to be made a party to an action, or by reason of anything done or not done by such director in any such capacity. We intend to indemnify directors and executive officers against all costs, judgments, penalties, fines, liabilities, amounts paid in settlement by or on behalf such directors or executive officers and for any expenses actually and reasonably incurred by such directors or executive officers in connection with such action, if such directors or executive officers acted in good faith and in a manner they reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe their conduct was unlawful. We also intend to advance to our directors and executive officers expenses (including attorney’s fees) incurred by such directors and executive officers in advance of the final disposition of any action after the receipt by the Company of a statement or statements from directors or executive officers requesting such payment or payments from time to time, provided that such statement or statements are accompanied by an undertaking, by or on behalf of such directors or executive officers, to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that they are not entitled to be indemnified against such expenses by the Company.

 

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The indemnification agreements also set forth certain procedures that will apply in the event of a claim for indemnification or advancement of expenses, including, among others, provisions about providing notice to the Company of any action in connection with which a director or executive officer seeks indemnification or advancement of expenses from the Company and provisions concerning the determination of entitlement to indemnification or advancement of expenses.

 

Prior to the closing of this offering we plan to enter into an underwriting agreement, which will provide that the underwriters are obligated, under some circumstances, to indemnify our directors, officers and controlling persons against specified liabilities.

 

ITEM 15.  RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES

 

During the past three years, we issued the following securities without registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”).

 

Stock, Warrants and Convertible Subordinated Notes

 

On May 14, 2013, we sold 354,640 shares of common stock to a former consultant of the Company for proceeds of $35,464. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer. On December 12, 2013, pursuant the restricted stock purchase agreement between the Company and the consultant, the Company repurchased 295,533 shares of common stock from the consultant at the original purchase price per share paid by the consultant.

 

On May 7, 2013, we sold 80,000 shares of common stock to MS Investments, LLC for proceeds of $4,800. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer.

 

On March 1, 2013, we sold 2,666,666 shares of common stock to Absolute Ventures LLC for proceeds of $160,000. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer.

 

On November 8, 2012, we sold 7,680,000 shares of common stock to DvineWave Holdings LLC, an entity formed by the parents of Michael Leabman, our Chief Technology Officer, to make an investment in the Company, for proceeds of $10,000. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer.

 

On January 28, 2013, we sold 320,000 shares of common stock to Michael Leabman, our Chief Technology Officer, for proceeds of $417. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer.

 

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On May 16, 2013, we completed an offering of $5.5 million in principal amount of our senior secured convertible promissory notes.  The notes bear simple interest at 6%, and upon and during the occurrence of any specified event of default, the notes bear interest at 12%. The notes may be prepaid or converted into common stock with consent of the holder or the holders of a majority of the principal then outstanding under all the notes and upon certain events constituting a change in control of the Company. If we proceed with an initial public offering of our securities, as defined in the Securities Purchase Agreement, then there will be a mandatory conversion of the notes at a conversion price equal to a 50% discount to the per share initial public offering price (but not less than $0.52 or more than $1.04 per share). A note may also be converted in certain circumstances at the election of the holder of the note connection with a financing that is not an initial public offering, in which case the conversion price is to be equal to 50% of the price paid by the investors in such financing (but not less than $0.52 or more than $1.04 per share). In the event of an optional conversion by the holder of a Note during a continuing event of default, the conversion price would be $0.52; otherwise the optional conversion price would be $1.04.   We relied on the exemption provided by Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offerings inasmuch as all of the investors were accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offers.

 

On May 16, 2013, we issued to MDB Capital Group, LLC a warrant, subsequently amended, to purchase shares of our common stock as consideration for its service as placement agent in connection with our May 16, 2013 offering of senior secured convertible promissory notes. This warrant has a term of five years, an aggregate exercise price fixed at $550,000 and an initial per share exercise price of $0.52; provided that the per share exercise price for which the warrant is exercisable will be adjusted upon consummation of a qualifying firm commitment underwritten initial public offering, if any, based on the actual conversion price of the notes in such initial public offering or shall be adjusted to 120% of the then in effect conversion price of the notes upon the occurrence of a merger, acquisition, sale or other disposition of substantially all assets, certain transactions involving the acquisition of voting control of the Company or certain stock splits or similar transactions not effected in connection with any initial public offering of the Company. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investors were accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer. This warrant was subsequently amended and restated on December 13, 2013, solely to provide that it may not be exercised, except in certain circumstances, until six months following the Company’s initial public offering, to which this registration statement relates.

 

On May 16, 2013, we issued to MDB Capital Group, LLC, as consideration for consulting services rendered prior to the issuance date, a warrant to purchase 1,110,131 shares of our common stock. This warrant has a term of five years and a per share exercise price of $0.01. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investors were accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer. This warrant was subsequently amended and restated on December 13, 2013, solely to provide that it may not be exercised, except in certain circumstances, until six months following the Company’s initial public offering, to which this registration statement relates.

 

On January 21, 2014, we entered into a consulting agreement pursuant to which we agreed to grant a consultant a warrant to purchase 36,000 shares of our common stock and a warrant to purchase such number of shares of our common stock equal to 5,000 multiplied by that number of qualified investors or institutional or brokerage firms that purchase at least $250,000 worth of our common stock in the open market at the IPO price or greater on or after the 46th day following the completion of the IPO. Both warrants will have an exercise price equal to 130% of the IPO price of our common stock and a four year term. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer.

 

On March 7, 2014, we entered into a stock purchase agreement with Hanbit Electronics Co. Ltd. pursuant to which such Hanbit agreed to purchase 210,526 shares of our common stock for gross proceeds of $1,000,000. We relied on the exemption provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 to make the offering inasmuch as the investor was accredited and there was no form of general solicitation or general advertising relating to the offer.

 

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Stock Options

 

On December 12, 2013, we granted to Stephen Rizzone, our President and Chief Executive Officer, an option to purchase an aggregate of 1,100,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.42 per share. We received no consideration from these individuals in connection with the issuance of such options.

 

On January 7, 2014, we granted to 13 of our employees and consultants options to purchase an aggregate of 2,146,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.625 per share. We received no consideration from these individuals in connection with the issuance of such options.

 

On February 27, 2014 we granted two of our independent directors, Dr. Alexopoulos and Mr. Griffin, each an option award to purchase 103,656 shares of common stock.

 

All of the stock options described above were granted in reliance upon an available exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, including those contained in Rule 701 promulgated under Section 3(b) of the Securities Act. Among other things, we relied on the fact that, under Rule 701, companies that are not subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act are exempt from registration under the Securities Act with respect to certain offers and sales of securities pursuant to “compensatory benefit plans” as defined under that rule. We believe that all of the options described above were issued pursuant qualifying “compensatory benefit plans”.

 

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ITEM 16.                      EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit
No.
  Description of Document
1.1   Form of Underwriting Agreement**
3.1   Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Energous Corporation *
3.2   Bylaws of Energous Corporation *
4.1   Specimen Certificate representing shares of common stock of Energous Corporation **
4.2   Form of Underwriter’s Warrant **
4.3   Voting Agreement between the Company and Hanbit Electronics Co. Ltd. *
5.1   Opinion of K&L Gates LLP regarding the validity of the common stock being registered **
10.1   Engagement Agreement dated January 23, 2013 between the registrant and MDB Capital Group, LLC
10.2   Engagement Agreement dated January 23, 2013 between the registrant and MDB Capital Group, LLC
10.3   Form of Lock-Up Agreement
10.4   Form of Securities Purchase Agreement between the registrant and investors for an offering completed on May 16, 2013
10.5   Form of Registration Rights Agreement between the registrant and investors for an offering completed on May 16, 2013
10.6   Form of Senior Secured Convertible Promissory Note issued by the registrant to investors in the offering completed on May 16, 2013
10.7   Form of Security Agreement between the registrant and investors for the offering completed on May 16, 2013
10.8   Executive Employment Agreement between the Company and Stephen R. Rizzone dated October 1, 2013
10.9   Executive Employment Agreement between the Company and Michael Leabman dated October 1, 2013
10.10   Form of Indemnification Agreement
10.11   Form of Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement
10.12   Amended and Restated Warrant issued to MDB Capital Group, LLC (ARW-1) dated December 13, 2013
10.13   Amended and Restated Warrant issued to MDB Capital Group, LLC (ARW-2) dated December 13, 2013
10.14   Form of Lock-Up Agreement with MDB Capital Group, LLC **
10.15   Registration Rights Agreement between the registrant and MDB Capital Group, LLC dated May 16, 2013
10.16   Energous Corporation 2013 Equity Incentive Plan
10.17   Form of stock option award under 2013 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan
10.18   Standard Industrial/Commercial Multi-Tenant Lease between the registrant and ProSoft Engineering, Inc. dated October 4, 2013
10.19   Form of Non-Statutory Option Award *
10.20   First Amendment to Energous Corporation 2013 Equity Incentive Plan *
10.21   2014 Non-Employee Equity Compensation Plan *
14.1   Code of Ethics *
23.1   Consent of Marcum LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm *
23.2   Consent of K&L Gates LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1) **
24.1   Power of Attorney (included on page II-9) *

  

*Filed herewith.

**To be filed by amendment.

†Previously filed

 

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ITEM 17.  UNDERTAKINGS

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1)         To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

(i)          To include any prospectus required by section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

 

(ii)         To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than a 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;

 

(iii)        To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in the registration statement or any material change to such information in the registration statement.

 

(2)         That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3)         To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered that remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 

(4)         That, for the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities: The undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser: (i) any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424; (ii) any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant; (iii) the portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and (iv) any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

(5)         To provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

 

(6)         For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus as filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

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(7)         For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(8)         Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Pleasanton, State of California, on this 12th day of March, 2014.  

 

  Energous Corporation
   
  /s/ Stephen R. Rizzone  
  Stephen R. Rizzone
  Chief Executive Officer and Director
  (Principal Executive Officer)

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

Each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Stephen R. Rizzone and Thomas Iwanski and each of them, his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, severally, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, any subsequent registration statements pursuant to Rule 462 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or any of them or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. This power of attorney may be executed in counterparts.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

Dated: March 12, 2014   /s/ Stephen R. Rizzone  
    Stephen R. Rizzone  
    Chief Executive Officer and Director  
    (Principal Executive Officer)  
       
Dated: March 12, 2014   ***  
    Michael Leabman  
    Chief Technology Officer and Director  
       
Dated: March 12, 2014   /s/ Thomas Iwanski  
    Thomas Iwanski  
    Interim Chief Financial Officer  
    (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  
       
Dated: March 12, 2014   /s/ Nicolaos Alexopoulos  
    Nicolaos Alexopoulos, Director  
       
Dated: March 12, 2014   ***  
    Gregory Brewer, Director  
       
Dated: March 12, 2014   /s/ Robert Griffin  
    Robert Griffin, Director  

   

*** By: /s/ Stephen R. Rizzone  
     Stephen R. Rizzone  
    Attorney in fact  

 

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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
ENERGOUS CORPORATION

 

(Pursuant to Sections 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware)

 

Energous Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the provisions of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (“ DGCL ”), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

 

1.          That the name of this corporation is “Energous Corporation” and that this corporation was originally incorporated pursuant to the DGCL on October 30, 2012 under the name “DvineWave Inc.”

 

2.          That the board of directors of this corporation duly adopted resolutions proposing to amend and restate the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated May 10, 2013, as amended pursuant to the First Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, dated January 6, 2014 (the “ First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation ”), of this corporation, declaring said amendment and restatement to be advisable and in the best interests of this corporation and its stockholders, and authorizing the appropriate officers of this corporation to solicit the consent of the stockholders therefor, which-resolution setting forth the proposed amendment and restatement is as follows:

 

RESOLVED, that the First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of this corporation be amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

 

ARTICLE I

 

The name of this corporation shall be: Energous Corporation (the “ Corporation ”).

 

ARTICLE II

 

The address of the Corporation’s registered office in the State of Delaware is 2711 Centerville Road, Suite 400, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE 19808. The name of its registered agent at such address is Corporation Service Company.

 

ARTICLE III

 

The nature of the business or purposes to be conducted or promoted is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “ DGCL ”).

 

ARTICLE IV

 

The aggregate number of shares of all classes of stock which the Corporation shall have authority to issue is 60,000,000 shares, consisting of (i) 50,000,000 shares of Common Stock, par value $0.00001 per share, and (ii) 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share.

 

The Preferred Stock shall be divided into series and may be issued from time to time in one or more series. The Corporation’s board of directors (the ‘‘ Board of Directors ”) is authorized, subject to limitations prescribed by law and the provisions of this Article IV, to provide for the issuance of all or any of the remaining shares of Preferred Stock in one or more series, and by filing a certificate pursuant to the applicable provisions of the DGCL, to establish from time to time the number of shares to be included in each such series, and to fix the designation, powers, preferences and rights of the shares of each such series and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof. Subject to any limitations set forth in the applicable certificate of designation, the Board of Directors is also expressly authorized to increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series of Preferred Stock subsequent to the issue of shares of that series. In case the number of shares of any such series shall be so decreased, the shares constituting such decrease shall resume their status prior to the adoption of the resolution originally fixing the number of shares of such series. The authority of the Board of Directors with respect to each remaining series shall include, but not be limited to, determination as to the following:

 

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1.          The number of shares constituting that series and the distinctive designation of that series;

 

2.          The dividend rate on the shares of that series, if any, whether dividends shall be cumulative, and if so, from which date or dates and the relative rights of priority, if any, of payment of dividends on shares of that series;

 

3.          Whether that series shall have voting rights, in addition to the voting rights provided by law, and, if so, the terms of such voting rights;

 

4.          Whether that series shall have conversion privileges, and, if so, the terms and conditions of conversion, including provision for adjustment of the conversion rate under such circumstances as the Board of Directors shall determine;

 

5.          Whether or not the shares of that series shall be redeemable, and, if so, the terms and conditions of such redemption, including the date or dates upon or after which they shall be redeemable, and the amount per share payable in the event of redemption, which amount may vary under different conditions and at different redemption dates;

 

6.          Whether that series shall have a sinking fund for the redemption or purchase of shares of that series, and, if so, the terms and amount of such sinking fund;

 

7.          The rights of the shares of that series in the event of voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Corporation, and the relative rights of priority, if any, of payment of shares of that series; and

 

8.          Any other relative rights, preferences and limitations of that series.

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided in any certificate of designation designating any series of Preferred Stock pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Article IV, any new series of Preferred Stock may be designated, fixed and determined as provided herein by the Board of Directors without approval of the holders of Common Stock or the holders of Preferred Stock, or any series thereof, and any such new series may have powers, preferences and rights, including, without limitation, voting rights, dividend rights, liquidation rights, redemption rights, conversion rights and exchange rights, senior to, junior to or pari passu with the rights of the Common Stock, the Preferred Stock, or any future class or series of Preferred Stock.

 

ARTICLE V

 

In furtherance and not in limitation of the powers conferred by statute, the Corporation’s board of directors (the ‘‘ Board of Directors ”) shall have the power to adopt, amend or repeal the bylaws of the Corporation.

 

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ARTICLE VI

 

The number of directors of the Corporation shall be determined in the manner set forth in the bylaws of the Corporation. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 223(a)(1) and 223(a)(2) of the DGCL, any vacancy, including newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors, and vacancies created by removal or resignation of a director, may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, though less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director, and the directors so chosen shall hold office until the next annual election and until their successors are duly elected and shall qualify, unless sooner removed or resigned.

 

ARTICLE VII

 

Elections of directors need not be by written ballot unless the bylaws of the Corporation shall so provide.

