As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 12, 2023

Registration No. 333-            

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

AMENDMENT NO. 11Form S-1

TO

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER THE

SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

GBSINTELLIGENT BIO SOLUTIONS INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware 3829 82-1512711

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(Primary Standard Industrial

(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

708 Third Avenue, 6142 West 57th Street, 11thFloor

New York, New York 1001710019

Telephone: (646) 828-8258

(Address, Including Zip Code,including zip code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code,telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Harry Simeonidis

Chief Executive Officer and President

708 Third Avenue, 6142 West 57th Street, 11thFloor

New York, New York 1001710019

Telephone: (646) 828-8258

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code,address, including zip code, and Telephone Number, Including Area Code,telephone number, including area code, of Agent For Service)agent for service)

 

CopiesCopy to:

 

Ralph V. De Martino, Esq.

Alec F. Orudjev,Johnathan Duncan, Esq.

ArentFox Schiff Hardin LLP

901 K Street NW,

Suite 700,

Washington, DC 20001

Telephone: (202) 724.6848724-6848

RobertMichael F. Charron,Nertney, Esq.

Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP

1345 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10105NY 10105-0302

Telephone: (212) 931-8704370-1300

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.statement becomes effective.

 

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, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.:

 

Large accelerated filer [  ]Accelerated filer [  ]
Non-accelerated filer [X]Smaller reporting company [X]
 Emerging growth company [X]

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. [  ]

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of each Class of Securities to be Registered Maximum Aggregate Offering Price (1)(2)(3)  Amount of Registration Fee 
Units: (7) $

21,917,657

  $2,391.22  
Common stock, par value $0.01 per share (4) $-  $- 
Warrants to purchase common stock (4)        
Shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series A Warrants $10,958,828  $1,195.61 
Shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrants $21,917,657  $2,391.22 
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (6)        
Shares of common stock underlying the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock        
Underwriter’s warrants (5)        
Common stock underlying Underwriters’ warrants (5) $1,048,236  $114.36 
Total $55,842,378  $6,092.40


(8)

(1)Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the amount of the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(2)Pursuant to Rule 416, the securities being registered hereunder include such indeterminate number of additional securities as may be issuable to prevent dilution resulting from stock splits, stock dividends or similar transactions.
(3)Includes the price of additional shares of common stock and warrants to purchase shares of common stock that the underwriters have the option to purchase to cover overallotments, if any.
(4)Included in the price of the units. No separate registration fee is required pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act.
(5)Estimated solely for the purposes of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act. We have calculated the proposed maximum aggregate offering price of the common stock underlying the underwriter’s warrants by assuming that such warrants are exercisable at a price per share equal to 110% of the public offering price of the common stock in the units sold in this offering.

(6)

The maximum aggregate offering price of the common stock proposed to be sold in the offering will be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis based on the offering price of any Series B Convertible Preferred Stock offered and sold in the offering.

(7)

Each unit includes (i) one share of common stock (or, at the purchaser’s election, one share of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock), (ii) one Series A Warrant, and (iii) one Series B Warrant.

(8)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 the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

   

 

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

Subject to Completion, dated December 18, 2020

Subject to Completion, dated July 12, 2023

 

1,058,824 Units consisting of:PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

Common Stock

Series A Warrants

Series B Warrants

 

INTELLIGENT BIO SOLUTIONS INC.

[●] Class A Units consisting of shares of common stock and warrants and

[●] Class B Units consisting of shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants

(and shares of common stock underlying shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants)

 

This ispreliminary prospectus (“prospectus”) relates to the offering of [●] Class A Units of Intelligent Bio Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Class A Units”) at an initialassumed public offering price of units of our securities. Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for shares$[●] per Class A Unit, the last reported sales price of our common stock. We expect thatstock on the initial public offering price will be between $16.00 and $18.00 per unit.

Nasdaq Capital Market on July [●], 2023. Each Class A Unit consists of (a) one share of our common stock (or, at the purchaser’s election,and one share of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock), (b) one Series A warrant (the “Series A Warrants”) to purchase one share[●] shares of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $8.5of $[●] per share (or 50%[●]% of the unit offering price),price of each Class A Unit sold in the offering) which will be immediately exercisable untilupon issuance and will expire on the fifthfive-year anniversary of the original issuance date, and (c) one Series B warrant (the “Series B Warrants,” and together with the Series A Warrants, the “Warrants”) to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $17 per share (or 100% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date and subject to certain adjustment and cashless exercise provisions as described herein. The shares of our common stock and the Warrants are immediately separable and will be issued separately, but will be purchased together in this offering.date.

 

We are also offering to those purchasers, if any, whose purchase of our common stockClass A Units in this offering would otherwise result in such purchaser, together with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, prior to the date of issuance, 9.99%) of our outstanding shares of common stock immediately following the consummation of this offering, the opportunity to substitute Seriespurchase, if any such purchaser so chooses, Class B Convertible Preferred Stock, referred to as “Preferred Stock” for the shares of common stock included in the Units, purchased by that investor. Each share of Preferred Stock is being sold together with the same Warrants described above being sold with each share of common stock. For each share of Preferred Stock purchased in this offering in lieu of common stock, we will reduce the number of shares of common stock being soldClass A Units that would otherwise result in the offering on a one-for-one basis. Pursuant to this prospectus, we are also offering the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Preferred Stock.

Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible into one share of our common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the related designation of preferences) at any time at the option of the holder, provided that the holder will be prohibited from converting Preferred Stock into shares of our common stock if, as a result of such conversion, the holder, together with its affiliates, would own more thanpurchaser’s beneficial ownership exceeding 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, prior to the date of issuance, 9.99%) of the total number ofour outstanding shares of common stock. Each Class B Unit consists of one share of our Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series E Convertible Preferred Stock”), convertible into one share of common stock then issued and outstanding. However, any holder may increasea warrant to purchase [●] shares of common stock (together with the shares of common stock underlying such percentage to any other percentage not in excessshares of 9.99%, provided that any increase inSeries E Convertible Preferred Stock and such percentage shallwarrants, the “Class B Units” and, together with the Class A Units, the “units”) at a public offering price of $[●] per Class B Unit.

The Class A Units and the Class B Units have no stand-along rights and will not be effective until 61s days after such notice to us.issued or certificated as stand-alone securities. The shares of Preferred Stock will otherwise have the preferences, rights and limitations described under “Description of Capital Stock -common stock, Series BE Convertible Preferred Stock Being Issuedand warrants comprising such units are immediately separable and will be issued separately in this Offering”offering. The shares of common stock or Series E Convertible Preferred Stock, as the case may be, and the warrants included in the Class A Units and the Class B Units can only be purchased together in this offering, but the securities contained in the Class A Units or Class B Units will be immediately separable upon issuance and will be issued separately. The shares of common stock issuable from time to time upon exercise of the warrants are also being offered by this prospectus.

 

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for our common stock. In connection with this offering, we have applied to list ourOur common stock for trading on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “GBS.” Although we expect our common stock to beis listed on the NASDAQ Global Market, there can be no assurance that an active trading market will develop. If we do not meet all of Nasdaq’s initial listing criteria, we will not complete this offering. We do not intend to apply for any listing of either of the Warrants on the Nasdaq Capital Market (“Nasdaq”) under the symbol “INBS”. We have assumed a public offering price of per Class A Unit, which represents the last reported sale price of our common stock as reported on July [●], 2023. The final public offering price will be determined through negotiation between us and the underwriters in the offering and may be at a discount to the current market price. Therefore, the assumed public offering price used throughout this prospectus may not be indicative of the final public offering price.

There is no established trading market for the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or any other securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system,warrants being offered, and we do not expect a market to developdevelop. In addition, we do not intend to apply for the listing of the Series A WarrantsE Convertible Preferred Stock or the Series B Warrants.warrants on any national securities exchange or other trading market. Without an active trading market, the liquidity of the warrants will be limited. Except as otherwise indicated, all share and per share information in this prospectus gives effect to the reverse stock split of our outstanding common stock, which was effected at a ratio of one-for-twenty as of 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 9, 2023.

 

InvestingAn investment in our common stocksecurities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk FactorsBefore making any investment decision, you should carefully read the discussion of the material risks of investing in securities in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 for a discussion of certain risks that you should carefully consider in connection with an investment in our common stock.this prospectus.

 

Per Unit (2)Total (3)
Public offering price$$
Underwriting discounts (1)$$
Proceeds to us, before expenses$$

(1)The underwriters will receive compensation in addition to the underwriting discounts and commissions. We refer you to “Underwriting” beginning on page 102 of this prospectus for additional information regarding underwriting compensation.
(2)The public offering corresponds to an assumed public offering price per share of common stock or share of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock of $    , an assumed public offering price per Series A warrant of $0.01, and an assumed public offering price per Series B Warrant of $0.01.
(3)Persons affiliated with us may purchase our securities in this offering.

We have granted the underwriter an option, exercisable one or more times in whole or in part, to purchase up to 158,824 additional shares of common stock and/or Series A Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 158,824 shares of common stock and/or Series B Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 158,824 shares of common stock, in any combinations thereof, from us at the public offering price per security, less the underwriting discounts and commissions, for 45 days after the date of this prospectus to cover over-allotments, if any.

IQ3Corp Limited, an affiliate of the Company by virtue of having certain common management personnel with The iQ Group Global Ltd. and a holder of an Australian Financial Services License, may participate in the selling syndicate in connection with this offering to “sophisticated persons” located in Australia within the meaning of s 708(8) of the Australian Corporations Act, 2001.

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, or the “JOBS Act,” and as such, may elect to comply with certain reduced reporting requirements for this prospectus and future filings after this offering.

 

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.

 

Per Class A Unit(1)Per Class B Unit(2)Total
Public offering price$$$
Underwriter discounts and commissions(3)$$$
Proceeds, before expenses, to us$$$

(1) The public offering price and underwriting discount corresponds, in respect of the Class A Units, to (i) a public offering price per share of common stock of $[●] ($[●] net of the underwriting discount) and (ii) a public offering price per warrant of $[●] ($[●] net of the underwriting discount).

(2) The public offering price and underwriting discount in respect of the Class B Units corresponds to (i) a public offering price per share of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock of $[●] ($[●] net of the underwriting discount) and (ii) a public offering price per warrant of $[●] ($[●] net of the underwriting discount.

(3) We have agreed to pay certain expenses of the underwriters in this offering. We refer you to “Underwriting” on page 69 for additional information regarding underwriting compensation.

The offering is being underwritten on a firm commitment basis. We have granted a 45-day option to the underwriters to purchase up to an additional [●] shares of common stock and/or warrants to purchase an additional [●] shares of common stock from us at the public offering price, less the underwriting discounts payable by us, to cover over-allotments, if any. The option may be used to purchase shares of common stock and/or warrants, or any combination thereof, as determined by the underwriters.

The underwriters expect to deliver the securities against paymentto investors on or about [●], 2020.2023.

 

Sole Book-Running Manager

Dawson James Securities, Inc.Ladenburg Thalmann

 

The date of this prospectus is                       , 20202023

 

   

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Page
SUMMARY1

THE OFFERING

10
RISK FACTORS12
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS38
USE OF PROCEEDS38
CAPITALIZATION39
DILUTION40
DIVIDEND POLICY41
BUSINESS42
BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP60
CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS62
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES WE ARE OFFERING67
UNDERWRITING69
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK73
LEGAL MATTERS76
EXPERTS76
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION76
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE77

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

This prospectus is part of a registration statement that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC. Before making your investment decision, we urge you to carefully read this prospectus and all of the information contained in the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus, as well as the additional information described under the headings “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference.”

This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities other than the securities described in this prospectus or an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy such securities in any circumstances in which such offer or solicitation is unlawful. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus, the documents incorporated by reference and any related free writing prospectus is accurate only as of their respective dates. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed materially since those dates.

 

Neither we nor the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide you with any information or to make any representations other than asthat contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectusesprospectus we have prepared. Neither we nor the underwritersmay authorize to be delivered or made available to you. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance aboutas to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus isNeither we nor the underwriters are making an offer to sell onlysecurities in any jurisdiction in which the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where itoffer or sale is lawful to do so.not permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our securities and the common stock.information in any free writing prospectus that we may provide to you in connection with this offering is accurate only as of the date of that free writing prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.those dates.

 

No actionTo the extent there is being takena conflict between the information contained in this prospectus, on the one hand, and the information contained in any jurisdictiondocument incorporated by reference in this prospectus, on the other hand, you should rely on the information in this prospectus, provided that if any statement in one of these documents is inconsistent with a statement in another document having a later date — for example, a document incorporated by reference in this prospectus — the statement in the document having the later date modifies or supersedes the earlier statement.

We further note that the representations, warranties and covenants made by us in any agreement that is filed as an exhibit to any document that is incorporated by reference herein were made solely for the benefit of the parties to such agreement, including, in some cases, for the purpose of allocating risk among the parties to such agreement, and should not be deemed to be a representation, warranty or covenant to you. Moreover, such representations, warranties or covenants were accurate only as of the date when made. Accordingly, such representations, warranties and covenants should not be relied on as accurately representing the current state of our affairs.

For investors outside the United States toStates: We have not, and the underwriters have not, done anything that would permit a publicthis offering, of our common stock or possession or distribution of this prospectus, in any such jurisdiction.jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. Persons outside the United States who come into possession of this prospectus in jurisdictions outside the United States are required tomust inform themselves about, and to observe any restrictions about thisrelating to, the offering of the shares of common stock and the distribution of this prospectus applicable to those jurisdictions.outside of the United States.

 

Unless otherwise indicated,MARKET, INDUSTRY AND OTHER DATA

This prospectus includes industry and market data that we obtained from periodic industry publications, third-party studies and surveys, filings of public companies in our industry and internal company surveys. These sources may include government and industry sources. Industry publications and surveys generally state that the information contained therein has been obtained from sources believed to be reliable. Although we believe the industry and market data to be reliable as of the date of this prospectus, this information could prove to be inaccurate. Industry and market data could be wrong because of the method by which sources obtained their data and because information cannot always be verified with complete certainty due to the limits on the availability and reliability of raw data, the voluntary nature of the data gathering process and other limitations and uncertainties. In addition, we do not know all of the assumptions regarding general economic conditions or growth that were used in preparing the forecasts from the sources relied upon or cited herein.

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information from this prospectus and the documents incorporated herein by reference and does not contain all of the information that you need to consider in making your investment decision. You should carefully read the entire prospectus, including the risks of investing in our securities discussed under “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12 of this prospectus, the information incorporated herein by reference, including our financial statements, and the exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. All references in this prospectus concerningto “we,” “us,” “our,” “IBS,” “INBS,” “GBS Inc.,” “GBS,” the glucose monitoring market“Company” and similar designations refer to Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc., unless otherwise indicated or as the other markets relevant to our operations are based on information from various public sources. Although we believe that this data is generally reliable, such information is inherently imprecise, and our estimates and expectations based on these data involve a number of assumptions and limitations. As a result, you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such data, estimates or expectations.context otherwise requires.

 

TRADEMARKS

We have proprietaryAll trademarks or licensed rights to trademarks used in this prospectus, including “Glucose Biosensor.” Solely for our convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this prospectus may appearare the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, the trademarks and trade names in this prospectus are referred to without the “®” or “™”® and ™ symbols, but such references areshould not intended to indicate, inbe construed as any way,indicator that wetheir respective owners will not assert, to the fullest extent possible under applicable law, ourtheir rights or the rights to these trademarks and trade names.thereto. We do not intend ourthe use or display of other companies’ trademarks and trade names trademarks or service marks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies. Each trademark, trade name or service mark of any other company appearing in this prospectus is the property of its respective holder.

INDUSTRY AND MARKET DATA

This prospectus contains estimates, projections and other information concerning our industry, our business, the science of our products and the markets for our products, including data regarding the incidence of certain medical conditions and the scientific basis of our products. We obtained the industry, science, market and similar data set forth in this prospectus from our internal estimates and research and from academic and industry research, publications, surveys, and studies conducted by third parties.

The content of the above sources, except to the extent specifically set forth in this prospectus, does not constitute a portion of this prospectus and is not incorporated herein. Information that is based on estimates, forecasts, projections, market research, scientific research, or similar methodologies is inherently subject to uncertainties and actual events or circumstances may differ materially from events and circumstances that are assumed in this information. While we believe that the data we use from third parties are reliable, we have not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of the data. Further, while we believe our internal research is reliable, such research has not been verified by any third party. You are cautioned not to give undue weight to any such information, projections, and estimates.

The offer contained in this document is not available to persons located in Australia unless they are a “sophisticated investor” within the meaning of s 708(8) of the Australian Corporations Act, 2001.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY1
RISK FACTORS12
CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS37
USE OF PROCEEDS38
DIVIDEND POLICY38
DILUTION39
CAPITALIZATION41
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATION42
BUSINESS47
MANAGEMENT76
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION84
PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS89
CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS90
MATERIAL UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NON-U.S. HOLDERS92
DESCRIPTION OF OUR SECURITIES96
SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE101
UNDERWRITING102
LEGAL MATTERS106
EXPERTS106
WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION106
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS2
INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS2

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights information contained in other parts of this prospectus. Because it is a summary, it does not contain all of the information that you should consider in making your investment decision. Before investing in our securities, you should read the entire prospectus carefully, including our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included in this prospectus and the information set forth under the headings “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

 

When used herein, unless the context requires otherwise, references to the “Company,” “we,” “our”Overview of our Company

Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. (formerly known as GBS Inc.), and “us” refer to GBS Inc., aits wholly owned Delaware corporation, collectively with its subsidiaries,subsidiary, GBS Operations Inc., a Delaware corporation, and Glucose Biosensor Systems (Apac) were each formed on December 5, 2016, under the laws of the state of Delaware. Our Australian subsidiary Intelligent Bio Solutions (APAC) Pty Ltd Glucose Biosensor Systems (Japan) Pty Ltd and(formerly known as Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd) was formed on August 4, 2016, under the laws of New South Wales, Australia and was renamed to Intelligent Bio Solutions (APAC) Pty Ltd each an Australian corporation.

on January 6, 2023. On October 4, 2022, INBS acquired Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (“IFP”), a company registered in England and Wales (the “IFP Acquisition”). Our Companyheadquarters are in New York, New York.

 

Recent DevelopmentsWe are a medical technology company focused on developing and delivering non-invasive, rapid and pain free innovative testing and screening solutions. We operate globally with the objective of providing intelligent, pain-free, and accessible solutions that improve the quality of life.

 

On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and on March 12, 2020 the WHO announced the outbreak was a pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on global markets and business activity, which has had a limited impact on our core business operations.Our current product portfolio includes:

 

Intelligent Fingerprinting Platform - Our proprietary portable platform analyzes fingerprint sweat using a one-time (recyclable) cartridge and portable handheld reader. Our flagship product from this platform, which is commercially available in certain countries outside of the United States, is the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System (the “IFP System” or “IFP Products”), a two-part system that consists of non-invasive, sweat-based fingerprint diagnostic testing products designed to detect drugs of abuse including opioids, cocaine, methamphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, methadone, and buprenorphine. The system comprises a small, tamper-evident drug screening cartridge onto which ten fingerprint sweat samples are collected in under a minute, before the portable analysis unit provides an on-screen result in under ten minutes. Samples collected with our confirmatory kits can also be sent to a third-party laboratory service provider to perform confirmation testing. Customers include safety-critical industries such as construction, transportation and logistics firms, manufacturing, engineering, drug treatment organizations in the rehabilitation sector, and judicial organizations.
The Biosensor Platform – Our “Biosensor Platform” consists of a small, printable modified organic thin-film transistor strip that we license across the Asia Pacific Region from Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (“LSBD” or “Licensor”). The Biosensor Platform, which is designed to detect multiple biological analytes by substituting the Glucose Oxidase (“GOX”) enzyme with a suitable alternative for each analyte, is currently in the development stage. Our flagship product candidate based on the Biosensor Platform technology is the Saliva Glucose Biosensor (“SGB” and, together with a software app that interfaces the SGB with the Company’s digital information system, the Saliva Glucose Test or “SGT”), a Point of Care Test (POCT) expected to complement the finger pricking invasive blood glucose monitoring test for diabetic patients. Our products based on the SGT are referred to herein as the “SGT products.”  

GBS is developing and commercializing

These platform technologies have the potential to develop a range of Biosensor based Point of Care (“POCT”) diagnostic tests that are developed inPOCT including the modalities of clinical chemistry, immunology, tumor markers, allergens, and endocrinology. Due to the nature of our platform technology (see figure below), we are able to quickly adapt to this rapidly evolving environment. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the superior analytical characteristics of the biosensor technology and the advanced development stage, the company decided to expedite a collaboration with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss) in order to develop a more accurate and real time SARS-CoV-2 test for diagnostic, point-of-care screening and pre-vaccination screening.

Since the biosensor architecture is complete and given the pre-existing plans and infrastructure to develop immunology diagnostic tests and taking into account the COVID19 pandemic, it is therefore feasible, expeditious and urgent to develop the SARS-CoV-2 test. Accordingly, the development of the recognition element of the biosensor specific to the SARS-CoV-2 test is not expected to have a material incremental impact on the use of proceeds from this offering.

GBS is the global licensee and intends to introduce and launch COV2 diagnostic tests across the US, Europe, APAC and the rest of the world through appropriately qualified sublicensees and distributors.

Our flagship product candidate is the Saliva Glucose Biosensor, a POCT expected to substitute the finger pricking invasive blood glucose monitoring for diabetic patients. On May 1, 2020, our parent company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (“LSBD”), filed a submission with the FDA for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, currently in development as a point-of-care test intended to replace blood glucose testing for diabetes management. Following the 513(g) submission to the FDA (Submitted May 1, 2020), the FDA staff determined that the Company could seek the De Novo application pathway for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test and appointed an Acting Branch Chief from the Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch as the contact person for the matter. The Company has commenced planning discussions with the FDA Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health and the Office of Product Evaluation and Quality pertaining to the clinical development and study plan of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor. LSBD have completed the supplier evaluation process and identified a suitable partner to implement the clinical plan once approved by the FDA.

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Pre-COVID-19, our objective was to introduce and launch the Saliva Glucose Biosensor, the first of our diagnostic tests that stem from the Biosensor Platform that we license, across the Asia Pacific Region. The launch of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor, or “SGB” will now follow the SARS-CoV-2 Test (or “COV2T”). We then intend to introduce and launch other diagnostic tests based on the Biosensor Platform in this region, including a Prostate Specific Antigen test, a Peanut Kernel Allergen test and a Luteinizing Hormone test, as shown in Figure 1 below:

Figure 1: The Biosensor Platform

GBS owns a 50% interest in BioSensX (North America) Inc. (or “BSX”). BSX has been granted a license for the rights to North America (the U.S. and Canada) for the biosensor platform (excluding the COV2 test).

COVID-19

Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the superior analytical characteristics of the biosensor technology and the advanced development stage, we decided to expedite a collaboration with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (“Wyss”) to develop a more accurate, real time and more sensitive SARS-CoV-2 test for A) diagnostic, B) point-of-care screening and C) pre-vaccination screening. SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing in saliva and serum can play a critically important role in large-scale ‘sero’-surveillance to address key public health priorities and guide policy and decision-making for COVID-19.

Our parent company, LSBD, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss) signed a Material Transfer Agreement on the May 29, 2020. We transferred instrumentation and biosensors (research materials) to the Wyss Institute where its research and development scientists have commenced a pilot research program.

The collaboration was initiated with a pilot study and involves the integration of a proprietary antifouling coating technology, developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, that can detect SARS-CoV-2 IgG class antibodies, with the GBS Biosensor platform. This can then be indicative of a person’s exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and status of immunity (SARS-CoV-2 is the Antibody responsible for COV 19).

Based on the preliminary data generated in this pilot study, further development could result in an easy-to-use diagnostic and screening test that can be applied to salivary and/or blood COVID-19 testing at point of care, with the ability to be manufactured at scale at a low cost, and produce real-time results.

At this pilot phase, weprincipal objectives are:

characterizing the impact of plasma treatment to the adhesion of the antifouling layer and organic thin film transistor (OTFT).
characterizing the electrical response of the OTFT with the antifouling coating. 
generating a biomarker dependent response curve by coating the (OTFT) biosensors with antifouling coating that interacts with SARS- CoV-2 antibodies. 

The aim of this pilot phase is to confirm the technical feasibility and scale to production of the program and provide an estimate of the analytical performance of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody test.

Compared with the conventional antibody test, the advantage of the SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Biosensor is that it may measure the quantitative presence of antibodies as opposed to the current qualitative monitoring to date, and the sampling methodology maybe through saliva rather than blood, which is non-invasive. According to the recent research by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health1, SARS-CoV-2 antibodies detected in saliva “significantly correlate” to those observed in blood.

It is anticipated that FDA review will be under the Emergency Use Authorization program, which could translate into expedited time to market.

1 Randad PR, Pisanic N, Kruczynski K, et al. COVID-19 serology at population scale: SARS-CoV-2a-specific antibody responses in saliva. Preprint. medRxiv. 2020;2020.05.24.20112300. Published 2020 May 26. doi:10.1101/2020.05.24.20112300

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Figure 2 below is indicative of the modification process necessary to detect SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (only the antibody layer is substituted with SARS-CoV-2 protein, as the rest of the device is already developed):

Figure 2: Antibody Test Development

Non-invasive SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing is urgently needed to estimate the incidence and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection at the general population level. Precise knowledge of population immunity could allow government bodies to make informed decisions about how and when to relax stay-at-home directives and to reopen the economy. In addition to molecular COVID-19 diagnostics, accurate blood (serological) tests can identify individuals who have mounted an antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. These tests are needed in platforms that can be deployed in large numbers to describe changes in population level immunity at different geographical scales and over time. Such blood and/or saliva testing could guide “back-to-work” risk mitigation strategies, particularly if evidence continues to emerge suggesting that robust SARS-CoV-2 antibody responses might confer protection from repeated infection.

We believe that in the current climate, there is an unmet medical need to estimate the number of COVID-19 cases in the general population. Currently, testing for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies involves sending specimens to the laboratory (serological testing) and waiting for results.

COV2 Test (or “COV2T”)

The sensing principle for the COV2T is the same as the Salivary Glucose Test, amperometric: target biomolecules generate an electrical current that is detected by the transistor. The major difference is that only the GOX layer is substituted with an alternative layer containing a different recognition element, in this case the COV2 Protein that enables the detection of COV2 antibodies. The underlying layers of the Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) remain unchanged. Hence this significantly simplifies our development effort to make a saliva/blood  based COV2 diagnostic test.

Therefore, the method of testing will be the same as with the SGB, which is outlined in detail below.

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The Saliva Glucose Biosensor

Our SGB uses saliva to measure glucose non-invasively. When the SGB interacts with saliva, an electrochemical reaction is initiated that produces an electrical signal directly correlated to the amount of glucose present in the saliva. This measurement is then converted into a real-time saliva glucose reading by a software app on a smart device, or a dedicated smart reader for those that do not possess a compliant and compatible smart device. The reading may then be stored in our proprietary cloud-based digital information system. The Saliva Glucose Test, or “SGT,” consists of:

1.the SGB – a single use disposable saliva biosensor, and
2.the software app that interfaces the SGB with our digital information system.

 

Figure 3: Using the Saliva Glucose Biosensor (for illustration purposes only)

The Asia Pacific Region includes over 164 million people living with diabetes, which accounts for 36% of the world’s diabetic population. Rapid urbanization, unhealthy diets and increasingly sedentary lifestyles have resulted in ever increasing rates of obesity and diabetes across the region. The following table shows the countries and territories that constitute the “Asia Pacific Region” or “APAC Region,” where we will introduce, market and launch the biosensor:

Country / Territory
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Singapore
Malaysia
South Korea
Indonesia
Philippines
Bangladesh
Taiwan
China
Hong Kong
Thailand
Vietnam
Other Asia countries
South Pacific region (18 nations)

Figure 4: The APAC Region

The Saliva Glucose Test

Self-testing blood glucose monitors were introduced to the market in the 1970s and, since then, the method of glucose self-monitoring has not meaningfully changed. The industry remains dominated by invasive methods that ultimately use blood or interstitial fluid to measure glucose. We believe the sampling medium, methodology and technology of the SGB represents a breakthrough in glucose monitoring as it represents the only non-invasive, painless and cost-effective saliva-based method of measuring glucose levels. The biosensor technology has been developed over several decades of university-based scientific research and has been extensively referenced in scientific literature. For more detail on this research, see “Business—The Saliva Glucose Test.”

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The SGB is an organic transistor, which in its structure embeds the glucose oxidase enzyme, or “GOX.” When the single-use SGB interacts with saliva it initiates an electrochemical reaction, producing an electrical signal directly correlated to the amount of glucose present in the saliva. This measurement is then converted into a real-time saliva glucose reading, through the biosensor app installed on a smart device or a dedicated reader. The patent protected SGB is able to detect glucose in saliva at concentrations between 8 and 200 µM and exhibits linear glucose sensing characteristics at these concentrations, sensing glucose at levels 100 times lower than in blood.

The direct correlation between glucose concentration and sensor signal is independent of the type of sample under examination (i.e., blood or saliva). The use of saliva as a meaningful proxy for estimating blood glucose levels is supported by extensive scientific literature that has investigated the physiological glucose concentration in both biological fluids and overwhelmingly reported a strong correlation, although a few articles have reported finding no significant correlation. Overall, we believe there is abundant clinical evidence in independently reviewed scientific literature that saliva can be utilized as a non-invasive alternative to blood to monitor glycemic status in diabetic patients. For more detail on this scientific literature, see “Business—The Saliva Glucose Test.”

In our development of the SGT, we aim to go beyond the innovation of changing the sampling medium from blood to saliva, and further create value for the patient and the payers by decreasing the cost of managing diabetes, improving the outcomes of the disease and providing convenience in testing methodology. This will be achieved by directly transferring the SGB reading from the smart device or the dedicated reader to our proprietary digital information system, which is cloud-based to enable every patient the option to create his or her own medical record where the SGB results will be uploaded.

Our digital information system is intended to be interfaced to an artificial intelligence system and will be able to, at the patient’s or authorized care giver’s direction, disseminate patient data to a remote caregiver, a service for consultation or to any other individual with whom the patient chooses to share his or her glucose level measurements. We believe patients and payers will be able to leverage our digital information system to decrease cost and improve outcomes and convenience.

The SGB drives economic value beyond the revenue stemming from the sale of the SGB units – it also allows for monetization and the creation of separate revenue streams from the patient network and other data that resides within our digital information system, by way of the following:

 

Data usage. The usageExpansion of the data,Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System into new markets and within existing markets concentrating on:  

increasing market share across the analysisUnited Kingdom and interpretation of the data, to improve patients’ conditions and leveraging this insight to improve patient care.mainland Europe;
 
Safe data sharing. The provision of data-sharing services between users/patients, authorized care giverscommencing sales and authorized medical practitioners.distribution throughout Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the Asia Pacific region, and establishing the infrastructure and satisfying the regulatory requirements needed to do so;
 commencing the 510(k) pre-market notification process for expansion into United States markets that require FDA approval;
initiating research aimed at broadening the capabilities of the Intelligent Fingerprinting System to test for additional drugs and indications, facilitating the expansion of the platform into point-of-care medical testing;
expanding the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System into new customer segments, including major sporting organizations, law enforcement, and commercial airlines; and  
developing a strategic network of distributors with established customer bases throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and North America to distribute the IFP product.

Data collection. The collection of anonymized data, its aggregation with other dataTo complete development and commercialize the SGB, the diagnostic test that stems from multiple sources and multiple health devices and its combination with non-health data.the Biosensor Platform that we license from LSBD, in the regions covered by the license.

 

We plan to leverage this usage, safe sharingdevelop the platforms further to test across the diagnostic modalities of immunology, hormones, chemistry, tumor markers and collectionnucleic acid tests.

Our Market Opportunity

According to the Point of dataCare/Rapid Diagnostics Market by Product, Platform, Purchase, Sample, User - Global Forecast to 2027, published December 2022 by MarketsandMarkets Inc., the global market for Point of Care medical diagnostics was estimated to be $45.4 billion in the following four revenue-generating channels:2022 rising to $75.5 billion in 2027 with a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7% from 2022 to 2027. The Company currently intends to develop pathways into areas of medical diagnostics utilizing existing technology and techniques to exploit a competitive advantage against traditional testing methodologies.

The Recreational Drug Monitoring Industry

 

1.Direct Monetization ChannelThere are four categories of recreational drugs: analgesics, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. Analgesics include narcotics like heroin, morphine, fentanyl, and codeine. Depressants include alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and nicotine. Stimulants include cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy (MDMA). This channel focuses
According to the 2022 World Drug Report published by the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, around 284 million people aged 15-64 used drugs worldwide in 2020, a 26% increase over the previous decade. Young people are using more drugs, with use levels today in many countries higher than with the previous generation. In Africa and Latin America, people under 35 represent the majority of people being treated for drug use disorders. In the United States and Canada, overdose deaths, predominantly driven by an epidemic of the non-medical use of fentanyl, continue to break records.
According to the White House’s 2022 National Drug Control Strategy, the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, published October 2021 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, showed that among the 41.1 million people who needed treatment for substance abuse, only 2.7 million (6.5%) received treatment at a specialty treatment facility in the past year.

Diabetes Self-Monitoring Blood Glucose Market

According to IDF Diabetes Atlas, 10th edition, 2021, there are 463 million individuals living with diabetes around the world in 2019 and increased to 537 million in 2021. By year 2030, the overall number of diabetics is expected to reach 643 million, and by 2045, it will reach 783 million. Therefore, the rising prevalence of diabetes is driving the growth of the self-monitoring blood glucose devices market.

Product Growth Strategy

Our goal is to increase our global footprint of the commercially available Intelligent Fingerprint products. We currently have a small but growing customer base in the UK, which we are planning to expand.

Launch product within the Asia Pacific region starting with Australia followed by other regions including Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand the rest of Asia.
Focus on marketing and digital channels to increase awareness.
Establish indirect distribution to market and sell the Intelligent Fingerprint product range.
Commence FDA submission for the purpose of being able to sell into the US market which represents the largest market opportunity.
Leverage success in UK to enter into other European countries and the Middle East.

In addition, we are also looking to grow and expand our current product portfolio by:

Continuing the development of revenue basedthe Biosensor focusing on commercial relationships for the use of anonymized and compliant information derived from data generation.glucose testing.
 
2.Commercial Adjacencies Channel. This channel focusesDeveloping additional drugs to be tested on the development of revenue from data generated through patient engagement and market insights from a clinical and medical perspective.current fingerprint platform.
 
3.ProductDeveloping pathways into other areas of medical diagnostics utilizing existing technology and Service Bundles Channel. This channel focuses on ancillary revenue generated through bespoke service opportunities across the industry, for example, by working with insurerstechniques to develop products that integrate the usageexploit a competitive advantage against traditional testing methodologies. Examples of testing as part of their service offering.potential target assays include infectious diseases, fertility, tumor markers and cortisol.
 
4.Core Operations Synergy Channel. Through combiningIdentifying and leveraging growth opportunities in new markets. For example, as a result of the data generation withglobal progress made in mitigating the useseverity and impact of artificial intelligence,the COVID-19 pandemic and the significantly diminished demand for COVID-19 testing products, we expectredirected our resources and efforts away from developing products related to COVID testing to instead acquire and develop a deep insight into our customer base, providing a high level of customer insight. It is expected that this insight will drive a high customer retention leveldrug testing and generate a considerable number of broader revenue opportunities through direct and specific interaction with our customer base.screening systems.

 

The SGB has been under continuous development for over six years, first by the University of Newcastle, Australia, then by the Licensor and us. The SGB development program is currently at the validation stage, which is Phase 5 of development of the SGB as illustrated in the diagram in Figure 17 in “BusinessIFP Acquisition - Series C Preferred Stock.” This stage involves implementation of the clinical evidence module, which incorporates the commercial production of the investigative biosensor devices to commence the clinical evaluation of analytical performance of the device and generate the clinical evidence necessary to gain regulatory approval. This stage also involves making the regulatory submissions and obtaining approval and is the final stage prior to product launch. Accordingly, we have engaged Emergo Global Consulting LLC, a clinical research and regulatory consulting firm specializing in high tech medical device development and commenced the regulatory approval process in various jurisdictions in the APAC Region. We also have reached an agreement in principle to engage Cambridge Consultants Ltd. as advisors on our commercial scale manufacturing program.

We currently have seven full time employees and two part-time employees. We also rely on the services of contractors, collaborators and consultants. We have assembled a team of 12 people, including our 9 employees, our scientific advisory board and personnel at the University of Newcastle through a collaboration with the institution, to execute on our mission to create next generation non-invasive diagnostic tools to help patients suffering with diabetes. GBS is currently recruiting to expand headcount in the US.

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On May 1, 2020, our parent company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (“LSBD”), filed a submission with the FDA for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, currently in development as a point-of-care test intended to replace blood glucose testing for diabetes management. Following the 513(g) submission to the FDA (Submitted May 01, 2020), it was determined that the company could seek the De Novo application pathway for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, we were appointed an expert contact person, Acting Branch Chief from the Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch. We have further commenced planning discussions with the FDA Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health and the Office of Product Evaluation and Quality pertaining to the clinical development and study plan of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor. LSBD have completed the supplier evaluation process and identified a suitable partner to implement the clinical plan once approved by the FDA. We expect to leverage synergies from the approval process with the FDA within the Asia Pacific region, where China has the highest number of people with diabetes. We will first seek regulatory approval with the National Medical Products Administration of China, or “NMPA” for the SGT, formerly known as the China Food and Drug Administration and also other regulatory agencies that serve as reference regulator, such as the FDA, the European CE notified approval bodies and the Japanese regulatory bodies. Recently, we entered into non-binding memoranda of understanding with two large distributors in China, which express our intent to enter into definitive agreements to collaborate on the manufacture, regulatory approval, and distribution and sale of, and the medical affairs, marketing, and identification of strategic opportunities for, the SGB in China. Further to this, LSBD, our parent company, has signed a Materials Transfer Agreement with a U.S. conglomerate to explore sublicensing of the glucose biosensor which GBS will be a party through its licensing interests.

The SGB is manufactured using modified reel-to-reel printing technology that was developed at the Australian National Fabrication Facility. See Figure 5 below for a depiction of the reel-to-reel printing. This technology allows mass volume printing at a low cost.

Figure 5: Biosensor manufacture at the Australian National Fabrication Facility

For clinical testing purposes, necessary for FDA emergency authorization we intend to manufacture the COV2 diagnostic test at the Australian National Fabrication Facility where we manufacture the glucose test. Upon FDA authorization we intend to manufacture at contract manufacturing sites initially in the U.S., we are currently exploring options with contractors who utilize the latest automated technologies combined with on-premise chemistry preparation, rigorous quality systems, and structured process transfer procedures, including packaging. There are several other contract manufacturers in the U.S. and around the world that have the requisite accreditation and facilities.

We anticipate that the non-invasive nature of saliva-based glucose testing will make patients more amenable to glucose monitoring, with the expected result of increasing the number of times a patient tests per day. The data generated by the SGB, combined with the interface of the smart device or dedicated reader with our digital information system and the artificial intelligence feedback, will allow the patient to achieve better glucose control through a practical understanding of lifestyle factors that affect glucose levels, thereby helping prevent or delay diabetes complications and ultimately personalizing diabetes management. See Figure 6 below.

Figure 6: Our digital information system (for illustration purposes only)

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Development Status of Our Other Tests

The Biosensor Platform is capable of detecting multiple biological analytes by substituting the GOX enzyme with a suitable alternative for each analyte. The substitute enzyme will generate an electrical current signal that is detected in a manner identical to the SGB. Given that the underlying sensing mechanism is unaltered, we believe the technical risk associated with the development of other tests for biomarkers other than glucose is low. The development effort for biomarkers other than glucose, including the development of the Prostate Specific Antigen test, the Peanut Kernel Allergen test and the Luteinizing Hormone test mentioned above, is presently in the Phase 1 of development as illustrated in the diagram in Figure 20 in “Business,” which is the definitional stage and encompasses the shortlisting of the best enzyme candidates and identification of the ideal bio-conjugation methods for immobilization on the sensor surface and optimal printing process.

The development status of the SGB is far more advanced, with several years of research and development effort leading to the accumulation of pre-clinical data demonstrating that the sensor can deliver the required analytical performance. We have commenced Phase 5 of development of the SGB as illustrated in the diagram in Figure 20 in “Business,” which is the validation stage and involves implementation of the clinical evidence module.

We have not generated any revenues to date from sales of our intended product candidates and have incurred net losses and negative cash flows from operations. We do not anticipate generating any revenues from sales of our intended product candidates for at least 6-10 months from the date of this offering, if at all. The proceeds generated from this offering will accelerate and enhance the establishment of our business.

Technology License Agreement

 

On June 23, 2020, we entered intoOctober 4, 2022, the Company acquired Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (“IFP”), a certain Technology License Agreement, orcompany registered in England and Wales (the “IFP Acquisition”). Except as otherwise indicated, all share and per share information in this prospectus (including exercise prices and conversion ratios) gives effect to the License Agreement,” with Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, or the “Licensor.” The Licensor currently owns 99.1%reverse stock split of our outstanding common stock, and will continue to ownwhich was effected at a majorityratio of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering.

The License Agreement sets forth our contractual rights and responsibilities relating to the Licensed Products. The “Licensed Products” include: (i) a biosensor strip for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2; (ii) a proprietary smartphone application for the purpose reading, storing, analyzing and providing patient support programs for any one or moreone-for-twenty as of the Indicators for the purpose of measuring the amount or concentration of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgM, IgA) specific to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); and/or (iii) a dedicated sensor strip reading device for any one or more of the Indicators for the purpose of measuring the amount or concentration of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgM, IgA) specific to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 9, 2023.

 

An “Authorized Supplier” includes us,On October 4, 2022, in connection with the Licensor, anyIFP Acquisition, the Company entered into a Share Exchange Agreement (the “Share Exchange Agreement”) with IFP, the holders of our affiliates or any affiliatesall of the Licensor, or any third party manufacturer and/or reseller thatissued shares in the Licensor has expressly identified or approved in advance in writing forcapital of IFP (collectively, the purpose of quality control for“IFP Sellers”) and the supply of Licensed Products to us.IFP Sellers’ representatives named therein.

 

Pursuant to the Licenseterms of the Share Exchange Agreement, the Licensor granted to us an exclusive license to the Licensor’s proprietary rights to the biosensor technology used in the Licensed Products, worldwide and solely to:

act as the authorized party for the purpose of prosecuting the application of, and obtaining any, regulatory approval for the Licensed Product, including being authorized to prosecute the approval for an investigational device required for the purpose of carrying out clinical studies;
manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell and distribute the Licensed Products;
provide reasonable customer support services on the use of the Licensed Products to end users of, and health care practitioners referring end users to, the Licensed Products;
use the Licensed Products only for the purposes identified and permitted pursuant to regulatory approval; and
collect data acquired from the Licensed Products.

We are required to collect and anonymize demographic information about the end users of the Licensed Products and dataCompany, among other things, acquired from the Licensed Products. While the anonymized data will be owned by the Licensor, we will own during the termIFP Sellers all of the License Agreementissued shares in the personally identifiable data, including health data, collected by us. In addition,capital of IFP, and as consideration therefor the Licensor will provide us with certainCompany issued to the IFP Sellers upon the closing of the data acquired from the Licensed Products. The demographic information and personally identifiable information will be used, following patient consent, as a disease management tool to offer patients value-added services, i.e., personalized education services for lifestyle, diet and glucose management. These services will be in accordance with the applicable local medical codes and regulatory environment. The useIFP Acquisition (the “IFP Closing”) an aggregate of such consensual information will be in accordance with privacy laws of the relevant countries and territories.

The license is non-transferable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable, except that the Licensor will in good faith consider any request by us for any sublicense.

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Commencing after the receipt of regulatory approval in a jurisdiction and the earning of revenue, we will be required to pay the Licensor a minimum royalty fee with respect to such jurisdiction for each year, or the “Minimum Royalty,” in four equal quarterly installments. The Minimum Royalty will be 13% of the projected net sales in such jurisdiction for each such year. The projected net sales will be an amount mutually agreed between us and the Licensor for the first such year. For each ensuing year after the first year, the projected net sales will be the number of Licensed Products sold in such jurisdiction in the prior year, as adjusted for the mutually agreed expected market growth. In addition to the expected market growth, there will be an additional growth rate percentage of 7% for each year through the tenth year. In the event of a dispute between us and the Licensor regarding the determination of the expected market growth or the additional growth percentage, the License Agreement provides for resolution by an independent third party. At the end of each quarter, if the quarterly installment of the Minimum Royalty is less than 13% of the actual net sales of Licensed Products in such jurisdiction for such quarter, or the “Actual Royalty,” we will pay Licensor the difference between the quarterly installment of the Minimum Royalty and the Actual Royalty. The royalty fee rate will be reduced from 13% to 3% upon the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the License Agreement.

As between us and the Licensor, the Licensor solely owns all right, title and interest to, among other items of intellectual property, the biosensor technology (including any improvements made to the biosensor technology by us), the anonymized data collected by us and any other technology of the Licensor, and all derivations based on, and all proprietary rights in, the foregoing. The Licensor will have the right to decide whether to protect or enforce, and the right to control any action relating to the protection and enforcement of, any of the foregoing intellectual property and proprietary rights.

There is no set expiration date for the License Agreement. However, the exclusivity of the license granted under the License Agreement runs until the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the License Agreement, which is currently until 2033. We expect that the patent portfolio will be extended as new patents are created throughout product development, thereby extending the exclusivity of the License Agreement. For instance, we expect to seek additional patents in connection with the development of the Prostate Specific Antigen test, the Peanut Kernel Allergen test and the Luteinizing Hormone test. The License Agreement may be terminated by us in the event of a material breach by the Licensor, if the Licensor does not cure the breach within 30 days after receiving notice of the breach; or in the event the Licensor discontinues its business operations or in the case of certain events related to insolvency or bankruptcy. The License Agreement also may be terminated by us at any time after the tenth anniversary of the License Agreement upon 180 days’ prior written notice.

The foregoing is a summary of the terms and provisions of the License Agreement and is qualified in its entirety by the text of the License Agreement a copy of which is filed as an exhibit hereto.

LSBD Transactions

On December 14, 2020, the Company and Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd., the Company’s parent company (“LSBD”), agreed to cancel the previously agreed share repurchase transaction dated as of December 7, 2020, under which LSBD was to exchange a total of 3,800,000(i) 148,155 shares of the Company’s common stock for a 3-year non-transferrable warrant to purchase 1,900,000(the “Common Stock Consideration”), and (ii) 2,363,003 shares of the Company’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Series C Preferred Stock”).

An additional 1,649,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock were reserved for potential future issuance by the Company, consisting of (i) 500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, that are being held back from the IFP Sellers for one year after the IFP Closing to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against the IFP Sellers (the “Closing Holdback Shares”) and (ii) 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock (the “Lender Preferred Shares”) underlying convertible debt (referred to herein as the “Convertible Debt”) payable to certain lenders to IFP (the “IFP Lenders”).

When initially issued in connection with the IFP Acquisition and prior to the Reverse Stock Split, each share of Series C Preferred Stock was convertible into three shares of common stock. Effectivestock, subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events (such as Reverse Stock Split) and contingent upon approval by the Company’s stockholders. As a result of the same date,Reverse Stock Split, each share of Series C Preferred Stock is currently convertible into 0.15 shares of common stock (subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events).

The full conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock was approved by the Company’s stockholders at the special meeting of the Company’s stockholders on May 8, 2023 (the “Special Meeting”). As a result of the stockholder approval, all then-outstanding shares of Series C Preferred Stock (other than the Lender Preferred Shares and shares held by the two shareholders referred to herein as the “RFA Sellers”) were automatically converted into common stock effective May 10, 2023. The IFP Lenders and RFA Sellers subsequently elected to convert the Lender Preferred Shares and all other shares Series C Preferred Stock they held into common stock effective May 10, 2023. For purposes of this prospectus, “RFA Seller” means The Ma-Ran Foundation and The Gary W. Rollins Foundation.

For additional information regarding the conversion of the Convertible Debt into Series C Preferred Stock and the conversion of Series C Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

For additional information regarding the IFP Acquisition, see “Business – IFP Acquisition”.

December Private Placement - Series D Preferred Stock

On December 21, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “December Purchase Agreement”) with 14 investors (the “Series D Investors”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue to LSBD, in consideration of LSBD’s contribution towards the research and development of applications other than glucose and COVID-19 applications to a maximum of $2 million over a 5-year period, a 5-year non-transferable warrant to purchase 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at the exercise price equalsell to the IPO per unit price.

On December 18, 2020, the Company entered into an Exchange AgreementSeries D Investors in a Regulation S private placement (the “EA”“December Private Placement”) with LSBD to exchange 3,000,000 shares of its common stock held by LSBD for 3,000,000: (i) 176,462 shares of the Company’s Series BD Convertible Preferred Stock. In addition,Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Series D Preferred Stock”), and (ii) 529,386 warrants to purchase common stock (the “D Warrants”). The Series D Preferred Stock and D Warrants were sold together as a unit (“Unit”), with each Unit consisting of one share of Series D Preferred Stock and three D Warrants. An additional 26,469 warrants (the “Winx Warrants”) were issued to Winx Capital Pty Ltd., the partiesplacement agent for the December Private Placement. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds from the December Private Placement of $220,585 before deducting the placement agent’s fees and the Company’s transaction expenses. The December Private Placement closed on December 22, 2022.

The purchase price for the Units was $1.25 per Unit. The Unit offering price and the D Warrants exercise price were priced above the Nasdaq “Minimum Price” as that term is defined in Nasdaq Rule 5635(d)(1).

When initially issued in connection with the December Private Placement and prior to the ExchangeReverse Stock Split, the 176,462 outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock were convertible into 529,386 shares of common stock. As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, the 176,462 outstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock were, at the time of conversion, convertible into an aggregate of 26,464 shares of common stock. The Company’s stockholders approved the full conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock at the Special Meeting on May 8, 2023, and the conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock was effective as of May 10, 2023. For additional information regarding the conversion of Series D Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, (i) each share of Series D Preferred Stock was convertible into 0.15 shares of common stock at the time of conversion (initially three shares of common stock pre-Reverse Stock Split, subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events); (ii) each D Warrant currently represents the right to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $5.80 per share (initially exercisable for one share of common stock with an exercise price of $0.29 per share pre-Reverse Stock Split); and (iii) each Winx Warrant currently represents the right to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $10.40 per share (initially exercisable for one share of common stock with an exercise price of $0.52 per share pre-Reverse Stock Split). The D Warrants expire June 22, 2028 and the Winx Warrants expire five years following the effective date of a registration statement covering the resale of common stock underlying the Series D Preferred Stock acquired by the Series D Investors.

The issuance of common stock and Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to the December Purchase Agreement are intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), by virtue of the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Regulation S promulgated thereunder.

Concurrent with entry into the December Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Series D Investors entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “RRA”“December Registration Rights Agreement”) granting the Series D Investors customary registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock underlying the Series D Preferred Stock and the D Warrants acquired by the Series D Investors in the December Private Placement. The June Resale Registration Statement, which was declared effective on June 27, 2023, was filed in connection with fulfilling the Company’s obligations under the December Registration Rights Agreements.

For additional information regarding the agreements entered into in connection with the December Private Placement, see “Certain Relationships And Related Party Transactions - Agreements Related to the December Private Placement.”

March 2023 Offering

On March 8, 2023, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., as representative (the “Representative”) of the underwriters named therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), relating to an underwritten public offering of 569,560 shares (the “March Shares”) of the Company’s common stock and warrants (the “March Warrants”) to purchase 170,868 shares of common stock (collectively, the “March 2023 Offering”). Each of the March Shares was sold in combination with an accompanying one-third Warrant. The combined purchase price for each March Share and accompanying March Warrant was $3.90 and the Underwriters agreed to purchase 569,560 March Shares and 170,868 March Warrants.

The Company granted the Underwriters a 45-day option to purchase an additional 85,430 shares and/or warrants to purchase up to 25,629 shares of common stock, in any combination, at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions. On March 9, 2023, the Representative fully exercised the over-allotment option to purchase an additional 85,430 March Shares and additional March Warrants to purchase 25,629 shares of common stock. The March 2023 Offering closed on March 10, 2023. As a result of the Representative exercising the over-allotment option in full, the gross proceeds, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other March 2023 Offering expenses, was approximately $2.55 million.

The March Warrants have, (i) an exercise price of $3.90 per share of common stock, (ii) a cashless exercise option for a net number of shares of common stock determined according to the formula set forth in the March Warrant or (iii) an alternate cashless exercise option (beginning on or after the initial exercise date), to receive an aggregate number of shares of common stock equal to the product of (x) the aggregate number of shares of common stock that would be issuable upon a cash exercise and (y)1.00. Each whole March Warrant entitles the holder thereof to purchase 1 share of common stock. The March Warrants are exercisable upon issuance and will expire on March 10, 2028. The exercise price and the number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the March Warrants is subject to appropriate adjustments in the event of certain stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications or similar events affecting the common stock.

The March 2023 Offering was made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3, which the Company agreed to prepare and file within 30 days following the closing of the IPOwas filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on April 8, 2022 and subsequently declared effective on April 20, 2022 (File No. 333-264218), and the base prospectus contained therein. A prospectus supplement relating to the March 2023 Offering was filed with the SEC on March 9, 2023.

Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Underwriters received an underwriting discount of 8.0% to the public offering price for the March Shares and March Warrants. In addition, the Company agreed to pay the Representative a registration statementmanagement fee equal to register for resale1.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds received from the sale of the securities in the March 2023 Offering and to reimburse the accountable expenses of the Representative up to a maximum of $145,000. The Company also agreed to issue to the Representative unregistered warrants (the “March Representative’s Warrants”) to purchase 32,750 shares of Commoncommon stock, which warrants have an exercise price of $4.875 per share (125% of the public offering price per Share and accompanying Warrant) and will terminate on March 8, 2028.

The shares of common stock underlying the March Representative’s Warrants were subsequently registered under the June Resale Registration Statement, which was declared effective on June 27, 2023.

Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock issuable upon

At the Special Meeting of the Company’s stockholders held on May 8, 2023, the stockholders of the Company approved, among other things, (a) the full conversion of the Series B ConvertibleC Preferred Stock. If andStock issued by the Company pursuant to the extentShare Exchange Agreement and the issuance of shares of common stock in connection with such conversion (the “Series C Conversion Approval”), and (b) the full conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock issued by the Company failspursuant to among other things, filethe Securities Purchase Agreement and the issuance of shares of common stock in connection with such resale registration statement or have it declared as required underconversion (the “Series D Conversion Approval”).

A result of the Series C Conversion Approval, and in accordance with the terms of the RRA,Share Exchange Agreement, convertible debt for which IFP is the borrower and the Company willis a guarantor (the “Convertible Debt”), became eligible for conversion into shares of IFP that were then to be required to payimmediately transferred to the holderCompany in exchange for shares of such registration rights partial liquidated damages payable in cashSeries C Preferred Stock. As of May 8, 2023, all eight holders of the Convertible Debt (the IFP Lenders) committed to, or otherwise indicated that they were committed to, the above-described conversion and exchange of the Convertible Debt (the “Loan Conversion”), which, in the amount equalaggregate, had an outstanding balance of £1,360,761 in principal and accrued interest as of May 8, 2023.

On May 12, 2023, the Company entered into Convertible Loan Conversion Agreements (the “Conversion Agreements”) with the eight IFP Lenders relating to the productConvertible Debt in order to effect the above-described conversion and exchange of 1.0% multiplied by the Convertible Debt. Each of the Conversion Agreements is dated and is effective as of May 9, 2023.

Upon the conversion and exchange of the Convertible Debt in accordance with their respective terms and the terms of the Share Exchange Agreement and the Conversion Agreements, the IFP Lenders received an aggregate purchase price paid by such holderof 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock. The conversion and exchange of the Convertible Debt into Series C Preferred Stock is deemed to be effective as of May 9, 2023. Effective as of May 10, 2023, the 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock issued to the IFP Lenders pursuant to the EA. The EAConversion Agreements were converted into an aggregate of 172,386 shares of common stock.

Effective as of May 10, 2023, all 3,512,277 shares of Series C Preferred Stock issued and outstanding on that date, including the 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock issued to the IFP Lenders, were converted into an aggregate of 526,818 shares of common stock. Such conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock into common stock was effected in accordance with the Series C Conversion Approval, the terms of the Share Exchange Agreement and the RRA contain customary representations, warranties, agreementsCertificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and indemnification rights and obligationsLimitations of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock. This conversion of Series C Preferred Stock into common stock was deemed effective as of May 10, 2023.

As of May 10, 2023, the holders of all 176,462 shares of the parties. The foregoing descriptionsCompany’s Series D Preferred Stock issued and outstanding on that date elected to convert those shares of Series D Preferred Stock into shares of common stock, and the 176,462 shares of the such agreements are qualifiedCompany’s Series D Preferred Stock were then converted into an aggregate of 26,464 shares of common stock effective as of that date. The conversion of the Series D Preferred Stock was effected in their entirety by referenceaccordance with the Series D Conversion Approval, the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement and the Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock.

Upon effectiveness of the above-described conversion of Series C Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock into common stock, the Company had approximately 2,285,849 shares of common stock issued and outstanding, subject to adjustment for rounding of fractional shares, if any.

The issuances of the shares of Series C Preferred Stock and common stock pursuant to the full textShare Exchange Agreement are intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of the EAexemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Rule 901 promulgated thereunder with respect to individuals who reside outside of the United States.

The issuances of the shares of Series D Preferred Stock and common stock pursuant to the RRA, copiesPurchase Agreement are intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of which are filed as exhibits to this filing.the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Regulation S promulgated thereunder.

Nasdaq Compliance

 

On December 18, 2020, LSBD entered intoMarch 17, 2022, the Company received a certain Purchase and Assignment Agreement (the “PAA”)notice letter from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department notifying the Company that because the minimum bid price per share for its common stock was below $1.00 for 30 consecutive business days preceding the date of such notice, the Company did not meet the $1.00 per share minimum bid price requirement set forth in Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1).

On February 27, 2023, the Company received a letter from Nasdaq notifying the Company that it had regained compliance with an institutional accredited investor (the “Purchaser”) pursuant to which LSBD sold and assigned to the Purchaser 3,000,000 sharesNasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) as a result of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and assigned to the Purchaser its rights under the EA and the RRA with respect to the such preferred shares for a total purchaseclosing bid price of $2,000,000. The investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock being at $1.00 per share or greater for the 10 consecutive business days from February 10, 2023 through February 24, 2023. Accordingly, the Company is now in compliance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5450(a)(1) and Nasdaq considers the matter closed.

Reverse Stock Split

At the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders held on February 8, 2023 (the “Annual Meeting”), the stockholders of the Company approved an amendment (the “Amendment”) to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to effect a reverse stock split at a ratio of not less than 1-for-2 and not more than 1-for-35 at any time within 12 months following the date of stockholder approval, with the exact ratio to be set within this range by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) at its sole discretion without further approval or authorization of our stockholders. Pursuant to such authority granted by the Company’s stockholders, the Board approved a 1-for-20 reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s common stock and the filing of the Amendment to effectuate the Reverse Stock Split.

On February 9, 2023, the Company filed the Amendment in order to effect 1-for-20 reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock. The Reverse Stock Split was effective at 4:05 p.m., Eastern Time, on February 9, 2023, at which time every twenty shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock were automatically combined into one issued and outstanding share of common stock. No fractional shares were issued as a result of the Reverse Stock Split.

The par value of the Company’s common stock and the number of authorized shares of the common stock were not affected by the Reverse Stock Split.

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, the number of shares of common stock outstanding was reduced from approximately 18,325,289 shares (excluding treasury shares) as of February 8, 2023, to approximately 916,265 shares (excluding treasury shares, and subject to beneficial ownership limitation. The price per sharethe rounding up of fractional shares), and the 3,000,000number of authorized shares of common stock remained 100 million shares.

In order reflect the Reverse Stock Split, proportionate adjustments were made to the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred stock and the investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is $0.67. Such investor has indicated its interestexercise of the warrants, as applicable; as well as to any applicable conversion and exercise prices, which were also adjusted in being the lead investor and in purchasing $6,000,000 of our securities in this offering. If andproportion to the extent such investor participates in this offering, such investor’s average price per share will be significantly lower than that to be paid by other investors in this offering.

The Purchaser’s obligations are subject to the satisfaction of conditions, including, among others, that immediately following the time of consummationreverse stock split ratio of the transactions contemplated under the PAA, the IPO isReverse Stock Split (subject to be consummated. The PAA contains customary representations, warranties, agreements and obligations of the parties. The foregoing description of the such agreement is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the PAA, a copy of which is filed as an exhibit to this filing.adjustment for fractional interests).

Risks We Face

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks summarized below. The risks are discussed more fully in “Risk Factors” beginning on page 12. These risks include, but are not limited to, the following:

We expect to incur losses for the foreseeable future, until we are able to generate sufficient revenue from product sales. We do not anticipate generating any revenues for at least 6-10 months, if at all, from the date of this offering.
The Licensor, which owns the intellectual property rights to the Biosensor Platform that we license, currently owns 99.1% of our outstanding common stock and will own a majority of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering, which creates potential conflicts of interest.
We are highly dependent on the License Agreement with the Licensor. The License Agreement imposes significant obligations on us, including the potential obligation to pay the Minimum Royalty (the determination of which is subject to agreement between us and the Licensor as to certain parameters, as described elsewhere in this prospectus, with disputes generally resolved by an independent third party).
The regulatory approval pathway we must navigate may be expensive, time-consuming and uncertain, and may prevent us from obtaining approval for the marketing of the COV2 Test (“COV2T”) and/or SGT or the other products in our pipeline.
There can be no assurance that we will successfully complete any clinical evaluation studies necessary to receive regulatory approvals.
Our success is highly dependent on the COV2T and/or SGT, which is yet to be approved and, even if approved, may not be accepted by the marketplace.
We have yet to finalize the manufacturing plan for the production of our products and their components on a mass market commercial scale.
We intend to rely on third parties to manufacture and distribute our product candidates.

 

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If the Licensor is unable to successfully protect or enforce its intellectual property and proprietary rights or elects to not do so, our competitive position will be harmed. If that were to occur, although we would be permitted take action to protect or enforce these rights, any such action would be at our cost and expense.
 
If others claim we or the Licensor are infringing on their intellectual property rights, we may be subject to costly and time-consuming litigation.
We face competition from companies that have greater resources than we do, and we may not be able to effectively compete against these companies.
Given our lack of revenue, we may need to raise additional capital, which may not be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all.

Corporate Information

 

We were incorporated under the laws of Delaware on December 5, 2016 under the name “Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Holdings, Inc.” On September 3, 2019, we changed our name to “GBS Inc.” Our principal executive offices are located at 708 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, New York 10017 and our telephone number is (646) 790-5756. Our corporate website address is gbs.inc. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and you should not consider information on our website to be part of this prospectus.

Implications of beingBeing an Emerging Growth Company

 

WeAs a company with less than $1.235 billion in revenues during our last fiscal year, we qualify as an “emergingemerging growth company”company as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (“JOBS Act. An “emergingAct”) enacted in 2012. As an emerging growth company” maycompany, we expect to take advantage of reduced reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable to public companies. We intend to take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements thatThese provisions include, but are applicable to other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies” including, but not limited to:

 

being permitted to present only two years of audited financial statements, in addition to any required unaudited interim financial statements, with correspondingly reduced “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” disclosure in this prospectus;
not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended or the “(“Sarbanes-Oxley ActAct”);
 
reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports, proxy statements and proxyregistration 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.

 

In addition,We may use these provisions until the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial public offering. However, if certain events occur prior to the end of such five-year period, including if we become a “large accelerated filer,” our annual gross revenues exceed $1.235 billion or we issue more than $1.0 billion of non-convertible debt in any three-year period, we will cease to be an emerging growth company prior to the end of such five-year period. The JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can take advantage of an extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards, delaying the adoptionstandards. As an emerging growth company, we intend to take advantage of these accounting standards until they would apply to private companies. We have elected to avail ourselves of this exemption and, therefore, we are not subject to the samean extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.permitted by The JOBS Act.

 

As a result,To the informationextent that we providecontinue to our stockholders may be different than you might receive from other publicqualify as a “smaller reporting companiescompany,” as such term is defined in which you hold equity interests.

We expectRule 12b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, after we cease to take advantage of these reporting exemptions until we are no longer an “emerging growth company.” We could bequalify as an emerging growth company, for upcertain of the exemptions available to five years, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier. We will remainas an emerging growth company untilmay continue to be available to us as a smaller reporting company, including: (i) not being required to comply with the earlierauditor attestation requirements of (1) the last daySection 404(b) of the fiscal year followingSarbanes Oxley Act; (ii) scaled executive compensation disclosures; and (iii) the fifth anniversaryrequirement to provide only two years of the completionaudited financial statements, instead of this offering, (2) the last daythree years.

Summary of the fiscal yearRisks Affecting Our Business

Investing in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, (3) the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which is the end of the fiscal year in which the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700.0 million ashighly speculative and involves significant risks and uncertainties. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties discussed under the section titled “Risk Factors” elsewhere in this prospectus before making a decision to invest in our common stock. Certain of the endkey risks we face include, without limitation:

We will need to raise additional capital to fund our operations in the future. If we are unsuccessful in attracting new capital, we may not be able to continue operations or may be forced to sell assets to do so. Capital may not be available to us on favorable terms, or if at all. If available, financing terms may lead to dilution of our stockholders’ equity.
Our independent registered public accounting firm has included an explanatory paragraph relating to our ability to continue as a going concern in its report on our audited financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
We have incurred significant losses since inception and continue to incur losses, and we may not be able to achieve significant revenues or profitability.
We depend on a limited number of single-source suppliers to manufacture certain components of IFP Drug Screening System, which makes us vulnerable to supply shortages and price fluctuations that could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our results may be impacted by changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
The license agreement with the Licensor, which covers technology used in our Biosensor Platform, contains risks that may have a material adverse effect on us and our business, assets and its prospects.
Neither we nor the Licensor have yet launched the SGT and the ability to do so will depend on the acceptance of the SGT in the Global healthcare market.
If the SGT fails to satisfy current or future customer requirements, we may be required to make significant expenditures to redesign the product candidate, and we may have insufficient resources to do so.
We are yet to finalize the manufacturing plan for the production of the SGT on a commercial scale, and may be dependent upon third-party manufacturers and suppliers, making us vulnerable to contractual relationships and market forces, supply problems and price fluctuations, which could harm our business.
We expect to rely in part on third-party distributors to effectively distribute our products, if our distributors fail to effectively market and sell the SGT and IFP products in full compliance with applicable laws, our operating results and business may suffer.
As we intend to conduct business internationally, we are susceptible to risks associated with international relationships, which could adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition.
If third-party payors do not provide coverage and reimbursement for the use of the SGT and IFP products, our business and prospects may be negatively impacted.
Non-United States governments often impose price controls, which may adversely affect our profitability.
The SGT and IFP Drug Screening System may contain undetected errors, which could limit our ability to provide our products and services and diminish the attractiveness of our service offerings.
We will rely on the proper function, security and availability of our information technology systems and data to operate our business, and a breach, cyber-attack or other disruption to these systems or data could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation or competitive position.
Our future performance will depend on the continued engagement of key members of our management team and the loss of one or more of those key members could have a negative impact on our business.
If we are not able to attract and retain highly skilled managerial, scientific and technical personnel, we may not be able to implement our business model successfully.
If we or our manufacturers fail to comply with applicable regulations, our proposed operations could be interrupted, and our operating results may be negatively impacted.
We may be subject to healthcare fraud and abuse laws which, if violated, could subject us to substantial penalties.
Product liability suits, whether or not meritorious, could be brought against us due to an alleged defective product or for the misuse of the SGT and IFP Drug Screening System.
If we are found to have violated laws protecting the confidentiality of patient health information, we could be subject to penalties, which could increase our liabilities and harm our reputation or our business.
The regulatory approval process which we may be required to navigate may be expensive, time-consuming, and uncertain and may prevent us from obtaining clearance for the product launch of the SGT and IFP products in certain jurisdiction or our any future product.
Clinical data obtained subsequent to the implementation of the clinical evidence module may not meet the required objectives, which could delay, limit or prevent additional regulatory approval.
We may be unable to complete required clinical evaluations, or we may experience significant delays in completing such clinical evaluations, which could prevent or significantly delay our targeted product launch timeframe and impair our business plan.
We are subject to the risk of reliance on third parties to conduct our clinical evaluation work, their inability to comply with good clinical practice and relevant regulation could adversely affect the clinical development of our product candidates and harm our business.
Our success will depend on our ability to obtain, maintain and protect our intellectual property rights.
We understand the External Administrator of the Licensor of our SGT products has given notice to a meeting of creditors to be held on July 21, 2023, to consider if the Licensor is to be placed into liquidation. This could result in, among other things, parties other than the licensor becoming the owner of the Intellectual Property (IP) rights. Accordingly, this has an inherent risk of the possibility of modifications to, or the Company’s ability to use, the Licensed Products, which could materially and adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition, and operating results.
We depend on intellectual property licensed from the Licensor for our SGT products, and any absence of legal effect of the license or dispute over the license would significantly harm our business.
We will depend primarily on the Licensor to file, prosecute, maintain, defend and enforce intellectual property that we license from it and that is material to our business.
We and the Licensor may be unable to protect or enforce the intellectual property rights licensed to us, which could impair our competitive position.
We and the Licensor have limited foreign intellectual property rights and may not be able to protect those intellectual property rights, which means that we and/or Licensor may not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions or from selling or importing products made using those inventions.
We and the Licensor may be subject to claims challenging the invention of the intellectual property we license.
Our products and operations are subject to extensive government regulation and oversight. If we fail to obtain and maintain necessary regulatory approvals current IFP products, or if approvals for future products and indications are delayed or not issued, it will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We are subject to certain federal, state and foreign fraud and abuse laws, health information privacy and security laws and transparency laws, which, if violated, could subject us to substantial penalties and negatively affect our business.
We face intense competition in the self-monitoring of glucose market, particularly blood-based products, and as a result we may be unable to effectively compete in our industry.
If we or the Licensor fail to respond quickly to technological or other developments, our products may become uncompetitive and obsolete.
Fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies may have a material adverse effect on your investment.
Changes in the economic, political or social conditions or government policies in Asia-Pacific region (the “APAC Region”) could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.
We may not be able to satisfy the continued listing requirements of Nasdaq or maintain the listing of our common stock on Nasdaq.
We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. If our remediation of the material weaknesses is not effective, or if we experience additional material weaknesses in the future or otherwise fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls in the future, we may not be able to accurately or timely report our financial condition or results of operations, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and, as a result, the value of our common stock.
We are obligated to maintain a system of effective internal control over financial reporting. We may not complete our analysis of our internal control over financial reporting in a timely manner, or these internal controls may not be determined to be effective, which may harm investor confidence in our company and the value of our common stock.
We are an emerging growth company and currently have limited accounting personnel and other supervisory resources.
Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish rights to our technologies or products.
If we are unable to achieve certain agreed milestones for the government grant we received, we may become liable to refund the grant we received.
We may have difficulties integrating acquired businesses and as result, our business, results of operations and/or financial condition may be materially adversely affected.
 Because our management will have broad discretion and flexibility in how the net proceeds from this offering are used, our management may use the net proceeds in ways with which you disagree or which may not prove effective.
The liquidity and trading volume of our common stock could be low, and our ownership will be concentrated.
There is no public market for the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or warrants being offered.
The market price of our common stock may be highly volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
You will incur immediate and substantial dilution as a result of this offering.
The terms of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and the warrants could impede our ability to enter into certain transactions or obtain additional financing.
Holders of warrants purchased in this offering will have no rights as stockholders until such holders exercise their warrants and acquire our shares of common stock, except as set forth in the warrants.

Corporate Information

Our principal executive offices are located at 142 West, 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Our telephone number is (646) 828-8258 and our website address is www.ibs.inc. We do not incorporate by reference into this prospectus the information on our website, and you should not consider it as part of our most recent second fiscal quarter, and (4) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.this prospectus.

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The OfferingTHE OFFERING

 

SecuritiesClass A Units offered by us:us 

Each Unit consistsWe are offering [●] Class A units, each Class A unit consisting of (a) one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase [●] share of common stock.

Public Offering Price Per Class A Unit$[●] per Class A Unit based upon an assumed public offering price of $[●], the closing price of our common stock (or, at the purchaser’s election, one share of Serieson The Nasdaq Capital Market on July [●], 2023.
Class B Convertible Preferred Stock), (b) one Series A warrant (the “Series A Warrants”) to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $8.50 per share (or 50% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth  anniversary of the issuance date, and (c) one Series B warrant (the “Series B Warrants,” and together with the Series A Warrants, the “Warrants”) to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $17 per share (or 100% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date and subject to certain adjustment and cashless exercise provisions as described herein. The shares of our common stock and the Warrants are immediately separable and will be issued separately, but will be purchased together in this offering.

Units offered by us

We are also offering to those purchasers, if any, whose purchase of common stockClass A Units in this offering would otherwise result in suchthe purchaser, together with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, prior to the date of issuance, 9.99%) of our outstanding shares of common stock immediately following the consummation of this offering, the opportunity to substitutepurchase, if such purchasers so choose, Class B Units, in lieu of Class A Units that would otherwise result in any such purchaser’s beneficial ownership exceeding 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser, 9.99%) of our outstanding shares of common stock. Each Class B Unit consists of one share of Series BE Convertible Preferred Stock referredconvertible into one share of common stock and one warrant to as “Preferred Stock” forpurchase [●] share of common stock (together with the shares of our common stock included inunderlying such shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants).
Public Offering Price Per Class B Unit$[●] per Class B Unit based upon an assumed public offering price of $[●], the Units purchasedclosing price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on July [●], 2023.
Warrants offered by that investor.usEach unit includes one warrant will have an exercise price of $ [●] per share, will be immediately exercisable upon issuance and will expire on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date. This prospectus also relates to the offering of the shares of common stock issuable upon conversionexercise of the Preferred Stock.

Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible into one share of our common stock (subject to adjustment as provided in the related designation of preferences) at any time at the option of the holder, provided that the holder will be prohibited from converting Preferred Stock into shares of our common stock if, as a result of such conversion, the holder, together with its affiliates, would own more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser prior to the date of issuance, 9.99%) of the total number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding. However, any holder may increase such percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99%, provided that any increase in such percentage shall not be effective until 61 days after such notice to us.

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution, or winding up, holders of our Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive the amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would be entitled to receive with respect to such shares of Preferred Stock if such shares had been converted to common stock immediately prior to such event (without giving effect for such purposes to any beneficial ownership limitation), subject to the preferential rights of holders of any class or series of our capital stock specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Preferred Stock as to distributions of assets upon such event, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

The holders of the Preferred Stock have no voting rights, except as required by law. Any amendment to our certificate of incorporation that adversely affects the powers, preferences and rights of the Preferred Stock requires the approval of the holders of a majority of the shares of Preferred Stock then outstanding.

The holders of our Preferred Stock are entitled to receive dividends on shares of Preferred Stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis, without giving effect for such purposes to any beneficial ownership limitation) to and in the same form as dividends actually paid on shares of the common stock when such dividends are specifically declared by our board of directors.

Common stock outstanding prior to this offering:

5,630,000 shares

warrants.
   
CommonShares of common stock outstanding afterbefore this offering:offering 

10,209,562 shares (assuming no purchaser elects to purchase shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock in lieu of2,330,399 shares of common stock).

stock (as of July 10, 2023)
   
Over-allotment option:Shares of common stock to be outstanding after this offering* 

[●]shares of common stock (or [●] shares of common stock if the underwriters exercise their option in full) (assuming the sale of all units covered by this prospectus, no sale of Class B Units, no exercise of any warrants issued in this offering).

Underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares and/or warrantsWe have granted the underwriterunderwriters an option, exercisable one or more times in whole or in part, to purchase up to 158,824 additional shares of common stock and/or Series A Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 158,824 shares of common stock, and/or Series B Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 158,824 shares of common stock, in any combinations thereof, from us at the public offering price per security, less the underwriting discounts and commissions, for 45forty-five (45) days after the date of this prospectus, to cover over-allotments, if any. See “Underwriting” beginning on page 102 forpurchase up to an additional information.

Because the[●] shares of common stock and/or [●] warrants will not be listed on a national securities exchange or other nationally recognized trading market, the underwriters will be unable to satisfy any overallotment of shares and warrants without exercising the underwriters’ overallotment option with respect to the warrants. As a result, the underwriters will exercise their overallotment option for all of the warrants which are over-allotted, if any, at the timepublic offering price less the underwriting discounts payable by us, which may be purchased in any combination of the initial offering of the shares and the warrants. However, because our common stock is publicly traded, the underwriters may satisfy some or all of the overallotment of shares of our common stock, if any, by purchasing shares in the open market and will have no obligation to exercise the overallotment option with respect to our common stock.

warrants.
   
Use of proceeds:Representative Warrants We have agreed to issue to the representative warrants, or the Representative Warrants, to purchase up to [●] shares of common stock (or [●] shares of common stock assuming the exercise of the over-allotment option) as a portion of the compensation payable to the representative in connection with this offering. The Representative Warrants will be immediately exercisable upon issuance at an exercise price equal to $ [●] per share of common stock, expire on the fifth anniversary of the commencement of sales of this offering, and are otherwise in substantially similar form to the warrants issued in the offering. The Representative Warrants and the shares of common stock underlying the Representative Warrants are being registered on the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. See “Underwriting” on page 69.
Use of proceedsWe estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering of approximately $ [●], or $ [●] if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, based upon an assumed public offering price of $[●] per Class A Unit. We intend to use the net proceeds received from this offering (i) to obtain regulatory approvals, including completing any product development required to meet regulatory requirements and establishing manufacturing facilities with sufficient capacity for clinical evaluation and commercial scale production of the SGT; and (ii) to market the SGT and establish a distribution network in the APAC Region. The remaining net proceeds, if any, are expected to be used for working capital and other general corporate purposes. See “Use of Proceeds.”purposes and working capital.
   
LockupsRisk factors 

Our executive officers, directors, and stockholders holding 5% or more of our common stock prior toYou should carefully consider the offering, collectively, have agreed withrisk factors described in the underwriters not to sell, transfer or dispose of any shares or similar securities for a period of six months following the closingsection of this offering.

We have also agreed, for a periodprospectus titled “Risk Factors,” together with all of six months after the closing ofother information included and incorporated by reference in this offering, notprospectus, before deciding to sell, transfer or dispose of any shares or similar securities, subject to certain exceptions.

invest in our securities.
   
Underwriters’ warrantsMarket and trading symbol 

Upon the closing of this offering, we will issue to Dawson James, as representative of the underwriters, warrants entitling the representative to purchase 5% of the aggregate number of shares ofOur common stock issued in this offering (including the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock). The warrants shall be exercisable at an exercise price of 110% of the public offering price per unit for a period of five years from the commencement of sales pursuant to this Registration Statement on Form S-1 of which this prospectus forms a part. For additional information, please refer to the Underwriting section on page 102.

Proposed listing:We have applied to list our common stockis listed on the NASDAQ GlobalNasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “GBS.” Although we expect our common stock“INBS”. We do not intend to be listedlist the shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or the warrants on the NASDAQ Global Market, there can be no assurance that an activeany securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system. Without a trading market, the liquidity of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or the warrants will develop.
Risk factors:An investment in our company is highly speculative and involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” and other information included in this prospectus for a discussion of factors you should carefully consider before deciding to invest in our securities.be extremely limited.

 

On November 5, 2017, we effected a 1-for-90,000 forward stock split, which resulted* Unless otherwise stated in our having 9,000,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. On August 9, 2018, we effected a 1-for-0.9167 reverse stock split, which resulted in our having 8,250,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. On November 24, 2018, we issued 260,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $1,950,000 in debt, resulting in 8,510,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. Share and per share amounts set forth herein (except in any historical financial information) give effect to the reverse split, unless indicated otherwise.

On June 27, 2019, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd or the Licensor, our controlling stockholder, transferred a total of 36,600 shares of our common stocks to a total of 122 employees of the Licensor and related companies, and on September 2, 2019, the Licensor transferred a total of 42,000 shares of our common stocks to a total of 140 employees of the Licensor and related companies, in each case pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

On June 30, 2020, we issued 120,000 shares of common stock to Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd in exchange for the cancellation of $900,000 in debt, resulting in 8,630,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. Therefore, as at the date of this prospectus, the Licensor owns a total of 8,551,400 shares of our common stock representing 99.1% of our outstanding common stock. Share and per share amounts set forth herein (except in any historical financial information) give effect to the issue, unless indicated otherwise.

The number of shares of common stock outstanding as of the date of this prospectus and after this offering is based on 5,630,0002,330,399 shares outstanding as of July 10, 2023, and assumes (i) the sale of [●] Class A Units based on an assumed public offering price of $[●], the last reported sales price of our shares of common stock issuedon the Nasdaq Capital Market on [●], 2023; (ii) no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option; (iii) no exercise of the warrants included in this offering; (iv) no sale of Class B Units and outstanding asno conversion of December 18, 2020Series E Convertible Preferred Stock included in the Class B Units; and excludes the following:following other securities:

 

2,736,675[●] shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants issued in connection with a weighted-average exercise price of $[●] per share+;

[●] shares of common stock issuable upon the placementconversion of our Series AC Convertible Preferred Stock at an exercise price of $8.50 per share (or 50% ofreserved for issuance by the unit offering price in this offering), which warrants are exercisable only during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the closing of this offering;

Company+; and
500,000up to an aggregate of 100,000 shares that will become availableof common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2019 EquityLong Term Incentive Plan or the “2019 Plan”; and

55,555 shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants to be issued to the underwriters upon the closing of this offering.

(the “2019 Plan”)

Unless expressly indicated or the context requires otherwise, all information in this prospectus assumes no exercise by the representative of the over-allotment option and further assumes:

the automatic conversion at the closing of this offering of 2,810,190 outstanding shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock as of the date hereof into 2,810,190 shares of common stock; and

the automatic conversion at the closing of this offering of the convertible notes issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary, Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd, or “GBS Pty Ltd,” at a conversion price equal to 85% of 50% of the unit offering price in this offering (or $7.23, assuming a unit offering price of $17.00, for an aggregate of 710,548 shares based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020).

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Summary Financial Data

You should read the following summary financial data together with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing at the end of this prospectus, “Capitalization,” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” We have derived the financial data for the three months+Approximate amounts. Actual amounts may differ due to September 30, 2020 from our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. We have derived the financial data for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2020 and 2019 from our audited consolidated financial statements included in this prospectus.rounding.

  For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2019  For the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2020  For Three Months to September 30, 2020  Pro Forma
 (1)
  Pro Forma As Adjusted (2) 
Results of Operations Data:                    
Other income $188  $188,841  $55,497  $55,497  $55,497 
Net loss  (7,336,686)  (3,134,602)  (1,068,105)  (1,068,105)  (1,068,105)
Basic and diluted net loss per share  (0.88)  (0.37)  (0.12)  (0.12)  (0.11)
Weighted average number of shares outstanding  8,382,685   8,510,329   8,630,000   8,933,764   

9,551,411

 

        September 30, 2020 
  As of June 30, 2019  As of June 30, 2020  As of September 30, 2020  Pro Forma
 (1)
  Pro Forma As Adjusted (2) 
Balance Sheet Data:                    
                     
Cash $197,940  $427,273  $994,186  $994,186  $17,054,186 
Working capital  (3,997,138)  (5,350,520)  (3,031,961)  2,101,745   16,298,132 
Total assets  2,327,950   2,475,640   2,906,156   2,906,156   17,102,543 
Total liabilities  6,305,088   7,690,468   5,953,722   820,016   820,016 
Stockholders’ equity (deficit)  (3,977,138)  (5,214,828)  (3,047,566)  2,086,140   16,282,527 

(1)

the number of the Pro Forma Common Stock shares 8,933,764, comprises of

5,630,000 common stock shares outstanding as of December 18, 2020.

the mandatory conversion at the closing of this offering of 2,810,190 outstanding shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock as of the date hereof into 2,810,190 shares of common stock; and

the mandatory conversion at the closing of this offering of the convertible notes issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd, at a conversion price equal to 85% of 50% of the unit offering price in this offering (or $7.23, assuming a unit offering price of $17.00, for an aggregate of 710,548 shares based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020).

(2)Reflects the sale and issuance of all the shares of common stock offered hereby, at an assumed public offering price of $17.00 per share, after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us.
(3)

The weighted average number of shares outstanding is calculated using the proportion of the reporting period ending June 30th, 2021 which remains after this offering.

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

Investing in our securities involvesOur business is subject to a high degreenumber of risk.risks. You should carefully consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described below,following risk factors, together with all of the other information included or incorporated by reference in this prospectus,report, including those in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the consolidated financial statementsSEC, as supplemented by our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, before making an investment decision. These factors are not intended to represent a complete list of the general or specific risks that may affect us. It should be recognized that other risks may be significant, presently or in the future, and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, before deciding whetherrisks set forth below may affect us to invest in shares of our common stock. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Additional risks and uncertainties that we are unaware of, or that we currently believe are not material, may also become important factors that adversely affect our business.a greater extent than indicated. If any of the following risks actually occurs,occur, our business, financial condition and results of operations and future prospects could be materially and adversely affected. In that event,such case, the markettrading price of our common stock could decline, and you couldmany lose partall or allpart of your investment.

Risks Related to Our Financial Condition and Capital Requirements

 

COVID-19 may impact our operations.

On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency of international concernForward-looking statements in this document and on March 10, 2020, declared it to be a pandemic. Actions taken around the world to help mitigate the spread of the coronavirus include restrictions on travel, and quarantines in certain areas, and forced closures for certain types of public places and businesses. The COVID-19 coronavirus and actions taken to mitigate it have had and are expected to continue to have an adverse impact on the economies and financial markets of many countries, including the geographical area in whichthose we operate.

Although COVID-19 has begun to show signs of stabilization in certain regions, the potential impact brought by and the duration of the COVID-19 outbreak is difficult to assess or predict and the full impact of the virus on our operations will depend on many factors beyond our control. For instance, our business operations may be adversely affected if global economies continue to be affected by COVID-19. While it is unknown how long these conditions will last and what the complete financial effect will be to our company, we are closely monitoring its impact on us. Our business, results of operations, financial conditions and prospects could be materially adversely affected to the extent that COVID-19 harms the global economy in general, and the trading price of our stock may be adversely affected. In addition, the Company expects the impact of COVID-19 on the Company’s capital and financial resources to be minimal. Its ability to raise money from the capital market by issuing equity may be adversely affected by the pandemic, and the cost of capital will likely be higher. The Company does not expect any material impairments as a result of the impact by COVID-19 pandemic. While the Company has not experienced challenges in implementing its business plans in the near-term, or requiring material expenditures to do so, if the pandemic continues and/or there is a second wave of COVID-19, the Company is likely to need more expenditures to sustain its operations.

We are subject to the risks associated with new businesses.

We were formed in December 2016 as a new business with a plan to commercialize our licensed technology. Our limited operating history may not be adequate to enable you to fully assess our ability to develop and market the SGT and other tests based on the Biosensor Platform, achieve market acceptance of the COV2 Test (“COV2T”) and/or SGT and such other tests and respond to competition. Our efforts to date have related to the organization and formation of our company, strategic planning, product research and development and preparation for commencing regulatory trials and have depended on support from the Licensor and its affiliates. We have not yet generated revenue, and we cannot guarantee we will ever be able to generate revenues. Therefore, we are, and expect for the foreseeable future to be, subject to all the risks and uncertainties, inherent in a new business focused on the development and sale of new medical devices and related software applications. As a result, we may be unable to further develop, obtain regulatory approval for, manufacture, market, sell and derive revenues from the COV2 Test (“COV2T”) and/or SGT and the other products in our pipeline based on the Biosensor Platform, and our inability to do so would materially and adversely impact our viability. In addition, we still must optimize many functions necessary to operate a business, including expanding our managerial, personnel and administrative structure, continuing product research and development, and assessing and commencing our marketing activities.

Accordingly, you should consider our prospects in light of the costs, uncertainties, delays and difficulties frequently encountered by companies that have not yet commercialized their products or services, particularly those in the medical device and digital heath fields. In particular, potential investors should consider that there is a significant risk that we will not be able to:

implement or execute our current business plan, or that our business plan is sound;
maintain our management team and Board of Directors;
determine that the technologies that have been developed are commercially viable;
attract, enter into or maintain contracts with, and retain customers; and
raise any necessary additional funds in the capital markets or otherwise to effectuate our business plan.

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In the event that we do not successfully address these risks, our business, prospects, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We have incurred significant losses since inception and may not be able to achieve significant revenues or profitability.

Since our inception, we have engaged primarily in development activities. We have financed our operations primarily through financing from private capital raising and support from our controlling stockholder, and have incurred losses since inception, including a net loss of $5,020,383 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, a net loss of $7,336,686 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, a net loss of $3,134,602 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 and a net loss of $ 1,068,105 for three months to September 30 2020. We do not know whether or when we will become profitable. Our ability to generate revenue and achieve profitability depends upon our ability, alone or with others, to complete the development process of our products, including regulatory approvals, and thereafter achieve substantial acceptance in the marketplace for our products. We may be unable to achieve any or all of these goals.

Our current financial condition raises substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern.

Since inception, we have incurred losses and negative cash flows from operating activities. We do not expect to generate positive cash flows from operating activities until such time, if at all, that we complete the development process of our products, including regulatory approvals, and thereafter achieve substantial acceptance in the marketplace for our products. We incurred a net loss of $5,020,383 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018, a net loss of $7,336,686 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, a net loss of $3,134,602 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 and a net loss of $ 1,068,105 for three months to September 30 2020. At September 30, 2020, we had an accumulated deficit of $16,905,027, negative working capital of $3,031,961, current liabilities of $5,938,117 (of which $5,133,706 is the aggregate outstanding principal amount of convertible notes issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary GBS Pty Ltd that will convert to common stock upon the closing of this offering), and cash of $994,186. These factors may raise doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern. Our consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. If we become unable to continue as a going concern, we may have to liquidate our assets and the values we receive for our assets in liquidation or dissolution could be significantly lower than the values reflected in our consolidated financial statements. Should we encounter a scenario whereby sufficient capital is not available, the two shareholders of our controlling stockholder have committed to provide sufficient financial assistance to us as and when it is needed for us to continue our operations until November 2021. The two shareholders of our controlling stockholder also have committed to purchase,make from time to time up to $9,300,000 in shares ofthrough our common stock, at a purchase price equalsenior management are made pursuant to the greatersafe harbor provisions of the public offering price in this offeringPrivate Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements concerning the expected future revenue or earnings or concerning projected plans, performance, or development of products and the market price at the timeservices, as well as other estimates related to future operations are necessarily only estimates of the investment, in order to allow us to continue to meet the stockholders’ equity requirements until the second anniversary of this offering. See Note 1 tofuture results. We cannot assure you that actual results will not materially differ from expectations. Forward-looking statements represent our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020current expectations and Note 1 to our consolidated financial statements for the three month ended September 30, 2020 included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Given our lack of revenue and our negative cash flow, we may need to raise additional capital, which may be unavailable to us or, even if consummated, may cause dilution or place significant restrictions on our ability to operate.

According to our management’s estimates, based on our budget and proposed schedules of development, approvals and organization, we believe, although there can be no assurances, that after this offering we will have sufficient capital resources to enable us to continue to implement our business plan and remain in operation for at least the next 30 months.are inherently uncertain. We do not anticipate generatingundertake any revenues for at least 6-10 months from the date of this offering, if at all, and our revenues will not immediately be sufficientobligation to finance our ongoing operations. In addition, available resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently anticipated, and there can be no assurance that we will be successful in developing the COV2 Test (“COV2T”) and/or SGT and generating sufficient revenue in the timeframe set forth above, or at all. We may also need additional funding for developing new products and services and for additional sales, marketing and promotional activities. Accordingly, we may need to seek additional equity or debt financing earlier than anticipated to provide the capital required to maintain or expand our operations.

We may raise additional capital through sales of equity securities or the incurrence of debt. See “—Risks Related to This Offering and the Ownership of Our Common Stockupdate forward-looking statements..” For example, the two shareholders of our controlling stockholder have committed to provide sufficient financial assistance to us as and when it is needed for us to continue our operations until November 2021. The two shareholders of our controlling stockholder also have committed to purchase, from time to time, up to $9,300,000 in shares of our common stock, at a purchase price equal to the greater of the public offering price in this offering and the market price at the time of the investment, in order to allow us to continue to meet the stockholders’ equity requirements of the NASDAQ Global Market until the second anniversary of this offering. Except for these commitments, we do not currently have any arrangements or credit facilities in place as a source of funds, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to raise sufficient additional capital on acceptable terms, or at all. If such financing is not available on satisfactory terms, or is not available at all, we may be required to delay, scale back or eliminate the development of business opportunities and our operations and financial condition may be materially adversely affected.

 

Risks Related to Our Business

 

We will need to raise additional capital to fund our operations in the future. If we are unsuccessful in attracting new capital, we may not be able to continue operations or may be forced to sell assets to do so. Alternatively, capital may not be available to us on favorable terms, or if at all. If available, financing terms may lead to significant dilution of our stockholders’ equity.

We are not profitable and have had negative cash flow from operations since our inception. To fund our operations and develop and commercialize our products (including the SGT and planned applications of IFP Drug Screening System), we have relied primarily on equity and debt financings and government support income. The License AgreementCompany expects that its cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2023, of approximately $2,280,544, will be insufficient to allow the Company to fund its current operating plan through the twelve months from the issuance of its financial statements for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2023. These conditions raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least one year from the date those financial statements were issued. Accordingly, the Company is required to raise additional funds during the 12 months following the issuance of those financial statements. Additional capital may not be available at such times or amounts as needed by us.

Based on our planned use of the net proceeds from this offering and our existing cash, we estimate that such funds will be sufficient to enable us to fund our working capital needs and operating expenses for at least the next [●] months. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be incorrect, and we could use our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect. Our existing cash and cash equivalents as of the date of this prospectus, together with the Licensor,estimated net proceeds from this offering, may or may not be sufficient to fund our controlling stockholder,working capital needs and operating expenses. To obtain the capital necessary to fund our operations, we expect to finance our cash needs through public or private equity offerings, debt financings and/or other capital sources.

Even if capital is available, it might be available only on unfavorable terms. Any additional equity or convertible debt financing into which we enter could be dilutive to our existing stockholders. Any future debt financing into which we enter may impose covenants upon us that restrict our operations, including limitations on our ability to incur liens or additional debt, pay dividends, repurchase our stock, make certain investments and engage in certain merger, consolidation or asset sale transactions. Any debt financing or additional equity that we raise may contain terms that are not favorable to us or our stockholders. If we raise additional funds through collaboration and licensing arrangements with third parties, we may need to relinquish rights to our technologies or our products or grant licenses on terms that are not favorable to us. If access to sufficient capital is not available as and when needed, our business will be materially impaired, and we may be required to cease operations, curtail one or more product development or commercialization programs, scale back or eliminate the development of business opportunities, or significantly reduce expenses, sell assets, seek a merger or joint venture partner, file for protection from creditors or liquidate all of our assets. Any of these factors could harm our operating results.

Our independent registered public accounting firm has included an explanatory paragraph relating to our ability to continue as a going concern in its report on our audited financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. 

The report from our independent registered public accounting firm for the year ended June 30, 2022, includes an explanatory paragraph stating that our losses from operations and required additional funding to finance our operations raise substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern for a period of one year after the date the financial statements are issued. If we are unable to obtain sufficient funding, our business, prospects, financial condition and results of operations will be materially and adversely affected, and we may be unable to continue as a going concern. If we are unable to continue as a going concern, we may have to liquidate our assets and may receive less than the value at which those assets are carried on our audited financial statements, and it is likely that investors will lose all or a part of their investment. If we seek additional financing to fund our business activities in the future and there remains substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern, investors or other financing sources may be unwilling to provide additional funding to us on commercially reasonable terms or at all. There can be no assurance that the current operating plan will be achieved in the time frame anticipated by us, or that our cash resources will fund our operating plan for the period anticipated by the Company or that additional funding will be available on terms acceptable to us, or at all.

We are subject to the risks associated with new businesses generally.

We were formed in December 2016 as a new business with a plan to commercialize our licensed technology. Our limited operating history may not be adequate to enable you to fully assess our ability to develop and market the SGT and other tests based on the Biosensor Platform, achieve market acceptance of the SGT and such other tests and respond to competition. Our efforts to date have related to the organization and formation of our company, strategic planning, product research and development and preparation for commencing regulatory trials. We acquired IFP in October 2022, which generates minimal revenue. Prior to the acquisition of IFP, the Company’s operations generated no revenue other than income classified as governmental support income received in connection with grants from Australian Government. As at the date of this filing, revenue generated from the sales of IFP products are not enough to cover our operation costs. Therefore, we are, and expect for the foreseeable future to be, subject to all the risks and uncertainties, inherent in a new business focused on the development and sale of new medical devices and related software applications. As a result, we may be unable to further develop, obtain regulatory approval for, manufacture, market, sell and derive revenues from the SGT and the other products in our pipeline based on the Biosensor Platform, and our inability to do so would materially and adversely impact our business. In addition, we still must optimize many functions necessary to operate a business, including expanding our managerial, personnel and administrative structure, continuing product research and development, and assessing and commencing our marketing activities.

In addition, in connection with our recent acquisition of IFP, there are risks relating to the integration of IFP with IBS, including with regard to integrating technology, processes, information systems and other matters that can lead to challenges in economies of scale and leadership.

Accordingly, you should consider our prospects in light of the costs, uncertainties, delays and difficulties frequently encountered by companies that have not yet commercialized their products or services, particularly those in the medical device and digital health fields. In particular, potential investors should consider that there is a significant risk that we will not be able to:

implement or execute our current business plan, or that our business plan is sound;
maintain our management team and Board of Directors;
determine that the technologies that have been developed are commercially viable;
attract, enter into or maintain contracts with, and retain customers; and
raise any necessary additional funds in the capital markets or otherwise to effectuate our business plan.

In the event that we do not successfully address these risks, our business, prospects, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected.

We have incurred significant losses since inception and continue to incur losses, and we may not be able to achieve significant revenues or profitability.

Since our inception, we have engaged primarily in development activities. We have financed our operations primarily through financing from the issuance of common stock, convertible preferred stock, convertible notes and the incurrence of debt and have incurred losses since inception, including a net loss of $3,163,776 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, a net loss of $7,037,286 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2021 and a net loss of $8,306,051 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. On unaudited pro-forma basis and prepared as if we closed the IFP Acquisition (defined below) on July 1, 2021 (and including adjustments for amortization related to the valuation of acquired intangibles) we incurred a net loss of $12,220,415 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022. We also incurred a net loss of $7,972,799 (including goodwill impairment of $4,096,490) for the 9-month interim period ended March 31, 2023. We do not know whether or when we will become profitable.

Our ability to generate revenue and achieve profitability depends upon our ability, alone or with others, to complete the development process of our products, including regulatory approvals, and achieve substantial acceptance in the marketplace for our existing IFP products. We may be unable to achieve any or all of these goals.

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We rely on third parties to perform certain confirmatory tests for our IFP Drug Screening System.

We rely on third-party service providers to analyze samples collected from our confirmatory kit of the IFP Drug Screening System. We contract with third-party laboratory service provider to perform confirmation testing on the samples collected. This service is critical and there are relatively few alternatives. These third-party service providers may be unwilling or unable to provide the necessary services reliably and at the levels we anticipate or that are required by the market. While these third-party service providers have generally met our demand for their services on a timely basis in the past, we cannot guarantee that they will in the future be able to meet our demand for their services or our service providers may decide in the future to discontinue or reduce the level of business they conduct with us. If we are required to change service providers for any reason, including due to any change in or termination of our relationships with these third parties, we may lose sales, experience delays, incur increased costs or otherwise experience impairment to our customer relationships. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to establish alternative relationships on similar terms, without delay or at all.

We depend on a limited number of single-source suppliers to manufacture certain components of IFP Drug Screening System, which makes us vulnerable to supply shortages and price fluctuations that could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We rely on single-source suppliers for certain components of our IFP Drug Screening System and materials for our other current products. These components and materials are critical and there are no or relatively few alternative sources of supply. These single-source suppliers may be unwilling or unable to supply the necessary materials and components or manufacture and assemble our products reliably and at the levels we anticipate or that are required by the market. While our suppliers have generally met our demand for their products and services on a timely basis in the past, we cannot guarantee that they will in the future be able to meet our demand for their products or our suppliers may decide in the future to discontinue or reduce the level of business they conduct with us. If we are required to change suppliers due to any change in or termination of our relationships with these third parties, or if our suppliers are unable to obtain the materials, they need to produce our products at consistent prices or at all, we may lose sales, experience manufacturing or other delays, incur increased costs or otherwise experience impairment to our customer relationships. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to establish alternative relationships on similar terms, without delay or at all.

If we fail to retain marketing and sales personnel, or if we fail to increase our marketing and sales capabilities as we grow, or if we fail to develop broad awareness of our product in a cost-effective manner, we may not be able to generate revenue growth.

We have limited experience marketing and selling our products. We currently primarily rely on our direct sales force to sell our products in targeted geographic regions and distributors in certain regions including the United Kingdom, and any failure to maintain and grow our direct sales force will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. The members of our direct sales force are highly trained and possess substantial technical expertise, which we believe is critical in increasing adoption of our products. The members of our U.K. sales force are at-will employees. The loss of these personnel to competitors, or otherwise, will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. If we are unable to retain our direct sales force personnel or replace them with individuals of equivalent technical expertise and qualifications, or if we are unable to successfully install such technical expertise in replacement personnel, it may negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In order to generate future growth, we plan to continue to expand and leverage our sales and marketing infrastructure to increase the number of customers. Identifying and recruiting qualified sales and marketing personnel and training them on our product, on applicable laws and regulations and on our internal policies and procedures requires significant time, expense and attention. It often takes several months or more before a sales representative is fully trained and productive. Our sales force may subject us to higher fixed costs than those of companies with competing techniques or products that utilize independent third parties, which could place us at a competitive disadvantage. It will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations if our efforts to expand and train our sales force do not generate a corresponding increase in revenue, and our higher fixed costs may slow our ability to reduce costs in the face of a sudden decline in demand for our products. Any failure to hire, develop and retain talented sales personnel, to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time or timely reduce fixed costs, could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our ability to increase our customer base and achieve broader market acceptance of our product will depend to a significant extent on our ability to expand our marketing efforts. We plan to dedicate significant resources to our marketing programs, as we plan to further plan to expand our geographical reach especially in the APAC Region and the North America region. It will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations if our marketing efforts and expenditures do not generate a corresponding increase in revenue. In addition, we believe that developing and maintaining broad awareness of our product in a cost-effective manner is critical to achieving broad acceptance of our product and expanding domestically and internationally.

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Our results of operations will be materially harmed if we are unable to accurately forecast customer demand for our products and manage our inventory.

To ensure adequate inventory supply, we must forecast inventory needs and manufacture our products based on our estimates of future demand for our solution. Our ability to accurately forecast demand for our solution could be negatively affected by many factors, including our failure to accurately manage our expansion strategy, product introductions by competitors, an increase or decrease in customer demand for our products or products of our competitors, our failure to accurately forecast customer acceptance of new products, unanticipated changes in general market conditions or regulatory matters and weakening of economic conditions or consumer confidence in future economic conditions.

Inventory levels in excess of customer demand may result in inventory write-downs or write-offs, which would cause our gross margin to be adversely affected and could impair the strength of our brand. Conversely, if we underestimate customer demand for our products, our internal manufacturing team may not be able to deliver products to meet our requirements, and this could result in damage to our reputation and customer relationships. In addition, if we experience a significant increase in demand, additional supplies of raw materials or additional manufacturing capacity may not be available when required on terms that are acceptable to us, or at all, or suppliers or may not be able to allocate sufficient capacity in order to meet our increased requirements, which will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We seek to maintain sufficient levels of inventory in order to protect ourselves from supply interruptions. As a result, we are subject to the risk that a portion of our inventory will become obsolete or expire, which could have a material adverse effect on our earnings and cash flows due to the resulting costs associated with the inventory impairment charges and costs required to replace such inventory.

If our facilities become damaged or inoperable, we will be unable to continue to research, develop and supply our product which could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations until we are able to secure a new facility and rebuild our inventory.

We do not have redundant facilities. We perform substantially all of our manufacturing, research and development and back office activity for our IFP products in a single location at our Cambridge office in the United Kingdom. We store our finished goods inventory at the same facility. Our facilities, equipment and inventory would be costly to replace and could require substantial lead time to repair or replace. The facilities will be harmed or rendered inoperable by natural or man-made disasters, including, but not limited to, earthquakes, flooding, fire and power outages, which may render it difficult or impossible for us to perform our research, development and commercialization activities for some period of time for IFP Drug Screening System. The inability to perform those activities, combined with the time it may take to rebuild our manufacturing capabilities, inventory of finished product, may result in the loss of customers or harm to our reputation. Although we possess insurance for damage to our property and the disruption of our business, this insurance may not be sufficient to cover all of our potential losses and this insurance may not continue to be available to us on acceptable terms, or at all.

Our ability to achieve profitability depends in part on maintaining or increasing our gross margins on product sales which we may not be able to achieve.

A number of factors may adversely impact our gross margins on product sales and services, including:

lower than expected manufacturing yields of high cost components leading to increased manufacturing costs;
shortages of electric components resulting in higher prices or an inability to supply key parts;
low production volume which will result in high levels of overhead cost per unit of production;
the timing of revenue recognition and revenue deferrals;
increased material or labor costs;
increased service or warranty costs or the failure to reduce service or warranty costs;
increased price competition;
variation in the margins across products in a particular period; and
how well we execute on our strategic and operating plans.

If we are unable to maintain or increase our gross margins on product sales, our results of operations could be adversely impacted, we may not achieve profitability and our stock price could decline.

Our results may be impacted by changes in foreign currency exchange rates. 

A significant proportion of our sales are outside of the United States, and a majority of those are denominated in foreign currencies, which exposes us to foreign currency risks, including changes in currency exchange rates. We do not currently engage in any hedging transactions. If we are unable to address these risks and challenges effectively, our international operations may not be successful, and our business could be harmed.

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The license agreement with the Licensor, which covers the license of the core technology used in our Biosensor Platform products, contains significant risks that may threaten our viability or otherwise have a material adverse effect on us and our business, assets and its prospects.

As noted above in the discussion of the Technology License Agreement executed by the Company and Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd. dated as of June 23, 2020, the Company is the global licensee and intends to introduce and launch COV2 diagnostic tests across the US, Europe, APAC and the rest of the world through appropriately qualified distributors and includes the terms and related risks set forth below.

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The Amended and Restated Technology License Agreement dated September 12, 2019, which amends and restates all previous license agreements (the “SGT License Agreement”) is limited to the APAC Region and includes the terms and related risks set forth below.Region. We have no contractual rights to the intellectual property covered in the SGT License Agreement other than as expressly set forth therein. Our plans, business, prospects and viability are substantially dependent on that intellectual property and subject to the limitations relating thereto as set forth in the SGT License Agreement:

 

The SGT license granted to us is limited in territorial scope. The Licensor of which we are currently a 99.1%-owned subsidiary, and which will continue to own a majority of our outstanding common stock immediately following this offering, granted us a license to its proprietary rights in the biosensor technology used in the Licensed Productsproducts from Licensor (the “Licensed Products”) solely in the APAC Region, and primarily to act as authorized party for obtaining regulatory approval and to manufacture (subject to being approved as an Authorized Supplier by the Licensor) for use in the APAC Region, and to promote, market, import, offer sell and distribute the Licensed Products in the APAC Region. We may not exploit or seek to exploit any rights in respect of the Licensed Product outside of the APAC Region through any means, including digitally or online where the end user is not physically resident in the APAC Region. Accordingly, to the extent that such users are prohibited, we will be unable to realize any commercialization from such users and ensure that such users do not do business with us, even as such commercialization and business might be appropriate, related, synergistic or enhanced by our operations. In addition, we may be responsible for costs and other liabilities that might arise to the extent that users outside the APAC Region obtain such access and may incur costs to comply with these prohibitions. Further, the non-coverage of digital or online use for users not physically in the APAC Region may constitute a material limitation on our ability to freely conduct business digitally, online or through any other medium that may reach outside of the APAC Region. This limitation may have a material adverse effect on our marketing, sales, operational and other business efforts.

After the receipt of regulatory approval in a jurisdiction, we may be required to pay the Minimum Royalty with respect to such jurisdiction regardless of the actual amount of sales by us of Licensed Products. Accordingly, although the Minimum Royalty is based on our projected sales in each such jurisdiction, and although the determination of the Minimum Royalty is subject to agreement between us and the Licensor as to certain parameters, as described elsewhere in this prospectus, with disputes generally resolved by an independent third party,third-party, we could be obligated to pay royalties even though we have generated no or limited revenue. Such payments could materially and adversely affect our profitability and could limit our investment in our business.

 
The Licensed Products include only products that are supplied by an Authorized Supplier. Accordingly, we will not have unfettered right to select our suppliers, regardless of whether an unauthorized supplier could provide products on better pricing, delivery, quality or other terms, thus potentially materially and adversely impacting those aspects of our business, economies, profitability and prospects.
 
We are required to collect and anonymize demographic information about the end users of the Licensed Products, as well as data acquired from the Licensed Products. The data collection and retention may be expensive in cost, resources, legal and regulatory compliance and other ways, none of which costs can be quantified at this time. Further, changing regulations with respect to medical and similar such data may make such compliance beyond the scope of our capabilities. Any failure to comply may result in financial liability, as well as reputational harm.
 
The license is non-transferable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable, except that the Licensor will in good faith consider any request by us for any sublicense. The Licensor is not obligated to agree to any such sub-license. These restrictions may limit our flexibility to structure our operations in the most advantageous manner.
 
We must manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell, distribute and supply the Licensed Products in accordance with certain distribution requirements set forth in the License Agreement. For instance, we may not package the Licensed Products with other products, and we may deliver them only as supplied by an Authorized Supplier. Accordingly, the limitations imposed by the License Agreement may impact our ability to pursue certain marketing strategies and distribution channels, which may have a material adverse effect on us and our business, assets and prospects.
 
The Licensor may require any change to any Licensed Product by any Authorized Supplier and may make any change to any sales or promotional literature made available by the Licensor, provided that such changes do not affect any regulatory approvals we obtain. This right of the Licensor may create material expense for us, may be practically difficult to accomplish and may cause relationship, reputational and other adverse harm to us, our business and our prospects, without our having any control over these changes. Further, the Licensor is not liable for any of the costs to us of such changes.
 
We must file for, prosecute the application for, and obtain all regulatory approvals for each of the Licensed Products and all legal permits necessary for promoting, marketing, offering or selling each Licensed Product. The regulatory approval process can be expensive and time consuming, and there can be no assurances that we will be able to obtain or maintain any or all required permits.
 

Except with respect to the Licensor’s ownership of all intellectual property rights in respect of the licensed property and the non-infringement by our exercise of those rights, the Licensor provides no, and disclaims all, representations, warranties or covenants relating to the licensed intellectual property or any other matters under the License Agreement and in particular disclaims any fitness of the property for any purpose. These provisions limit our recourse in the event that the licensed intellectual property is flawed, defective, inadequate, incomplete, uncommercial, wrongly described or otherwise not useful for our purposes. We have not independently verified any of the technical, scientific, commercial, legal, medical or other circumstances or nature of the licensed intellectual property and therefore there can be no assurances that any of the foregoing risks have been reduced or eliminated. These provisions represent a significant risk of a material adverse impact on us, our business and our prospects.

 

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In addition, see the risks in “—Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property” below. These risks are not the only risks inherent in the License Agreement. You are encouraged to read the complete text of the License Agreement, which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Neither we nor the Licensor have yet launched the COV2T or the SGT and the ability to do so will depend on the acceptance of the COV2T and/or the SGT in the Global healthcare market.

Neither we nor the Licensor has yet launched the COV2T nor the SGT and neither has received regulatory approvals in any country or territory. We are faced with the risk that the COV2 Test and/or the SGT will be accepted in their respective jurisdictions over competing products and that we will be unable to enter the marketplace or compete effectively. Factors that could affect our ability to establish the COV2T and/or the SGT or any future diagnostic test based on the Biosensor Platform include:

 

sales of the COV2T and/or the SGT across their respective jurisdictions may be limited due to the complex nature of the healthcare system in each country and territory in the region, low average personal income, lack of patient cost reimbursement and pricing controls

controls;
 
the development of products or devices which could result in a shift of customer preferences away from our device and services and significantly decrease revenue;
 
the increased use of improved diabetes drugs that could encourage certain diabetics to test less often, resulting in less usage of self-monitoring (saliva-based, blood-based or otherwise) test device for certain types of diabetics;
 
the challenges of developing (or acquiring externally developed) technology solutions that are adequate and competitive in meeting the requirements of next-generation design challenges;
 
the significant number of current competitors in the glucose monitoring market who have significantly greater brand recognition and more recognizable trademarks and who have established relationships with diabetes healthcare providers and payors; and
 
intense competition to attract acquisition targets, which may make it more difficult for us to acquire companies or technologies at an acceptable price or at all.

 

We cannot assure you that the COV2T and/or SGT or any future diagnostic test based on the Biosensor Platform will gain market acceptance. If the market for the COV2T and/or SGT or any future test fails to develop or develops more slowly than expected, or if any of the technology and standards supported by us do not achieve or sustain market acceptance, our business and operating results would be materially and adversely affected.

 

We cannot accurately predict the volume or timing of any sales of any of our products, making the timing of any associated revenues uncertain and difficult to predict.forecast.

We may be faced with lengthy and unpredictable customer evaluation and approval processes associated with the COV2T and/or SGT.SGT and our other products. Consequently, we may incur substantial expenses and devote significant management effort and expense in developing customer adoption of the COV2T and/or SGT,our products, which may not result in revenue generation.generation for those products. We must also obtain regulatory approvals ofour products in the COV2T and/or SGT in each respective jurisdiction, which is subject to risk and potential delays, and may actually occur. The same risks apply to other tests we may develop based on the Biosensor Platform.Platform and planned tests from IFP Drug Screening System. As such, we cannot accurately predict the volume, if any, or timing of any future sales.

 

If the COV2T and/or SGT fails to satisfy current or future customer requirements, we may be required to make significant expenditures to redesign the product candidate, and we may have insufficient resources to do so.

The COV2T and/or SGT is being designed to address an existing marketplace and must comply with current and evolving customer requirements in order to gain market acceptance. There is a risk that the COV2T and/or SGT will not meet anticipated customer requirements or desires. If we are required to redesign our products to address customer demands or otherwise modify our business model, we may incur significant unanticipated expenses and losses, and we may be left with insufficient resources to engage in such activities. If we are unable to redesign our products, develop new products or modify our business model to meet customer desires or any other customer requirements that may emerge, our operating results would be materially adversely affected, and our business might fail.

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Initially, we expect to derive a significant proportion of our revenues from the COV2 test (“COV2T”) and the underlying Biosensor Platform technology.

We expect to derive substantially all of our revenues from sales of products derived from the Biosensor Platform technology, which we license from the Licensor. Our initial product utilizing this technology is the COV2 Test. As such, any factor adversely affecting sales of the COV2T, including the product development and release cycles, regulatory issues, market acceptance, product competition, performance and reliability, reputation, price competition and economic and market conditions, would likely harm our operating results. We may be unable to fully develop the COV2 Test or other products utilizing our technology, which may lead to the failure of our business. Moreover, in spite of our efforts related to the registration of our technology, if intellectual property protection is not available for the Biosensor Platform technology, the viability of the COV2 test and any other products that may be derived from such technology would likely be adversely impacted to a significant degree, which would materially impair our prospects.

We haveare yet to finalize the manufacturing plan for the production of the COV2T nor the SGT and its components on a mass market commercial scale, and may be dependent upon third-party manufacturers and suppliers, making us vulnerable to contractual relationships and market forces, supply shortages and problems and price fluctuations, which could harm our business.

While we are using the facilities of Australian National Fabrication Facility to manufacture the COV2T and SGB for clinical evaluation, we haveare yet to finalize the manufacturing plan for the production of the COV2T nor SGT and its components on a mass market commercial scale. We presently do not possess the manufacturing and processing capacity to meet the production requirements of consumer demand in a timely manner. Accordingly, we may rely on outsourcing the manufacturing of the COV2T and/or SGT or its components. We have reached an agreement in principle to engage Cambridge Consultants Ltd. as advisors on our commercial scale manufacturing program.

Our capacity to conduct clinical evaluation and launch our products in the market will depend in part on our ability or the ability of third-party manufacturers to provide our products on a large scale, at a competitive cost and in accordance with regulatory requirements. We cannot guarantee that we or our third-party manufacturers or suppliers will be able to provide the COV2T and/or SGT and its components in mass-market quantities in a timely or cost-effective manner, or at all. Delays in providing or increasing production or processing capacity could result in additional expense or delays in our clinical evaluation, regulatory submissions and the market launch of our products. In addition, we or our third-party manufacturers or suppliers could make errors that could adversely affect the efficacy or safety of the COV2T and/or SGT or cause delays in shipment.

Any third-party party manufacturers or suppliers may encounter problems for a variety of reasons, including, for example, failure to follow specific protocols and procedures, failure to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, equipment malfunction and environmental factors, failure to properly conduct their own business affairs, and infringement of third-party intellectual property rights, any of which could delay or impede their ability to meet our requirements. Reliance on these third-party manufacturers or suppliers also subjects us to other risks where:

 

we may have difficulty locating and qualifying alternative manufacturers or suppliers;
 

switching manufacturers or suppliers may require product redesign and possibly submission to regulatory bodies, which could significantly impede or delay our commercial activities;

 
sole-source manufacturers or suppliers could fail to supply the COV2T and/or SGT or components of the COV2T and/or SGT; and
 
manufacturers or suppliers could encounter financial or other business hardships unrelated to us, interfering with their fulfillmentfulfilment of our orders and requirements.

 

We may not be able to quickly establish additional or alternative manufacturers or suppliers, if necessary, in part because we may need to undertake additional activities to establish such manufacturers or suppliers as required by the regulatory approval process. We potentially will rely on certain single-source manufacturers or suppliers, and to the extent we do so, these risks will be intensified. Any interruption or delay in obtaining products or components from our third-party manufacturers or suppliers, or shortages of products or components, could impair our ability to meet the demand of our customers and cause them to switch to competing products.

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We expect to rely in part on third-party distributors to effectively distribute our products.products, if our distributors fail to effectively market and sell the SGT and IFP products in full compliance with applicable laws, our operating results and business may suffer.

We will depend in part on qualified distributors for the marketing and selling of our products. We will depend on these distributors’ efforts to market our products, yet we will be unable to control their efforts completely. While we recently entered into non-binding memoranda of understanding with two large distributors in China for the SGT, we have not yet executed any definitive distribution agreements in this regard and there can be no assurances that suitable distributors will be engaged on terms acceptable to us. These distributors typically would sell a variety of other, non-competing products that may limit the resources they dedicate to selling the COV2T and/or SGT.our products. In addition, we are unable to ensure that our distributors will comply with all applicable laws regarding the sale of our products. If our distributors fail to effectively market and sell the COV2T and/or SGTour products in full compliance with applicable laws, our operating results and business may suffer. Recruiting and retaining qualified third-party distributors and training them in our technology and product offering will require significant time and resources. To develop and expand our distribution, we will be required to scale and improve our processes and procedures that support our distributors. Further, if our relationship with a successful distributor terminates, we may be unable to replace that distributor without disruption to our business. If we fail to develop or maintain positive relationships with our distributors, including in new markets, fail to manage, train or incentivize these distributors effectively, or fail to provide distributors with competitive products on attractive terms, or if these distributors are not successful in their sales efforts, we may not achieve or may have a reduction in revenue and our operating results, reputation and business would be harmed.

 

Failure in our conventional, online and digital marketing efforts could impact our ability to generate sales.

We intend to engage in conventional marketing strategies and also may utilize online and digital marketing in order to create awareness to the COV2T and/or SGT.SGT and the IFP products. Our management believes that using a wide variety of marketing strategies, including online advertisement and a variety of other pay-for-performance methods may be effective for marketing and generating sales of the COV2T and/or SGT and the IFP products, as opposed to relying exclusively on traditional, expensive retail channels. In any event, there is a risk that any or all of our marketing strategies could fail. We cannot predict whether the use of traditional and/or non-traditional retail sales tools, in combination with reliance on healthcare providers to educate our customers about the COV2T and/or SGT and the IFP products, will be successful in effectively marketing the COV2T and/or SGT.SGT and the IFP products. The failure of our marketing efforts could negatively impact our ability to generate sales.

The COV2T and SGT may utilize a smart device platform and, in the future, other software platforms. If we are unable to achieve or maintain a good relationship with the providers of these platforms, or if a platform’s application store (such as the App Store for iOS devices or the Google Play Store for Android devices), or any other applicable platform resource were unavailable for any prolonged period of time, our business will suffer.

A key component of the COV2T and SGT is a smart device application that includes tools to help patients manage their disease. This application will be compatible with various operating platforms. We will be subject to each of the standard terms and conditions for application developers, which govern the promotion, distribution and operation of applications through their respective app stores. If we are unable to make the COV2T or SGT application compatible with these platforms, or if we fail to comply with the standard terms and conditions for developers or there is any deterioration in our relationship with either platform providers or others after our application is available, our business would be materially harmed.

As we intend to conduct business internationally, we are susceptible to risks associated with international relationships.relationships, which could adversely impact our results of operations and financial condition

We are based in the United States, and expect to market, promote and sell our products globally. The international nature of our business requires significant management attention, which could negatively affect our business if it diverts their attention from their other responsibilities. In addition, doing business with foreign customers subjects us to additional risks that companies do not generally face if they operate exclusively within a single jurisdiction. These risks and uncertainties include:

 

different regulatory requirements for medical product approvals in foreign countries;
 
different standards of care in various countries that could complicate the evaluation of our product candidates;
 
different medical product import and export rules;
 
different labor laws;
 
reduced protection for intellectual property rights in certain countries;
 
unexpected changes in tariffs, trade barriers and regulatory requirements;
 
different reimbursement systems and different competitive medical products indicated for glucose testing;
 
localization of products and services, including translation of foreign languages;
 
delivery, logistics and storage costs;

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longer accounts receivable payment cycles and difficulties in collecting accounts receivable;
 
difficulties providing customer services;
 
economic weakness, including inflation, or political instability in particular foreign economies and markets;
 
compliance with tax, employment, immigration and labor laws for employees living or traveling abroad;
 
compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or the FCPA,“FCPA,” and other anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws;
 
foreign taxes, including withholding of payroll taxes;
 
foreign currency fluctuations, which could result in increased operating expenses and reduced revenues, and other obligations incident to doing business in another country;
 
restrictions on the repatriation of earnings;
 
workforce uncertainty in countries where labor unrest is more common than in the United States;
 
potential liability resulting from development work conducted by third partythird-party foreign distributors; and
 
business interruptions resulting from geopolitical actions, including war and terrorism, or natural disasters, management, communication and integration problems resulting from cultural differences and geographic dispersion.

 

The occurrence of any or all of these risks could adversely affect our business. In the event that we are unable to manage the complications associated with international operations, our results of operations, financial condition and business prospects could be materially and adversely affected.

 

If third-party payors do not provide coverage and reimbursement for the use of the COV2T and/or SGT and IFP products, our business and prospects may be negatively impacted.

Third-party payors, whether governmental or commercial, are developing increasingly sophisticated methods of controlling healthcare costs. In addition, in certain countries, no uniform policy of coverage and reimbursement for medical device products and services exists among third-party payors. Therefore, coverage and reimbursement for medical device products and services can differ significantly from payor to payor. In addition, payors continually review new technologies for possible coverage and can, without notice, deny coverage for these new products and procedures. As a result, the coverage determination process is often a time-consuming and costly process that will require us to provide scientific and clinical support for the use of our products to each payor separately, with no assurance that coverage and adequate reimbursement will be obtained or maintained if obtained.

Reimbursement systems in international markets vary significantly by country and by region within some countries, and reimbursement approvals must be obtained on a country-by-country basis. In many international markets, a product must be approved for reimbursement before it can be approved for sale in that country.

Further, many international markets have government-managed healthcare systems that control reimbursement for new devices and procedures. For example, no government in the areas where we hold our license has approved reimbursement of the SGT in particular. We believe that reimbursement will not be an issue as we intend to put this inor the market at the same price as current reimbursed blood finger tests. In most markets, there are private insurance systems as well as government-managed systems.IFP Drug Screening System. If sufficient coverage and reimbursement is not available for our current or future products, in any country where our license operates, the demand for our products and our revenues will be adversely affected.

 

Non-United States governments often impose strict price controls, which may adversely affect our future profitability.

We intend to seek approval to market the COV2T globally and the SGT across the APAC Region.Region and expand IFP products offerings in the APAC region. If we obtain approval for SGT in one or more of the jurisdictions within our License Agreement, we will be subject to rules and regulations in those jurisdictions relating to our products. In some countries, pricing may be subject to governmental control under certain circumstances, which may vary country by country. In these countries, pricing negotiations with governmental authorities can take considerable time after the receipt of requisite marketing approval. To obtain reimbursement or pricing approval in some countries, we may be required to conduct a clinical evaluation that compares the cost-effectiveness of our product to other available products. If reimbursement of our products or product candidates is unavailable or limited in scope or amount, or if pricing is set at unsatisfactory levels, we may be unable to achieve or sustain profitability. Price controls may reduce prices to levels significantly below those that would prevail in less regulated markets or limit the volume of products which may be sold, either of which may have a material and adverse effect on potential revenues from sales of the COV2T and/or SGT.SGT and IFP products. Moreover, the process and timing for the implementation of price restrictions is unpredictable, which may cause potential revenues from the sales of the COV2T and/or SGT and IFP products to fluctuate from period to period.

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The COV2T and/or SGT and IFP Drug Screening System, including its software and systems, may contain undetected errors, which could limit our ability to provide our products and services and diminish the attractiveness of our service offerings.

The COV2T and/or SGT and IFP Drug Screening System may contain undetected errors, defects or bugs. As a result, our customers or end users may discover errors or defects in our products, software or systems, or our products, software or systems may not operate as expected. We may discover significant errors or defects in the future that we may not be able to fix. Our inability to fix any of those errors could limit our ability to provide our products and services, impair the reputation of our brand and diminish the attractiveness of our product and service offerings to our customers.

In addition, we may utilize third partythird-party technology or components in our products, and we rely on those third parties to provide support services to us. The existence of errors, defects or bugs in third partythird-party technology or components, or the failure of those third parties to provide necessary support services to us, could materially adversely impact our business.

 

We will rely on the proper function, security and availability of our information technology systems and data to operate our business, and a breach, cyber-attack or other disruption to these systems or data could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation or competitive position.

We will depend on sophisticated software and other information technology systems to operate our business, including to process, transmit and store sensitive data, and our products and services will include information technology systems that collect data regarding patients. We could experience attempted or actual interference with the integrity of, and interruptions in, our technology systems, as well as data breaches, such as cyber-attacks, malicious intrusions, breakdowns, interference with the integrity of our products and data or other significant disruptions. Furthermore, we may rely on third-party vendors to supply and/or support certain aspects of our information technology systems. These third-party systems could also become vulnerable to cyber-attack, malicious intrusions, breakdowns, interference or other significant disruptions, and may contain defects in design or manufacture or other problems that could result in system disruption or compromise the information security of our own systems.

Our international operations mean that we are subject to laws and regulations, including data protection and cybersecurity laws and regulations, in many jurisdictions. Furthermore, there has been a developing trend of civil lawsuits and class actions relating to breaches of consumer data held by large companies or incidents arising from other cyber-attacks. Any data security breaches, cyber-attacks, malicious intrusions or significant disruptions could result in actions by regulatory bodies and/or civil litigation, any of which could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation or competitive position.

In addition, our information technology systems require an ongoing commitment of significant resources to maintain, protect, and enhance existing systems and develop new systems to keep pace with continuing changes in information processing technology, evolving legal and regulatory standards, the increasing need to protect patient and customer information, changes in the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to data and information systems, and the information technology needs associated any new products and services. There can be no assurance that our process of consolidating, protecting, upgrading and expanding our systems and capabilities, continuing to build security into the design of our products, and developing new systems to keep pace with continuing changes in information processing technology will be successful or that additional systems issues will not arise in the future.

If our information technology systems, products or services or sensitive data are compromised, patients or employees could be exposed to financial or medical identity theft or suffer a loss of product functionality, and we could lose existing customers, have difficulty attracting new customers, have difficulty preventing, detecting, and controlling fraud, be exposed to the loss or misuse of confidential information, have disputes with customers, physicians, and other health care professionals, suffer regulatory sanctions or penalties, experience increases in operating expenses or an impairment in our ability to conduct our operations, incur expenses or lose revenues as a result of a data privacy breach, product failure, information technology outages or disruptions, or suffer other adverse consequences including lawsuits or other legal action and damage to our reputation.

 

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Our future performance will depend on the continued engagement of key members of our management team.team, and the loss of one or more of the key members of our management team could have a negative impact on our business.

Our future performance depends to a large extent on the continued services of members of our current management including, in particular, our President & Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. In the event that we lose the continued services of such key personnel for any reason, this could have a material adverse effect on our business, operations and prospects.

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If we are not able to attract and retain highly skilled managerial, scientific and technical personnel, we may not be able to implement our business model successfully.

We believe that our management team must be able to act decisively to apply and adapt our business model in the markets in which we will compete. In addition, we will rely upon technical and scientific employees or third-party contractors to effectively establish, manage and grow our business. Consequently, we believe that our future viability will depend largely on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled managerial, sales, scientific and technical personnel. In order to do so, we may need to pay higher compensation or fees to our employees or consultants than we currently expect, and such higher compensation payments would have a negative effect on our operating results. Competition for experienced, high-quality personnel is intense and we cannot assure that we will be able to recruit and retain such personnel. We may not be able to hire or retain the necessary personnel to implement our business strategy. Our failure to hire and retain such personnel could impair our ability to develop new products and manage our business effectively.

 

If we or our manufacturers fail to comply with theapplicable regulatory quality system regulations or any applicable equivalent regulations, our proposed operations could be interrupted, and our operating results would suffer.may be negatively impacted.

We and any third-party manufacturers and suppliers of ours will be required, to the extent of applicable regulation, to follow the quality system regulations of each jurisdiction we will seek to penetrate and also will be subject to the regulations of these jurisdictions regarding the manufacturing processes. If we or any third-party manufacturers or suppliers of ours are found to be in significant non-compliance or fail to take satisfactory corrective action in response to adverse regulatory findings in this regard, regulatory agencies could take enforcement actions against us and such manufacturers or suppliers, which could impair or prevent our ability to produce our products in a cost-effective and timely manner in order to meet customers’ demands. Accordingly, our operating results would suffer.

 

We may be subject to healthcare fraud and abuse laws and regulations.regulations which, if violated, could subject us to substantial penalties. Additionally, any challenge to or investigation into our practices under these laws could cause adverse publicity and be costly to respond to, and thus could harm our business.

There are numerous U.S. federal and state, as well as foreign, laws pertaining to healthcare fraud and abuse, including anti-kickback, false claims and transparency laws. Many international healthcare laws and regulations apply to the glucose monitoring business and medical devices. We will be subject to certain regulations regarding commercial practices false claims. The federal civil and criminal false claims laws, including the federal civil False Claims Act, which prohibit, among other things, individuals, or entities from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, claims for payment from Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs that are false or fraudulent. Private individuals can bring False Claims Act “qui tam” actions, on behalf of the government and such individuals, commonly known as “whistleblowers,” may share in amounts paid by the entity to the government in fines or settlement. When an entity is determined to have violated the federal civil False Claims Act, the government may impose substantial penalties plus three times the amount of damages which the government sustains because of the submission of a false claim, and exclude the entity from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs.

If our operations or arrangements are found to be in violation of governmental regulations, we may be subject to civil and criminal penalties, damages, fines and the curtailment of our operations. All of these penalties could adversely affect our ability to operate our business and our financial results.

 

Product liability suits, whether or not meritorious, could be brought against us due to an alleged defective product or for the misuse of the COV2T and/or SGT.SGT and IFP Drug Screening System. These suits could result in expensive and time-consuming litigation, payment of substantial damages, and an increase in our insurance rates.

If the COV2T and/or SGT and IFP Drug Screening System or any future diagnostic test based on the Biosensor Platform or IFP Drug Screening System is defectively designed or manufactured, contains defective components or is misused, or if someone claims any of the foregoing, whether or not meritorious, we may become subject to substantial and costly litigation. Misusing our devices or failing to adhere to the operating guidelines or our devices producing inaccurate meter readings could cause significant harm to patients, including death. In addition, if our operating guidelines are found to be inadequate, we may be subject to liability. Product liability claims could divert management’s attention from our core business, be expensive to defend and result in sizable damage awards against us. While we expect to maintain product liability insurance, we may not have sufficient insurance coverage for all future claims. Any product liability claims brought against us, with or without merit, could increase our product liability insurance rates or prevent us from securing continuing coverage, could harm our reputation in the industry and could reduce revenue. Product liability claims in excess of our insurance coverage would be paid out of cash reserves harming our financial condition and adversely affecting our results of operations.

 

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If we are found to have violated laws protecting the confidentiality of patient health information, we could be subject to civil or criminal penalties, which could increase our liabilities and harm our reputation or our business.

Part of our business plan includes the storage and potential monetization of data of users of the COV2T and/or SGT. There are a number ofseveral laws around the world protecting the confidentiality of certain patient health information, including patient records, and restricting the use and disclosure of that protected information. Privacy rules protect medical records and other personal health information by limiting their use and disclosure, giving individuals the right to access, amend and seek accounting of their own health information and limiting most use and disclosures of health information to the minimum amount reasonably necessary to accomplish the intended purpose. We may face difficulties in holding such information in compliance with applicable law. If we are found to be in violation of the privacy rules, we could be subject to civil or criminal penalties, which could increase our liabilities, harm our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We arecould be party to agreements pursuant to which we may be required to make payments to certainlitigation or other legal proceedings that could adversely affect our business, results of our affiliates, which may reduce our cash flowoperations and profits.reputation.

We are party to agreements (including the License Agreement) pursuant to which we may be required to make payments to certain of our affiliates as described in “Certain Transactions.” For instance, commencing after the receipt of SGT regulatory approval in any jurisdiction in the APAC Region, we may be required to pay the Minimum Royalty with respect to such jurisdiction to our controlling stockholder, the Licensor, although the determination of the Minimum Royalty is subject to agreement between us and the Licensor as to certain parameters, as described elsewhere in this prospectus, with disputes generally resolved by an independent third party.

 

We may be subject to litigation and other legal proceedings that may adversely affect our business. These legal proceedings may involve claims brought by employees, government agencies, suppliers, shareholders or others through private actions, class actions, administrative proceedings, regulatory actions, or other litigation. These legal proceedings may involve allegations of illegal, unfair or inconsistent employment practices, including wage and hour, employment of minors, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and vacation and family leave laws; data security or privacy breaches; violation of the federal securities laws or other concerns.

We could be involved in litigation and legal proceedings in the future. Even if the allegations against us in future legal matters are unfounded or we ultimately are not held liable, the costs to defend ourselves may be significant and the litigation may subject us to substantial settlements, fines, penalties or judgments against us and may consume management’s bandwidth and attention, some or all of which may negatively impact our financial condition and results of operations. Litigation also may generate negative publicity, regardless of whether the allegations are valid, or we ultimately are liable, which could damage our reputation, and adversely impact our sales and our relationship with our employees, clients, and guests.

Risks Related to Product Development and Regulatory Approval

 

The regulatory approval process which we may be required to navigate may be expensive, time-consuming, and uncertain and may prevent us from obtaining clearance for the product launch of the SGT and IFP products in certain jurisdiction or our any future product.

It is anticipated that FDA review for COV2T will be under the Emergency Use Authorization program, which means expedited time to market. However, to date, we have not received regulatory approval in any jurisdiction.

 

We intend to market the SGT following regulatory approval. The IFP products may also require regulatory approval in certain jurisdictions to market. To date, we have not received regulatory approval in any jurisdiction. However, we recently have engaged Emergo Global Consulting LLC, a clinical research and regulatory consulting firm specializing in high tech medical device development, and commenced the regulatory approval process in various jurisdictions in the APAC Region.

The research, design, testing, manufacturing, labeling,labelling, selling, marketing and distribution of medical devices are subject to extensive regulation by country-specific regulatory authorities, which regulations differ from country to country. There can be no assurance that, even after such time and expenditures, we will be able to obtain necessary regulatory approvals for clinical testing or for the manufacturing or marketing of any products. In addition, during the regulatory process, other companies may develop other technologies with the same intended use as our products.

We also will be subject to numerous post-marketing regulatory requirements, which may include labelinglabelling regulations and medical device reporting regulations, which may require us to report to different regulatory agencies if our device causes or contributes to a death or serious injury, or malfunctions in a way that would likely cause or contribute to a death or serious injury. In addition, these regulatory requirements may change in the future in a way that adversely affects us. If we fail to comply with present or future regulatory requirements that are applicable to us, we may be subject to enforcement action by regulatory agencies, which may include, among others, any of the following sanctions:

 

untitled letters, warning letters, fines, injunctions, consent decrees and civil penalties;
 
customer notification, or orders for repair, replacement or refunds;
 
voluntary or mandatory recall or seizure of our current or future products;
 
imposing operating restrictions, suspension or shutdown of production;
 
refusing our requests for clearance or pre-market approval of new products, new intended uses or modifications to the COV2T and/or SGT, IFP products or future products;
 
rescinding clearance or suspending or withdrawing pre-market approvals that have already been granted; and
 
criminal prosecution.

 

The occurrence of any of these events may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 

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Clinical data obtained subsequent to the implementation of the clinical evidence module may not meet the required objectives, which could delay, limit or prevent additional regulatory approval.

There can be no assurance that we will successfully complete any clinical evaluations necessary to receive regulatory approvals. WhileThe preliminary results have been encouraging and indicative of the potential performance of the SGT, data already obtained, or to be obtained in the future, obtained, from clinical studies do not necessarily predict the results that will be obtained from later clinical evaluations. We market the IFP products in certain jurisdiction as POCT screening device. The clinical studies undertaken to date, may not meet the requirements of certain regulatory bodies for us to market in those jurisdictions. The failure to adequately demonstrate the analytical performance characteristics of the device under development could delay or prevent regulatory approval of the device, which could prevent or result in delays to market launch and could materially harm our business. There can be no assurance that we will be able to receive approval for any potential applications of our principal technology, or that we will receive regulatory clearances from targeted regions or countries.

 

We may be unable to complete required clinical evaluations, or we may experience significant delays in completing such clinical evaluations, which could prevent or significantly delay our targeted product launch timeframe and impair our viability and business plan.

The completion of any future clinical evaluations for the COV2T and/or SGT and IFP products, or other studies that we may be required to undertake in the future for the COV2T and/or SGT or other products based on the Biosensor Platform and IFP Drug Screening System could be delayed, suspended or terminated for several reasons, including:

 

we may fail to or be unable to conduct the clinical evaluation in accordance with regulatory requirements;
 
sites participating in the trial may drop out of the trial, which may require us to engage new sites for an expansion of the number of sites that are permitted to be involved in the trial;
 
patients may not enroll in, remain in or complete, the clinical evaluation at the rates we expect; and
 
clinical investigators may not perform our clinical evaluation on our anticipated schedule or consistent with the clinical evaluation protocol and good clinical practices.

 

If our clinical evaluations are delayed it will take us longer to ultimately launch the COV2T and/or SGT and our other products based on the Biosensor Platform in the market and generate revenues. Moreover, our development costs will increase if we have material delays in our clinical evaluation or if we need to perform more or larger clinical evaluations than planned.

 

We are subject to the risk of reliance on third parties to conduct our clinical evaluation work.work, their inability to comply with good clinical practice and relevant regulation could adversely affect the clinical development of our product candidates and harm our business.

We will depend on independent clinical investigators to conduct our clinical evaluations. Contract research organizations may also assist us in the collection and analysis of data. These investigators and contract research organizations will not be our employees and we will not be able to control, other than by contract, the amount of resources, including time that they devote to products that we develop. If independent investigators fail to devote sufficient resources to our clinical evaluations, or if their performance is substandard, it will delay the approval or clearance and ultimately the market launch of any products that we develop. Further, regulatory bodies require that we comply with standards, commonly referred to as good clinical practice, for conducting, recording and reporting clinical evaluations to assure that data and reported results are credible and accurate and that the rights, integrity and confidentiality of trial subjects are protected. If our independent clinical investigators and contract research organizations fail to comply with good clinical practice, the results of our clinical evaluations could be called into question and the clinical development of our product candidates could be delayed. Failure of clinical investigators or contract research organizations to meet their obligations to us or comply with applicable regulations could adversely affect the clinical development of our product candidates and harm our business. Moreover, we intend to have several clinical evaluations in order to support our marketing efforts and business development purposes. Such clinical evaluations will be conducted by third parties as well. Failure of such clinical evaluations to meet their primary endpoints could adversely affect our marketing efforts.

 

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property

 

Our success will depend on our ability to obtain, maintain and protect our intellectual property rights.

In order to remain competitive, we must develop, maintain and protect the proprietary aspects of our brands, technologies and data. We rely on a combination of contractual provisions, confidentiality procedures and patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and other intellectual property laws to protect the proprietary aspects of our brands, technologies and data. These legal measures afford only limited protection, and competitors or others may gain access to or use our intellectual property and proprietary information. Our success will depend, in part, on preserving our trade secrets, maintaining the security of our data and know-how and obtaining and maintaining other intellectual property rights by us. We may not be able to obtain or maintain intellectual property or other proprietary rights necessary to our business or in a form that provides us with a competitive advantage.

In addition, our trade secrets, data and know-how could be subject to unauthorized use, misappropriation, or disclosure to unauthorized parties, despite our efforts to enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees, consultants, clients and other vendors who have access to such information and could otherwise become known or be independently discovered by third parties. Our intellectual property, including trademarks, could be challenged, invalidated, infringed, and circumvented by third parties, and our trademarks could also be diluted, declared generic or found to be infringing on other marks. If any of the foregoing occurs, we could be forced to re-brand our products, resulting in loss of brand recognition and requiring us to devote resources to advertising and marketing new brands, and suffer other competitive harm. Third parties may also adopt trademarks similar to ours, which could harm our brand identity and lead to market confusion. Failure to obtain and maintain intellectual property rights necessary to our business and failure to protect, monitor and control the use of our intellectual property rights could negatively impact our ability to compete and cause us to incur significant expenses. The intellectual property laws and other statutory and contractual arrangements in the United States and other jurisdictions we depend upon may not provide sufficient protection in the future to prevent the infringement, use, violation or misappropriation of our trademarks, data, technology and other intellectual property and services, and may not provide an adequate remedy if our intellectual property rights are infringed, misappropriated or otherwise violated.