 

ARTICLE VIII

 

Meetings of stockholders may be held within or without the State of Delaware, as the bylaws of the Corporation may provide. Special meetings of stockholders may be called at any time only by the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President or a majority of the Board of Directors. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of meeting. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken only upon the vote of the stockholders at an annual or special meeting duly called and may not be taken by written consent of the stockholders. The books of the Corporation may be kept outside the State of Delaware at such place or places as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors or in the bylaws of the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE IX

 

A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived any improper personal benefit. If the DGCL is amended after approval by the stockholders of this Article IX to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Corporation shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL as so amended.

 

Any amendment, repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article IX by the stockholders of the Corporation shall not adversely affect any right or protection of a director of the Corporation existing at the time of, or increase the liability of any director of the Corporation with respect to any acts or omissions of such director occurring prior to, such amendment, repeal or modification.

 

ARTICLE X

 

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Corporation is authorized to provide indemnification of (and advancement of expenses to) directors, officers, employees and agents of the Corporation (and any other persons to which the DGCL permits the Corporation to provide indemnification) through bylaw provisions, agreements with such directors, officers, employees, agents or other persons, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, in excess of the indemnification and advancement otherwise permitted by Section 145 of the DGCL, subject only to limits created by the DGCL, with respect to actions for breach of duty to this corporation, its stockholders, and others.

 

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Any amendment, repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article X shall not adversely affect any right or protection of any director, officer, employee or other agent of the Corporation existing at the time of, or increase the liability of any such person with respect to any acts or omissions of such person occurring prior to, such amendment, repeal or modification.

 

ARTICLE XI

 

Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between the Corporation and its creditors or any class of them, and/or between the Corporation and its stockholders, any court of equitable jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary way of the Corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the application of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under the provisions of Section 291 of the DGCL or on the application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed for the Corporation under Section 279 of the DGCL order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in number representing three-fourths in value of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of the stockholders of the Corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to any reorganization of the Corporation as a consequence of such compromise or arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made, be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the stockholders or class of stockholders, of the Corporation, as the case may be, and also on the Corporation.

 

ARTICLE XII

 

In connection with repurchases by the Corporation of its Common Stock from employees, officers, directors, advisors, consultants or other persons performing services for this corporation or any subsidiary pursuant to agreements under which the Corporation has the option to repurchase such shares at cost upon the occurrence of certain events, such as the termination of employment, Sections 502 and 503 of the California Corporations Code shall not apply in all or in part with respect to such repurchases.

 

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3.          That the foregoing amendment and restatement was approved by the holders of the requisite number of shares of the Corporation in accordance with Section 228 of the DGCL.

 

4.          That the Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, which restates and integrates and further amends the provisions of the Corporation’s First Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, has been duly adopted in accordance with Sections 242 and 245 of the DGCL.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , this Second Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation has been executed by a duly authorized officer of Energous on _______, 2014.

 

  By:   /s/
    Name:
    Title:

 

 

 

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

 OF

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

 

ARTICLE I - CORPORATE OFFICES

 

1.1          Registered Office.

 

The registered office of this corporation (the “Company”) shall be in the City of Wilmington, County of New Castle, State of Delaware. The name of the registered agent of the Company at such location is Corporation Service Company.

 

1.2          Other Offices.

 

The Company’s board of directors (the “ Board of Directors ”) may at any time establish other offices at any place or places where the Company is qualified to do business.

 

ARTICLE II - MEETINGS OF STOCKHOLDERS

 

2.1          Place Of Meetings.

 

Meetings of stockholders shall be held at any place, within or outside the State of Delaware, designated by the Board of Directors. In the absence of any such designation, stockholders’ meetings shall be held at the registered office of the Company.

 

2.2          Annual Meeting.

 

The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held at such date and time as shall be designated by the Board of Directors, either within or without the State of Delaware, as may be designated by resolution of the Board of Directors each year. At the meeting, directors shall be elected and any other proper business may be transacted.

 

2.3          Special Meeting.

 

Special meetings of stockholders may be called at any time only by the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President or a majority of the Board of Directors. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of meeting.

 

2.4          Notice Of Stockholders’ Meetings.

 

All notices of meetings with stockholders shall be in writing and shall be sent or otherwise given in accordance with Section 2.5 of these bylaws (the “ Bylaws ”) not less than ten (10) nor more than sixty (60) days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. The notice shall specify the place (if any), date and hour of the meeting, and in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called.

 

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2.5          Manner Of Giving Notice; Affidavit Of Notice.

 

Written notice of any meeting of stockholders, if mailed, is given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the Company. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to stockholders, any notice to stockholders may be given by electronic mail or other electronic transmission, in the manner provided in Section 232 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. An affidavit of the secretary or an assistant secretary or of the transfer agent of the Company that the notice has been given shall, in the absence of fraud, be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

 

2.6          Quorum.

 

The holders of a majority of the shares of stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. If, however, such quorum is not present or represented at any meeting of the stockholders, then either (a) the chairman of the meeting or (b) holders of a majority of the shares of stock entitled to vote who are present, in person or by proxy, shall have power to adjourn the meeting to another place (if any), date or time.

 

2.7          Adjourned Meeting; Notice.

 

When a meeting is adjourned to another place (if any), date or time, unless these Bylaws otherwise require, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time and place (if any) thereof and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting, the Company may transact any business that might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty (30) days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, notice of the place (if any), date and time of the adjourned meeting and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.

 

2.8          Organization; Conduct of Business.

 

(a)           Such person as the Board of Directors may have designated or, in the absence of such a person, the chief executive officer, or in his or her absence, the president or, in his or her absence, such person as may be chosen by the holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote who are present, in person or by proxy, shall call to order any meeting of the stockholders and act as chairman of the meeting. In the absence of the secretary, the secretary of the meeting shall be such person as the chairman of the meeting appoints.

 

(b)           The chairman of any meeting of stockholders shall determine the order of business and the procedure at the meeting, including the manner of voting and the conduct of business. The date and time of opening and closing of the polls for each matter upon which the stockholders will vote at the meeting shall be announced at the meeting.

 

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2.9          Voting.

 

The stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.13 of these Bylaws, subject to the provisions of Sections 217 and 218 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (relating to voting rights of fiduciaries, pledgors and joint owners of stock and to voting trusts and other voting agreements).

 

Except as may be otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of capital stock held by such stockholder. All elections shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast, and except as otherwise required by law, all other matters shall be determined by a majority of the votes cast affirmatively or negatively at a meeting at which a quorum is present.

 

2.10         Introduction of Business at Meetings.

 

(a)           Annual Meetings of Stockholders.

 

(i)           Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (A) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (B) by any stockholder of the Company who was a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 2.10, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.10. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing clause (B) shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to bring nominations or business properly before an annual meeting of stockholders (other than matters properly brought under Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)), and such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in Section 2.10 of these Bylaws to bring such nominations or business properly before an annual meeting of stockholders.

 

(ii)          For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (B) of paragraph (a)(i) of this Section 2.10 , (1) the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Company, (2) the stockholder must have provided any updates or supplements to such notice at the times and in the forms required by this Section 2.10 , (3) the stockholder, together with the beneficial owner(s), if any, on whose behalf the nomination or business proposal is made, must have acted in accordance with the representations set forth in the Solicitation Statement (as defined below) required by this Section 2.10 and (4) the business proposed by the stockholder must otherwise be a proper matter for stockholder action. To be timely, a stockholder’s written notice shall be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day nor earlier than the close of business on the one hundred twentieth (120th) day prior to the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year’s annual meeting, provided , however , that if either (1) the date of the annual meeting is more than thirty (30) days before or more than sixty (60) days after the first anniversary date of the preceding year’s annual meeting or (2) no annual meeting of stockholders were held in the preceding year, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so received not earlier than the close of business on the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such annual meeting and not later than the close of business on the later of the sixtieth (60th) day prior to such annual meeting or the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made by the Company. Such stockholder’s written notice shall set forth:

 

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(A)          as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Exchange Act (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected);

 

(B)          as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of each Proposing Person (as defined below);

 

(C)          (1) the name and address of the stockholder giving the notice, as they appear on the Company’s books, and the names and addresses of the other Proposing Persons (if any), (2) as to each Proposing Person the following information: (a) the class or series and number of all shares of capital stock of the Company which are, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially or of record by such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates (as such terms are defined in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the Exchange Act), including any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company as to which such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates has a right to acquire beneficial ownership at any time in the future, (b) all Synthetic Equity Interests (as defined below) in which such Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates, directly or indirectly, holds an interest including a description of the material terms of each such Synthetic Equity Interest, including without limitation, identification of the counterparty to each such Synthetic Equity Interest and disclosure, for each such Synthetic Equity Interest, as to (x) whether or not such Synthetic Equity Interest conveys any voting rights, directly or indirectly, in such shares to such Proposing Person, (y) whether or not such Synthetic Equity Interest is required to be, or is capable of being, settled through delivery of such shares and (z) whether or not such Proposing Person and/or, to the extent known, the counterparty to such Synthetic Equity Interest has entered into other transactions that hedge or mitigate the economic effect of such Synthetic Equity Interest, (c) any proxy (other than a revocable proxy given in response to a public proxy solicitation made pursuant to, and in accordance with, the Exchange Act), agreement, arrangement, understanding or relationship pursuant to which such Proposing Person has or shares a right to, directly or indirectly, vote any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company, (d) any rights to dividends or other distributions on the shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company, directly or indirectly, owned beneficially by such Proposing Person that are separated or separable from the underlying shares of the Company, and (e) any performance-related fees (other than an asset based fee) that such Proposing Person, directly or indirectly, is entitled to based on any increase or decrease in the value of shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company or any Synthetic Equity Interests (the disclosures to be made pursuant to the foregoing subclauses (a) through (e) are referred to, collectively, as “ Material Ownership Interests ”) and (3) a description of the material terms of all agreements, arrangements or understandings (whether or not in writing) entered into by any Proposing Person or any of its affiliates or associates with any other person for the purpose of acquiring, holding, disposing or voting of any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company;

 

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(D)          (1) a description of all agreements, arrangements or understandings by and among any of the Proposing Persons, or by and among any Proposing Persons and any other person (including with any proposed nominees), pertaining to the nomination(s) or other business proposed to be brought before the meeting of stockholders (which description shall identify the name of each other person who is party to such an agreement, arrangement or understanding), and (2) identification of the names and addresses of other stockholders (including beneficial owners) known by any of the Proposing Persons to support such nominations or other business proposal(s), and to the extent known the class and number of all shares of the Company’s capital stock owned beneficially or of record by such other stockholder(s) or other beneficial owner(s); and

 

(E)          a statement whether or not the stockholder giving the notice and/or the other Proposing Person(s), if any, will deliver a proxy statement and form of proxy to holders of, in the case of a business proposal, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Company required under applicable law to approve the proposal or, in the case of a nomination or nominations, at least the percentage of voting power of all of the shares of capital stock of the Company reasonably believed by such Proposing Person to be sufficient to elect the nominee or nominees proposed to be nominated by such stockholder (such statement, the “ Solicitation Statement ”).

 

For purposes of this Section 2.10 of these Bylaws, the term “ Proposing Person ” shall mean the following persons: (i) the stockholder of record providing the notice of nominations or business proposed to be brought before a stockholders’ meeting, and (ii) the beneficial owner(s), if different, on whose behalf the nominations or business proposed to be brought before a stockholders’ meeting is made. For purposes of this Section 2.10 of these Bylaws, the term “ Synthetic Equity Interest ” shall mean any transaction, agreement or arrangement (or series of transactions, agreements or arrangements), including, without limitation, any derivative, swap, hedge, repurchase or so-called “stock borrowing” agreement or arrangement, the purpose or effect of which is to, directly or indirectly: (a) give a person or entity economic benefit and/or risk similar to ownership of shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company, in whole or in part, including due to the fact that such transaction, agreement or arrangement provides, directly or indirectly, the opportunity to profit or avoid a loss from any increase or decrease in the value of any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company, (b) mitigate loss to, reduce the economic risk of or manage the risk of share price changes for, any person or entity with respect to any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company, (c) in any manner otherwise provide the opportunity to profit or avoid a loss from any decrease in the value of any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company, or (d) increase or decrease the voting power of any person or entity with respect to any shares of any class or series of capital stock of the Company.

 

(iii)         A stockholder providing timely notice of nominations or business proposed to be brought before a meeting of stockholders shall further update and supplement such notice, if necessary, so that the information (including, without limitation, the Material Ownership Interests information) provided or required to be provided in such notice pursuant to this Bylaw shall be true and correct as of the record date for the meeting and as of the date that is ten (10) business days prior to such meeting of stockholders, and such update and supplement shall be received by the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not later than the close of business on the fifth (5th) business day after the record date for the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of the record date), and not later than the close of business on the eighth (8th) business day prior to the date for the meeting (in the case of the update and supplement required to be made as of ten (10) business days prior to the meeting).

 

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(iv)         Notwithstanding anything in the second sentence of paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section 2.10 to the contrary, in the event that the number of directors to be elected to the Board of Directors of the Company is increased and there is no public announcement by the Company naming all of the nominees for director or specifying the size of the increased Board of Directors at least seventy (70) days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year’s annual meeting (or, if the annual meeting is held more than thirty (30) days before or sixty (60) days after such anniversary date, at least seventy (70) days prior to such annual meeting), a stockholder’s notice required by this Section 2.10 shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be received by the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Company not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Company.

 

(b)           Special Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting. Nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the Company’s notice of meeting (i) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (ii) provided that the Board of Directors has determined that directors shall be elected at such meeting, by any stockholder of the Company who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice of the special meeting, who shall be entitled to vote at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 2.10 (including the procedures to update and supplement the notice). If the Company calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board of Directors, any such stockholder may nominate a person or persons (as the case may be), for election to such position(s) as specified in the Company’s notice of meeting, if (x) such stockholder delivers written notice thereof to the Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Company not earlier than the ninetieth (90th) day prior to such special meeting nor later than the later of (1) the close of business on the sixtieth (60th) day prior to such special meeting or (2) the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of such special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board of Directors to be elected at such meeting, (y) such stockholder’s written notice includes the information required to be provided in subparagraphs (A), (C), (D) and (E) of paragraph (a)(ii) of this Section 2.10 , and (z) such stockholder has provided updates or supplements (if any) to such notice at the times and in the forms required by paragraph (a)(iii) of this Section 2.10 . For the avoidance of doubt, for a stockholder to bring nominations before a special meeting of stockholders, such stockholder must comply with the notice and other procedures set forth in this Section 2.10 and this shall be the exclusive means for a stockholder to bring such nominations properly before a special meeting.

 

(c)           General .

 

(i)           Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.10 shall be eligible to serve as directors and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.10 . Except as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these Bylaws, the chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty to determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 2.10 and, if any proposed nomination or business is not in compliance herewith, to declare that such defective proposal or nomination shall be disregarded.

 

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(ii)          In no event shall the adjournment, postponement or rescheduling of any previously scheduled meeting of stockholders commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder’s notice under this Section 2.10 . For purposes of this Section 2.10 , “public announcement” shall mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press, PR Newswire, Reuters or comparable national news service or in a document publicly filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to Sections 13, 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.

 

(iii)         Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.10 , a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth herein. Nothing in this Section 2.10 shall be deemed to affect any rights of (x) stockholders to have proposals included in the Company’s proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 (or any successor rule) under the Exchange Act and, to the extent required by such Rule, have such proposals considered and voted on at an annual meeting of stockholders or (y) the holders of any series of Preferred Stock to elect directors under specified circumstances.

 

2.11         Waiver Of Notice.

 

Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or of the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, or waiver by electronic mail or other electronic transmission by such person, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written waiver of notice, or any waiver of notice by electronic transmission, unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws.