We rely, in part, on our ability to obtain, maintain, expand, enforce, and defend the scope of our intellectual property portfolio or other proprietary rights, including the amount and timing of any payments we may be required to make in connection the filing, defense and enforcement of any patents or other intellectual property rights. The process of applying for and obtaining a patent is expensive, time consuming and complex, and we may not be able to file, prosecute, maintain, enforce all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost, in a timely manner, or in all jurisdictions where protection may be commercially advantageous, or we may not be able to protect our proprietary rights at all. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may be able to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. In addition, the issuance of a patent does not ensure that it is valid or enforceable, so even if we obtain patents, they may not be valid or enforceable against third parties. Our patent applications may not result in issued patents and our patents may not be sufficiently broad to protect our technology.

The degree of future protection for our proprietary rights is uncertain, and we cannot ensure that:

any of our patents, or any of our pending patent applications, if issued, will include claims having a scope sufficient to protect our products;
any of our pending patent applications will issue as patents;
we will be able to successfully commercialize our products on a substantial scale, if approved, before our relevant patents we may have expire;
we were the first to make the inventions covered by each of our patents and pending patent applications;
we were the first to file patent applications for these inventions;
others will not develop similar or alternative technologies that do not infringe our patents; any of our patents will be found to ultimately be valid and enforceable
any patents issued to us will provide a basis for an exclusive market for our commercially viable products, will provide us with any competitive advantages or will not be challenged by third parties
we will develop additional proprietary technologies or products that are separately patentable; or
our commercial activities or products will not infringe upon the patents of others.

Moreover, even if we are able to obtain patent protection, such patent protection may be of insufficient scope to achieve our business objectives. Issued patents may be challenged, narrowed, invalidated or circumvented. Decisions by courts and governmental patent agencies may introduce uncertainty in the enforceability or scope of patents owned by or licensed to us. Furthermore, the issuance of a patent does not give us the right to practice the patented invention. Third parties may have blocking patents that could prevent us from marketing our own products and practicing our own technology. Alternatively, third parties may seek approval to market their own products similar to or otherwise competitive with our products. In these circumstances, we may need to defend or assert our patents, including by filing lawsuits alleging patent infringement. In any of these types of proceedings, a court or agency with jurisdiction may find our patents invalid, unenforceable or not infringed; competitors may then be able to market products and use manufacturing and analytical processes that are substantially similar to ours. Even if we have valid and enforceable patents, these patents still may not provide protection against competing products or processes sufficient to achieve our business objectives

Obtaining and maintaining patent protection depends on compliance with various procedural, document submission, fee payment and other requirements imposed by governmental patent agencies, and our patent protection could be reduced or eliminated for non-compliance with these requirements.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (the “USPTO”) and various foreign governmental patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment and other similar provisions during the patent application process. In addition, periodic maintenance fees on issued patents often must be paid to the USPTO and foreign patent agencies over the lifetime of the patent. While an unintentional lapse can in many cases be cured by payment of a late fee or by other means in accordance with the applicable rules, there are situations in which noncompliance can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or patent application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent rights in the relevant jurisdiction. Non-compliance events that could result in abandonment or lapse of a patent or patent application include, but are not limited to, failure to respond to official actions within prescribed time limits, non-payment of fees and failure to properly legalize and submit formal documents. If we fail to maintain the patents and patent applications covering our products, we may not be able to stop a competitor from marketing products that are the same as or similar to our products, which would have a material adverse effect on our business.

Patent terms may not be able to protect our competitive position for an adequate period of time with respect to our current or future technologies.

Patents have a limited lifespan. In the United States, the standard patent term is typically 20 years after filing. Various extensions may be available. Even so, the life of a patent and the protection it affords are limited. As a result, our patent portfolio provides us with limited rights that may not last for a sufficient period of time to exclude others from commercializing products similar or identical to ours. For example, given the large amount of time required for the research, development, testing and regulatory review of medical devices, patents protecting our products might expire before or shortly after they are commercialized.

Extensions of patent term may be available, but there is no guarantee that we would succeed in obtaining any particular extension-and no guarantee any such extension would confer patent term for a sufficient period of time to exclude others from commercializing products similar or identical to ours.

Additionally, an extension may not be granted or may be limited where there is, for example, a failure to exercise due diligence during the testing phase or regulatory review process, failure to apply within applicable deadlines, failure to apply before expiration of relevant patents, or some other failure to satisfy applicable requirements. If this occurs, our competitors may be able to launch their products earlier by taking advantage of our investment in development and clinical trials along with our clinical and pre-clinical data. This could have a material adverse effect on our business and ability to achieve profitability

We and/or the Licensor may be subject to claims alleging the violation of the intellectual property rights of others, which could involve in lawsuits to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, which could be expensive, time consuming and unsuccessful.

We may face significant expense and liability as a result of litigation or other proceedings relating to intellectual property rights of others. In the event that another party has intellectual property protection relating to an invention or technologies licensed by us from the Licensor, we and/or the Licensor may be required to participate in an interference proceeding declared by the regulatory authorities to determine priority of invention, which could result in substantial uncertainties and costs for us, even if the eventual outcome was favorable to us. We and/or the Licensor also could be required to participate in interference proceedings involving intellectual property of another entity. An adverse outcome in an interference proceeding could require us and/or the Licensor to cease using the technology, to substantially modify it or to license rights from prevailing third parties, which could delay or prevent the launch of our products in the market or adversely affect our profitability. The cost to us of any intellectual property litigation or other proceeding relating the intellectual property licensed by us from the Licensor, even if resolved in our favor, could be substantial, especially given our early stage of development. A third-party may claim that we and/or the Licensor are using inventions claimed by their intellectual property and may go to court to stop us and/or the Licensor from engaging in our normal operations and activities, such as research, development and the sale of any future products. Such lawsuits are expensive and would consume significant time and other resources. There is a risk that a court will decide that we and/or the Licensor are infringing the third-party’s intellectual property and will order us to stop the activities claimed by the intellectual property. In addition, there is a risk that a court will order us and/or the Licensor to pay the other party damages for having infringed their intellectual property. While the Licensor is required to indemnify us for certain losses in connection with such proceedings, there can be no assurance that the Licensor will be able to satisfy any such obligation. Moreover, there is no guarantee that any prevailing intellectual property owner would offer us a license so that we could continue to engage in activities claimed by the intellectual property, or that such a license, if made available to us, could be acquired on commercially acceptable terms.

We understand the External Administrator of the Licensor of our SGT products has given notice to a meeting of creditors to be held on July 21, 2023, to consider if the Licensor is to be placed into liquidation. This could result in, among other things, more parties other than the licensor becoming the owner of the Intellectual Property (IP) rights. Accordingly, this has an inherent risk of the possibility of modifications to, or the Company’s ability to use, the Licensed Products, which could materially and adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and operating results.

We are party to the SGT License Agreement with LSBD, pursuant to which, among other things, the Company licenses certain products from LSBD, and has a 50% interest in BiosensX (North America) Inc. which has exclusive license to use, make, sell and offer to sell products under the intellectual property rights in connection with the Biosensor technology and the glucose/diabetes management field in the United States, Mexico and Canada. According to the Australian Securities and Investment Commission’s (ASIC’s), Companies and Organizations Register, on May 10, 2022, LSBD filed a Notice of Appointment of External Administrator, followed by a filing of a Deed of Company Arrangement on the August 2, 2022. We understand the External Administrator has given notice to a meeting of creditors to be held on July 21, 2023, to consider if the Deed of Company Arrangement should be terminated and LSBD be placed into liquidation. This could result in, among other things, parties other than LSBD becoming the owner of the Intellectual Property (IP) rights. Accordingly, this has an inherent risk of the possibility of modifications to, or the Company’s ability to use, the Licensed Products, which could materially and adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and operating results.

We depend on intellectual property licensed from the Licensor for our SGT products, and any absence of legal effect of the license or dispute over the license would significantly harm our business.

We are dependent on the intellectual property licensed from the Licensor.Licensor for our SGT products. Although the License Agreement may not be terminated by the Licensor as long as we are continuing our operations, any absence of legal effect of the license could result in the loss of significant rights and could harm our ability to launch the COV2T and/or SGT in the market. Disputes may also arise between us and the Licensor regarding intellectual property subject to the License Agreement. If disputes over intellectual property that we have licensed prevent or impair our ability to maintain our current licensing arrangements on acceptable terms or are insufficient to provide us the necessary rights to use the intellectual property, we may be unable to successfully develop and launch the COV2T and/or SGT and our other product candidates.candidates from Biosensor Platform. If we or the Licensor fail to adequately protect this intellectual property, our ability to launch our products in the market also could suffer. For so long as we are dependent on the intellectual property covered by the License Agreement for the pursuit of our business, any such disputes relating to the License Agreement or failure to protect the intellectual property could threatenadversely affect our viability.business, results of operations and financial condition.

We will depend primarily on the Licensor to file, prosecute, maintain, defend and enforce intellectual property that we license from it and that is material to our business.

The intellectual property relating to the COV2T and/or SGT is owned by the Licensor. Under the License Agreement, the Licensor generally has the right to file, prosecute, maintain and defend the intellectual property we have licensed from the Licensor. If the Licensor fails to conduct these activities for intellectual property protection covering any of our product candidates, our ability to develop and launch those product candidates may be adversely affected and we may not be able to prevent competitors from making, using or selling competing products. In addition, pursuant to the terms of the License Agreement with the Licensor, the Licensor generally has the right to control the enforcement of our licensed intellectual property and the defense of any claims asserting the invalidity of that intellectual property. We cannot be certain that the Licensor will allocate sufficient resources to and otherwise prioritize the enforcement of such intellectual property or the defense of such claims to protect our interests in the licensed intellectual property. In the absence of action by the Licensor, we may be unable to protect and enforce the proprietary rights on which our business relies. Even if we are not a party to these legal actions, an adverse outcome could harm our business because it might prevent us from continuing to use the licensed intellectual property that we need to operate our business. In addition, even if we take control of the prosecution of licensed intellectual property and related applications, enforcement of licensed intellectual property, or defense of claims asserting the invalidity of that intellectual property, we may still be adversely affected or prejudiced by actions or inactions of the Licensor and its counsel that took place prior to or after our assuming control, and we cannot ensure the cooperation of the Licensor in any such action. Furthermore, if we take action to protect, enforce or defend the licensed intellectual property, we may incur significant costs and the attention of our management may be diverted from our normal business operations. As a result, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

 

We and the Licensor may be unable to protect or enforce the intellectual property rights licensed to us, which could impair our competitive position.

In order forFor our business to be viable and to compete effectively, the proprietary rights with respect to the technologies and intellectual property used in our products must be developed and maintained. The Licensor relies primarily on patent protection and trade secrets, as well as a combination of copyright and trademark laws and nondisclosure and confidentiality agreements to protect its technology and intellectual property rights. There are significant risks associated with the Licensor’s ability (or our ability, in the absence of action by the Licensor) to protect the intellectual property licensed to us, including:

 

pending intellectual property applications may not be approved or may take longer than expected to result in approval in one or more of the countries in which we operate;
 
the Licensor’s intellectual property rights may not provide meaningful protection;
 
other companies may challenge the validity or extent of the Licensor’s patents and other proprietary intellectual property rights through litigation, oppositions and other proceedings. These proceedings can be protracted as well as unpredictable;
 
other companies may have independently developed (or may in the future independently develop) similar or alternative technologies, may duplicate the Licensor’s technologies or may design their technologies around the Licensor’s technologies;
 
enforcement of intellectual property rights is complex, uncertain and expensive, and may be subject to lengthy delays. In the event we take control of any such action under the License Agreement, our ability to enforce our intellectual property protection could be limited by our financial resources; and
 
the other risks described in “—Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property.

 

If any of the Licensor’s patents or other intellectual property rights fail to protect the technologytechnologies licensed by us, it would make it easier for our competitors to offer similar products. Any inability on the Licensor’s part (or on our part, in the absence of action by the Licensor) to adequately protect its intellectual property may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We and/orand the Licensor may be subject to claims alleging the violation of the intellectual property rights of others.

We may face significant expense and liability as a result of litigation or other proceedings relating to intellectual property rights of others. In the event that another party has intellectual property protection relating to an invention or technology licensed by us from the Licensor, we and/or the Licensor may be required to participate in an interference proceeding declared by the regulatory authorities to determine priority of invention, which could result in substantial uncertainties and costs for us, even if the eventual outcome was favorable to us. We and/or the Licensor also could be required to participate in interference proceedings involving intellectual property of another entity. An adverse outcome in an interference proceeding could require us and/or the Licensor to cease using the technology, to substantially modify it or to license rights from prevailing third parties, which could delay or prevent the launch of our products in the market or adversely affect our profitability.

The cost to us of any intellectual property litigation or other proceeding relating the intellectual property licensed by us from the Licensor, even if resolved in our favor, could be substantial, especially given our early stage of development. A third party may claim that we and/or the Licensor are using inventions claimed by their intellectual property and may go to court to stop us and/or the Licensor from engaging in our normal operations and activities, such as research, development and the sale of any future products. Such lawsuits are expensive and would consume significant time and other resources. There is a risk that a court will decide that we and/or the Licensor are infringing the third party’s intellectual property and will order us to stop the activities claimed by the intellectual property. In addition, there is a risk that a court will order us and/or the Licensor to pay the other party damages for having infringed their intellectual property. While the Licensor is required to indemnify us for certain losses in connection with such proceedings, there can be no assurance that the Licensor will be able to satisfy any such obligation. Moreover, there is no guarantee that any prevailing intellectual property owner would offer us a license so that we could continue to engage in activities claimed by the intellectual property, or that such a license, if made available to us, could be acquired on commercially acceptable terms.

The Licensor hashave limited foreign intellectual property rights and may not be able to protect itsthose intellectual property rights.rights, which means that we and/or Licensor may not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions or from selling or importing products made using those inventions.

Our intellectual property rights consist primarily ofinclude intellectual property licensed from the Licensor.Licensor for our SGT Products and rights related to the IFP products. The we and the Licensor hashave determined that filing, prosecuting and defending intellectual property on devicesrights in all countries globally would be prohibitively expensive, and intellectual property rights in some countries can be less extensive than those in the United States. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect intellectual property to the same extent as laws in the United States. Consequently, we and/or the Licensor may not be able to prevent third parties from practicing our inventions or from selling or importing products made using our inventions. Competitors may use our technologies in jurisdictions where we have not obtained intellectual property rights to develop their own products and further, may export otherwise infringing products to territories where we have intellectual property protection, but enforcement is not as strong as that in the United States.

Policing unauthorized use of proprietary technology is difficult and expensive. The legal systems of certain countries do not favor the enforcement of trade secrets and other intellectual property, particularly those relating to medical device products, which could make it difficult for us to stop the infringement of our intellectual property or marketing of competing products in violationindustry of our proprietary rights generally. An adverse determination or an insufficient damage award in any such litigation could materially impair our intellectual property rights and may otherwise harm our business. In addition, some developing countries in the APAC Region have compulsory licensing laws under which an intellectual property owner may be compelled to grant licenses to third parties. In those countries, we and/or the Licensor may have limited remedies if our intellectual property is infringed or if we and/or the Licensor are compelled to grant a license to a third party,third-party, which could materially diminish the value of that intellectual property.

Furthermore, we may not be able to register or otherwise protect the trademark “Glucose Biosensor” in developing countries in the APAC Region.

We and the Licensor rely on confidentiality agreements that could be breached and may be difficult to enforce, which could result in third parties using our intellectual property to compete against us.

Although we believe that we and the Licensor take reasonable steps to protect our intellectual property, including the use of agreements relating to the non-disclosure of confidential information to third parties, as well as agreements that purport to require the disclosure and assignment to us of the rights to the ideas, developments, discoveries and inventions of our employees and consultants while we or the Licensor employ them, the agreements can be difficult and costly to enforce. Although we and the Licensor seek to enter into these types of agreements with contractors, consultants, advisors and research collaborators, to the extent that employees and consultants utilize or independently develop intellectual property in connection with any of our projects, disputes may arise as to the intellectual property rights associated with our technology. If a dispute arises, a court may determine that the right belongs to a third party.third-party. In addition, enforcement of our rights and the rights of the Licensor can be costly and unpredictable. We and the Licensor also rely on trade secrets and proprietary know-how that we and the Licensor may seek to protect in part by confidentiality agreements with employees, contractors, consultants, advisors or others. Despite the protective measures we employ, we and the Licensor still face the risk that:

 

these agreements may be breached;
 
these agreements may not provide adequate remedies for the applicable type of breach;
 
our proprietary know-how will otherwise become known; or
 
our competitors will independently develop similar technology or proprietary information.

 

We and the Licensor may be subject to claims challenging the invention of the intellectual property that we license from the Licensor.

We and the Licensor may be subject to claims that former employees, collaborators or other third parties have an interest in intellectual property as an inventor or co-inventor. For example, we and the Licensor may have inventorship disputes arising from conflicting obligations of consultants or others who are involved in developing our product candidates. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these and other claims challenging inventorship. If we and the Licensor fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we and the Licensor may lose valuable intellectual property rights, such as exclusive ownership of, or right to use, valuable intellectual property. Such an outcome could have a material adverse effect on our business. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management and other employees. As a result, it is unclear whether and, if so, to what extent employees of ours and the Licensor may be able to claim compensation with respect to our future revenue. We may receive less revenue from future products if any of employees of the Licensor or us successfully claim compensation for their work in developing our intellectual property, which in turn could impact our future profitability.

Risks Related to Our Industry

 

We face intense competitionOur products and operations are subject to extensive government regulation and oversight both in the self-monitoring of glucose market, particularly blood-basedUnited States and abroad. If we fail to obtain and maintain necessary regulatory approvals current IFP products, or if approvals for future products and as a resultindications are delayed or not issued, it will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our proprietary IFP Drug Screening System is subject to extensive regulation in the United States and abroad, including the European Union, our largest market for the IFP Drug Screening System. Government regulations specific to medical devices are wide ranging and govern, among other things:

Product design, development, manufacture, and release;
Laboratory, pre-clinical and clinical testing, labeling, packaging, storage and distribution;
Product safety and efficacy;
Premarketing clearance or approval;
Service operations;
Record keeping;
Product marketing, promotion and advertising, sales and distribution;
Post-marketing surveillance, including reporting of deaths or serious injuries and recalls and correction and removals;
Post-market approval studies; and
Product import and export.

If we mayfail to remain in compliance with applicable European laws and directives, we would be unable to effectively competecontinue to affix the CE mark to our products, which would prevent us from selling them within the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

We plan to commence required regulatory approval process with FDA in the United States, which may be an expensive, lengthy and unpredictable process. We may not be able to obtain any necessary clearances or approval or may be unduly delayed in doing so, which will negatively affect our industry.

With our secondbusiness, financial condition and results of operations. Furthermore, even if we are granted regulatory clearances or approvals, they may include significant limitations on the indicated uses for the product, fromwhich may limit the platform, the SGT, we expect to compete directly and primarily with large medical device companies, as well as with second and third tier companies having various levels of sophistication and resources. The large companies have most of the glucose monitoring business and strong research and development capacity. Their dominant market position over the last few decades and significant control over markets could significantly limit our ability to introduce the SGT or effectively market and generate sales of thefor product.

 

We have not yet entered the revenue stage and mostThe FDA can delay, limit or deny clearance or approval of our competitors have long histories and strong reputations within the industry. They have significantly greater brand recognition, financial and human resources than we do. They also have more experience and capabilities in researching and developing testing devices, obtaining and maintaining regulatory clearances and other requirements, manufacturing and marketing those products than we do. There is a significant risk that we may be unable to overcome the advantages held by our competition, and our inability to do so could lead to the failure of our business.

Competition in the glucose monitoring markets is intense, which can lead to, among other things, price reductions, longer selling cycles, lower product margins, loss of market share and additional working capital requirements. To succeed, we must, among other critical matters, gain consumer acceptancedevice for the SGT, technical solutions, prices and response time, or a combination of these factors, than those of other competitors. If our competitors offer significant discounts on certain products, we may need to lower our prices or offer other favorable terms in order to compete successfully. Moreover, any broad-based changes to our prices and pricing policies could make it difficult to generate revenues or cause our revenues, if established, to decline. Moreover, if our competitors develop and commercialize products that are more desirable than the SGT or the other products that we may develop, we may not convince customers to use our products. Any such changes would likely reduce our commercial opportunity and revenue potential and could materially adversely impact our operating results.many reasons, including:

 

If we or the Licensor fail to respond quickly to technological developments, our products may become uncompetitive and obsolete.

The glucose monitoring market may experience rapid technology developments, changes in industry standards, changes in customer requirements and frequent new product introductions and improvements. If we or the Licensor are unable to respond to these developments, we may lose competitive position, and the SGT or any other device or technology may become uncompetitive or obsolete, causing our business and prospects to suffer. In order to compete, we and the Licensor may have to develop, license or acquire new technology on a schedule that keeps pace with technological developments and the requirements for products addressing a broad spectrum and designers and designer expertise in our industries.

Our inability to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the FDA or the applicable regulatory entity or notified body that our products are safe or effective for their intended uses;
The disagreement of the FDA or the applicable foreign regulatory body with the design or implementation of our clinical trials or the interpretation of data from pre-clinical studies or clinical trials;
Serious and unexpected adverse effects experienced by participants in our clinical trials;
The data from our pre-clinical studies and clinical trials may be insufficient to support clearance or approval, where required;
Our inability to demonstrate that the clinical and other benefits of the product outweigh the risks;
The manufacturing process or facilities we use may not meet applicable requirements; and
The potential for approval policies or regulations of the FDA or applicable foreign regulatory bodies to change significantly in a manner rendering our clinical data or regulatory filings insufficient for clearance or approval.

 

Risks RelatedFurthermore, the FDA and state and international authorities have broad enforcement powers. Our failure to Our Proposed Operations

We are susceptible to economic conditions and conducting operations in the Asia Pacific Region

General economic conditions in APAC and China have an impact on our business and financial results. Weak economic conditions or softness in the consumer or business demand in APAC and Chinacomply with applicable regulatory requirements could result in lower demand for our services,enforcement action by any such agency, which would likely have an adverse impact on our earnings and cash flows. Economic rebalancing policies recently adopted by the Chinese government have had a positive effect on the economic development of the country, but the government can change these economic reforms ormay include any of the legal systems at any time. This could either benefit or damage our operations and profitability.following sanctions:

 

Adverse publicity, warning letters, fines, injunctions, consent decrees and civil penalties;
Repair, replacement, refunds, recall or seizure of our products;
Operating restrictions, partial suspension or total shutdown of production;
Denial of our requests for regulatory clearance or premarket approval of new products or services, new intended uses or modifications to existing products or services;
Withdrawal of regulatory clearance or premarket approvals that have already been granted; or
Criminal prosecution.

The

If any of these events were to occur, it will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

In addition, the medical device and other medical product industries in the APAC Region, generally are highly regulated and such regulations are subjectwhere we plan to change.

The medical device and other medicalexpand our product industriesoffering in the APAC Regionnear future are generally are subject to comprehensive government regulation and supervision, encompassing the approval, registration, manufacturing, packaging, licensing and marketing of new products. In addition, the regulatory frameworks in the APAC Region regarding our industry are subject to change. Any such changes may result in increased compliance costs on our business or cause delays in or prevent the successful development or launch of our product candidates in the APAC Region. The regulatory authorities in the countries and territories constituting the APAC Region also may launch investigations of individual companies or on an industry-wide basis. The costs and time necessary to respond to an investigation can be material. Any failure by us or our partners to maintain compliance with applicable laws and regulations or obtain and maintain required licenses and permits may result in the suspension or termination of our business activities in certain countries and territories in the APAC Region or in the region as a whole.

Compliance with environmental laws and regulations could be expensive, and the failure to comply with these laws and regulations could subject us to significant liability.

Our research, development and manufacturing operations including product assembly line at Cambridge, UK involve the use of hazardous substances, and we are subject to a variety foreign environmental laws and regulations relating to the storage, use, handling, generation, manufacture, treatment, discharge and disposal of hazardous substances. Our products may also contain hazardous substances, and they are subject laws and regulations relating to labelling requirements and to their sale, collection, recycling, treatment, storage and disposal. Compliance with these laws and regulations may be expensive and noncompliance could result in substantial fines and penalties. Environmental laws and regulations also impose liability for the remediation of releases of hazardous substances into the environment and for personal injuries resulting from exposure to hazardous substances, and they can give rise to substantial remediation costs and to third-party claims, including for property damage and personal injury. Liability under environmental laws and regulations can be joint and several and without regard to fault or negligence, and they tend to become more stringent over time, imposing greater compliance costs and increased risks and penalties associated with violations. We cannot assure you that violations of these laws and regulations, or releases of or exposure to hazardous substances, will not occur in the future or have not occurred in the past, including as a result of human error, accidents, equipment failure or other causes. The costs of complying with environmental laws and regulations, and liabilities that may be imposed for violating them, or for remediation obligations or responding to third-party claims, could negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If we or our suppliers fail to comply The United Kingdom Accreditation Services (UKAS), FDA’s Quality System Regulation (QSR) and CE (European Conformity) Markings and other relevant regulations regulation, our manufacturing or distribution operations could be delayed or shut down and our revenue could suffer.

Our manufacturing and design processes for certain of our products and those of certain of our third-party suppliers are required to comply with The United Kingdom Accreditation Services (UKAS), FDA’s QSR and CE markings in the European Union. This covers procedures and documentation of the design, testing, production, control, quality assurance, labelling, packaging, storage and shipping of our IFP Drug Screening System. We are also subject to ongoing International Organization for Standardization (“ISO 13485”) compliance in all operations, including design, manufacturing, and service, to maintain our CE Mark. In addition, we must engage in extensive recordkeeping and reporting and must make available our facilities and records for periodic unannounced inspections by governmental agencies, including the FDA, state authorities, European Union Notified Bodies and comparable agencies in other countries. If we fail a regulatory inspection, our operations could be disrupted and our manufacturing interrupted. Failure to take adequate corrective action in response to an adverse regulatory inspection could result in, among other things, a shutdown of our manufacturing or product distribution operations, significant fines, suspension of marketing clearances and approvals, seizures or recalls of our device, operating restrictions and criminal prosecutions, any of which would negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Furthermore, our key component suppliers may not currently be or may not continue to be in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, which may result in manufacturing delays for our product and cause our revenue to decline.

We can provide no assurance that we will continue to remain in compliance with the UKAS, QSR and European Union Notified Bodies. If the FDA, UKAS and European Union of Notified Bodies inspect any of our facilities and discover compliance problems, we may have to cease manufacturing and product distribution until we can take the appropriate remedial steps to correct the audit findings. Taking corrective action may be expensive, time consuming and a distraction for management and if we experience a delay at our manufacturing facility, we may be unable to produce our solutions, which will negatively affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

We face intense competition in the self-monitoring of glucose market, particularly blood-based products, and as a result we may be unable to effectively compete in our industry.

The SGT, which is currently on commercialization phase, is expected to compete directly and primarily with large medical device companies, as well as with second and third tier companies having various levels of sophistication and resources. The large companies have most of the glucose monitoring business and strong research and development capacity. Their dominant market position over the last few decades and significant control over markets could significantly limit our ability to introduce the SGT and other products from the Biosensor Platform or effectively market and generate sales of the products. We have not yet entered the revenue stage from our SGT products, as these are still on the commercialization phase, and most of our competitors have long histories and strong reputations within the industry. They have significantly greater brand recognition, financial and human resources than we do. They also have more experience and capabilities in researching and developing testing devices, obtaining and maintaining regulatory clearances and other requirements, manufacturing and marketing those products than we do. There is a significant risk that we may be unable to overcome the advantages held by our competition, and our inability to do so could lead to the failure of our business. Competition in the glucose monitoring markets is intense, which can lead to, among other things, price reductions, longer selling cycles, lower product margins, loss of market share and additional working capital requirements. To succeed, we must, among other things, gain consumer acceptance for the SGT and other products that stem from the Biosensor Platform, as well as for our technical solutions, prices and response time, or a combination of these factors, other than those of other competitors. If our competitors offer significant discounts on certain products, we may need to lower our prices or offer other favorable terms in order to compete successfully. Moreover, any broad-based changes to our prices and pricing policies could make it difficult to generate revenues or cause our revenues, if established, to decline. Moreover, if our competitors develop and commercialize products that are more desirable than the SGT or the other products that we may develop, we may not convince customers to use our products. Any such changes would likely reduce our commercial opportunity and revenue potential and could materially adversely impact our operating results.

If we or the Licensor fail to respond quickly to technological or other developments, our products may become uncompetitive and obsolete.

The drug screening, medical testing and glucose monitoring markets may experience rapid technology developments, changes in industry standards, changes in customer requirements, changes in demand, and frequent new product introductions and improvements. If we or the Licensor are unable to respond to these developments, we may lose competitive position, and our other products may become uncompetitive or obsolete, causing our business and prospects to suffer.

In order to compete, we and the Licensor need to adjust, develop, license or acquire new technology on a schedule that keeps pace with technological and other developments and the requirements for products addressing a broad spectrum of needs. For example, as a result of the significant global progress made in mitigating the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for COVID-19 testing products significantly diminished, which led us to redirect our resources and efforts away from developing products related to COVID testing to instead acquire and develop drug testing and screening systems.

Fluctuation in the value of foreign currencies may have a material adverse effect on your investment.

 

A substantial portion of our revenues and costs may be denominated in foreign currencies, such as the British Pound, Australian Dollar or Japanese Yen. Any significant change in value of these foreign currencies against the U.S. dollar may materially affect our cash flows, net revenues, earnings and financial position, and the value of, and any dividends payable on, our common stock in U.S. dollars. For example, an appreciation of any such foreign currency against the U.S. dollar would make any new investments or expenditures denominated in the foreign currency costlier to us, to the extent that we need to convert U.S. dollars into the foreign currency for such purposes. Conversely, a significant depreciation of any such foreign currency against the U.S. dollar may significantly reduce the U.S. dollar equivalent of our earnings, which in turn could adversely affect the price of our common stock. If we decide to convert any such foreign currency into U.S. dollars for the purpose of making payments for dividends on our common stock, strategic acquisitions or investments or other business purposes, appreciation of the U.S. dollar against the foreign currency would have a negative effect on the U.S. dollar amount available to us.

We do not expect to hedge against the risks associated with fluctuations in exchange rates and, therefore, exchange rate fluctuations could have an adverse impact on our future operating results. As a result, fluctuations in exchange rates may have a material adverse effect on your investment.

We may be subject to tax inefficiencies and have not ascertained the impact on us of the new United States tax laws.

The tax regulations of the United States and other jurisdictions in which we operate are extremely complex and subject to change. New laws, new interpretations of existing laws, such as the Base Erosion Profit Shifting project initiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and any legislation proposed by the relevant taxing authorities, or limitations on our ability to structure our operations and intercompany transactions may lead to inefficient tax treatment of our revenue, profits, royalties and distributions, if any are achieved. In the United States, in December 2017, comprehensive tax reform was enacted. We have not yet ascertained what impact the new law will have on our future effective tax rate, corporate structure and us in general.

In addition, we and our foreign subsidiaries will have various intercompany transactions. We may not be able to obtain certain benefits under relevant tax treaties to avoid double taxation on certain transactions among our subsidiaries. If we are not able to avail ourselves of the tax treaties, we could be subject to additional taxes, which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

We are subject to laws and regulations governing business conduct, which will require us to develop and implement costly compliance programs.

We must comply with a wide range of laws and regulations to prevent corruption, bribery, and other unethical business practices, including the FCPA, anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws in other countries. The creation and implementation of international business practices compliance programs is costly and such programs are difficult to enforce, particularly where reliance on third parties is required.

Anti-bribery laws prohibit us, our employees, and some of our agents or representatives from offering or providing any personal benefit to covered government officials to influence their performance of their duties or induce them to serve interests other than the missions of the public organizations in which they serve. Certain commercial bribery rules also prohibit offering or providing any personal benefit to employees and representatives of commercial companies to influence their performance of their duties or induce them to serve interests other than their employers. The FCPA also obligates companies whose securities are listed in the United States to comply with certain accounting provisions requiring us to maintain books and records that accurately and fairly reflect all transactions of the corporation, including international subsidiaries, and devise and maintain an adequate system of internal accounting controls for international operations. The anti-bribery provisions of the FCPA are enforced primarily by the Department of Justice. The SEC is involved with enforcement of the books and records provisions of the FCPA.

Compliance with these anti-bribery laws is expensive and difficult, particularly in countries in which corruption is a recognized problem. In addition, the anti-bribery laws present particular challenges in the medical products industries because in many countries, a majority of hospitals are state-owned or operated by the government, and doctors and other hospital employees are considered civil servants. Furthermore, in certain countries, hospitals and clinics are permitted to sell medical devices to their patients and are primary or significant distributors of medical devices. Certain payments to hospitals in connection with clinical studies, procurement of medical devices and other work have been deemed to be improper payments to government officials that have led to vigorous anti-bribery law enforcement actions and heavy fines in multiple jurisdictions, particularly in the United States and China.

It is not always possible to identify and deter violations, and the precautions we take to detect and prevent this activity may not be effective in controlling unknown or unmanaged risks or losses or in protecting us from governmental investigations or other actions or lawsuits stemming from a failure to be in compliance with such laws or regulations.

In the medical products industries, corrupt practices include, among others, acceptance of kickbacks, bribes or other illegal gains or benefits by the hospitals and medical practitioners from medical device manufacturers, distributors or their third-party agents in connection with the prescription of certain medical devices or disposables. If our employees, affiliates, distributors or third-party marketing firms violate these laws or otherwise engage in illegal practices with respect to their sales or marketing of our products or other activities involving our products, we could be required to pay damages or heavy fines by multiple jurisdictions where we operate, which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Our potential customers also may deny access to sales representatives from medical device companies because the potential customers want to avoid the perception of corruption, which could adversely affect our ability to promote our products.

As we expand our operations in the APAC Region, we will need to increase the scope of our compliance programs to address the risks relating to the potential for violations of the FCPA and other anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws. Our compliance programs will need to include policies addressing not only the FCPA, but also the provisions of a variety of anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws in multiple jurisdictions, including provisions relating to books and records that apply to us as a public company, and will need to include effective training for our personnel throughout our organization. The creation and implementation of anti-corruption compliance programs is costly and such programs are difficult to enforce, particularly where reliance on third parties is required. Violation of the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws can result in significant administrative and criminal penalties for us and our employees, including substantial fines, suspension or debarment from government contracting, prison sentences, or even the death penalty in extremely serious cases in certain countries. The SEC also may suspend or bar us from trading securities on United States exchanges for violation of the FCPA’s accounting provisions. Even if we are not ultimately punished by government authorities, the costs of investigation and review, distraction of company personnel, legal defense costs, and harm to our reputation could be substantial and could limit our profitability or our ability to develop or launch our product candidates. In addition, if any of our competitors are not subject to the FCPA, they may engage in practices that will lead to their receipt of preferential treatment from potential customers and enable them to secure business from potential customers in ways that are unavailable to us.

Changes in the economic, political or social conditions or government policies in the APAC Region could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.

The economies and societies of certain countries and territories in the APAC Region, continue to undergo significant change. Adverse changes in the political and economic policies in these countries and territories could have a material adverse effect on the overall economic growth of these countries and territories, which could adversely affect our ability to conduct business in these countries and territories. The governments of these countries and territories continue to adjust economic policies to promote economic growth. Some of these measures may benefit the overall economy, but may also have a negative effect on us. As the medical product industry grows and evolves in these countries and territories, the governments may also implement measures to change the structure of foreign investment in this industry. We are unable to predict any such policy changes, any of which could materially and adversely affect our ability to finance or conduct our business in these countries and territories. Any failure on our part to comply with changing government regulations and policies could result in the loss of our ability to develop and launch our product candidates in these countries and territories.

Our customers for the Saliva Glucose Test initially may be concentrated in China; in which case we may be susceptible to risks specifically associated with business activities in China.

On May 1, 2020, our parent company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (“LSBD”), filed a submission with the FDA for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, currently in development as a point-of-care test intended to replace blood glucose testing for diabetes management. Following the 513(g) submission to the FDA (Submitted May 01, 2020), it was determined that the company could seek the De Novo application pathway for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, we were appointed an expert contact person, Acting Branch Chief from the Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch. We have further commenced planning discussions with the FDA Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health and the Office of Product Evaluation and Quality pertaining to the clinical development and study plan of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor. LSBD have completed the supplier evaluation process and identified a suitable partner to implement the clinical plan once approved by the FDA. We expect to leverage synergies from the approval process with the FDA within the Asia Pacific region, where China has the highest number of people with diabetes. We will first seek regulatory approval for the SGT with the NMPA of China and also other regulatory agencies that serve as reference regulators, such as the FDA, the European CE approval bodies and the Japanese regulatory bodies. To the extent we have operations in China and our customers initially are concentrated in China, we may be subject to additional risks specific to China that companies do not generally face if they operate primarily outside of China. These risks and uncertainties include:

the Ministry of Commerce in China or its local counterpart must approve the amount and use of any capital contributions from us to our Chinese subsidiary, which may inhibit our ability to contribute additional capital to fund our Chinese operations;
the Chinese government imposes controls on the convertibility of the Renminbi into foreign currencies and the remittance of foreign currency out of China for certain transactions, which may restrict the ability of our operating subsidiary in China to remit sufficient foreign currency to pay dividends or other payments to us;
the legal system of China is a civil law system that continues to rapidly evolve, and the laws, regulations and rules are not always uniformly interpreted or enforced, which may limit legal protections available to us;
our operations in China subject us to various Chinese labor and social insurance laws, and any failure to comply with such laws could subject us to late fees, fines and penalties, or cause the suspension or termination of our ability to conduct business in China; and
failure to make adequate contributions to various employee benefit plans as required by Chinese regulations may subject us to penalties.

In the event that we are unable to manage the complications associated with operations in China, our results of operations, financial condition and business prospects could be materially and adversely affected.

Risks Related to this Offering and the Ownership of Our Common Stock

 

Potential investment by an institutional investor in this IPO could be at a substantially lower average price than that paid by other investors in the IPO

On December 18, 2020, our parent company, LSBD, entered into a certain Purchase and Assignment Agreement (the “PAA”) with an institutional accredited investor pursuant to which LSBD sold and assigned to the investor 3,000,000 shares of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and assigned to the investor its rights under the EA and the RRA with respect to the such preferred shares for a total purchase price of $2,000,000. The investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, subject to beneficial ownership limitation. The price per share of the 3,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is $0.67. Such investor has indicated its interest in being the lead investor and in purchasing $6,000,000 of our securities in this offering. If and to the extent such investor participates in this offering, such investor’s average price per share will be significantly lower than that to be paid by other investors in this offering. There is no assurance that the institutional investor will purchase our securities in the offering.

We have broad discretion in the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may use the net proceeds in ways with which you may not agree.

Our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds from this offering and could spend the proceeds in ways that do not advance our business plan, achieve proposed objectives, improve our financial condition, generate revenue or enhance the value of our common stock. You will be relying on the judgment of our management with regard to the use of these net proceeds, and you will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the net proceeds are being used appropriately. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could result in financial losses that could have a material adverse effect on our business, cause the price of our common stock to decline and delay the development of our product candidates. Pending the application of these funds, we may invest the net proceeds from this offering in a manner that does not produce income or that loses value.

We may not be able to satisfy the continued listing requirements of the NASDAQ Global Market in order toNasdaq or maintain the listing of our common stock.stock on Nasdaq.

We must meet certain financial, liquidity and liquidity criteriaother listing requirements in order to maintain the listing of our common stock on the NASDAQ GlobalNasdaq Capital Market. One of these requirements is that our common stock listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 or more per share (“Minimum Bid Price Requirement”). If we violate Nasdaq’s listing requirements or if we fail to meet any of continuedNasdaq’s listing standards without regaining compliance, our common stock may be delisted. In addition, while we have no present intention to do so, our Board of Directors may determine that the cost of maintaining our listing on a national securities exchange outweighs the benefits of such listing. A delisting of our common stock from the NASDAQ Global MarketNasdaq may have materially adverse consequencesimpair our shareholders’ ability to our stockholders, including:

a reduced market price and liquidity with respect to our shares of common stock;
limited dissemination of the market price of our common stock;
limited news coverage;
limited interest by investors in our common stock;
volatility of the prices of our common stock, due to low trading volume;
our common stock being considered a “penny stock,” which would result in broker-dealers participating in sales of our common stock being subject to the regulations set forth in Rules 15g-2 through 15g-9 promulgated under the Exchange Act;
increased difficulty in selling our common stock in certain states due to “blue sky” restrictions; and
limited ability to issue additional securities or to secure additional financing.

If our common stock is delisted, we may seek to have our common stock quoted on an over-the-counter marketplace, such as on the OTCQX. The OTCQX is not a stock exchange,buy and if our common stock trades on the OTCQX rather than a securities exchange, there may be significantly less trading volume and analyst coverage of, and significantly less investor interest in, our common stock, which may lead to lower trading prices for our common stock.

Investors in this offering will experience immediate and substantial dilution in net tangible book value.

The difference between the public offering price per share ofsell our common stock and the pro forma net tangible assets per share of our common stock after this offering constitutes the dilution to the investors in this offering. You will incur immediate and substantial dilution as a result of this offering. After givingcould have an adverse effect to the conversion at the closing of this offering of our convertible preferred stock and the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary, and after giving further effect to the sale by us of all 1,058,824 shares of common stock in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $17.00 per share, investors in this offering can expect an immediate dilution to net tangible assets of $15.41 per share, based on a pro forma net tangible book value per share after the offering (which excludes a value for the License Agreement) of $1.59. This dilution is due in large part to the fact that our existing investors acquired their securities prior to this offering at substantially less than investors are paying in this offering. If any outstanding warrants to purchase shares of our common stock are exercised, there would be further dilution.

If any outstanding warrants to purchase shares of our common stock are exercised, there would be further dilution. In addition, if upon the earlier of (i) 10 trading days from the issuance date of the Series B Warrants or (ii) the time when $10.0 million of volume is traded in our common stock, if the volume weighted average price of our common stock on any trading day on or after the date of issuance fails to exceed the exercise price of the Series B Warrants, the Series B Warrants can be exercised on a “cashless” basis for shares of common stock on a one-for-one basis, regardless of whether the market price of our common stock is above the exercise price, which may result in additional dilution and no additional proceeds to us in connection with such exercises. See “Dilution” for a more complete description of how the value of your investment in our common stock will be diluted upon the completion of this offering.

The market price of our common stock may be significantly volatile.

The market price for our common stock may be significantly volatile and subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors including the following:

developments prior to commercial sales relating to regulatory approval, manufacturing and distribution of our products;
actual or anticipated fluctuations in our quarterly or annual operating results;
changes in financial or operational estimates or projections;
conditions in markets generally;
changes in the economic performance or market valuations of companies similar to ours; and
general economic or political conditions in the United States or elsewhere.

In particular, the market prices for securities of medical device companies have historically been particularly volatile. Some of the factors that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include:

any delay in or the results of our clinical evaluations;
any delay in manufacturing of our products;
any delay with the approval for reimbursement for the patients from their insurance companies;
our failure to comply with regulatory requirements;
the announcements of clinical evaluation data, and the investment community’s perception of and reaction to those data;
the results of clinical evaluations conducted by others on products that would compete with ours;
any delay or failure to receive clearance or approval from regulatory agencies or bodies;
our inability to commercially launch products or market and generate sales of our products, including the SGT;
failure of the SGT or any other products, even if approved for marketing, to achieve any level of commercial success;
our failure to obtain intellectual property protection for any of our technologies and products (including those related to the SGT) or the issuance of third-party intellectual property that cover our proposed technologies or products;
developments or disputes concerning our product’s intellectual property rights;
our or our competitors’ technological innovations;
general and industry-specific economic conditions that may affect our expenditures;
changes in market valuations of similar companies;
announcements by us or our competitors of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, capital commitments, new technologies, or intellectual property;
failure to adequately manufacture the SGT or any other products through third parties;
future sales of our common stock or other securities, including shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants or otherwise issued pursuant to certain contractual rights;
period-to-period fluctuations in our financial results; and
low or high trading volume of our common stock due to many factors, including the terms of our financing arrangements.

In addition, if we fail to reach an important research, development or commercialization milestone or result by a publicly expected deadline, even if by only a small margin, there could be significant impact on the market price of, and the efficiency of the trading market for, our common stock. Additionally, as we approach the announcement of anticipated significant information and as we announce such information, we expect the priceThe delisting of our common stock to be volatile and negative results would have a substantial negative impact on the price of our common stock.

In some cases, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, stockholders have often instituted class action securities litigation against those companies. Such litigation, if instituted, could result in substantial costs and diversion of management attention and resources, which could significantly harmimpair our business operations and reputation.

The Series A Warrants and/or the Series B Warrants may not have value.

The Series A Warrants and/or the Series B Warrants being offered by us in this offering have an exercise price of $  and $  per share, respectively and expire five years from the date of issuance. In the event that our common stock does not exceed the exercise price of the Series A Warrants and/or the Series B Warrants during the period when such Warrants are exercisable, such Series A Warrants and/or the Series B Warrants may not have any value.

Holders of our Warrants will have no rights as shareholders until they acquire shares of our common stock, if ever.

If you acquire the Warrantsability to purchase shares of our common stock in this offering, you will have no rights with respect to our common stock until you acquire shares of such common stock upon exercise of your Warrants. Upon exercise of your Warrants, you will be entitled to exercise the rights of a holder of common stock only as to matters for which the record date occurs after the exercise date.

There is no public market for either of the Warrants being offered by us in this offering and an active trading market for the same is not expected to develop.

There is no established public trading market for either of the Warrants being offered in this offering, and we do not expect a market to develop. In addition, we do not intend to apply for any listing of either of the Warrants offered hereby on the Nasdaq Capital Market or any other securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system. Without an active market, the liquidity of the Warrants will be severely limited.

We have broad discretion in how we use the proceeds of this offering and may not use these proceeds effectively, which could affect our results of operations and cause our common stock and Warrant price to decline.

We will have considerable discretion in the application of the net proceeds of this offering. We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering to fund our business strategy, including without limitation, new and ongoing product development expenses, offering expenses, workingraise capital and other general corporate purposes, which may include funding for the hiring of additional personnel. As a result, investors will be relying upon management’s judgment with only limited information about our specific intentions for the use of the balance of the net proceeds of this offering. We may use the net proceeds for purposes that do not yield a significant return or any return at all for our stockholders. In addition, pending their use, we may invest the net proceeds from this offering in a manner that does not produce income or that loses value.

Upon dissolution of our Company, you may not recoup all or any portionvalue of your investment.

In The Company was previously out of compliance with the event ofMinimum Bid Price Requirement, but on February 27, 2023, the Company received a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of ourletter from Nasdaq notifying the Company whether voluntary or involuntary, our assets would be used to pay all of our debts and liabilities, and only thereafter would any remaining assets be distributed to our stockholders, subject to rights of the holders of the Preferred Stock, if any, on a pro rata basis. Therethat it had regained compliance with this requirement. However, there can be no assurance that we will have assets available from which to pay any amounts to our stockholders upon such a liquidation, dissolution or winding-up. In such an event, you would lose all of your investment.remain in compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement. For additional information regarding the Company regaining compliance with the Minimum Bid Price Requirement, see “Prospectus Summary – Nasdaq Compliance.”

 

We could issue “blank check” preferred stock without stockholder approval with the effect of diluting interests of then-current stockholders and impairing their voting rights, and provisionshave identified material weaknesses in our charter documentsinternal control over financial reporting. If our remediation of the material weaknesses is not effective, or if we experience additional material weaknesses in the future or otherwise fail to maintain an effective system of internal controls in the future, we may not be able to accurately or timely report our financial condition or results of operations, which may adversely affect investor confidence in us and, under Delaware law could discourage a takeover that stockholders may consider favorable.

Our Certificate of Incorporation provides for the authorization to issue up to 4,000,000 shares of “blank check” preferred stock with designations, rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by our board of directors. Our board of directors is empowered, without stockholder approval, to issue one or more series of preferred stock with dividend, liquidation, conversion, voting or other rights which could dilute the interest of, or impair the voting power of, our common stockholders. The issuance of a series of preferred stock could be used as a methodresult, the value of discouraging, delaying or preventing a change in control. For example, it would be possible for our board of directors to issue preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences that could impede the success of any attempt to change control of our company. In addition, advanced notice is required prior to stockholder proposals, which might further delay a change of control.

If you purchase Preferred Stock in lieu of common stock in this offering, as a holder of Preferred Stock, you will have no rights as a common stockholder with respect to the shares of common stock underlying the Preferred Stock until you acquire our common stock.

 

If you purchase Preferred StockIn connection with the preparation of our financial statements for the years ended June 30, 2021 and June 30, 2022, we identified material weaknesses in lieuour internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of common stockdeficiencies, in this offering, until you acquireinternal controls such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our common stock upon conversion of your Preferred Stock, youfinancial statements will have no rightsnot be prevented or detected on a timely basis.

The material weaknesses related to (a) the fact that the Company has not yet designed and maintained an effective control environment commensurate with its financial reporting requirements, including (i) that the Company had not yet completed the formally documented policies and procedures with respect to the common stock underlyingreview, supervision and monitoring of the Preferred Stock. Upon conversionCompany’s accounting and reporting functions, (ii) the lack of your Preferred Stock,evidence to support the performance of controls and the adequacy of review procedures, including the completeness and accuracy of information used in the performance of controls and (iii) that the Company had limited accounting personnel and other supervisory resources necessary to adequately execute the Company’s accounting processes and address its internal controls over financial reporting requirements; and (b) the lack of sufficient financial reporting and accounting personnel with appropriate knowledge of US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements to prepare consolidated financial statements and related disclosures in accordance with US GAAP and SEC reporting requirements.

We have implemented and are in the process of implementing measures designed to improve our internal control over financial reporting to remediate these material weaknesses, including the hiring of additional qualified accounting and finance personnel, enhancing our controls to improve the preparation and review over complex accounting measurements and the application of GAAP, and engaging independent experts and outside consultants.

We cannot assure you that the measures we have taken and that we intend to take will be entitledsufficient to exerciseremediate the rightsmaterial weaknesses we have identified or avoid potential future material weaknesses. While we believe that our efforts will enhance our internal control, remediation of the material weaknesses will require further validation and testing of the design and operating effectiveness of internal controls over a common stockholder only as to matters for which the record date for actions to be taken by our common stockholders occurs after the datesustained period of financial reporting cycles, and we cannot assure you convert your Preferred Stock.

Our Preferred Stockthat we have identified all, or that we will rank junior to all our liabilities to third party creditors, and to any class or series of our capital stock created after this offering specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Preferred Stock, in the event of a bankruptcy, liquidation or winding up of our assets.

In the event of bankruptcy, liquidation or winding up, our assets will be available to pay obligations on our Preferred Stock only after all our liabilities have been paid. Our Preferred Stock will effectively rank junior to all existing and future liabilities held by third party creditors. The terms of our Preferred Stock do not restrict our ability to raise additional capital in the future through the issuance of debt. Our Preferred Stock will also rank junior to any class or series of our capital stock created after this offering specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Preferred Stock. In the event of bankruptcy, liquidation or winding up, there may not be sufficient assets remaining, after paying our liabilities, to pay amounts due on any or all of our Preferred Stock then outstanding.

have additional, material weaknesses.

 

Shares eligible for future sale may adversely affect the market for our common stock.

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The price of our common stock could decline if there are substantial sales of our common stock, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers, employees, and significant stockholders, or when there is a large number of shares of our common stock available for sale.

We have 5,630,000 shares of common stock outstanding as of December 18, 2020. We also have a significant number of shares of common stock underlying outstanding preferred stock and warrants of ours and the convertible notes of our subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd. As of the date of this prospectus: (i) 2,810,190 shares of common stock are issuable upon the completion of this offering by mandatory conversion of such outstanding preferred stock convertible at a one-to-one ratio; (ii) 710,548 shares of common stock are issuable upon the completion of this offering by mandatory conversion of the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary (assuming a public offering price in this offering of $17.00 and based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020); and (iii) 2,736,675 shares of common stock are issuable during the one year period commencing on the second anniversary of the completion of this offering by exercise of outstanding warrants that were issued in connection with the issuance of the preferred stock. In addition, upon the closing of this offering, we will issue to the underwriters warrants to purchase 55,555 shares of our common stock.

Our directors, officers and certain existing stockholders will enter into lock-up agreements pursuant to which, subject to certain exceptions, such persons will not sell 4,755,300 shares of our common stock that they own for after the date of this prospectus, as further described in “Underwriting.” Notwithstanding the foregoing, the lock-up provisions in these agreements may be waived, at any time and without notice by the representative.

Subject to the lock-up agreements, our existing stockholders (including the holders of our preferred stock and warrants and the holders of the convertible notes) may be eligible to sell all or some of their shares of common stock by means of ordinary brokerage transactions in the open market, subject to the limitations of Rule 144, promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the “Securities Act.” In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, once we have been subject to public company reporting requirements for at least 90 days, a person who is not deemed to have been one of our affiliates for purposes of the Securities Act at any time during the 90 days preceding a sale and who has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least six months, including the holding period of any prior owner other than our affiliates, is entitled to sell those shares without complying with the manner of sale, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144, subject to compliance with the public information requirements of Rule 144. If such a person has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least one year, including the holding period of any prior owner other than our affiliates, then that person is entitled to sell those shares without complying with any of the requirements of Rule 144. Our affiliates and other persons selling shares on behalf of our affiliates also are entitled to sell as long as they comply with Rule 144’s manner of sale, volume limitation and notice provisions, in addition to the provisions applicable to non-affiliates described above.

The market price of the shares of our common stock could decline as a result of the sale of a substantial number of our shares of common stock in the public market or the perception in the market that the holders of a large number of shares intend to sell their shares.

We may undertake additional equity or debt financing that may dilute the shares in this offering.

We may undertake further equity or debt financing. Although we have no commitments as of the date of this offering to issue our securities, we may issue a substantial number of additional shares of our common stock or preferred stock, or a combination of common and preferred stock, to raise additional funds or in connection with any strategic acquisition. The issuance of additional shares of our common stock or any number of shares of our preferred stock:

may significantly reduce the equity interest of investors in this offering;
may subordinate the rights of holders of common stock if preferred stock is issued with rights senior to those afforded to our common stockholders;
may cause a change in control if a substantial number of our shares of common stock are issued, which may affect, among other things, our ability to use our net operating loss carryforwards, if any, and most likely also result in the resignation or removal of some or all of our present officers and directors; and
may adversely affect prevailing market prices for our common stock.

Similarly, if we issue debt securities, it could result in:

default and foreclosure on our assets if our operating revenues were insufficient to pay our debt obligations;
acceleration of our obligations to repay the indebtedness even if we have made all principal and interest payments when due if the debt security contains covenants that require the maintenance of certain financial ratios or reserves and any such covenant is breached without a waiver or renegotiation of that covenant;
our immediate payment of all principal and accrued interest, if any, if the debt security is payable on demand;
our inability to obtain additional financing, if necessary, if the debt security contains covenants restricting our ability to obtain additional financing while such security is outstanding; and
our inability to conduct acquisitions, joint ventures or similar arrangements if the debt security contains covenants restricting such transactions or the funding thereof or requiring prior approval of the debt holders.

We do not currently intend to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future, and consequently, your ability to achieve a return on your investment will depend on appreciation in the price of our common stock.

We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future. Consequently, investors must rely on sales of their common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments. There is no guarantee that shares of our common stock will appreciate in value or even maintain the price at which our stockholders have purchased their shares.

The determination of the offering price for the shares is more arbitrary compared with the pricing of securities for an established operating company.

There is no direct relationship between the offering price and our assets, book value, net worth, or any other economic or financial criteria. Rather, the price of the shares was derived through negotiations with the underwriters after considering various factors including prevailing market conditions, our future prospects and our capital structure. Although these factors were considered, the determination of the offering price is more arbitrary than the pricing of securities for an established operating company. This price does not necessarily accurately reflect the actual value of the shares or the price that may be realized upon disposition of the shares.

If securities industry analysts do not publish research reports on us, or publish unfavorable reports on us, then the market price and market trading volume of our common stock could be negatively affected.

Any trading market for our common stock will be influenced in part by any research reports that securities industry analysts publish about us. We do not currently have and may never obtain research coverage by securities industry analysts. If no securities industry analysts commence coverage of us, the market price and market trading volume of our common stock could be negatively affected. In the event we are covered by analysts, and one or more of such analysts downgrade our securities, or otherwise reports on us unfavorably, or discontinues coverage or us, the market price and market trading volume of our common stock could be negatively affected.

Our controlling stockholder may exert significant influence over our affairs, including the outcome of matters requiring stockholder approval.

Immediately following completion of this offering, we expect the Licensor, our current controlling stockholder, will control a majority of the total voting power of our outstanding common stock. Accordingly, the Licensor will have the ability to control the election of our directors and the outcome of corporate actions requiring stockholder approval, such as: (i) a merger or a sale of our company, (ii) a sale of all or substantially all of our assets, and (iii) amendments to our certificate of incorporation and by-laws. This concentration of voting power and control could have a significant effect in delaying, deferring or preventing an action that might otherwise be beneficial to our other stockholders and be disadvantageous to our stockholders with interests different from the Licensor. Therefore, you should not invest in reliance on your ability to have any control over our company. With the goal of mitigating such control risks, we have decided not to seek exemption as a “controlled company” from the corporate governance rules of the NASDAQ Global Market, and therefore will be bound by the same corporate governance principles as other public companies, including the requirement that a majority of our directors be independent and that we maintain audit, compensation and nominating committees comprised of independent directors. However, our decision not to rely on the “controlled company” exemption could change. Although we do not anticipate changing our decision, for so long as a majority of our outstanding common stock is held by the Licensor (or by any other stockholder or group of stockholders), we could choose to rely on this exemption in the future to avoid complying with certain of the NASDAQ Global Market corporate governance rules, including the rules that require us to have a board comprised of at least 50% independent directors, to have board nominations either selected, or recommended for the board’s selection, by either a nominating committee comprised solely of independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors and to have officer compensation determined, or recommended to the board for determination, either by a compensation committee comprised solely of independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors. Any decision to rely on the “controlled company” exemption will be disclosed in our annual proxy statement.

As an “emerging growth company” under applicable law, we will be subject to lessened disclosure requirements, which could leave our stockholders without information or rights available to stockholders of other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies.”

For as long as we remain an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act, we have elected to 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 expect to take advantage of these reporting exemptions until we are no longer an “emerging growth company”. We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years, although circumstances could cause us to lose that status earlier. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of  (1) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering, (2) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, (3) the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which is the end of the fiscal year in which the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700.0 million as of the end of our most recent second fiscal quarter, and (4) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period.

Because of these lessened regulatory requirements, our stockholders would be left without information or rights available to stockholders of other public companies that are not “emerging growth companies.” In addition, we cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive because we 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 suffer or be more volatile.

Because we have elected to use the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards for an “emerging growth company” our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates.

We have elected to use the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards under Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act. This election allows us to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards that have different effective dates for public and private companies until those standards apply to private companies. While we are not currently delaying the implementation of any relevant accounting standards, in the future we may avail ourselves of these rights, and as a result of this election, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates. Because our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates, investors may have difficulty evaluating or comparing our business, performance or prospects in comparison to other public companies, which may have a negative impact on the value and liquidity of our common stock.

Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law could discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company and may affect the trading price of our common stock.

We are a Delaware corporation and the anti-takeover provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control by prohibiting us from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years after the person becomes an interested stockholder, even if a change in control would be beneficial to our existing stockholders. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and by-laws may discourage, delay or prevent a change in our management or control over us that stockholders may consider favorable. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and by-laws will:

provide for the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that could be issued by our Board of Directors to thwart a takeover attempt;
provide that vacancies on our Board of Directors, including newly created directorships, may be filled only by a majority vote of directors then in office;
provide that stockholders will not be able to take action by written consent, and special meetings of stockholders may only be called by our Chief Executive Officer, our President, our Board of Directors or a majority of our stockholders;
provide that our stockholders are required to provide advance notice and additional disclosures in order to nominate individuals for election to our Board of Directors or to propose matters that can be acted upon at a stockholders’ meeting, which may discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of our company; and
do not provide stockholders with the ability to cumulate their votes, which limits the ability of minority stockholders to elect director candidates.

These provisions could also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock, thereby depressing the market price of our common stock.

As a result of becoming a public company, we will be obligated to develop and maintain a system of effective internal control over financial reporting. We may not complete our analysis of our internal control over financial reporting in a timely manner, or these internal controls may not be determined to be effective, which may harm investor confidence in our company and, as a result, the value of our common stock.

As a public company, we are required to maintain internal control over financial reporting and to report any material weaknesses in such internal controls. We will beare required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting in the second annual report we file with the SEC.reporting. This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting. However, our auditors will not be required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 until we are no longer an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act, if we take advantage of the exemptions available to us through the JOBS Act. Even after we cease to be an “emerging growth company,” our auditors will not be required to formally attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting unless we are an accelerated filer or a large accelerated filer (as defined under the Exchange Act).

We are in the very early stages of the costly and challenging process of compiling the system and process documentation necessary to perform the evaluation needed to comply with Section 404. In this regard, we will need to continue to dedicate internal resources, engage outside consultants and adopt a detailed work plan to assess and document the adequacy of internal control over financial reporting, continue steps to improve control processes as appropriate, validate through testing that controls are functioning as documented and implement a continuous reporting and improvement process for internal control over financial reporting. As we transition to the requirements of reporting as a public company, we may need to add additional finance staff. We may not be able to complete our evaluation and testing in a timely fashion. During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, we will be unable to assert that our internal controls are effective. We may not be able to remediate any material weaknesses in a timely fashion. If we are unable to complete our evaluation and testing, or if we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, particularly if we have been unable to remediate any material weaknesses identified, or if or our auditors, when required to do so, are unable to express an opinion that our internal controls are effective, investors could lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which could harm our stock price.

 

We are an emerging growth company and currently have limited accounting personnel and other supervisory resources. This can result in lack of necessary resources to adequately execute our accounting processes and address our internal controls over financial reporting requirements.

The Company is an emerging growth company. Prior to our initial public offering (“IPO”), which we completed in December 2020, the Company was a private corporation with limited accounting personnel and other supervisory resources necessary to adequately execute its accounting processes and address its internal controls over financial reporting requirements. As a result, previously existing internal controls are no longer sufficient, and the Company is in the process of updating these controls. The design and implementation of internal control over financial reporting for the Company’s post-IPO has required and will continue to require significant time and resources from management and other personnel.

Raising additional capital may cause dilution to our stockholders, restrict our operations or require us to relinquish rights to our technologies or products.

Since our inception, our operations have been financed primarily by net proceeds from the sale of our convertible preferred stock and common stock, indebtedness and revenue from the sales of our products. We anticipate our future capital requirements will be substantial and that we will need to raise significant additional capital to fund our operations through equity or debt financing, or some combination thereof. We are currently exploring fundraising opportunities to meet these capital requirements. If we are unable to raise additional funding to meet our operational needs, we will be forced to limit or cease our operations.

In addition to our current capital needs, we regularly consider fundraising opportunities and may decide, from time to time, to raise capital based on various factors, including market conditions and our plans of operation. We may seek funds through borrowings or through additional rounds of financing, including private or public equity or debt offerings. Additional capital may not be available to us on acceptable terms on a timely basis, or at all. If adequate funds are not available, or if the terms of potential funding sources are unfavorable, our business and our ability to develop our technology and our products would be harmed. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our stockholders may suffer dilution and the terms of any financing may adversely affect the rights of our stockholders. In addition, as a condition to providing additional funds to us, future investors may demand, and may be granted, rights superior to those of existing stockholders. Debt financing, if available, is likely to involve restrictive covenants limiting our flexibility in conducting future business activities, and, in the event of insolvency, debt holders would be repaid before holders of our equity securities receive any distribution of our corporate assets. We also could be required to seek funds through arrangements with partners or others that may require us to relinquish rights or jointly own some aspects of our technologies or products that we would otherwise pursue on our own

The market price of our common stock may be significantly volatile.

The market price for our common stock may be significantly volatile and subject to wide fluctuations in response to factors including the following:

developments prior to commercial sales relating to regulatory approval, manufacturing and distribution of our products;
actual or anticipated fluctuations in our quarterly or annual operating results;
changes in financial or operational estimates or projections;
conditions in markets generally;
changes in the economic performance or market valuations of companies similar to ours; and
general economic or political conditions in the United States or elsewhere.

In particular, the market prices for securities of medical device companies have historically been particularly volatile. Some of the factors that may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate include:

any delay in or the results of our clinical evaluations;
any delay in manufacturing of our products;
any delay with the approval for reimbursement for the patients from their insurance companies;
our failure to comply with regulatory requirements;
the announcements of clinical evaluation data, and the investment community’s perception of and reaction to those data;
the results of clinical evaluations conducted by others on products that would compete with ours;
any delay or failure to receive clearance or approval from regulatory agencies or bodies;
our inability to commercially launch products or market and generate sales of our products, including the SGT;
failure of the SGT or any other products, even if approved for marketing, to achieve any level of commercial success;
our failure to obtain intellectual property protection for any of our technologies and products (including those related to the SGT) or the issuance of third-party intellectual property that cover our proposed technologies or products;
developments or disputes concerning our product’s intellectual property rights;
our or our competitors’ technological innovations;
general and industry-specific economic conditions that may affect our expenditures;
changes in market valuations of similar companies;
announcements by us or our competitors of significant contracts, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, capital commitments, new technologies, or intellectual property;
failure to adequately manufacture the SGT or any other products through third parties;
future sales of our common stock or other securities, including shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants or otherwise issued pursuant to certain contractual rights;
period-to-period fluctuations in our financial results; and
low or high trading volume of our common stock due to many factors, including the terms of our financing arrangements.

In addition, if we fail to reach an important research, development or commercialization milestone or result by a publicly expected deadline, even if by only a small margin, there could be significant impact on the market price of our common stock. Additionally, as we approach the announcement of anticipated significant information and as we announce such information, we expect the price of our common stock to be volatile and negative results would have a substantial negative impact on the price of our common stock. In some cases, following periods of volatility in the market price of a company’s securities, stockholders have often instituted class action securities litigation against those companies. Such litigation, if instituted, could result in substantial costs and diversion of management attention and resources, which could significantly harm our business operations and reputation.

We incur significantly increased costs and are subject to additional regulations and requirements as a result of operating asbecoming a public company, andwhich could lower our management will be requiredprofits or make it more difficult to devote substantial time to new compliance initiatives and corporate governance practices. Moreover,run our ability to comply with all applicable laws, rules and regulations is uncertain given our management’s relative inexperience with operating United States public companies.business.

As a public company, and particularly after we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” we will incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the listing requirements of the NASDAQ GlobalNasdaq Capital Market and other applicable securities rules and regulations impose various requirements on public companies. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to compliance with these requirements. Moreover, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, we expect that these rules and regulations may make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, which could make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our board of directors. Furthermore, new or changing laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies, which could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we will incur as a public company or the timing of such costs.

Moreover, our executive officers have little experience in operating a United States public company, which makes our ability to comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations uncertain. Our failure to company with all laws, rules and regulations applicable to United States public companies could subject us or our management to regulatory scrutiny or sanction, which could harm our reputation and stock price.

 

Our amendedIf we are unable to achieve certain agreed milestones for the government grant we received, we may become liable to refund the grant we received.

The Company has only completed 4 of the 8 agreed milestones set forth in the Company’s grant agreement with the Australian Government. As of March 31, 2023, there is uncertainty regarding the potential extension of the grant agreement past its original end date of March 28, 2024. If we are not given an extension beyond the original end date, or if we are unable achieve the agreed milestones on time, we may become liable to refund the grant we received.

We may have difficulties integrating acquired businesses and restated certificateas result, our business, results of incorporation will provide, subject to limited exceptions,operations and/or financial condition may be materially adversely affected.

The Company believes that the Courtacquisition of ChanceryIFP will result in several benefits, including synergy in operations, drive product innovations, and operational efficiencies. However, to realize these anticipated benefits, the businesses of INBS and IFP must be successfully integrated. The success of the Stateacquisition of DelawareIFP will depend on, among other things, the combined Company’s ability to realize these anticipated benefits from combining the businesses of INBS and IFP. The combined company may fail to realize the anticipated benefits of the acquisition for a variety of reasons, including the following:

inability to efficiently operate new businesses or to integrate acquired products.
failure to successfully manage relationships with customers, distributors, and suppliers.
failure of customers to accept new products or to continue as customers of the combined company.
potential incompatibility of technologies and systems.
failure to leverage the increased scale of the combined company quickly and effectively.
potential difficulties integrating and harmonizing financial reporting systems.
difficulties in retaining key employees of the acquired business.
failure of the acquired business to produce the expected value.
failure to effectively coordinate sales and marketing efforts to communicate the capabilities of the combined company.

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Risks Related to This Offering

Because our management will have broad discretion and flexibility in how the net proceeds from this offering are used, our management may use the net proceeds in ways with which you disagree or which may not prove effective.

We currently intend to use the net proceeds from this offering as discussed under “Use of Proceeds” in this prospectus. We have not allocated specific amounts of the net proceeds from this offering for any specific purposes. Accordingly, our management will have significant discretion and flexibility in applying the net proceeds of this offering. You will be relying on the solejudgment of our management with regard to the use of these net proceeds, and exclusive forumyou will not have the opportunity, as part of your investment decision, to assess whether the net proceeds are being used appropriately. It is possible that the net proceeds will be invested in a way that does not yield a favorable, or any, return for certain stockholder litigation matters, whichus. The failure of our management to use such funds effectively could limithave a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flow.

The liquidity and trading volume of our common stock could be low, and our ownership will be concentrated.

The liquidity and trading volume of our common stock has at times been low in the past and could again be low in the future. If the liquidity and trading volume of our common stock is low, this could adversely impact the trading price of our shares, our ability to issue stock and our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forumliquidity in their shares.

There is no public market for disputes with usthe Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or our directors, officers, employees or stockholders.warrants being offered in this offering.

Our amendedThe public offering price for the securities will be determined by negotiations between us, the underwriters and restated certificateprospective investors, and may not be indicative of incorporationprices that will require,prevail in the trading market. We do not intend to apply to list the fullest extent permitted by law, subject to limited exceptions, that derivative actions broughtSeries E Convertible Preferred Stock and the warrants on the Nasdaq Capital Market or any nationally recognized trading system, and accordingly, there will be no trading market for such warrants. In the absence of an active public trading market:

you may not be able to resell your securities at or above the public offering price;
the market price of our common stock may experience more price volatility; and
there may be less efficiency in carrying out your purchase and sale orders.

The market price of our name, actions against directors, officers and employees for breach of fiduciary duty and other similar actionscommon stock may be brought only in the Courthighly volatile, and you could lose all or part of Chancery in the State of Delaware and, if brought outside of Delaware, the stockholder bringing the suit will be deemed to have consented to service of process on such stockholder’s counsel in any action brought to enforce the exclusive forum provision. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in sharesyour investment.

The trading price of our capitalcommon stock shallhas been and is likely to continue to be deemedvolatile. This volatility may prevent you from being able to have notice of and consented tosell your securities at or above the forum provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.price you paid for your securities.

 

NotwithstandingOur stock price could be subject to wide fluctuations in response to a variety of factors, which include:

whether we achieve our anticipated corporate objectives;
● termination of the lock-up agreement or other restrictions on the ability of our stockholders and other security holders to sell shares after this offering; and
general economic or political conditions in the United States or elsewhere.