 

2.12         No Stockholder Action By Written Consent Without A Meeting.

 

Any action required or permitted to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders may be taken only upon the vote of the stockholders at an annual or special meeting duly called and may not be taken by written consent of the stockholders.

 

2.13         Record Date For Stockholder Notice; Voting.

 

In order that the Company may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than sixty (60) nor less than ten (10) days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty (60) days prior to any other action.

 

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If the Board of Directors does not so fix a record date:

 

(a)           The record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held.

 

(b)           The record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

 

A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting, if such adjournment is for thirty (30) days or less; provided , however , that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting.

 

2.14         Proxies.

 

Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by an instrument in writing or by an electronic transmission permitted by law filed with the secretary, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three (3) years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A proxy shall be deemed signed if the stockholder’s name is placed on the proxy (whether by manual signature, typewriting, facsimile, electronic or telegraphic transmission or otherwise) by the stockholder or the stockholder’s attorney-in-fact. The revocability of a proxy that states on its face that it is irrevocable shall be governed by the provisions of Section 212(e) of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

ARTICLE III - DIRECTORS

 

3.1          Powers.

 

Subject to the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law and any limitations in the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws relating to action required to be approved by the stockholders or by the outstanding shares, the business and affairs of the Company shall be managed and all corporate powers shall be exercised by or under the direction of the Board of Directors.

 

3.2          Number Of Directors.

 

Unless otherwise provided by the certificate of incorporation, the number of directors that shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors, but no decrease in the number of directors effected by any such resolution shall change the term of any director in office at the time that any such resolution is adopted.

 

3.3          Election, Qualification And Term Of Office Of Directors.

 

Except as provided in Section 3.4 of these Bylaws, and unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation, directors shall be elected at each annual meeting of stockholders to hold office until the next annual meeting. Directors need not be stockholders unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws, wherein other qualifications for directors may be prescribed. Each director, including a director elected to fill a vacancy, shall hold office until his or her successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal.

 

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Unless otherwise specified in the certificate of incorporation, elections of directors need not be by written ballot.

 

There shall be no cumulative voting by stockholders in any matter, including without limitation in the election of directors.

 

3.4          Resignation And Vacancies.

 

Any director may resign at any time upon written notice to the attention of the secretary. When one or more directors so resigns and the resignation is effective at a future date, a majority of the directors then in office, including those who have so resigned, shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies, the vote thereon to take effect when such resignation or resignations shall become effective, and each director so chosen shall hold office as provided in this section in the filling of other vacancies.

 

Unless otherwise provided in the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws:

 

(a)           Vacancies and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized number of directors elected by all of the stockholders having the right to vote as a single class may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director.

 

(b)           Whenever the holders of any class or classes of stock or series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, vacancies and newly created directorships of such class or classes or series may be filled by a majority of the directors elected by such class or classes or series thereof then in office, or by a sole remaining director so elected.

 

3.5          Place Of Meetings; Meetings By Telephone.

 

The Board of Directors may hold meetings, both regular and special, either within or outside the State of Delaware.

 

Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws, members of the Board of Directors, or any committee designated by the Board of Directors, may participate in a meeting of the Board of Directors, or any committee, by means of conference telephone or other communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other, and such participation in a meeting shall constitute presence in person at the meeting.

 

3.6          Regular Meetings.

 

Regular meetings of the Board of Directors may be held without notice at such time and at such place as shall from time to time be determined by the Board of Directors.

 

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3.7          Special Meetings; Notice.

 

Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the chair of the board, the chief executive officer or the president and shall be called by the chief executive officer or the secretary on the written request of at least two directors. Notice of special meetings of the Board of Directors shall be given to each director at least three calendar days before the meeting if by mail or overnight courier service or at least the calendar day before the meeting if given in person or by telephone, facsimile, telegraph, telex, electronic mail or other means of “electronic transmission” as defined in Section 232(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

3.8          Quorum.

 

At all meetings of the Board of Directors, a majority of the total number of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the Board of Directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by statute or by the certificate of incorporation. If a quorum is not present at any meeting of the Board of Directors, then the directors present thereat may adjourn the meeting from time to time, without notice other than announcement at the meeting, until a quorum is present.

 

A meeting at which a quorum is initially present may continue to transact business notwithstanding the withdrawal of directors, if any action taken is approved by at least a majority of the required quorum for that meeting.

 

3.9          Waiver Of Notice.

 

Whenever notice is required to be given under any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law or of the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, or waiver by electronic mail or other electronic transmission by such person, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the directors, or members of a committee of directors, need be specified in any written waiver of notice unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws.

 

3.10        Board Action By Written Consent Without A Meeting.

 

Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors, or of any committee thereof, may be taken without a meeting if all members of the board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the board or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

 

Any copy, facsimile or other reliable reproduction of a consent in writing may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing for any and all purposes for which the original writing could be used, provided that such copy, facsimile or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing.

 

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3.11        Fees And Compensation Of Directors.

 

Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these Bylaws, the Board of Directors shall have the authority to fix the compensation of directors. No such compensation shall preclude any director from serving the Company in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

 

3.12        Removal Of Directors.

 

Unless otherwise restricted by statute, by the certificate of incorporation or by these Bylaws, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors.

 

No reduction of the authorized number of directors shall have the effect of removing any director prior to the expiration of such director’s term of office.

 

3.13        Chairman of the Board of Directors.

 

The Company may also have at the discretion of the Board of Directors, a chairman of the Board of Directors, who shall not be considered an officer of the Company.

 

ARTICLE IV - COMMITTEES

 

4.1          Committees Of Directors.

 

The Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Company. The Board of Directors may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of a member of a committee, the member or members present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors, or in these Bylaws, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Company, and may authorize the seal of the Company to be affixed to all papers which may require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in reference to the following matters: (a) approving or adopting, or recommending to the stockholders, any action or matter expressly required by the General Corporate Law of Delaware to be submitted to stockholders for approval or (b) adopting, amending or repealing any provision of the Bylaws.

 

4.2          Committee Minutes.

 

Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the Board of Directors when required.

 

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4.3          Meetings And Action Of Committees

 

Meetings and actions of committees shall be governed by, and held and taken in accordance with, the provisions of Section 3.5 (place of meetings and meetings by telephone), Section 3.6 (regular meetings), Section 3.7 (special meetings and notice), Section 3.8 (quorum), Section 3.9 (waiver of notice), and Section 3.10 (action without a meeting) of these Bylaws, with such changes in the context of such provisions as are necessary to substitute the committee and its members for the Board of Directors and its members; provided , however , that the time of regular meetings of committees may be determined either by resolution of the Board of Directors or by resolution of the committee, that special meetings of committees may also be called by resolution of the Board of Directors and that notice of special meetings of committees shall also be given to all alternate members, who shall have the right to attend all meetings of the committee. The Board of Directors may adopt rules for the government of any committee not inconsistent with the provisions of these Bylaws.

 

ARTICLE V - OFFICERS

 

5.1          Officers.

 

The officers of the Company shall be a president, a treasurer, and a secretary. The Company may also have, at the discretion of the Board of Directors, a chief executive officer, a chief financial officer, one or more vice presidents, one or more assistant secretaries, one or more assistant treasurers, and any such other officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 5.3 of these Bylaws. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

5.2          Appointment Of Officers.

 

The officers of the Company, except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Sections 5.3 or 5.5 of these Bylaws, shall be appointed by the Board of Directors, subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment.

 

5.3          Subordinate Officers.

 

The Board of Directors may appoint, or empower the chief executive officer or the president to appoint, such other officers and agents as the business of the Company may require, each of whom shall hold office for such period, have such authority, and perform such duties as are provided in these Bylaws or as the Board of Directors may from time to time determine.

 

5.4          Removal And Resignation Of Officers.

 

Subject to the rights, if any, of an officer under any contract of employment, any officer may be removed, either with or without cause, by an affirmative vote of the majority of the Board of Directors at any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors or, except in the case of an officer chosen by the Board of Directors, by any officer upon whom the power of removal is conferred by the Board of Directors.

 

Any officer may resign at any time by giving written notice to the Company. Any resignation shall take effect at the date of the receipt of that notice or at any later time specified in that notice; and, unless otherwise specified in that notice, the acceptance of the resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective. Any resignation is without prejudice to the rights, if any, of the Company under any contract to which the officer is a party.

 

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5.5          Vacancies In Offices.

 

Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company shall be filled by the Board of Directors.

 

5.6          Chief Executive Officer.

 

Subject to the such supervisory powers, if any, as may be given by the Board of Directors to the chairman of the board, if any, the chief executive officer (if such an officer is appointed) shall, subject to the control of the Board of Directors, have general supervision, direction, and control of the business and the officers of the Company and shall have the general powers and duties of management usually vested in the office of chief executive officer of a corporation and shall have such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or these Bylaws.

 

5.7          President.

 

Subject to the such supervisory powers, if any, as may be given by the Board of Directors to the chairman of the board, if any, or the chief executive officer, if any, the president shall have general supervision, direction, and control of the business and other officers of the Company. He or she shall have the general powers and duties of management usually vested in the office of president of a corporation and such other powers and duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or these Bylaws. If there is then no appointed chief executive officer, the president shall have the powers and duties usually vested in the chief executive officer of a corporation.

 

5.8          Vice Presidents.

 

In the absence or disability of the chief executive officer and president, the vice presidents, if any, in order of their rank as fixed by the Board of Directors or, if not ranked, a vice president designated by the Board of Directors, or if no vice president is so designated, the vice presidents shall be deemed ranked in order of their date of appointment as a vice president, shall perform all the duties of the president and when so acting shall have all the powers of, and be subject to all the restrictions upon, the president. The vice presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as from time to time may be prescribed for them respectively by the Board of Directors, these Bylaws, the president or the chairman of the board.

 

5.9          Chief Financial Officer.

 

The chief financial officer (if such an officer is appointed) shall be the treasurer and shall keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct books and records of accounts of the properties and business transactions of the Company, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains, losses, capital retained earnings, and shares. The books of account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any director.

 

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The chief financial officer shall deposit all moneys and other valuables in the name and to the credit of the Company with such depositories as may be designated by the Board of Directors. He or she shall disburse the funds of the Company as may be ordered by the Board of Directors, shall render to the chief executive officer, the president, or the directors, upon request, an account of all his or her transactions as chief financial officer and of the financial condition of the Company, and shall have other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or these Bylaws.

 

5.10        Treasurer.

 

The treasurer shall assist the chief financial officer with his or her duties to keep and maintain, or cause to be kept and maintained, adequate and correct books and records of accounts of the properties and business transactions of the Company, including accounts of its assets, liabilities, receipts, disbursements, gains, losses, capital retained earnings, and shares. The books of account shall at all reasonable times be open to inspection by any director. If there is then no appointed chief financial officer, the treasurer shall have the powers and duties usually vested in the chief financial officer of a corporation.

 

5.11        Secretary.

 

The secretary shall keep or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the Company or such other place as the Board of Directors may direct, a book of minutes of all meetings and actions of directors, committees of directors, and stockholders. The minutes shall show the time and place of each meeting, the names of those present at directors’ meetings or committee meetings, the number of shares present or represented at stockholders’ meetings, and the proceedings thereof.

 

The secretary shall keep, or cause to be kept, at the principal executive office of the Company or at the office of the Company’s transfer agent or registrar, as determined by resolution of the Board of Directors, a share register, or a duplicate share register, showing the names of all stockholders and their addresses, the number and classes of shares held by each, the number and date of certificates evidencing such shares, and the number and date of cancellation of every certificate surrendered for cancellation.

 

The secretary shall give, or cause to be given, notice of all meetings of the stockholders and of the Board of Directors required to be given by law or by these Bylaws He or she shall keep the seal of the Company, if one is adopted, in safe custody and shall have such other powers and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors or by these Bylaws.

 

5.12        Representation Of Shares Of Other Corporations.

 

The chairman of the board, chief executive officer, the president, any vice president, the chief financial officer, the treasurer or any assistant treasurer, the secretary or any assistant secretary, or any other person authorized by the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer or the president, is authorized to vote, represent, and exercise on behalf of the Company all rights incident to any and all shares of any other corporation or corporations or any other equity ownership interest in any other entity standing in the name of the Company. The authority granted herein may be exercised either by such person directly or by any other person authorized to do so by proxy or power of attorney duly executed by the person having such authority.

 

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5.13        Authority And Duties Of Officers.

 

In addition to the foregoing authority and duties, all officers of the Company shall respectively have such authority and perform such duties in the management of the business of the Company as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors.

 

ARTICLE VI - INDEMNIFICATION

 

6.1          Indemnification Of Directors And Officers.

 

The Company shall, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, indemnify each of its directors and officers against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was an agent of the Company. For purposes of this Section 6.1 , a “director” or “officer” of the Company includes any person (a) who is or was a director or officer of the Company, (b) who is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director or officer of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or (c) who was a director or officer of a corporation which was a predecessor corporation of the Company or of another enterprise at the request of such predecessor corporation.

 

6.2          Indemnification Of Others.

 

The Company shall have the power, to the maximum extent and in the manner permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, to indemnify each of its employees and agents (other than directors and officers) against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines, settlements and other amounts actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any proceeding, arising by reason of the fact that such person is or was an agent of the Company. For purposes of this Section 6.2 , an “employee” or “agent” of the Company (other than a director or officer) includes any person (a) who is or was an employee or agent of the Company, (b) who is or was serving at the request of the Company as an employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or (c) who was an employee or agent of a corporation which was a predecessor corporation of the Company or of another enterprise at the request of such predecessor corporation.

 

6.3          Payment Of Expenses In Advance.

 

Expenses incurred in defending any action or proceeding for which indemnification is required pursuant to Section 6.1 or for which indemnification is permitted pursuant to Section 6.2 following authorization thereof by the Board of Directors shall be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of such action or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the indemnified party to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined by final judicial decision from which there is no further right to appeal that the indemnified party is not entitled to be indemnified as authorized in this Article VI .

 

6.4          Indemnity Not Exclusive.

 

The indemnification provided by this Article VI shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under any Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in an official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, to the extent that such additional rights to indemnification are authorized in the certificate of incorporation

 

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6.5          Insurance.

 

The Company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify his or her against such liability under the provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

6.6          Conflicts.

 

No indemnification or advance shall be made under this Article VI , except where such indemnification or advance is mandated by law or the order, judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, in any circumstance where it appears:

 

(a)           That it would be inconsistent with a provision of the certificate of incorporation, these Bylaws, a resolution of the stockholders or an agreement in effect at the time of the accrual of the alleged cause of the action asserted in the proceeding in which the expenses were incurred or other amounts were paid, which prohibits or otherwise limits indemnification; or

 

(b)           That it would be inconsistent with any condition expressly imposed by a court in approving a settlement.

 

ARTICLE VII - RECORDS AND REPORTS

 

7.1          Maintenance And Inspection Of Records.

 

The Company shall, either at its principal executive offices or at such place or places as designated by the Board of Directors, keep a record of its stockholders listing their names and addresses and the number and class of shares held by each stockholder, a copy of these Bylaws as amended to date, accounting books, and other records.

 

Any stockholder of record, in person or by attorney or other agent, shall, upon written demand under oath stating the purpose thereof, have the right during the usual hours for business to inspect for any proper purpose the Company’s stock ledger, a list of its stockholders, and its other books and records and to make copies or extracts therefrom. A proper purpose shall mean a purpose reasonably related to such person’s interest as a stockholder. In every instance where an attorney or other agent is the person who seeks the right to inspection, the demand under oath shall be accompanied by a power of attorney or such other writing that authorizes the attorney or other agent to so act on behalf of the stockholder. The demand under oath shall be directed to the Company at its registered office in Delaware or at its principal place of business.

 

A complete list of stockholders entitled to vote at any meeting of stockholders, arranged in alphabetical order for each class of stock and showing the address of each such stockholder and the number of shares registered in each such stockholder’s name, shall be open to the examination of any such stockholder for a period of at least ten (10) days prior to the meeting in the manner provided by law. The stock list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting as provided by law. This list shall presumptively determine the identity of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting and the number of shares held by each of them.

 

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7.2          Inspection By Directors.

 

Any director shall have the right to examine the Company’s stock ledger, a list of its stockholders, and its other books and records for a purpose reasonably related to his or her position as a director. The Delaware Court of Chancery is hereby vested with the exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether a director is entitled to the inspection sought. Such Court may summarily order the Company to permit the director to inspect any and all books and records, the stock ledger, and the stock list and to make copies or extracts therefrom. Such Court may, in its discretion, prescribe any limitations or conditions with reference to the inspection, or award such other and further relief as such Court may deem just and proper.

 

ARTICLE VIII - GENERAL MATTERS

 

8.1          Checks.

 

From time to time, the Board of Directors shall determine by resolution which person or persons may sign or endorse all checks, drafts, other orders for payment of money, notes or other evidences of indebtedness that are issued in the name of or payable to the Company, and only the persons so authorized shall sign or endorse those instruments.

 

8.2          Execution Of Corporate Contracts And Instruments.

 

The Board of Directors, except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, may authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any contract or execute any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Company; such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. Unless so authorized or ratified by the Board of Directors or within the agency power of an officer, no officer, agent or employee shall have any power or authority to bind the Company by any contract or engagement or to pledge its credit or to render it liable for any purpose or for any amount.

 

8.3          Stock Certificates; Partly Paid Shares.

 

The shares of the Company shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board of Directors may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its stock shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Company. Any or all of the signatures on the certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate has ceased to be such officer, transfer agent or registrar before such certificate is issued, it maybe issued by the Company with the same effect as if he or she were such officer, transfer agent or registrar at the date of issue.

 

The Company shall not issue any shares of its capital stock as partly paid or otherwise subject to call for any remainder of the consideration to be paid therefor.

 

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8.4          Special Designation On Certificates.

 

If the Company is authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class, then the powers, the designations, the preferences, and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights shall be set forth in full or summarized on the face or back of the certificate that the Company shall issue to represent such class or series of stock; provided , however , that, except as otherwise provided in Section 202 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, in lieu of the foregoing requirements, there may be set forth on the face or back of the certificate that the Company shall issue to represent such class or series of stock a statement that the Company will furnish without charge to each stockholder who so requests the powers, the designations, the preferences, and the relative, participating, optional or other special rights of each class of stock or series thereof and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions of such preferences and/or rights.

 

8.5          Lost Certificates.

 

Except as provided in this Section 8.5 , no new certificates for shares shall be issued to replace a previously issued certificate unless the latter is surrendered to the Company and cancelled at the same time. The Company may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in the place of any certificate previously issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, and the Company may (a) require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or the owner’s legal representative, to undertake to indemnify the Company against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares, and, in addition, (b) upon approval of the Board of Directors, require the owner of the lost, stolen or destroyed certificate, or the owner’s legal representative, to give the Company a bond sufficient to indemnify it against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

 

8.6          Construction; Definitions; Consent to Jurisdiction.

 

Unless the context requires otherwise, the general provisions, rules of construction and definitions in the Delaware General Corporation Law shall govern the construction of these Bylaws. Without limiting the generality of this provision, the singular number includes the plural, the plural number includes the singular, and the term “person” includes both a corporation and a natural person. Unless the Company consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Company, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer or other employee of the Company to the Company or the Company’s stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine shall be the Delaware Court of Chancery, or if the Delaware Court of Chancery determines that it does not have subject matter jurisdiction, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware or any court of the State of Delaware having subject matter jurisdiction regarding the matter. For so long as the last two sentences of this Section 8.6 , remain effective, each stockholder that acquires capital stock on or after the date these Bylaws were adopted shall be deemed to have notice of, and consented to, the provisions of the last two sentences of this Section 8.6 .

 

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8.7          Dividends.

 

The directors of the Company, subject to any restrictions contained in (a) the Delaware General Corporation Law or (b) the certificate of incorporation, may declare and pay dividends upon the shares of its capital stock. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the Company’s capital stock.

 

The directors of the Company may set apart out of any of the funds of the Company available for dividends a reserve or reserves for any proper purpose and may abolish any such reserve. Such purposes shall include but not be limited to equalizing dividends, repairing or maintaining any property of the Company, and meeting contingencies.

 

8.8          Fiscal Year.

 

The fiscal year of the Company shall be fixed by resolution of the Board of Directors and may be changed by the Board of Directors.

 

8.9          Seal.

 

The Company may adopt a corporate seal, which may be altered at pleasure, and may use the same by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced.

 

8.10        Transfer Of Stock.

 

Upon surrender to the Company or the transfer agent of the Company of a certificate for shares duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignation or authority to transfer, subject to any applicable transfer restrictions, it shall be the duty of the Company to issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate, and record the transaction in its books.

 

8.11        Stock Transfer Agreements.

 

The Company shall have power to enter into and perform any agreement with any number of stockholders of any one or more classes of stock of the Company to restrict the transfer of shares of stock of the Company of any one or more classes owned by such stockholders in any manner not prohibited by the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

8.12        Registered Stockholders.

 

The Company shall be entitled to recognize the exclusive right of a person registered on its books as the owner of shares to receive dividends and to vote as such owner and shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or shares on the part of another person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of Delaware.

 

8.13        Facsimile Signature.

 

In addition to the provisions for use of facsimile signatures elsewhere specifically authorized in these Bylaws, facsimile signatures of any officer or officers of the Company may be used whenever and as authorized by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof.

 

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ARTICLE IX - AMENDMENTS

 

These Bylaws may be adopted, amended or repealed by the stockholders entitled to vote; provided , however , that the Company may, in its certificate of incorporation, confer the power to adopt, amend or repeal Bylaws upon the directors. The fact that such power has been so conferred upon the directors shall not divest the stockholders of the power, nor limit their power to adopt, amend or repeal any provision of the Bylaws.

 

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CERTIFICATE OF ADOPTION OF

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS

 

OF

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

 

The undersigned hereby certifies that the undersigned is the duly elected, qualified, and acting Secretary of Energous Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “ Corporation ”), and that the foregoing Amended and Restated Bylaws were adopted as the Bylaws of the Corporation on __________, 2014, by the unanimous approval of the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

 

Executed on __________, 2014.

 

   
  __________, Secretary

 

 

 

 

VOTING AGREEMENT

 

THIS VOTING AGREEMENT (this “ Agreement ”), by and between Energous Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), and Hanbit Electronics Co. Ltd. and its affiliates (the “ Investor ”) is entered into as of this 7th day of March, 2014.

 

WHEREAS , concurrently with the execution of this Agreement, the Investor is entering a Stock Purchase Agreement with the Company (the “ Stock Purchase Agreement ”) pursuant to which the Investor is acquiring 840,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “ Subject Shares ”);

 

WHEREAS , the parties hereto have agreed that, effective immediately, the Investor will vote all of the Subject Shares in accordance with the recommendation of the Company’s board of directors (the “ Board ”) on any matters brought before the Company’s stockholders at a meeting of the Company’s stockholders or approval by written consent of the Company’s stockholders; and

 

WHEREAS , as a condition and inducement to the willingness of the Company to enter into the Stock Purchase Agreement, the Company has required that the Investor enter into this Agreement, and the Investor desires to enter into this Agreement to induce the Company to enter into the Stock Purchase Agreement.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

 

1.           Agreement to Vote . The Investor agrees to vote all of the Subject Shares in accordance with the recommendation of the Board on any matters brought before the Company’s stockholders at a meeting of the Company’s stockholders or approval by written consent of the Company’s stockholders.

 

2.           Grant of Proxy . Upon the failure of the Investor to vote the Subject Shares in accordance with the terms of this Agreement within five (5) days of the Company’s written request for such vote, the Investor hereby appoints and constitutes the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors as the attorney and proxy of such party with the full power of substitution and resubstitution, to the full extent of such party’s rights, with respect to the Subject Shares, which proxy (the “ Proxy ”) shall be irrevocable until this Agreement terminates pursuant to its terms or until this Section 2 of this Agreement is amended to remove such party’s grant of proxy in accordance with Section 5 hereof, to vote all Subject Shares then held by the Investor in the manner provided herein. The parties agree that the Proxy is coupled with an interest and is given to secure the performance of each party’s duties under this Agreement.

 

3.           Successors in Interest.

 

(a)           The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon the successors in interest to any of the Subject Shares held by the Investor and its successors and assigns. The Company shall not permit the transfer of any of the securities on its books or issue new certificates representing any such securities to an affiliate of the Investor unless and until the person(s) to whom such shares are to be transferred shall have executed a written agreement, substantially in the form of this Agreement, pursuant to which such person becomes a party to this Agreement and agrees to be bound by all the provisions hereof as if such person was a party hereunder. However, after the period of the lockup up agreement executed by the parties this provision will not apply to transfers of securities on an open market sale.

 

 
 

 

(b)           Each certificate representing the Subject Shares shall bear a legend reading as follows:

 

“THE SHARES EVIDENCED HEREBY ARE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF A VOTING AGREEMENT (A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED WITHOUT CHARGE FROM THE COMPANY), AND BY ACCEPTING ANY INTEREST IN SUCH SHARES THE PERSON ACCEPTING SUCH INTEREST SHALL BE DEEMED TO AGREE TO AND SHALL BECOME BOUND BY ALL THE PROVISIONS OF THE VOTING AGREEMENT.”

 

(c)           At any time after the termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 4, any holder of a stock certificate legended pursuant to this Section 3 may surrender such certificate to the Company for removal of the legend, and the Company will duly reissue a new certificate without the legend.

 

4.           Termination . This Agreement shall terminate upon the earliest to occur of:

 

(a)           the thirteen (13) month anniversary of the completion date of the Company’s initial public offering of its Common Stock under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended;

 

(b)           The sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company;

 

(c)           The closing of an acquisition of the Company by another corporation or entity by a consolidation or merger in which the holders of the Company’s outstanding voting stock immediately prior to such transaction own, immediately after such transaction, securities representing less than fifty percent (50%) of the voting power of the corporation or other entity surviving such transaction;

 

(d)           upon mutual agreement of such parties as would be required to amend this Agreement; and

 

(e)           the liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.

 

5.           Amendments and Waivers . Neither this Agreement nor any term hereof may be amended or otherwise modified other than by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and the Investor. No provision of this Agreement may be waived, discharged or terminated other than by an instrument in writing signed by the party against whom the enforcement of such waiver, discharge or termination is sought.

 

6.           Enforceability/Severability . The parties hereto agree that each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such a manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law. If any provision of this Agreement shall nevertheless be held to be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, (a) such provision shall be invalid only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of this Agreement, and (b) the parties shall, to the extent permissible by applicable law, amend this Agreement so as to make effective and enforceable the intent of this Agreement.

 

7.           Specific Enforcement . It is agreed and understood that monetary damages would not adequately compensate an injured party for the breach of this Agreement by any other party, that this Agreement shall be specifically enforceable, and that any breach or threatened breach of this Agreement shall be the proper subject of a temporary or permanent injunction or restraining order. Further, each party hereto waives any claim or defense that there is an adequate remedy at law for such breach or threatened breach. All remedies, either under this Agreement, by law, or otherwise afforded to parties hereunder, shall be cumulative and not alternative.

 

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8.           Governing Law . This Agreement and all acts and transactions pursuant hereto and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto shall be governed by and construed under the laws of the State of Delaware without regard to principles of conflict of laws.

 

9.           Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

10.         Successors and Assigns . This Agreement shall not be assignable or otherwise transferable by a party without the prior written consent of the other party, and any attempt to so assign or otherwise transfer this Agreement without such consent shall be void and of no effect. The provisions hereof shall inure to the benefit of, and be binding upon, the successors and assigns of the parties hereto.

 

11.         Notices . Unless otherwise provided, any notice required or permitted under this Agreement shall be given in writing and shall be deemed effectively given upon personal delivery to the party to be notified or forty-eight (48) hours after being deposited with the United States Post Office, by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid and addressed to the party to be notified at the address indicated for such party on the signature page hereof, or at such other address as such party may designate by written notice to the other parties.

 

12.         Entire Agreement . This Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties with regard to the subjects hereof and no party shall be liable or bound to any other in any manner by any oral or written representations, warranties, covenants and agreements except as specifically set forth herein. Each party expressly represents and warrants that it is not relying on any oral or written representations, warranties, covenants or agreements outside of this Agreement.

 

13.         Delays or Omissions . It is agreed that no delay or omission to exercise any right, power or remedy accruing to any party hereunder, upon any breach, default or noncompliance under this Agreement shall impair any such right, power or remedy, nor shall it be construed to be a waiver of any such breach, default or noncompliance, or any acquiescence therein, or of any similar breach, default or noncompliance thereafter occurring.

 

14.         Counterparts . This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

 

15.         Attorneys’ Fees . If any action at law or in equity is necessary to enforce or interpret the terms of this Agreement, the prevailing party shall be entitled to reasonable attorneys’ fees, costs and necessary disbursements in addition to any other relief to which such party may be entitled.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF , the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day and year hereinabove first written.

 

  COMPANY:
   
  ENERGOUS CORPORATION
     
  By: /s/ Stephen R. Rizzone
     
  Name: Stephen R. Rizzone
   
  Title: President and CEO
   
  Address:
   
  303 Ray Street
  Pleasanton, CA, 94566
  Attn: Stephen R. Rizzone
   
  INVESTOR:
     
  HANBIT ELECTRONICS CO. LTD.
     
  By: /s/ Sang Young Lee
     
  Name: Sang Young Lee
   
  Title: Chairman
   
  Address:
   
  494, Gajang-ro, Gajang-dong
  Osan-si, Gyeonggi-do Korea

 

 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

 

NONSTATUTORY STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT

 

This Nonstatutory Stock Option Agreement (this “Agreement”) is executed as of ___________, by and between ENERGOUS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and ____________ (“Grantee”).

 

WITNESSETH:

 

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company has determined to grant Grantee a Nonstatutory Stock Option in conjunction with Grantee’s appointment as a member of the Board of Directors, subject to the terms provided in this Agreement; and

 

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of Grantee’s appointment as a member of the Board of Directors, the Company and Grantee hereby agree as follows:

 

1.  Capitalized Terms; Determinations by Administrator .

 

(a)          Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan.

 

(b)          The Administrator (as defined below) shall make all interpretations, rules and regulations necessary to administer this Agreement, and such determinations of the Administrator shall be binding upon Grantee. For purposes of this Agreement, the term “Administrator” shall mean the Board of Directors.

 

2.  Option; Number of Shares; Option Price . The Option (as defined below) granted hereunder is intended to be a nonstatutory stock option and therefore shall not qualify as an incentive stock option pursuant to Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Grantee shall have the right and option to purchase all or any part of an aggregate of _________ shares of $0.0001 par value common stock of the Company (“Share(s)”) at the purchase price of $___ per Share (the “Option”).

 

3.   Vesting and Expiration .

 

(a)           Vesting . The Option shall vest (become exercisable) and remain exercisable only in accordance with Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

(b)           Expiration . To the extent not previously exercised according to the terms hereof, the Option shall expire on the tenth anniversary of the date hereof.