In addition, the foregoing, Section 27stock market in general, and healthcare companies in particular, have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of these companies. Broad market and industry factors may negatively affect the market price of our common stock, regardless of our actual operating performance.

You will incur immediate and substantial dilution as a result of this offering.

After giving effect to the sale by us of [●] shares of common stock (or Series E Convertible Preferred Stock) and accompanying warrants in this offering at an assumed combined public offering price of $[●] per share of common stock (or $[●] per share of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock) and accompanying warrants, after deducting underwriter fees and estimated offering expenses payable by us, investors in this offering can expect an immediate dilution of $[●] per share. For a further description of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction overdilution that investors in this offering may experience, see “Dilution.”

In the past, we have issued shares of common stock and warrants in public offerings and private placements of our securities, and we have issued shares of common stock as compensation to our officers and directors. Our issuance of shares of common stock in the future, and the exercise of outstanding warrants or warrants that we may issue in the future, may result in additional dilution to investors in this offering.

The terms of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and the warrants could impede our ability to enter into certain transactions or obtain additional financing.

The terms of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and the warrants require us, upon the consummation of any “fundamental transaction” (as defined in the securities), to, among other obligations, cause any successor entity resulting from the fundamental transaction to assume all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created byof our obligations under the Exchange Act orSeries E Convertible Preferred Stock and the ruleswarrants and regulations thereunder.the associated transaction documents. In addition, Section 22holders of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants are entitled to participate in any fundamental transaction on an as-converted or as-exercised basis, which could result in the holders of our common stock receiving a lesser portion of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created byconsideration from a fundamental transaction. The terms of the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. As a result, the exclusive forum provision will provide that the Court of ChancerySeries E Convertible Preferred Stock and the federal district court forwarrants could also impede our ability to enter into certain transactions or obtain additional financing in the Districtfuture.

Holders of Delawarewarrants purchased in this offering will have concurrent jurisdiction over any action arising underno rights as stockholders until such holders exercise their warrants and acquire our shares of common stock, except as set forth in the Securities Act orwarrants.

Except as set forth in the rules and regulations thereunder, andwarrants, until holders of warrants acquire our shares of common stock upon exercise of the exclusive forum provisionwarrants, holders of the warrants have no rights with respect to our shares of common stock underlying such warrants, the holders will not applybe entitled to suits broughtexercise the rights of a stockholder of shares of common stock only as to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder or any other claimmatters for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Torecord date occurs after the extentexercise date.

The warrants are speculative in nature.

The warrants offered hereby do not confer any rights of share of common stock ownership on their holders, such as voting rights or the exclusive forum provision restrictsright to receive dividends, but rather merely represent the courts in which our stockholdersright to acquire shares of common stock at a fixed price. Specifically, commencing on the date of issuance, holders of the warrants may bring claims arising underacquire the Securities Actshares of common stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants at an exercise price of $[●] per share of common stock. Moreover, following this offering, the market value of the warrants is uncertain and there can be no assurance that the rulesmarket value of the warrants will equal or exceed their respective public offering prices. There can be no assurance that the market price of the shares of common stock will ever equal or exceed the exercise price of the warrants, and regulations thereunder, there is uncertainty asconsequently, whether it will ever be profitable for holders of warrants to whether a court would enforce such provision. Investors cannot waive compliance withexercise the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.warrants.

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This exclusive forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or any of our directors, officers, other employees or stockholders, which may discourage lawsuits with respect to such claims. By requiring a stockholder to bring such a claim in the Court of Chancery (or the federal district court for the District of Delaware, in the case of an action under the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder), the exclusive forum provision also may increase the costs to a stockholder of bringing such a claim. Alternatively, if a court were to find the exclusive forum provision contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could harm our business, operating results and financial condition.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus and the other documents we have filed with the SEC that are incorporated herein by reference contain forward-looking statements that involve substantial risks and uncertainties. All statements, other than statements of historical factfacts, regarding our strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues, projected costs, prospects, plans, objectives of management or relatingother financial items are forward-looking statements. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “predict,” “project,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions are intended to present factsidentify forward-looking statements, although not all forward-looking statements contain these identifying words.

We may not actually achieve the plans, intentions or current conditionsexpectations disclosed in our forward-looking statements, and you should not place undue reliance on our forward-looking statements. Actual results or events could differ materially from the plans, intentions and expectations disclosed in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors in the cautionary statements included in this prospectus, areparticularly as set forth and incorporated by reference in the “Risk Factors” section above, that we believe could cause actual results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements. statements that we make. Our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures, collaborations or investments we may make.

Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. In addition, any statements that refer to projections, forecasts or other characterizations of future events or circumstances, including any underlying assumptions, are forward-looking statements. These statements may include words such as “anticipate,” “estimate,” “expect,” “project,” “plan,” “intend,” “believe,” “may,” “should,” “can have,” “likely” and other words and terms of similar meaning, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking.about:

 

The forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on us. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including those described in “Risk Factors.” Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the future events and trends discussed in this prospectus may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements.

our ability to continue as a going concern;
our ability to successfully integrate acquisitions;
our ability to successfully develop and commercialize its diagnostic tests;
our ability to realize commercial benefit from our partnerships and collaborations;
our ability to secure regulatory approvals;
compliance with obligations under intellectual property licenses with third parties;
market acceptance of our new offerings;
our ability to establish or maintain collaborations, licensing or other arrangements;
our ability and third parties’ abilities to protect intellectual property rights;
our ability to adequately support future growth; and
our ability to attract and retain key personnel to manage our business effectively.

 

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The eventsread this prospectus, the accompanying prospectus and circumstances reflectedthe documents that we incorporate by reference in this prospectus completely and with the forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur. Although we believeunderstanding that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guaranteeour actual future results levels of activity, performance, or achievements. Except as required by the federal securities laws,may be materially different from what we are under no dutyexpect. We do not assume any obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements, afterexcept as otherwise required by law. We advise you, however, to consult any further disclosures we make on related subjects in our future annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K we file with or furnish to the date of this prospectus or to conform these statements to actual results or revised expectations.SEC.

USE OF PROCEEDS

 

WeAssuming we sell all units offered pursuant to this prospectus, we estimate that the net proceeds from the sale of our securities in this offering will be approximately $16.06$[●] million (or $18.54approximately $[●] million if the underwriters exercise thetheir over-allotment option in full), based on an assumed public offering price of $17.00$[●] per Unit, andunit (the last reported sale price of our shares of common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on [●], 2023), after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We will not receiveus as described in “Underwriting” and excluding the proceeds, if any, proceeds from the cash exercise of the Series A Warrants or the Series B Warrants unless such warrants are exercised for cash. sold in this offering.

We intend to use the net proceeds from thethis offering as follows:

$8.60 million to obtain regulatory approvals, including completing any product development required to meet regulatory requirements and establishing manufacturing facilities with sufficient capacity for clinical evaluation and commercial scale production of the biosensor architecture including SGT;
$0.75 million to market the SGT and establish a distribution network across the APAC Region; and
$6.71 million for working capital and general corporate purposes.

We expect the net proceeds to be sufficient to enable us to obtain regulatory approvals, including completing the related product development and establishing the related manufacturing facilities, as well as to market the SGT and establish a distribution network across the APAC Region.

 

Since the biosensor architecture is complete and given the pre-existing plans and infrastructure to develop immunology diagnostic tests, we do not expect the development of the recognition element of the biosensor specific to the SARS-CoV-2 test to have a material incremental impactBased on the use of proceeds from this offering.

This expectedour planned use of the net proceeds from this offering and our existing cash, we estimate that such funds will be sufficient to enable us to fund our working capital needs and operating expenses for at least the next [●] months. We have based this estimate on assumptions that may prove to be incorrect, and we could use our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect. Our existing cash and cash equivalents as of the date of this prospectus, together with the estimated net proceeds from this offering, may or may not be sufficient to fund our working capital needs and operating expenses. To obtain the capital necessary to fund our operations, we expect to finance our cash needs through public or private equity offerings, debt financings and/or other capital sources.

The expected use of net proceeds from this offering represents our intentionsmanagement’s estimates based upon our current plansbusiness and prevailing business conditions, which could change in the future as our plans and prevailing business conditions evolve. Predicting the cost necessary to develop biosensor devices can be difficult and theeconomic conditions. The amounts and timing of our actual expenditures mayuse of net proceeds will vary significantly depending on numerous factors, including the progress of our development, the status of and results from clinical evaluations, any collaborations that we may enter into with third parties and any unforeseen cash needs.factors. As a result, our management will retainhave broad discretion overin the allocationapplication of the net proceeds, from this offering.

Pendingand investors will be relying on our judgment regarding the useapplication of the net proceeds of this offering,offering. Although we intenddo not contemplate changes in the proposed use of proceeds, to investthe extent we find that adjustment is required for other uses by reason of existing business conditions, the use of proceeds may be adjusted. We reserve the right to use the net proceeds we receive in short-term investment-grade, interest-bearing securities.the offering in any manner we consider to be appropriate, which could differ materially from those outlined above as a result of several factors including those set forth under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table summarizes our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization as of March 31, 2023:

on an actual basis; and
on an as adjusted basis, giving effect to (i) the sale by us of [●] Class A Units (each Class A Unit consisting of one share of common stock and one warrant to purchase [●] shares of common stock) in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $[●] per Class A Unit, which is the last reported sale price of our shares of common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on [●], 2023, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, and assuming no sale of Class B Units (each Class B Unit consisting of one share of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and one warrant to purchase [●] shares of common stock) in this offering and no exercise of any warrants included in the units. The pro forma information set forth in the table below is illustrative only and will be adjusted based on the actual public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing.

   Actual As Adjusted1,3 
          
Cash and cash equivalents $2,280,544  $[●] 
Stockholders’ equity:     
Preferred stock, $0.01 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized;        
 4,012,276 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock designated and 2,363,003 issued and outstanding(2)*, $23,630   [●] 
 500,000 Series D preferred stock designated, 176,462, issued and outstanding* $1,765   [●] 
 shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock authorized; none and [●] shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock issued, as adjusted $-   [●] 
Common stock, $0.01 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized; 1,685,467 issued and outstanding, actual; [●] shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted  16,855  [●] 
Treasury stock, at cost, 1,386 shares as of March 31, 2023  (14)    
Additional paid-in capital  45,772,664  [●] 
Accumulated deficit  (39,148,652) [●] 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss  (639,884)    
Total consolidated Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. equity  6,026,364     
Non-controlling interest  (99,518)    
Total stockholders’ equity  5,926,846  [●] 
Total capitalization $5,926,846  $[●] 

* Effective as of May 10, 2023, all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Series D Preferred Stock (176,462 shares) were converted into an aggregate of 26,464 shares of common stock, and all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock (3,512,277 shares) were converted into 526,818 shares of common stock. Following the conversion preferred stock on May 10, 2023, there remained 500,000 Series C Preferred Stock (Closing Holdback Shares) held back from issuance to the IFP Sellers for one year after the IFP Closing in order to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against the IFP Sellers. These Closing Holdback Shares, which are not deemed outstanding, are currently convertible into approximately 75,000 shares of common stock (subject to rounding for fractional shares).

(1) A $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed public offering price of $[●] per Class A Unit and Class B Unit, which is the last reported sale price of our shares of common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on July [●], 2023, would increase or decrease, as appropriate, our as adjusted cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital, total assets, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization by approximately $[●]million, assuming the number of units offered by us as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

(2) 500,000 shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (the Closing Holdback Shares) are held back from being issued in order to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company.

(3) All proceeds from the sale of Class A Units have been reflected within Stockholders’ equity for purposes of this table. The Company will be required to complete an assessment of the accounting and valuation for such instruments, which may result in a portion of the proceeds being classified outside of Stockholder’s equity and remeasured to fair value each reporting period (if liability-classified instruments). Such assessment will be completed in connection with the preparation of our consolidated financial statements for the period in which the sales occur.

An increase or decrease of 10,000 in the number of units offered by us, based on the assumed public offering price of $[●] per Class A Unit, would increase or decrease our as adjusted cash and cash equivalents, additional paid-in capital, total assets, total stockholders’ equity and total capitalization by approximately $[●] million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. The information discussed above is illustrative only and will adjust based on the actual public offering price, the actual number of units we offer in this offering, and other terms of this offering determined at pricing.

The table above excludes the following shares:

501,521 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants with a weighted-average exercise price of $174.37 per share+; and
up to an aggregate of 100,000 shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2019 Plan.

+Approximate amounts. Actual amounts may differ due to rounding.

On February 9, 2023, we effected the Reverse Stock Split. As a result of the foregoing, every twenty (20) shares of our common stock outstanding were automatically changed and reclassified into one (1) new share of common stock. Holders of common stock who would have otherwise received a fractional share of common stock pursuant to the Reverse Stock Split instead received one whole share. Unless indicated otherwise, the numbers set forth in this prospectus have been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split.

Except as otherwise noted, all information in this prospectus reflects and assumes (i) no sale of Class B Units, which, if sold, for each share of common stock underlying a share of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock, the number of shares of common stock that we are offering will be decreased on a one-for-one basis, (ii) no exercise of outstanding options issued under our equity incentive plans, (iii) no issuance or conversion of the Closing Holdback Shares, (iv) no exercise of any warrants issued in this offering or other outstanding warrants, and (iv) no exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of common stock and/or warrants to purchase additional shares of common stock.

 

We believe that the net proceeds from this offering will allow us to operate for at least the next 30 months. We do not anticipate generating any revenues for at least 6-10 months from the date of this offering, if at all, and our revenues will not immediately be sufficient to finance our ongoing operations. In addition, available resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently anticipated, and there can be no assurance that we will be successful in developing the SGT and generating sufficient revenue in the timeframe set forth above, or at all. We may be unable to meet our targets for regulatory approval and market launch, or we may be unable to generate anticipated amounts of revenue from sales of the system. We may also need additional funding for developing new products and services and for additional sales, marketing and promotional activities. Should this occur, we may need to seek additional capital earlier than anticipated. In the event we require additional capital, there can be no assurances that we will be able to raise such capital on acceptable terms, or at all. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”DILUTION

 

If you invest in our securities, your ownership interest may be diluted to the extent of the difference between the amount per unit paid by purchasers, assuming that only Class A Units are issued in this public offering, and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after the closing of this offering. Such calculation does not reflect any potential dilution associated with the sale and exercise of warrants, which would cause the actual dilution to you to be higher.

Our net tangible book value is the amount of our total tangible assets less our total liabilities. Net tangible book value per share is our net tangible book value divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2023. Our net tangible book value as of March 31, 2023 was $0.63 million, or $0.37 per share, based on 1,685,467 shares of our common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2023.

After giving effect to the sale of [●] Class A Units, with each Class A Unit consisting of one share of common stock together with one warrant to purchase one share of common stock, at an assumed public offering price of $[●] per Class A Unit and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and the estimated offering expenses payable by us, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of March 31, 2023, would have been approximately $[●] million, or $[●] per share of common stock. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of $[●] per share to existing stockholders and immediate dilution in net tangible book value of $[●] per share to purchasers of our common stock in this offering at the public offering price. The final public offering price will be determined through negotiation between us and the underwriters in the offering and may be at a discount to the current market price. Therefore, the assumed public offering price used throughout this prospectus may not be indicative of the final public offering price. The following table illustrates this calculation on a per share basis:

The following table illustrates this dilution on a per share basis:

Assumed public offering price per Unit $[●] 
Net tangible book value per share at March 31, 2023 $0.37 
Decrease in net tangible book value per share to the existing stockholders attributable to this offering $[●] 
As adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering $[●] 
Dilution in net tangible book value per share to new investors $[●] 

The foregoing table is based on 1,685,467 shares of our common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2023, and assumes (i) the sale of [●] Class A Units based on an assumed public offering price of $[●], the last reported sales price of our shares of common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market on [●], 2023; (ii) no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option; (iii) no exercise of the warrants included in this offering; (iv) no sale of Class B Units and no conversion of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock included in the Class B Units; and excludes the following other securities:

[●] shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants with a weighted-average exercise price of $[●] per share+;
[●] shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock reserved for issuance by the Company+;
[●] shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock reserved for issuance by the Company+; and
up to an aggregate of 100,000 shares of common stock reserved for future issuance under our 2019 Long Term Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”)

+Approximate amounts. Actual amounts may differ due to rounding. Effective as of May 10, 2023, all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Series D Preferred Stock (176,462 shares) were converted into an aggregate of 26,464 shares of common stock, and all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock (3,512,277 shares) were converted into 526,818 shares of common stock. Following the conversion preferred stock on May 10, 2023, there remained 500,000 Series C Preferred Stock (Closing Holdback Shares) held back from issuance to the IFP Sellers for one year after the IFP Closing in order to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against the IFP Sellers. These Closing Holdback Shares, which are not deemed outstanding, are currently convertible into approximately 75,000 shares of common stock (subject to rounding for fractional shares).

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed public offering price of $[●] per Class A Unit, would increase (decrease) our as adjusted net tangible book value per share to existing investors by $[●], and would increase (decrease) dilution per share to new investors in this offering by $[●], assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

If any shares of common stock are issued upon exercise of outstanding options or warrants, or upon the conversion of preferred stock, you may experience further dilution or accretion. In addition, we may choose to raise additional capital due to market conditions or strategic considerations even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans. To the extent that additional capital is raised through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the issuance of these securities could result in further dilution to our stockholders.

DIVIDEND POLICY

 

Since our inception, we have not paid any dividends on our common stock, and we currently expect that, for the foreseeable future, all earnings (if any) will be retained for the development of our business and no dividends will be declared or paid. In the future, our Board of Directors may decide, at their discretion, whether dividends may be declared and paid, taking into consideration, among other things, our earnings (if any), operating results, financial condition and capital requirements, general business conditions and other pertinent facts, including restrictions imposed by foreign jurisdictions on paying dividends or making other payments to us.

 

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DILUTION

The difference between the public offering price per share of our common stock and our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering constitutes the dilution to investors in this offering. Net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our net tangible book value, which is our total tangible assets less total liabilities, by the number of outstanding shares of common stock.

At September 30, 2020, our pro forma net tangible book value was $2,086,140, or approximately $0.23 per share, after giving effect to the mandatory conversion in connection with this offering of our outstanding preferred stock and the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary (assuming a public offering price in this offering of $17.00 and based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020).

After giving further effect to the sale of all 1,058,824 units (and the shares of common stock thereunder) at an assumed public offering price of $17.00 per Unit, and after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value at September 30, 2020 would have been approximately $16,282,527 or $1.59 per share, representing an immediate increase in net tangible book value of  $1.37 per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution of  $15.41 per share to new investors.

The following table illustrates the dilution to the new investors on a per-share basis:

Assumed public offering price per share     $17.00 
Pro forma net tangible book value per share before offering $0.23  $  
Increase in net tangible book value per share attributable to shares offered hereby $1.37  $  
Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after offering    $1.59 
Dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to investors in offering    $15.41 

If the representative exercises the option to purchase additional shares to cover over-allotments in full, the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock after giving effect to this offering would be approximately $1.22 per share, and the dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share to investors in this offering would be approximately $15.78 per share of common stock.

The following table summarizes, as of September 30, 2020, after giving effect to the mandatory conversion in connection with this offering of our outstanding preferred stock and the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary (assuming a public offering price in this offering of $17.00 and based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020), and assuming the sale of all the shares offered hereby, the differences between the number of shares of our common stock purchased from us, the total cash consideration paid, and the average price per share paid by our existing stockholders and by our new investors purchasing shares in this offering at an assumed public offering price of $17.00 per share, before deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us:

  Shares Purchased  Total Consideration  Average Price 
  Number  Percent  Amount  Percent  Per Share 
                
Existing Stockholders  9,150,738   90% $    28,607,135.00   64% $3.13 
New Investors  1,058,824   10% 16,060,000.00   36% $15.17 
Total  10,209,562   100.00% $44,667,135.00   100.00%    

The dilution information discussed above is illustrative only and may change based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering. Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed public offering price of $17.00 per share would increase (decrease) each of the total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $1.059 million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Each increase (decrease) of 1,000,000 shares in the number of shares of common stock offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) each of the total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $17 million, assuming that the assumed public offering price remains the same, and after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

If the representative exercises the option to purchase additional shares to cover over-allotments in full, our existing stockholders would own 88% and our new investors would own 12% of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering.

The above tables and discussion include: (i) 5,630,000 shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 18, 2020; and (ii) the issuance of 2,810,190 shares our common stock upon the mandatory conversion at the closing of this offering of our outstanding preferred stock and 710,548 shares of our common stock upon the mandatory conversion at the closing of this offering of the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary (assuming a public offering price in this offering of $17.00 and based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020), and exclude:

2,736,675 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants issued in connection with the placement of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, at an exercise price of $8.5 per share (or 50% of the unit offering price in this offering), which warrants are exercisable only during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the closing of this offering;
500,000 shares that will become available for future issuance under our 2019 Plan; and

55,555 shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants to be issued to the underwriters upon the closing of this offering.

CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of September 30, 2020:

on an actual basis;
on a pro forma basis, after giving effect to the mandatory conversion in connection with this offering of our outstanding preferred stock and the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020; and
on a pro forma basis as adjusted basis, after giving further effect to the sale of Units of our securities in this offering at an assumed public price of $17.00 per Unit, and after deducting the underwriting discounts and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

You should read this table together with the section of this prospectus entitled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

  As of September 30, 2020 
  Actual  Pro Forma  

Pro Forma As

Adjusted

 
Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term and long-term investments $

1,042,543

  $1,042,543  $17,102,543 
Stockholders’ equity (deficit):            
Preferred Stock, at $0.01 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized, 5,810,190 shares issued and outstanding as of December 18 , 2020; and 2,810,190 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2020(1)(4)(5) $

28,102

 $30,000  $30,000 

Common Stock, at $0.01 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized, 5,630,000 shares issued and outstanding as of December 18, 2020; and 8,630,000 shares issued and outstanding as of September 30, 2020(4)(5)(6)

 $86,300 $91,507  $102,096 
             
Additional paid-in capital (3) $

14,190,294

 $19,316,895  $

33,502,693

             
Ordinary Shares, 1,036,000 shares issued and outstanding to non-controlling interests as of September 30, 2020(2) $(32,716) $(32,716) $(32,716)
Accumulated deficit $(16,905,027) $(16,905,027) $(16,905,027)
Accumulated Other comprehensive income $(414,519) $(414,519) $(414,519)
Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)  (3,047,566)  

2,086,140

   

16,282,527

 
Total capitalization $(3,047,566) $2,086,140  $

16,282,527

 

(1)These shares automatically convert to shares of our common stock in connection with this offering.
(2)These ordinary shares are issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd, to non-controlling interests and remain outstanding following the completion of this offering.
(3)The components of Additional paid-in capital:

Total amounts paid for the excess of par value for 8,630,000 shares of Common Stock and 2,810,190 shares of Preferred Stock outstanding as of September 30, 2020 $14,190,294 
Add: the aggregated outstanding principal amount of the convertible notes issued by our 99% owned subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd, as of September 30, 2020, which will be automatically converted into 710,548 shares of Common Stock at a price per share equal to 85% of 50% of the unit offering price in this offering (or $7.23, assuming a unit offering price of $17.00) $5,133,706 
Less: transfer to Par Value of Common Stock $(7,105)
Pro Forma Balance of Additional paid-in Capital $19,316,895 
Add: Net proceeds raised in this offering $16,060,000 
Less: Write off of Deferred Charges to Equity $(1,863,613 
Less: transfer to Par Value of Common Stock $(10,588)
Pro Forma As Adjusted Balance of Additional paid-in Capital $

33,502,693

 

(4)On November 5, 2020, the authorized capital was increased to 110,000,000 with a par value of $0.01 each consisting of 100,000,000 shares of common shares and 10,000,000 shares of preferred shares.
(5)The amounts have been reclassified in the “actual” column from the financial statements to dissect the Par Value and Additional Paid in Capital components.

(6)The number of the Pro Forma Common Stock shares 9,150,738, comprises of
5,630,000 common stock shares outstanding as of December 18, 2020;
the mandatory conversion at the closing of this offering of 2,810,190 outstanding shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock as of the date hereof into 2,810,190 shares of common stock; and
the mandatory conversion at the closing of this offering of the convertible notes issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd, at a conversion price equal to 85% of 50% of the unit offering price in this offering (or $7.23, assuming a unit offering price of $17.00, for an aggregate of 710,548 shares based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020).

The table above assumes no exercise by the representative of the over-allotment option and excludes the following securities:

2,736,675 shares issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants issued in connection with the placement of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, at an exercise price of $8.50 per share (or 50% of the unit offering price in this offering), which warrants are exercisable only during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the closing of this offering;

500,000 shares that will become available for future issuance under our 2019 Plan; and

55,555 shares issuable upon the exercise of warrants to be issued to the underwriters upon the closing of this offering.

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

 

Prospective investors should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes and other financial information included elsewhere in this prospectus. Some of the information contained in this discussion and analysis or set forth elsewhere in this prospectus, including information with respect to our plans and strategy for our business, includes forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” You should review the “Risk Factors” section of this prospectus for a discussion of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results described in or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in the following discussion and analysis.

On November 5, 2017, we effected a 1-for-90,000 stock split resulting in 9,000,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. On August 9, 2018, we effected a 1-for-0.9167 reverse stock split that resulted in our having 8,250,000 outstanding shares of common stock. On November 24, 2018, we issued a further 260,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $1,950,000 in debt, resulting in 8,510,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date.

On June 27, 2019, the Licensor, our controlling stockholder, transferred a total of 36,600 shares of our common stocks to a total of 122 employees of the Licensor and related companies, and on September 2, 2019, the Licensor transferred a total of 42,000 shares of our common stocks to a total of 140 employees of the Licensor and related companies, in each case pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

On June 30, 2020, we issued 120,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $900,000 in debt, resulting in 8,630,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. Therefore, as at the date of this prospectus, the Licensor owns a total of 8,551,400 common stock of our common stock representing 99.1% of our outstanding common stock. Share and per share amounts set forth herein (except in any historical financial information) give effect to the issue, unless indicated otherwise.

On December 18, 2020, the Company entered into an Exchange Agreement with LSBD to exchange 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock held by LSBD for 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. The Exchange Agreement contains representations and warranties customary for the agreements of this nature, as well as registration rights provisions pursuant to which the Company will prepare and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) a registration statement to register for resale the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. It resulted in 5,630,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date.

Overview

 

We are a biosensor diagnostic technology company operating worldwide with our COV2 testIntelligent Bio Solutions Inc. (formerly known as GBS Inc.), and across the APAC Region with the biosensor platform comprising of biochemistry, immunology, tumour markers, hormones and nucleic acid diagnostic modalities. Weits wholly owned Delaware subsidiary, GBS Operations Inc. were incorporatedeach formed on December 5, 2016, under the laws of Delawarethe state of Delaware. Our Australian subsidiary Intelligent Bio Solutions (APAC) Pty Ltd (formerly known as Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd) was formed on December 5, 2016.August 4, 2016, under the laws of New South Wales, Australia and was renamed to Intelligent Bio Solutions (APAC) Pty Ltd on January 6, 2023. On October 4, 2022, INBS acquired Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (“IFP”), a company registered in England and Wales (the “IFP Acquisition”). INBS and its subsidiaries were formed to provide non-invasive, pain-free, innovative testing and screening devices. Our headquarters are located in New York, New York.

 

We currently are a 99.1%-owned subsidiary of Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (referred to as the “Licensor”), an Australianmedical technology company that owns the worldwide intellectual property rights to the biosensor platform from University of Newcastle, Australia. The Licensor has licensed to us that technology for us to introducedeveloping and launch the platform in the APAC Region.delivering rapid non-invasive testing solutions. We will commence this processoperate globally with the SGT.objective of providing intelligent, pain-free, and accessible solutions that improve the quality of life.

 

The consolidated financial statements show a loss of $5,020,383 from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018, a loss of $(7,336,686) from July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2019, a loss of $(3,134,602) for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020 and a net loss of $(1,068,105) for three months ended September 30 2020. We have funded our operations to date with the net proceeds from private placements outside of the United States in the amount of $20,623,427 of Series A Preferred Stock and $5,133,706 in aggregate outstanding principal amount of convertible notes issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary GBS Pty Ltd. Net shareholder’s equity was $(3,063,694) as of June 30, 2018, $(3,977,138) as of June 30, 2019, $(5,214,828) as of June 30, 2020 and $(3,047,566) as of September 30 2020

Critical Accounting Policies

Our consolidated financial statements are prepared using the accrual basis of accounting in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the United States, or “United States GAAP.” Our fiscal year ends June 30.

This Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations discusses our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these consolidated financial statements requires making estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, as well as the reported revenues and expenses for the reporting periods. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate such estimates and judgments. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying value of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ (perhaps significantly) from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

While all the accounting policies impact the consolidated financial statements, certain policies may be viewed to be critical. Our management believes that the accounting policies which involve more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements, include revenue recognition, liability related to certain warrants, and contingent liabilities.

Revenue Recognition

We have not generated any revenues to date.

Revenues fromcurrent product sales would be recognized in accordance with ASC 605-10, “Revenue Recognition”, when delivery has occurred, persuasive evidence of an agreement exists, the vendor’s fee is fixed or determinable, no further obligation exists and collectability is probable. We do not intend to grant a right of return. We will assess whether the fee is fixed or determinable based on the nature of the fee charged for the products delivered, the existing contractual arrangements and the distributor’s consistency of payments. When evaluating collectability, we consider whether we have sufficient history to reliably estimate the distributor’s payment patterns.

If a sales arrangement were to contain multiple elements, such as software and non-software components, we would allocate revenue to each element based on a selling price hierarchy as required according to ASC 605-25, “Multiple-Element Arrangements”, or ASC 605-25. The selling price for a deliverable will be based on its Vendor Specific Objective Evidence, or VSOE, or, if available, third party evidence, or TPE, if VSOE is not available, or estimated selling price, or ESP, if neither VSOE nor TPE is available. The best estimate of selling price is established considering several internal factors including, but not limited to, historical sales, pricing practices and geographies in which we offer our products. The determination of ESP is judgmental.

Revenues from software components in sales arrangements containing multiple elements will be recognized when all criteria outlined in ASC 985-605, “Software Revenue Recognition”, or ASC 985-605, are met (when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery of the product has occurred or the services have been rendered, the fee is fixed or determinable and collectability is probable).

For multiple element arrangements within ASC 985-605, revenues will be allocated to the different elements in the arrangement under the “residual method” when VSOE of fair value exists for all undelivered elements and no VSOE exists for the delivered elements. Under the residual method, at the outset of the arrangement with the customer, we will defer revenue for the fair value of its undelivered elements and recognize revenue for the remainder of the arrangement fee attributable to the elements initially delivered in the arrangement when the basic criteria in ASC 985-605 have been met. Any discount in the arrangement will be allocated to the delivered element.

Since VSOE does not exist for undelivered elements, revenues will be recognized as one unit of accounting, on a straight-line basis over the term of the last deliverable based on ASC 605-15 and ASC 985-605.

Liability Related to Certain Warrants

The fair value of the liability for certain warrants previously issued to investors will be calculated after the closing of this offering when the events have occurred to allow a fair value to be determined for these securities.

Fair value for each reporting period will be calculated based on the following assumptions:portfolio includes:

 

Risk-free interest rate —Intelligent Fingerprinting Platform - Our proprietary portable platform analyzes fingerprint sweat using a one-time (recyclable) cartridge and portable handheld reader. Our flagship product from this platform, which is commercially available in certain countries outside of the United States, is the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System (the IFP System or IFP Products), a two-part system that consists of non-invasive, sweat-based fingerprint diagnostic testing products designed to detect drugs of abuse including opioids, cocaine, methamphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, methadone, and buprenorphine. The system comprises a small, tamper-evident drug screening cartridge onto which ten fingerprint sweat samples are collected in under a minute, before the portable analysis unit provides an on-screen result in under ten minutes. Samples collected with our confirmatory kits can also be sent to a third-party laboratory service provider to perform confirmation testing. Customers include safety-critical industries such as construction, transportation and logistics firms, manufacturing, engineering, drug treatment organizations in the rehabilitation sector, and judicial organizations.

The Biosensor Platform – Our “Biosensor Platform” consists of a small, printable modified organic thin-film transistor strip that we license across the Asia Pacific Region from Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (LSBD or Licensor). The Biosensor Platform, which is designed to detect multiple biological analytes by substituting the Glucose Oxidase (GOX) enzyme with a suitable alternative for each analyte, is currently in the development stage. Our flagship product candidate based on yield ratesthe Biosensor Platform technology is the Saliva Glucose Biosensor (SGB, and together with a software app that interfaces the SGB with the Company’s digital information system, the Saliva Glucose Test or SGT), a Point of non-index linkedCare Test (POCT) expected to complement the finger pricking invasive blood glucose monitoring test for diabetic patients. Our products based on the SGT are referred to herein as the “SGT products.”

These platform technologies have the potential to develop a range of POCT including the modalities of clinical chemistry, immunology, tumor markers, allergens, and endocrinology.

Our principal objectives include:

Expansion of the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System into new markets and within existing markets concentrating on:

increasing market share across the United States Federal Reserve treasury bonds.Kingdom and mainland Europe;
 
Expected volatility —based on our actual historical stock price movements together with companiescommencing sales and distribution throughout Australia, New Zealand and other countries in the same industry over a term that is equivalent to the expected term of the option.Asia Pacific region, including required infrastructure and regulatory requirements;
 
Expected life —commencing the expected life was based on the expiration date of the warrants.510(k) premarket notification process for expansion into United States markets that require FDA approval;
 
Expected dividend yield — we do not expect to pay dividends to our shareholders ininitiating research aimed at broadening the foreseeable future.

Contingencies

We account for our contingent liabilities in accordance with ASC 450 “Contingencies.” A provision is recorded when it is both probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of the loss can be reasonably estimated. With respect to legal matters, provisions are reviewed and adjusted to reflect the impact of negotiations, estimated settlements, legal rulings, advice of legal counsel and other information and events pertaining to a particular matter. Currently, we are not a party to any ligation that we believe could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Extended Transition Period for “Emerging Growth Companies”

We have elected to use the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards under Section 102(b)(1) of the JOBS Act. This election allows us to delay the adoption of new or revised accounting standards that have different effective dates for public and private companies until those standards apply to private companies. As a result of this election, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates. Because our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with public company effective dates, investors may have difficulty evaluating or comparing our business, performance or prospects in comparison to other public companies, which may have a negative impact on the value and liquidity of our common stock.

Results of Operations

Revenues

We have not generated any material revenues to date and have not generated any revenues to date from sales of our intended products.

Other income

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our other income increased by $188,653 to $188,841, compared to other income of $188 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The main contribution to this increase directly related to shared services income from related parties of $118,923, as well as government support income of $69,821.

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our other income decreased by $66,620 to $55,497, compared to other income of $122,117 for the three-month period ending September 30, 2019. The main contribution to this decrease is directly due to no shared service income from related parties in the current period, offset by government support income of $55,427. 

General & Administrative Expenses

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our general and administrative expenses decreased by $1,528,580, to $858,651, compared to general and administrative expenses of $2,387,231 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019 (the comparative was revised up due to reclassifications of $177,858 from audit and accountancy fees to general and administrative expenses). The main contribution to this decrease was the reduction of overhead contribution expenses of $768,862, consultancy fees of $184,668, insurance of $212,355 and IPO related costs of $348,246 which has been classified as prospectus and capital raising expenses in the current period however was included within General and Administrative costs in prior period

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our general and administrative expenses decreased by $259,981, to $44,291.

The main contribution to this decrease was the reduction of overhead contribution expenses of $150,661, overseas travel of $36,563, and consultancy fees of $40,858.

As our operating activities increase, we expect our general and administrative costs will include additional cost in overhead contribution, consultancy and travel expenses.

Development & Regulatory Approval Expenses

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our development & regulatory approval expenses decreased by $2,591,658 to $588,206 compared to development & regulatory approval expenses of $3,179,864 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The decrease in the development & regulatory approval expenses was primarily driven by the stage of development & regulatory approval, where the final development & regulatory approval milestone which was met in the previous fiscal year, requiring significant expenditure.

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our development regulatory and expenses decreased by $74,243, to $30,938. The decrease in the development and regulatory expenses was primarily driven by the stage of development & regulatory approval, where the final development & regulatory approval milestone, which was met in previous fiscal years, requiring significant expenditure.

As our operating activities increase, we expect our research and development costs to be replaced by regulatory approval costs. See “Use of Proceeds.”

Interest Expenses

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our interest expense decreased by $207,095 to $457,745, compared to interest expense of $664,840 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The decrease in interest expense was primarily driven by foreign exchange movements and lower unwinding of debt issuance costs related to convertible notes.  

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our interest expense decreased by $63,683, to $85,828. The decrease in interest expense was primarily driven by foreign exchange movements and nil unwinding of debt issuance costs related to convertible notes in the current period.

Audit and Accountancy

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our audit and accountancy fees increased by $20,456, to $124,488 compared to audit and accountancy fees of $104,042 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019 (the comparative was revised due to reclassifications of $177,858 from audit and accountancy fees to general and administrative expenses). The increase in audit and accountancy fees was primarily due to increased need to produce quarterly financial reports in the current period.  

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our audit and accountancy fees increased by $54,925 to $62,513, compared to audit and accountancy fees of $7,588 the three-month period ending September 30, 2019. The decrease in audit and accountancy fees was a result of adjustments made to audit and accountancy accruals in the comparative.

Directors Fees

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our director fees increased by $16,070, to $32,407, compared to director fees of $16,337 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The increase in director fees was primarily due to payments of director fees starting from December 2018 representing only six months in the comparative.

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our director fees increased by $286 to $6,998. The increase was primarily driven by foreign exchange movements.

Prospectus & Capital Raising Expenses

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our prospectus and capital raising expenses decreased by $641,767, to $254,407, compared to prospectus and capital raising expenses of $896,174 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The decrease in prospectus and capital raising expenses was primarily due to significant legal fees incurred in the comparative with relation to compliance.

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our prospectus and capital raising expenses increased by $166,481, compared to prospectus and capital raising expenses of $Nil for the three month period ending September 30, 2019. The increase in prospectus and capital raising expenses was primarily due to significant legal fees incurred in the current period with relation to compliance.

Rent Expense

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our rent expense increased by $11,480 to $36,818, compared to rent expense of $25,338 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The increase in rent expense was due to an increase in the contracted monthly rental fees.

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our rent expense increased by $2,791 to $9,930, compared to rent expense of $7,139 for the three-month period ending September 30, 2019. The increase in rent expense was due to an increase in the contracted monthly rental fees.

Employee Benefit Expenses

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020, our employee benefit expense increased by $1,000,838 to $1,121,587, compared to employee benefit expense of $120,749 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019. The increase in employee benefit expense was mainly to the Company employing additional staff, the earliest starting April 2019.

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our employee benefit expenses increased by $81,457 to $388,001, compared to employee benefit expenses of $306,544 for the three-month period ending September 30, 2019. The increase in employee benefit expenses was mainly due to the direct employment of Harry Simeonidis and other staff.

Other expenses

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our other expenses increased by $4,865 to $4,865, compared to other expenses of $nil for the three-month period ending September 30, 2019. The other expenses in the current period directly relates to FBT expenses, with the increase mainly a result of the direct employment of more staff.

Realized foreign exchange losses

During the three-month period ending September 30, 2020, our realized foreign exchange loss increased by $192,470 to $192,470, compared to a realized foreign exchange loss of $nil for the three-month period ending September 30, 2019. This increase is due to transfer of capital raisings in the current period from Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd to GBS Inc.

Equity loss from affiliate

On May 29, 2020, the parent Company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, issued 14,000,000 common shares of BioSensX (North America) Inc. to the Company at par value of $0.001 per share. This transaction, provided the Company with a 50% interest in BioSensX (North America) Inc., resulting in recognition of equity income amounting to $121,692 for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. Whilst there was a recognition of an equity loss amounting to $135,692 for the three-month period ending September 30, 2020 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

As of September 30, 2020, and June 30, 2020, we had $994,186 and $427,273, respectively, in cash and cash equivalents.

We have experienced cumulative losses from inception to date, which totalled $15,832,517 through June 30, 2020 and $16,905,027 through September 30, 2020. We had a stockholders’ equity position of ($5,214,828) and ($3,047,566) at June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020, respectively. In addition, we have not completed our efforts to establish a source of revenues sufficient to cover our operating costs and expect to continue to generate losses for the foreseeable future. There is no assurance that we will be able to obtain an adequate level of financing needed for our near-term requirements or the product development to ultimately generate sales. Due to these conditions, our ability to continue as a “going concern” depends in part on our ability to raise sufficient capital. See Note 1 to Consolidated Financial Statements for the three-month period ending September 30, 2020.

Since inception, we have financed our operations primarily through funding from our controlling stockholder, along with a private placement of convertible notes of our 99%-owned subsidiary GBS Pty Ltd and a private placement of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock accompanied by warrants. The convertible notes bear interest at 7% per annum and are mandatorily convertible to common stock at a 15% discount to the price per share in this offering. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock are mandatorily convertible into common stock at a one-to-one ratio upon completion of this offering. A warrant to purchase one share of our common stock was issued along with each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. Each warrant is exercisable at the price per share in this offering during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the completion of this offering, and the underlying common stock must be held at the time of exercise. As of the date of this prospectus, we have raised a total of $5,133,706 from the sale of convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd, and a total of $20,623,427 from the sale of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

In addition, should we encounter a scenario whereby sufficient capital is not available, the two shareholders of our controlling stockholder have committed to provide sufficient financial assistance to us as and when it is needed for us to continue our operations until September 2021. This financial assistance includes refraining from seeking repayment of any intercompany loans or balances due from us except to the extent funds become available. We expect that any loans or deferrals of amounts due in connection with this financial assistance will be made on an interest free basis. The two shareholders of our controlling stockholder also have committed to purchase, from time to time, up to $9,300,000 in shares of our common stock, at a purchase price equal to the greater of the public offering price in this offering and the market price at the time of the investment, in order to allow us to continue to meet the stockholders’ equity requirements of the NASDAQ Capital Market until the second anniversary of this offering.

According to our management’s estimates, based on our budget and proposed schedules of development, approvals and organization, we believe, although there can be no assurances, that after this offering we will have sufficient capital resources to enable us to continue to implement our business plan and remain in operation for at least 30 months. During this time, we expect to use the net proceeds available to us for the following purposes:

to obtain regulatory approvals and establish manufacturing capacities necessary for marketingcapabilities of the SGT;Intelligent Fingerprinting System to test for additional drugs and indications, facilitating the expansion of the platform into point-of-care medical testing;
 
to marketexpanding the SGTIntelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System into new customer segments, including major sporting organizations, law enforcement, and establish a distribution network in the APAC Region;commercial airlines; and
 
for working capitaldeveloping a strategic network of distributors with established customer bases throughout Asia Pacific, Europe and general corporate purposes.North America to distribute the IFP product.

 

We do not anticipate generating any revenues for at least 6-10 months from the date of this offering, if at all, and our revenues will not immediately be sufficient to finance our ongoing operations. In addition, available resources may be consumed more rapidly than currently anticipated, and there can be no assurance that we will be successful in developing the SGT and generating sufficient revenue in the timeframe set forth above, or at all. We may be unable to meet our targets for regulatory approval and market launch, or we may be unable to generate anticipated amounts of revenue from sales of the system. We may also need additional funding for developing new products and services and for additional sales, marketing and promotional activities. Should this occur, we may need to seek additional capital earlier than anticipated.

In the event we require additional capital, there can be no assurances that we will be able to raise such capital on acceptable terms, or at all. Failure to generate sufficient revenues or raise additional capital through debt or equity financings, or through collaboration agreements, strategic alliances or marketing and distribution arrangements, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to meet our long-term liquidity needs and achieve our intended long-term business plan. Our failure to obtain such funding when needed could create a negative impact on our stock price or could potentially lead to a reduction in our operations or the failure of our company.

Controls and Procedures

We are not currently required to maintain an effective system of internal control over financial reporting as defined by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. As public company, we will be required to comply with the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. As we are an “emerging growth company” as defined in the JOBS Act, we are not required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not completed an assessment of, nor have our auditors tested, our system of internal control over financial reporting.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We did not have during the period presented, and we do not currently have, any off-balance sheet arrangements as defined under SEC rules.

To complete development and commercialize the SGB, the diagnostic test that stems from the Biosensor Platform that we license from LSBD, in the regions covered by the license. Subsequently, we plan to develop the platform further to test across the diagnostic modalities of immunology, hormones, chemistry, tumor markers and nucleic acid tests.

 

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BUSINESSOur Products

 

Overview

We are a biosensor diagnostic technology company operating worldwide with our COV2 test and across the APAC Region with the biosensor platform comprising of biochemistry, immunology, tumour markers, hormones and nucleic acid diagnostic modalities. We were incorporated under the laws of Delaware on December 5, 2016. Our headquarters are located in New York, New York.

Recent Developments since our last Submission

On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and on March 12, 2020 the WHO announced the outbreak was a pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on global markets and business activity, which has had a limited impact on our core business operations. However, due to the nature of our platform technology, we are able to quickly adapt to this rapidly evolving environment. As part of the immunology modality of the biosensor platform, the company decided to expedite a collaboration with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss) to use the biosensor platform to develop a COV2 rapid diagnostic test.

The collaboration was initiated with a pilot study and involves the integration of a proprietary antifouling coating technology, developed at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, that can detect SARS-CoV-2 IgG class antibodies, with the GBS Biosensor platform. This can then be indicative of a person’s exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and status of immunity (SARS-CoV-2 is the Antibody responsible for COV 19).

Based on the preliminary data generated in this pilot study, further development could result in an easy-to-use diagnostic and screening test that can be applied to salivary and/or blood COVID-19 testing at point of care, with the ability to be manufactured at scale at a low cost, and produce real-time results.

At this pilot phase, we are:

characterizing the impact of plasma treatment to the adhesion of the antifouling layer and organic thin film transistor (OTFT);

characterizing the electrical response of the OTFT with the antifouling coating; and 

generating a biomarker dependent response curve by coating the (OTFT) biosensors with antifouling coating that interacts with SARS- CoV-2 antibodies. 

The aim of this pilot phase is to confirm the technical feasibility and scale to production of the program and provide an estimate of the analytical performance of the SARS-CoV-2 antibody test. 

Compared with the conventional antibody test, the advantage of the SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Biosensor is that it may measure the quantitative presence of antibodies as opposed to the current qualitative monitoring to date, and the sampling methodology maybe through saliva rather than blood, which is non-invasive. According to the recent research by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health2, SARS-CoV-2 antibodies detected in saliva “significantly correlate” to those observed in blood.

2 Randad PR, Pisanic N, Kruczynski K, et al. COVID-19 serology at population scale: SARS-CoV-2a-specific antibody responses in saliva. Preprint. medRxiv. 2020;2020.05.24.20112300. Published 2020 May 26. doi:10.1101/2020.05.24.20112300

GBS is the global licensee and intends to introduce and launch COV2 diagnostic tests across the US, Europe, APAC and the rest of the world through appropriately qualified distributors. Since the biosensor architecture is complete and given the pre-existing plans to develop immunology diagnostic tests, it is relatively simple and expeditious to develop the SARS-CoV-2 test.

GBS Inc. owns a 50% interest in BioSensX (North America) Inc. (or “BSX”). BSX is planning to introduce and launch the Biosensor Platform (excluding the COV2 Test) in North America (the US and Canada). The Company believes that the North American market is a major market for its products, and that much of the hard work and commitment of capital necessary to obtain regulatory approval and develop the necessary manufacturing intellectual property to manufacture its products and sell them in the APAC region will ultimately benefit BSX and further BSX’s efforts to be able to obtain regulatory approvals to market and sell the products in the United States and Canada.

Our biosensor technology is licensed from the Licensor, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd. This technology is patent protected and described in two granted patents: United States patent 9,766,199 and China patent ZL201380022888.2, both expiring year 2033. The Licensor is an Australian company that acquired all the intellectual property to the biosensor platform that relates to the life sciences, from the University of Newcastle, Australia, Center for Organic Electronics, or the “COE,” where the biosensor technology was invented and developed. The Licensor currently owns 99.1% of our outstanding common stock and will own a majority of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering.Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System

 

Our Businesswholly owned subsidiary, Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (IFP), is the developer and owner of our proprietary and commercially available portable drug screening system designed to detect common drugs of abuse through fingerprint sweat. The Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System consists of a small, tamper-evident drug screening cartridge that collects ten fingerprint sweat samples, which are then analyzed in a portable handheld reader for precise on-screen results in minutes. This system eliminates the need for invasive and unpleasant urine, saliva, or blood collection to test for substance abuse. The ten samples are collected in under a minute before the portable analysis unit provides an on-screen result in under ten minutes. The system is currently designed to detect opioids, cocaine, methamphetamines, benzodiazepines, cannabis, methadone, and buprenorphine. In addition, samples collected via confirmatory kits can be sent to a third-party laboratory service provider for confirmation testing.

 

Our objective is to introduce and launch a COV2 test globally and then the Saliva Glucose Biosensor (referred to as the “SGBIntelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System Functionality”), the second of our diagnostic tests that stem from the Biosensor Platform that we license, in the APAC Region. In the next four years we intend on developing the platform to its full capacity testing across the following diagnostic modalities. Immunology, Hormones, Chemistry, Tumour markers and Nucleic Acid tests.

The COVID-19 pandemic will not simply go awayIntelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System consists of single-use, tamper-evident Intelligent Fingerprinting Cartridges (for sample collection) and we believe it will remain with us for many decades. Developmentthe portable Intelligent Fingerprinting DSR-Plus portable analysis unit. The process of an improved antibody assays to detect prior infection with SARS-CoV-2 has been identifiedcollecting and analyzing samples is as one of the top unmet needs in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic response. Precise knowledge of SARS-CoV-2 infection at the individual level can potentially inform clinical decision-making, whereas at the population level, precise knowledge of prior infection, immunity, and attack rates (particularly asymptomatic infection) is needed to prioritize risk management decision-making about social distancing, treatments, and vaccination (once the latter two become available). If saliva can support measurements of both the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA26-28 as well as antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, this sample type could provide an important opportunity to monitor individual and population-level SARS-CoV-2 transmission, infection, and immunity dynamics over place and time. follows:

 

We anticipate there to be 3 different applications for the foreseeable future:

 1.PopulationTen fingerprint sweat samples (one from each finger) are collected onto the Drug Screening - SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing is urgently needed to estimate the incidence and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection at the general population level. Precise knowledge of population immunity could allow government bodies to make informed decisions about how and when to relax stay-at-home directives and to reopen the economy.Cartridge sample application pad (five seconds per finger).
 2.Diagnosis – The COV2 Biosensor test can be used as a complementAfter sample collection, the tester slides the Cartridge’s tamper-evident protective cover across the pad, which locks into place to the  (RNA) virus detection tests for patients presenting late after symptoms onset to healthcare facilities and where virus detection tests are negative despite strong indications of infection. In addition, they can potentially be used for informing the decision on discharge of patients who recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection but remain RNA-positive by RT-PCR for a long time after symptoms have subsided. The degree of protective immunity conferred byprotect against tampering or correlated with the antibodies detected in subjects with past SARS-CoV-2 infection is still under investigation. Once this is clarified, the COV 2 antibody tests could be, together with the  (RNA) direct virus detection, an essential tool in de-escalation strategies. Currently antibody tests are used for sero-epidemiological surveys and studies.contamination.
 3.Post vaccinationThe Cartridge is then activated by depressing the buffer clip. This releases buffer solution into the Cartridge, which contains antibodies that have been configured to detect the presence of drugs (and/or their metabolites) within the collected fingerprint sweat sample. The fingerprints are dissolved during this process and destroyed.
4.The Cartridge is inserted into the DSR-Plus Reader.
5.The tester follows the simple touch-screen instructions, and analysis begins.
6.Within 10 minutes, the test results are displayed on the DSR-Plus touch-screen, providing a negative or non-negative indicator for each drug group in the screening -  panel.
7.The screening results can be printed using a separate portable label printer (available as an accessory) to provide a permanent record. Anonymized details of the sample donor are entered into the DSR-Plus as part of the analysis procedure, and this information, along with the time and date, is recorded on the results print-out, which is important where evidence continuity is required.

Results can also be downloaded to a computer for and be use for, among other things, and to the extent legally permissible, integration with employee medical records or for general statistical analysis.

History and Background of the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System

Founded in 2007, IFP is a spin-out company from the University of East Anglia (UEA) and is based in Cambridge, England. IFP developed and commercialized the patented Intelligent Fingerprinting DSR-Plus Reader and Cartridge system, which has been predominantly sold in the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the Middle East. IFP continues to manufacture the cartridges for the Fingerprinting Drug Screening System in its factory in Cambridge, England.

Research and Development

Our research and development (R&D) team collaborates with external specialist organizations across jurisdictions to conduct comprehensive R&D initiatives. These collaborative efforts are currently driven by the following primary objectives:

1.Enhancing the Reader: This involves integrating wireless connectivity, data collection capabilities, and important system architecture improvements such as miniaturization, extended battery life, and a refined touch-screen interface for a seamless user experience.
2.Expanding testing capabilities: The focus is on enabling the current cartridges to detect highly relevant substances in today’s pharmaceutical landscape, such as fentanyl and oxycodone.
3.Exploring new tests in the medical point of care domain: This initiative aims to explore potential new tests within the medical point of care domain, resulting in a broader range of diagnostic tools for healthcare providers.

To facilitate the expansion of point-of-care testing into additional areas of interest, such as tumor markers, hormones, and allergies, the core team will collaborate with external research specialists. This joint exploration aims to unlock the untapped potential applications of our existing lateral flow assay technology on which the Intelligent Fingerprinting Platform has been developed and the organic thin film transistor on which the Biosensor Platform has been developed. By expanding the capabilities of these platforms, we will be better equipped to address diverse diagnostic needs and contribute to improved patient outcomes.

Regulatory Matters

Our R&D, manufacturing facilities and operations for drug screening products adhere to stringent quality criteria, complying with ISO 13485 for In Vitro Diagnostic Devices and Medical Devices, as well as ISO 9001. We have quality and regulatory oversight of our sub-contracted reference laboratories, where our methodology is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS), ensuring that the laboratory operates according to the ISO 17025 standard.

Australia: While we are already permitted to sell the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System as a drug screening device in Australia, we are in the process of obtaining accreditation from NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia).

We have partnered with Racing Analytical Services Limited (RASL), one of Australia’s largest independent drug testing laboratories, to provide confirmation tests for our drug screening solutions and assist in obtaining NATA accreditation.

United States of America: We are currently navigating our regulatory pathway in the United States as we seek approval to sell the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening System in the United States. We have completed a 513(g) submission and received a response from the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) that allows us to pursue the submission of a 510(k) premarket notification. Additionally, we must identify potential laboratory partners for further certifications and studies that may be necessary. We anticipate that obtaining FDA approval will benefit entry into other regions of the world.

Other Regions: Distributors in other countries and jurisdictions will be responsible for obtaining all necessary approvals within their respective territories.

Manufacturing

The facilities required to produce the Intelligent Fingerprinting Drug Screening Cartridge and DSR-Pus Reader are in place at our manufacturing facility in Cambridge, UK, which is used for fabrication and quality control. The facility operates a Quality Management System that complies with the requirements of ISO 13486 for the design, development, manufacture, distribution, servicing and supply of devices and readers designed to screen for drugs of abuse using fingerprint diagnostic technology; design, development, manufacture, distribution, servicing and supply of devices for collection of fingerprint samples used to detect drugs of abuse; and the design, development, manufacture, distribution, servicing and supply of in vitro diagnostic kits for the detection of viral infection antigens in human saliva and anterior nares samples. The facility further operates a quality management system that complies with the requirements of ISO 9001 for the design, development, manufacture, distribution, servicing and supply of devices and readers designed to screen for drugs of abuse using fingerprint diagnostic technology and the design, development, manufacture, distribution, servicing, and supply of devices for collection of fingerprint samples used to detect drugs of abuse.

Distribution and Sales

We currently serve over 350 small to medium-sized businesses, primarily located throughout the United Kingdom, with additional customers coming from various global locations. We intend to expand our customer base by strengthening our presence in existing markets and, subject to receiving necessary regulatory approvals and clearances, venture into new regions. We will tailor our strategy to the targeted region, establishing direct sales and marketing teams or utilizing distribution networks. In some cases, a combination of these strategies may be appropriate.

Distributors: Through the use of buy-sell agreements, distributors will purchase the IFP Products and resell them to customers. These distributors can be exclusive or non-exclusive, depending on our arrangements. We focus on distributors with existing customer networks in the drug screening segment and who have a proven track record in their respective territories. We also plan to utilize exclusive distributors will be the sole providers within certain defined territories and will need to satisfy certain minimum quarterly purchase requirements.

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United Kingdom: Our direct sales team consists of four sales representatives, one sales leader and one National Sales Manager. The team utilizes telemarketing leads to schedule on-site demonstrations. The team manages customer relationships and oversees the sales cycle. Customers are assigned to sales representatives based on geographic territories.

Australia: Our direct sales team consists of four sales representatives and the vice president of sales. Their primary area of focus is the east coast of Australia, which comprises approximately 72% of the country’s population. The team utilizes their extensive network of existing contacts and relationships to introduce the IFP product through in-person demonstrations. We also intend to utilize distributor partnerships to supplement our direct team and cover regions such as Western Australia, South Australia and more remote areas.

United States: During our 510(k) premarket submission and subject to receiving appropriate approvals from the FDA, we plan to appoint a dedicated distribution leader to spearhead market entry strategies by identifying and selecting distributors and partners. Our focus will be identifying distributors and partners already operating within the U.S. drug screening market.

European Expansion: We will appoint a dedicated European representative to identify, negotiate, and sign distributor agreements and maximize sales in target territories.

Expanding into the Middle East and Africa (MEA): A representative from our European operations will initially manage M.E.A operations. Depending on market opportunities and sales volume, we may appoint a dedicated distribution leader for M.E.A. operations at a later stage.

Market Analysis and Opportunity


The Drug Screening Market

The drug screening market encompasses various sectors, including workplaces, drug testing labs, criminal justice, law enforcement, schools and colleges, pain management centers, the military, medical examiners, individual users, and sporting organizations.

Drug misuse is a global concern, and while the approach to this problem varies depending on the legal and regulatory landscape of each country, what remains constant is the need for regular testing, particularly in areas and industries of concern. Even in regions where certain drugs, such as cannabis, have been decriminalized (such as in various states across the United States, Canada, and Europe), social and workplace challenges persist relating to impairment, drug dependency and associated criminal activity, which in turn will increase the need for testing.

The market can be separated into four segments:

Workplace: Drug testing to support companies with workplace policies to address drug misuse – and assess the degreepotential impairment effects of drug misuse on employees with safety-critical roles.
Drug Rehabilitation: Testing to support health service providers and charities involved in providing drug addiction treatment programs.
Institutional Testing: Drug testing to support policies to address drug misuse in national institutions such as prisons, probation, and the military.
Criminal Justice: Testing in support of the elicited potent antigen-specific antibody responses,police and their agencies to COV2 vaccines when developedinvestigate drug-related crimes and administered to humans.activities

 

There is an increasing demand to introduce more effective drug monitoring systems in the above segments. We intend to aggressively market IFP Products to different geographical regions outside the U.K., with a focus on the following industries and workplaces: airports, transportation & logistics, mining, construction, drug testing labs, criminal justice, law enforcement, education facilities, pain management centers, drug rehabilitation centers, military, medical examiners, individual users and sporting organizations.

The Recreational Drug Monitoring Industry

There are four principal categories of recreational drugs - analgesics, depressants, stimulants, and hallucinogens. Analgesics include narcotics like heroin, morphine, fentanyl, and codeine. Depressants include alcohol, barbiturates, tranquilizers, and nicotine. Stimulants include cocaine, methamphetamine, and ecstasy (MDMA).

According to the World Drug Report 2022 published by the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime, around 284 million people aged 15-64 years old used drugs worldwide in 2020, a 26% increase over the previous decade. Cannabis remains the world’s most used drug, with 209 million past-year users in 2020, a 23% increase on the previous decade. Opioid use remains a major concern due to potentially severe health consequences, with 61 million past-year users for non-medical reasons in 2020. Additionally, there were 34 million past-year users of amphetamines and 21 million past-year users of cocaine or similar substances in 2020.1 Young people are using more drugs, with use levels today in many countries higher than with the previous generation. In Africa and Latin America, people under 35 represent the majority of people being treated for drug use disorders. In the United States and Canada, overdose deaths, predominantly driven by an epidemic of the non-medical use of fentanyl, continue to break records.

 

We believe our COVID test will have significant advantagesAccording to the White House’s 2022 National Drug Control Strategy, the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and we anticipate it will beHealth, published October 2021 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, showed that among the 41.1 million people who needed treatment for substance abuse, only 2.7 million (6.5%) received treatment at a ground-breaking developmentspecialty treatment facility in the management of COVID19.past year.2

 

Based on a recent paper publicly available and authored by the team at Johns Hopkins DepartmentPoint of Environmental Health and Engineering, Bloomberg SchoolCare/Rapid Diagnostics Market

The global market for Point of Public Health, results indicate it is feasibleCare medical diagnostics was estimated to accurately measure the salivary IgG responsebe $45.36bn in 2022, rising to identify individuals$75.46bn in 2027 with a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. A saliva-based approach could serve ascompounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.7% from 2022 to 2027.3 The Company intends to develop pathways into areas of medical diagnostics utilizing existing technology and techniques to exploit a non-invasive approach for accurate and large-scale SARS-CoV-2 “sero”-surveillance.competitive advantage against traditional testing methodologies.

 

A saliva antibody test can greatly increase the scale of testing—particularly among susceptible populations—compared to blood and could clarify population immunity and susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. Intellectual Property

The team at John Hopkins further demonstrated in the laboratory that when saliva was collected ≥10 days post symptom onset, the anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgG assay detects SARS-CoV-2 infection with 100% sensitivity and 99% specificity. In addition, the team demonstrated that the temporal kinetics of SARS CoV-2-specific IgG responses in salivafollowing patents are consistent with those observed in serum and indicate that most individuals seroconvert approximately 10 days after COVID-19 symptom onset or approximately two weeks post-presumed infection.owned by IFP.

Patent Families
Primary Patent Families - technologies that are either used in the commercial products or closely related to the commercial products.
Patent Numbers and Geographical CoverageDescriptionExpiry

UK (GB 2528657)

Germany (via Europe) (DE 602015039916.1)

France (via Europe) (EP(FR) 3172566)

UK (via Europe) (EP(GB) 3172566)

Netherlands (via Europe) (EP(NL) 3172566)

Australia (AU 2015293652)

Canada (CA 2956026)

Japan (JP 6621462)

US (US 15/328799) (Pending)

The lateral flow – broad concept – is directed to a lateral flow strip that are being used in the commercial productThis family was filed in 2014 and is estimated to expire in 2034-2035.

Germany (via Europe) (DE 602016018952.6)

France (via Europe) (EP(FR) 3262413)

UK (via Europe) (EP(GB) 3262413)

Netherlands (via Europe) (EP(NL) 3262413)

Australia (AU 2016225217)

Canada (CA 2977891)

China (CN ZL201680012388.4)

Japan (JP 6694892)

US (US 11150243)

The lateral flow cartridge family- is directed to the lateral flow-based fingerprint cartridge used in the commercial productThis family was filed in 2015 and is estimated to expire in 2035-2036.

UK (GB 2561165)

Australia (AU 2018247080) (Pending)

Europe (EP 18716321.7) (Pending)

US (US 11227140)

The confirmation cartridge family - is directed to the confirmation cartridge used in the commercial productThis family was filed in 2017 and is estimated to expire in 2037-2038.

 

By utilizing

1 United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime, UNODC World Drug Report 2022

2 The White House National Drug Control 2022 Strategy, available at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/National-Drug-Control-2022Strategy.pdf

3 Point of Care/Rapid Diagnostics Market by Product, Platform, Purchase, Sample, User- Global Forecast to 2027, published December 2022 by MarketsandMarkets Inc.

UK (GB 2592432)

Australia (AU 2021225394) (Pending)

Europe (EP 21709774.0) (Pending)

US (US 17/904887) (Pending)

The lateral flow test strip reader family - is directed to the DSR-Plus reader used in the commercial productThis family was filed in 2020 and is estimated to expire in 2040-2041.
Secondary / Tertiary Patent Families

UK (GB 2517737)

Australia (AU 2014313919)

US (US 10617397)

The first cartridge family - is directed to a sample cartridge that is no longer being sold or used.This family was filed in 2013 and is estimated to expire in 2033-2034.

UK (GB 2520063)

Germany (via Europe) (EP(DE) 3065640)

France (via Europe) (EP(FR) 3065640)

UK (via Europe) (EP(GB) 3065640)

Netherlands (via Europe) (EP(NL) 3065640)

Australia (AU 2014345356)

Japan (JP 6568063)

US (US 10254277)

The microfluidics family - is directed to a reagent cartridge component that is not used in the commercial product.This family was filed in 2006 and is estimated to expire in 2026-2027.

UK (GB 2528654)

Germany (via Europe) (DE 602015039053.9)

France (via Europe) (EP(FR) 3171847)

UK (via Europe) (EP(GB) 3171847)

Netherlands (via Europe) (EP(NL) 3171847)

Australia (AU 2015293654)

US (US 10675222)

The medication dispenser family - is directed to a reagent cartridge that is not used in the commercial product.This family was filed in 2014 and is estimated to expire in 2034-2035.

UK (GB 2552823)

Europe (EP 17752467.5) (Pending)

The project ridgeway family is directed to a waveguide device that is not used in the commercial product.This family was filed in 2016 and is estimated to expire in 2036-2037.

UK (GB 2570944)

Europe (EP 19707068.3) (Pending)

The ecosystem family is directed to a method for chemical analysis that is not used in the commercial productThis family was filed in 2019 and is estimated to expire in 2039.

UK (GB 2570945)

Europe (EP 19707069.1) (Pending)

The project ridgeway with calibration family is directed to an improved waveguide device that is not used in the commercial productThis family was filed in 2018 and is estimated to expire in 2038-2039.
UK (GB 2577237)The project matchbox family is directed to a method for quantifying a skinprint that is not used in the commercial product.This family was filed in 2018 and is estimated to expire in 2038.

The patents listed above cover virtually all aspects of fingerprint diagnostics including: chemistry, screening cartridge technology, collection cartridge technology, fingerprint quantitation, fingerprint controlled medication dispenser, lab testing of fingerprints, accessories, and lateral flow test strip reader.

Competition

IFP has developed a Point of Care (POC) drug screening test system and a drug laboratory-based confirmation testing service. Both of these involve the biosensor platformcollection of fingerprint sweat samples for detecting COV2 we expectanalysis. For many years, competitor POC and confirmation tests have needed to have lowerrely on collecting either urine or oral fluid (saliva) body fluid samples. There are several competitive advantages of analyzing fingerprint sweat over urine and oral fluid drug testing:

1.Non-Invasive sample collection: Fingerprint sweat can be collected within seconds from any location without needing trained specialists, gender-specific collectors or prepared collection areas. The sweat from the fingerprints is collected simply by pressing each finger onto a disposable sample collection cartridge for five seconds. In contrast, the collection of urine and oral fluid samples can take several hours and requires trained collectors. Collection areas must be specially prepared, and sample collection should be observed directly to avoid cheating tests. This is highly invasive and undignified, particularly in the case of urine.
2.Hygienic and non-biohazardous: Fingerprint sweat samples are non-biohazardous, so the screening and collection kit material can be disposed of in routine waste or recycled. Kits used to collect urine and saliva are a potential biohazard and must be treated as such – either incinerated or into landfill.
3.Accurate Results: The results of conventional urine and oral fluid POC drug screening tests require reading the test results by interpreting the presence or absence of colored test lines using the naked eye. Often these test lines are weak and difficult to see, leading to inaccuracy in reading the test result. In contrast, the results of the IFP screening test are provided automatically by the DSR-Plus reader unit, providing an unambiguous test result that does not require any user interpretation, increasing the accuracy of the test.

The combination of these benefits shows that fingerprint drug testing provides a more cost-effective, less invasive and more dignified method when compared to urine and oral fluid-based tests. The recyclability of IFP Product test kits is of specific benefit to organizations with environmental policies to reduce single-use plastics.

The below table compares the IFP System to the current competition:

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The IFP System eliminates the need for highly trained technicians or personal protective equipment, providing a non-invasive and objective testing experience. Its unique 16-hour detection limits, improvewindow makes it ideal for assessing an individual’s fitness for work at the time of testing. Based on research commissioned by the Company, the system has the ability to achieve sensitivity and specificityaccuracy levels as demonstrated by the performance characteristics of current diagnostic methods, be able to provide real time results atin the point of care and provide quantitative results as opposed to negative or positive which is how other POCT report the results.table below.

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Accurate and scalable point-of-care (POC) tests forWe believe that the diagnosis of COVID-19 would increase the scope for diagnosis to be madelateral flow assay technology used in the community and outside the laboratory setting They would haveIFP Products has the potential to reducealso deliver significant benefits in other areas of medical diagnostics. For example, the timepotential exists use the technology to obtaining an actionable result,detect biomarkers of health and disease and provide non-invasive monitoring of therapeutic drug levels via fingerprint analysis. IFP is also researching a pipeline of development projects with the vision that fingerprint-based diagnostic tests could support early identificationprovide rapid health/disease triage and wellness tests, meeting the requirements of those with COVID-19a post-covid medical diagnostics world. The Company seeks to broaden development pathways into other areas of medical diagnostics utilizing existing technology and could also support appropriate usetechniques to exploit a competitive advantage against traditional testing methodologies. Some examples of isolation resources,potential target assays are: fentanyl and other opiate pain medications, epilepsy management medications, anti-psychotic medications, cortisol (stress marker for wellbeing determination), protein targets, diabetes markers (c-peptide, fructosamine, insulin and proinsulin), infectious diseases (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa), Lyme disease, dengue, measles and German measles) and food contamination / infection control measures, and recruitment into clinical trials of treatments.

from animals (brucella, salmonella, proteus).

 

Biosensor Platform Technology

The “Biosensor Platform” on which the “Saliva Glucose Biosensor” (SGB) is based is a modified Organic Thin Film Transistor (“OTFT”). The OTFT structure consists of a source and drain electrode, a semiconducting layer, a gate electrode, an optional separation (or dielectric) layer, all printed on a substrate material and superimposed by a polyelectrolyte membrane/enzyme layer onto which the analyte is placed. The Biosensor Platform is designed to detect multiple biological analytes by substituting the GOX enzyme with a suitable alternative for each analyte. The substitute enzyme will generate an electrical current signal that is detected in a manner similar to the SGB. Given that the underlying sensing mechanism is unaltered, we believe the technical risk associated with the development of other tests for biomarkers other than glucose is low. Development efforts for biomarkers other than glucose, including the development of the Prostate Specific Antigen test, the Peanut Kernel Allergen test and the Luteinizing Hormone test are currently in the early stages of development.

History and Background of the Biosensor Platform

The Biosensor was invented at the Priority Research Centre for Organic Electronics at The University of Newcastle, Australia. The Centre for Organic Electronics is the first of its kind in Australia. It is an exciting new initiative focusing on the development of new electronic devices at the intersection between semiconductors and plastics. The Centre focuses on the scientific challenges in the development of organic electronics, with massive potential for the next generation of environmentally friendly energy sources, photonics and biosensors.

The Saliva Glucose BiosensorTest (SGT)

The SGB uses saliva to measure glucose non-invasively. When the SGB interacts with saliva, an electrochemical reaction is initiated that produces an electrical signal directly correlated to the amount of glucose present in the saliva. This measurement is then converted into a real-time saliva glucose reading bythrough a dedicated reader and a software appapplication installed on a smart device or a dedicated smart reader for those that do not possess a compliant and compatible smart device. The reading maywould then be stored in oura proprietary cloud-based digital information system.