 

4.  Exercise Period .

 

(a)           Exercise Period . To the extent vested, Grantee may exercise this Option in full or part at any time through the date that is one year following Grantee’s Separation from Service; provided , however , that this Option shall not be exercisable subsequent to the expiration date specified in Section 3(b), above.

 

(b)           Extension of Exercise Period . The Administrator may in its sole discretion extend the period permitted for exercise of the Option upon Grantee’s Separation from Service as otherwise provided in this Section 4 if allowable under applicable law.

 

5.  Method of Exercising Option . Except as otherwise permitted by the Administrator, the Option shall be exercisable by delivery to the Company (to the attention of its Secretary), at its offices, of (i) written notice identifying the Option and stating the number of Shares with respect to which it is being exercised, (ii) payment in full of the exercise price of the Shares then being acquired as provided in Section 6, below, and (iii) execution of such other documentation as is determined to be necessary or appropriate by the Administrator from time to time the form of which shall be provided to Grantee at the time of execution and delivery of this Agreement. The Company shall have the right to delay the issue or delivery of any Shares to be delivered hereunder until (i) the completion of such registration or qualification of such Shares under federal, state, or foreign law, ruling, or regulation as the Company shall deem to be necessary or advisable, and (ii) receipt from Grantee of such documents and information as the Administrator may deem necessary or appropriate in connection with such registration or qualification or the issuance of Shares hereunder.

 

 
 

 

6.  Payment of Exercise Price . The exercise price shall be payable in whole or in part in cash, Shares held by Grantee, other property, or such other consideration consistent with the Agreement’s purpose and applicable law as may be determined by the Administrator from time to time. Except as otherwise determined by the Administrator at the time of grant, such price shall be paid in cash in full at the time that the Option is exercised. If Grantee is permitted by the Administrator to pay all or a part of the exercise price in Shares and elects to do so, Grantee may make such payment by delivering to the Company a number of Shares, either directly or by attestation, which are equal in value to the purchase or exercise price hereunder. For this purpose, all Shares so delivered shall be valued per share at the Fair Market Value.

 

7.  Prohibition Against Transfer . Unless otherwise provided by the Administrator and except as provided below, the Option, and the rights and privileges conferred hereby, may not be transferred by Grantee, and shall be exercisable during the lifetime of Grantee only by Grantee. The Option shall not be subjected to execution, attachment or similar process. Grantee shall have the right to transfer the Option upon Grantee’s death, either to Grantee’s designated beneficiary (such designation to be made in writing at such time and in such manner as the Administrator shall approve or prescribe), or, if Grantee dies without a surviving designated beneficiary, by the terms of Grantee’s will or under the laws of descent and distribution, subject to any limitations set forth in this Agreement and all such distributees shall be subject to all terms and conditions of this Agreement to the same extent as Grantee would be if still living.

 

8.  Nature of Option . Grantee shall not have any interest in any fund or in any specific asset or assets of the Company by reason of the Option granted hereunder, or any right to exercise any of the rights or privileges of a stockholder with respect to the Option until Shares are issued in connection with any exercise.

 

9.  Adjustment provisions .

 

(a)           Share Adjustments . In the event of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, combination or exchange of shares of Company stock, or the like, as a result of which shares of any class shall be issued in respect of the outstanding Shares, or the Shares shall be changed into the same or a different number of the same or another class of stock, or into securities of another person, cash or other property (not including a regular cash dividend), the number of Shares subject to the Option and the exercise price applicable to the Option shall be appropriately adjusted in such equitable and proportionate amount as determined by the Administrator. No fractional Share shall be issued under the Agreement resulting from any such adjustment but the Administrator in its sole discretion may make a cash payment in lieu of a fractional Share.

 

(b)           Acquisitions . In the event of a merger or consolidation of the Company with another corporation or entity, or a sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of its assets, the Administrator shall, in its sole discretion, have authority to provide for (i) waiver in whole or in part of any remaining restrictions or vesting requirements in connection with the Option granted hereunder, (ii) the conversion of the outstanding Option into cash, (iii) the conversion of the Option into the right to receive securities, including options, of another person or entity upon such terms and conditions as are determined by the Administrator in its sole discretion and/or (iv) the lapse of the Option after notice in writing has been given that the Option may be exercised within a set period from the date of such notice and that any Option not exercised within such period shall lapse.

 

(c)           Binding Effect . Without limiting the generality of what is provided in Section 1 hereof and for avoidance of doubt, any adjustment, waiver, conversion or other action taken by the Administrator under this Section 9 shall be conclusive and binding on Grantee and the Company and any respective successors and assigns.

 

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10.  Notices . Any notice to be given to the Company under the terms of this Agreement shall be given in writing to the Company at its offices. Any notice to be given to Grantee may be addressed to Grantee’s address as it appears on the payroll records of the Company or any subsidiary thereof. Any such notice shall be deemed to have been duly given if and when actually received by the party to whom it is addressed, as evidenced by a written receipt to that effect.

 

11.  Taxes . The Company may require payment or reimbursement of or may withhold any minimum tax that it believes is required as a result of the grant or exercise of the Option, and the Company may defer making delivery with respect to Shares or cash payable hereunder or otherwise until arrangements satisfactory to the Company have been made with respect to such withholding obligations.

 

12.  Rights of Grantee . The Option, and any payments or other benefits received by Grantee under the Option, is discretionary and shall not be deemed a part of Grantee’s regular, recurring compensation for any purpose, including without limitation for purposes of termination, indemnity, or severance pay law of any country and shall not be included in, nor have any effect on, the determination of benefits under any other Grantee benefit plan, contract or similar arrangement provided to Grantee unless expressly so provided by such other plan, contract or arrangement, or unless the Administrator expressly determines otherwise.

 

13.  Amendment . The Administrator may amend the Agreement; provided , however , that Grantee’s consent to such action shall be required unless the Administrator determines that the action, taking into account any related action, would not materially and adversely affect Grantee. However, notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement, the Administrator may not adjust or amend the exercise price of the Option, whether through amendment, cancellation and replacement grants, or any other means, except in accordance with Section 9 hereof.

 

14.  Market Standoff . In connection with an Initial Public Offering and upon request of the Company or the underwriters managing such Initial Public Offering, Grantee agrees not to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any Shares without the prior written consent of the Company or such underwriters, as the case may be, for such period of time from the effective date of such registration as may be requested by the Company or such managing underwriters and to execute an agreement reflecting the foregoing as may be requested by the underwriters at the time of an Initial Public Offering.

 

15.  Entire Agreement . This Agreement to constitutes the final understanding between Grantee and the Company regarding the Option.

 

16.  Severability . In the event any provision of this Agreement shall be held illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity shall not affect the remaining parts of the Agreement, and this Agreement shall be construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid provision had not been included.

 

17.  Governing Law . This Agreement and all actions taken hereunder shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of California, applied without regard to the laws of any other jurisdiction that otherwise would govern under conflict of law principles.

 

[ Signature Page Follows ]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused these presents to be executed as of the date and year first above written, which is the date of the granting of the Option evidenced hereby.

 

  ENERGOUS CORPORATION
     
  By:  
    Name:
    Title:

 

The undersigned Grantee hereby accepts the foregoing Option and agrees to the several terms and conditions hereof.

 

   
  Grantee

 

[ Signature Page - Option Award Agreement ]

 

 
 

 

Exhibit A

 

For so long as Grantee remains continuously a Service Provider, this Option shall vest and become exercisable as follows:[_______________]

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, effective upon the occurrence of a Change of Control this Option shall vest and become exercisable in full.

 

Except as determined by the Administrator, upon Grantee’s Separation from Service for any reason, Grantee shall forfeit the Option or portion of the Option that has not vested at the time of such termination. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrator may, in its discretion, accelerate the date that any installment of this Option becomes exercisable. The foregoing rights are cumulative and may be exercised only before the date which is ten years from the date of this Option. Following the expiration of this Option in accordance with the preceding sentence, all Grantee’s rights hereunder will be forfeited and canceled in their entirety.

 

 

FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE ENERGOUS CORPORATION

2013 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN

 

THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE ENERGOUS CORPORATION 2013 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN (this “ First Amendment ”), dated as of March [●], 2014, is made and adopted by Energous Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “ Company ”), subject to approval by the stockholders of the Company.

 

WHEREAS, the Company maintains the Energous Corporation 2013 Equity Incentive Plan (the “ Plan ”);

 

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company (the “ Board ”) may amend the Plan at any time, pursuant to Section 5.2 of the Plan, contingent on approval by stockholders of the Company, if stockholder approval is required by applicable law or applicable stock exchange listing requirements; and

 

WHEREAS, the Board has determined that it is advisable and in the best interest of the Company and its stockholders to amend the Plan to increase the number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the Plan so that, effective following completion of the Company’s initial public offering (the “IPO”), the total number of such available shares equals 18% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately following the completion of the IPO (assuming for this purpose the conversion into common stock of all outstanding securities that are convertible by their terms into common stock and the exercise of all options and warrants exercisable for shares of common stock and including shares and warrants issued to the underwriter for such offering upon exercise of its over-allotment option, if any);

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the Plan is hereby amended as follows, subject to approval by the stockholders of the Company:

 

1.            Section 4.1 of the Plan (Authorized Number of Shares) is hereby is amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

 

“Subject to adjustment under Section 15, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued pursuant to the Plan shall equal 18% of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding immediately following the completion of the Initial Public Offering (assuming for this purpose the issuance of all shares issuable under the Company’s equity plans, the conversion into common stock of all outstanding securities that are convertible by their terms into common stock and the exercise of all options and warrants exercisable for shares of common stock and including shares and warrants issued to the underwriter for such Initial Public Offering upon exercise of its over-allotment option, if any) (__________ shares of Common Stock). The total number of shares of Common Stock described in the preceding sentence shall be available for issuance under Incentive Stock Options. From and after the Effective Date, no new awards will be made under the Prior Plan. Shares issued under the Plan may consist in whole or in part of authorized but unissued shares, treasury shares, or shares purchased on the open market or otherwise, all as determined by the Company from time to time. No later than the end of the Transition Period, the maximum number of shares for each type of Stock-based Award, and the maximum amount of cash for any cash-based Award, intended to constitute “performance-based compensation” under Code Section 162(m) granted to any Grantee in any specified period shall be established by the Company and approved by the Company’s stockholders.”

 

 
 

 

2.            Upon the approval by the stockholders of the Company, this First Amendment shall be incorporated in and form a part of the Plan.

 

3.            Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Plan.

 

4.            Except as expressly or by necessary implication amended hereby, the Plan shall remain in full force and effect.

 

Adopted by the Board on March 6, 2014

Approved by Stockholders on March 10 2014

 

 

 

ENERGOUS CORPORATION

 

2014 NON-EMPLOYEE EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN

 

Energous Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), sets forth herein the terms of its 2014 Non-employee Equity Compensation Plan (the “Plan”), as follows:

 

1. PURPOSE

 

The Plan is intended to enhance the ability of the Company and its Affiliates (as defined herein) to attract and retain highly qualified non-employee members of the Board, consultants and advisors, and to motivate such non-employee members of the Board, consultants and advisors to serve the Company and its Affiliates and to expend maximum effort to improve the business results and earnings of the Company, by providing to such persons an opportunity to acquire or increase a direct proprietary interest in the operations and future success of the Company. To this end, the Plan provides for the grant of stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, restricted stock units, unrestricted stock, other stock-based awards and cash awards. Any of these awards may, but need not, be made as performance incentives to reward attainment of performance goals in accordance with the terms hereof. Stock options granted under the Plan shall be non-qualified stock options.

 

2. DEFINITIONS

 

For purposes of interpreting the Plan and related documents (including Award Agreements), the following definitions shall apply:

 

2.1. “Acquiror” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15.2.1.

 

2.2. “Affiliate” means any company or other trade or business that “controls,” is “controlled by” or is “under common control” with the Company within the meaning of Rule 405 of Regulation C under the Securities Act, including, without limitation, any Subsidiary.

 

2.3. “Award” means a grant of an Option, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock, Restricted Stock Unit, Other Stock-based Award or cash award under the Plan.

 

2.4. “Award Agreement” means a written agreement between the Company and a Grantee, or notice from the Company or an Affiliate to a Grantee that evidences and sets out the terms and conditions of an Award.

 

2.5. “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

 

2.6. “Business Combination” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15.2.2.

 

2.7. “Change in Control” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15.2.2.

 

2.8. “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as now in effect or as hereafter amended. References to the Code shall include the valid and binding governmental regulations, court decisions and other regulatory and judicial authority issued or rendered thereunder.

 

2.9. “Committee” means the Compensation Committee of the Board, or such other committee as determined by the Board. The Compensation Committee of the Board may, in its discretion, designate a subcommittee of its members to serve as the Committee (to the extent the Board has not designated another person, committee or entity as the Committee). Following the Initial Public Offering, (i) the Board will cause the Committee to satisfy the applicable requirements of any stock exchange on which the Common Stock may then be listed; and (ii) for purposes of Awards to Grantees who are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, Committee means all of the members of the Compensation Committee who are “non-employee directors” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 adopted under the Exchange Act.

 

 
 

 

2.10. “Company” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

 

2.11. “Common Stock” or “Stock” means a share of common stock of the Company, par value $.0001 per share.

 

2.12. “Consultant” means a consultant or advisor that provides bona fide services to the Company or any Affiliate and who qualifies as a consultant or advisor under Rule 701 of the Securities Act (during any period in which the Company is not a public company subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act) or Form S-8 (during any period in which the Company is a public company subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act).

 

2.13. “Effective Date” means March 10, 2014, the date the Plan was approved by the Company’s stockholders.

 

2.14. “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as now in effect or as hereafter amended.

 

2.15. “Fair Market Value” of a share of Common Stock as of a particular date shall mean (1) if the Common Stock is listed on a national securities exchange, the closing or last price of the Common Stock on the composite tape or other comparable reporting system for the applicable date, or if the applicable date is not a trading day, the trading day immediately preceding the applicable date, or (2) if the shares of Common Stock are not then listed on a national securities exchange, or the value of such shares is not otherwise determinable, such value as determined by the Board in good faith in its sole discretion.

 

2.16. “Family Member” means a person who is a spouse, former spouse, child, stepchild, grandchild, parent, stepparent, grandparent, niece, nephew, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law, or sister-in-law, including adoptive relationships, of the applicable individual, any person sharing the applicable individual’s household (other than a tenant or employee), a trust in which any one or more of these persons have more than fifty percent of the beneficial interest, a foundation in which any one or more of these persons (or the applicable individual) control the management of assets, and any other entity in which one or more of these persons (or the applicable individual) own more than fifty percent of the voting interests.

 

2.17. “Grant Date” means, as determined by the Board, the latest to occur of (i) the date as of which the Board approves an Award, (ii) the date on which the recipient of an Award first becomes eligible to receive an Award under Section 6 , or (iii) such other date as may be specified by the Board in the Award Agreement.

 

2.18. “Grantee” means a person who receives or holds an Award under the Plan.

 

2.19. “Holder” means, with respect to any Issued Shares, the person holding such Issued Shares, including the initial Grantee or any Permitted Transferee.

 

2.20. “Incumbent Directors” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15.2.2.

 

2.21. “Initial Public Offering” means the initial public offering of shares of Common Stock pursuant to a registration statement (other than a Form S-8 or successor forms) filed with, and declared effective by, the SEC.

 

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2.22. “Issued Shares” means, collectively, all outstanding shares of Stock issued pursuant to Awards (including without limitation, outstanding shares of Restricted Stock prior to or after vesting and shares issued in connection with the exercise of an Option or SAR).

 

2.23. “New Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15.1.

 

2.24. “Offered Shares” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 17.4.1.

 

2.25. “Offering” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 17.5.

 

2.26. “Option” means an option to purchase one or more shares of Stock pursuant to the Plan.

 

2.27. “Option Price” means the exercise price for each share of Stock subject to an Option.

 

2.28. “Other Stock-based Awards” means Awards consisting of Stock units, or other Awards, valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, Common Stock.

 

2.29. “Performance Award” means an Award made subject to the attainment of performance goals (as described in Section 12) over a performance period of at least one year.

 

2.30. “Permitted Transferee” means any of the following to whom a Holder may transfer Issued Shares hereunder (as set forth in Section 17.13.3 ): the Holder’s spouse, children (natural or adopted), stepchildren or a trust for their sole benefit of which the Holder is the settlor; provided however, that any such trust does not require or permit distribution of any Issued Shares during the term of this Agreement unless subject to its terms. Upon the death of the Holder, the term Permitted Transferees shall also include such deceased Holder’s estate, executors, administrators, personal representatives, heirs, legatees and distributees, as the case may be.

 

2.31. “Plan” shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.

 

2.32. “Purchase Price” means the purchase price for each share of Stock pursuant to a grant of Restricted Stock.

 

2.33. “Restricted Period” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 10.1.

 

2.34. “Restricted Stock” means shares of Stock, awarded to a Grantee pursuant to Section 10.

 

2.35. “Restricted Stock Unit” means a bookkeeping entry representing the equivalent of shares of Stock, awarded to a Grantee pursuant to Section 10.

 

2.36. “SAR Exercise Price” means the per share exercise price of a SAR granted to a Grantee under Section 9.

 

2.37. “SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

2.38. “Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code.

 

2.39. “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as now in effect or as hereafter amended.

 

2.40. “Separation from Service” means a termination of Service by a Service Provider, as determined by the Board, which determination shall be final, binding and conclusive; provided , however , that if any Award governed by Section 409A is to be distributed on a Separation from Service, then the definition of Separation from Service for such purposes shall comply with the definition provided in Section 409A.

 

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2.41. “Service” means service as a Service Provider to the Company or an Affiliate. Unless otherwise stated in the applicable Award Agreement, a Grantee’s change in position or duties shall not result in interrupted or terminated Service, so long as such Grantee continues to be a Service Provider to the Company or an Affiliate.

 

2.42. “Service Provider” means a non-employee member of the Board, or Consultant of the Company or an Affiliate.

 

2.43. “Stock Appreciation Right” or “SAR” means a right granted to a Grantee under Section 9.

 

2.44. “Subsidiary” means any “subsidiary corporation” of the Company within the meaning of Section 424(f) of the Code.

 

2.45. “Substitute Award” means any Award granted in assumption of or in substitution for an award of a company or business acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary or with which the Company or an Affiliate combines.

 

2.46. “Termination Date” means the date that is ten (10) years after the Effective Date, unless the Plan is earlier terminated by the Board under Section 5.2.

 

2.47. “Voting Securities” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 15.2.2.

 

3. ADMINISTRATION OF THE PLAN

 

3.1. General.

 

The Board shall have such powers and authorities related to the administration of the Plan as are consistent with the Company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws and applicable law. The Board shall have the power and authority to delegate its responsibilities hereunder to the Committee, which shall have full authority to act in accordance with its charter (as in effect from time to time), and with respect to the authority of the Board to act hereunder, all references to the Board shall be deemed to include a reference to the Committee, to the extent such power or responsibilities have been delegated. Except as specifically provided in Section 14 or as otherwise may be required by applicable law, regulatory requirement or the certificate of incorporation or the bylaws of the Company, the Board shall have full power and authority to take all actions and to make all determinations required or provided for under the Plan, any Award or any Award Agreement, and shall have full power and authority to take all such other actions and make all such other determinations not inconsistent with the specific terms and provisions of the Plan that the Board deems to be necessary or appropriate to the administration of the Plan. Following the Initial Public Offering, the Committee shall administer the Plan; provided, however, the Board shall retain the right to exercise the authority of the Committee to the extent consistent with applicable law and the applicable requirements of any securities exchange on which the Common Stock may then be listed. The interpretation and construction by the Board of any provision of the Plan, any Award or any Award Agreement shall be final, binding and conclusive. Without limitation, the Board shall have full and final authority, subject to the other terms and conditions of the Plan, to:

 

(i)         designate Grantees;

 

(ii)        determine the type or types of Awards to be made to a Grantee;

 

(iii)       determine the number of shares of Stock to be subject to an Award;

 

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(iv)       establish the terms and conditions of each Award (including, but not limited to, the Option Price of any Option, the nature and duration of any restriction or condition (or provision for lapse thereof) relating to the vesting, exercise, transfer, or forfeiture of an Award or the shares of Stock subject thereto;

 

(v)        prescribe the form of each Award Agreement; and

 

(vi)       amend, modify, or supplement the terms of any outstanding Award including the authority, in order to effectuate the purposes of the Plan, to modify Awards to foreign nationals or individuals who are employed outside the United States to recognize differences in local law, tax policy, or custom.

 

3.2. Award Agreements; Clawbacks.

 

The grant of any Award may be contingent upon the Grantee executing the appropriate Award Agreement. The Company may retain the right in an Award Agreement to cause a forfeiture of the gain realized by a Grantee on account of actions taken by the Grantee in violation or breach of or in conflict with any employment agreement, non-competition agreement, any agreement prohibiting solicitation of employees or clients of the Company or any Affiliate thereof or any confidentiality obligation with respect to the Company or any Affiliate thereof or otherwise in competition with the Company or any Affiliate thereof, to the extent specified in such Award Agreement applicable to the Grantee. Furthermore, the Company may annul an Award if the Grantee is terminated for “cause” as defined in the applicable Award Agreement.

 

Following the Initial Public Offering, Awards shall be subject to the requirements of (i) Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (regarding recovery of erroneously awarded compensation) and any implementing rules and regulations thereunder,, (ii) similar rules under the laws of any other jurisdiction, (iii) any compensation recovery policies adopted by the Company to implement any such requirements or (iv) any other compensation recovery policies as may be adopted from time to time by the Company, all to the extent determined by the Committee in its discretion to be applicable to a Grantee.

 

3.3. Deferral Arrangement.

 

The Board may permit or require the deferral of any Award payment into a deferred compensation arrangement, subject to such rules and procedures as it may establish and in accordance with Section 409A, which may include provisions for the payment or crediting of interest or dividend equivalents, including converting such credits into deferred Stock units.

 

3.4. No Liability.

 

No member of the Board or of the Committee shall be liable for any action or determination made in good faith with respect to the Plan, any Award or Award Agreement.

 

3.5. Book Entry.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary, the Company may elect to satisfy any requirement under this Plan for the delivery of stock certificates through the use of book-entry.

 

4. STOCK SUBJECT TO THE PLAN

 

4.1. Authorized Number of Shares.

 

Subject to adjustment under Section 15 , the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be initially issued pursuant to the Plan is 997,500; provided that upon completion of the reverse stock split implemented by the Company in connection with the Initial Public Offering and in lieu of an adjustment pursuant to Section 15 hereof, the number of shares that may be initially issued pursuant to the Plan shall be adjusted concurrently therewith so that it shall equal 250,000 shares of Common Stock. Shares issued under the Plan may consist in whole or in part of authorized but unissued shares, treasury shares, or shares purchased on the open market or otherwise, all as determined by the Company from time to time.

 

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4.2. Share Counting.

 

Any Award settled in cash shall not be counted as shares of Common Stock for any purpose under this Plan. If any Award under the Plan expires, or is terminated, surrendered or forfeited, in whole or in part, the unissued Common Stock covered by such Award shall again be available for the grant of Awards under the Plan. If shares of Common Stock issued pursuant to the Plan are repurchased by, or are surrendered or forfeited to the Company at no more than cost, such shares of Common Stock shall again be available for the grant of Awards under the Plan. If shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise, vesting or settlement of an Award, or shares of Common Stock owned by a Grantee (which are not subject to any pledge or other security interest), are surrendered or tendered to the Company in payment of the Option Price or Purchase Price of an Award or any taxes required to be withheld in respect of an Award, in each case, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the Plan and any applicable Award Agreement, such surrendered or tendered shares of Common Stock shall again become available for issuance under the Plan. In addition, in the case of any Substitute Award, such Substitute Award shall not be counted against the number of shares reserved under the Plan.

 

5. EFFECTIVE DATE, DURATION AND AMENDMENTS

 

5.1. Term.

 

The Plan shall be effective as of the Effective Date, provided that it has been approved by the Company’s stockholders. The Plan shall terminate automatically on the ten (10) year anniversary of the Effective Date and may be terminated on any earlier date as provided in Section 5.2 .

 

5.2. Amendment and Termination of the Plan.

 

The Board may, at any time and from time to time, amend, suspend, or terminate the Plan as to any Awards which have not been made. An amendment shall be contingent on approval of the Company’s stockholders to the extent stated by the Board, required by applicable law or required by applicable stock exchange listing requirements. No Awards shall be made after the Termination Date. The applicable terms of the Plan, and any terms and conditions applicable to Awards granted prior to the Termination Date shall survive the termination of the Plan and continue to apply to such Awards. No amendment, suspension, or termination of the Plan shall, without the consent of the Grantee, materially impair rights or obligations under any Award theretofore awarded.

 

6. AWARD ELIGIBILITY AND LIMITATIONS

 

6.1. Service Providers.

 

Subject to this Section 6, Awards may be made to any Service Provider as the Board shall determine and designate from time to time in its discretion.

 

6.2. Successive Awards.

 

An eligible person may receive more than one Award, subject to such restrictions as are provided herein.

 

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6.3. Stand-Alone, Additional, Tandem, and Substitute Awards.

 

Awards may, in the discretion of the Board, be granted either alone or in addition to, in tandem with, or in substitution or exchange for, any other Award or any award granted under another plan of the Company, any Affiliate, or any business entity to be acquired by the Company or an Affiliate, or any other right of a Grantee to receive payment from the Company or any Affiliate. Such additional, tandem, and substitute or exchange Awards may be granted at any time. If an Award is granted in substitution or exchange for another Award, the Board shall have the right to require the surrender of such other Award in consideration for the grant of the new Award. Subject to the requirements of applicable law, the Board shall have the right, in its discretion, to make Awards in substitution or exchange for any other award under another plan of the Company, any Affiliate, or any business entity to be acquired by the Company or an Affiliate. In addition, Awards may be granted in lieu of cash compensation, including in lieu of cash amounts payable under other plans of the Company or any Affiliate, in which the value of Stock subject to the Award is equivalent in value to the cash compensation (for example, Restricted Stock Units or Restricted Stock).

 

7. AWARD AGREEMENT

 

Each Award shall be evidenced by an Award Agreement, in such form or forms as the Board shall from time to time determine. Without limiting the foregoing, an Award Agreement may be provided in the form of a notice which provides that acceptance of the Award constitutes acceptance of all terms of the Plan and the notice. Award Agreements granted from time to time or at the same time need not contain similar provisions but shall be consistent with the terms of the Plan.

 

8. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF OPTIONS

 

8.1. Option Price.

 

The Option Price of each Option shall be fixed by the Board and stated in the related Award Agreement. In no case shall the Option Price of any Option be less than the par value of a share of Stock.

 

8.2. Vesting.

 

Subject to Section 8.3 , each Option shall become exercisable at such times and under such conditions (including, without limitation, performance requirements) as shall be determined by the Board and stated in the Award Agreement.

 

8.3. Term.

 

Each Option shall terminate, and all rights to purchase shares of Stock thereunder shall cease, upon the expiration of the Option term determined by the Board and stated in the Award Agreement not to exceed ten (10) years from the Grant Date, or under such circumstances and on such date prior thereto as is set forth in the Plan or as may be fixed by the Board and stated in the related Award Agreement.

 

8.4. Limitations on Exercise of Option.

 

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, in no event may any Option be exercised, in whole or in part, (i) prior to the date the Plan is approved by the stockholders of the Company as provided herein or (ii) after the occurrence of an event which results in termination of the Option.

 

8.5. Method of Exercise.

 

An Option that is exercisable may be exercised by the Grantee’s delivery of a notice of exercise to the Company, setting forth the number of shares of Stock with respect to which the Option is to be exercised, accompanied by full payment for the shares. To be effective, notice of exercise must be made in accordance with procedures established by the Company from time to time.

 

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8.6. Rights of Holders of Options.

 

Unless otherwise stated in the related Award Agreement, an individual holding or exercising an Option shall have none of the rights of a stockholder (for example, the right to receive cash or dividend payments or distributions attributable to the subject shares of Stock or to direct the voting of the subject shares of Stock ) until the shares of Stock covered thereby are fully paid and issued to him. Except as provided in Section 15 or the related Award Agreement, no adjustment shall be made for dividends, distributions or other rights for which the record date is prior to the date of such issuance.

 

8.7. Delivery of Stock Certificates.

 

Promptly after the exercise of an Option by a Grantee and the payment in full of the Option Price, such Grantee shall be entitled to the issuance of a stock certificate or certificates evidencing his or her ownership of the shares of Stock subject to the Option.

 

9. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS

 

9.1. Right to Payment.

 

A SAR shall confer on the Grantee a right to receive, upon exercise thereof, the excess of (i) the Fair Market Value of one share of Stock on the date of exercise over (ii) the SAR Exercise Price, as determined by the Board. The Award Agreement for an SAR shall specify the SAR Exercise Price. SARs may be granted alone or in conjunction with all or part of an Option or at any subsequent time during the term of such Option or in conjunction with all or part of any other Award.

 

9.2. Other Terms.

 

The Board shall determine at the Grant Date or thereafter, the time or times at which and the circumstances under which a SAR may be exercised in whole or in part (including based on achievement of performance goals and/or future service requirements), the time or times at which SARs shall cease to be or become exercisable following Separation from Service or upon other conditions, the method of exercise, whether or not a SAR shall be in tandem or in combination with any other Award, and any other terms and conditions of any SAR.

 

9.3. Term of SARs.

 

The term of a SAR granted under the Plan shall be determined by the Board, in its sole discretion; provided , however , that such term shall not exceed ten (10) years.

 

9.4. Payment of SAR Amount.

 

Upon exercise of a SAR, a Grantee shall be entitled to receive payment from the Company (in cash or Stock, as determined by the Board) in an amount determined by multiplying:

 

(i)   the difference between the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise over the SAR Exercise Price; by

 

(ii)  the number of shares of Stock with respect to which the SAR is exercised.

 

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10. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF RESTRICTED STOCK AND RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS

 

10.1. Restrictions.

 

At the time of grant, the Board may, in its sole discretion, establish a period of time (a “ Restricted Period ”) and any additional restrictions including the satisfaction of corporate or individual performance objectives applicable to an Award of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units in accordance with Section 12.1 and 12.2 . Each Award of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units may be subject to a different Restricted Period and additional restrictions. Neither Restricted Stock nor Restricted Stock Units may be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered or disposed of during the Restricted Period or prior to the satisfaction of any other applicable restrictions.

 

10.2. Restricted Stock Certificates.

 

The Company shall issue stock, in the name of each Grantee to whom Restricted Stock has been granted, stock certificates or other evidence of ownership representing the total number of shares of Restricted Stock granted to the Grantee, as soon as reasonably practicable after the Grant Date. The Board may provide in an Award Agreement that either (i) the Secretary of the Company shall hold such certificates for the Grantee’s benefit until such time as the Restricted Stock is forfeited to the Company or the restrictions lapse, or (ii) such certificates shall be delivered to the Grantee; provided , however , that such certificates shall bear a legend or legends that comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and make appropriate reference to the restrictions imposed under the Plan and the Award Agreement.