 

Figure 8: Using the Saliva Glucose Biosensor (for illustration purposes only)

The APAC Region includes over 164 million people living with diabetes, which accounts for 38% of the world’s diabetic population. Rapid urbanization, unhealthy diets and increasingly sedentary lifestyles have resulted in ever increasing rates of obesity and diabetes across the region. The following table shows the countries and territories constituting the APAC Region, where we will introduce, market and launch the biosensor:

Country / Territory
Australia
New Zealand
Japan
Singapore
Malaysia
South Korea
Indonesia
Philippines
Bangladesh
Taiwan
China
Hong Kong
Thailand
Vietnam
Other Asia countries
South Pacific region (18 nations)

Figure 9: The APAC Region

Self-testing blood glucose monitors were introduced to the market in the 1970s and, since then, the method of glucose self-monitoring has not meaningfully changed. The industry remains dominated by invasive methods that ultimately use blood or interstitial fluid to measure glucose. We believe the methodology of the SGB represents a breakthrough in glucose monitoring as it represents the only non-invasive, painless and cost-effective saliva-based method of measuring glucose levels. The biosensor technology has been developed over several decades of university-based scientific research and has been extensively referenced in scientific literature. For more detail on this research, see “—The Saliva Glucose Test.”

The SGB is an organic transistor, which in its structure embeds the glucose oxidase enzyme (referred to as “GOX”). When the single-use SGB interacts with saliva it initiates an electrochemical reaction, producing an electrical signal directly correlated to the amount of glucose present in the saliva. This measurement is then converted into a real-time saliva glucose reading, through the biosensor app installed on a smart device or a dedicated reader.

The patent protected SGB is able to detect glucose in saliva at concentrations between 8 and 200 µM and exhibits linear glucose sensing characteristics at these concentrations, sensing glucose at levels 100 times lower than blood.

In our development of the SGT, we aim to go beyond the innovation of changing the sampling medium from blood to saliva, and further create value for the patient and the payers by decreasing the cost of managing diabetes, improving the outcomes of the disease and providing convenience in testing methodology. This will be achieved by directly transferring the SGB reading from the smart device or dedicated reader to our proprietary digital information system, which is cloud-based to enable every patient the option to create their own medical record where the SGB results will be uploaded.

Our digital information system is intended to be interfaced to an artificial intelligence system and will be able to, at the patient’s or authorized care giver’s direction, disseminate patient data to a remote caregiver, a service for consultation or to any other individual with whom the patient chooses to share his or her glucose level measurements. We believe patients and payers will be able to leverage our digital information system to decrease cost and improve outcomes and convenience.

The SGB drives economic value beyond the revenue stemming from the sale of the SGB units – it also allows for monetization and the creation of separate revenue streams from the patient network and other data that resides within our digital information system, by way of the following:

Data usage. The usage of the data, and the analysis and interpretation of the data, to improve patients’ conditions and leveraging this insight to improve patient care.
Safe data sharing. The provision of data sharing services between users/patients, authorized care givers and authorized medical practitioners.
Data collection. The collection of anonymized data, its aggregation with other data from multiple sources and multiple health devices and its combination with non-health data.

We plan to leverage this usage, safe sharing and collection of data in the following four revenue-generating channels:

1.Direct Monetization Channel. This channel focuses on the development of revenue based on commercial relationships for the use of anonymized and compliant information derived from data generation. These services may include, but will not be limited to:

Fee for service, per performed action by pharma, or other commercial partner.
Subscription, regular recurring payments for continued access to service.
Prescription, value acknowledged by payer reimbursement per active user.
Third party coverage, other industry/retail players pay fee for their own customers.
Risk sharing/profit sharing, success-based payment models.
Advertising, third party ads tailored to demographic data leveraging characteristics unique to channel.
Added value for GBS brand loyalty.

2.Commercial Adjacencies Channel. This channel focuses on the development of revenue from data generated through patient engagement and market insights from a clinical and medical perspective. These services may include, but will not limited to:

Medical – Generation of Patient Reported Outcomes, or “PROs.”
Data – Market insights, clinical trial recruitment for third parties, e.g., pharmaceutical companies or clinical research organizations.
Consumer – e-commerce platform, third party customer care, advertising.

3.Product and Service Bundles Channel. This channel focuses on ancillary revenue generated through bespoke service opportunities across the industry, for example, by working with insurers to develop products that integrate the usage of testing as part of their service offering. These services may include, but will not be limited to:

Over-the-counter model.
Bundle payment model with insurance subsidy.
Pay for outcomes model.

4.Core Operations Synergy Channel. Through combining the data generation with the use of artificial intelligence, we expect to have a deep insight into our customer base, providing a high level of customer insight. It is expected that this insight will drive a high customer retention levels and generate a considerable number of broader revenue opportunities through direct and specific interaction with our customer base. These opportunities may include, but will not be limited to:

Direct access to customers for better experience in customer care.
Peer learning and support to decrease customer care resource commitment.
Direct market and customer insights (including better understanding of customer journey).
More customer data for targeted marketing & marketing impact monitoring.
New cost effective, digital marketing channel enabling agile marketing approach.
PRO data to support unique marketing claims.
Higher engagement, customer loyalty and customer lifetime value.
Consumer driven innovation and customer involvement in development.
Involvement in testing & refining to develop demand-oriented products rapidly.
Easy and fast clinical evaluation recruitment.
PRO to support regulatory approval/ market access for platform tests under development.

The SGB has been under continuous development for over six years, first by the University of Newcastle, Australia, then by the Licensor and us. The SGB development program is currently at the validation stage, which is Phase 5 of development of the SGB as illustrated in the diagram in Figure 20 in “Business.” This stage involves implementation of the clinical evidence module, which incorporates the commercial production of the investigative biosensor devices to commence the clinical evaluation of analytical performance of the device and generate the clinical evidence necessary to gain regulatory approval. This stage also involves making the regulatory submissions and obtaining approval, and is the final stage prior to product launch. Accordingly, we have engaged Emergo Global Consulting LLC, a clinical research and regulatory consulting firm specializing in high tech medical device development, and commenced the regulatory approval process in various jurisdictions in the APAC Region. We also have reached an agreement in principle to engage Cambridge Consultants Ltd. as advisors on our commercial scale manufacturing program.

On May 1, 2020, our parent company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (“LSBD”), filed a submission with the FDA for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, currently in development as a point-of-care test intended to replace blood glucose testing for diabetes management. Following the 513(g) submission to the FDA (Submitted May 01, 2020), it was determined that the company could seek the De Novo application pathway for the Saliva Glucose Biosensor Diagnostic Test, we were appointed an expert contact person, Acting Branch Chief from the Diabetes Diagnostic Devices Branch. We have further commenced planning discussions with the FDA Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health and the Office of Product Evaluation and Quality pertaining to the clinical development and study plan of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor. LSBD have completed the supplier evaluation process and identified a suitable partner to implement the clinical plan once approved by the FDA. We expect to leverage synergies from the approval process with the FDA within the Asia Pacific region, where China has the highest number of people with diabetes. We will first seek regulatory approval with the NMPA of China. However, we intend to apply for regulatory approval in each jurisdiction across the APAC Region. Recently, we entered into non-binding memoranda of understanding with two large distributors in China, which express our intent to enter into definitive agreements to collaborate on the manufacture, regulatory approval, and distribution and sale of, and the medical affairs, marketing, and identification of strategic opportunities for, the SGB in China.

The SGB is manufactured using modified reel-to-reel printing technology that was developed at the Australian National Fabrication Facility. See Figure 10 below for a depiction of reel-to-reel printing. This technology allows mass volume printing at a low cost. Previous research published in the journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells has shown that the cost of manufacture of printed organic electronic devices (like the SGB) using mass volume printing is $7.85 per square meter, with an uncertainty of 30%. The size of the printed biosensors is approximately one square centimeter, resulting in a manufacturing cost per biosensor of approximately $0.001.

Figure 10: Biosensor manufacture at the Australian National Fabrication Facility

We anticipate that the non-invasive nature of saliva-based glucose testing will make patients more amenable to glucose monitoring, with the expected result of increasing the number of times a patient tests per day. The data generated by the SGB, combined with the interface of the smart device or dedicated reader with our digital information system and the artificial intelligence feedback, will allow the patient to achieve better glucose control through a practical understanding of lifestyle factors that affect glucose levels, thereby helping prevent or delay diabetes complications and ultimately personalizing diabetes management. See Figure 11 below.

Figure 11: Our digital information system (for illustration purposes only)

The proceeds generated from this offering will accelerate and enhance the establishment of our business across the APAC Region.

The IQ Group Global

The iQ Group Global is a group of companies engineered specifically to facilitate the advancement of bioscience research and development through the efficient deployment and integration of capital resources and customized financial instruments with advanced research development tools that enable the competent translation from a preclinical research and development model in the laboratory to a therapeutic drug in the clinic. The iQ Group Global incorporates four stock exchange listed Australian companies:

The iQ Group Global Ltd (“TIGG”) (previously iQnovate Ltd) (NSX:IQG) is a scientifically driven life science asset management organization. It has strong organic research and development capability. This enables TIGG to conceptualize, source, validate and commercialize biotechnology assets that have potentially disruptive outcomes, thus advancing human health.

iQX (NSX:IQX) is a listed investment and funds management company specializing in the life science sector. Its team includes investment managers, physicians and scientists who are committed to eradicating disease through capital investment. iQX Investment Services Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary, is the holder of the Australian Financial Services License. It is the fund manager for the iQ Series 8 Life Science Fund. The Fund is now closed and invested in the areas of biotechnology innovations.
FarmaForce (ASX:FFC) is a contract sales organization that provides results-driven pharmaceutical sales and patient support solutions to the Australian healthcare market.
iQ3Corp (ASX:IQ3) is a boutique life science corporate finance and advisory firm, providing services exclusively to life science companies and advising them on their most critical strategic corporate decisions, including initial public offerings, capital raising, restructurings and recapitalizations, M&A and corporate strategy.
Clinical Research Corporation, or “CRC,” provides strategic clinical development and medical affairs services to the bioscience industry throughout the entire drug development life cycle.
iQ Capital is an early stage United States-based investment banking business dedicated to raising capital for the biosciences sector.

Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (referred to as the “Licensor”) is a subsidiary of both The iQ Group Global Ltd (81% ownership) and iQX (19% ownership). The Licensor owns the worldwide rights to the Biosensor Platform technology, including the rights licensed to us. The Licensor currently owns 99.1% of our outstanding shares of common stock and will own a majority of our outstanding common stock after this offering.

Our Products

Biosensor Platform Technology

The “Biosensor Platform” on which the SGB is based is a modified Organic Thin Film Transistor, or “OTFT,” architecture. Figure 12 below illustrates the basic OTFT structure that consists of a source and drain electrode, a semiconducting layer, a gate electrode, an optional separation (or dielectric) layer, all printed on a substrate material and superimposed by a polyelectrolyte membrane/enzyme layer onto which the analyte is placed. The layered biosensor architecture and fabrication allows the recognition element within the biosensor to be exchanged.

Figure 12: OTFT architecture - SBG

The sensing principle for the COV2 Test is the same as the Salivary Glucose Test, amperometric: target biomolecules generate an electrical current that is detected by the transistor. The major difference is that only the GOX layer is substituted with an alternative layer containing a different recognition element, in this case the COV2 Protein that enables the detection of COV2 antibodies. The underlying layers of the Organic Thin Film Transistor (OTFT) remain unchanged. Hence this significantly simplifies our development effort to make a blood and saliva based COV2 diagnostic test. 

Therefore, the glucose oxidase (“GOX”) element of the biosensor used to detect glucose in the case of the SGB can be substituted with antibodies specific to cancer biomarkers, immunological tests, hormones and other biomarkers.

The Saliva Glucose Test

In our research and development pipeline, the diagnostic test at the most advanced stage is the SGT. It is contemplated and intended that this will be the first test to launch in market. The SGT consists of:

the SGB – a single use disposable saliva biosensor, and
software app on a smart device or a dedicated reader that interfaces the SGB with our digital information system.

of (i) the SGB, which is a single use disposable saliva biosensor, (ii) a dedicated reader that will display the result once the biosensor has been inserted, and (iii) a software application for smart devices that interfaces with the dedicated reader.

Figure 13: The Saliva Glucose Test (for illustration purposes only)

The Saliva Glucose Biosensor (SGB)

 

The SGB was invented at the COECentre for Organic Electronics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Patents for the SGB technology have been granted in the United States (9,766,199) and China (ZL201380022888.2)(104412101). The core innovative characteristic of the SGB is the sensitivity of the glucose biosensor that enables itis designed to detect glucose in saliva at concentrations between 8-200 µM and exhibits linear glucose sensing characteristics at these concentrations, sensing glucose at levels 100 times lower than in blood.

Figure 14: The Saliva Glucose Biosensor Strip Biosensor

The SGB interacts with the glucose in the saliva and initiates an electrochemical reaction, producing an electrical signal directly correlated In addition to the amount of glucose present in the saliva. This measurement is then converted into a real-time saliva glucose reading, through the software app installed on a smart device or a dedicated smart reader. The data may then be transferred to our digital information system coupled with an artificial intelligence system, which will provide the patient with personalized healthcare advice enabling a practical understanding of lifestyle factors that may affect their glucose levels.

The SGB utilizes the GOX enzyme for signal generation. The enzyme acts on glucose, triggering a series of reactions that yields two protons (i.e., electrical current) for each interaction with a substrate molecule. The biosensor therefore produces an electrical current (i.e., signal) that is proportional to the concentration of glucose in the sample. The GOX enzyme is well-suited for monitoring glucose levels and it has been used extensively in commercially available products. Its mode of action, including the direct signal correlation with the amount of glucose, has been reviewed in numerous scientific journal articles, including in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology and Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. Additional scientific journal articles in Applied Physics Letters have described the biophysical characterizationpatent disclosures, details of the SGB and further support the claim that its signal directly correlates with the glucose concentration in the sample.

The direct correlation between glucose concentration and sensor signal is independent of the type of sample under examination (i.e., blood or saliva). The use of saliva as a meaningful proxy for estimating blood glucose level is supported by extensive scientific literature that has investigated the physiological glucose concentration in both biological fluids and overwhelmingly reported a strong correlation, including in articlesdesign have been published in independent journals such as the Journal of Obesity, the Journal of International Oral Health, the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Dentistry, the Journal of Oral Biology and Craniofacial Research, Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome, the Journal of Biological Regulators and Homeostatic Agents and Diabetologia, among others. However,Applied Physical Letters, a few isolated articles have reported finding no significant correlation, including articles in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research and Journal of Oral Science. Overall, we believe there is abundant clinical evidence in independently reviewed scientific literature that saliva can be utilized as a non-invasive alternative to blood to monitor glycemic status in diabetic patients.

The basic OTFT structure (see Figure 15 below) consists of a source and drain electrode on a semiconducting material which is itself separated from a third gate electrode by a thin insulating layer. The COE has pioneered the fabrication of these novel biosensors based on integrating biomolecules, such as enzymes, directly into the architecture of organic transistors; producing electronic devices with both high sensitivity and high specificity for the target analyte. In these biosensors, a molecular recognition element can simply be integrated directly into the device structure, and in the case of the SGB, the recognition element is GOX.

Figure 15: The OTFT Structure

High quality OTFTs have been routinely fabricated at the materials node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. The COE has pioneered the fabrication of novel biosensors based on integrating biomolecules, such as enzymes, directly into the architecture of organic transistors; producing electronic devices with both high sensitivity and high specificity for the target analyte and in this case, glucose.

The development of an intermediate device that communicates to the smart device has been completed. The intermediate device emulates a glucometer, providing the mechanical and electrical interfaces to receive and power the SGB as well as the required circuitry for accurately reading the amperometric signals. We intend to transfer the responsibilities of the intermediate device to the SGB. A possible route to achieve this technical aim is to leverage near-field-communication, or “NFC,” tags, available off the shelf and routinely used in consumer electronics, to power the SGB and implement the communication protocol. NFC tags are compatible with flexible electronics and widely used in “internet of things” applications in view of their low cost. We believe that NFC tags suitable for integration with the SGB can be purchased for approximately $0.10 per tag, even at low volumes. The cost of electronic components is well known to significantly reduce as volume increases. Due to the large expected volumes of the SGB, we believe it is reasonable to assume that the cost of suitable NFC tags will be viable and less than $0.04.

peer-reviewed physics journal. The Licensor (LSBD) owns patents in Australia, China and the United States protecting the following technological claims of the SGB: the architecture of a biofunctional organic thin film transistor device comprising a gate electrode, a dielectric layer, a partially-organic semiconducting layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a substrate and an enzyme; the method for producing the organic thin film transistor device; and the method for determining the concentration of a compound in a sample by interpreting the amperometric signals generated by the device. The Chinese and the United States patent belong to the same patent family, originatingfamily.

The basic OTFT structure consists of a source and drain electrode on a semiconducting material that is itself separated from a gate electrode by a thin insulating layer. The Centre for Organic Electronics has pioneered the fabrication of these novel biosensors based on integrating biomolecules, such as enzymes, directly into the architecture of organic transistors; producing electronic devices with both high sensitivity and high specificity for the target analyte. In these biosensors, a molecular recognition element can simply be integrated directly into the device structure, and in the case of the SGB, the recognition element is GOX.

The SGB interacts with the glucose in the saliva and initiates an enzymatic reaction whereby GOX enzyme produces hydrogen peroxide from glucose, which modifies the properties of the OTFT gate material, producing an electrical signal directly correlated to the amount of glucose present in the saliva. This measurement is then converted into a real-time saliva glucose reading through a dedicated reader and software application that can be installed on a smart device. The data has the potential to be transferable to a digital information system, which can potentially provide the patient with personalized healthcare advice enabling a practical understanding of lifestyle factors that may affect their glucose levels. The SGB, along with the above-described software and analysis capabilities, are still currently in the planning phase.

High quality OTFTs have been routinely fabricated at the materials node of the Australian patent. AsNational Fabrication Facility. The Centre for Organic Electronics has pioneered the fabrication of novel biosensors based on integrating biomolecules, such allas enzymes, directly into the architecture of organic transistors, producing electronic devices with both high sensitivity and high specificity for the target analyte and in this case, glucose.

The development of a dedicated reader that communicates to the smart device is in prototype phase and needs to be validated after clinical trials of the patents relateSGB. The dedicated reader emulates a glucometer, providing the mechanical and electrical interfaces to identical technology claims.receive and power the SGB as well as the required circuitry for accurately reading the amperometric signals.

 

The use of saliva as a meaningful proxy for estimating blood glucose level has been reported in scientific literature, including articles published in independent journals such as the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health4, the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology5,and the Journal of Diabetes and Metabolism6, among others. However, a few articles have reported finding little or no significant correlation, such as articles in Heliyon7 and the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine8. Consequently, The Company is performing clinical research to collect and provide the data necessary to support that saliva can be utilized as a non-invasive alternative to blood to monitor glycemic status in diabetes patients.

4 Cui, Y., Zhang, H., Zhu, J., Liao, Z., Wang, S., Liu, W. (2022)’Correlations of salivary and blood glucose levels among six saliva collection methods’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), p. 4122. doi:10.3390/ijerph19074122.

5 Gupta, S., Nayak, M., Sunitha, JD., Dawar, G., Sinha, N., Rallan, N.S. (2017) ‘Correlation of salivary glucose level with blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus’, Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, 21(3), p. 334. doi:10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_222_15.

6 Ismail, M.M., Ahmed Ibrahim, A.S., Gamal, A.M. (2018) ‘Salivary glucose monitoring versus interstitial glucose monitoring in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus’, Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism, 09(08). doi:10.4172/2155-6156.1000802.

7 Ephraim, R., Anto, E.O., Acheampong, E., Fondjo, L.A., Barnie, R.B., Sakyi S.A., Asare, A. (2019) ‘Fasting salivary glucose levels is not a better measure for identifying diabetes mellitus than serum or capillary blood glucose levels: Comparison in a Ghanaian population’, Heliyon, 5(3). doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01286.

8 Forbat, L.N., Collins, R.E., Maskell, G.K., Sönksen, P.H. (1981) ‘Glucose concentrations in parotid fluid and venous blood of patients attending a diabetic clinic1’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 74(10), pp. 725–728. doi:10.1177/014107688107401004.

History and Background of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor

The SGB leverages the decades of history of all-polymer printed OTFTs. Through the research conducted at COE, this OTFT technology has been transformed into a medical device and expected to conform to the highest medical device standards globally. Figure 16 below shows the research and development journey of the biosensor from 1997 to 2018.

 

Figure 16: Development history of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor

 

The SGB is based on a modified OTFT architecture incorporating GOX as the recognition element. It has been demonstrated that the SGB exhibits linear glucose sensing at concentrations of 8-200 µM (micro molar), offering a saliva-based test for diabetic monitoringdiabetes diagnosis and diagnosis.monitoring.  

 

Fundamentals of the biosensor technology have been well-characterized and have deep scientific foundations. Since their invention in 1947, transistors have dominated the mainstream microelectronics industry. Field Effect Transistors, or FETs,“FETs,” are a class of transistor in which the current between a pair of source and drain electrodes separated by a semiconductor is controlled by a voltage applied to a third electrode known as the gate. The gate electrode is separated from the source-drain region by a thin (~100 nm) insulating dielectric region and thus is coupled to the semiconductor. By altering the bias voltage applied to the gate region, the source-drain region can be altered from conducting to insulating and thustherefore; the device can be turned on or off. Importantly, the presence of a relatively small number of charges on the gate electrode alters the flow of a great many charges between the source and drain electrodes. Accordingly, the FET acts as a switch as well as an amplifier.

 

The SGB integrates another scientific discovery known as organic electronicconductive polymers. This work, which was conducted in the 1970s, focused on the development of doped polyacetylene. HistoricallyOrganic conductive polymers can also be traced back to the early 1960s. Conductive polymers have several advantages over other organic conductors with regard to their processabilitycost and hence their use is becoming increasingly widespread.processability. The polymers that show the most promise in this area are based on the polythiophene structure. The flexible nature of these polymers allows them to be processed into almost any desired shape or form, making them attractive for the low-cost production of flexible electronic circuits, such as FETs.

 

The first demonstrated combination of FETs and organic electronic polymers was in the solid-state OTFT developed in 1986 using polythiophene (an organic electronic polymer) as the semi-conducting layer, with a similar device being reported in 1988. The performance of OTFTs in comparison with conventional silicon-based transistors has been considered encouraging and they have already been used in applications in logic circuits or as the driving elements in active matrix displays. Biosensor fabrication based on organic electronics is also well-established, primarily driven by the appealing features offered by these materials such as flexible and adjustable chemical properties, and room temperature operation.

One of the most attractive features of organic electronics is the potential for flexible low-cost fabrication. A common feature of early OTFTs was the use of silicon as the substrate material, and thus since these hybrid devices are not truly all-polymer-based they do not offer all the advantages with respect to fabrication. In the world of sensors, the vast majority of previous scientific research and subsequent technological implementation of organic sensors has involved electrochemically grown films exhibiting performance levels that are, in most cases, inadequate for real applications. Solution-processed polymers, on the other hand, offer the greatest potential for the fabrication of low-cost electronics since they can be easily processed as liquids, unlike the organic crystals and short chain oligomers which are typically vapor deposited. Combining these unique material properties with low-cost techniques, such as ink-jet or reel-to-reel printing, offers the ability to rapidly produce disposable printed electronic circuits.

The first all-polymer printed OTFT was reported in 1994. OTFTs are an exciting class of devices within the organic electronics field. The prospect of low cost organic electronic modules incorporating OTFTscan be fabricated at low temperatures using low energy techniques is very attractive. Low temperaturelow-energy techniques. Low-temperature solution-based processes, such as ink-jet printing, allow for compatibility with flexible substrates, upon which it would be impossible to fabricate conventional electronics. In addition, conducting polymers can be synthesized in a laboratory without using rare or expensive materials.

Other Tests Based on the Biosensor Platform

 

As discussed above, the architecture of the Biosensor PlatformPlatform’s architecture allows the biosensor’s recognition element of the biosensor to be exchanged. Accordingly, the GOX element useddesigned to detect glucose in the case of the SGB can, we believe, potentially be substituted with antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2,for a different enzyme, cancer biomarkers, immunological tests, hormones, and other biomarkers. The substitute recognition element will generate an electrical currentcatalyze a reaction leading to a signal that is detectedproportional to the amount of analyte or participate in a manner identicalbinding reaction of labelled antibodies that will lead to a signal proportional to the SGB.amount of analyte of interest. Given the underlying sensing mechanism is unaltered, we believe the technical risk associated with the development and manufacturing scale-up of other tests for biomarkers other than glucose is relatively low.

We have commenced the development of a pilot research and development program with the COE at the University of Newcastle to include tumor markers, immunology and hormones, as indicated in Figure 17 below.

 

 

Figure 17: The Biosensor Platform

Following the launch of the COV2T, it is intended that the SGT, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, the Peanut Kernel Allergen test and the Luteinizing Hormone test will launch subsequently. The development effort for these biomarkers is presently in the Phase 1 of development as in the diagram in Figure 20 in “—Performance Testing, Current State of Development and Next Steps

The SGB has been under continuous development for over nine years, first by the University of Newcastle, Australia, then by Licensor and the Company. The SGB,” is currently in the advanced stages of development.

In 2022, the Company concluded the in-clinic portion of a clinical study collecting coincident samples of oral fluids and blood to evaluate the time-course of glucose in those samples. The study consisted of 40 subjects with type 2 diabetes, and collected saliva, gingival crevicular fluid, venous blood and fingerstick capillary blood over the course of a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test.

In January 2023, the Company’s research partner, the Centre for Organic Electronics at the University of Newcastle, which isfocuses on the definitional stage and encompasses the shortlistingdevelopment of new electronic devices, completed a key milestone, Milestone 7, a phase of the best recognition element candidatesCompany’s biosensor platform development at the University of Newcastle, Australia that included testing time-to-result (TTR), sensitivity, and identification of the ideal bio-conjugation methods for immobilizationreproducibility. New inks and device architectures have been developed and show improved performance. These new inks will significantly reduce manufacturing time when printing on the sensor surface and optimal printing process. In the longer-term, it is contemplated to develop the nucleic acid analytical tests on the Biosensor Platform to be offered as professional point of care tests.

Performance Testing, Current State of Development and Next Steps

Preliminary Analytical Performance Testing

Regulatory Approval COV2 Test (“COV2T”)

For the COV2T we intend to use the section 564 of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act, that there is a public health emergency that has a significant potential to affect national security or the health and security of United States citizens living abroad, and that involves a novel (new) coronavirus (nCoV) first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in 2019 (2019-nCoV). The virus is now named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the disease COVID-19.

On the basis of this determination, the Secretary of HHS has subsequently declared that circumstances exist justifying the Emergency Use Authorization (“EUA”) of in vitro diagnostics for the detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 (February 4, 2020), personal respiratory protective devices (March 2, 2020), and other medical devices, including alternative products used as medical devices (March 24, 2020), for use during the COVID-19 outbreak pursuant to section 564 of the Act and subject to the terms of any authorization issued under that section.

The criteria for issuance of EUA are the following:biosensor.

 

 Serious or life-threatening diseaseThe biosensor time to result (TTR) has been reduced from 120 seconds to 30 seconds showing a significant improvement.
 EvidenceThe biosensor limit of effectivenessdetection (LOD) has been reduced from 0.05mM to 0.02 mM. These results met and/or exceeded the “may be effective” standardtarget for EUAs provides for a lower level of evidence than the “effectiveness” standard that FDA uses for product approvals. FDA intends to assess the potential effectiveness of a possible EUA product on a case-by-case basis using a risk-benefit analysis, If, based on the totality of the scientific evidence available, it is reasonable to believe that the product may be effective for the specified use, FDA may authorize its emergency use, provided that other statutory criteria for issuing an EUA also are met.this milestone (0.02 - 0.03 mM).

 

Risk-Benefit AnalysisIn relation to the error grid target, significant improvements are only expected following the implementation of the new printing and quality control equipment currently being procured.

In June 2023, the Company concluded its study on the Correlation of Glucose and Cortisol between Oral Fluid and Blood Compartments. The study aimed to determine the degree of correlation between saliva and blood glucose and cortisol levels in subjects with and without diabetes. Additionally, the research aimed to evaluate whether salivary glucose can potentially be used as a tool to discriminate between populations with and without diabetes. One hundred adult subjects were recruited and consented for the study, including 40 with Type 2 diabetes (“T2D”). Saliva specimens were collected following two rinses with bottled water, while whole blood specimens were collected through venipuncture and fingerstick methods. The glucose and cortisol levels in saliva were measured using isotope liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry (LC-MS) by Johns Hopkins Hospital and Quest.

 

A product mayThirty correlations were analyzed among 6 parameters, with 6 correlations determined to be consideredstatistically significant, particularly for glucose and cortisol levels between saliva and blood. The correlation between salivary glucose and hemoglobin A1c was also statistically significant. Specifically, the correlation analysis between salivary cortisol and free cortisol shows a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.75, and between salivary glucose and blood glucose a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.48. The mean salivary cortisol is approximately 30% of that of free cortisol in blood. Furthermore, the data showed a statistically significant difference in the median salivary glucose for the T2D cohort relative to the control group: 2.92 versus 1.38 mg/dL. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis yielded an EUA ifarea-under-curve of 0.71 for the Commissioner determines that the known and potential benefitsuse of salivary glucose as a tool to screen for T2D.

The results of the product, when used to diagnose, prevent,study indicate that saliva sampling and analysis has potential use in various applications, including as an aid in screening for diabetes in unhygienic environments where blood sampling is risky, and in point-of-care or treat the identified disease or condition, outweigh the knownat-home cortisol tests where characterizing early morning levels and potential risks of the product.

In determining whether the known and potential benefits of the product outweigh the known and potential risks, FDAdaily variation is important. The company intends to look atcompile a white paper summarizing the totalityfindings as it determines the next phase of the scientific evidence to make an overall risk-benefit determination. Such evidence, which could arise from a variety of sources, may include (but is not limited to): results of domestic and foreign clinical trials, development.

in vivo efficacy data from animal models, and in vitro data, available for FDA consideration. FDA will also assess the quality and quantity of the available evidence, given the current state of scientific knowledge.

Commercialization

No Alternatives

For FDA to issue an EUA, there must be no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the candidate product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating the disease or condition. A potential alternative product may be considered “unavailable” if there are insufficient supplies of the approved alternative to fully meet the emergency need. A potential alternative product may be considered “inadequate” if, for example, there are contraindicating data for special circumstances or populations (e.g., children, immunocompromised individuals, or individuals with a drug allergy), if a dosage form of an approved product is inappropriate for use in a special population (e.g., a tablet for individuals who cannot swallow pills), or if the agent is or may be resistant to approved and available alternative products.

Submission of an IND or IDE is not required for potential EUA products, although FDA anticipates that many unapproved products for which an EUA is requested will already be under evaluation through such mechanisms. In fact, human data derived in the course of studies conducted under an IND or IDE may help to support an FDA conclusion that the available evidence is adequate to support an EUA consistent with the statutory criteria for issuance.

Commercialization

It is the company’s intentThe Company intends to introduce and launch the test globally, through assignment ofSGB within its licensed regions by assigning a sublicense and and/or distributorsdistributor agreements. The development path will follow the geographical regulatory path, beginning by the North American Markets.

The Saliva Glucose BiosensorSGB has been designed and developed to meet the ISO 15197:2013 standard, and we intend to seek regulatory approval under the specifications of this standard. The parameters assessed during this evaluation are as in Figure 18 below.

Figure 18: Regulatory approval criteria

The research team at the University of Newcastle, in order to benchmark the performance of the biosensor prototype systems, compared it with the partial requirements of the ISO standard ISO 15197:2013. This standard dictates the analytical standards and performance evaluation of a blood-glucose monitoring system for self-testing in managing diabetes mellitus. The standard dictates that at least 95 % of results for a given system have tomust be within ± 15 mg/dL at glucose concentrations less than 100 mg/dL and within ± 15 % at glucose concentrations greater than or equal to 100 mg/dL.

Artificial saliva was prepared based on the most widely used Fusayama Meyer solution consisting of 11 different glucose concentrations of 0, 0.18, 0.36, 0.9, 1.8, 3.6, 9.01, 18.02, 36.04, 90.1, 180.2 mg/dL. Only the first seven concentrations are clinically relevant in saliva (0 – 9.01 mg/dL)3.3. However, at this stage of product development, we wanted to assess the dynamic range of the biosensor to 20-fold of the upper physiological range (9.01 mg/dL)3.3. The concentration range of greater than 9.01-180.2 mg/dL is not clinically relevant criteria for glucose in saliva.

The results of the 116 prototype biosensors that were assessed for precision and accuracy by implementing the ISO standard are demonstrated in Figure 19.

In Figure 19, the orange solid lines represent the acceptable upper and lower limits for variation between the actual and measured result. The difference between actual and measured glucose concertation from 0mg/dL to 9.01mg/dL (the upper limit of the physiologically relevant range in saliva) is displayed in blue.

standard. In conclusion, from the 116 devices assessed, 110 devices (94.8 %) met the blood glucose ISO standard in relation to the adapted system accuracy (i.e. 95 % of the measured results must fall within ± 15 mg/dL at glucose concentrations less than 100 mg/dL).

 

We believe the deficiency of the 6six prototype devices that failed to meet the ISO standard is attributable to the previously non-validated manual printing process of the biosensors rather than a biosensor technology deficiency. Currently, the biosensor is now in the design transfertransferring to a quality-controlled manufacturepilot production phase, standardizing the automated processes and characterization procedures which willto eliminate such manufacturing deviations in the released biosensor product format. Regardless, 110 prototype sensors in this test performed at a level to allow compliance with the ISO standard.

It is important to note that the ISO standard references blood glucose monitors rather than salivary glucose monitors, so a direct application of the standard here is not entirely practical.

 

Figure 19: Test results for precision and system accuracy

Current Stage of Development

The SGB has been under continuous development for over six years, first by the University of Newcastle, Australia, then by the Licensor and us. The SGB is at advanced stages of development and is expected to achieve market launch within 18 months following this offering. Below is a development chart that highlights the stage of development of the SGB.

Figure 20: Current stage of development

3 Nayak, M., Gupta, S., Sunitha, J., Dawar, G., Sinha, N., & Rallan, N. (2017). Correlation of salivary glucose level with blood glucose level in diabetes mellitus. Journal Of Oral And Maxillofacial Pathology, 21(3), 334. doi: 10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_222_15

From a regulatory filing and intended use perspective, the SGB is intended to be used as a point of care self-test, indicated for the management of diabetes and non-adjunctive to blood glucose testing for diabetes treatment decisions. Through the regulatory process we intend to demonstrate that the SGB detects trends and tracks patterns aiding in the detection of episodes of hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia, facilitating both acute and long-term therapy adjustments.

We anticipate NMPA approval within 13 months of this offering. This accelerated timeline is due to the non-invasive nature of the device and the availability of a prioritized approval process under the NMPA’s Special Approval Procedure of Innovative Medical Devices, which went effective on December 1, 2018 and encourages technical innovation of medical devices and offers an expedited approval process.

We are completing Phase 4 of development as in the diagram above, which is design transfer to manufacturing. We are translating the design into a manufacturable device in preparation of review by the NMPA. More specifically, in this phase we are:

installing production and test equipment, and commencing qualifications;
establishing component stock levels in preparation for the validation and clinical production builds;
approving all components from suppliers as ready for use;
preparing software for final validation; and
establishing manufacturing capacity as ready to perform first production.

We also have commenced Phase 5, which is validation. We are testing the completed design as a system and assessing if the product developed meets the user requirements established in Phase 1. We will confirm by examination and provision of objective evidence that the particular requirements for a specific intended use can be consistently fulfilled. We also are implementing the clinical evidence module, which incorporates the commercial production of the investigative biosensor devices to commence the clinical evaluation of analytical performance of the device and generate the clinical evidence necessary to gain regulatory approval. More specifically, in this phase we:

have completed production and test system validation;

have completed the design validation using pre-defined test protocols and pass/fail criteria;

will perform clinical evaluations; and
will obtain regulatory approvals.

In Phase 6, which is release, we anticipate releasing the product through a Controlled Market Release, or “CMR.” All activities conducted during any CMR are aimed at marketing and positioning messages. Production and deployment issues will be monitored, and plans prepared for their resolution or handover. Issues may be handed over to the management team that will take over the ongoing management of the product.

In Phase 7, which is ongoing production, post-market surveillance activities will be undertaken to determine the acceptance of the product in the field and to identify any potential long-term issues that may need to be addressed. Design and process changes will be assessed to determine what development deliverables from previous phases require updating or repeating, i.e. input requirements, verification or validation activities. Phase 7 will last until the product is made obsolete and replaced by a new version as part of our lifecycle management.

Development Strategy

The following chart below shows the anticipated development of our products over the 48 months following the completion of this offering.

Figure 21: Anticipated development of products

Regulatory Approval

As mentioned above, it is intended that regulatory approval for the SGT will be achieved within 13 months of this offering. We have engaged Emergo Global Consulting LLC, a clinical research and regulatory consulting firm specializing in high tech medical device development, and commenced the regulatory approval process in China and other jurisdictions in the APAC Region.

Regulatory requirements for submission are dictated by Section 8.3 of the ISO 15197:2013 in most jurisdictions in the APAC Region. Specifically, the standard requires 150 diabetic subjects representing different ages, genders and education levels to be enrolled into the clinical study. The successful completion of any clinical testing for the SGB, or other testing that we may be required to undertake in the future, will be subject to:

the conduct of performance testing in accordance with regulatory requirements; and
performing clinical evaluations on our anticipated schedule and consistent with regulatory standards and protocols.

We will be responsible for obtaining requisite regulatory approvals in the jurisdictions of the APAC Region, initially engaging the NMPA in China. We do not yet have the necessary regulatory approvals to put to service the SGB or any other product in the APAC Region.

 

Manufacturing

 

The facilities required for the fabrication of thesethe OTFT devices are all in place at the Australian National Fabrication Facility, which we have used for fabrication and testing. The Australian National Fabrication Facility utilizes state-of-the-art cleanroom Class 1000 (ISO Class 6) standards and fabricationWe anticipate that these facilities, which are international quality standards. These facilitieswe have used extensively, will be extensively used, and we anticipate they can alsocontinue to be used for initial manufacturing and charged under a cost recovery basis.

 

We have reached an agreementreceived approval for $4.7 million in principle to engage Cambridge Consultants Ltd. as advisors on our commercial scale manufacturing program. Furthermore, we are in discussions to manufacture in Hong Kong where we might be eligible for certain financial incentives offered by the Hong Kong Government. For example, the Hong Kong Government established a $2 billion re-industrializationMedical Products Priority Grant funding scheme to subsidize manufacturers to set up smart production lines in Hong Kong and allocating $2 billion for building manufacturing facilities required by the advanced manufacturing sector in industrial estates.

Inherent in the manufacturing process is a separate calibration process that is batch dependent and ensures analytical performance quality control. Further to this an authenticity validation process verifies that the biosensor is authentic or otherwise flags a device.

Market Penetration and Quality of Life Study

Our market strategy will be to switch users from the current finger-lancing capillary blood test productAustralian Government in June 2021 as contributions towards establishing a high-tech manufacturing facility in Australia. Amounts under this grant are paid to our SGT through:the Company upon the Company achieving certain deliverables and are subject to certain other conditions. To date, the Company has received $3.25 million of this grant. The Company has requested an extension (from March 2024 to March 2025) to deliver certain of the deliverables under grant.

increasing patient compliance;
building “share of voice” with key opinion leaders and physicians, through the design and administration of a 20,000-person PRO study;
developing an early stage website to educate and create market awareness while engaging with future users;
creating “share of voice” for the SGT in the APAC Region;
creating market awareness among patients through various promotions; and
partnering with patient diabetes associations and sponsoring patient support groups across the APAC Region.

Figure 22: Market penetration study

This early strategy is designed for the biosensor to be validated by the physicians and health care professionals through the generation of evidence. We expect that this data will demonstrate that patients will achieve better glycemic control when using the SGT as compared to conventional blood glucose testing.

Distribution

 

We intend, assumingAssuming the completion of development and receipt of all required regulatory approval,approvals, we intend to market and distribute the SGT in the APAC Region. This region consists of:

Jurisdiction

Adults with diabetes

(20-79) in 1,000s

 Jurisdiction

Adults with diabetes 

(20-79) in 1,000s

Australia1,133.00 New Caledonia46.2
Bangladesh6,926.30 New Zealand326.1
Brunei Darussalam41.1 Niue0.3
Cambodia246.2 Palau2.4
China114,394.80 Papua New Guinea639.8
Cook Islands1.5 Philippines3,721.90
Federated States of Micronesia6.1 Republic of Korea3,465.40
Fiji81.7 Samoa7.4
French Polynesia45.4 Singapore606
Hong Kong636 Solomon Islands43
Indonesia10,276.10 Taiwan1,958.00
Japan7,234.20 Thailand4,208.60
Kiribati13 Timor L’Este32.9
Lao People’s Democratic Republic115.2 Tokelau0.2
Malaysia3,492.60 Tonga7.3
Marshall Islands10.6 Tuvalu1.8
Mongolia97.8 Vanuatu16.2
Myanmar1,399.00 Vietnam3,535.70
Nauru1.5 Total164,771.30

Figure 23: Full list of countries and territories constituting the APAC Region, with adult diabetic population according to the IDF Diabetes Atlas Eighth Edition 2017

We propose to enter into arrangements with distributors to market and sell the SGB. We have enteredplan to enter into an agreement in principle with a medical affairs commercialization company to drive prelaunchpre-launch activity with the scope to create awareness and build “share of voice”a reputation with local referring physicians, diabetes educators, patient associations, government organizations and general practitioners. We also recently entered into non-binding memorandaengaged L.E.K Consulting to assist in expanding the scope of understanding with two large distributors in China, which express our intent to enter into definitive agreements to collaborate on the manufacture, regulatory approval, and distribution and sale of, and the medical affairs, marketing, and identification of strategic opportunities for, the SGB in China.commercial partners.

 

The ideal distributors in the APAC Region will already be geographical market leaders in the self-testing glucose finger prick tests that will market and sell the product across specific regions. Our commercial strategy for distributor selection and appointment includes:

1.

appointment of a global consulting firm to screen the top distributors in each country and the three distributors per province in China;

2.determining selection criteria that include capability, capacity, volume of test strips currently sold and experience in sector;
3.defining the time frame to implement a “switch” strategy for distributors to replace the conventional blood glucose testing devices;
4.appointment of local provincial or regional distributors; and
5.extension of entire Biosensor Platform to distributors by 2024.

Our strategy will depend in part on finding qualified distributors for the marketing and sale of our products. We will depend onwork with these distributors’ effortsdistributors to market our products. These distributors typically would sell a variety of other, non-competing products and will be expected to devote certain resources to selling the SGB. We expect to devote suitable time and effort to recruiting and retaining qualified third-party distributors and training them in our technology and product offering. We plan to adopt a multiple channelmulti-channel strategy to balance the marketing and sales efforts.  Beyond the distribution strategy, there will also be activities in:

1.online and offline sales and marketing;
2.offline medico-marketing activities to include conferences, diabetes association support, promotion and demand creation in hospitals; and
3.compliant E-commerce platform to act as the main distribution channel; and
4.partnerships with distributors, chain pharmacies, local device platforms and insurers.

Deployment of Middleware and Digital Information System

We expect that our technology will make it easier for a patient to monitor their glucose levels. Accordingly, we anticipate having the potential to collect a greater amount of clinical data from a larger population of patients. This creates the potential to provide significant epidemiologic insights into the disease.

The SGB and our digital information system constitute our healthcare ecosystem, and this becomes a powerful disease management tool to address many of the systemic issues inherent in diabetes management in the APAC Region through:

the storage and analysis of patient data generated by the SGB;
the dietary and fitness inputs generated by the biosensor app and the output to the user;
the connectivity of patients and patient results with health care team or relatives (as per patient requirements);
reminders and flagging service for patients;
a medium for pharmaceutical companies to implement patient support programs (as per regulatory restrictions); and
education services for lifestyle, diet and glucose management.

Beyond the patient, all types of key stakeholders within the health ecosystem have unmet needs which brings digital opportunities to shape the way patients manage the disease enabling further integrations. Our digital information system is being designed to specifications that allow it to connect the patients’ healthcare ecosystem, protecting its privacy at all times, leveraging the software app and cloud as a bridge between patient and health care providers, integrating software with hardware, integrating payors and providers.

Hurdles to Product LaunchTechnology License Agreements

There are numerous hurdles required before product launch will be possible, as to which there can be no assurances. Those hurdles include, but are not limited to, the following (which are not necessarily set forth in chronological order):

Regulatory Approvals. The research, design, testing, manufacturing, labeling, selling, marketing and distribution of medical devices are subject to extensive regulation by country-specific regulatory authorities, which regulations differ from country to country. We have not yet obtained any regulatory approvals in any jurisdiction. We must obtain all regulatory approvals as will permit the product launch of the SGT as well as any eligible protection of any intellectual property.
Clinical Studies. Although we completed performance testing of the biosensor as described in “—Preliminary Analytical Performance Testing,” to date we have conducted limited trials on the SGB. Further studies and trials will be required prior to and in connection with obtaining all regulatory approvals. These studies and trials will have to be successfully completed to obtain approvals in order to market the SGB.
Manufacture and Supply. We currently have fabrication facilities in place at the Australian National Fabrication Facility and are in discussions with various potential parties for sourcing manufacture to scale facilities across the APAC Region. We also have reached an agreement in principle to engage Cambridge Consultants Ltd. as advisors on our commercial scale manufacturing program.
Marketing. We are looking for and will depend in part on qualified distributors for the marketing and selling of our products. We will depend on these distributors’ efforts to market our products, yet we will be unable to control their efforts completely. We have not yet executed any distribution agreements in this regard. However, we recently entered into non-binding memoranda of understanding with two large distributors in China, which express our intent to enter into definitive agreements to collaborate on the manufacture, regulatory approval, and distribution and sale of,  and the medical affairs, marketing, and identification of strategic opportunities for, the SGB in China.
Software. We must conduct software development work to make the biosensor software compatible with existing and potential future smart device platforms. This software work remains to be done.
Personnel. In order to introduce and launch our SGT, we will need to attract and retain highly skilled managerial, sales, scientific and technical personnel to advance the product beyond its current development stage.
Intellectual Property. While the SGB is patent protected in the United States and China we must remain vigilant to ensure that protection is realized. We will need to assess the eligibility of our intellectual property in the wider jurisdictions of the APAC Region and if possible, implement measures to achieve that protection.
Experts. To facilitate completion of the foregoing steps and through a request for proposal global tendering process, we are in the process of engaging consultants, advisors and other experts, including in particular regulatory experts who we have already engaged.
Additional Capital. Although we believe that after this offering we will have sufficient capital resources to enable us to continue to implement our business plan and remain in operation for at least the 30 months, we may require additional capital earlier than anticipated. See “Use of Proceeds” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.”

The Glucose Monitoring Industry

The Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose

Self-Monitoring of blood glucose is the main approach for glucose monitoring and has been used for over 40 years. Currently, self-monitoring of blood glucose is conducted periodically by the patient using a blood glucose measuring device. Blood glucometers require pricking a finger with a lancet and applying a drop of blood on the test strip. The test strip is then inserted into the device which provides a reading of glucose level in blood. Test strips are supplied by the glucometer manufacturer and are generally device-specific, although generic test strips are also available.

Figure 24: Invasive finger pricking for self-measurement of blood glucose

There are more than 100 types of blood glucometers currently are commercially available and they differentiate based on size and weight, cost, data storage capacity, test accuracy, blood sample size and screen visibility (users with poor eyesight may prefer larger screens). Some glucometers also include high-tech features such as:

Bluetooth. Some meters have Bluetooth capabilities, allowing data to be transmitted to a smartphone, tablet or computer.
USB Port: Many meters allow users to download data to a computer with a USB cable. Some meters plug directly into a computer’s USB port.

These systems, however, still have shortcomings. In addition to the referenced strain on patients, a recent study of commercial blood glucose sensors has shown that of the 34 systems completely assessed, seven systems did not fulfill the minimal accuracy requirements of the ISO standard.

Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Continuous glucose monitoring is not an alternative to finger prick self-monitoring of blood glucose. Only one system to date has been deemed of equivalent use “as an aid to monitor the effectiveness of diabetes control” or non-adjunctive use. The procedure is invasive and involves the insertion of a glucose biosensor into the subcutaneous tissue layer or the hypodermis. The biosensor, which measures glucose levels in interstitial fluid, is attached to a transmitter that sends signals to either an insulin pump or a portable meter. These devices are generally worn for about one week and require regular calibration through conventional blood glucose detection, about twice a day. While the accuracy of these devices has been an issue, it has improved in recent years. Continuous glucose monitoring can track a patients’ glucose throughout the day and night, notifying the patient of highs and lows so the person can act.

Subcutaneous glucose levels change more slowly than plasma glucose, which can be a restriction to their effectiveness, particularly if glucose levels are changing rapidly. Subcutaneous glucose levels have a time lag compared to blood glucose measurements, and measurements may not always match blood glucose.

Continuous glucose monitoring is commonly used in conjunction with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, or “CSII,” which involves a patient wearing an insulin pump and infusion set that infuses insulin into the body. Although pumps are currently manually controlled by the patient, continuous glucose monitoring combined with CSII could potentially be used as part of a closed-loop. CSII is generally restricted to Type 1 diabetics, where the need for ongoing insulin infusion is highest.

Continuous glucose monitoring is mainly used in a limited proportion of diabetics, particularly those concerned about severe, nocturnal hypoglycemia, pregnant women who require meticulous glucose control or those who may not be able to easily administer a self-monitoring test (e.g., those living in remote or hostile environments). However, continuous glucose monitoring is more expensive than traditional self-monitoring of blood glucose and in many cases is not eligible for reimbursement.

Developments in Glucose Monitoring

We believe that there are a limited number of companies developing alternatives to blood-based glucose monitoring. In addition, we believe that a number of universities across the world have a range of saliva-based sensors at very early stages of development.

Emerging approaches to non-invasive glucose monitoring, none of which have reached widespread application, include the following:

Optical Transducers. Optical transducers can potentially detect glucose in blood using light of variable frequencies. Different properties of light are used to interact with glucose molecules. The anterior chamber of the eye and the interstitial fluid are two regions where spectroscopic measurement of the reflected or transmitted light can be captured. Some emerging techniques in optical transducers include Kromoscopy, Photoacoustic spectroscopy, OCT, Occlusion spectroscopy, Polarimetry, Thermal infrared, Fluorescence, Raman spectroscopy, MIR spectroscopy, and NIR spectroscopy. Most of these systems are not suitable for point of care testing.
Transdermal Transducers. Transdermal transducers can be used to measure glucose. In this case, oxygen supply is not a limiting factor and hence the concentration of glucose can potentially be detected with less interference. Some techniques, such as reverse iontophoresis, demonstrate adequate precision for home-based blood glucose monitoring. The shortcoming of such transducer types is their inability to detect hypoglycemia with a sensitivity of 23% for glucose concentrations. Emerging techniques in transdermal transducers include impedance spectroscopy, skin suction blister, sonophoresis and reverse iontophoresis.
Use of Wearable Technologies for Diabetes Management. Several companies are developing wearable devices that are purported to be capable of monitoring glucose and tracking biometrics to monitor health. These devices commonly use the speckle pattern effect, i.e., using changing patterns of scattered light. Some wearable devices also use non-invasive spectrometric process combined with electrical sampling to determine glucose levels in blood using low-cost wavelength specific transmitters and receivers.

Further technologies in development, and their limitations and impediments, include:

Lasers: There are safety concerns with long-term use of lasers on the skin and concerns with lag time between glucose levels in the skin and blood glucose levels.
Breath-Based Measurements: There are concerns that measuring breath does not accurately correlate with blood glucose levels. In addition, there is the potential for contamination. The technology is not suitable for young children.
Tear Sample: There are concerns with lag time between glucose levels in tears and blood glucose levels. Measurements may be affected by the patient’s hydration.
Wearable Technology: There are concerns about the reliability of results due to problems with sweat and body temperature, the usability during sporting activities, particularly water sports. There are also problems with skin irritation. The technology is not suitable or practical for children.
Ear Lobe or Canal Sensors: The devices are indiscreet and impractical. There are problems with ear wax and reliability of the measurements, especially in children.

Importance of Glucose Monitoring

One of the main aims of diabetes monitoring and management is to maintain blood glucose levels within a specified target range. Self-monitoring of blood glucose should be part of a regular management plan for patients with diabetes to enable this. Self-monitoring provides information regarding an individual’s dynamic blood glucose profile. This information can help with the appropriate scheduling of food, activity, and medication. It is also required for understanding of the timing of blood glucose variations. Lack of regular self-monitoring predicts hospitalization for diabetes-related complications.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose is an essential tool for people with diabetes who are taking insulin or for those who experience fluctuations in their blood glucose levels, especially hypoglycemia. For patients taking insulin and adjusting their dose, self-monitoring is needed for self-management. For others receiving oral medication, profiling glucose trends and the confirmation of high or low blood glucose can be a useful addendum to successful management.

Self-monitoring of blood glucose aids the management of diabetes by:

facilitating the development of an individualized blood glucose profile, which can then guide health care professionals in treatment planning for an individualized diabetic regimen;
giving people with diabetes and their families the ability to make appropriate day-to-day treatment choices in diet and physical activity as well as administration of insulin or other agents;
improving patients’ recognition of hypoglycemia or severe hyperglycemia; and
enhancing patient education and patient empowerment regarding the effects of lifestyle and pharmaceutical intervention on glycemic control.

The role of blood glucose control in preventing the development and progression of complications has been proven in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, with an especially strong relationship between intensive blood glucose control and complications such as neuropathy (affecting limbs) and diabetic retinopathy (leading to blindness).

Over time, glucose measurements are expected to provide the patient and their health care professionals with the information and insights required to determine the best management strategy for diabetes, potentially minimizing the fluctuations in their glucose levels and resulting in better health outcomes.

The role of blood glucose monitoring and control in preventing the development and progression of diabetes complications has been well established. Studies show that those who properly monitored blood glucose levels had better health outcomes (such as reduced complications of diabetes) compared to those who did not.

For a person with diabetes, however, this daily process is not only painful but can be exhausting, disruptive, frustrating, frightening and consuming, which often leads to poor compliance and poor health outcomes. People with diabetes have reported that stigma is a significant concern to them. This causes tension and anxiety and, because the procedure is perceived as inconvenient and difficult, leads to suboptimal monitoring and poor adherence. Many people with diabetes do not test as often as clinically recommended, increasing the risk of complications. The reasons for under-compliant testing include, but are not limited to:

Inconvenience. Patients with single-point finger stick devices must use them several times a day. The patient self-inflicts a painful prick and draws blood to measure blood glucose levels. This process is inconvenient and is often uncomfortable and embarrassing in social situations.
Pain. Although the fingertip provides a good site to obtain a blood sample, it also is densely populated with highly sensitive nerve endings. As a result, lancing and subsequent manipulation of the finger to draw blood and multiple finger sticks can be painful.
Risk of Infection. Breaking the skin and creating a wound may expose a patient to infection.
Difficulty of Use. To obtain a blood sample with single-point finger stick devices, patients generally prick one of their fingertips and squeeze the area to produce the blood sample, with another prick required if insufficient blood volume is first obtained. The blood sample is then placed on a disposable test strip that is inserted into a blood glucose meter. This task can be difficult for patients who have decreased sense of touch and/or clarity of vision, which is not be uncommon for diabetics.
Medical Waste. Used needles, lancets and blood strips are medical waste that must be disposed of accordingly.

Diabetes

Types of Diabetes

Diabetes is the condition in which the body does not properly process food for use as energy. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, secretes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies. When a person has diabetes, the body either does not make enough insulin or cannot use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugars to build up in blood. Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations. Self-monitoring of blood glucose is an important component of modern therapy for diabetes and is recommended for people with diabetes by their health care professionals in order to achieve normal levels of glycemia. The types of diabetes are as follows:

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes is caused by an auto-immune reaction where the body’s defense system attacks the insulin-producing cells located in a person’s pancreas. The reason why this occurs is not fully understood. People with Type 1 diabetes produce no insulin. The disease can affect people of any age, but usually occurs in children or young adults. People with this form of diabetes need injections or infusions of insulin every day to control the levels of glucose in their blood. Type 1 diabetes patients constitute approximately 10% of the overall number of patients but are much more extensive users of glucose monitoring systems, as these people with diabetes need to measure their glucose levels over 6 times a day.

When a person has lived with diabetes for many years, a condition known as “Hypoglycemia Unawareness” can occur, affecting approximately 40% of people with Type 1 diabetes. As a result, people with this condition monitor their glucose levels more frequently. It is a major limitation to achieving tight diabetes control and significantly reduces quality of life.

Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 90% of all cases of diabetes. It is characterized by insulin resistance and relative insulin deficiency, either of which may be present at the time that diabetes becomes clinically manifest. The diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes usually occurs after the age of 40 but can occur earlier, especially in populations with high diabetes incidence. Type 2 diabetes can remain undetected for many years and the diagnosis is often made from associated complications or incidentally through an abnormal blood or urine glucose test. It is often, but not always, associated with obesity, which may contribute to insulin resistance and lead to elevated glucose levels. As Type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease, a growing portion of Type 2 diabetes patients use insulin as part of their treatment. Trends such as urbanization, unhealthy diets and reduced physical activity are all contributing lifestyle factors that increase the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Gestational Diabetes

Gestational diabetes is a form of diabetes consisting of high glucose levels during pregnancy. It develops in one in seven pregnancies worldwide and is associated with complications in the period immediately before and after birth. Gestational diabetes usually disappears after pregnancy, but afflicted women and their offspring are at an increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes later in life. Approximately half of women with a history of gestational diabetes go on to develop Type 2 diabetes within five to ten years after delivery.

Pre-Diabetes

We believe that the SGT also will be able to support patients with pre-diabetes, also called metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. For example, approximately 493 million people in China are understood to have pre-diabetes. This population is typically prescribed with periodic lab-based glucose level testing which requires a doctor visit and typically does not involve the utilization of self-monitoring glucose devices.

An Epidemic Globally and Across the APAC Region

Diabetes Globally

Diabetes is a global epidemic and the disease is growing rapidly. Some key statistics include:

Figure 25: Key statistics of diabetes

Diabetes Across the APAC Region

APAC has the world’s largest diabetes population, and it continues to grow at a fearsome pace. Rapidly rising rates of diabetes have been seen in previous studies, and according to the latest data, the APAC Region has more than 170 million people living with diabetes, representing 36.6% of the world’s total people with diabetes.

Figure 26: Diabetes Across the APAC Region

A Snapshot of Diabetes in the Main Countries and Territories Across the APAC Region

Australia

Diabetes is one of the biggest challenges facing Australia’s health system today. According to Inkwood Research, 280 Australians develop diabetes every day. Around 1.7 million Australians have diabetes. This includes all types of diagnosed diabetes (1.2 million known and registered) as well as silent, undiagnosed type 2 diabetes (up to 500,000 estimated). 4 Australia is ranked 7th highest in the world for prevalence of type 1 diabetes in children aged 0 to 14 years.5

According to the Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute, the total annual cost for Australians with type 2 diabetes is up to AUS$6 billion including healthcare costs, the cost of care givers and government subsidies. The average annual healthcare cost per person with diabetes is AUS$4,025 if there are no associated complications. However, this can rise to as much as AUS$9,645 in people with complications. For type 1 diabetes, the total annual cost in Australia is AUS$570 million, with the total average annual cost per person being AUS$4,669. The average total annual cost is AUS$3,468 for people without complications; however, this can rise to AUS$16,698 for people with complications.6

New Zealand

Diabetes is the largest and fastest growing health issue in New Zealand. According to the IDF Diabetes Atlas, there are approximately 330,000 people in New Zealand living with diabetes, with over 66,000 of those being undiagnosed7. Diabetes is most common among pacific people, whilst those with European origins see the lowest prevalence of any ethnic group8.

4 Inkwood Research. Asia Pacific Glucose Monitoring System Market 2018-2026, pg. 117

5 Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute. Diabetes: The silent pandemic and its impact on Australia, pg. 3.

6 Baker IDI Heart & Diabetes Institute. Diabetes: The silent pandemic and its impact on Australia, pg. 4.

7 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition, 2019, pg. 152-153

8 Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand. Atlas of Healthcare Variation: Diabetes (Dec, 2019),https://www.hqsc.govt.nz/our-programmes/health-quality-evaluation/projects/atlas-of-healthcare-variation/diabetes/

Japan

There are 7.4 million adults in Japan who suffer from diabetes.9 The country spent $23.5 billion on diabetes-related healthcare in 2019, which was the fifth highest expenditure in the world that year (ages 20 to 79 years).

The number of medical consultations in Japan is considerable, especially for patients with diabetes. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, or “OECD,” health statistics, on average Japanese individuals have a clinical consultation 12.9 times in a single year, versus the OECD average of 6.6 in 2013. With regard to diabetic care, patients on average have a consultation every 33.7 days whereas guidelines across many countries recommend that patients be followed up every three months.10

A substantial increase in diabetes prevalence is expected in Japan during the next few decades, mainly as a result of the aging of the adult population11. Today, roughly 28% of the population is over the age of 6512. By middle of the 21st century, the Japanese Ministry of Health expects this to reach roughly 33%.13 This not only means more elderly people in society but dramatically fewer people to take care of them.

Indonesia

With a population of over 270 million, Indonesia is the world’s fourth most populated country14. Despite relatively low prevalence rate (6.2% including both type 1 and 2 in individuals aged between 20-79), the country is the seventh largest market with 10.7 million diabetic patients in 2019 and expected to grow to 16.6 million by 2045 according the IDF Diabetes Atlas15.

Malaysia

Malaysia has 3.7 million people with known diabetes, a prevalence rate of 16.8%16.

‘The incidence of diabetes in Malaysia has exceeded all previous projections made by the International Diabetes Federation and World Health Organization. From 1996 through to 2011 the rate of growth in the number of patients with diabetes was 80% over the period according to the Ministry of Health Malaysia. If this rate remains unabated by 2020 when Malaysia attains a developed nation status, it is predicted that more than a third of adults above the age of 30 would have developed the disease.’17

Singapore

The prevalence of diabetes in Singapore (14.2% of total population) is significantly higher than the world’s average (9.3% of total population18) according to the International Diabetes Federation. The Ministry of Health believes that about a third of diabetics are not aware of their condition.19

About 1,200 diabetics undergo amputations every year in Singapore, and its rate of lower limb amputation of 28.5 per 100,000 people is the highest among OECD countries.20

South Korea

Approximately 3.7 million South Korean adults have diabetes21. In addition, nearly a quarter of South Korean adults had prediabetes according to a 2016 report by the Korean Diabetes Association.22

‘Diabetes awareness is a key challenge in South Korea, as 3 out of 10 people with diabetes are not aware of their condition, and 2 of 5 people with diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) are not taking any treatment for their condition, according to the 2016 report. Only 9.4% of individuals with diabetes have a comprehensive management to monitor and manage their conditions.’23 

 

China

The economic growth of China has driven lifestyle changes in the Chinese population that have had a major impact on the increased incidence of the disease. China accounts for the fastest growing global market segment. China has, by a significant number, the largest number of people with diabetes. In 2019, accordingWe are party to the IDF Diabetes Atlas24, China alone had a similar number of people with diabetes as the next three largest diabetes markets combined (India, United States and Pakistan). Diabetes related health expenditure in China was $109 billion in 2019 alone, significantly outpacing the previous estimates of $72 billion by 2040.25

9 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition, 2017, pg. 152

10 BMC Endocrine disorders. Effectiveness of monthly and bimonthly follow-up of patients with well-controlled type 2 diabetes: a propensity score matched cohort study. https://bmcendocrdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12902-019-0372-5

11 Charvat H, Goto A, Goto M, Inoue M, Heianza Y, Arase Y, Sone H, Nakagami T, Song X, Qiao Q, Tuomilehto J, Tsugane S, Noda M, Inoue M. Impact of population aging on trends in diabetes prevalence: A meta-regression analysis of 160,000 Japanese adults. J Diabetes Investig. 2015 Sep;6(5):533-42. doi: 10.1111/jdi.12333. Epub 2015 Mar 2. PMID: 26417410; PMCID: PMC4578492.

12 IPSOS: https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/ct/publication/documents/2019-05/briefing-super-ageing-japan.pdf

13 Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour & Welfare. https://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/org/policy/p32-33.html#:~:text=Ministry%20of%20Health%2C%20Labour%20and%20Welfare&text=By%20the%20middle%20of%20the,65%20years%20old%20or%20older.

14 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=ID

15 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition, 2019

16 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition 2019

17 Ministry of Health Malaysia. https://www.moh.gov.my/moh/resources/Penerbitan/CPG/Endocrine/3a.pdf

18 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition, 2019

19Ministry of Health via Straits Times & various other outlets. https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/5-health-screening-for-18-million-singaporeans-letters-out-from-august

20 Singapore Management University. https://www.smu.edu.sg/sites/default/files/smu/news_room/smu_in_the_news/2017/Aug2017/Aug28/20170826-TDY-Singapore-TheBigRead.pdf

21 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition 2019

22 https://www.diabetes.or.kr/bbs/index.html?code=e_resource&mode=tlist

24 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition 2019,

25 IDF Diabetes Atlas 9th Edition 2019, pg 57

The Journal of the American Medical Association identified that out of approximately 99,000 people surveyed in a study, half had pre-diabetes blood glucose levels – abnormally high but not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. Approximately 493 million people in China are understood to have pre-diabetes26. These findings indicate the enormity of diabetes as a public health problem in China.

A significant portion of the direct costs of diabetes, and its broader economic impact, arises due to associated complications such as heart disease, kidney disease, amputations, cerebral conditions and blindness – over 70% of patients have at least one complication. A recent study using actual electronic insurance claims data (from 2009-2011) in China found that the average direct cost of treatment ($1,857 per patient) increased significantly with the number of diabetes-related complications up to over $3,000. The average annual cost per patient with at least one hospitalization (about 20% of patients) in a year ($6,301 in 2009) was more than four-fold the costs per patient with only outpatient visits27.

The Digital Healthcare Industry

Across the APAC Region, many countries and territories are experiencing an aging population combined with healthcare infrastructures that have struggled to keep up with the pace of socioeconomic change. This creates significant opportunity to enhance efficiency through digital innovation.

For example, according to the Boston Consulting Group, China’s digital healthcare market is expected to grow considerably in the next few years, with $110 billion expected to be invested in 2020, of which $35 billion is expected to be invested in disease management.

The broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health informationfollowing technology wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized healthcare. Providers and other stakeholders are using digital health in their efforts to:license agreements.

 

reduce inefficiencies;1)The Amended and Restated License Agreement dated September 12, 2019, which amends and restates all previous license agreements (the “SGT License Agreement”) is limited to the APAC Region.
2)improve access;
reduce cost;
increase quality; and
make medicine more personalizedThe technology license agreement dated June 23, 2020 (the “COV2 License Agreement”), for patients.COV2 diagnostic test globally.

 

It is widely believed that patients and consumers can use digital healthIn addition to better manage and track their health and wellness related activities.above, we have 50% equity interest in BiosensX (North America) Inc., which has a separate technology license agreement with the Licensor covering glucose/diabetes management field in the North America Territory.

 

This growth in digital healthcare is expected to be driven in large part by solutions to address current inefficiencies and unmet needs in the APAC Region healthcare systems for diabetes sufferers. The promise of digital health – also termed “connected health” – in this context is to:

allow for remote diagnosis and monitoring;
facilitate self-managed care;
deliver care outside traditional settings, with better access at lower cost; and
assist chronic disease management to improve population health outcomes.

We believe that the opportunity to unlock substantial savings across the APAC Region’s healthcare value chain is significant. Recently, there appears to have been a significant increase in the use of digital healthcare resources across the APAC Region, such as online patient-doctor communication and consulting services, disease management applications, social networks for medical professionals, and even “internet hospitals” that provide remote diagnostics.

TechnologySGT License Agreement

On June 23, 2020,September 12, 2019, we entered into a certainan Amended and Restated Technology License Agreement, or the “License“SGT License Agreement,” with the Life Science Biosensor DiagnosticsDiagnostic Pty Ltd, oramending and restating all the “Licensor.”previous SGT license agreements with LSBD. The Licensor currently owns 99.1% of our outstanding common stock and will continue to own a majority of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering.

26 Xu Y, Wang L, He J, et al. Prevalence and Control of Diabetes in Chinese Adults. JAMA. 2013;310(9):948–959. doi:10.1001/jama.2013.168118

27 Huang Y, Vemer P, Zhu J, Postma MJ, Chen W (2016) Economic Burden in Chinese Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Using Electronic Insurance Claims Data. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0159297. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0159297

TheSGT License Agreement sets forth our contractual rights and responsibilities relating to the Licensed Products in the APAC Region. The “Licensed Products” are products consisting of a biosensor strip and smart device application or dedicated reader device that use the biosensor technology owned by the Licensor relating to measuring, or otherwise determining, the amount or concentration of glucose, and the existence of biological markers of cancer, allergy/immunology and hormones, in a bodily fluid. The Licensed Products only include products that are supplied by an “Authorized Supplier,” meaning, by us, the Licensor, any of our affiliates or any affiliates of the Licensor, or any third-party manufacturer and/or reseller that the Licensor has expressly identified or approved in advance in writing for the purpose of quality control for the supply of Licensed Products to us. We do not currently intend to manufacture the Licensed Products in-house.

Pursuant to the SGT License Agreement, the Licensor granted to us an exclusive license to the Licensor’s proprietary rights to the biosensor technology used in the Licensed Products, solely in the APAC Region and solely to:

act as the authorized party for the purpose of prosecuting the application of, and obtaining any, regulatory approval for the Licensed Product, including being authorized to prosecute the approval for an investigational device required for the purpose of carrying out clinical studies;
manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell and distribute the Licensed Products;
provide reasonable customer support services on the use of the Licensed Products to end users of, and health care practitioners referring end users to, the Licensed Products;
use the Licensed Products only for the purposes identified and permitted pursuant to regulatory approval; and
collect data acquired from the Licensed Products

The license is non-transferable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable, except that the Licensor will in good faith consider any request by us for any sublicense. We may not exploit or seek to exploit any rights in respect of the Licensed Product outside of the APAC Region through any means, including digitally or online where the end user is not physically resident in the APAC Region. We must do all things necessary in turn to ensure that any distributors of Licensed Products in the APAC Region do not exploit or seek to exploit any rights in respect of the Licensed Product outside of the distributor’s territorial boundary.

Commencing after the receipt of regulatory approval in China, we agreed to pay the Licensor a minimum royalty fee for each year, or the “Minimum Royalty,” in four equal quarterly installments. For the first year after the receipt of regulatory approval, the Minimum Royalty will be $12 million. For each ensuing year after the receipt of regulatory approval, the Minimum Royalty will be the greater of $12 million and 13% of the projected net sales for such year. The projected net sales will be the number of Licensed Products sold in the prior year, as adjusted for the expected market growth and, for each year through the tenth year, as increased by an additional 7%. At the end of each quarter, if the quarterly installment of the Minimum Royalty is less than 13% of the actual net sales of Licensed Products for such quarter, or the “Actual Royalty,” we will pay Licensor the difference between the quarterly installment of the Minimum Royalty and the Actual Royalty. The royalty fee rate will be reduced from 13% to 3% upon the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the License Agreement. There is no set expiration date for the SGT License Agreement. However, the exclusivity of the license granted under the SGT License Agreement runs until the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the SGT License Agreement, which is currently until 2033. We expect that the patent portfolio will be extended as new patents are created throughout product development, thereby extending the exclusivity of the SGT License Agreement. For instance, we expect to seek additional patents in connection with the development of the Prostate Specific Antigen test, the Peanut Kernel Allergen test and the Luteinizing Hormone test. The SGT License Agreement may be terminated by us in the event of a material breach by the Licensor, if the Licensor does not cure the breach within 30 days after receiving notice of the breach; or in the event the Licensor discontinues its business operations or in the case of certain events related to insolvency or bankruptcy. The SGT License Agreement also may be terminated by us after July 3, 2029 upon 180 days’ prior written notice. The SGT License Agreement may not be terminated by the Licensor unless we permanently discontinue our business operations in relation to the Licensed Products, or if we dissolve or cease to exist.

After the expiration of the exclusivity period under the SGT License Agreement, we may continue to market and sell the Licensed Products. We believe the non-invasive nature of our product will establish us as a significant participant in the glucose testing market in the APAC Region and, therefore, by the time the patents expire, and by the time the exclusivity period under the SGT License Agreement expires, we expect to hold a meaningful share in the market, and brand awareness that will ensure we continue to operate successfully. No assurance can be given that there will not be significant direct competition for our products in the APAC Region following the expiration of patent protection.

COV2 License Agreement

On June 23, 2020, we entered into a COV2 License Agreement, with LSBD. The COV2 License Agreement sets forth our contractual rights and responsibilities relating to the COV2 Products. The “Licensed“COV2 Products” include: (i) a biosensor strip for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2; (ii) a proprietary smartphone application for the purpose reading, storing, analyzing and providing patient support programs for any one or more of the Indicatorsindicators for the purpose of measuring the amount or concentration of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgM, IgA) specific to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); and/or (iii) a dedicated sensor strip reading device for any one or more of the Indicatorsindicators for the purpose of measuring the amount or concentration of immunoglobulins (IgG, IgM, IgA) specific to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).

An The COV2 Products only include products that are supplied by an “Authorized Supplier” includesSupplier,” meaning, by us, the Licensor, any of our affiliates or any affiliates of the Licensor, or any third party manufacturer and/or reseller that the Licensor has expressly identified or approved in advance in writing for the purpose of quality control for the supply of LicensedCOV2 Products to us.  

 

Pursuant to the COV2 License Agreement, the Licensor granted to us an exclusive license to the Licensor’s proprietary rights to the biosensor technology used in the LicensedCOV2 Products, worldwide and solely to:

 

● act as the authorized party for the purpose of prosecuting the application of, and obtaining any, regulatory approval for the Licensed Product, including being authorized to prosecute the approval for an investigational device required for the purpose of carrying out clinical studies;

act as the authorized party for the purpose of prosecuting the application of, and obtaining any, regulatory approval for the COV2 Products, including being authorized to prosecute the approval for an investigational device required for the purpose of carrying out clinical studies;
manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell and distribute the COV2 Products;
provide reasonable customer support services on the use of the COV2 Products to end users of, and health care practitioners referring end users to, the COV2 Products;
use the COV2 Products only for the purposes identified and permitted pursuant to regulatory approval; and
collect data acquired from the COV2 Products.

 

● manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell and distribute the Licensed Products;

● provide reasonable customer support services on the use of the Licensed Products to end users of, and health care practitioners referring end users to, the Licensed Products;

● use the Licensed Products only for the purposes identified and permitted pursuant to regulatory approval; and

● collect data acquired from the Licensed Products.

We are required to collect and anonymize demographic information about the end users of the Licensed Products and data acquired from the Licensed Products. While the anonymized data will be owned by the Licensor, we will own during the term of the License Agreement the personally identifiable data, including health data, collected by us. In addition, the Licensor will provide us with certain of the data acquired from the Licensed Products. The demographic information and personally identifiable information will be used, following patient consent, as a disease management tool to offer patients value-added services, i.e., personalized education services for lifestyle, diet and glucose management. These services will be in accordance with the applicable local medical codes and regulatory environment. The use of such consensual information will be in accordance with privacy laws of the relevant countries and territories.

The license is non-transferable, non-assignable and non-sublicensable, except that the Licensor will in good faith consider any request by us for any sublicense.

 

CommencingUnder the COV2 License Agreement, commencing after the receipt of regulatory approval in a jurisdiction, and the earning of revenue we will be required to pay the Licensor a minimum royalty fee with respect to such jurisdiction for each year, or the “Minimum“COV2 Minimum Royalty,” in four equal quarterly installments. The COV2 Minimum Royalty will be 13% of the projected net sales in such jurisdiction for each such year. The projected net sales will be an amount mutually agreed between us and the Licensor for the first such year. For each ensuing year after the first year, the projected net sales will be the number of LicensedCOV2 Products sold in such jurisdiction in the prior year, as adjusted for the mutually agreed expected market growth. In addition to the expected market growth, there will be an additional growth rate percentage of 7% for each year through the tenth year. In the event of a dispute between us and the Licensor regarding the determination of the expected market growth or the additional growth percentage, the COV2 License Agreement provides for resolution by an independent third party. At the end of each quarter, if the quarterly installment of the COV2 Minimum Royalty is less than 13% of the actual net sales of LicensedCOV2 Products in such jurisdiction for such quarter, or the “Actual“COV2 Actual Royalty,” we will pay Licensor the difference between the quarterly installment of the COV2 Minimum Royalty and the COV2 Actual Royalty. The royalty fee rate will be reduced from 13% to 3% upon the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the COV2 License Agreement.

As a result of the significant global progress made in mitigating the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the significantly diminished demand for COVID-19 testing products, we have redirected our resources and efforts away from developing products related to COVID testing to instead acquire and develop drug testing and screening systems, notwithstanding the license held by us under the COV2 License Agreement.

As between us and the Licensor, the Licensor solely owns all right, title and interest to, among other items of intellectual property, the biosensor technology (including any improvements made to the biosensor technology by us), the anonymized data collected by us and any other technology of the Licensor, and all derivations based on, and all proprietary rights in, the foregoing. The Licensor will have the right to decide whether to protect or enforce, and the right to control any action relating to the protection and enforcement of, any of the foregoing intellectual property and proprietary rights.

 

There is no set expiration date for the COV2 License Agreement. However, the exclusivity of the license granted under the COV2 License Agreement runs until the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the COV2 License Agreement, which is currently until 2033. We expect that the patent portfolio will be extended as new patents are created throughout product development, thereby extending the exclusivity of the COV2 License Agreement. For instance, we expect to seek additional patents in connection with the development of the Prostate Specific Antigen test, the Peanut Kernel Allergen test and the Luteinizing Hormone test. The COV2 License Agreement may be terminated by us in the event of a material breach by the Licensor, if the Licensor does not cure the breach within 30 days after receiving notice of the breach; or in the event the Licensor discontinues its business operations or in the case of certain events related to insolvency or bankruptcy. The COV2 License Agreement also may be terminated by us at any time after the tenth anniversary of the COV2 License Agreement upon 180 days’ prior written notice.

The foregoing is a summaryMarket Analysis and Opportunity

In 2021, there were 206 million people living with diabetes in the Western Pacific, which accounts for 38% of the termsworld’s diabetic population9. Rapid urbanization, unhealthy diets and provisionsincreasingly sedentary lifestyles have resulted in ever increasing rates of obesity and diabetes across the License AgreementAPAC Region. The countries and is qualified in its entirety byterritories constituting the text ofAPAC Region, where we will introduce, market and launch the License Agreement a copy of which is filed asbiosensor, are: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam and an exhibit hereto.additional 18 countries and territories comprising the South Pacific Region.

 

Intellectual PropertyAccording to IDF Diabetes Atlas, 2021, there were 463 million individuals in the 20-79 year age group living with diabetes worldwide in 2019. This number increased to 537 million in 2021. By 2030, the number of diabetics is expected to reach 643 million, and by 2045, 783 million10 . The rising prevalence of diabetes is driving the growth of the self-monitoring blood glucose devices market.

 

The Glucose Monitoring Industry

The Self-Monitoring of Blood Glucose

Self-Monitoring of blood glucose is the primary approach for glucose monitoring and has been used for over 40 years. Currently, self-monitoring of blood glucose is conducted periodically by the patient using a blood glucose measuring device. Blood glucometers require pricking a finger with a lancet and applying a drop of blood on the test strip. The test strip is then inserted into the device, which provides a reading of the glucose levels in the blood. Test strips are supplied by the glucometer manufacturer and are generally device-specific, although generic test strips are also available. There are currently more than 100 types of blood glucometers commercially available, and they differentiate based on size and weight, cost, data storage capacity, test accuracy, blood sample size and screen visibility (users with poor eyesight may prefer larger screens).

Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Continuous glucose monitoring is invasive and involves the insertion of a glucose biosensor into the subcutaneous tissue layer or the hypodermis. The biosensor, which measures glucose levels in interstitial fluid, is attached to a transmitter that sends signals to either an insulin pump or a portable meter. These devices are generally worn for about two weeks and some require regular calibration through conventional blood glucose detection about twice a day. Continuous glucose monitoring can track a patients’ glucose throughout the day and night, notifying the patient of highs and lows so the person can act. Subcutaneous glucose levels change more slowly than plasma glucose, which can be a restriction to their effectiveness, particularly if glucose levels are changing rapidly. Subcutaneous glucose levels have a time lag compared to blood glucose measurements, and measurements may not always match blood glucose. Continuous glucose monitoring is commonly used in conjunction with continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion, or “CSII,” which involves a patient wearing an insulin pump and infusion set that infuses insulin into the body. Although pumps are currently manually controlled by the patient, continuous glucose monitoring combined with CSII could potentially be used as part of a closed-loop. CSII is generally restricted to Type 1 diabetics, where the need for ongoing insulin infusion is highest. Continuous glucose monitoring is mainly used in a limited proportion of diabetics, particularly those concerned about severe, nocturnal hypoglycemia, pregnant women who require meticulous glucose control or those who may not be able to easily administer a self-monitoring test (e.g., those living in remote or hostile environments). However, continuous glucose monitoring is more expensive than traditional self-monitoring of blood glucose and in many cases is not eligible for reimbursement.  

9Diabetes Atlas Factsheet 2021, available at: https://diabetesatlas.org/idfawp/resource-files/2021/11/IDF-Atlas-Factsheet-2021_WP.pdf

10 Diabetes Atlas, IDF Diabetes Atlas 10th Edition 2021, available at: https://diabetesatlas.org/idfawp/resource-files/2021/07/IDF_Atlas_10th_Edition_2021.pdf

The Digital Healthcare Industry

Across the APAC Region, many countries and territories are experiencing an aging population combined with healthcare infrastructures that have struggled to keep up with the pace of socioeconomic change. This creates a significant opportunity to enhance efficiency through digital innovation.

The broad scope of digital health includes categories such as mobile health (mHealth), health information technology, wearable devices, telehealth and telemedicine, and personalized healthcare. Providers and other stakeholders are using digital health in their efforts to reduce inefficiencies, improve access, reduce cost, increase quality, and make medicine more personalized for patients.

This growth in digital healthcare is expected to be driven in large part by solutions to address current inefficiencies and unmet needs in the APAC Region healthcare systems for diabetes sufferers. The promise of digital health – also termed “connected health” – in this context is to allow for remote diagnosis and monitoring; facilitate self-managed care; deliver care outside traditional settings, with better access at lower cost; and assist chronic disease management to improve population health outcomes.

Intellectual Property

Our biosensor business dependsis dependent on the proprietary biosensor technologies licensed by ustechnology we license from the Licensor. The Licensor has secured andLSBD. LSBD continues to pursue intellectual property rights related to this technology in China, the United States and other countries. LBSD has developed a patent portfolio that includes the following patents:

Official NumberStatusJurisdiction
9,766,199GrantedUnited States
ZL201380022888.2GrantedChina
AU2016/050555FiledAustralia

 

The original patent application, which claims a priority date of March 2012, has been granted in the United States (9,766,199) and China (ZL201380022888.2). A second international patent application (PCT/AU2016/050555) claiming iterations tofor a different iteration of the device design has been filed with a priority date of June 2016 and will soon enter national phaseis granted in certain jurisdictions,the United States (10,978,653) and Australia (2016412541). A third patent application for a further iteration of the device has been filed with a priority date of 15 May 2018. Further patents may yet be issued based on all three applications.

The Chinese and the United States patents belong to the same patent applicationsfamily and relate to the same invention. The United States and Australian patents originating with the second application are in preparation. similarly of the same patent family and relate to the same invention. The exact wording of the patent claims varies between countries.

The patents protect the following technological claims of the SGB: the architecture of a biofunctional organic thin film transistor device comprising a gate electrode, a dielectric layer, a partially-organicpartially organic semiconducting layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a substrate and an enzyme; the method for producing the organic thin film transistor device; and methods of using the method for determining the concentrationdevice to detect glucose levels. A similar device with no dielectric layer. Further devices including a porous wicking layer to facilitate onset of a compound in a sample by interpreting the amperometric signals generated by the device. The Chinese and the United States patent belong to the same patent family, originating from the Australian patent. As such, all of the patents relate to identical technology claims.device function.

 

We believe that the Licensor intends to aggressively prosecuteis responsible for prosecuting these patent applications and file further applications, as appropriate, to protect the proprietary biosensor technologies, including improvements thereon, in the United States as well as in the APAC Region, and to take any necessary action to maintain and enforce its patent and other intellectual property rights. There can be no assurance, however, that the Licensor will take such actions, and under the License Agreement, we have no right to compel them to do so. If the Licensor elects not to protect or enforce its intellectual property rights, we would be permitted take action to protect or enforce these rights in the APAC Region, but any such action would be at our cost and expense.

 

We intend to vigorously protect our intellectual property rights in any technologies owned by us through patents and copyrights, as available through registration in the United States and internationally. We also will rely upon trade secrets, know-how, and continuing technological innovation to develop and maintain our competitive position. We intend to protect any of our proprietary rights through a variety of methods, including confidentiality agreements and/or proprietary information agreements with suppliers, employees, consultants, independent contractors and other entities who may have access to proprietary information. We will generally require employees to assign patents and other intellectual property to us as a condition of employment with us. All of our consulting agreements will pre-emptively assign to us all new and improved intellectual property that arise during the term of the agreement. In addition, we may license additional technologies from the Licensor or third parties. Prior to any further acquisition or licensing of technology from a third party, we will evaluate the existing proprietary rights, our ability to obtain and protect these rights, and the likelihood or possibility of infringement upon competing rights of others.

The issuance of a patent does not ensure that it is valid or enforceable. The term of individual patents depends upon the legal term of the patents in the countries in which they are obtained. In most countries in which we file, the patent term is 20 years from the earliest date of filing a non-provisional patent application. In the United States, a patent’s term may be shortened if a patent is terminally disclaimed over another patent or as a result of delays in patent prosecution by the patentee, and a patent’s term may be lengthened by patent term adjustment, which compensates a patentee for administrative delays by the United States Patent and Trademark Office in granting a patent.

 

We conduct our business using the licensed trademark “Glucose Biosensor” and our logo, as well as domain names incorporating either or both of these trademarks. Our trademarks are not registered. We own the domain name glucosebiosensor.comCompetition.

Competition

The medical device industry is highly competitive, subject to rapid change, and significantly affected by new product introductions and other activities of industry participants. We face potential competition from major medical device companies worldwide, many of which have longer, more established operating histories and significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, sales, distribution, and other resources. Our overall competitive position is dependentdepends upon a number ofseveral factors, including product performance and reliability, connectivity, manufacturing cost, and customer support.

The glucose monitoring industry currently is dominated by blood glucometers that require pricking a finger with a lancet and applying a drop of blood on a test strip. Our major competitors for glucose testing solutions include Bayer, Abbott, and Roche. If approved, we believe that the SGT will compete favorably with our competitors’ products in terms of:

Safety, ease of use and utility: Unlike our competitors’ products, the SGT is non-invasive. It provides a simple, pain-free method for testing glucose levels, and avoids the risk of infection that accompanies blood glucose monitoring systems that require a finger prick.

Cost: Based on our knowledge of the glucose monitoring industry, and our projections of the cost of manufacturing the SGB as discussed elsewhere in this prospectus, we believe the cost of testing using the SGT will be comparable to the cost of testing using currently commercialized glucose monitoring systems.

Data collection and analysis: We anticipate that the non-invasive nature of saliva-based glucose testing will make patients more amenable to glucose monitoring, thus increasing the number of times a patient tests per day. With more data, we expect our digital information system to provide more valuable analysis than our competitors could produce. Furthermore, we are not aware of any competitor that currently offers a comparable information system.

For more information, see “—The Glucose Monitoring Industry” above.Government Regulation

 

Government Regulation

We operate in a highly regulated industry. Our presentcurrent and future business has been and will continue to be, subject to a variety of laws globally regarding quality, safety and efficacy, and governing, among other things, clinical evaluations, marketing authorization, commercial sales and distribution of our products.

Internationally, various regulatory bodies monitor and supervise the administration of pharmaceutical products as well asand medical devices and equipment. Their primary responsibilities include evaluating, registering and approving new drugs, generic drugs and imported drugs; approving and issuing permits for the manufacture, export and import of pharmaceutical products and medical appliances; approving the establishment of enterprises for pharmaceutical manufacture and distribution; formulating administrative rules and policies concerning the supervision and administration of food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals; and handling significant accidents involving these products. See “Business — Product Development — Next Steps” for a discussion of the regulatory approval process.

 

We also will be subject to numerous post-marketing regulatory requirements, which may include labeling regulations and medical device reporting regulations, and which may require us to report to different regulatory agencies if our device causes or contributes to a death or serious injury or malfunctions in a way that would likely cause or contribute to a death or serious injury. We may be subject to further regulations in the areas ofregarding import and export restrictions, and tariff regulations, and duties and tax requirements. In addition, theseThese regulatory requirements may change in the future.

Employees

 

In the past, we have utilized for our benefit certain employees of the Licensor, our controlling stockholder.Licensor. We have not incurred or accrued any financial or other obligations other than certainparticular shared corporate overheadoverheads as required in connection with this utilization. We have reimbursed the Licensor for any costs the Licensor incurs on our behalf.

 

Recently, in anticipation of product commercialization, we have expanded our team. We currently have seven full time15 full-time employees in Australia and two part-time employees.2 in the United States. Our subsidiary, IFP, has 34 employees in the United Kingdom. We alsofurther rely on the services of contractors, collaborators and consultants. We have assembled an outstanding team of 14 people, including our 9 employees, our scientific advisory board, contractors, collaborators, consultants, and personnel at the University of Newcastle through(through a collaboration with the institution,institution), to execute on our mission to create next generation non-invasive diagnostic tools to help patients suffering with diabetes. From time to time, we also contract for various administrativedeliver pain-free, accessible medical devices and other services from our controlling stockholder,solutions that drive transformative change and improve the Licensor, as required. Our employees, including our management, have extensive experience in the research, development and commercializationquality of life science assets and are leaders in their respective fields.life.

 

Our team, including our employees, contractors, and collaborators, comprises multiple cross-functional units, including strategy, project management, technical engineering, globalmanufacturing and supply chain, and quality assurance, management, legal and compliance, regulatory affairs, medicalclinical affairs, design verification, clinical,product management & marketing, systemsystems engineering, and architect, human resources, IT, investor relations, and finance. We believe ourOur team collectively possesses industry leadingpossess the experience and capabilities and positions us to build a strong life sciencerobust medical technology company focused on developing next generationthat develops next-generation non-invasive diagnostic tools for the tens of millions of diabetes patients worldwide.medical devices and solutions.

 

Facilities

 

Our company currently operates out of three strategically located facilities, which cater to different aspects of our business:

Sydney, Australia:We leaserent an office/warehouse space of approximately 30 square meters of2080 Sq foot. Our office/warehouse facility serves three fundamental purposes. First, it provides a dedicated office space for our administrative staff, who are responsible for managing and overseeing IBS Inc. operations. Second, the facility houses our new Australian sales and marketing team, offering them both office and warehouse space. Third, the location functions as a distribution hub for expanding sales across the Asia-Pacific market, optimizing our logistics and reach in the region.

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Cambridge, England: We rent a multifunctional facility in the UK consisting of approximately 11,500 Sqft, which is integral to our global operations. It houses office space, a warehouse, research and development (R&D), and manufacturing capabilities, catering to the UK market and our global supply needs. Currently, our manufacturing facility can produce up to 90,000 cartridges per month. Our production rate stands at our headquartersapproximately 12,000 cartridges per month, providing ample room for growth in the coming years.

New York NY underCity, United States: We have a monthly lease and approximately 1,000 square meterssmall, shared office space in Sydney, Australia under a sublease. We believe that we will need additional space in New York subsequentthat accommodates our two US employees, fostering closer collaboration and communication. This location provides a focal point for our global operations and solidifies our presence and commitment to the capital raise to facilitate our planned expansion.US market.

 

We have no immediate plans to upgrade or expand our facilities, given that they are currently adequately meeting our needs. However, we are open to establishing permanent offices for regional heads as required in the future, ensuring that we are well-positioned to adapt and grow as our business evolves.

Legal Proceedings

 

We are currently not a party to any pending legal proceeding, nor is our property the subject of a pending legal proceeding that we believe is not ordinary routine litigation incidental to our business or otherwise material to the financial condition of our business.

 

Periodic Reporting and Audited Financial StatementsAccess to Information

 

Our website is www.ibs.inc.We are registering the securities offered by this prospectus undermake available, free of charge, on our investor website, www.investors.ibs.inc, our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and will have reporting obligations, including the requirement to file annual and quarterly reports with the SEC, following this offering. In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, our annual reports will contain financial statements audited and reported on by an independent registered public accounting firm.

MANAGEMENT

All directors hold office for one-year terms until the election and qualification of their successors. Officers are appointed by our Board of Directors and serve at the discretion of our Board of Directors, subject to applicable employment agreements. The following table sets forth information regarding our executive officers and the members of Board of Directors(the “Exchange Act”), as of the date of this prospectus.

NameAgePosition(s)
Prof. Steven Boyages63 Chairman of the Board
Harry Simeonidis52Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
Spiro Sakiris58Chief Financial Officer
Dr. George Margelis59Director
Dr. Tom Parmakellis52Director
Prof. Jonathan Sessler64Director
Victoria Gavrilenko38Director
Jonathan S. Hurd50 Director
Leon Kempler68Director
Christopher Towers34Director
Lawrence Fisher82Director

Executive Officers

Harry Simeonidis

Mr. Simeonidis has been our President and a member of our Board of Directors since September 2017. Effective January 1, 2020, Mr. Simeonidis has committedsoon as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Simeonidis has more than 25 years of experience in senior management roles in healthcare, pharmaceutical and life sciences businesses across the APAC Region. Previously, he has been the General Manager of FarmaForce Limited, an Australian company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. FarmaForce is a contract sales organization serving the Australian pharmaceutical industry. FarmaForce is majority-owned by The iQ Group Global Ltd, which owns a majority of the Licensor. The iQ Group Global Ltd is an Australian life sciences organization that provides intellectual property asset management services and scientific advice to the biopharmaceutical industry. From April 2015 to March 2017, Mr. Simeonidis operated a private consulting firm, offering services predominantly to clients from the healthcare sector in Australia. From 2013 to April 2015, Mr. Simeonidis was General Manager of Surgery, Asia Pacific, at GE Healthcare. From 2003 to 2012, Mr. Simeonidis was the CEO for Australia and New Zealand at GE Healthcare.

We believe Mr. Simeonidis is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his extensive experience in the Asia Pacific healthcare industry and his widespread relationships in the healthcare and medical device communities.

Spiro Sakiris, B.Bus, Dip Law, CA

Mr. Sakiris has been our Chief Financial Officer since April 2019. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accounts of Australia & New Zealand. He also has served as the Special Projects Lead at The iQ Group Global since January 2018, and as a registered Series 28 principal with IQ Capital (USA) LLC, a registered broker-dealer with FINRA, since November 2016. Mr. Sakiris will devote substantially all his business time to our operations, and we expect that he will provide services to The iQ Group Global and IQ Capital (USA) LLC only if they do not interfere with his responsibilities to us. From 2013 to December 2017, Mr. Sakiris served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for listed entities at The iQ Group Global. He worked at Economos Chartered Accountants from 1986 to 2013, which included 23 years as a partner where he was instrumental in the development of the firm’s practice. During his 32 years of experience, Mr. Sakiris has been involved in advising businesses in the areas of accounting and taxation, business advisory, initial public offerings and capital raising, business risks identification and management and business systems designs across many industries, including the application of IFRS and U.S. GAAP for the life science industry. Mr. Sakiris is also well versed in dealings with companies based in overseas jurisdictions such as Asia, Europe and the United States. He is also a registered company auditor experienced in United States reporting under Public Company Accounting Oversight Board in the United States and a registered tax agent in Australia.

Board of Directors

Our business is managed under the direction of our Board of Directors. Our Board of Directors currently consists of Professors Boyages & Sessler, Messrs. Hurd, Towers, Fisher and Simeonidis, Ms. Gavrilenko, Drs. Margelis, Parmakellis and Kempler.

Steven Boyages MB BS PhD

Dr. Steven Boyages is a practicing clinician in endocrinology with more than 30 years’ experience in medicine, including multiple executive positions. Dr. Boyages previously held the position of Chief Executive of the Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS), which is now known as Western Sydney Local Health District. Covering a population of 1.2 million people, SWAHS employed more than 15,000 staff and had a gross operating budget of $2 billion, managing $1.6 billion worth of assets. Dr. Boyages has also served as Medical Director for eHealth New South Wales, and was the foundation Chief Executive of the Clinical Education and Training Institute (CETI) New South Wales, Australia, set up to ensure the development and the delivery of clinical education and training across the NSW public health system. Previous to this, Dr. Boyages was the Director of Diabetes and Endocrinology at Westmead Hospital, from 1990 to 1999. During this time, Dr. Boyages’ major achievements were to define the pathophysiology of thyroid hormone deficiency on brain development secondary to iodine deficiency; to develop prevention strategies in iodine deficient communities in China, India, Indonesia and Northern Italy; to define the impact of Growth Hormone excess and deficiency in adults and to develop innovative population health models of care for people with diabetes. Dr. Boyages continues an active research career in a range of fields, but mostly in the pursuit of better models of chronic disease prevention and management. Following this position, Dr. Boyages was the foundation director of the Centre for Research and Clinical Policy in NSW Health in 1999, during which he established the Priority Health Programs (receiving $15 million in funding per annum), doubled the Research Infrastructure Grants Program, established the Quality Branch of NSW Health and was appointed as Clinical Advisor to the Director General to implement the Government Action Plan for Health Reform. Additionally, Dr. Boyages was instrumental in establishing and securing funding for the NSW biotechnology strategy, BioFirst, a $150 million investment.

We believe that Dr. Boyages is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his medical expertise and research and development experience.

George Margelis, MB BS, M.Optom.

Dr. Margelis has been a member of our Board of Directors since June 2019. He is a medical practitioner who has been deeply involved in technology for the last 30 years. In 2019, he was appointed independent chair of the Aged Care Industry Information Technology Council in Australia. Since November 2013, he also has been a board member and the medical advisor of Multicultural Care, an aged care provider in Sydney. In June 2013, he was appointed an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Western Sydney with the TeleHealth Research & Innovation Laboratory. From July 2013 to August 2018, he served as a member of Ignition Labs, a start-up incubator in the health space, where he acted as a mentor and adviser to selected start-ups, assisting them in developing their initial products and taking a small initial investment. From 2005 to 2011, he was Health Industry Lead ANZ at Intel, and then General Manager Asia-Pacific at Intel-GE Innovations as it spun off in 2011. In 2014, he returned to Intel serving as its Health & Life Sciences Lead until 2016. During this time he also acted as senior adviser to HIMSS, the international peak body for health technology, and as Asia Pacific chair of the Continua Alliance, an industry consortium for developing interoperability standards for health technology products that was later renamed the Personal Connected Health Alliance. From 2002 to 2005, he was Chief Information Officer of Macquarie Health Corporation, a private hospital group, and also managed an innovative software development team at Macquarie that produced a number of online health applications. In 2014 he was appointed to the IT in Aged Care Hall of Fame for his work in the use of technology in aged care. Dr. Margelis originally trained as an optometrist with a Master’s degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia and later graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery.

We believe that Dr. Margelis is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his medical expertise and his extensive experience with information technology systems in the healthcare sector.

Tom Parmakellis, M.D.

Dr. Parmakellis has been a member of our Board of Directors since July 2019. He has been a Family Physician since 1994 and a Cosmetic Physician since 1996. Dr. Parmakellis started his early career at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. He has a wealth of experience gained over the last 25 years as a medical practitioner, including 10 years as a rural medical practitioner where timely diagnosis and point of care testing is of essence. Dr. Parmakellis has a wealth of business experience running and organizing both his family practice and cosmetic practice. He also has business interests and experience in negotiating exclusive distribution rights for internationally recognized medical lasers into the Australian market.  Dr. Parmakellis introduced Laser Hair removal into the Australian market in 1996 and founded Lookfresh Cosmetic Medicine in 2009. In September 2017, Dr. Parmakellis founded SkinLift Ultherapy which offers Ultherapy, a non-surgical face lift. Dr. Parmakellis holds a MBBS from the University of Sydney. Dr. Parmakellis is a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) and a fellow of the Cosmetic Physicians College Australasia (FCPCA). He also trains and educates Australian Registered Medical Practitioners in the Cosmetic Medical Field.

We believe that Dr. Parmakellis is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his medical expertise and his extensive experience in providing medical services.

Jonathan Sessler, Ph.D.

Prof. Sessler has been a member of the Board of Directors since November 2019. As a chemistry scientist, Prof. Sessler is well known for his ground-breaking work on expanded porphyrins and their applications to biology and medicine. Obtaining a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry with Highest Honors from The University of California, Berkeley, Prof. Sessler went on to complete his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at Stanford University in 1982. Since 1984, Prof. Sessler has been a Professor of Chemistry at The University of Texas Austin, one of the world’s leading basic and applied research facilities, and currently holds The Doherty-Welch Chair. He has received many awards and recognitions throughout his career. In 1991 he co-founded Pharmacyclics, a pharmaceutical research company previously listed on Nasdaq.

We believe that Prof. Sessler is well qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his expertise in chemistry and experience with public companies.

Victoria Gavrilenko

Ms. Gavrilenko has been a member of our Board of Directors since July 2018. She also has served as our Operations Manager since July 2018. From July 2016 until August 2018, Ms. Gavrilenko was the Office Manager at the New York City offices of IQ Capital, which is an affiliate of ours. iQ Capital, a member of The iQ Group Global, is an investment banking business at its initial development stage. It is dedicated to the healthcare sector with services including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt advisory and strategic advisory. From July 2014 until June 2016, Ms. Gavrilenko was a real estate agent at Centric New York, a boutique agency. From 2010 to 2013 she was an executive assistant to the Chief Executive Officer at John Carris Investments, LLC, a boutique investment banking firm providing financial advisory services. From 2007 to 2009, Ms. Gavrilenko was an executive assistant and contractor liaison at Southern California Steel Inc., a steel fabricator.

We believe Ms. Gavrilenko is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to her operational experience.

Jonathan S. Hurd

Mr. Hurd has been a member of our Board of Directors since April 2018. He previously served as our Chairman of the Board from August 2018 to November 2019. Mr. Hurd has expertise in broker-dealer and investment advisory regulations and is well versed in FINRA and SEC rules and regulations. Mr. Hurd has served as Founder and CEO at Asgard Regulatory Group, or “Asgard,” since founding the firm in 2008. Asgard provides broker-dealer and investment adviser compliance consulting services to clients both domestically and abroad. Prior to starting Asgard, Mr. Hurd was the Chief Compliance Officer for several financial institutions. His experience involved full-service broker-dealers, investment advisory firms, bank-broker-dealers and mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Hurd also served on the Board of Directors for many of these companies. Prior to working at these financial institutions, Mr. Hurd was a Supervisor of Examiners at FINRA, previously NASD, in the New York District Office. While with FINRA, he supervised routine examinations of FINRA member firms, and conducted large-scale enforcement cases jointly with the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigations. Mr. Hurd also assisted the District Office with its ongoing training of new examiners. In addition, from 2005 to 2011, Mr. Hurd was a Senior Adjunct Professor in the Townsend School of Business at Dowling College, where he instructed MBA students in matters relating to the United States securities markets and financial institutions. He was responsible for introducing students to the subjects of financial derivatives, foreign stock exchange, hedge transactions and risk management. Mr. Hurd is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and holds the Series 7, 24, 27, 53, 57, 63, 66, 79 and 99 licenses as well as his NYS Life and Health Insurance licenses.

We believe Mr. Hurd is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his substantial experience in corporate finance, his expertise in the regulation and functioning of securities markets and his widespread relationships in the financial industry.

Leon Kempler, AM

Mr. Kempler has been a member of our Board of Directors since October 2019. His business career involved large scale projects in the IT, communication and software industry involving large tier one companies in Australia. For more than five years, he has owned and managed a portfolio of investment companies that invest in property and the stock market. He also holds several honorary roles, including: Chairman of the advisory council of the National Science and Technology Centre – Questacon since 2003; National Chairman of the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce since 1987; and Director of Wonderment Walk Victoria, International, and Chairman and Director of ADSone Group Pty Ltd. In 1998, Mr. Kempler received a Medal of the Order of Australia from the Governor General of his tireless efforts and contribution for furthering Australia-Israel bi-lateral trade and relations. In 2018, Mr. Kempler was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia, or “AM,” from the Governor General for his significant services to the community through contributions to national cultural institutions, charitable, education and children’s medical foundations. Mr. Kempler holds an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Deakin University and fellowships from Monash University, Technion Institute of Science and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

We believe that Mr. Kempler is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his extensive experience as a business leader and his reputation in the Asia Pacific business community.

Christopher Towers  BSc CPA

A Certified Public Accountant with 12 years’ experience in auditing, accounting, and financial reporting in previous roles held at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Pall Corporation, Mr. Towers chairs the Audit Committee for GBS Inc. Christopher Towers is EVP, Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Financial Officer of Newtek Business Services Corp (NASDAQ:NEWT). His expertise includes auditing, SEC reporting, US GAAP, experience in leading equity & debt raisings, due diligence on business mergers & acquisitions, SOX compliance, FP&A, treasury, and tax. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Hofstra University and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

We believe that Mr. Towers is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his extensive experience and expertise in in financial reporting to capital markets and an understanding of compliance and the audit process.

Lawrence Fisher

A securities lawyer in New York City for more than 40 years, Lawrence is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia University Law School, and a Research Fellow of the London School of Economics. Lawrence has extensive experience representing public companies and investment banking firms in connection with Initial Public Offerings. During his career, Lawrence was a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe law firm for 11 years and at Kelley, Drye & Warren law firm for 10 years, and Parker, Chapin & Flattau, serving on all firms’ Executive Committees. Lawrence has held various Board positions, including Financial Federal Corporation (NYSE), National Bank of New York City and Viking Energy Group.

We believe that Mr. Fisher is well-qualified to serve on our Board of Directors due to his extensive experience as a lawyer in the field of capital markets and will assist with understanding the legal and compliance issues pertaining to publicly listed companies.

Scientific Advisory Board

We have assembled a scientific advisory board with expertise in biology for medical applications. The members of our scientific advisory board have made significant scientific contributions in their individual fields. Members of our scientific advisory board provide strategic advice to us in fields pertinent to the SGT and applicable technology and perform such other services as may be mutually determined by us and the scientific advisory board member. Our scientific advisory board will meet on an as-needed basis, based on our need for advice in their fields of expertise from time to time. We have not entered into agreements with the members of our scientific advisory board, andreasonably practicable after they are under no obligation to devote any specific amount of time or effort to our business. We have not established any compensation arrangements for the members of our scientific advisory committee.

Paul Dastoor, Ph.D., Professor in Physics

Dr. Dastoor is a Professor in Physics in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and the director of the Centre for Organic Electronics at the University of Newcastle in Australia. He received his B.A. degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge in 1990 and his Ph.D. in Surface Physics, also from the University of Cambridge, in 1995. After completing his doctorate, he joined the Surface Chemistry Department at British Steel in 1994 before taking up his present appointment at the University of Newcastle in 1995. He was an EPSRC Visiting Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK in 2002 and a Centre for the Central Laboratory Research Councils Visiting Research Fellow at the Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire, UK from 2004 to 2005. His expertise covers surface analysis, electron spectroscopy, thin film growth, organic electronics, organosilane chemistry, polymer films, atom beam optics and microscopy and medical devices. His research can be grouped in three main areas: (1) Helium Atom Microscopy, (2) Polymer Adsorption on Metal Surfaces and (3) Organic Electronic Devices. Helium Atom Microscopy Atomic scattering from surfaces has matured into a unique analytical technique for the study of formation of thin film structures.

Family Relationships

There are no family relationships between any of our directors or executive officers.

Harry Simeonidis has attended to the Company’s business on a full-time basis since January 1, 2020 as Chief Executive Officer and President. Neither the Company nor Mr. Simeonidis anticipate any conflictelectronically filed with his time or responsibilities to the Company from his Non-Executive Directorship at FarmaForce Ltd. given that the nature of the business activities of FarmaForce Ltd. does not conflict with that of the Company.

Director Independence

Our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Hurd, Mr. Kempler, Dr. Margelis, Dr. Parmakellis, Mr. Towers, Mr. Fisher and Professors Boyages and Sessler would each be considered an “independent director” under the Nasdaq listing rules, which is defined generally as a person other than an executive officer or employee of ours who does not have a relationship that, in the opinion of our Board of Directors, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director. Our independent directors together constitute a majority of our full Board of Directors. Our independent directors will have regularly scheduled meetings at which only independent directors are present.

Board Leadership Structure and Role in Risk Oversight

Our Board of Directors recognizes that one of its key responsibilities is to evaluate and determine its optimal leadership structure so as to provide effective oversight of management. Our amended and restated by-laws and corporate governance guidelines will provide our Board of Directors with flexibility to combine or separate the positions of chairperson of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer.

Although management is responsible for the day to day management of the risks we face, our Board of Directors and its committees will take an active role in overseeing management of our risks and have the ultimate responsibility for the oversight of risk management. The Board of Directors will regularly review information regarding our operational, financial, legal and strategic risks. Specifically, senior management will attend periodic meetings of the Board of Directors, provides presentations on operations including significant risks, and will be available to address any questions or concerns raised by our Board of Directors.

In addition, we expect that committees will assist the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities regarding risk. The Audit Committee will coordinate the Board of Directors’ oversight of our internal control over financial reporting, disclosure controls and procedures, related party transactions and code of conduct and corporate governance guidelines and management will regularly report to the Audit Committee on these areas. The Compensation Committee will assist the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities with respect to the management of risks arising from our compensation policies and programs. When any of the committees receives a report related to material risk oversight, the chairperson of the relevant committee will report on the discussion to the full Board of Directors.

While we have decided not to seek an exemption as a “controlled company” from the corporate governance rules of the NASDAQ Global Market, and therefore will be bound by the same corporate governance principles as other public companies, our decision not to rely on the “controlled company” exemption could change. Although we do not anticipate changing our decision, for so long as a majority of our outstanding common stock is held by the Licensor (or by any other stockholder or group of stockholders), we could choose to rely on this exemption in the future to avoid complying with certain of the NASDAQ Global Market corporate governance rules, including the rules that require us to have a board comprised of at least 50% independent directors, to have board nominations either selected, or recommended for the board’s selection, by either a nominating committee comprised solely of independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors and to have officer compensation determined, or recommended to the board for determination, either by a compensation committee comprised solely of independent directors or by a majority of the independent directors. Any decision to rely on the “controlled company” exemption will be disclosed in our annual proxy statement.

Board Committees

Prior to the closing of this offering, our Board of Directors will have three standing committees: an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating Committee. Each of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee will have a written charter, which will be available on our corporate website.

Audit Committee

We have established an Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, which consists of Mr. Fisher, Mr. Towers and Dr. Parmakellis, each of whom is an independent director under the Nasdaq listing standards applicable to audit committees. Our Audit Committee oversees our corporate accounting, financial reporting practices and the audits of financial statements. The Audit Committee’s duties, which are specified in the Audit Committee charter, include, but not be limited to:

reviewing and discussing with management and the independent auditor the annual audited financial statements, and recommending to the Board of Directors whether the audited financial statements should be included in our Form 10-K;
discussing with management and the independent auditor significant financial reporting issues and judgments made in connection with the preparation of our financial statements;
discussing with management major risk assessment and risk management policies;
monitoring the independence of the independent auditor;
verifying the rotation of the lead (or coordinating) audit partner having primary responsibility for the audit and the audit partner responsible for reviewing the audit as required by law;
reviewing and approving all related-party transactions;
inquiring and discussing with management our compliance with applicable laws and regulations;
pre-approving all audit services and permitted non-audit services to be performed by our independent auditor, including the fees and terms of the services to be performed;
appointing or replacing the independent auditor;
determining the compensation and oversight of the work of the independent auditor (including resolution of disagreements between management and the independent auditor regarding financial reporting) for the purpose of preparing or issuing an audit report or related work; and
establishing procedures for the receipt, retention and treatment of complaints received by us regarding accounting, internal accounting controls or reports which raise material issues regarding our financial statements or accounting policies.

Audit Committee Financial Expert

Compensation Committee

We have established a Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors which consists of Mr. Hurd, Dr. Margelis, and Dr. Parmakellis, each of whom is an independent director under the NASDAQ Stock Market listing standards applicable to compensation committees. The Compensation Committee’s duties, which are specified in our Compensation Committee charter, include, but are not limited to:

reviewing and approving on an annual basis the corporate goals and objectives relevant to our principal executive officer’s compensation, evaluating our principal executive officer’s performance in light of such goals and objectives and determining and approving the remuneration (if any) of our principal executive officer based on such evaluation;
reviewing and approving the compensation of all of our other executive officers;
reviewing our executive compensation policies and plans;
implementing and administering our incentive compensation equity-based remuneration plans;
assisting management in complying with our proxy statement and annual report disclosure requirements;
approving all special perquisites, special cash payments and other special compensation and benefit arrangements for our executive officers and employees;
if required, producing a report on executive compensation to be included in our annual proxy statement; and
reviewing, evaluating and recommending changes, if appropriate, to the remuneration for directors.

The charter will also provide that the Compensation Committee may, in its sole discretion, retain or obtain the advice of a compensation consultant, legal counsel or other adviser and will be directly responsible for the appointment, compensation and oversight of the work of any such adviser. However, before engaging or receiving advice from a compensation consultant, external legal counsel or any other adviser, the Compensation Committee will consider the independence of each such adviser, including the factors required by the NASDAQ Stock Market and the SEC.

Nominating Committee

We have established a Nominating Committee of the Board of Directors, which will consist of Mr. Hurd, Dr. Margelis and Dr. Parmakellis, each of whom is an independent director under the NASDAQ Stock Market listing standards applicable to nominating committees. The Nominating Committee is responsible for overseeing the selection of persons to be nominated to serve on our Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee considers persons identified by its members, management, stockholders, investment bankers and others.

Guidelines for Selecting Director Nominees

The guidelines for selecting nominees, generally provide that persons to be nominated:

should have demonstrated notable or significant achievements in business, education or public service;
should possess the requisite intelligence, education and experience to make a significant contribution to the Board of Directors and bring a range of skills, diverse perspectives and backgrounds to its deliberations; and
should have the highest ethical standards, a strong sense of professionalism and intense dedication to serving the interests of the stockholders.

The Nominating Committee will consider a number of qualifications relating to management and leadership experience, background and integrity and professionalism in evaluating a person’s candidacy for membership on the Board of Directors. The Nominating Committee may require certain skills or attributes, such as financial or accounting experience, to meet specific board needs that arise from time to time and will also consider the overall experience and makeup of its members to obtain a broad and diverse mix of board members. Though the nominating committee does not have specific guidelines on diversity, it is one of many criteria considered by the nominating committee when evaluating candidates. The Nominating Committee does not distinguish among nominees recommended by stockholders and other persons.

Code of Ethics

Prior to the closing of this offering, we will adopt a written code of business conduct and ethics that will apply to our directors, officers and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer and principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. The full text of our code of business conduct and ethics will be posted on our corporate website and is filed as an exhibit to this registration statement. We intend to disclose future amendments to certain provisions of our code of business conduct and ethics, or waivers of these provisions, on our corporate website or in filings under the Exchange Act.

Limitation of Directors Liability and Indemnification

The Delaware General Corporation Law authorizes corporations to limit or eliminate, subject to certain conditions, the personal liability of directors to corporations and their stockholders for monetary damages for breach of their fiduciary duties. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will limit the liability of our directors to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law.

We propose to purchase director and officer liability insurance to cover liabilities our directors and officers may incur in connection with their services to us, including matters arising under the Securities Act. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and by-laws also will provide that we will indemnify our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by Delaware law. Our amended and restated by-laws will further provide that we will indemnify any other person whom we have the power to indemnify under Delaware law. In addition, we intend to enter into customary indemnification agreements with each of our officers and directors.

There is no pending litigation or proceeding involving any of our directors, officers, employees or agents in which indemnification will be required or permitted. We are not aware of any threatened litigation or proceedings that may result in a claim for such indemnification.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, executive officers or persons controlling us, we have been informed that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in(“SEC”). The SEC maintains an internet site that contains reports, proxy and information statements and other information regarding issuers that file electronically with the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

Director Compensation

To date, none of our non-employee directors have been paid any amount as compensation for servingSEC at www.sec.gov. Information on our Board of Directors. Upon the closingwebsite does not, and shall not be deemed to, constitute part of this offering,Annual Report on Form 10-K. Our reference to the URL for our non-employee directors willwebsite is intended to be entitled to cash fees of $30,000 (plus $10,000 each for the Chairman of the Board and Financial Expert/Chair of the Audit Committee) in cash per year of service on our Board of Directors. Service rendered on any of the committees of the Board do not entitle our non-employee directors to any additional compensation.

We may in the future make equity grants to our non-employee directors, although we presently have established a plan or other arrangement to do so. Ms. Gavrilenko, who is an employee of ours, commenced receiving a salary of $45,000 in cash per year for her services as our Operations Manager in July 2018. Ms. Gavrilenko also is eligible to receive benefits available generally to our employees.

The following table sets forth compensation paid to each director who is not a named executive officer (as described below) and who served during the period ended June 30, 2020.

Name Fees Earned or Paid in Cash ($)  All Other Compensation ($)  Total ($) 
Victoria Gavrilenko     45,000(1)  45,000 

(1)Consists of salary paid to Ms. Gavrilenko for her services as our Operations Manager. 

EXECUTIVE COMPENSATIONinactive textual reference only.

During the period from our inception to June 30, 2018, we did not pay any compensation to our executive officers. Since the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, certain of our executive officers commenced receiving compensation from us.

Summary Compensation Table

The following table sets forth information regarding compensation awarded to, earned by or paid to our named executive officers during the fiscal year ended June 30, 2020. Our named executive officers for such fiscal year were Harry Simeonidis, our President, Dr. Jean-Claude Becker, our former Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, and Spiro Sakiris, our Chief Financial Officer.

 

Name and Principal Position

 

 

Salary ($)

  All Other Compensation ($)  

 

Total ($)

 

Harry Simeonidis

Chief Executive Officer and President

  157,487   49,296(1)(2)  206,785 

Dr. Jean-Claude Becker

Former Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President

  62,500      62,500(3)

Spiro Sakiris

Chief Financial Officer

  194,706   31,925(1)(4)  226,631 

(1)Includes contributions that are mandatory in Australia to a retirement fund, known in Australia as a superannuation fund, for each of Mr. Simeonidis and Mr. Sakiris, currently at the rate of 9.5% of salary and wages.
(2)Includes director fees paid to Mr. Simeonidis ($26,278). Commencing on July 1, 2019, Mr. Simeonidis began earning an annual salary of $102,000, in addition to annual directors’ fees of $30,000. From January 2020, the annual salary was increased to $220,998, after he assumed full time role of Chief Executive Officer and President
(3)Amounts paid to Dr. Becker are invoiced as consultant fees and are grouped in general and administrative expenses in our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.
(4)Includes monthly automobile allowances totaling ($13,428) paid to Mr. Sakiris.

Employment and Related Agreements

During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, we entered into an employment agreement with each of Messrs. Simeonidis and Sakiris. Mr. Simeonidis’ and Mr. Sakiris’ employment agreements provide for them to serve as President and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, of our majority-owned subsidiary, and in accordance with their agreements, we require them to serve as our President and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, without any additional compensation.

Dr. Becker served as our Chief Operating Officer pursuant to an offer letter from us, until his employment with us ended in November 2019. Dr. Becker has continued to serve on our Board of Directors until he resigned on 23 June 2020.

 

Messrs. Simeonidis and SakirisIFP Acquisition

 

Since his appointment as full time Chief Executive Officer / PresidentOn October 4, 2022, the Company acquired Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (IFP), a company registered in England and Wales. In connection with the IFP Acquisition, on October 4, 2022, the Company entered into a Share Exchange Agreement with IFP, the holders of all of the company effective January 1stissued shares in the capital of IFP (the IFP Sellers) and the IFP Sellers’ representatives named therein.

Pursuant to the terms of the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company, among other things, acquired from the IFP Sellers all of the issued shares in the capital of IFP, and as consideration therefor the Company issued to the IFP Sellers upon closing of the IFP Acquisition an aggregate of (i) 148,155 shares of the Company’s common stock (the Common Stock Consideration), 2020, Mr. Simeonidisand (ii) 2,363,003 shares of the Company’s Series C Convertible Preferred Stock.

An additional 1,649,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock were reserved for potential future issuance by the Company, consisting of (i) 500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, that are being held back from the IFP Sellers for one year after the IFP Closing to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against the IFP Sellers (the Closing Holdback Shares) and (ii) 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock (the Lender Preferred Shares) underlying Convertible Debt payable to the IFP Lenders.

When initially issued in connection with the IFP Acquisition and prior to the Reverse Stock Split, each share of Series C Preferred Stock was convertible into three shares of common stock, subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events (such as Reverse Stock Split) and contingent upon approval by the Company’s stockholders. As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, each share of Series C Preferred Stock is currently receivesconvertible into 0.15 shares of common stock (subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events).

Also pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company: (i) had an obligation to provide IFP with cash in an amount such that IFP was able to pay cash payments to certain of its then-current and former United Kingdom and United States-based employees and directors, in aggregate amounts of £239,707 and $83,043, respectively, plus any applicable employer’s National Insurance contributions, (ii) agreed to make available to the IFP Employees a Company stock option plan in form and substance satisfactory to the Company in relation to up to 50,000 shares of common stock following the IFP Closing on the basis that an equal number of Company stock options will be granted to the IFP Employees and Company employees; and (iii) was required to file a proxy statement in connection with holding an annual salaryor special meeting of $220,998. Mr. Sakiris receives a current annual salarythe Company’s stockholders in order to seek stockholder approval of $199,027. These are(a) the conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock into common stock in accordance with their employment agreements with GBS Pty Ltd.

the Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series C Certificate of Designation”) and (b) any amendments to, or adoption of, any option or warrant plans to give effect to the transactions contemplated under the Share Exchange Agreement (collectively, the “Company Stockholder Approval Matters”).

 

In addition, eachOn May 8, 2023, at a special meeting of Mr. Simeonidis and Mr. Sakiris is eligible to receive an annual bonusthe Company’s stockholders (the “Special Meeting”), the last of up to 20%the remaining Company Stockholder Approval Matters were approved when the Company’s stockholders approved the full conversion of his gross base salary, of which 50% will be based on meeting company objectives and the remainder will be based on meeting mutually agreed employee objections or as otherwise determined by the company. We also make certain contributions that are mandatory in Australia to a retirement fund for each of Mr. Simeonidis and Mr. Sakiris, known in Australia as a superannuation fund, currently at the rate of 9.5% of salary and wages. We will provide an annual automobile allowance to Mr. Sakiris of $13,726all Series C Preferred Stock and an annual car allowance to Mr. Simeonidis of $16,471.

Mr. Simeonidis also receives annual directors’ fees of $28,861.

Mr. Simeonidis’ employment agreement is terminable on three months’ notice and Mr. Sakiris’ employment agreement – on one month’s notice either by our subsidiary or by the executive upon one months’ notice. However, we may terminate either executive without notice if he engagesincrease in serious or willful misconduct, is seriously negligent in the performance of his duties, commits a serious or persistent breach of his employment agreement, brings our company into disrepute or is convicted of a criminal offense.

Each employment agreement contains provisions protecting our confidential information and intellectual property. Each employment agreement also contains provisions restricting each executive’s ability to compete with us during his employment and for a period of up to six months thereafter in a specified geographic region. The non-compete provisions will generally impose restrictions on inducing our employees to leave our employment or soliciting clients of our company. Pursuant to each employment agreement, each executive must devote all of his time, attention and skill to the performance of his duties, and neither executive may engage in any other business outside The iQ Group Global without our prior written consent.

Dr. Becker

Dr. Becker’s employment contract expired and accordingly he resigned from all positions with the Company effective June 23rd 2020.

Superannuation Fund

As required by Australian law, we contribute to standard defined contribution superannuation funds on behalf of all our Australian employees at an amount required by law, currently 9.50% of each such employee’s salary. Superannuation is a compulsory savings program whereby employers are required to pay a portion of an employee’s remuneration to an approved superannuation fund that the employee is typically not able to access until they are retired. We permit employees to choose an approved and registered superannuation fund into which the contributions are paid.

2019 Equity Incentive Plan

Prior to the closing of this offering, we intend to adopt the 2019 Plan, which will become effective as of the date we complete this offering. The 2019 Plan will be approved by our controlling stockholder.

The purpose of the 2019 Plan is to enable us to offer our employees, officers, directors and consultants whose past, present and/or potential future contributions to us have been, are, or will be important to our success, an opportunity to acquire a proprietary interest in us. The various types of incentive awards that may be provided under the plan are intended to enable us to respond to changes in compensation practices, tax laws, accounting regulations and the size and diversity of our business.

Administration

The 2019 Plan is administered by the Board of Directors or by a committee of the Board. In this summary, references to the “committee” are to the committee administering the plan or, if no such committee is designated, the Board of Directors. The committee will be comprised solely of “non-employee” directors, as defined in Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, as amended. Upon the closing of this offering, the 2019 Plan will be administered by the Compensation Committee. Subject to the provisions of the plan, the committee determines, among other things, the persons to whom from time to time awards may be granted, the specific type of awards to be granted, the number of shares subject to each award, share prices, any restrictions or limitations on the awards, and any vesting, exchange, surrender, cancellation, acceleration, termination, exercise or forfeiture provisions related to the awards.

Stock Subject to the 2019 Plan

Assuming the 2019 Plan Proposal is approved, 500,000 shares of our common stock will be availableauthorized for issuance under the 2019 Plan. Subsequently, effective as of May 10, 2023, all 3,512,277 shares of outstanding Series C Preferred Stock (which included the 1,149,273 Lender Preferred Shares, but not the 500,000 Closing Holdback Shares (which are not deemed outstanding)) were converted into an aggregate of stock subject526,818 shares of common stock.

The 500,000 Closing Holdback Shares (consisting of Series C Preferred Stock) are being held back from issuance to other awards thatthe IFP Sellers for one year after the IFP Closing in order to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against the IFP Sellers. These Closing Holdback Shares, which are forfeited or terminated will be available for future award grants under the 2019 Plan. If a holder pays the exercise price of a stock option by surrendering any previously ownednot deemed outstanding, are currently convertible into approximately 75,000 shares of common stock or arranges(subject to haverounding for fractional shares). For additional information regarding the appropriate numberconversion of shares otherwise issuable upon exercise withheld to cover the exercise price or tax withholding liability associatedconvertible debt into Series C Preferred Stock and the conversion of Series C Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

Concurrently with the stock option exercise,IFP Acquisition, the shares surrendered byCompany and the holder or withheld by us will not be available for future award grants underIFP Sellers entered into two registration rights agreements (the “IFP Registration Rights Agreements”) granting the plan.

Under the 2019 Plan, in the event of a change in the number of shares of our common stock as a result of a dividend on shares of common stock payable in shares of common stock, common stock forward split or reverse split or other extraordinary or unusual event that results in a change inIFP Sellers customary registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock as a whole,and the committee shall determine whether such change equitably requires an adjustment in the terms of any award in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of the benefits available under the plan or the aggregate number of shares reserved for issuance under the plan.

Eligibility

We may grant awards under the 2019 Plan to employees, officers, directors, and consultants of us or our subsidiaries or affiliates who are deemed to have rendered, or to be able to render, significant services to us or our subsidiaries or affiliates and who are deemed to have contributed, or to have the potential to contribute, to our success. An incentive stock option may be granted under the plan only to a person who, at the time of the grant, is an employee of ours or our subsidiaries. Based on the current number of employees and consultants of ours and on the current size of the Board of Directors, we estimate that approximately 16 individuals are eligible for awards under the 2019 Plan.

Types of Awards

Options. The 2019 Plan provides both for “incentive” stock options as defined in Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the “Code,” and for options not qualifying as incentive options, both of which may be granted with any other stock based award under the plan. The committee determines the exercise price per share of common stock purchasable under an incentive or non-qualified stock option, which may not be less than 100% ofunderlying the fair market value onSeries C Preferred Stock issued to the day of the grant or, if greater, the par value of a share of common stock. However, the exercise price of an incentive stock option granted to a person possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock may not be less than 110% of the fair market value on the date of grant. The aggregate fair market value of all shares of common stock with respect to which incentive stock options are exercisable by a participant for the first time during any calendar year (under all of our plans), measured at the date of the grant, may not exceed $100,000.

An incentive stock option may only be granted within 10 years from the effective date of the 2019 Plan. An incentive stock option may only be exercised within ten years from the date of the grant, or within five years in the case of an incentive stock option granted to a person who, at the time of the grant, owns common stock possessing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of our stock.

Subject to any limitations or conditions the committee may impose, stock options may be exercised, in whole or in part, at any time during the term of the stock option by giving written notice of exercise to us specifying the number of shares of common stock to be purchased. The notice must be accompanied by payment in full of the purchase price, either in cash or, if provided in the agreement, in our securities or in a combination of the two.

Generally, stock options granted under the plan may not be transferred other than by will orIFP Sellers by the laws of descent and distribution and all stock options are exercisable, during the holder’s lifetime, only by the holder, or in the event of legal incapacity or incompetency, the holder’s guardian or legal representative. However, a holder, with the approval of the committee, may transfer a non-qualified stock option by gift to a family member of the holder or by domestic relations order to a family member of the holder or may transfer a non-qualified stock option to an entity in which more than 50% of the voting interests are owned by family members of the holder or the holder.

Generally, if the holder is an employee, no stock options granted under the plan may be exercised by the holder unless he or she is employed by us or one of our subsidiaries or affiliates at the time of the exercise and has been so employed continuously from the time the stock options were granted. However, in the event the holder’s employment is terminated due to disability or normal retirement, the holder may still exercise his or her vested stock options for a period of 12 months, or such other greater or lesser period as the committee may determine, from the date of termination or until the expiration of the stated term of the stock option, whichever period is shorter. Similarly, should a holder die while employed by us or one of our subsidiaries or affiliates, his or her legal representative or legatee under his or her will may exercise the decedent holder’s vested stock options for a period of 12 months from the date of his or her death, or such other greater or lesser period as the Board or committee may determine, or until the expiration of the stated term of the stock option, whichever period is shorter. If the holder’s employment is terminated for any reason other than death, disability or normal retirement, the stock option will automatically terminate, except that if the holder’s employment is terminated by us without cause, then the portion of any stock option that is vested on the date of termination may be exercised for the lesser of three months after termination of employment, or such other greater or lesser period as the committee may determine but not beyond the balance of the stock option’s term.

Stock Appreciation Rights. Under the 2019 Plan, we may grant stock appreciation rights to participants who have been, or are being, granted stock options under the plan as a means of allowing the participants to exercise their stock options without the need to pay the exercise price in cash, or we may grant them alone and unrelated to an option. In conjunction with non-qualified stock options, stock appreciation rights may be granted either at or after the time of the grant of the non-qualified stock options. In conjunction with incentive stock options, stock appreciation rights may be granted only at the time of the grant of the incentive stock options. A stock appreciation right entitles the holder to receive a number of shares of common stock having a fair market value equal to the excess fair market value of one share of common stock over the exercise price of the related stock option, multiplied by the number of shares subject to the stock appreciation rights. The granting of a stock appreciation right in tandem with a stock option will not affect the number of shares of common stock available for awards under the plan. In such event, the number of shares available for awards under the plan will, however, be reduced by the number of shares of common stock acquirable upon exercise of the stock option to which the stock appreciation right relates.

Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units. Under the 2019 Plan, we may award shares of restricted stock and restricted stock units. Restricted stock units are the right to receive at a future date shares of common stock, or an amount in cash or other consideration determined by the committee to be of equal value as of such settlement date, in accordance with the terms of such grant. The committee determines the persons to whom grants of restricted stock or restricted stock units are made, the number of shares to be awarded, the price (if any) to be paid for the restricted stock or restricted stock units by the person receiving the stock from us, the time or times within which awards of restricted stock or restricted stock units may be subject to forfeiture, the vesting schedule and rights to acceleration thereof, and all other terms and conditions of the awards. Restrictions or conditions could also include, but are not limited to, the attainment of performance goals.

The 2019 Plan requires that all shares of restricted stock awarded to the holder remain in our physical custody until the restrictions have terminated and all vesting requirements with respect to the restricted stock have been fulfilled. We will retain custody of all dividends and distributions made or declared with respect to the restricted stock during the restriction period. A breach of any restriction regarding the restricted stock will cause a forfeiture of the restricted stock and any retained dividends and distributions. Except for the foregoing restrictions, the holder will, even during the restriction period, have all of the rights of a stockholder, including the right to vote the shares.

A holder of restricted stock units will have no rights of a stockholder with respect to shares subject to any restricted stock unit award unless and until the shares are delivered in settlement of the award, except to the extent the committee provides for the right to receive dividend equivalents.

Other Stock-Based Awards. Under the 2019 Plan, we may grant other stock-based awards, subject to limitations under applicable law that are denominated or payable in, valued in whole or in part by reference to, or otherwise based on, or related to, shares of common stock, as deemed consistent with the purposes of the plan. These other stock-based awards may be in the form of purchase rights, shares of common stock awarded that are not subject to any restrictions or conditions, convertible or exchangeable debentures or other rights convertible into shares of common stock and awards valued by reference to the value of securities of, or the performance of, one of us or one of our subsidiaries. These other stock-based awards may include performance shares or options, whose award is tied to specific performance criteria. These other stock-based awards may be awarded either alone, in addition to, or in tandem with any other awards under the 2019 Plan or any of our other plans.

Accelerated Vesting and Exercisability

If any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires the ownership of our stock that, together with the stock held by such person or group, constitutes more than 50% of the total fair market value or combined voting power of our stock, and the Board of Directors does not authorize or otherwise approve such acquisition, then the vesting periods of any and all stock options and other awards granted and outstanding under the 2019 Plan shall be accelerated and all such stock options and awards will immediately and entirely vest, and the respective holders thereof will have the immediate right to purchase and/or receive any and all common stock subject to such stock options and awards on the terms set forth in the plan and the respective agreements respecting such stock options and awards, and all performance goals will be deemed achieved at 100% of target levels. An increase in the percentage of stock owned by any one person, or persons acting as a group, as a result of a transaction in which we acquire our stock in exchange for property is not treated as an acquisition of stock.

In the event of an acquisition by any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, together with acquisitions during the 12-month period ending on the date of the most recent acquisition by such person or persons, of assets from us that have a total gross fair market value equal to or more than 50% of the total gross fair market value of all of our assets immediately before such acquisition or acquisitions, or if any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires the ownership of our stock that, together with the stock held by such person or group, constitutes more than 50% of the total fair market value or combined voting power of our stock, which has been approved by the Board of Directors, the committee may (i) accelerate the vesting of any and all stock options and other awards granted and outstanding under the 2019 Plan, (ii) require a holder of any award granted under the plan to relinquish such award to us upon the tender by us to the holder of cash in an amount equal to the repurchase value of such award, and/or (iii) terminate all incomplete performance periods in respect of awards in effect on the date the acquisition occurs, determine the extent to which performance goals have been met based upon such information then available as it deems relevant and cause to be paid all or the applicable portion of the award based upon the committee’s determination. For this purpose, gross fair market value means the value of our assets, or the value of the assets being disposed of, determined without regard to any liabilities associated with such assets.

Notwithstanding any provisions of the 2019 Plan or any award granted thereunder to the contrary, no acceleration shall occur with respect to any award to the extent such acceleration would cause the plan or an award granted thereunder to fail to comply with Section 409A of the Code.

Other Limitations

The committee may not modify or amend any outstanding option or stock appreciation right to reduce the exercise price of such option or stock appreciation right, as applicable, below the exercise price as of the date of grant of such option or stock appreciation right. In addition, no option or stock appreciation right with a lower exercise price may be granted in exchange for, orCompany in connection with the cancellation or surrender of an option or stock appreciation right or other awardIFP Acquisition. On June 6, 2023, the Company filed a registration statement on Form S-1, which was subsequently amended on June 21, 2023 (File No. 333-272463) (the “June Resale Registration Statement”), in connection with a higher exercise price. Non-employee directors may not be granted any awards covering more than 20,000 shares of common stock in any calendar year.

Withholding Taxes

When an award is first included in the gross income of the holder for federal income tax purposes, the holder will be required to make arrangements regarding the payment of all federal, state and local withholding tax requirements, including by settlement of such amount in shares of our common stock. Ourfulfilling its obligations under the 2019 Plan are contingentIFP Registration Rights Agreements. The June Resale Registration Statement was declared effective on such arrangements being made.June 27, 2023.

 

Term and Amendments

Unless terminated byFor additional information regarding the Board, the 2019 Plan shall continue to remain effective until no further awards may be granted and all awards granted under the plan are no longer outstanding. Notwithstanding the foregoing, grants of incentive stock options may be made only until ten years from the initial effective date of the plan. The Board may at any time, and from time to time, amend the plan or any award agreement, but no amendment will be made that would impair the rights of a holder under any agreementagreements entered into pursuantin connection with the IFP Acquisition, see “Certain Relationships And Related Party Transactions - Agreements Related to the plan without the holder’s consent.IFP Acquisition.”

 

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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERSBENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

 

The following table sets forth certain information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of July [●], 2023 by: (i) each director; (ii) each of our named executive officers; (iii) all executive officers and directors of the dateCompany as a group; and (iv) all those known by us to be beneficial owners of this prospectus by:more than five percent of our common stock.

 

each person known by us to be the beneficial owner of more than 5% of our outstanding shares of common stock;
each of our named executive officers and directors; and
all our executive officers and directors as a group.

This table is based upon information supplied by officers and directors as well as Schedules 13D or 13G filed with the SEC by beneficial owners of more than five percent of our common stock. Unless otherwise indicated in the footnotes to this table and subject to community property laws, where applicable, we believe that each of the stockholders named in this table has sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares indicated as beneficially owned.

 

Applicable percentages are based on 2,330,399 shares of our common stock outstanding on July 10, 2023. Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the SEC, and includeswhich generally attribute beneficial ownership of securities to persons who possess sole or shared voting power or investment power with respect to those securities and includes shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to the securities. Except asexercise of stock options, warrants, or other securities that are immediately exercisable or convertible or exercisable or convertible within 60 days of July [●], 2023. Unless otherwise indicated, each personthe persons or entity namedentities identified in thethis table hashave sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of our capital shown as beneficially owned subject to applicable community property laws.

In computing the number and percentage of shares beneficially owned by a person, shares that may be acquired by such person within 60 days of the date of this prospectus are countedthem. Except as outstanding, although such shares are not counted as outstanding for computing the percentage ownership of any other person. The percentage of shares beneficially owned before the offering is computed on the basis of 5,630,000 shares of our common stock outstanding immediately prior to the date of this prospectus. The percentage of shares beneficially owned after the offering assumes the representative does not exercise the option to purchase additional shares to cover over-allotments, but assumes the automatic conversion at the closing of this offering of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock into 2,810,190shares of common stock and the automatic conversion at the closing of this offering of the convertible notes issued by our majority-owned subsidiary into 710,548 shares of common stock (assuming a public offering price in this offering of $17.00 and based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020). Unless otherwise indicated,set forth below, the address of each person listed belowthe beneficial owner is c/o GBSIntelligent Bio Solutions Inc., 708 Third Ave, 6th142 West, 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10017.NY 10019.

 

Name of Beneficial Owner Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned  Percent of Common Stock Beneficially Owned Prior to Offering  Percent of Common Stock Beneficially Owned After to Offering 
Executive officers and directors:            
Dr. Steven Boyages  0   0%  0%
Harry Simeonidis  600   *   * 
Spiro Sakiris(1)  3,300(1)  

*

   

*

 
Jonathan S. Hurd  0   0%  0%
Victoria Gavrilenko  0   0%  0%
Leon Kempler  0   0%  0%
Dr. George Margelis  0   0%  0%
Dr. Tom Parmakellis  0   0%  0%
Prof. Jonathan Sessler  0   0%  0%
Christopher Towers  0   0%  0%
Lawrence Fisher  0   0%  0%
All Executive Officers and Directors as a group (11 persons)  3,900   *   * 
Five percent holders:            
Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd(2)  8,551,400   

73.53

%  

52.76

%
Anson Investments Master Fund LP(3)  854,370   9.9%  9.9%
Name of Beneficial Owner Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned  Percent of Common Stock Beneficially Owned+ 
Executive officers and directors:        
Dr. Steven Boyages(1)  3,750   * 
Lawrence Fisher(2)  750   * 
Jonathan S. Hurd(3)  750   * 
Jason Isenberg  0   0%
David Jenkins  0   0%
Spiro Sakiris(5)  11,134   * 
Harry Simeonidis(6)  4,030   * 
Christopher Towers(7)  790   * 
All Executive Officers and Directors as a group (8 persons)  21,204   * 
         
5% Stock Holders        
Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics(8)  150,000   6.05%
Lind Global Fund II LP(9)  193,050   8.28%
Ionic Ventures, LLC(10)  193,050   8.28%
The Gary W. Rollins Foundation(11)  190,489   8.17%
The Ma-Ran Foundation(11)  213,265   9.15%

 

*Less than 1%.
(1)Consists of 3,750 shares of common stock.
(1)(2)

Mr. Sakiris owns (i) 300Consists of 750 shares of our common stock and (ii) Series A Convertible Preferred Stock that will convert into 3,000stock.

(3)Consists of 750 shares of our common stock upon completionstock.
(4)Consists of this offering. The number750 shares of common stock.
(5)Consists of (i) 8,510 shares of common stock, beneficially ownedof which 3,765 are held directly by Mr. Sakiris does not include 3,000and 4,745 shares are held indirectly by Anest Holdings Pty Ltd (“Anest Holdings”); (ii) currently exercisable Series A Warrants held by Anest Holdings to purchase 74 shares of ourthe common stock; (iii) 150 shares of common stock that will be issuable upon exercise of the pre-IPO warrants held by Anest Holdings during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the consummation of this offering upon the exercise ofDecember 2020 IPO; and (iv) currently exercisable Series D warrants held by Anest Holdings to purchase 2,400 Shares of common stock. Anest Holdings is the trustee of ATF S&T Sakiris Superannuation Fund, of which Mr. Sakiris.