 

10.3. Rights of Holders of Restricted Stock.

 

Unless the Board otherwise provides in an Award Agreement, holders of Restricted Stock shall have rights as stockholders of the Company, including voting and dividend rights.

 

10.4. Rights of Holders of Restricted Stock Units.

 

10.4.1. Settlement of Restricted Stock Units.

 

Restricted Stock Units may be settled in cash or Stock, as determined by the Board and set forth in the Award Agreement. The Award Agreement shall also set forth whether the Restricted Stock Units shall be settled (i) within the time period specified in Section 17.11 for short term deferrals or (ii) otherwise within the requirements of Section 409A, in which case the Award Agreement shall specify upon which events such Restricted Stock Units shall be settled.

 

10.4.2. Voting and Dividend Rights.

 

Unless otherwise stated in the applicable Award Agreement, holders of Restricted Stock Units shall not have rights as stockholders of the Company, including no voting or dividend or dividend equivalents rights.

 

10.4.3. Creditor’s Rights.

 

A holder of Restricted Stock Units shall have no rights other than those of a general creditor of the Company. Restricted Stock Units represent an unfunded and unsecured obligation of the Company, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable Award Agreement.

 

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10.5. Purchase of Restricted Stock.

 

The Grantee shall be required, to the extent required by applicable law, to purchase the Restricted Stock from the Company at a Purchase Price equal to the greater of (i) the aggregate par value of the shares of Stock represented by such Restricted Stock or (ii) the Purchase Price, if any, specified in the related Award Agreement. If specified in the Award Agreement, the Purchase Price may be deemed paid by Services already rendered. The Purchase Price shall be payable in a form described in Section 11 or, in the discretion of the Board, in consideration for past Services rendered.

 

10.6. Delivery of Stock.

 

Upon the expiration or termination of any Restricted Period and the satisfaction of any other conditions prescribed by the Board, the restrictions applicable to shares of Restricted Stock or Restricted Stock Units settled in Stock shall lapse, and, unless otherwise provided in the Award Agreement, a stock certificate for such shares shall be delivered, free of all such restrictions, to the Grantee or the Grantee’s beneficiary or estate, as the case may be.

 

11. FORM OF PAYMENT FOR OPTIONS AND RESTRICTED STOCK

 

11.1. General Rule.

 

Payment of the Option Price for the shares purchased pursuant to the exercise of an Option or the Purchase Price for Restricted Stock shall be made in cash or in cash equivalents acceptable to the Company, except as provided in this Section 11 .

 

11.2. Surrender of Stock.

 

To the extent the Award Agreement so provides, payment of the Option Price for shares purchased pursuant to the exercise of an Option or the Purchase Price for Restricted Stock may be made all or in part through the tender to the Company of shares of Stock, which shares shall be valued, for purposes of determining the extent to which the Option Price or Purchase Price for Restricted Stock has been paid thereby, at their Fair Market Value on the date of exercise or surrender.

 

11.3. Cashless Exercise.

 

With respect to an Option only (and not with respect to Restricted Stock) following the Initial Public Offering, to the extent permitted by law and to the extent the Award Agreement so provides, payment of the Option Price may be made all or in part by delivery (on a form acceptable to the Company) of an irrevocable direction to a licensed securities broker acceptable to the Company to sell shares of Stock and to deliver all or part of the sales proceeds to the Company in payment of the Option Price and any withholding taxes described in Section 17.3 .

 

11.4. Other Forms of Payment.

 

To the extent the Award Agreement so provides, payment of the Option Price or the Purchase Price for Restricted Stock may be made in any other form that is consistent with applicable laws, regulations and rules, including, but not limited to, the Company’s withholding of shares of Stock otherwise due to the exercising Grantee.

 

12. TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PERFORMANCE AWARDS

  

12.1. Performance Conditions.

 

The right of a Grantee to exercise or receive a grant or settlement of any Award, and the timing thereof, may be subject to such performance conditions as may be specified by the Board. The Board may use such business criteria and other measures of performance as it may deem appropriate in establishing any performance conditions, and may exercise its discretion to reduce the amounts payable under any Award subject to performance conditions.

 

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12.2. Settlement of Performance Awards; Other Terms.

 

Settlement of Performance Awards shall be in cash, Stock, other Awards or other property, in the discretion of the Board. The Board may, in its discretion, reduce the amount of a settlement otherwise to be made in connection with such Performance Awards.

 

13. OTHER STOCK-BASED AWARDS

 

13.1. Grant of Other Stock-based Awards.

 

Other Stock-based Awards may be granted either alone or in addition to or in conjunction with other Awards under the Plan. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board shall have the sole and complete authority to determine the persons to whom and the time or times at which such Awards shall be made, the number of shares of Common Stock to be granted pursuant to such Awards, and all other conditions of such Awards. Unless the Board determines otherwise, any such Award shall be confirmed by an Award Agreement, which shall contain such provisions as the Board determines to be necessary or appropriate to carry out the intent of this Plan with respect to such Award.

 

13.2. Terms of Other Stock-based Awards.

 

Any Common Stock subject to Awards made under this Section 13 may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise encumbered prior to the date on which the shares are issued, or, if later, the date on which any applicable restriction, performance or deferral period lapses.

 

14. REQUIREMENTS OF LAW

 

14.1. General.

 

The Company shall not be required to sell or issue any shares of Stock under any Award if the sale or issuance of such shares would constitute a violation by the Grantee, any other individual exercising an Option, or the Company of any provision of any law or regulation of any governmental authority, including without limitation any federal or state securities laws or regulations. If at any time the Company shall determine, in its discretion, that the listing, registration or qualification of any shares subject to an Award upon any securities exchange or under any governmental regulatory body is necessary or desirable as a condition of, or in connection with, the issuance or purchase of shares hereunder, no shares of Stock may be issued or sold to the Grantee or any other individual exercising an Option pursuant to such Award unless such listing, registration, qualification, consent or approval shall have been effected or obtained free of any conditions not acceptable to the Company, and any delay caused thereby shall in no way affect the date of termination of the Award. Specifically, in connection with the Securities Act, upon the exercise of any Option or the delivery of any shares of Stock underlying an Award, unless a registration statement under such Act is in effect with respect to the shares of Stock covered by such Award, the Company shall not be required to sell or issue such shares unless the Board has received evidence satisfactory to it that the Grantee or any other individual exercising an Option may acquire such shares pursuant to an exemption from registration under the Securities Act. Any determination in this connection by the Board shall be final, binding, and conclusive. The Company may, but shall in no event be obligated to, register any securities covered hereby pursuant to the Securities Act. The Company shall not be obligated to take any affirmative action in order to cause the exercise of an Option or the issuance of shares of Stock pursuant to the Plan to comply with any law or regulation of any governmental authority. As to any jurisdiction that expressly imposes the requirement that an Option shall not be exercisable until the shares of Stock covered by such Option are registered or are exempt from registration, the exercise of such Option (under circumstances in which the laws of such jurisdiction apply) shall be deemed conditioned upon the effectiveness of such registration or the availability of such an exemption.

 

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14.2. Section 25102(o) of the California Corporations Code.

 

This Plan is intended to comply with Section 25102(o) of the California Corporations Code. In that regard, to the extent required by Section 25102(o), (i) the terms of any Options or SARs, to the extent vested and exercisable upon a Grantee’s Separation from Service, shall include any minimum exercise periods following Separation from Service specified by Section 25102(o), and (ii) any repurchase right of the Company with respect to shares of Stock issued under the Plan shall include a minimum 90-day notice requirement. Any provision of this Plan which is inconsistent with Section 25102(o) shall, without further act or amendment by the Company or the Board, be reformed to comply with the requirements of Section 25102(o).

 

14.3. Rule 16b-3.

 

During any time when the Company has a class of equity security registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, it is the intent of the Company that Awards and the exercise of Options granted to officers and directors hereunder will qualify for the exemption provided by Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act. To the extent that any provision of the Plan or action by the Board or Committee does not comply with the requirements of Rule 16b-3, it shall be deemed inoperative to the extent permitted by law and deemed advisable by the Board, and shall not affect the validity of the Plan. In the event that Rule 16b-3 is revised or replaced, the Board may exercise its discretion to modify this Plan in any respect necessary to satisfy the requirements of, or to take advantage of any features of, the revised exemption or its replacement.

 

15. EFFECT OF CHANGES IN CAPITALIZATION

 

15.1. Adjustments for Changes in Capital Structure.

 

Subject to any required action by the stockholders of the Company, in the event of any change in the Stock effected without receipt of consideration by the Company, whether through merger, consolidation, reorganization, reincorporation, recapitalization, reclassification, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, split-up, split-off, spin-off, combination of shares, exchange of shares, or similar change in the capital structure of the Company, or in the event of payment of a dividend or distribution to the stockholders of the Company in a form other than Stock (excepting normal cash dividends) that has a material effect on the Fair Market Value of shares of Stock, appropriate and proportionate adjustments shall be made in the number and class of shares subject to the Plan and to any outstanding Awards, and in the Option Price, SAR Exercise Price or Purchase Price per share of any outstanding Awards in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of Grantees’ rights under the Plan. For purposes of the foregoing, conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as “effected without receipt of consideration by the Company.” If a majority of the shares which are of the same class as the shares that are subject to outstanding Awards are exchanged for, converted into, or otherwise become (whether or not pursuant to a Change in Control) shares of another corporation (the “ New Shares ”), the Board may unilaterally amend the outstanding Awards to provide that such Awards are for New Shares. In the event of any such amendment, the number of shares subject to, and the Option Price, SAR Exercise Price or Purchase Price per share of, the outstanding Awards shall be adjusted in a fair and equitable manner as determined by the Board, in its discretion. Any fractional share resulting from an adjustment pursuant to this Section 15.1 shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number and the Option Price, SAR Exercise Price or Purchase Price per share shall be rounded up to the nearest whole cent. In no event may the exercise price of any Award be decreased to an amount less than the par value, if any, of the stock subject to the Award. The Board in its sole discretion, may also make such adjustments in the terms of any Award to reflect, or related to, such changes in the capital structure of the Company or distributions as it deems appropriate. Adjustments determined by the Board pursuant to this Section 15.1 shall be made in accordance with Section 409A to the extent applicable.

 

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15.2. Change in Control.

 

15.2.1. Consequences of a Change in Control.

 

Subject to the requirements and limitations of Section 409A if applicable, the Board may provide for any one or more of the following in connection with a Change in Control:

 

(a)           Accelerated Vesting . The Board may, in its discretion, provide in any Award Agreement or, in the event of a Change in Control, may take such actions as it deems appropriate to provide for the acceleration of the exercisability, vesting and/or settlement in connection with such Change in Control of each or any outstanding Award or portion thereof and shares acquired pursuant thereto upon such conditions, including termination of the Grantee’s Service prior to, upon, or following such Change in Control, to such extent as the Board shall determine.

 

(b)              Assumption, Continuation or Substitution. In the event of a Change in Control, the surviving, continuing, successor, or purchasing corporation or other business entity or parent thereof, as the case may be (the “ Acquiror ), may, without the consent of any Grantee, either assume or continue the Company’s rights and obligations under each or any Award or portion thereof outstanding immediately prior to the Change in Control or substitute for each or any such outstanding Award or portion thereof a substantially equivalent award with respect to the Acquiror’s stock, as applicable. For purposes of this Section 15.2.1 , if so determined by the Board, in its discretion, an Award denominated in shares of Stock shall be deemed assumed if, following the Change in Control, the Award confers the right to receive, subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement, for each share of Stock subject to the Award immediately prior to the Change in Control, the consideration (whether stock, cash, other securities or property or a combination thereof) to which a holder of a share of Stock on the effective date of the Change in Control was entitled; provided , however , that if such consideration is not solely common stock of the Acquiror, the Board may, with the consent of the Acquiror, provide for the consideration to be received upon the exercise or settlement of the Award, for each share of Stock subject to the Award, to consist solely of common stock of the Acquiror equal in Fair Market Value to the per share consideration received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control. If any portion of such consideration may be received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control on a contingent or delayed basis, the Board may, in its sole discretion, determine such Fair Market Value per share as of the time of the Change in Control on the basis of the Board’s good faith estimate of the present value of the probable future payment of such consideration. Any Award or portion thereof which is neither assumed or continued by the Acquiror in connection with the Change in Control nor exercised or settled as of the time of consummation of the Change in Control shall terminate and cease to be outstanding effective as of the time of consummation of the Change in Control.  

 

(c)           Cash-Out of Awards . The Board may, in its discretion and without the consent of any Grantee, determine that, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, each or any Award or a portion thereof outstanding immediately prior to the Change in Control and not previously exercised or settled shall be canceled in exchange for a payment with respect to each vested share (and each unvested share, if so determined by the Board) of Stock subject to such canceled Award in (i) cash, (ii) stock of the Company or of a corporation or other business entity a party to the Change in Control, or (iii) other property which, in any such case, shall be in an amount having a Fair Market Value equal to the Fair Market Value of the consideration to be paid per share of Stock in the Change in Control, reduced by the exercise or purchase price per share, if any, under such Award. If any portion of such consideration may be received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control on a contingent or delayed basis, the Board may, in its sole discretion, determine such Fair Market Value per share as of the time of the Change in Control on the basis of the Board’s good faith estimate of the present value of the probable future payment of such consideration. In the event such determination is made by the Board, the amount of such payment (reduced by applicable withholding taxes, if any) shall be paid to Grantees in respect of the vested portions of their canceled Awards as soon as practicable following the date of the Change in Control and in respect of the unvested portions of their canceled Awards in accordance with the vesting schedules applicable to such Awards. For avoidance of doubt, if the amount determined pursuant to this Section 15.2.1(c) for an Option or SAR is zero or less, the affected Option or SAR may be cancelled without any payment therefore.

 

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15.2.2. Change in Control Defined.

 

Except as may otherwise be defined in an Award Agreement, a Change in Control shall mean the occurrence of any of the following events:

 

(a)           the acquisition, other than from the Company, by any individual, entity or group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act), other than the Company or any subsidiary, affiliate (within the meaning of Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) or employee benefit plan of the Company, of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) of more than 50% of the combined voting power of the then outstanding voting securities of the Company entitled to vote generally in the election of directors (the “ Voting Securities ”); or

 

(b)           a reorganization, merger, consolidation or recapitalization of the Company (a “ Business Combination ”), other than a Business Combination in which more than 50% of the combined voting power of the outstanding voting securities of the surviving or resulting entity immediately following the Business Combination is held by the persons who, immediately prior to the Business Combination, were the holders of the Voting Securities; or

 

(c)           a complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company, or a sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company; or

 

(d)           during any period of 24 consecutive months, the Incumbent Directors cease to constitute a majority of the Board of Directors; “ Incumbent Directors ” shall mean individuals who were members of the Board of Directors at the beginning of such period or individuals whose election or nomination for election to the Board of Directors by the Company's stockholders was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the then Incumbent Directors (but excluding any individual whose initial election or nomination is in connection with an actual or threatened proxy contest relating to the election of directors).  

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if it is determined that an Award hereunder is subject to the requirements of Section 409A and payable upon a Change in Control, the Company will not be deemed to have undergone a Change in Control unless the Company is deemed to have undergone a “change in control event” pursuant to the definition of such term in Section 409A.

 

15.3. Adjustments.

 

Adjustments under this Section 15 related to shares of Stock or securities of the Company shall be made by the Board, whose determination in that respect shall be final, binding and conclusive. No fractional shares or other securities shall be issued pursuant to any such adjustment, and any fractions resulting from any such adjustment shall be eliminated in each case by rounding downward to the nearest whole share.

 

16. NO LIMITATIONS ON COMPANY

 

The making of Awards pursuant to the Plan shall not affect or limit in any way the right or power of the Company to make adjustments, reclassifications, reorganizations, or changes of its capital or business structure or to merge, consolidate, dissolve, or liquidate, or to sell or transfer all or any part of its business or assets.

 

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17. TERMS APPLICABLE GENERALLY TO AWARDS GRANTED UNDER THE PLAN

 

17.1. Disclaimer of Rights.

 

No provision in the Plan or in any Award Agreement shall be construed to confer upon any individual the right to remain in the employ or service of the Company or any Affiliate, or to interfere in any way with any contractual or other right or authority of the Company or any Affiliate either to increase or decrease the compensation or other payments to any individual at any time, or to terminate any employment or other relationship between any individual and the Company or any Affiliate. In addition, notwithstanding anything contained in the Plan to the contrary, unless otherwise stated in the applicable Award Agreement, no Award granted under the Plan shall be affected by any change of duties or position of the Grantee, so long as such Grantee continues to be a Service Provider. The obligation of the Company to pay any benefits pursuant to this Plan shall be interpreted as a contractual obligation to pay only those amounts described herein, in the manner and under the conditions prescribed herein. The Plan shall in no way be interpreted to require the Company to transfer any amounts to a third party trustee or otherwise hold any amounts in trust or escrow for payment to any Grantee or beneficiary under the terms of the Plan.

 

17.2. Nonexclusivity of the Plan.

 

Neither the adoption of the Plan nor the submission of the Plan to the stockholders of the Company for approval shall be construed as creating any limitations upon the right and authority of the Board to adopt such other incentive compensation arrangements (which arrangements may be applicable either generally to a class or classes of individuals or specifically to a particular individual or particular individuals), including, without limitation, the granting of stock options as the Board in its discretion determines desirable.

 

17.3. Withholding Taxes.

 

The Company or an Affiliate, as the case may be, shall have the right to deduct from payments of any kind otherwise due to a Grantee any federal, state, or local taxes of any kind required by law to be withheld (i) with respect to the vesting of or other lapse of restrictions applicable to an Award, (ii) upon the issuance of any shares of Stock upon the exercise of an Option or SAR, or (iii) otherwise due in connection with an Award. At the time of such vesting, lapse, or exercise, the Grantee shall pay to the Company or the Affiliate, as the case may be, any amount that the Company or the Affiliate may reasonably determine to be necessary to satisfy such withholding obligation. Subject to the prior approval of the Company or the Affiliate, which may be withheld by the Company or the Affiliate, as the case may be, in its sole discretion, the Grantee may elect to satisfy such obligations, in whole or in part, (i) by causing the Company or the Affiliate to withhold the minimum required number of shares of Stock otherwise issuable to the Grantee as may be necessary to satisfy such withholding obligation or (ii) by delivering to the Company or the Affiliate shares of Stock already owned by the Grantee. The shares of Stock so delivered or withheld shall have an aggregate Fair Market Value equal to such withholding obligations. The Fair Market Value of the shares of Stock used to satisfy such withholding obligation shall be determined by the Company or the Affiliate as of the date that the amount of tax to be withheld is to be determined. A Grantee who has made an election pursuant to this Section 17.3 may satisfy his or her withholding obligation only with shares of Stock that are not subject to any repurchase, forfeiture, unfulfilled vesting, or other similar requirements.

 

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17.4. Right of First Refusal; Right to Repurchase.

 

17.4.1. Right of First Refusal.

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided in an Award Agreement, stockholders’ agreement or other agreement to which a Holder is a party, at any time prior to registration by the Company of its Common Stock under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, in the event that the Holder desires at any time to sell or otherwise transfer all or any part of such Holder’s Issued Shares (to the extent vested), the Holder first shall give written notice to the Company of the Holder’s intention to make such transfer. Such notice shall state the number of Issued Shares which the Holder proposes to sell (the “Offered Shares”), the price and the terms at which the proposed sale is to be made and the name and address of the proposed transferee. At any time within 30 days after the receipt of such notice by the Company, the Company or its assigns may elect to purchase all or any portion of the Offered Shares at the price and on the terms offered by the proposed transferee and specified in the notice. The Company or its assigns shall exercise this right by mailing or delivering written notice to the Holder within the foregoing 30-day period. If the Company or its assigns elect to exercise its purchase rights under this Section 17.4.1 , the closing for such purchase shall, in any event, take place within 45 days after the receipt by the Company of the initial notice from the Holder. In the event that the Company or its assigns do not elect to exercise such purchase right, or in the event that the Company or its assigns do not pay the full purchase price within such 45-day period, the Holder may, within 60 days thereafter, sell the Offered Shares to the proposed transferee and at the same price and on the same terms as specified in the Holder’s notice. Any Issued Shares purchased by such proposed transferee shall no longer be subject to the terms of the Plan. Any Issued Shares not sold to the proposed transferee shall remain subject to the Plan.

 

17.4.2. Right of Repurchase.

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided in an Award Agreement, stockholders’ agreement or other agreement to which a Grantee is a party, at any time prior to registration by the Company of its Common Stock under Section 12 of the Exchange Act, in the case of any Grantee whose Separation from Service is for Cause, or where the Grantee has, in the Board's reasonable determination, taken any action prior to or following his Separation of Service which would have constituted grounds for Cause, the Company shall have the right, exercisable at any time and from time to time thereafter, to repurchase from the Grantee (or any successor in interest by purchase, gift or other mode of transfer) any shares of Common Stock issued to such Grantee under the Plan for the purchase price paid by the Grantee for such shares of Common Stock (or the Fair Market Value of such Common Stock at the time of repurchase, if lower).

 

17.5. Market Standoff Requirement.

 

Except as otherwise expressly provided in an Award Agreement, stockholders’ agreement or other agreement to which a Grantee is a party, in connection with any underwritten public offering of its Common Stock (“ Offering ”) and upon request of the Company or the underwriters managing the Offering, Grantees shall not be permitted to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise directly or indirectly dispose of any Common Stock delivered under the Plan (other than those shares of Common Stock included in the Offering) without the prior written consent of the Company or such underwriters, as the case may be, for such period of time from the effective date of the registration statement with respect to such Offering as may be requested by the Company or such managing underwriters and to execute an agreement reflecting the foregoing as may be requested by the underwriters in connection with such Offering.

 

17.6. Captions.

 

The use of captions in this Plan or any Award Agreement is for the convenience of reference only and shall not affect the meaning of any provision of the Plan or any Award Agreement.

 

17.7. Other Provisions.

 

Each Award Agreement may contain such other terms and conditions not inconsistent with the Plan as may be determined by the Board, in its sole discretion. In the event of any conflict between the terms of an employment agreement and the Plan, the terms of the employment agreement govern.

 

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17.8. Number and Gender.

 

With respect to words used in this Plan, the singular form shall include the plural form, the masculine gender shall include the feminine gender, etc., as the context requires.

 

17.9. Severability.

 

If any provision of the Plan or any Award Agreement shall be determined to be illegal or unenforceable by any court of law in any jurisdiction, the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall be severable and enforceable in accordance with their terms, and all provisions shall remain enforceable in any other jurisdiction.

 

17.10. Governing Law.

 

The Plan shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware without giving effect to the principles of conflicts of law.

 

17.11. Section 409A.

 

The Plan is intended to comply with Section 409A to the extent subject thereto, and, accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted, the Plan shall be interpreted and administered to be in compliance therewith. Any payments described in the Plan that are due within the “short-term deferral period” as defined in Section 409A shall not be treated as deferred compensation unless applicable laws require otherwise. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Plan, to the extent required to avoid accelerated taxation and tax penalties under Section 409A, amounts that would otherwise be payable and benefits that would otherwise be provided pursuant to the Plan during the six (6) month period immediately following the Grantee’s Separation from Service shall instead be paid on the first payroll date after the six-month anniversary of the Grantee’s Separation from Service (or the Grantee’s death, if earlier). Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Company nor the Committee shall have any obligation to take any action to prevent the assessment of any excise tax or penalty on any Grantee under Section 409A and neither the Company nor the Committee will have any liability to any Grantee for such tax or penalty.

 

17.12. Separation from Service.

 

The Board shall determine the effect of a Separation from Service upon Awards, and such effect shall be set forth in the appropriate Award Agreement. Without limiting the foregoing, the Board may provide in the Award Agreements at the time of grant, or any time thereafter with the consent of the Grantee, the actions that will be taken upon the occurrence of a Separation from Service, including, but not limited to, accelerated vesting or termination, depending upon the circumstances surrounding the Separation from Service.

 

17.13. Transferability of Awards and Issued Shares.

 

17.13.1. Transfers in General.

 

Except as provided in Section 17.13.2 , no Award shall be assignable or transferable by the Grantee to whom it is granted, other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, and, during the lifetime of the Grantee, only the Grantee personally (or the Grantee’s personal representative) may exercise rights under the Plan.

 

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17.13.2. Family Transfers.

 

If authorized in the applicable Award Agreement, a Grantee may transfer, not for value, all or part of an Award to any Family Member. For the purpose of this Section 17.13.2 , a “not for value” transfer is a transfer which is (i) a gift, (ii) a transfer under a domestic relations order in settlement of marital property rights; or (iii) a transfer to an entity in which more than fifty percent of the voting interests are owned by Family Members (or the Grantee) in exchange for an interest in that entity. Following a transfer under this Section 17.13.2 , any such Award shall continue to be subject to the same terms and conditions as were applicable immediately prior to transfer. Subsequent transfers of transferred Awards are prohibited except to Family Members of the original Grantee in accordance with this Section 17.13.2 or by will or the laws of descent and distribution.

 

17.13.3. Issued Shares.

 

No Issued Shares shall be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged, hypothecated, given away or in any other manner disposed of or encumbered, whether voluntarily or by operation of law, unless (i) such transfer is in compliance with the terms of the applicable Award, all applicable securities laws, and with the terms and conditions of the Plan (including Sections 17.4 and 17.5 and this Section 17.13.3 ), (ii) such transfer does not cause the Company to become subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, and (iii) the transferee consents in writing to be bound by the provisions of the Plan (including Sections 17.4 and 17.5 and this Section 17.13.3 ). In connection with any proposed transfer, the Board may require the transferor to provide at the transferor’s own expense an opinion of counsel to the transferor, satisfactory to the Board, that such transfer is in compliance with all foreign, federal and state securities laws. Any attempted disposition of Issued Shares not in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Section 17.13.3 shall be null and void, and the Company shall not reflect on its records any change in record ownership of any Issued Shares as a result of any such disposition, shall otherwise refuse to recognize any such disposition and shall not in any way give effect to any such disposition of Issued Shares. Subject to the foregoing general provisions, and unless otherwise provided in the agreement with respect to a particular Award, Issued Shares may be transferred pursuant to the following specific terms and conditions:

 

(a)           Transfers to Permitted Transferees . The Holder may sell, assign, transfer or give away any or all of the Issued Shares to Permitted Transferees; provided, however, that following such sale, assignment, or other transfer, such Issued Shares shall continue to be subject to the terms of this Plan (including Sections 17.4 and 17.5 and this Section 17.13.3 ) and such Permitted Transferee(s) shall, as a condition to any such transfer, deliver a written acknowledgment to that effect to the Company.

 

(b)           Transfers Upon Death . Upon the death of the Holder, any Issued Shares then held by the Holder at the time of such death and any Issued Shares acquired thereafter by the Holder’s legal representative shall be subject to the provisions of this Plan, and the Holder’s estate, executors, administrators, personal representatives, heirs, legatees and distributees shall be obligated to convey such Issued Shares to the Company or its assigns under the terms contemplated hereby.

 

17.14. Dividends and Dividend Equivalent Rights.

 

If specified in the Award Agreement, the recipient of an Award under this Plan may be entitled to receive, currently or on a deferred basis, dividends or dividend equivalents with respect to the Common Stock or other securities covered by an Award. The terms and conditions of a dividend equivalent right may be set forth in the Award Agreement. Dividend equivalents credited to a Grantee may be paid currently or may be deemed to be reinvested in additional shares of Stock or other securities of the Company at a price per unit equal to the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date that such dividend was paid to shareholders, as determined in the sole discretion of the Board.

 

Adopted by the Board on March 6, 2014
Approved by Stockholders on March 10, 2014
Termination Date: March 10, 2024

 

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Energous Corporation

 

Code Of Ethics

For Executive Officers

 

Introduction

 

The honesty, integrity and sound judgment of the Executive Officers of Energous Corporation (the “Company”) are essential to maintaining the success and reputation of the Company and to balancing and protecting the interests of the Company’s stakeholders. Accordingly, this Code of Ethics for Executive Officers provides general guidelines for conducting the business of the Company in accordance with high standards of business conduct. It is designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote honest and ethical conduct, proper disclosure of financial information and compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.

 

This Code of Ethics applies to the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller and any persons performing similar functions as well as any other officer of the Company determined by the Company’s Board of Directors to be an executive officer of the Company (collectively, the “Executive Officers”) and is intended to qualify as a “code of ethics” within the meaning of Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the rules promulgated thereunder. The Executive Officers must also comply with the any Code of Business Conduct and Ethics adopted by the Company’s Board of Directors that is generally applicable to Company employees.

 

Standards of Conduct

 

The Executive Officers of the Company are subject to the following standards of conduct. Each Executive Officer will:

 

1. Engage in and promote honest and ethical conduct, including the ethical handling of actual or apparent conflicts of interest in personal and professional relationships;

 

2. Provide full, fair, accurate, timely and understandable disclosure in reports and documents that the Company files with, or submits to, the Securities and Exchange Commission and in other public communications made by the Company; and

 

3. Comply with applicable governmental laws, rules and regulations as well as the rules and regulations of any self-regulatory organizations of which the Company is a member.

 

 
 

 

Reporting Violations

 

Executive Officers must promptly report any possible violation of this Code of Ethics, including transactions or relationships that reasonably could be expected to give rise to a violation, to the Board of Directors. The Company strictly prohibits any retaliation against an Executive Officer who, in good faith, reports known or suspected violations.

 

Accountability and Adherence

 

The Board of Directors or a committee thereof will investigate any reported violations of this Code of Ethics and will determine appropriate disciplinary actions, up to and including termination of employment. Such disciplinary actions will be based on the facts and circumstances of each particular case and reasonably designed to deter wrongdoing and to promote accountability for adherence to this Code of Ethics. Violations of this Code of Ethics may also constitute violations of law which may result in criminal or civil penalties.

 

Waivers or Amendments

 

Waivers of or amendments to this Code of Ethics must be approved by the Board of Directors or a committee thereof. Waivers will be granted on a case-by-case basis in the sole discretion of the Board of Directors or a committee thereof, and any such waiver or amendment shall be publicly disclosed as required by applicable laws and/or listing rules.

 

Conclusion

 

This Code of Ethics for Executive Officers contains general guidelines for conducting the business of the Company in accordance with high standards of business conduct. This Code of Ethics and the matters contained herein are neither a contract of employment nor a guarantee of continuing Company policy.

 

 

Adopted Effective February 25, 2014

 

 

 

 

Exhibit 23.1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm’s Consent

 

We consent to the inclusion in this Registration Statement of Energous Corporation (formerly known as DvineWave, Inc.) on Amendment No.1 to Form S-1 (File No. 333-193522) of our report dated March 12, 2014, with respect to our audits of the financial statements of Energous Corporation (formerly known as DvineWave, Inc.) as of December 31, 2013 and 2012 and for the year ended December 31, 2013, for the period October 30, 2012 (Inception) through December 31, 2012 and for the period October 30, 2012 (Inception) through December 31, 2013, which report appears in the Prospectus, which is part of this Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our Firm under the heading “Experts” in such Prospectus.

 

/s/ Marcum LLP

 

Marcum llp

Melville, NY

March 12, 2014