Sakiris is a director.
(6)Consists of 4,030 shares of common stock.
(2)(7)

Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, which is referred to in this prospectus as the “Licensor,” is an Australian company that is 81% owned by The iQ Group Global Ltd, which is a public Australian company that is 24% beneficially owned by Dr. George Syrmalis,. The remainderConsists of the outstanding790 shares of The iQ Group Global Ltd are publicly-owned and traded on the National Stock Exchange of Australia. In addition, Dr. Syrmalis is the Chief Executive Officer and one of three members of the Board of Directors of The iQ Group Global Ltd, along with Con Tsigounis and Peter Simpson. Dr. Syrmalis and Messrs. Tsigounis and Simpson may be deemed to share voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares of our common stock held by the Licensor.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, Dr. Syrmalis and Messrs. Tsigounis and Simpson disclaim beneficial ownership over the common stock owned by the Licensor. Dr. Syrmalis is an Australian citizen and resident having an address at Level 9, 85 Castlereagh Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Includes shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon exercisestock.

(8)Consists of 5-year non-transferablenon-transferrable warrant to purchase 3,000,000150,000 common shares of the Company’s common stock at the exercise price equalof $340 per share, expiring December 31, 2025. The principal business address of Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd is Level 9, 85 Castlereagh St Sydney, 2000, NSW Australia.
(9)Based on information provided in the Schedule 13G filed by Lind Global Fund II LP, Lind Global Partners II LLC and Jeff Easton on March 10, 2023, and other information known by the Company, including as a result of the exercise of warrants. Consists of 193,050 shares of common stock. Lind Global Partners II LLC, the general partner of Lind Global Fund II LP, may be deemed to have sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the IPO per unit price.

shares held by Lind Global Fund II LP. Jeff Easton, the managing member of Lind Global Partners II LLC, may be deemed to have sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares held by Lind Global Fund II LP. The principal business address of Lind Global Fund II LP, Lind Global Partners II LLC and Jeff Easton is 444 Madison Ave, Floor 41, New York, NY 10022.
(10)Based on information provided in the Schedule 13G filed by Ionic Ventures, LLC (“Iconic”), Brendan O’Neil and Keith Coulston, on March 13, 2023, and other information known by the Company, including as a result of the exercise of warrants. Consists of 193,050 shares of common stock. Ionic has the power to dispose of and the power to vote the Shares beneficially owned by it, which power may be exercised by its managers, Mr. O’Neil and Mr. Coulston. Mr. O’Neil and Mr. Coulston, as managers of Ionic, have shared power to vote and/or dispose of the Shares beneficially owned by Ionic. Neither Mr. O’Neil nor Mr. Coulston directly owns any common stock of the Company. By reason of the provisions of Rule 13d-3 of the Act, each of Mr. O’Neil and Mr. Coulston may be deemed to beneficially own the Shares beneficially owned by Ionic. The principal business address of Iconic, Mr. O’Neil and Mr. Coulston is 142 West, 57th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10019.
(3)(11)Represents

Pursuant to Schedule 13D jointly filed by Gary W. Rollins , Gary W. Rollins Foundation (the “GWRF”), and The Ma-Ran Foundation (the “MRF”) on June 1, 2023 (the “Rollins 13D”). The principal business address of the GWRF, MRF and each co-trustee is 1908 Cliff Valley Way NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30329. The GWRF is a private charitable trust. Gary W. Rollins is a co-trustee of the GWRF and holds de facto voting and investment power over shares held by GWRF. Mr. Rollins disclaims any beneficial interest in the shares held by GWRF. The Rollins 13D, provides that GWRF holds 190,489 of the Company’s common stock. In addition, the Rollins 13D provides that GWRF is entitled to 16,156 shares of common stock issuable upon conversionrelease of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock,Closing Holdback Shares, subject to 9.99% limitation on beneficial ownership. Anson Investments Master Fund LP holds 2,250,000 sharesthe terms and conditions of the Company’s common stock,Share Exchange Agreement. The MRF is a private charitable trust with four co-trustees, Pamela R. Rollins, Amy R. Kreisler, Timothy C. Rollins and Anson East Master Fund LPMargaret H. Rollins, and voting or investment decision requires approval of a majority of the co-trustees. The Rollins 13D provides that MRF holds 750,000213,265 shares of the Company’s common stock. Anson Advisors Inc. and Anson Funds Management LP,In addition, the Co-Investment AdvisersRollins 13D provides that MRF is entitled to 19,615 shares of Anson Investments Master Fund LP (“Anson Investments”), hold voting and dispositive power overcommon stock upon release of the CommonClosing Holdback Shares, held by Anson Investments. Bruce Winson is the managing member of Anson Management GP LLC, which is the general partner of Anson Funds Management LP. Moez Kassam and Amin Nathoo are directors of Anson Advisors Inc. Mr. Winson, Mr. Kassam and Mr. Nathoo each disclaim beneficial ownership of these securities exceptsubject to the extentterms and conditions of their pecuniary interest therein. The principal business address of Anson Investments is Walkers Corporate Limited, Cayman Corporate Centre, 27 Hospital Road, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9008, Cayman Islands. Anson Advisors Inc. and Anson Funds Management LP, the Co-Investment Advisers of Anson East Master Fund LP (“Anson East”), hold voting and dispositive power over the Common Shares held by Anson East. Bruce Winson is the managing member of Anson Management GP LLC, which is the general partner of Anson Funds Management LP. Moez Kassam and Amin Nathoo are directors of Anson Advisors Inc. Mr. Winson, Mr. Kassam and Mr. Nathoo each disclaim beneficial ownership of these securities except to the extent of their pecuniary interest therein. The principal business address of Anson East is Walkers Corporate Limited, Cayman Corporate Centre, 27 Hospital Road, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-9008, Cayman Islands.Share Exchange Agreement.

 

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Transactions with Affiliates

Set forth below is a description of all material transactions, or series of similar transactions, including proposed transactions, to which we were, are or will be a party, in which the amount involved exceeds the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets at year-end for the last two completed fiscal years, and in which any director or executive officer, or any security holder who is known by us to own of record or beneficially more than 5% of any class of our common stock, or any member of the immediate family of any of the foregoing persons, has an interest (other than compensation to our executive officers and directors in the ordinary course of business).

We are a 99.1%-owned subsidiary of the Licensor From time to time, we have entered into transactions with the Licensor that have not been negotiated, arranged or otherwise implemented on an arms-length basis. These transactions include in particular the License Agreement and the employee sharing arrangements whereby we have not engaged its own exclusive employees. Nonetheless, since inception all transactions (if any) between us and our officers or directors have been on terms no less favorable than could be obtained from unaffiliated third parties and were unanimously approved by our directors.

We license the SGT for the APAC Region pursuant to the License Agreement with the Licensor. For a detailed description of the License Agreement and considerations relating thereto, see “Business – License Agreement” and “Risk Factors.” The License Agreement requires, among other material provisions, that commencing after the receipt of regulatory approval in a jurisdiction, we will pay the Licensor a Minimum Royalty with respect to such jurisdiction for each year, in four equal quarterly installments. The Minimum Royalty will be 13% of the projected net sales in such jurisdiction for each such year. The projected net sales will be an amount mutually agreed between us and the Licensor for the first such year. For each ensuing year after the first year, the projected net sales will be the number of Licensed Products sold in the prior year, as adjusted for the expected market growth and, for each year through the tenth year, as increased by up to an additional 7%. In the event of a dispute between us and the Licensor regarding the determination of the expected market growth or the additional growth percentage, the License Agreement provides for resolution by an independent third party. At the end of each quarter, if the quarterly installment of the Minimum Royalty is less than the Actual Royalty (13% of the actual net sales of Licensed Products for such quarter) in such jurisdiction, we will pay Licensor the difference between the quarterly installment of the Minimum Royalty and the Actual Royalty. The royalty fee rate will be reduced from 13% to 3% upon the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the License Agreement. Under the employee sharing arrangements, which have not been pursuant to any written agreement, the Licensor has allocated a portion of its general office expenses, rent and wages to us based on our percentage usage of the Licensor’s office and personnel resources. We have relied upon these arrangements as it has been more cost-effective than acquiring dedicated office space and personnel that would not have been fully utilized. From August 5, 2016 to September 30, 2020, we incurred to the Licensor a total of $8,537,629 (inclusive of Deemed Dividend referred to below) under a prior license agreement for this technology in relation to development of the technology, $3,478,570 in relation to overhead and general administration expenses and $6,324,806 in relation to research and development and regulatory approval in relation to the development and approval process for the Glucose Biosensor Technology. As a result of the Company expanding its geographic coverage of its license to include the Asia Pacific Region (APAC), the Company allotted 147,029 Convertible Preference Shares to external shareholders who had a prior interest in this region. Accordingly, as part of this transaction the Company was required to classify $976,308 of expenditure incurred by Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd as a deemed divided under FASB ASC 805. As of September 30, 2020, we had outstanding $328,890 as a trade creditor’s liability to the Licensor in relation to the above costs.

The two shareholders of the Licensor, The iQ Group Global Ltd and iQX Limited, have committed to provide sufficient financial assistance to us as and when it is needed for us to continue our operations until September 2021. This financial assistance includes refraining from seeking repayment of any intercompany loans or balances due from us except to the extent funds become available. We expect that any loans or deferrals of amounts due in connection with this financial assistance will be made on an interest free basis. As of September 30, 2020, no amounts were outstanding pursuant to the financial assistance commitments. The iQ Group Global Ltd and iQX Limited also have committed to purchase, from time to time, up to $9,300,000 in shares of our common stock, at a purchase price equal to the greater of the public offering price in this offering and the market price at the time of the investment, in order to allow us to continue to meet the stockholders’ equity requirements of the NASDAQ Stock Market until the second anniversary of this offering.

Until the completion and termination of the agreement on December 23, 2019, we were party to a master services agreement, or the “MSA Agreement,” with IQ3Corp Limited, or “IQ3,” which is considered an affiliate of ours by virtue of having certain common management personnel with The iQ Group Global Ltd. The MSA Agreement set forth certain basic terms and provisions applicable to services to be provided by IQ3 to us pursuant to specific pre-IPO related service acquisition orders to be entered into by the parties from time to time. Prior to the completion and termination of the MSA Agreement, pursuant to a November 2016 order under the agreement for various advisory services, we incurred a total of $3,937,047 in fees and expenses to IQ3, all of which are fully paid as of the date hereof, and no further amounts or services remain outstanding. IQ3 may participate in the selling syndicate for the IPO. If this occurs, IQ3 will negotiate terms of engagement directly with the Book Running Manager as would other syndicate members. In August 2017, we entered into a three-year Medical Affairs Services Agreement, or the “MAS Agreement,” with Clinical Research Corporation (referred to as “CRC”), which is an affiliate of ours by virtue of being under common control of The iQ Group Global Ltd. The MAS Agreement provides certain master terms pursuant to which CRC would be engaged in the future by us from time to time to perform certain medical affairs services on our behalf. The master terms include minimum professional indemnity insurance, liability insurance and products liability insurance that will be required and indemnification by us of CRC, except where liability has resulted solely from the negligence or willful misconduct of CRC. The MAS Agreement does not set forth specified projects, services or costs in connection therewith, but provides general parameters pursuant to which such specific projects, services and costs would be detailed in the future as procured. All of the specific projects, services, costs and related performance details will be set forth from time to time in one or more “statements of works.” We have not entered into nor have any plans to enter into any material statements of works with CRC as of the date hereof.

As of the date hereof, we have sold to various investors a total of 2,810,190 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, including 3,000 shares to Spiro Sakiris, our Chief Financial Officer, which will automatically convert into 2,810,190 shares of our common stock upon listing. As of the date hereof, there are outstanding warrants to purchase 2,736,675 shares of our common stock issued in connection with the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, including warrants to purchase 3,000 shares held by Mr. Sakiris, having an exercise price equal to 100% of the public offering price in this offering, which warrants are exercisable only during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the closing of this offering.

On November 24, 2018, we issued 260,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $1,950,000 in debt held by the Licensor, by issuing a further 260,000 in shares of common stock to the Licensor.

On June 30, 2020, we issued 120,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $900,000 in debt held by the Licensor, resulting in 8,630,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. Share and per share amounts set forth herein (except in any historical financial information) give effect to the issue, unless indicated otherwise.

On December 14, 2020, the Company and Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd., the Company’s parent company (“LSBD”), agreed to cancel the previously agreed share repurchase transaction dated as of December 7, 2020, under which LSBD was to exchange a total of 3,800,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for a 3-year non-transferrable warrant to purchase 1,900,000 shares of the Company’s shares of common stock. Effective as of the same date, the Company agreed to issue to LSBD, in consideration of LSBD’s contribution towards the research and development of applications other than glucose and COVID-19 applications to a maximum of $2 million over a 5-year period, a 5-year non-transferable warrant to purchase 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at the exercise price equal to the IPO per unit price.

On December 18, 2020, the Company entered into an Exchange Agreement (the “EA”) with LSBD to exchange 3,000,000 shares of its common stock held by LSBD for 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. In addition, the parties to the Exchange Agreement entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “RRA”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to prepare and file within 30 days following the closing of the IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission a registration statement to register for resale the shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. If and to the extent the Company fails to, among other things, file such resale registration statement or have it declared as required under the terms of the RRA, the Company will be required to pay to the holder of such registration rights partial liquidated damages payable in cash in the amount equal to the product of 1.0% multiplied by the aggregate purchase price paid by such holder pursuant to the EA. The EA and the RRA contain customary representations, warranties, agreements and, indemnification rights and obligations of the parties. The foregoing descriptions of the such agreements are qualified in their entirety by reference to the full text of the EA and the RRA, copies of which are filed as exhibits to this filing.

On December 18, 2020, LSBD entered into a certain Purchase and Assignment Agreement (the “PAA”) with an institutional accredited investor (the “Purchaser”) pursuant to which LSBD sold and assigned to the Purchaser 3,000,000 shares of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and assigned to the Purchaser its rights under the EA and the RRA with respect to the such preferred shares for a total purchase price of $2,000,000. The investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, subject to beneficial ownership limitation. The price per share of the 3,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is $0.67. Such investor has indicated its interest in being the lead investor and in purchasing $6,000,000 of our securities in this offering. If and to the extent such investor participates in this offering, such investor’s average price per share will be significantly lower than that to be paid by other investors in this offering.

IQ3Corp Limited, an affiliate of the Company by virtue of having certain common management personnel with The iQ Group Global Ltd. and a holder of the an Australian Financial Services License, may participate in the underwriting syndicate in connection with this offering to “sophisticated persons” located in Australia within the meaning of s 708(8) of the Australian Corporations Act, 2001.

Related Party Transactions - PoliciesGeneral

 

Our codeCode of ethics will requireEthics requires that we avoid, wherever possible, all related party transactions that could result in actual or potential conflicts of interests, except under guidelines approved by the Board of Directors.Board. Related party transactions are defined under SEC rules as transactions in which (1) the aggregate amount involved will or may be expected to exceed the lesser of $120,000 or one percent of the average of our total assets for the last two completed fiscal years, (2) we or any of our subsidiaries is a participant, and (3) any (a) executive officer, director or nominee for election as a director, (b) greater than 5% beneficial owner of our shares of common stock, or (c) immediate family member, of the persons referred to in clauses (a) and (b), has or will have a direct or indirect material interest (other than solely as a result of being a director or a less than 10% beneficial owner of another entity) (collectively, “Related Party Transactions”). Employment arrangements and compensation, including director compensation, generally do not fall within the definition of Related Party Transaction. A conflict of interestconflict-of-interest situation can arise when a person takes actions or has interests that may make it difficult to perform his or her work objectively and effectively. Conflicts of interest may also arise if a person, or a member of his or her family, receives improper personal benefits as a result of his or her position.

 

Policies and Procedures for Related Party Transactions

All future and ongoing related party transactionsRelated Party Transactions (as defined under SEC rules) will require prior review and approval by the Audit Committee, which will have access, at our expense, to our attorneys or independent legal counsel. We will not enter into any such transaction without the approval of the Audit Committee. The Audit Committee will consider all relevant factors when determining whether to approve a related party transaction, including whether the related party transaction is on terms no less favorable than terms generally available to an unaffiliated third-party under the same or similar circumstances and the extent of the related party’s interest in the transaction.

 

No director may participate in the approval of any transaction in which he is a related party, but that director is required to provide the other members of the boardBoard with all material information concerning the transaction. Additionally, we require each of our directors and executive officers to complete a directors’ and officers’ questionnaire that elicits information about related party transactions.

These procedures are intended to determine whether any such related party transaction impairs the independence of a director or presents a conflict of interest on the part of a director, employee, or officer.

MATERIAL UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NON-U.S. HOLDERSCertain Transactions with or Involving Related Persons

 

The following discussion is a summary of the material United States federal income tax considerations applicableRelated Party Transactions since July 1, 2019, and any currently proposed transactions, to Non-U.S. Holders (as defined below) of the purchase, ownership and disposition of our common stock issued pursuant to this offering, but does not purportwhich we were or are to be a complete analysis of all potential tax effects. The effects of other United States federal tax laws, suchparticipant. We believe the terms obtained or consideration that we paid or received, as estate and gift tax laws, and any applicable, state, local or non-United States tax laws are not discussed. This discussion is based onin connection with the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended,transactions described below were, unless otherwise noted below, comparable to terms available or the Code, Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, judicial decisions,amounts that we would pay or received, as applicable, in arm’s-length transactions.

Agreements Related to the IFP Acquisition

On October 4, 2022, the Company acquired Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement by and published rulingsamong the Company, IFP, the IFP Sellers and administrative pronouncementsthe IFP Sellers’ representatives named therein.

One of the United States Internal Revenue Service, orIFP Seller representatives, Philip Hand, is currently the IRS,Executive Chairman of IFP. For additional information regarding the IFP Acquisition and the Share Exchange Agreement, see “Business – IFP Acquisition”.

Investors’ Rights Agreement

Concurrently with the IFP Acquisition, the Company and each of The Ma-Ran Foundation and The Gary W. Rollins Foundation (together, the “IFP Investors”), entered into an investors’ rights agreement (the “Investors’ Rights Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, the IFP Investors received, subject to satisfaction of certain specified minimum securities holding requirements in each case in effectthe Company, certain governance rights effective as of the IFP Closing, including the right to designate up to two directors to the Company’s board of directors. Pursuant to the Investors’ Rights Agreement, each of Jason Isenberg and David Jenkins, each being a designee of the IFP Investors under the Investors’ Rights Agreement, were appointed to, and then nominated by Board and subsequently elected by the Company’s shareholders, as a member of the Board. Mr. Isenberg served as a seller representative for the RFA Sellers in connection with the IFP Acquisition and is the Assistant General Counsel of RFA Management Company, LLC, an entity indirectly controlled by certain trustees of the IFP Investors. Mr. Jenkins served as a director of IFP prior to the consummation of the IFP Acquisition.

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Voting Agreements

Concurrently with the IFP Acquisition, the Company and the IFP Sellers entered into a voting agreement (the “IFP Sellers Voting Agreement”) pursuant to which, among other things, each IFP Seller agreed to vote such IFP Seller’s respective shares of common stock until the completion of the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders for the Company’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2023, in favor of (i) each proposal contained in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A filed with the SEC on May 6, 2022, (ii) any proposal presented to the stockholders which is expressly contemplated by the Share Exchange Agreement, including, for the avoidance of doubt, a proposal to adopt, or make available to IFP employees, a stock option plan in accordance with the terms set out in Section 6.9(c) of the Share Exchange Agreement, (iii) any proposal presented to the stockholders with a unanimous Board’s recommendation to vote in favor of such proposal that has the primary intent of taking one or more actions that would be necessary or advisable for the Company to remain in compliance with the applicable listing requirements of the Nasdaq Stock Market, including, for the avoidance of doubt, any reverse stock split, and (iv) any proposal to adjourn or postpone any meeting of the Company’s stockholders at which any of the foregoing matters requiring such Stockholder’s approval are submitted for consideration and vote of the Company’s stockholders to a later date hereof. These authorities may change or be subjectif there are not sufficient votes for approval of such matters on the date on which the meeting is held to differing interpretations. Anyvote upon any of the foregoing matters requiring stockholders’ approval. The Reverse Stock Split and certain other proposals were subsequently approved by the Company’s stockholders at the annual meeting of stockholders held by the Company on February 8, 2023 (the “Annual Meeting”).

In addition, the Company, the IFP Sellers’ Representatives and the officers and directors of the Company who owned shares of common stock at the time of the IFP Closing entered into separate voting agreements pursuant to which, among other things, such change or differing interpretation may be applied retroactivelyofficers and directors of the Company agreed to vote their respective shares of common stock in a manner that could adversely affect a Non-U.S. Holderfavor of ourthe approval of the conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock into common stock. We have not soughtstock in accordance with the Series C Certificate of Designation until the completion of the annual meeting of the Company’s stockholders for the Company’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2023. The full conversion of the Series C Preferred Stock was subsequently approved by the Company’s stockholders at the Special Meeting on May 8, 2023.

Registration Rights Agreement- IFP Acquisition

Concurrently with the IFP Acquisition, the Company and will not seek any rulingsthe IFP Sellers entered into the IFP Registration Rights Agreements granting the IFP Sellers customary registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock and common stock underlying the Series C Preferred Stock acquired by the IFP Sellers from the IRS regardingCompany in the matters discussed below. There can be no assuranceIFP Acquisition. The June Resale Registration Statement, which was declared effective on June 27, 2023, was filed in connection with fulfilling the IRS will not take, orCompany’s obligations under the IFP Registration Rights Agreements.

Loan Agreements

Effective contemporaneously with the IFP Closing, the Company entered into an amendment to the bridge facility agreement between the Company and IFP, dated as of June 16, 2022, pursuant to which, among other things, the parties thereto agreed that a court will not sustain, a contrary positionthe $500,000 loan from the Company to that discussed below regardingIFP would remain outstanding following the tax consequencesdate of the purchase, ownershipIFP Closing until the second anniversary of the date of the IFP Closing (the “Company-IFP Loan Agreement”).

In addition, the Company entered into various loan agreements in the aggregate amount of £1,254,270, including accrued interest, pursuant to which IFP is the borrower and dispositionthe Company became a guarantor of ourIFP’s obligations thereunder (the “IFP Loan Agreements”). Under the IFP Loan Agreements, the loans thereunder remained outstanding following the IFP Closing and (x) the loans and certain accrued interest (the Convertible Debt) were convertible into shares of IFP, which shares were to be immediately transferred to the Company in exchange for shares of Series C Preferred Stock that would then be converted into common stock, as set forth in the Share Exchange Agreement (the “Loan Conversion”), following approval of the Company Stockholder Approval Matters, or (y) the loans and certain accrued interest thereon would become repayable on the second anniversary of the date of the IFP Closing. The loans bore interest at 17% per annum on a compounded basis, increasing to 22% per annum on a compounded basis with effect from the date that falls 12 months following the date of the IFP Closing if the Company Stockholder Approval Matters were not approved by the Company’s stockholders by such date.

As of May 8, 2023, all eight IFP Lenders committed to, or otherwise indicated that they were committed to, the Loan Conversion with regard to the Convertible Debt, which, in the aggregate, had an outstanding balance of £1,360,761 in principal and accrued interest as of May 8, 2023. On May 12, 2023, the Company entered into Conversion Agreements with the eight IFP Lenders relating to the Convertible Debt in order to effect the above-described Loan Conversions. Each of the Conversion Agreements is dated and is effective as of May 9, 2023.

Upon the conversion and exchange of the Convertible Debt in accordance with their respective terms and the terms of the Share Exchange Agreement and the Conversion Agreements, the IFP Lenders received an aggregate of 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock. The conversion and exchange of the Convertible Debt into Series C Preferred Stock was deemed to be effective as of May 9, 2023. Effective as of May 10, 2023, the 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock issued to the IFP Lenders pursuant to the Conversion Agreements were converted into an aggregate of 172,386 shares of common stock.

 

This discussion is limitedSubject to Non-U.S. Holders that hold ourcertain exceptions set forth in the Share Exchange Agreement, the Common Stock Consideration and shares of Series C Preferred Stock (and any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for common stock or Series C Preferred Stock) received pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby are subject to transfer restrictions during the period ending 365 days after the date of the IFP Closing.

For additional information regarding the conversion of the Convertible Debt into Series C Preferred Stock and the conversion of Series C Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

Agreements Related to the December Private Placement

Securities Purchase Agreement

On December 21, 2022, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the December Purchase Agreement) with 14 investors (the Series D Investors), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the 14 Series D Investors in a Regulation S private placement (i) 176,462 shares of the Company’s Series D Preferred Stock, and (ii) 529,386 D Warrants to purchase common stock. The Series D Preferred Stock and D Warrants were sold together as a “capital asset” withinUnit, with each Unit consisting of one share of Series D Preferred Stock and three D Warrants. An additional 26,469 warrants were issued to Winx Capital Pty Ltd., the meaningplacement agent for the December Private Placement. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds from the December Private Placement of Section 1221$220,585 before deducting the placement agent’s fees and the Company’s transaction expenses. The December Private Placement closed on December 22, 2022. The purchase price for the Units was $1.25 per Unit. The Unit offering price and the D Warrants exercise price were priced above the Nasdaq “Minimum Price” as that term is defined in Nasdaq Rule 5635(d)(1).

As a result of the Code (generally, property held for investment). This discussion does not address all United States federal income tax consequences relevant to a Non-U.S. Holder’s particular circumstances, includingReverse Stock Split, the impactoutstanding shares of Series D Preferred Stock were at the time of their conversion, convertible into an aggregate of 26,464 shares of common stock (initially 529,386 shares of common stock pre-Reverse Stock Split) following shareholder approval of such conversion and without the payment of additional consideration. The Company’s stockholders approved the full conversion of the Medicare contribution taxSeries D Preferred Stock at the Special Meeting on net investment income orMay 8, 2023, and the alternative minimum tax. In addition, it does not address consequences relevant to Non-U.S. Holdersconversion of the Series D Preferred Stock was effective as of May 10, 2023. For additional information regarding the conversion of Series D Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, (i) each share of Series D Preferred Stock was convertible into 0.15 shares of common stock at the time of conversion (initially three shares of common stock pre-Reverse Stock Split, subject to special rules, including, without limitation:adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events); (ii) each D Warrant currently represents the right to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $5.80 per share (initially exercisable for one share of common stock with an exercise price of $0.29 per share pre-Reverse Stock Split); and (iii) each Winx Warrant currently represents the right to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $10.40 per share (initially exercisable for one share of common stock with an exercise price of $0.52 per share pre-Reverse Stock Split). The D Warrants expire June 22, 2028, and the Winx Warrants expire five years following the effective date of a registration statement covering the resale of common stock underlying the Series D Preferred Stock acquired by the Series D Investors.

Two Series D Investors are, as described below, affiliated with the Company.

Approximately 15.10% of funds raised in the December Private Placement were secured from the following members of the Company’s senior management:

Investor and Position with the Company Shares of Series D Preferred Stock Purchased  Warrants Purchased  

Aggregate

Purchase Price

 
Spiro Sakiris (indirectly), Chief Financial Officer  15,993   47,979  $19,991.25 
Manuel Kostandas, Director of Global Integration  10,662   31,986  $13,327.50 

Each of the Company and the Series D Investors made certain customary representations and warranties and agreed to certain covenants in the December Purchase Agreement.

The issuances of the shares of common stock and Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to the December Purchase Agreement are intended to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act, by virtue of the exemptions provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Regulation S promulgated thereunder.

Registration Rights Agreement – Private Placement

Concurrent with entry into the December Purchase Agreement, the Company and the Series D Investors entered into the December Registration Rights Agreement granting the Series D Investors customary registration rights with respect to the shares of common stock underlying the Series D Preferred Stock and the D Warrants acquired by the Series D Investors in the December Private Placement. The June Resale Registration Statement, which was declared effective on June 27, 2023, was filed in connection with fulfilling the Company’s obligations under the December Registration Rights Agreements. The June Resale Registration Statement also registered the shares of common stock underlying the Winx Warrants.

For additional information regarding the December Private Placement, see “Prospectus Summary – December Private Placement - Series D Preferred Stock.”

Other Transactions

 

 United States expatriatesLSBD, which is also referred to herein as “Licensor”, held 42.6% of our outstanding common stock (by voting rights) as of June 30, 2021 and former citizens or long-term residentsheld less than 7.5% of our outstanding common stock as of February 17, 2022. LSBD currently holds 5-year non-transferrable warrants to purchase 150,000 common shares of the United States;Company’s common stock at the exercise price of $340 per share, expiring December 31, 2025. From time to time, we have entered into transactions with the LSBD that have not been negotiated, arranged or otherwise implemented on an arms-length basis. These transactions include (i) entry into that certain License Agreement, dated June 23, 2020, by and between Licensor and the Company (the “License Agreement”) pursuant to which Licensor granted to the Company a license to the Licensor’s proprietary rights to the biosensor technology used in certain licensed products and (ii) the employee sharing arrangements.
Under the terms of the SGT License Agreement, we license the SGT with the Company’s digital information system for the APAC Region. The License Agreement requires, among other material provisions, that commencing after the receipt of regulatory approval in a jurisdiction, we will pay the Licensor a minimum royalty with respect to such jurisdiction for each year, in four equal quarterly instalments. The minimum royalty will be 13% of the projected net sales in such jurisdiction for each such year. The projected net sales will be an amount mutually agreed between us and the Licensor for the first such year. For each ensuing year after the first year, the projected net sales will be the number of certain licensed products sold in the prior year, as adjusted for the expected market growth and, for each year through the tenth year, as increased by up to an additional 7%. At the end of each quarter, if the quarterly instalment of the minimum royalty is less than the actual royalty (13% of the actual net sales of the licensed products for such quarter) in such jurisdiction, we will pay Licensor the difference between the quarterly instalment of the minimum royalty and the actual royalty. The royalty fee rate will be reduced from 13% to 3% upon the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the License Agreement.
From August 5, 2016 to December 31, 2020, we incurred to the Licensor a total of $8,537,629 (inclusive of “deemed dividend” referred to below) under a prior license agreement for this technology in relation to development of the technology, $3,478,570 in relation to overhead and general administration expenses and $6,324,806 in relation to research and development and regulatory approval in relation to the development and approval process for the Glucose Biosensor Technology. During the quarter ended September 30, 2020, the Company expanded its geographic coverage of its license to include the APAC Region, the Company allotted 147,029 Convertible Preference Shares to external shareholders who had a prior interest in this region. Accordingly, as part of this transaction the Company was required to classify $976,308 of expenditure incurred by Licensor as a “deemed divided” under FASB ASC 805.
Under the employee sharing arrangements with Licensor, which have not been pursuant to any written agreements, the Licensor has allocated a portion of its general office expenses, rent and wages to us based on our percentage usage of the Licensor’s office and personnel resources. We have relied upon these arrangements as it has been more cost-effective than acquiring dedicated office space and personnel that would not have been fully utilized. Set forth below are the amounts paid to LSBD in connection with the cost sharing arrangements with LSBD:

Fiscal year ending June 30, 2020: $444,374 
Fiscal year ending June 30, 2021: $212,032 
Fiscal year ending June 30, 2022: $145,733 
Period July 1, 2022, to March 31, 2023: $Nil 

On June 30, 2020, we issued 120,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $900,000 in debt held by the Licensor, resulting in 8,630,000 outstanding shares of common stock as of such date. Share and per share amounts set forth herein (except in any historical financial information) give effect to the issue, unless indicated otherwise.
On December 14, 2020, the Company and LSBD agreed to cancel the previously agreed share repurchase transaction dated as of December 7, 2020, under which LSBD was to exchange a total of 3,800,000 shares of the Company’s common stock for a 3-year non-transferrable warrant to purchase 1,900,000 shares of the Company’s shares of common stock. Effective as of the same date, the Company agreed to issue to LSBD, in consideration of LSBD’s contribution towards the research and development of applications other than glucose and COVID-19 applications to a maximum of $2 million over a 5-year period, a 5-year non-transferable warrant to purchase 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at the exercise price equal to the IPO per unit price.
On December 18, 2020, the Company entered into an Exchange Agreement (the “EA”) with LSBD to exchange 3,000,000 shares of its common stock held by LSBD for 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock. In addition, the parties to the Exchange Agreement entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “RRA”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to prepare and file within 30 days following the closing of our IPO with the SEC a registration statement to register for resale the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
On December 18, 2020, LSBD entered into a certain Purchase and Assignment Agreement (the “PAA”) with an institutional accredited investor (the “Purchaser”) pursuant to which LSBD sold and assigned to the Purchaser 3,000,000 shares of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and assigned to the Purchaser its rights under the EA and the RRA with respect to the such preferred shares for a total purchase price of $2,000,000. The investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into 3,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, subject to beneficial ownership limitation. The price per share of the 3,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the investor’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is $0.67. In connection with the Company’s obligations under the RRA, the Company filed the Registration Statement on Form S-1 for the March Offering, which was declared effective by the SEC on March 31, 2021.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2021, the Company contributed a total of $2,600,000 towards budgeted development and commercialization costs to be incurred by BiosensX (North America) Inc. in which the Company has a 50% interest. This represents the Company’s contribution towards budgeted development and commercialization costs included in total costs budgeted in the Form S-1. This funding relates to the development and preparation for submission of the Saliva Glucose Biosensor connected with regulatory approval for the U.S market by the U.S Food & Drug Administration. This amount is recognized as a prepayment and will be expensed as incurred over an estimated 18-month period in which the costs are expected to be incurred.
On March 31, 2021, GBS entered into an agreement with LSBD to provide GBS an option to acquire an exclusive license to use LSBD’s intellectual property in the Saliva Glucose Biosensor in North America (the “Option Agreement”). The Option Agreement has a term of two years and the exercise price for the option is $5 million. The fee of $0.5 million incurred for the option has been recognized as an expense and included within ‘Development and regulatory approval expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.
In 2021, two shareholders of the Licensor (The iQ Group Global Ltd and iQX Limited) committed to provide sufficient financial assistance to us as and when it is needed for us to continue our operations until September 2021. This financial assistance included refraining from seeking repayment of any intercompany loans or balances due from us except to the extent funds become available. Under this arrangement, loans or deferrals of amounts due in connection with this financial assistance were to be made on an interest free basis. As of date of this filing, no amounts were outstanding pursuant to the financial assistance commitments.
Until the completion and termination of the agreement on December 23, 2019, we were party to a master services agreement, or the “MSA Agreement,” with IQ3Corp Limited, or “IQ3,” which was at the time considered an affiliate of the Company by virtue of having certain common management personnel with The iQ Group Global Ltd. The MSA Agreement set forth certain basic terms and provisions applicable to services to be provided by IQ3 to us pursuant to specific pre-IPO related service acquisition orders to be entered into by the parties from time to time. Prior to the completion and termination of the MSA Agreement, pursuant to a November 2016 order under the agreement for various advisory services, we incurred a total of $3,937,047 in fees and expenses to IQ3, all of which were fully paid.

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DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES WE ARE OFFERING

The following description summarizes certain terms of the warrants included in this offering. The material terms and provisions of our common stock and our Series E Convertible Preferred Stock are described under the caption “Description of Capital Stock”. This summary does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the provisions of the warrants, a copy of which is filed with the SEC as exhibits to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 of which this prospectus forms a part.

We are offering (i) [●] Class A Units, each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one warrant, and (ii) [●] Class B Units, consisting of one share of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and one warrant.

Each share of common stock and Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and accompanying warrant included in each unit will be immediately separable upon issuance and will be issued separately will be immediately separable upon issuance and will be issued separately. The units will not be issued or certificated. We are also registering the shares of common stock included in the Class A Units and the shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and shares of common stock issuable from time to time upon exercise of the warrants included in the units offered hereby.

Warrants

The following description of the warrants we are offering is a summary and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the provisions of the warrant, the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

Duration and Exercise Price.

Each warrant offered hereby will have an initial exercise price per share equal to $[●]. The warrants will be immediately exercisable upon issuance and will expire on the fifth anniversary of the initial exercise date. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations or similar events affecting our shares of common stock and the exercise price. Pursuant to a warrant agency agreement between us and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, the warrants will be issued in book-entry form and shall initially be represented only by one or more global warrants deposited with the warrant agent, as custodian on behalf of The Depository Trust Company (“DTC”), and registered in the name of Cede & Co., a nominee of DTC, or as otherwise directed by DTC.

Exercisability.

The warrants will be exercisable, at the option of the holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of common stock purchased upon such exercise (except in the case of a cashless exercise, as discussed below). A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the warrants to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the holder, 9.99%) of the outstanding shares of common stock immediately after exercise. However, upon notice from the holder to us, the holder may decrease or increase the holder’s beneficial ownership limitation, which may not exceed 9.99% of the number of outstanding shares of common stock immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the warrants, provided that any increase in the beneficial ownership limitation will not take effect until 61 days following notice to us. Purchasers in this offering may also elect, prior to the issuance of the warrants, to have the initial exercise limitation set at 9.99% of our outstanding shares of common stock. No fractional shares will be issued in connection with the exercise of a warrant. In lieu of fractional shares, we will either pay the holder an amount in cash equal to the fractional amount multiplied by the exercise price or round up to the next whole share.

Cashless Exercise.

If, at the time a holder exercises its warrants, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of common stock underlying the warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available and an exemption from registration under the Securities Act is not available for the issuance of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of common stock determined according to a formula set forth in the warrants.

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Transferability.

Subject to applicable laws, a warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder upon surrender of the warrant to us together with the appropriate instruments of transfer.

Exchange Listing.

There is no trading market available for the warrants on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system. We do not intend to list the warrants on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

Right as a Stockholder.

Except as otherwise provided in the warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of our shares of common stock, the holders of the warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our shares of common stock, including any voting rights, until they exercise their warrants.

Fundamental Transaction.

In the event of a fundamental transaction, as described in the warrants and generally including any reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification of our shares of common stock, the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person, the acquisition of more than 50% of our outstanding shares of common stock, or any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of more than 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding shares of common stock, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the warrants immediately prior to such fundamental transaction. Additionally, as more fully described in the warrants, in the event of certain fundamental transactions, the holders of the warrants will be entitled to receive consideration in an amount equal to the Black Scholes value of the warrants on the date of consummation of the transaction.

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UNDERWRITING

We are offering the Class A Units and Class B Units described in this prospectus through the underwriters named below. Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. is acting as the representative of the underwriters in this offering. Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, dated as of [●], 2023, the underwriters have agreed to purchase the number of our securities set forth opposite its respective name below.

UnderwritersNumber of Class A UnitsNumber of Class B Units
Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc.[●][●]
Total[●][●]

A copy of the underwriting agreement will be filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is part.

We have been advised by the underwriters that they propose to offer the Class A Units and Class B Units, if any, directly to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. Any securities sold by the underwriters to securities dealers will be sold at the public offering price less a selling concession not in excess of $[●] per share (or per share of common stock underlying the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock) and $[●] per warrant.

The underwriting agreement provides that the underwriters’ obligation to purchase the securities we are offering is subject to conditions contained in the underwriting agreement.

No action has been taken by us or the underwriters that would permit a public offering of the Class A Units or Class B Units, or the shares of common stock, shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants included in the Class A Units or Class B Units in any jurisdiction outside the United States where action for that purpose is required. None of our securities included in this offering may be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, nor may this prospectus or any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the offer and sales of any of the securities offering hereby 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 securities and the distribution of this prospectus. This prospectus is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of any offer to buy the securities in any jurisdiction where that would not be permitted or legal.

The underwriters have advised us that they do not intend to confirm sales to any account over which they exercise discretionary authority.

Underwriting Discount and Expenses

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

Per Class A Unit(1)Per Class B Unit(2)Total Without Over- AllotmentTotal With Full Over- Allotment
Public offering price$$$$
Underwriting discounts and commissions to be paid to underwriters by us(3)(4)$$$$
Proceeds, before expenses, to us$$$$

(1)The public offering price and underwriting discount corresponds to, in respect of the Class A Units,

(i) a public offering price per share of common stock of $[●] ($[●] net of the underwriting discount) and (ii) a public offering price per warrant of $[●] ($[●] net of the underwriting discount).

(2)The public offering price and underwriting discount in respect of the Class B Units corresponds to (i) a public offering price per Series E Convertible Preferred Stock of $ [●] ($ [●]net of the underwriting discount) and (ii) a public offering price per warrant of $ [●] ($ [●] net of the underwriting discount).
(3)We have also agreed to pay the representative a management fee of 1.0% of the gross proceeds from the offering and to reimburse the accountable expenses of the representative, including a pre-closing expense allowance of up to a maximum of $35,000 and an additional closing expense allowance up to a maximum of $110,000.
(4)We have granted a 45-day option to the underwriters to purchase up to [●] additional shares of common stock and/or warrants to purchase an additional [●] shares of common stock at the assumed public offering price per share of common stock and the assumed public offering price per warrant set forth above less the underwriting discounts and commissions solely to cover over-allotments, if any.

We estimate the total expenses payable by us for this offering to be approximately $[●], which amount includes (i) the underwriting discount of $ [●], (ii) reimbursement of the accountable expenses of the underwriters, including the legal fees of the representative, in an amount not to exceed $35,000 for pre-closing expenses plus $110,000 for closing expenses, (iii) a management fee of approximately $[●] which represents 1.0% of the total gross proceeds payable to the representative, and (iv) other estimated company expenses of approximately $[●], which includes legal, accounting, printing costs, and various fees associated with the registration and listing of our shares.

Over-allotment Option

We have granted to the underwriters an option exercisable not later than 45 days after the date of this prospectus to purchase up to an additional [●] shares and/or warrants to purchase an additional [●] shares of common stock at the public offering price per share of common stock and the public offering price per warrant set forth on the cover page hereto less the underwriting discounts and commissions. The underwriters may exercise the option solely to cover overallotments, if any, made in connection with this offering. If any additional shares of common stock, and/or warrants are purchased, the underwriters will offer these shares of common stock and/or warrants on the same terms as those on which the other securities are being offered.

Representative Warrants

We have agreed to issue Representative Warrants to the representative, upon the closing of this offering, which entitle it to purchase up to [●] shares of common stock (or [●] shares of common stock assuming the exercise of the over-allotment option in full). The Representative Warrants will have an exercise price equal to $[●] per share of common stock. The Representative Warrants will be exercisable immediately upon issuance, at any time and from time to time, in whole or in part, during the five-year period commencing from the commencement of sales of this offering, and otherwise on substantially similar terms to the warrants issued to investors as part of the offering. The Representative Warrants and the shares of common stock underlying the Representative Warrants are being registered on the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Determination of Offering Price

Our common stock is currently traded on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “INBS.” On [●], 2023, the closing price of our common stock was $[●] per share.

The public offering price of the securities offered by this prospectus will be determined by negotiation between us and the underwriters. Among the factors that will be considered in determining the final public offering price of the shares:

Our history and our prospects;
The industry in which we operate;
Our past and present operating results; and
The general condition of the securities markets at this time of this offering.

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

Right of First Refusal

We have granted to Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. the right of first refusal until February 26, 2025, to act as sole bookrunner, exclusive placement agent or exclusive sales agent in connection with any financing of the Company.

Listing

Our shares of common stock are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “INBS.” The last reported sales price of our shares of common stock on[●], 2023 was $[●] per share. The actual public offering price per Class A Unit or Class B Unit, as the case may be, will be determined between us, the underwriters and the investors in the offering, and may be at a discount to the current market price of our common stock. Therefore, the assumed public offering price used throughout this prospectus may not be indicative of the final public offering price. There is no established public trading market for the warrants or the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock, and we do not expect such a market to develop. In addition, we do not intend to apply for listing of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or the warrants on any securities exchange or other trading system.

Lock-up Agreements

Our officers, directors and each of their respective affiliates and associated partners, and certain other stockholders have agreed with the underwriters to be subject to a lock-up period of 90 days following the closing date of this offering. This means that, during the applicable lock-up period, such persons may not offer for sale, contract to sell, sell, distribute, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of our common stock or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of our common stock. Certain limitedtransfers are permitted during the lock-up period if the transferee agrees to these lock-up restrictions. We have also agreed, in the underwriting agreement, to similar lock-up restrictions on the issuance and sale of our securities for a period of 90 days following the closing date of this offering, although we will be permitted to issue stock options or stock awards to directors, officers and employees under our existing plans. The representative may, in its sole discretion and without notice, waive the terms of any of these lock-up agreements.

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Other Relationships

From time to time, certain of the underwriters and their affiliates may provide in the future, various advisory, investment and commercial banking and other services to us in the ordinary course of business, for which they will receive customary fees and commissions. The representative received compensation in connection with our acquisition of Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited and acted as underwriter in connection with our public offering consummated in March 2023 for which it received compensation.

Transfer Agent, Warrant Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent, warrant agent and registrar for our common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC.

Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

The underwriters may engage in syndicate covering transactions stabilizing transactions and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of our common stock;

Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. Such a naked short position would be closed out by buying securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of the securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.
   
 persons holding our common stockStabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as part ofthe stabilizing bids do not exceed a hedge, straddle or other risk reduction strategy or as part of a conversion transaction or other integrated investment;specific maximum.
   
 banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions;
brokers, dealersPenalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the securities originally sold by the syndicate member are purchased in a stabilizing or traders in securities;
“controlled foreign corporations,” “passive foreign investment companies,” and corporations that accumulate earningssyndicate covering transaction to avoid United States federal income tax;
partnerships or other entities or arrangements treated as partnerships for United States federal income tax purposes (and investors therein);
tax-exempt organizations or governmental organizations;
persons deemed to sell our common stock under the constructive sale provisions of the Code;
persons who hold or receive our common stock pursuant to the exercise of any employee stock option or otherwise as compensation;
tax-qualified retirement plans;
“qualified foreign pension funds” as defined in Section 897(l)(2) of the Code and entities all of the interests of which are held by qualified foreign pension funds;
persons who own, or are deemed to own, more than 5% of our capital stock (except to the extent specifically set forth below); and
persons subject to special tax accounting rules as a result of any item of gross income with respect to the stock being taken into account in an applicable financial statement.cover syndicate short positions.

 

If an entity treated asThese syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions, and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market prices of our securities or preventing or retarding a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes holds our common stock, the tax treatment of a partnerdecline in the partnership generally will depend onmarket prices of our securities. As a result the status of the partner, the activities of the partnership and certain determinations made at the partner level. Accordingly, partnerships (or other entities treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes) holding our common stock and the partners in such partnerships or other entities should consult their tax advisors regarding the United States federal income tax consequences to them.

THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TAX ADVICE. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PURCHASE, OWNERSHIP AND DISPOSITION OF OUR COMMON STOCK ARISING UNDER THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL ESTATE OR GIFT TAX LAWS OR UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY STATE, LOCAL OR NON-UNITED STATES TAXING JURISDICTION OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATY.

Definition of a Non-U.S. Holder

For purposes of this discussion, a “Non-U.S. Holder” is any beneficial ownerprice of our common stock may be higher than the price that is neither a “U.S. person” nor an entity treated as a partnership for United States federal income tax purposes.

A U.S. person is any person that, for United States federal income tax purposes, is or is treated as any of the following:

an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States;
a corporation, or an entity treated as a corporation, created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, or the District of Columbia, or other entity treated as such for United States federal income tax purposes;
an estate, the income of which is subject to United States federal income tax regardless of its source; or
a trust that (1) is subject to the primary supervision of a United States court and the control of one or more “United States persons” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code), or (2) has a valid election in effect to be treated as a United States person for United States federal income tax purposes.

Distributions

As describedmight otherwise exist in the section entitled “Dividend policy,”open market. Neither we do not anticipate declaringnor the underwriters make any representation or paying dividendsprediction as to holdersthe effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. These transactions may be effected on the Nasdaq Capital Market, in the over-the-counter market or on any other trading market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time. In connection with this offering, the underwriters also may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock in accordance with Regulation M during a period before the commencement of offers or sales of shares of our common stock in this offering and extending through the foreseeable future.completion of the distribution. In general, a passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the highest independent bid for that security. However, if all independent bids are lowered below the passive market maker’s bid that bid must then be lowered when specific purchase limits are exceeded. Passive market making may stabilize the market price of the securities at a level above that which might otherwise prevail in the open market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time. Neither we, donor the underwriters make distributions of cashany representation or property on our common stock, such distributions will constitute dividends for United States federal income tax purposesprediction as to the extent paid fromdirection or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the prices of our currentsecurities. In addition, neither we nor the underwriters make any representation that the underwriters will engage in these transactions or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under United States federal income tax principles. To the extent those distributions exceed our current and accumulated earnings and profits, amountsthat any transactions, once commenced will not treated as dividends for United States federal income tax purposes will constitute a return of capital and will first be applied against and reduce a Non-U.S. Holder’s adjusted tax basis in our common stock, but not below zero. Any excess will be treated as capital gain and will be treated as described below under “—Sales or Other Taxable Dispositions of Common Stock.”discontinued without notice.

 

SubjectIndemnification

We have agreed to indemnify the discussion below on effectively connected income, backup withholding and foreign accounts, dividends paidunderwriters against certain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act, or to a Non-U.S. Holder of our common stock willcontribute to payments that the underwriters may be subjectrequired to United States federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% of the gross amount of the dividends (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty, provided the Non-U.S. Holder timely furnishes a valid IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E (or other applicable documentation) certifying qualificationmake for the lower treaty rate). A Non-U.S. Holder that does not timely furnish the required documentation, but that qualifies for a reduced treaty rate of United States withholding tax, may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld by timely filing an appropriate claim for refund with the IRS. Non-U.S. Holders should consult their tax advisors regarding their entitlement to benefits under any applicable income tax treaty.these liabilities.

 

If dividends paid to a Non-U.S. Holder are effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, the Non-U.S. Holder maintains a permanent establishment in the United States to which such dividends are attributable), the Non-U.S. Holder will be exempt from the United States federal withholding tax described above. To claim the exemption, the Non-U.S. Holder must timely furnish to the applicable withholding agent a valid IRS Form W-8ECI (or applicable successor form), certifying that the dividends are effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States.Electronic Distribution

 

Any such effectively connected dividends will be subject to United States federal income tax on a net income basis at the regular graduated rates. A Non-U.S. Holder that is a corporation alsoprospectus in electronic format may be subject to a branch profits tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty) on such effectively connected dividends, as adjusted for certain items. Non-U.S. Holders should consult their tax advisors regarding any applicable tax treaties that may provide for different rules.

Sales or Other Taxable Dispositions of Common Stock

Subject to the discussion below regarding backup withholding and foreign accounts, a Non-U.S. Holder generally will not be subject to United States federal income tax on any gain realized upon the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock unless:

the gain is effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, the Non-U.S. Holder maintains a permanent establishment in the United States to which such gain is attributable);
the Non-U.S. Holder is a non-resident alien individual present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year of the disposition and certain other requirements are met; or
our common stock constitutes a United States real property interest, or USRPI, by reason of our status as a United States real property holding corporation, or USRPHC, for United States federal income tax purposes.

Gain described in the first bullet point above generally will be subject to United States federal income tax on a net income basis at the regular graduated rates. A Non-U.S. Holder that is a corporation also may be subject to a branch profits tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty) on such effectively connected gain, as adjusted for certain items.

Gain described in the second bullet point above will be subject to United States federal income tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty) on the gain derived from the sale or other disposition, which may be offset by United States source capital losses of the Non-U.S. Holder (even though the individual is not considered a resident of the United States), provided the Non-U.S. Holder has timely filed United States federal income tax returns with respect to such losses.

With respect to the third bullet point above, we believe we currently are not, and do not anticipate becoming, a USRPHC. Generally, a corporation is a UUSRPHC only if the fair market value of its United States real property interests equals or exceeds 50% of the sum of the fair market value of its worldwide real property interests plus its other assets used or held for use in a trade or business. Because the determination of whether we are a USRPHC depends, however, on the fair market value of our USRPIs relative to the fair market value of our non-United States real property interests and our other business assets, there can be no assurance we currently are not a USRPHC or will not become a USRPHC in the future. Even if we are or were to become a USRPHC, gain arising from the sale or other taxable disposition by a Non-U.S. Holder of our common stock will not be subject to United States federal income tax if our common stock is “regularly traded,” as defined by applicable Treasury Regulations, on an established securities market, and such Non-U.S. Holder owned, actually and constructively, 5% or less of our common stock throughout the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of the sale or other taxable disposition or the Non-U.S. Holder’s holding period.

NON-U.S. HOLDERS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS REGARDING POTENTIALLY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATIES THAT MAY PROVIDE FOR DIFFERENT RULES.

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

Payments of dividends on our common stock will not be subject to backup withholding, provided the applicable withholding agent does not have actual knowledge or reason to know the holder is a United States person and the holder either certifies its non-United States status, such as by furnishing a valid IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8BEN-E or IRS Form W-8ECI, or otherwise establishes an exemption. However, information returns are required to be filed with the IRS in connection with any dividends on our common stock paid to the Non-U.S. Holder, regardless of whether any tax was actually withheld.

In addition, proceeds on the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock within the United States, or conducted through certain United States-related brokers generally will not be subject to backup withholding or information reporting, if the applicable withholding agent receives the certification described above and does not have actual knowledge or reason to know that such holder is a United States person, or the holder otherwise establishes an exemption. Proceeds of a disposition of our common stock conducted through a non-United States office of a non-United States broker generally will not be subject to backup withholding or information reporting. Non-U.S. holders should consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the information reporting and backup withholding rules to them.

Copies of information returns that are filed with the IRS may also be made available underon the provisions of an applicable treaty or agreement towebsites maintained by the tax authorities ofunderwriters, if any, participating in this offering and the countryunderwriters may distribute prospectuses electronically. Other than the prospectus in whichelectronic format, the Non-U.S. Holder resides or is established.

Backup withholdinginformation on these websites is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld underpart of this prospectus or the backup withholding rules mayregistration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has not been approved or endorsed by us or the underwriters, and should not be allowed as a refund or a credit against a Non-U.S. Holder’s United States federal income tax liability, provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS.

Additional Withholding Tax on Payments Made to Foreign Accounts

Withholding taxes may be imposed under Sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code (such Sections commonly referred to as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA) on certain types of payments made to non-United States financial institutions and certain other non-United States entities. Specifically, a 30% withholding tax may be imposed on dividends on, or gross proceeds from the sale or other disposition of, our common stock paid to a “foreign financial institution” or a “non-financial foreign entity” (each as defined in the Code), unless (1) the foreign financial institution undertakes certain diligence and reporting obligations, (2) the non-financial foreign entity either certifies it does not have any “substantial United States owners” (as defined in the Code) or furnishes identifying information regarding each substantial United States owner, or (3) the foreign financial institution or non-financial foreign entity otherwise qualifies for an exemption from these rules. If the payee is a foreign financial institution and is subject to the diligence and reporting requirements in (1) above, it must enter into an agreement with the United States Department of the Treasury requiring, among other things, that it undertake to identify accounts heldrelied upon by certain “specified United States persons” or “United States-owned foreign entities” (each as defined in the Code), annually report certain information about such accounts, and withhold 30% on certain payments to non-compliant foreign financial institutions and certain other account holders. Foreign financial institutions located in jurisdictions that have an intergovernmental agreement with the United States governing FATCA may be subject to different rules.

Under the applicable Treasury Regulations and administrative guidance, withholding under FATCA generally applies to payments of dividends on our common stock, and subject to the recently released proposed Treasury

Regulations described below, will apply to payments of gross proceeds from the sale or other disposition of such stock on or after January 1, 2019. The Treasury Department recently released proposed Treasury Regulations which, if finalized in their present form, would eliminate the federal withholding tax of 30% applicable to the gross proceeds of a sale or other disposition of our common stock. In its preamble to such proposed Treasury Regulations, the Treasury Department stated that taxpayers may generally rely on the proposed Treasury Regulations until final Treasury Regulations are issued.

PROSPECTIVE INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS REGARDING THE POTENTIAL APPLICATION OF WITHHOLDING UNDER FATCA TO THEIR INVESTMENT IN OUR COMMON STOCK.investors.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF OUR SECURITIESCAPITAL STOCK

 

The following summary description summarizes the most important terms of our capital stock as they are expected to be in effect upon the closing of this offering. We expect to adopt an amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws in connection with this offering, and this description summarizesis based on the provisions that are expectedof our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”), and the applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law. This information may not be complete in all respects and is qualified entirely by reference to be included in such documents. Because it is only a summary, it does not contain all the information that may be important to you.provisions of our Certificate of Incorporation, our Bylaws and the Delaware General Corporation Law. For a complete description of the matters set forth in Description“Description of Securities,”Capital Stock” you should refer to our amendedCertificate of Incorporation and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated by-laws,our Bylaws, which are or will be included as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and to the applicable provisions of Delaware law.

General

 

Our amended and restated certificateCertificate of incorporation authorizesIncorporation will authorize us to issue:issue up to

 

 100,000,000 shares of our common stock, par$0.001 per value $0.01 per share; and
share.
 

10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value $0.01 per share, the rights, preferences, and privileges of which 2,810,190 shares ofmay be designated from time to time by our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock are issued and are outstanding as of the date hereof pursuant to a private placement prior to the date hereof.

Board.

 

On November 5, 2017,As at July 10, 2023, we gave effect by the filing of an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to a one-to-90,000 stock split pursuant to which each outstanding share of common stock was converted into 90,000 shares of common stock. The outstanding preferred stock, convertible notes and warrants exercisable or convertible into common stock have been proportionately adjusted in accordance therewith. In addition, on August 9, 2018 we filed an amendment to our certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of approximately one to 0.9167 shares that resulted in our having 8,250,000 issued and outstanding shares of common stock. On November 24, 2018, we issued a further 260,000had 2,330,399 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellationheld by 495 stockholders of $1,950,000 in debt, resulting in 8,510,000 issued and outstandingrecord. In addition, we have 500,000 shares of common stock asSeries C Preferred Stock (the Closing Holdback Shares) reserved and held back from the IFP Sellers for one year after the closing of such date. On June 30, 2020, we issued 120,000 shares of common stock in exchange for the cancellation of $900,000 in debt, resulting in 8,630,000IFP Acquisition to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against those IFP Sellers. As at July 10, 2023, there were also warrants outstanding shares of common stock as of such date.

Units Offered Hereby

We are offering 1,058,824 Units at an assumed offering price of $17.00 per Unit. Each Unit consists of (a) one share of our common stock, (b) one Series A warrant (the “Series A Warrants”) to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $8.5 per share (or 50% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date, and (c) one Series B warrant (the “Series B Warrants,” and together with the Series A Warrants, the “Warrants”) to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $17.00 per share (or 100% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date and subject to certain adjustment and cashless exercise provisions as described herein. The shares of our common stock and the Warrants are immediately separable and will be issued separately, but will be purchased together in this offering.

We are also offering to those purchasers, if any, whose purchase of our common stock in this offering would otherwise result in such purchaser, together with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser prior to the date of issuance, 9.99%) of our outstanding common stock immediately following the consummation of this offering, the opportunity to substitute Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, referred to as “Preferred Stock” for the shares of common stock included in the Units purchased by that investor. Each share of Preferred Stock is being sold together with the same Warrants described above being sold with each share of common stock. For each share of Preferred Stock purchased in this offering in lieu of common stock, we will reduce the number of shares of common stock being sold in the offering on a one-for-one basis. Pursuant to this prospectus, we are also offering the501,521 shares of common stock issuable upon conversionthe exercise of the Preferred Stock. The shareswarrants at a weighted-average exercise price of Preferred Stock will otherwise have the preferences, rights and limitations described under “Description of Capital Stock - Series B Convertible Preferred Stock Being Issued in this Offering” below.$174.37.

 

Common Stock

AsDetermination of December 18, 2020, we have 5,630,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding. Upon the closing of this offering, all shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock will automatically convert into 2,810,190 shares of our common stock and all the convertible notes of our subsidiary will automatically convert into shares of our common stock at a price per share equal to 85% of 50% of the public offering price in this offering (or $7.23, assuming a unit offering price of $17.00, for an aggregate of 710,548 shares based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020). In addition, upon the closing of the offering, 500,000 shares will be reserved for issuance under the 2019 Plan, 2,736,675 shares will be issuable upon exercise of the warrants sold by us with our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and 55,555 shares will be issuable upon the exercise of warrants to be issued to the underwriters.Offering Price

 

Voting Rights

The holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors, and do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors can elect all of the directors standing for election, if they so choose, other than any directors that holders of any Preferred Stock we may issue may be entitled to elect.

Dividends

Subject to limitations under Delaware law and preferences that may be applicable to any then outstanding preferred stock, holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably those dividends, if any, as may be declared by our Board of Directors out of legally available funds.

Liquidation

In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs, the holders of our common stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of or provision for all of our debts and other liabilities, subject to the prior rights of any Preferred Stock then outstanding.

Rights and Preferences

Holders of common stock have no preemptive or conversion rights or other subscription rights and there are no redemption or sinking funds provisions applicable to the common stock.

Fully Paid and Non-assessable

All outstanding shares of common stock are, and the common stock to be outstanding upon completion of this offering will be, duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

Preferred Stock

Immediately prior to the consummation of this offering, all of the outstanding shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock will be converted into 2,810,190 shares of our common stock. Accordingly, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will delete all references to such shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

Our Board of Directors currently has the authority, without further action by our stockholders, to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof. These rights, preferences and privileges could include dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences, sinking fund terms and the number of shares constituting, or the designation of, such series, any or all of which may be greater than the rights of common stock. The issuance of preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of holders of common stock and the likelihood that such holders will receive dividend payments and payments upon our liquidation. In addition, the issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company or other corporate action.

Series B Convertible Preferred Stock

The following summary of certain terms and provisions of the Preferred Stock offered in this offering is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the terms and provisions set forth in our certificate of designation of preferences, rights and limitations of the Preferred Stock, which has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. You should review a copy of the certificate of designation of the Preferred Stock for a complete description of the terms and conditions of the Preferred Stock.

Each share of Preferred Stock is convertible at any time at the holder’s option into one share of common stock (subject to the beneficial ownership limitations as provided in the related certificate of designation of preferences), subject to adjustment as provided in the certificate of designation, provided that the holder will be prohibited from converting Preferred Stock into shares of our common stock if, as a result of such conversion, the holder, together with its affiliates, would own more than 4.99% (or, at the election of the purchaser prior to the date of issuance, 9.99%)of the total number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding. However, any holder may increase or decrease such percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99%, provided that any increase in such percentage shall not be effective until the 61st day after such notice to us.

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution, or winding up, holders of our Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive the amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would be entitled to receive with respect to such shares of Preferred Stock if such shares had been converted to common stock immediately prior to such event (without giving effect for such purposes to the 4.99% or 9.99% beneficial ownership limitation, as applicable) subject to the preferential rights of holders of any class or series of our capital stock specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Preferred Stock as to distributions of assets upon such event, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

Shares of Preferred Stock are not entitled to receive any dividends, unless and until specifically declared by our board of directors. However, holders of our Preferred Stock are entitled to receive dividends on shares of Preferred Stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends actually paid on shares of the common stock when such dividends are specifically declared by our board of directors, except for stock dividends or distributions payable in shares of common stock on shares of common stock or any other common stock equivalents for which the conversion price will be adjusted. We are not obligated to redeem or repurchase any shares of Preferred Stock. Shares of Preferred Stock are not otherwise entitled to any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provisions.

The holders of the Preferred Stock have no voting rights, except as required by law. We may not disproportionally alter or change adversely the powers, preferences and rights of the Preferred Stock or amend the certificate of designation or amend our articles of incorporation or bylaws in any manner that disproportionally adversely affect any right of the holders of the Preferred Stock without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Preferred Stock then outstanding.

Warrant Agent

The Series A Warrants and Series B Warrants will be issued in registered form under separate warrant agent agreements (each a “Warrant Agent Agreement”) between us and our warrant agent, Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company (the “Warrant Agent”). The material provisions of the warrants are set forth herein and a copy of each of the Warrant Agent Agreements will be filed as an exhibit to the Registration Statement on Form S-1, of which this prospectus forms a part. The Company and the Warrant Agent may amend or supplement each of the Warrant Agent Agreements without the consent of any holder for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or curing, correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained therein or adding or changing any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under each of the Warrant Agent Agreements as the parties thereto may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties determine, in good faith, shall not adversely affect the interest of the Series A Warrant or Series B Warrant holders, respectively. All other amendments and supplements to each of the Warrant Agent Agreement shall require the vote or written consent of holders of at least 50.1% of each of the Series A Warrants and Series B Warrants, as applicable.

Series A Warrants Offered Hereby

The Series A Warrants entitle the registered holder to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $8.50 per share (or 50% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series A Warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances, including in the event of a stock dividend, extraordinary dividend on or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation.

The Series A Warrants may be exercised upon surrender of the warrant certificate on or prior to the expiration date at the offices of the Warrant Agent, with the exercise form attached to the warrant certificate completed and executed as indicated, accompanied by full payment of the exercise price, by certified or official bank check payable to us, for the number of warrants being exercised. The Series A Warrant holders do not have the rights or privileges of holders of common stock and any voting rights until they exercise their Series A Warrants and receive shares of common stock. After the issuance of shares of common stock upon exercise of the Series A Warrants, each holder will be entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters to be voted on by stockholders.

No Series A Warrants will be exercisable for cash unless at the time of the exercise a prospectus or prospectus relating to common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series A Warrants is current and the common stock has been registered or qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the holder of the warrants. Under the terms of the Series A Warrant Agent Agreement, we have agreed to use our best efforts to maintain a current prospectus or prospectus relating to common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series A Warrants until the expiration of the Series A Warrants. Additionally, the market for the Series A Warrants may be limited if the prospectus or prospectus relating to the common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series A Warrants is not current or if the common stock is not qualified or exempt from qualification in the jurisdictions in which the holders of such Series A Warrants reside. In no event will the registered holders of a Series A Warrant be entitled to receive a net-cash settlement in lieu of physical settlement in shares of our common stock.

No fractional shares of common stock will be issued upon exercise of the Series A Warrants. If, upon exercise of the Series A Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, we will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of shares of common stock to be issued to the Warrant holder. If multiple Series A Warrants are exercised by the holder at the same time, we will aggregate the number of whole shares issuable upon exercise of all the Series A Warrants.

currently traded on The price of the Series A Warrants has been arbitrarily established by us and the Underwriter after giving consideration to numerous factors, including but not limited to, the pricing of the Units in this offering. No particular weighting was given to any one aspect of those factors considered. We have not performed any method of valuation of the warrants. 

Series B Warrants Offered Hereby

The Series B Warrants entitle each holder to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price equal to $17.00 per share (or 100% of the unit offering price), exercisable until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date and subject to certain adjustment and cashless exercise provisions as described herein. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances, including in the event of a stock dividend, extraordinary dividend on or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation.

The Series B Warrants may be exercised upon surrender of the warrant certificate on or prior to the expiration date at the offices of the Warrant Agent, with the exercise form attached to the warrant certificate completed and executed as indicated, accompanied by full payment of the exercise price, by certified or official bank check payable to us, for the number of warrants being exercised. The Series B Warrant holders do not have the rights or privileges of holders of common stock and any voting rights until they exercise their Series B Warrants and receive shares of common stock. After the issuance of shares of common stock upon exercise of the Series B Warrants, each holder will be entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters to be voted on by stockholders.

No Series B Warrants will be exercisable for cash unless at the time of the exercise a prospectus or prospectus relating to common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrants is current and the common stock has been registered or qualified or deemed to be exemptNasdaq Capital Market under the securities laws ofsymbol “INBS.” On [●], 2023, the state of residence of the holder of the warrants. Under the terms of the Series B Warrant Agent Agreement, we have agreed to use our best efforts to maintain a current prospectus or prospectus relating to common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrants until the expiration of the Series B Warrants. Additionally, the market for the Series B Warrants may be limited if the prospectus or prospectus relating to the common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrants is not current or if the common stock is not qualified or exempt from qualification in the jurisdictions in which the holders of such Series B Warrants reside. In no event will the registered holders of a Series B Warrant be entitled to receive a net-cash settlement in lieu of physical settlement in shares of our common stock. If we fail to maintain a current prospectus or prospectus relating to the common stock issuable upon the exercise of the Series B Warrants, such holders may exercise their Series B Warrants on a “cashless” basis pursuant to a formula set forth in the terms of the Series B Warrants.

Additionally, holders of Series B Warrants may exercise such warrants on a “cashless” basis upon the earlier of (i) 10 trading days from the issuance date of such warrant or (ii) the time when $10.0 million of volume is traded in our common stock, if the volume weighted average price (“VWAP”) of our common stock on any trading day on or after the date of issuance fails to exceed the exercise price of the Series B Warrant (subject to adjustment for any stock splits, stock dividends, stock combinations, recapitalizations and similar events). In such event, the aggregate number of shares of common stock issuable in such cashless exercise shall equal the product of (x) the aggregate number of shares of common stock that would be issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrant in accordance with its terms if such exercise were by means of a cash exercise rather than a cashless exercise and (y) 1.00.

No fractional shares of common stock will be issued upon exercise of the Series B Warrants. If, upon exercise of the Series B Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a share, we will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of shares of common stock to be issued to the Warrant holder. If multiple Series B Warrants are exercised by the holder at the same time, we will aggregate the number of whole shares issuable upon exercise of all the Series B Warrants.

The price of the Series B Warrants has been arbitrarily established by us and the Underwriter after giving consideration to numerous factors, including but not limited to, the pricing of the Units in this offering. No particular weighting was given to any one aspect of those factors considered. We have not performed any method of valuation of the warrants.

Warrants

As of September 30, 2020, there are outstanding warrants to purchase 2,736,675 shares of our common stock issued in connection with the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock having an exercise price per share equal to 100% of the public offering price in this offering, or $8.50 per share (50% of the unit offering price in this offering), which warrants are exercisable only during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the closing of this offering. The warrants are not entitled to any adjustment in the number of shares or the exercise price in the event of any adjustments in the number of outstanding shares of our capital stock for any reason.

In addition, upon the closing of this offering, we will issue to the underwriters warrants to purchase 55,555 shares of our common stock. See “Underwriting.”

Convertible Notes

Our 99%-owned subsidiary, GBS Pty Ltd, has issued convertible notes in the outstanding aggregate principal amount of $5,133,706, the principal and all accrued interest of which notes will automatically convert into shares of our common stock at a price per share equal to 85% of 50% of the unit offering price in this offering (or $7.23, assuming a unit offering price of $17.00, for an aggregate of 710,548 shares based on $5,133,706 of principal and zero accrued interest outstanding as of September 30, 2020). In the absence of the completion of this offering and such automatic conversion of the notes, the notes will mature on December 31, 2020. These notes were issued in a private placement conducted in the first quarter of 2018.

Registration Rights

There are no registration rights held by any party with respect to any of our capital stock.

Anti-Takeover Effects of Provisions of Our Certificate of Incorporation, Our By-laws and Delaware Law

Some provisions of Delaware law, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated by-laws contain provisions that could make hostile takeovers, including the following transactions, more difficult: an acquisition of us by means of a tender offer; an acquisition of us by means of a proxy contest or otherwise; or the removal of our incumbent officers and directors. As a consequence, they may also inhibit temporary fluctuations in the market price of our common stock that often result from actual or rumored hostile takeover attempts. These provisions may also have the effect of preventing changes in the composition of our board and management. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish or could deter transactions that stockholders may otherwise consider to be in their best interest or in our best interests, including transactions which provide for payment of a premium over the market price for our shares.

These provisions, summarized below, are intended to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our Board of Directors. We believe that the benefits of the increased protection of our potential ability to negotiate with the proponent of an unfriendly or unsolicited proposal to acquire or restructure us outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging these proposals because negotiation of these proposals could result in an improvement of their terms.

Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute

We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prohibits persons deemed to be “interested stockholders” from engaging in a “business combination” with a publicly held Delaware corporation for three years following the date these persons become interested stockholders unless the business combination is, or the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder was approved in a prescribed manner or another prescribed exception applies. Generally, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status did own, 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock. Generally, a “business combination” includes a merger, asset or stock sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. The existence of this provision may have an anti-takeover effect with respect to transactions not approved in advance by the Board of Directors. A Delaware corporation may “opt out” of these provisions with an express provision in its original certificate of incorporation or an express provision in its certificate of incorporation or by-laws resulting from a stockholders’ amendment approved by at least a majority of the outstanding voting shares. We have not opted out of these provisions. As a result, mergers or other takeover or change in control attempts of us may be discouraged or prevented.

Undesignated Preferred Stock$[●] per share.

 

The ability of our Board of Directors, without action by the stockholders, to issue undesignated shares of preferred stock with voting or other rights or preferences as designated by our Board of Directors could impede the success of any attempt to change control of us. These and other provisions may have the effect of deferring hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control or management of our company.

Authorized Common Stock

Our authorized but unissued shares of common stock will be available for future issuance without stockholder approval. These additional shares may be utilized for a variety of corporate purposes, including future public offerings to raise additional capital and corporate acquisitions. The existence of authorized but unissued shares of common stock could render more difficult or discourage an attempt to obtain control of a majority of our common stock by means of a proxy contest, tender offer, merger or otherwise.

Vacancies on the Board

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated by-laws will provide that any vacancy occurring on the board of directors, including by reason of removal of a director, and any newly created directorship may be filled only by a majority of the remaining directors in office. This system of appointing directors may discourage a third party from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of our company, because it generally makes it more difficult for stockholders to replace a majority of the directors.

Advance Notice Requirements for Shareholder Proposals and Director Nominations

Our amended and restated by-laws will provide advance notice procedures for stockholders seeking to bring business before our annual meeting of shareholders, or to nominate candidates for election as directors at any meeting of shareholders. Our amended and restated by-laws also will specify certain requirements regarding the form and content of a stockholder’s notice. These provisions may preclude our stockholders from bringing matters before our annual meeting of stockholders or from making nominations for directors at our meetings of stockholders.

No Cumulative Voting; No Action Without a Meeting; Special Meeting of Stockholders

Stockholders will not be permitted to cumulate their votes for the election of directors. In addition, stockholders will not be able to take action by written consent, and will only be able to take action at annual or special meetings of our stockholders. Furthermore, special meetings of our stockholders may be called only by Chief Executive Officer, our President, our Board of Directors or a majority of our stockholders.

Exclusive Forum Selection

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will require, to the fullest extent permitted by law, subject to limited exceptions, that derivative actions brought in our name, actions against directors, officers and employees for breach of fiduciary duty and other similar actions may be brought only in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware and, if brought outside of Delaware, the stockholder bringing the suit will be deemed to have consented to service of process on such stockholder’s counsel in any action brought to enforce the exclusive forum provision. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the forum provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. In addition, Section 22 of the Securities Act creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. As a result, the exclusive forum provision will provide that the Court of Chancery and the federal district court for the District of Delaware will have concurrent jurisdiction over any action arising under the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder, and the exclusive forum provision will not apply to suits brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder or any other claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. To the extent the exclusive forum provision restricts the courts in which our stockholders may bring claims arising under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, there is uncertainty as to whether a court would enforce such provision. Investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

Although we believe this provision benefits our company by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law in the types of lawsuits to which it applies, a court may determine that this provision is unenforceable, and to the extent it is enforceable, the provision may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against our directors and officers and increasing the cost to stockholders of bringing such lawsuits.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent for our common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, 17 Battery Place, New York, New York 10004.

Listing of Common Stock

We have applied to list our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “GBS.” Although we expect our common stock to be listed on the NASDAQ Global Market, there can be no assurance that an active trading market will develop.

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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

Before this offering, there has not been a public market for shares of our common stock. Future sales of substantial amounts of shares of our common stock, including shares issued upon the exercise of outstanding warrants, in the public market after this offering, or the possibility of these sales occurring, could cause the prevailing market price for our common stock to fall or impair our ability to raise equity capital in the future.

After this offering, we will have outstanding 10,209,562 shares of common stock. This amount includes: (i) 2,810,190 shares of common stock are issuable upon the completion of this offering by mandatory conversion of outstanding shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock on a one-to-one basis; and (ii) 710,548 shares of common stock are issuable upon the completion of this offering by mandatory conversion of $5,133,706 principal amount of notes issued by our 99%-owned subsidiary GBS Pty Ltd at a conversion price per share equal to 85% of the public offering price inof the securities offered by this offering. In addition, 2,736,675 shares of common stockprospectus will be issuable duringdetermined by negotiation between us and the one year period commencing onunderwriters. Among the second anniversary of the completion of this offering upon exercise of outstanding warrants issued in connection with the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, and 55,555 shares will be issuable upon the exercise of warrants to be issued to the underwriters upon the closing of this offering. See “Underwriting.”

All of the foregoing sharesfactors that will be outstanding after thisconsidered in determining the final public offering other than the shares sold in this offering, are or will be upon issuance “restricted securities” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act. These restricted securities are eligible for public sale only if they are registered under the Securities Act or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under Rule 144 under the Securities Act, which are summarized below.

As a resultprice of the lock-up agreements described below, 10,209,562 of these securities will be available for sale in the public markets only upon completion of the applicable lock-up period.

Rule 144

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, once we have been subject to public company reporting requirements for at least 90 days, a person who is not deemed to have been one of our affiliates for purposes of the Securities Act at any time during the 90 days preceding a sale and who has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least six months, including the holding period of any prior owner other than our affiliates, upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements described below, is entitled to sell those shares without complying with the manner of sale, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144, subject to compliance with the public information requirements of Rule 144. If such a person has beneficially owned the shares proposed to be sold for at least one year, including the holding period of any prior owner other than our affiliates, then that person is entitled to sell those shares without complying with any of the requirements of Rule 144.

In general, under Rule 144, as currently in effect, our affiliates or persons selling shares on behalf of our affiliates are entitled to sell upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements described below, within any three-month period beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus, a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of:shares:

 

1% of the number of shares of common stock then outstanding, which will equal approximately 129,719 shares immediately afterOur history and our initial public offering, orprospects;
   
the average weekly trading volumeThe industry in which we operate;
Our past and present operating results; and
The general condition of the common stock during the four calendar weeks preceding the filingsecurities markets at this time of a notice on Form 144 with respect to such sale.this offering.

 

Sales under Rule 144 by our affiliates or persons sellingThe public offering price stated on the cover page of this prospectus should not be considered an indication of the actual value of the shares on behalf of our affiliates are alsocommon stock sold in this offering. That price is subject to certain mannerchange as a result of sale provisionsmarket conditions and notice requirementsother factors and towe cannot assure you that the availabilityshares of currentcommon stock sold in this offering can be resold at or above the public information about us.offering price.

 

Lock-Up AgreementsRight of First Refusal

 

We have granted to Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. the right of first refusal until February 26, 2025, to act as sole bookrunner, exclusive placement agent or exclusive sales agent in connection with any financing of the Company.

Listing

Our shares of common stock are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “INBS.” The last reported sales price of our shares of common stock on[●], 2023 was $[●] per share. The actual public offering price per Class A Unit or Class B Unit, as the case may be, will be determined between us, the underwriters and the investors in the offering, and may be at a discount to the current market price of our common stock. Therefore, the assumed public offering price used throughout this prospectus may not be indicative of the final public offering price. There is no established public trading market for the warrants or the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock, and we do not expect such a market to develop. In addition, we do not intend to apply for listing of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or the warrants on any securities exchange or other trading system.

Lock-up Agreements

Our officers, directors and each of our officers, directors,their respective affiliates and associated partners, and certain existingother stockholders aggregating at least           of our outstanding shares have agreed with the underwriters to be subject to certain exceptions,a lock-up period of 90 days following the closing date of this offering. This means that, during the applicable lock-up period, such persons may not to offer issue, sell,for sale, contract to sell, encumber,sell, distribute, grant any option, for the sale ofright or warrant to purchase, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of our common stock or otherany securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of our common stockstock. Certain limitedtransfers are permitted during the lock-up period if the transferee agrees to these lock-up restrictions. We have also agreed, in the underwriting agreement, to similar lock-up restrictions on the issuance and sale of our securities for a period of six months after90 days following the closing date of this offering, is completed without the prior written consent of the representative of the underwriters.

although we will be permitted to issue stock options or stock awards to directors, officers and employees under our existing plans.The representative of the underwriters may, in its sole discretion and at any time without notice, release some or all ofwaive the shares subject to lock-up agreements prior to the expiration of the lock-up period. When determining whether or not to release shares from the lock-up agreements, the representative will consider, among other factors, the security holder’s reasons for requesting the release, the number of shares for which the release is being requested and market conditions at the time. 

Registration Statement on Form S-8 and Registration Rights

As of the date hereof, no awardsterms of any kind have been made under the 2019 Plan. We intend to file a registration statement on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register shares that may be issued pursuant to the 2019 Plan. The registration statement on Form S-8 is expected to become effective immediately upon filing, and shares covered by the registration statement will then become eligible for sale in the public market upon issuance, subject to the Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates, vesting restrictions and any applicableof these lock-up agreements. For a description of our equity incentive plans, see “Management—2019 Equity Incentive Plan.”

In addition, we have granted the underwriters a one-time demand registration right and unlimited “piggyback” registration rights with respect to the shares underlying the warrants to be issued to the underwriters upon the closing of this offering. The piggyback registration right will not be greater than seven years from the effective date of the offering in compliance with FINRA Rule 5110(f)(2)(G)(v). See “Underwriting.”

 

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Other Relationships

UNDERWRITINGFrom time to time, certain of the underwriters and their affiliates may provide in the future, various advisory, investment and commercial banking and other services to us in the ordinary course of business, for which they will receive customary fees and commissions. The representative received compensation in connection with our acquisition of Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited and acted as underwriter in connection with our public offering consummated in March 2023 for which it received compensation.

 

Dawson James Securities, Inc. (“Dawson James” or the “Representative”) is acting as the lead managing underwriterTransfer Agent, Warrant Agent and as representative of the underwriters. Subject to the terms and conditions of an underwriting agreement, dated, 2020, between us and the Representative, we have agreed to sell to each underwriter named below, and each underwriter named below has severally agreed to purchase, at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, the number of units listed next to its name in the following table:Registrar

 

The transfer agent, warrant agent and registrar for our common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC.

Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

The underwriters may engage in syndicate covering transactions stabilizing transactions and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of our common stock;

NameSyndicate covering transactions involve purchases of UnderwriterNumbersecurities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. Such a naked short position would be closed out by buying securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of Unitsthe securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.
Dawson James Securities, Inc.   
 Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specific maximum.
   
TotalPenalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the securities originally sold by the syndicate member are purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions.

 

TheThese syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions, and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market prices of our securities or preventing or retarding a decline in the market prices of our securities. As a result the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. Neither we nor the underwriters are committedmake any representation or prediction as to purchase allthe effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. These transactions may be effected on the Nasdaq Capital Market, in the over-the-counter market or on any other trading market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time. In connection with this offering, the underwriters also may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock in accordance with Regulation M during a period before the commencement of offers or sales of shares of our common stock in this offering and extending through the completion of the units offered by this prospectusdistribution. In general, a passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the highest independent bid for that security. However, if theyall independent bids are lowered below the passive market maker’s bid that bid must then be lowered when specific purchase any units. The underwriting agreement also provideslimits are exceeded. Passive market making may stabilize the market price of the securities at a level above that which might otherwise prevail in the open market and, if an underwriter defaults, the purchase commitments of non-defaulting underwriterscommenced, may be increased, or the offering may be terminated. The underwriters are not obligated to purchase the shares of common stock and warrants covered by the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of common stock and warrants described below. The underwriters are offering the units, subject to prior sale, when, as and if issued to and accepted by them, subject to approval of legal matters by their counsel, and other conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, such as the receipt bydiscontinued at any time. Neither we, nor the underwriters of officer’s certificates and legal opinions. The underwriters reserve the right to withdraw, cancelmake any representation or modify offersprediction as to the public and to reject ordersdirection or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the prices of our securities. In addition, neither we nor the underwriters make any representation that the underwriters will engage in wholethese transactions or in part.that any transactions, once commenced will not be discontinued without notice.

 

Over-Allotment Option

We have granted the representative of the underwriters an option exercisable for up to 45 days after the date of the underwriting agreement, to purchase up to            shares of common stock, and/or Series A Warrants, and/or Series B Warrants at the public offering price listed on the cover page of this prospectus, less underwriting discounts. The underwriters may exercise this option solely to cover over-allotments, if any, made in connection with this offering. To the extent the option is exercised, and the conditions of the underwriting agreement are satisfied, we will be obligated to sell to the underwriters, and the underwriters will be obligated to purchase, these additional shares of common stock and/or warrants.

Discounts and CommissionsIndemnification

We have agreed to payindemnify the underwriters a cash fee equalagainst certain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act, or to 8.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds. Upon the closing of this offering, we will issuecontribute to Dawson James, as representative ofpayments that the underwriters warrants entitlingmay be required to make for these liabilities.

Electronic Distribution

A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the representative to purchase 5.0% ofwebsites maintained by the aggregate number of shares issuedunderwriters, if any, participating in this offering (includingand the numberunderwriters may distribute prospectuses electronically. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on these websites is not part of shares issuablethis prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has not been approved or endorsed by us or the underwriters, and should not be relied upon conversion of any shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock). The warrants shall be exercisable for a period of five years date of commencement of sales in this offering at an exercise price of 110% of the public price per unit issued in the offering.by investors.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

 

The Representative has advised us thatfollowing summary description of our capital stock is based on the underwriters propose to offerprovisions of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended, the shares directly“Certificate of Incorporation”), and Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”), and the applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law. This information may not be complete in all respects and is qualified entirely by reference to the public atprovisions of our Certificate of Incorporation, our Bylaws and the public offering priceDelaware General Corporation Law. For a complete description of the matters set forth on the coverin “Description of this prospectus. In addition, the Representative may offer someCapital Stock” you should refer to our Certificate of the shares to other securities dealers at such price less a concession of up to $          per share, $ per Series A Warrant,Incorporation and $ per Series B Warrant. After the offeringour Bylaws, which are or will be included as exhibits to the public, the offering priceregistration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and other selling terms may be changed by the Representative without changing the Company’s proceeds from the underwriters’ purchase of the units.

The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discounts and proceeds, before expenses, to us. The information assumes either no exercise or full exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option. The underwriting discounts are equal to the public offering price per share less the amount per share the underwriters payapplicable provisions of Delaware law.

General

Our Certificate of Incorporation will authorize us for the shares.to issue up to

 

 Total100,000,000 shares of our common stock, $0.001 per value per share.
 Per
Unit
Without Over-
Allotment Option
With Over-
Allotment Option
Public offering price$$$
Underwriting discounts$$$
Proceeds, before expenses,10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share, the rights, preferences, and privileges of which may be designated from time to us$$$time by our Board.

 

We estimate thatAs at July 10, 2023, we had 2,330,399 shares of common stock held by 495 stockholders of record. In addition, we have 500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock (the Closing Holdback Shares) reserved and held back from the total expensesIFP Sellers for one year after the closing of the offering, including registration, filing and listing fees, printing fees and legal and accounting expenses, but excluding underwriting discounts, will be approximately $            , allIFP Acquisition to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against those IFP Sellers. As at July 10, 2023, there were also warrants outstanding to purchase 501,521 shares of which are payable by us. This figure includes an expense allowancecommon stock issuable upon the exercise of $125,000 for accountable expenses and up $12,500 for the actual roadshow expenseswarrants at a weighted-average exercise price of the Representative that we have agreed to pay the Representative for reimbursement of its expenses related to this offering. We have paid an advance of $25,000 to the Representative applicable to the accountable expenses, which will be returned to us to the extent such accountable expenses are not actually incurred in accordance with FINRA Rule 5110(g)(4)(A).$174.37.

 

Determination of Offering Price

 

Before this offering, there has been no public market forOur common stock is currently traded on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “INBS.” On [●], 2023, the closing price of our common stock. Accordingly, thestock was $[●] per share.

The public offering price of the securities offered by this prospectus will be negotiateddetermined by negotiation between us and the representative.underwriters. Among the factors tothat will be considered in these negotiations are:determining the final public offering price of the shares:

 

the prospects forOur history and our company and theprospects;
The industry in which we operate;

 
ourOur past and present financialoperating results; and operating performance;

 financial and operating information and market valuations of publicly traded companies engaged in activities similar to ours;

the prevailing conditionsThe general condition of United Statesthe securities markets at thethis time of this offering; and

��other factors deemed relevant.offering.

 

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

Lock-Up AgreementsRight of First Refusal

 

We have granted to Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. the right of first refusal until February 26, 2025, to act as sole bookrunner, exclusive placement agent or exclusive sales agent in connection with any financing of the Company.

Listing

Our shares of common stock are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “INBS.” The last reported sales price of our shares of common stock on[●], 2023 was $[●] per share. The actual public offering price per Class A Unit or Class B Unit, as the case may be, will be determined between us, the underwriters and the investors in the offering, and may be at a discount to the current market price of our common stock. Therefore, the assumed public offering price used throughout this prospectus may not be indicative of the final public offering price. There is no established public trading market for the warrants or the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock, and we do not expect such a market to develop. In addition, we do not intend to apply for listing of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock or the warrants on any securities exchange or other trading system.

Lock-up Agreements

Our officers, directors and each of our officers, directors,their respective affiliates and associated partners, and certain existingother stockholders aggregating at least            of our outstanding shares have agreed with the underwriters to be subject to certain exceptions,a lock-up period of 90 days following the closing date of this offering. This means that, during the applicable lock-up period, such persons may not to offer issue, sell,for sale, contract to sell, encumber,sell, distribute, grant any option, for the sale ofright or warrant to purchase, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any shares of our common stock or otherany securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of our common stockstock. Certain limitedtransfers are permitted during the lock-up period if the transferee agrees to these lock-up restrictions. We have also agreed, in the underwriting agreement, to similar lock-up restrictions on the issuance and sale of our securities for a period of six months after90 days following the closing date of this offering, is completed without the prior written consent of the Representative.

although we will be permitted to issue stock options or stock awards to directors, officers and employees under our existing plans.The Representative representative may, in its sole discretion and at any time without notice, release some or allwaive the terms of the shares subject toany of these lock-up agreements prior to the expiration of the lock-up period. When determining whether or not to release shares from the lock-up agreements, the representative will consider, among other factors, the security holder’s reasons for requesting the release, the number of shares for which the release is being requested and market conditions at the time.agreements.

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Other Relationships

 

RightFrom time to time, certain of First Refusalthe underwriters and their affiliates may provide in the future, various advisory, investment and commercial banking and other services to us in the ordinary course of business, for which they will receive customary fees and commissions. The representative received compensation in connection with our acquisition of Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited and acted as underwriter in connection with our public offering consummated in March 2023 for which it received compensation.

 

AccordingTransfer Agent, Warrant Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent, warrant agent and registrar for our common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC.

Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

The underwriters may engage in syndicate covering transactions stabilizing transactions and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of our common stock;

Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. Such a naked short position would be closed out by buying securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of the securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.
Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specific maximum.
Penalty bids permit the underwriters to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the securities originally sold by the syndicate member are purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions.

These syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions, and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market prices of our securities or preventing or retarding a decline in the market prices of our securities. As a result the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. Neither we nor the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the termseffect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. These transactions may be effected on the Nasdaq Capital Market, in the over-the-counter market or on any other trading market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time. In connection with this offering, the underwriters also may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock in accordance with Regulation M during a period before the commencement of offers or sales of shares of our common stock in this offering and extending through the completion of the underwriting agreement,distribution. In general, a passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the Representative shallhighest independent bid for that security. However, if all independent bids are lowered below the passive market maker’s bid that bid must then be lowered when specific purchase limits are exceeded. Passive market making may stabilize the market price of the securities at a level above that which might otherwise prevail in the open market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time. Neither we, nor the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the right of first refusal for a period of twelve months after the closing of this offering to act as sole book-running manager for all future public equity offerings by us, or any successor to or subsidiaryprices of our company, during such period.securities. In addition, neither we nor the underwriters make any representation that the underwriters will engage in these transactions or that any transactions, once commenced will not be discontinued without notice.

 

Indemnification

We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against specifiedcertain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act, andor to contribute to payments that the underwriters may be required to make in respect thereof.for these liabilities.

 

Electronic Offer, Sale and Distribution of Shares

 

A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on a websitethe websites maintained by the Representativeunderwriters, if any, participating in this offering and may also be made available on a website maintained by other underwriters. The underwriters may agree to allocate a number of shares to underwriters for sale to their online brokerage account holders. Internet distributions will be allocated by the Representative to underwriters that may make Internet distributions on the same basis as other allocations. In connection with the offering, the underwriters or syndicate members may distribute prospectuses electronically. No forms of electronic prospectus other than prospectuses that are printable as Adobe® PDF will be used in connection with this offering.

The underwriters have informed us that they do not expect to confirm sales of shares offered by this prospectus to accounts over which they exercise discretionary authority.

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

 

Price Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

In connection with this offering, the underwriters may engage in transactions that stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the price of our common stock. Specifically, the underwriters may over-allot in connection with this offering by selling more shares than are set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. This creates a short position in our common stock for its own account. The short position may be either a covered short position or a naked short position. In a covered short position, the number of shares common stock over-allotted by the underwriters is not greater than the number of shares of common stock that they may purchase in the over-allotment option. In a naked short position, the number of shares of common stock involved is greater than the number of shares common stock in the over-allotment option. To close out a short position, the underwriters may elect to exercise all or part of the over-allotment option. The underwriters may also elect to stabilize the price of our common stock or reduce any short position by bidding for, and purchasing, common stock in the open market.

The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter or dealer repays selling concessions allowed to it for distributing a security in this offering because the underwriter repurchases that security in stabilizing or short covering transactions.

Finally, the underwriters may bid for, and purchase, shares of our common stock in market making transactions, including “passive” market making transactions as described below.

These activities may stabilize or maintain the market price of our common stock at a price that is higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the absence of these activities. The underwriters are not required to engage in these activities, and may discontinue any of these activities at any time without notice.

In connection with this offering, the underwriters and selling group members, if any, or their affiliates may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock immediately prior to the commencement of sales in this offering, in accordance with Rule 103 of Regulation M under the Exchange Act. Rule 103 generally provides that:

a passive market maker may not effect transactions or display bids for our common stock in excess of the highest independent bid price by persons who are not passive market makers;

net purchases by a passive market maker on each day are generally limited to 30% of the passive market maker’s average daily trading volume in our common stock during a specified two-month prior period or 200 shares, whichever is greater, and must be discontinued when that limit is reached; and

passive market making bids must be identified as such.

Certain Relationships

Certain of the underwriters and their affiliates may in the future provide various investment banking, commercial banking and other financial services for us and our affiliates for which they may in the future receive customary fees, however, except for the right of first refusal disclosed in this prospectus, we have no present arrangements with any of the underwriters for any further services.

Offer Restrictions Outside the United States

Other than in the United States, no action has been taken by us or the underwriters that would permit a public offering of the securities offered by this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. The securities offered by this prospectus may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, nor may this prospectus or any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the offer and sale of any such securities 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 into whose possession this prospectus comes are advised to inform themselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to the offering and the distribution of this prospectus. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities offered by this prospectus in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or a solicitation is unlawful.

Australia

This prospectus is not a disclosure document under Chapter 6D of the Australian Corporations Act, has not been lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and does not purport to include the information required of a disclosure document under Chapter 6D of the Australian Corporations Act. Accordingly, (i) the offer of the securities under this prospectus is only made to persons to whom it is lawful to offer the securities without disclosure under Chapter 6D of the Australian Corporations Act under one or more exemptions set out in section 708 of the Australian Corporations Act, (ii) this prospectus is made available in Australia only to those persons as set forth in clause (i) above, and (iii) the offeree must be sent a notice stating in substance that by accepting this offer, the offeree represents that the offeree is such a person as set forth in clause (i) above, and, unless permitted under the Australian Corporations Act, agrees not to sell or offer for sale within Australia any of the securities sold to the offeree within 12 months after its transfer to the offeree under this prospectus.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following summary description of our capital stock is based on the provisions of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (as amended, the “Certificate of Incorporation”), and Amended and Restated Bylaws (as amended, the “Bylaws”), and the applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law. This information may not be complete in all respects and is qualified entirely by reference to the provisions of our Certificate of Incorporation, our Bylaws and the Delaware General Corporation Law. For a complete description of the matters set forth in “Description of Capital Stock” you should refer to our Certificate of Incorporation and our Bylaws, which are or will be included as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and to the applicable provisions of Delaware law.

General

Our Certificate of Incorporation will authorize us to issue up to

100,000,000 shares of our common stock, $0.001 per value per share.
10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.001 par value per share, the rights, preferences, and privileges of which may be designated from time to time by our Board.

As at July 10, 2023, we had 2,330,399 shares of common stock held by 495 stockholders of record. In addition, we have 500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock (the Closing Holdback Shares) reserved and held back from the IFP Sellers for one year after the closing of the IFP Acquisition to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against those IFP Sellers. As at July 10, 2023, there were also warrants outstanding to purchase 501,521 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants at a weighted-average exercise price of $174.37.

Common Stock

Voting Rights

The holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters submitted to a vote of the stockholders, including the election of directors, and do not have cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors can elect all of the directors standing for election, if they so choose, other than any directors that holders of any preferred stock we may issue may be entitled to elect.

Dividends

Subject to limitations under Delaware law and preferences that may be applicable to any then outstanding preferred stock, holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably those dividends, if any, as may be declared by our Board of Directors out of legally available funds.

Liquidations

In the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of our affairs, the holders of our common stock will be entitled to share ratably in the net assets legally available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of or provision for all of our debts and other liabilities, subject to the prior rights of any Preferred Stock then outstanding.

Other Rights

Holders of our common stock have no preemptive, conversion or subscription rights, and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock. The rights, preferences and privileges of the holders of our common stock are subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of shares of any series of our preferred stock that we may designate and issue in the future.

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Fully Paid and Non-assessable

All outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and nonassessable.

Preferred Stock

Our Board of Directors currently has the authority, without further action by our stockholders, to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof. These rights, preferences and privileges could include dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, terms of redemption, liquidation preferences, sinking fund terms and the number of shares constituting, or the designation of, such series, any or all of which may be greater than the rights of common stock. The issuance of preferred stock could adversely affect the voting power of holders of common stock and the likelihood that such holders will receive dividend payments and payments upon our liquidation. In addition, the issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change in control of our company or other corporate action.

Series E Convertible Preferred Stock

The following summary of certain terms and provisions of the Series E Preferred Stock offered in this offering is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, the terms and provisions set forth in our Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of the Series E Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Certificate of Designation”) , which will be filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. You should review a copy of the Certificate of Designation for a complete description of the terms and conditions of the Series E Preferred Stock

Voting Rights

The holders of the Series E Preferred Stock have no voting rights, except as required by law. We may not disproportionally alter or change adversely the powers, preferences and rights of the Series E Preferred Stock or amend the Certificate of Designation or amend our Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws in any manner that disproportionally adversely affect any right of the holders of the Series E Preferred Stock without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Series E Preferred Stock then outstanding, or increase the number of authorized shares of Series E Preferred Stock.

Dividends

Shares of Series E Preferred Stock are not entitled to receive any dividends, unless and until specifically declared by our board of directors. However, holders of our Series E Preferred Stock are entitled to receive dividends on shares of Series E Preferred Stock equal (on an as-if-converted-to-common-stock basis) to and in the same form as dividends actually paid on shares of the common stock when such dividends are specifically declared by our board of directors, except for stock dividends or distributions payable in shares of common stock on shares of common stock or any other common stock equivalents for which the conversion price will be adjusted.

Liquidation

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution, or winding up, holders of our Series E Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive the amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would be entitled to receive with respect to such shares of Series E Preferred Stock if such shares had been converted to common stock immediately prior to such event (without giving effect for such purposes to the 4.99% or 9.99% beneficial ownership limitation, as applicable) subject to the preferential rights of holders of any class or series of our capital stock specifically ranking by its terms senior to the Series E Preferred Stock as to distributions of assets upon such event, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

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Conversion

Each share of Series E Preferred Stock is convertible at any time at the holder’s option into one share of common stock (subject to the beneficial ownership limitations as provided in the Certificate of Designation), subject to adjustment as provided in the Certificate of Designation, provided that the holder will be prohibited from converting Series E Preferred Stock into shares of our common stock if, as a result of such conversion, the holder, together with its affiliates, would own more than 4.99%, or 9.99%, of the total number of shares of our common stock then issued and outstanding. However, any holder may increase or decrease such percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 9.99%, provided that any increase in such percentage shall not be effective until the 61st day after such notice to us.

Other Rights

We are not obligated to redeem or repurchase any shares of Series E Preferred Stock. Shares of Series E Preferred Stock are not otherwise entitled to any redemption rights, or mandatory sinking fund or analogous fund provision.

Anti-Takeover Effects of Provisions of Our Certificate of Incorporation, Our Bylaws and Delaware Law

Some provisions of Delaware law, our Certificate of Incorporation and our Bylaws contain provisions that could make hostile takeovers, including the following transactions, more difficult: an acquisition of us by means of a tender offer; an acquisition of us by means of a proxy contest or otherwise; or the removal of our incumbent officers and directors. As a consequence, they may also inhibit temporary fluctuations in the market price of our common stock that often result from actual or rumored hostile takeover attempts. These provisions may also have the effect of preventing changes in the composition of our board and management. It is possible that these provisions could make it more difficult to accomplish or could deter transactions that stockholders may otherwise consider to be in their best interest or in our best interests, including transactions which provide for payment of a premium over the market price for our shares.

These provisions, summarized below, are intended to discourage coercive takeover practices and inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our Board of Directors. We believe that the benefits of the increased protection of our potential ability to negotiate with the proponent of an unfriendly or unsolicited proposal to acquire or restructure us outweigh the disadvantages of discouraging these proposals because negotiation of these proposals could result in an improvement of their terms.

Delaware Anti-Takeover Statute

We are subject to Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which prohibits persons deemed to be “interested stockholders” from engaging in a “business combination” with a publicly held Delaware corporation for three years following the date these persons become interested stockholders unless the business combination is, or the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder was, approved in a prescribed manner or another prescribed exception applies. Generally, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status did own, 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock. Generally, a “business combination” includes a merger, asset or stock sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. The existence of this provision may have an anti-takeover effect with respect to transactions not approved in advance by the Board of Directors. A Delaware corporation may “opt out” of these provisions with an express provision in its original certificate of incorporation or an express provision in its certificate of incorporation or Bylaws resulting from a stockholders’ amendment approved by at least a majority of the outstanding voting shares. We have not opted out of these provisions. As a result, mergers or other takeover or change in control attempts of us may be discouraged or prevented.

Transfer Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent for our common stock is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, 17 Battery Place, New York, New York 10004.

Listing

Our common stock is listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “INBS”

LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the common stocksecurities being offered herebyby this prospectus will be passed upon for us by ArentFox Schiff Hardin LLP Washington, DC.of New York, NY 10036. The representative of the underwriters is being represented by Ellenoff, Grossman & Schole, LLP, New York, New York, is acting as counsel to the underwriters in this offering.York.

 

EXPERTS

 

OurThe consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhereof the Company as of June 30, 2022, and 2021 and for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2022, incorporated by reference in this Prospectus and in the Registration Statement have been so incorporated in reliance on the report of BDO Audit Pty Ltd., an independent registered public accounting firm, incorporated herein by reference, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting. The report on the consolidated financial statements contains an explanatory paragraph regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

The financial statements of Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited as of December 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021 and for each of the years then ended, incorporated by reference in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement from the Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. Form 8-K/A filed December 8, 2022, have been included hereinincorporated by reference in reliance upon the report of BDO Audit Pty Ltd,UHY Haines Norton, an independent registered public accounting firm, appearing elsewhere herein, andauditor, upon the authority of BDO Audit Pty Ltd.said firm as experts in accountingauditing and auditing.accounting.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act with respect tofor the shares of common stocksecurities being offered hereby.by this prospectus. This prospectus, which constitutes ais part of the registration statement, does not contain all of the information set forthincluded in the registration statement orand the exhibits and schedules filed therewith.exhibits. For further information about us and the common stocksecurities offered hereby, weby this prospectus, you should refer you to the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules filed therewith. Statements containedits exhibits. References in this prospectus to, or statements regarding, the contentsany of any contractour contracts or other document that is filed as an exhibit to the registration statementdocuments are not necessarily complete, and each suchyou should refer to the exhibits attached to the registration statement for copies of the actual contract or document. Each of these references and statements is qualified in all respects by referencethis reference.

We are subject to the full textreporting and information requirements of such contract or other document filedthe Exchange Act and, as an exhibit to the registration statement. Upon the completion of this offering,a result, we will be required to file periodic and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. Our filings with the SEC pursuantare available free of charge to the Exchange Act. You may read and copy this information atpublic on the SEC’s Public Reference Room, 100 F Street, N.E., Room 1580, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may obtainwebsite at http://www.sec.gov. Those filings are also available free of charge to the public on, or accessible through, our website (www.ibs.inc) under the heading “Investors.” The information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by callingwe file with the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC also maintains an Internetor contained on or accessible through our corporate website or any other website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about issuers, including us, that file electronically with the SEC. The addresswe may maintain is not part of this site is www.sec.gov.

GBS INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE PERIOD FROM JULY 1, 2019 THROUGH

JUNE 30, 2020

GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements

Tableprospectus or the registration statement of Contents

Contents

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM3
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS5
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS6
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY7
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS9
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS10

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Tel: +61 2 9251 4100

Fax: +61 2 9240 9821

www.bdo.com.au

Level 11, 1 Margaret St

Sydney NSW 2000

Australia

To the members of GBS Inc.

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Opinion on the Consolidated Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of GBS Inc. (the Company) as of June 30, 2020 and 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2020 and the related notes (collectively referred to as the ‘consolidated financial statements’). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at June 30, 2020 and 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2020 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern

The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome ofwhich this uncertainty.

Basis for Opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (‘PCAOB’) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting 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.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

BDO Audit Pty Ltd ABN 33 134 022 870prospectus is a member of a national association of independent entities which are all members of BDO Australia Ltd ABN 77 050110 275, an Australian company limited by guarantee. BDO Audit Pty Ltd and BDO Australia Ltd are members of BDO International Ltd, a UK company limited by guarantee, and form part of the international BDO network of independent member firms. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

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Tel: +61 2 9251 4100

Fax: +61 2 9240 9821

www.bdo.com.au

Level 11, 1 Margaret St

Sydney NSW 2000

Australia

BDO Audit Pty Ltd

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2017.

Tim Aman
Director
Sydney, Australia
September 11, 2020

BDO Audit Pty Ltd ABN 33 134 022 870 is a member of a national association of independent entities which are all members of BDO Australia Ltd ABN 77 050110 275, an Australian company limited by guarantee. BDO Audit Pty Ltd and BDO Australia Ltd are members of BDO International Ltd, a UK company limited by guarantee, and form part of the international BDO network of independent member firms. Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

   As of 
  Note 

June 30, 2020

  

June 30, 2019

 
         
Assets          
Current Assets:          
Cash and cash equivalents 8 $427,273  $197,940 
Deferred charges 3 $1,863,613  $1,981,669 
Other current assets 5 $49,062  $148,341 
Total current assets   $2,339,948  $2,327,950 
           
Investment in affiliate 12 $135,692   - 
Intangibles          
Licensing rights, net of accumulated amortization 4  -   - 
Total Assets   $2,475,640  $2,327,950 
           
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity          
Current liabilities:          
Accounts payable and accrued expenses 6 $787,469  $1,137,668 
Related party payables 7 $1,769,293  $36,073 
Convertible notes payable 9 $5,133,706  $5,131,347 
Total current liabilities   $7,690,468  $6,305,088 
Total liabilities   $7,690,468  $6,305,088 
Commitments & Contingencies    -   - 
           
Shareholders’ Equity          
Common shares (8,630,000 shares issued and outstanding as of 6/30/2020 and 8,510,000 shares issued and outstanding as of 6/30/2019)   $2,850,001  $1,950,001 
Preferred shares (2,370,891 shares issued and outstanding as of 6/30/2020 and 2,064,884 shares issued outstanding as of 6/30/2019)   $17,328,682  $15,033,630 
Additional paid-in capital   $(9,168,732) $(8,076,022)
Accumulated deficit   $(15,832,517) $(12,668,741)
Accumulated Other comprehensive income   $(363,951) $(216,870)
Total Consolidated Group Equity   $(5,186,517) $(3,978,001)
Non-controlling interests   $(28,311) $(863 
Total Shareholders’ (deficit) equity   $(5,214,828) $(3,977,138)
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity   $(2,475,640  $(2,327,950 

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

  

12 Months to

June 30, 2020

  

12 Months to

June 30, 2019

 
Revenue -  - 
Other income:        
Government support income $69,821   - 
Interest income $97  $188 
Shared services $118,923   - 
  $188,841  $188 
Operating expenses:        
Audit & Accountancy Fees $124,488  $104,032 
Director Fees $32,407  $16,337 
Employee Benefit Expense $1,121,587  $120,749 
General & Administrative Expenses $858,651  $2,387,231 
Prospectus & Capital raising Expenses $254,407  $896,174 
Interest Expense $457,745  $664,840 
Rent Expense $36,818  $25,338 
Development & Regulatory Approval Expenses $588,206  $3,179,864 
Total Operating Expenses $3,474,309  $7,394,565 
         
Equity income from affiliate $121,692   - 
Consolidated Net (Loss) $(3,163,776) $(7,394,377)
Less: (Loss) attributable to non-controlling interest $(29,174) $(57,691)
Net (Loss) attributable to holding company & subsidiaries $(3,134,602) $(7,336,686)
         
Other Comprehensive Income        
Foreign currency translation gain/(loss) $(147,081) $(787,975)
Other Comprehensive income for the period $(147,081) $(787,975)
Total Comprehensive Income / (loss) for the period $(3,281,683) $(8,124,661)
         
Loss per share based on net loss (Note 15):        
         
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributed to common shareholders of GBS Inc. $(0.37) $(0.88)
         
Weighted-average number of common shares  8,510,329   8,382,685 

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE PERIOD FROM July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020

  GBS Inc. Shareholders  Non-controlling Interests 
  Common Shares  Total Subscribed Value  No of Preferred Shares (1)  Total Value  Additional paid-in capital  (Accumulated deficit)  Other comprehensive income  Shareholders’ equity  No of Ordinary Shares in GBSGC Pty Ltd  Total Value 
Balance at July 1, 2019  8,510,000  $1,950,001   2,064,884  $15,033,630  $(8,713,077) $(12,668,741) $(216,870) $(4,615,057)  1,036,000  $637,919 
Reclassification of non-controlling interest (Note 3)  -   -   -   -  $637,056   -   -  $637,056   -  $(637,056)
Balance at July 1, 2019 (Reclassified)  8,510,000  $1,950,001   2,064,884  $15,033,630  $(8,076,021) $(12,668,741) $(216,870) $(3,978,001)  1,036,000  $863 
Deemed dividend in accordance with FASB ASC 805 to bring the book value of the purchased procurement assets (license to sell) to its historical value (zero net book value)  -   -   -   -  $(976,308)  -   -  $(976,308)  -   - 
Issuance of common shares  120,000  $900,000   -   -   -   -   -  $900,000   -   - 
Issuance of convertible preferred shares  -   -   306,007  $2,295,052   -   -   -  $2,295,052   -   - 
Cost of issuance of ordinary shares and convertible preferred shares, the latter that may convert to common shares  -   -   -   -  $(116,402)  -   -  $(116,402)  -   - 
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   -  $(147,081) $(147,081)  -   - 
Net (loss)  -   -   -   -   -  $(3,163,776)  -  $(3,163,776)  -  $(29,174)
Balance at June 30, 2020  8,630,000  $2,850,001   2,370,891  $17,328,682  $(9,168,732) $(15,832,517) $(363,951) $(5,186,517)  1,036,000  $(28,311)

(1)Convertible Preference Shares are convertible at a potential IPO to 1 ordinary share and one option exercisable at the IPO price between 2 – 3 years after the IPO providing the option holder holds the underlying share.

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Audited Consolidated Financial Statements

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE PERIOD FROM July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019

  GBS Inc. Shareholders  Non-controlling Interests 
  Common Shares  Total Subscribed Value  No of Preferred Shares (1)  Total Value  Additional paid-in capital  (Accumulated deficit)  Other comprehensive income  Shareholders’ equity  No of Ordinary Shares in GBSGC Pty Ltd  Total Value 
Balance at July 1, 2018  9,000,000  $1   1,222,506  $8,715,794  $(8,330,314) $(5,274,364) $571,105  $(4,317,778)  2,036,000  $1,311,775 
Issuance of common shares  260,000  $1,950,000   -   -   -   -   -  $1,950,000   -   - 
Consolidation of the shares due to share split  (750,000)  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
Issuance of convertible preferred shares  -   -   842,378  $6,317,836   -   -   -  $6,317,836   -   - 
Cost of issuance of ordinary shares and convertible preferred shares, the latter that may convert to common shares  -   -   -   -  $(382,763)  -   -  $(382,763)  -   - 
Foreign currency translation gain/(loss)  -   -   -   -   -   -  $(787,975) $(787,975)  -   - 
Transfer of shares to Glucose Holding Inc.  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   (1,000,000) $(616,165)
Net (loss)  -   -   -   -   -  $(7,394,377)  -  $(7,394,377)  -  $(57,691)
Balance at June 30, 2019  8,510,000  $1,950,001   2,064,884  $15,033,630  $(8,713,077) $(12,668,741) $(216,870) $(4,615,057)  1,036,000  $637,919 

(1)Convertible Preference Shares are convertible at a potential IPO to 1 ordinary share and one option exercisable at the IPO price between 2 – 3 years after the IPO providing the option holder holds the underlying share.

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

  

12 Months

to June 30,

2020

  

12 Months

to June 30,

2019

 
Operating Activities:        
Net (Loss) $(3,163,776) $(7,394,377)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:        
Changes in assets and liabilities:        
Accounts receivables and other assets $50,413   - 
Accounts payable, accrued expenses & deferred charges $1,354,149  $(132,807)
Non-cash related party expenses settled with issuance of common shares $900,000  $1,950,000 
Preference shares issued through offsetting the related party loans $1,102,717   - 
Non-cash deemed dividend transaction $(976,000)  - 
Money received as at 30 June 2019 for which preference shares were issued after year-end $225,000   - 
Other non-cash items $8,879   - 
Net cash used in operating activities $(498,618) $(5,577,184)
Investing Activities:        
Non-cash consideration for investment in BiosensX $(14,000)  - 
Net cash used in investing activities $(14,000)  - 
Financing Activities:        
Cash received from subscribers for convertible preference shares convertible to common shares $1,001,250  $5,701,671 
Cash paid to raise funds by the issuance of shares $(116,402) $(382,763)
Cash repaid to convertible note holders $(150,986)  - 
Net cash provided by financing activities $733,862  $5,318,908 
Total Net Cash provided by/(used) in operational, investing & finance Activities $221,244  $(258,276)
         
Cash at the beginning of the period $197,940  $418,420 
Exchange Rate Adjustment $8,089  $37,796 
Cash at the end of the period $427,273  $197,940 
         
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information        
Interest paid $327,311  $371,671 
Interest income $97  $188 

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes. 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1. GOING CONCERN

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (ASC 205-40) requires management to assess an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date of the financial statements are issued. In each reporting period, including interim periods, an entity is required to assess conditions known and reasonably knowable as of the financial statement issuance date to determine whether it is probable an entity will not meet its financial obligations within one year from the financial statement issuance date. Substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern exists when conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, indicate it is probable the entity will be unable to meet its financial obligations as they become due within one year after the date the financial statements are issued.

The Company is an emerging growth company and has not generated any revenues to date. As such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with emerging growth companies. Since inception, the Company has incurred losses and negative cash flows from operating activities. The Company does not expect to generate positive cash flows from operating activities in the near future until such time, if at all, the Company completes the development process of its products, including regulatory approvals, and thereafter, begins to commercialize and achieve substantial acceptance in the marketplace for the first of a series of products in its medical device portfolio.

The Company incurred a net loss of $3,134,602 for the year ended June 30, 2020 (Net loss $7,336,686 for the year ended June 30, 2019). As at June 30, 2020, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $15,832,517, negative working capital of $5,350,520, $7,690,468 in current liabilities of which $5,133,706 are convertible notes that will convert to equity upon the proposed IPO, and cash of $427,273 (As at June 30, 2019 the Company had an accumulated deficit of $12,668,741, negative working capital of $3,977,138, $6,305,088 in current liabilities of which $5,131,347 are convertible notes that will convert to equity upon the proposed IPO, and cash of $197,940).

On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and on March 12, 2020 the WHO announced the outbreak was a pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on global markets and business activity, which has had a negative but limited impact on our core business operations. However, due to the nature of our platform technology we are able to quickly adapt to this rapidly evolving environment. As part of the immunology modality of the biosensor platform, the parent company (LSBD) executed an agreement on May 29, 2020 with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss) to use the biosensor platform to develop a COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test. The Company has the rights to the technology from this agreement under a Technology Transfer Agreement global license with LSBD entered into on June 23,2020..

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NOTE 1. GOING CONCERN (CONT.)

GBS Inc. is the global licensee and intends to commercialize COVID-19 diagnostic tests across the US, Europe, APAC and the rest of the world through appropriately qualified distributors.

In the near future, the Company anticipates incurring operating losses and does not expect to experience positive cash flows from operating activities and may continue to incur operating losses until it completes the development of its products and seeks regulatory approvals to market such products. These factors may raise doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern without sufficient capital.

As of the date of this report the Company has received further cash subscriptions for approximately $3,294,745 (439,299 shares), which will be allotted as additional convertible preference shares prior to the IPO. These raisings will be used to financially support the current as well as future activities and financial obligations of the Company. Should the Group encounter a scenario whereby sufficient capital is not available, financial support will be provided by ultimate group shareholders in proportion of their share holdings. The Directors believe that such financial support will be received as the Group has received letters of support from both entities, confirming that they will financially support the current as well as future activities and financial obligations of the Group for a period of at least one year from the date of signing of the financial statements.

The Group’s ability to fund its operations is dependent upon management’s plans and execution, which include in addition to financial assistance where required from the parent company, raising additional capital, including the Proposed Public Offering (as per subsequent event in Note 13), obtaining regulatory approvals for its products currently under development, commercializing and generating revenues from products currently under development, and continuing to control expenses.

The Group’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities should the Group be unable to continue as a going concern.

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NOTE 2. ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTIONINCORPORATION OF THE BUSINESSCERTAIN INFORMATION BY REFERENCE

 

DuringThe SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” into this prospectus the year,information in other documents that we file with it. This means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be a part of this prospectus, and information in documents that we file later with the legal entity name for Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Holdings Inc. was changed to GBS Inc.,SEC will automatically update and supersede information contained in documents filed earlier with the legal entity name for Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Inc. was changed to GBS Operations Inc.SEC or contained in this prospectus.

 

GBS Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, GBS Operations Inc. are formed underWe incorporate by reference in this prospectus the lawsdocuments listed below, all filings filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the stateExchange Act after the date of Delaware,the initial registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part prior to effectiveness of such registration statement, and were formed on December 5, 2016. Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd (“GBSPL”) was formed on August 4, 2016any future filings we make with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the laws of New South Wales, Australia. Glucose Biosensor Systems (APAC) Pty LtdExchange Act prior to the time that all securities covered by this prospectus have been sold or the offering is otherwise terminated; provided, however, that we are not incorporating, in each case, any documents or information deemed to have been furnished and Glucose Biosensor (Japan) Pty Ltd were new entities formednot filed in the current quarter under the laws of New South Wales, Australia. These companies (collectively, the “Company”) were formed to provide a non-invasive, pain free innovation to make it easier for people to manage diabetes.accordance with SEC rules:

 

NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

On May 29, 2020 the parent Company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, issued 14,000,000 common shares of BiosensX (North America) Inc. to the company at par value of $0.001 each. This will complement the license of the Company for North America Region. Thus providing the Company with 50% interest in the BiosensX (North America) Inc., holder of the technology license for the North America region. This will allow further development of synergies by allowing GBS Inc. to pursue regulatory approval of the biosensor to measure glucose from saliva testing, and allow the Company to concentrate in the development of the other applications of the technology predominantly the field of antibodies, allergies and hormones. Refer to Note 12 for the details.

On May 29, 2020 a research agreement was executed between the parent company (LSBD) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss). The Company is not a legal party to the agreement but is expecting to derive a benefit through the Technology Transfer Agreement executed with LSBD and the Company on June 23, 2020, further details which are provided below. The company has transferred biosensors (research materials) to the Wyss Institute where its research and development scientists have commenced a pilot research program. Since the biosensor architecture is complete and given the pre-existing plans to develop immunology diagnostic tests, it is therefore relatively straightforward and expeditious to develop the SARS-CoV-2 test.

SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing in saliva can play a critically important role in large-scale ‘sero’-surveillance to address key public health priorities and guide policy and decision-making for COVID-19. It is anticipated that FDA review will be under the Emergency Use Authorization program, which means expedited time to market.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONTINUED)

On June 23,2020, The Company entered into a Technology Transfer Agreement global license with LSBD. The significant terms of the license agreement are:

 The Company has the exclusive worldwide rights to a biosensor strip for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and associated application for reading devices to:

act as the authorized party our Annual Report on Form 10-Kfor the purpose of prosecuting the application of,year ended June 30, 2022 (filed on September 22, 2022), as amended on Form 10-K/A(filed on October 7, 2022) and obtaining any, regulatory approval for the Licensed Product, including being authorized to prosecute the approval for an investigational device required for the purpose of carrying out clinical studies.Form 10-K/A(filed on March 6, 2023);
 manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell, and distributeour Quarterly Report on Form 10-Qfor the Licensed Products.quarter ended September 30, 2022 (filed on November 14, 2022);
 provide reasonable customer support servicesour Quarterly Report on Form 10-Qfor the use of the Licensed Products to end users of, and health carequarter ended December 31, 2022 (filed on February 14, 2023);
 practitioners referring end users to,our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Qfor the Licensed Products.quarter ended March 31, 2022 (filed on May 11, 2023);
 useour Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments on Form 8-K/A filed on: July 3, 2023, June 21, 2023, June 15, 2023; May 17, 2023; May 12, 2023; April 18, 2023; March 10, 2023; March 2, 2023; March 2, 2023; February 16, 2023; February 9, 2023; January 27, 2023; December 22, 2022(Items 1.01, 3.02, 3.03 and 5.03 only, and the Licensed Productsexhibits in Item 9.01 incorporated thereby); December 21, 2022; December 8, 2022; October 27, 2022(Items 5.02, 5.03 and 8.01 only, forand the purposes identifiedexhibits in Item 9.01 incorporated thereby); October 11, 2022(Items 1.01, 2.01, 2.03, 3.02, 3.03, 5.02 and permitted pursuant to regulatory approval;5.03 only, and the exhibits in Item 9.01 incorporated thereby); September 30, 2022; September 15, 2022; and July 21, 2022;
 collect data acquired from the Licensed Products

The royalty rate is 13%, based upon mutually agreed sales projectionsour Definitive Proxy Statement on the net sales of the commercial unitsSchedule 14Afiled on January 4, 2023; and dedicated reading devices. This serves as the minimum royalty and falls to 3% at the expiry of the relevant patent(s)
 Each additional year,The description of our common stock contained in our registration statement Form 8-Afiled with the sales upon whichSEC on December 22, 2020, and any amendments or reports filed for the minimum royalty is calculated on is increased by the mutually agreed Expected Market Growth rate plus an Additional Growth Percentage rate up to 7% annually. The Additional Growth Percentage Rate is calculated and applied for 10 years
In the eventpurpose of a dispute, in relation to the expected market growth or additional percentage, the agreement provides for a dispute resolution by an independent third partyupdating such description.

 

There are no milestone payments.We will provide, without charge, to each person to whom a copy of this prospectus is delivered, including any beneficial owner, upon the written or oral request of such person, a copy of any or all of the documents incorporated by reference herein, including exhibits. Requests should be directed to:

 

Basis of presentationIntelligent Bio Solutions Inc.

142 West, 57th Street, 11th Floor

The Group prepares its consolidated financial statements using the accrual basis of accounting in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).New York, NY 10019

Attention: Corporate Secretary

Reclassifications

During the year, management determined that certain transactions involving the issuance of shares of its subsidiary that occurred during the prior year should have resulted in an adjustment to non-controlling interest (“NCI”) and Additional Paid-in-Capital (“APIC”) to reflect the difference between the fair value of the consideration received and the book value of NCI involving these changes in ownership. As a result, the Company increased its prior year APIC with an offsetting reduction to NCI. Management concluded that this reclassification was not meaningful to the Company’s financial position for the prior year, and as such, this change was recorded in the consolidated balance sheet and statement of shareholder’s equity in the first quarter of FY 2020 as an out-of-period adjustment.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Principles of consolidation

On July 29, 2017, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (the parent entity) transferred to GBS Inc., in a non-reciprocal transfer, its 1,000 shares in Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd. These shares comprised its 100% ownership of Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd. As a result, the accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the following entities, all of which are under common control. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.

A summary of the shares authorized and issued of each company at June 30, 2020 and June 30, 2019 are listed below:

At June 30, 2020

Name of entity Country of incorporation 

Shares

authorized

  Shares issued (Common)  Par value per share  Shares Issued (Convertible Preference)  Par Value Per Share 
                       
GBS Inc. United States  22,000,000   8,630,000   USD$0.01   2,370,891   US$.01 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd (2) Australia  99,800,000   99,800,000   N/A (1)   -   - 
GBS Operations Inc. (3) United States  1,000   100   USD$0.01   -   - 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (APAC) Pty Ltd Australia  100   100   N/A (1)   -   - 
Glucose Biosensor (Japan) Pty Ltd Australia  100   100   N/A (1)   -   - 

At June 30, 2019

Name of entity Country of incorporation 

Shares

authorized

  Shares issued (Common)  Par value per share  Shares Issued (Convertible Preference)  Par Value Per Share 
                  
GBS Inc. United States  22,000,000   8,510,000   USD$0.01   2,064,884   US$.01 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd (2) Australia  99,800,000   99,800,000   N/A (1)   -   - 
GBS Operations Inc. (3) United States  1,000   100   USD$0.01   -   - 

(1)Australia does not have the concept of par value per share.
(2)GBS Inc. holds 98.96% ownership in this Company for June 30, 2020 and 98.96% for the June 30, 2019 period.
(3)GBS Inc. holds 100% ownership in this Company for all periods presented.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

On November 5, 2017 the authorized capital was increased to 22,000,000 with a par value of $0.01 each consisting of 18,000,000 shares of common shares and 4,000,000 shares of preferred shares.

On November 5, 2017 the Company conducted a share split of one to 90,000 resulting in issued common share of 9,000,000.

On August 8, 2018 a reverse share split occurred whereas the total number of common issued share has been consolidated from 9,000,000 to 8,250,000.

On November 24, 2018 the company raised a further $1,950,000 through the allocation of 260,000 common shares to its parent company. This was achieved via extinguishment of the related party debt owing to the parent, with consideration being provided via a conversion from debt to common shares.

On July 28, 2020, the authorized capital was increased to 24,000,000 with a par value of $0.01 each consisting of 20,000,000 shares of common shares and 4,000,000 shares of preferred shares.

On June 27, 2019, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (the Licensor), the Company’s controlling shareholder, transferred a total of 36,600 shares of its common shares to a total of 122 employees of the Licensor and related companies pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

On June 28, 2019, Best Legend Industries Limited, one of the non-controlling shareholders in Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd transferred it’s 1,000,000 shares to the Company for consideration of 100,000 Series A Convertible Preference Shares in the Company. As a result of this, the non-controlling interest in Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd has decreased to 1.04%.

On September 2, 2019, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (the Licensor) transferred a total of 42,000 shares of its common shares to a total of 140 employees of the Company and related companies, in each case pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

On June 30, 2020 the company issued additional 120,000 shares to its parent company for the value of $900,000. This was settled through extinguishment of the related party debt owing to the parent, with consideration being provided via a conversion from debt to common shares. The issue price per share of $7.50, is consistent with pricing of Pre-IPO to external investors. Therefore, as at the date of this report, the Licensor owns a total of 8,551,400 common shares representing 99.1% of the Company’s outstanding common shares.

For the year ended June 30, 2020 the Company received cash subscriptions or the subscription agreement of $2,295,052 regarding the issuance of Convertible Preference Shares convertible to common shares at the completion of an initial public offering (“IPO”). The Convertible Preference Shares carry the same rights as common shares except the right to vote at general meetings of shareholders. Further particulars are at Note 10.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Equity offering costs

The Group complies with the requirements of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification ASC 340 with regards to offering costs. Prior to the completion of an offering, offering costs will be capitalized as deferred offering costs on the balance sheet. The deferred offering costs will be charged to shareholders’ equity (deficit) upon the completion of an offering or to expense if the offering is not completed. Offering costs amounting to $1,863,613 were capitalized as of June 30, 2020 (June 30, 2019: $1,981,669).

Revenue recognition

The Company shall recognize revenues when there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement, delivery has occurred or services are rendered, the sales price is determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured.

Debt issuance cost

Debt issuance costs are being amortized using the effective interest rate method over the term of the loan and the amortization expense is recorded as part of interest expense of the consolidated statements of operations.

Income taxes

In accordance with the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification (“FASB ASC”) 740, Income Taxes, tax positions initially need to be recognized in the consolidated financial statements when it is more likely than not that the positions will be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. It also provides guidance for de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition.

As of June 30, 2020, the Group had no uncertain tax positions that qualified for either recognition or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements. Additionally, the Group had no interest and penalties related to income taxes.

The Group accounts for current and deferred income taxes and, when appropriate, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded with respect to temporary differences in the accounting treatment of items for financial reporting purposes and for income tax purposes. Where, based on the weight of all available evidence, it is more likely than not that some amount of the recorded deferred tax assets will not be realized, a valuation allowance is established for that amount that, in management’s judgment, is sufficient to reduce the deferred tax asset to an amount that is more likely than not to be realized.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Foreign currency translation

Assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries are translated from local (functional) currency to presentation currency (U.S. dollar) at the rate of exchange in effect on the consolidated balance sheets date; income and expenses are translated at the average rate of exchange prevailing during the year. Foreign currency movements resulted in a loss of $147,081 for the year ended June 30, 2020 (June 30, 2019: foreign currency translation loss of $787,975).

Net Loss Per Share Attributable to Common Shareholders (“EPS”)

The Company calculates earnings per share attributable to common shareholders in accordance with ASC Topic 260, “Earning Per Share.” Basic net income (loss) per share attributable to common shareholders is calculated by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per common share is calculated by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders by weighted-average common shares outstanding during the period plus potentially dilutive common shares, such as share warrants.

Potentially dilutive common shares shall be calculated in accordance with the treasury share method, which assumes that proceeds from the exercise of all warrants are used to repurchase common share at market value. The amount of shares remaining after the proceeds are exhausted represents the potentially dilutive effect of the securities.

The Company has incurred net losses during the year ended June 30, 2020 and the conversion of the convertible notes payable or the effect of the completion of the issuance of convertible preference shares in a private placement would be anti-dilutive, and thus is not included in loss per share calculation (see Note 9—Convertible Notes Payable).

Use of estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Recently issued but not yet effective

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (“ASU 2016-02”). This update requires all leases with a term greater than 12 months to be recognized on the balance sheet through a right-of-use asset and a lease liability and the disclosure of key information pertaining to leasing arrangements. This new guidance is effective for years beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company is reviewing the effect that ASU 2016-02 will have on its financial statements and related disclosures, and the standard will be applied once it is a public business entity.

NOTE 4. LICENSING RIGHTS

During the first quarter of the period, the Company purchased the license right procurement assets from Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd for an amount of $976,308 (June 30, 2019: $ nil) in relation to the development and approval process for the Glucose Biosensor Technology. In accordance with FASB ASC 805, this was set to a zero book value which equals the historical carrying value in the books of Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, by use of a deemed dividend. The Company shall pay royalties of sales & milestones payments as defined.

On July 3, 2019, the Company entered into an amended and restated license agreement. There is no set expiration date for the license. However, the exclusivity of the license granted under the license agreement runs until the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the agreement which is currently until 2033. No royalties have been incurred through to June 30, 2020 (June 30, 2019: $ nil).

NOTE 5. OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

  As of 
  

June 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2019

 
         
Goods & Services Tax Receivable $7,509  $94,504 
Prepayments $29,469  $53,837 
Accrued Income $12,084   - 
Total $49,062  $148,341 

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NOTE 6. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE & ACCRUED EXPENSES

  As of 
  

June 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2019

 
       
Accounts and Other Payables $483,576  $849,720 
Accruals $56,894  $237,536 
Employee liabilities $246,999  $50,412 
Total $787,469  $1,137,668 

NOTE 7. RELATED PARTY PAYABLES

  As of 
  

June 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2019

 
         
Amounts payable to Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd $1,769,293  $36,073 
Total $1,769,293  $36,073 

NOTE 8. CASH & CASH EQUIVALENTS

  As of 
  

June 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2019

 
         
Cash at Bank $427,273  $197,940 

The Company places its cash and cash equivalents, which may at times be in excess of the Australia Financial Claims Scheme or the United States’ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limits, with high credit quality financial institutions and attempts to limit the amount of credit exposure with any one institution.

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NOTE 9. CONVERTIBLE NOTES PAYABLE

Convertible notes payable consists of the following:

  As of 
  

June 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2019

 
         
Convertible Notes Payable $5,133,706  $5,277,056 
Less unamortized debt issuance costs  -  $(145,709)
Debt less unamortized debt issuance costs $5,133,706  $5,131,347 

Investors have subscribed to a Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd 7% Convertible Note Issue during the periods in the above table. The Notes bear interest at the rate of 7% per annum payable quarterly in arrears. The Notes are unsecured and mature on December 31, 2020 (Majority of convertible notes were renewed for 12 months on December 31, 2019).

The Notes also provide that there shall be a 15% discount on the potential IPO Price on the offer document intended to be filed with an approved share exchange. This has been converted at an exchange rate of 0.75, being the rate that is commercially agreed with investors as part of the offer process. The rate has been applied consistently for all raisings in the financial year.

NOTE 10. SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR CONVERTIBLE PREFERENCE SHARES OF GBS INC.

The Company has issued 2,370,891 convertible preference shares (An additional 439,299 convertible preference shares was issued subsequent to June 30, 2020 as disclosed in Note 13). When this is combined with the potential subsequent conversion of convertible notes payable, existing common shares issued in the company, and maximum raise upon successful completion of the IPO, the Company estimates that a maximum of 16,660,115 common shares in GBS Inc shall be on issue upon the successful completion of the IPO. The 2,370,891 convertible preference shares are represented by $17,328,682 fully paid subscription monies, which have been allocated to total value of preferred shares and 8,630,000 common shares are represented by $2,850,001 subscription moneys, which have been allocated to total value of common shares.

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NOTE 10. SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR CONVERTIBLE PREFERENCE SHARES OF GBS INC. (CONT.)

Upon the successfully completion of the IPO there will be 2,223,862 preference shares that hold one Loyalty Warrant Entitlement per share, and 147,029 preference shares that hold one Loyalty Warrant Entitlement per two shares. The terms of the Entitlement provide that the holder can exercise the warrant to purchase one common share at the IPO price during years two through to year three following the IPO. At exercise date, the shareholder must hold for each warrant to be exercised, one underlying common share to exercise the option The warrants are not transferable and apply to the number of shares that were subscribed for. In addition, the warrants do not apply to the convertible note holders.

The Company will continue to maintain its 98.96% (98,762,080 shares) in its subsidiary Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd.

NOTE 11. RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Sales to and purchases from related parties are made in arm’s length transactions both at normal market prices and on normal commercial terms. The following transactions occurred with Life Science Glucose Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd during the period July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2020:

The Company incurred a total of $588,206 (2019: $3,179,864) towards the services in connection with development and regulatory approval pathway for the technology, including payments made or expenses incurred on behalf of the Company.

The Company incurred a total of $444,374 (2019: $1,213,313) towards overhead cost reimbursement which includes salaries, rents and other related overheads directly attributable to the company which are included in General & Administration Expenses.

The Company recognized income of $118,923 (2019: $Nil) in relation to shared labour reimbursement which includes salaries directly attributable to the company which are included in Shared-services revenue.

On May 29, 2020 the parent Company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, issued 14,000,000 common share of BiosensX (North America) Inc. to the company at par value of $0.001 each. This will complement the license of the Company for North America Region. Thus providing the Company with 50% interest in the BiosensX (North America) Inc., holder of the technology license for the North America region. As of May 29, 2020 BiosensX (North America) Inc. became an affiliate of the Company. This was paid through increasing the loan payable to its parent entity for the amount of $14,000.

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NOTE 11. RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS (CONT.)

During the first quarter for the period, the Company purchased the license right procurement assets from Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd for an amount of $976,308 (June 30, 2019: $ nil) in relation to the development and approval process for the Glucose Biosensor Technology. In accordance with FASB ASC 805, this was set to a zero book value, which equals the historical carrying value in the books of Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, by use of a deemed dividend. As at June 30, 2020, $1,769,293 remains payable (June 30, 2019: $36,073) in relation to the procurement and other costs detailed above.

On June 23, 2020, the Company entered into a license agreement with Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, or the “Licensor”. The Licensor currently owns 99.1% of our outstanding common stock and will continue to own a majority of our outstanding common stock immediately after this offering. The License Agreement sets forth the contractual rights and responsibilities relating to the Licensed Product (as disclosed in Note 3). There is no accounting impact for the period with respect to this transaction.

On June 30, 2020 the company issued additional 120,000 shares to its parent company for the value of $900,000. This was settled through extinguishment of the related party debt owing to the parent, with consideration being provided via a conversion from debt to common shares. The issue price per share of $7.50, is consistent with pricing of Pre-IPO to external investors.

NOTE 12. INVESTMENT IN AFFILIATE

On May 29, 2020 the parent Company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, issued 14,000,000 common shares of BiosensX (North America) Inc. to the Company at par value of $0.001 per share. This transaction provided the Company with a 50% interest in BiosensX (North America) Inc., the holder of the technology license for the North America region.(646) 828-8258

 

The investment in BiosensX (North America) Inc. is accounted fordocuments incorporated by usereference may be accessed at our website at www.ibs.inc. We do not incorporate the information on our website into this prospectus or any supplement to this prospectus and you should not consider any information on, or that can be accessed through, our website as part of this prospectus or any supplement to this prospectus (other than those filings with the equity method in accordance with ASC 323 Investments - Equity Method and Joint VenturesSEC that we specifically incorporate by reference into this prospectus or any supplement to this prospectus).

 

Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd is the parent of both the Company and BiosensX (North America), the transfer of BiosensX shares to the Company wasAny statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be a common control transaction. As a result of the share transfer, the Company has significant influence over BiosensX (North America) Inc. butincorporated by reference in accordance with ASC 810 Consolidation Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics isthis prospectus will be deemed to have control over BiosensX (North America) Inc. due to its direct ownership of 50% in BiosensX (North America) Inc. and indirect ownership of 50% in BiosensX (North America) Inc. through GBS Inc.

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NOTE 12. INVESTMENT IN AFFILIATE (CONTINUED.)

The following table summarizes the amount recorded in the consolidated financials statements as at 30 June 2020.

  As of 
  

June 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2019

 
       
Net asset balance of BiosensX (North America) Inc. as of June 30, 2020 $285,385   - 
Less cost of investment $(14,000)  - 
Net assets $271,385   - 
Company’s % share in affiliate  50%  -%
Carrying amount as at June 30, 2020 $135,692   - 

NOTE 13. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

The Company has applied to list its common share in the United States under the exchange symbol “GBSG”. The initial public filing of prospectus made on September 18, 2019 with intent to raise $17.9m (net of transactions costs). The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States resulted in a delay with the exchange processing its application to list the common shares.

As of the datemodified, superseded or replaced for purposes of this report, the Company has received further cash subscriptions for approximately $3,294,745 (439,299 shares), which will be allotted as additional convertible preference shares priorprospectus to the IPO.

No other events have arisen in the interval between the year ended June 30, 2020 and the date of this report any other item, transaction or event of a material and unusual nature likely, in the opinion of the Directors to affect significantly the operations or state of affairs of the Group in future financial years.

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NOTE 14. INCOME TAX

The Company shall file its income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service and Australian Taxation Office. The Company has net operating loss carried forward of $15,832,517 which are derived from its operations in Australia and the US and are available to reduce future taxable income. Such loss carry forwards may be carried forward indefinitely, subject to compliance with tests of continuity and additional rules.

The net operating loss carried forward gives rise to a deferred tax asset of approximately $4,274,780. However, the Company has determinedextent that a valuation allowance of $4,274,780 againststatement contained in this prospectus modifies, supersedes or replaces such deferred tax asset is necessary, as it cannot be determined that the carry forwards will be utilized.statement.

 

NOTE 15. LOSS PER SHARE

  As of 
  June 30, 2020  June 30, 2019 
       
Total Loss $(3,134,602) $(7,336,686)
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributed to common shareholders $(0.37) $(0.88)
         
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares  8,510,329   8,382,685 

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1,058,824 Units consisting of:

Common Stock

Series A Warrants

Series B Warrants

Dawson James Securities, Inc.

PROSPECTUS

Dated          , 2020

 

 

 

INTELLIGENT BIO SOLUTIONS INC.

[●] ThroughClass A Units consisting of shares of common stock and including           warrants and

[●] Class B Units consisting of shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants

(and shares of common stock underlying shares of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants)

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

[●], 2020 (the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to a dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to an unsold allotment or subscription.2023

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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

FOR THE PERIOD FROM JULY 1, 2020

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Table of Contents

Contents

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM3
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS5
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME6
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY7
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS9
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS10

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the shareholders and board of directors

GBS, Inc.

New York, New York

Results of Review of Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

We have reviewed the condensed consolidated balance sheet of GBS Inc. (the Company) as of September 30, 2020, the related condensed consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019 and cash flows for the three-month periods ended September 30, 2020 and 2019, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the ‘interim condensed consolidated financial statements’) included in the accompanying Securities and Exchange Commission Form S-1 for the period ended September 30, 2020. Based on our reviews, we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the accompanying consolidated interim financial statements for them to be in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

We have previously audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (‘PCAOB’), the consolidated balance sheet of the Company as of June 30, 2020, and the related consolidated statements of income and comprehensive income, stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the year then ended (not presented herein); and in our report dated September 11, 2020, we expressed an unqualified opinion on those consolidated financial statements. In our opinion, the information set forth in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2020 is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the consolidated balance sheet from which it has been derived.

Basis for review results

These interim condensed consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. We conducted our review in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. A review of interim financial information consists principally of applying analytical procedures and making inquiries of persons responsible for financial and accounting matters. It is substantially less in scope than an audit conducted in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB, the objective of which is the expression of an opinion regarding the financial statements taken as a whole. Accordingly, we do not express such an opinion.

We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

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Emphasis of matter regarding going concern

The accompanying interim consolidated financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. As described in Note 1, certain conditions are present that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s evaluation of the events and conditions and management’s plans regarding these matters are also described in Note 1. The accompanying interim consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty. Our conclusion is not modified with respect to this matter.

BDO Audit Pty Ltd
Tim Aman
Director
Sydney
11 November 2020

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

   As of 
  Note September 30,
2020
  June 30,
2020
 
         
Assets          
Current assets:          
Cash and cash equivalents 8 $994,186  $427,273 
Deferred charges 3 $1,863,613  $1,863,613 
Other current assets 5 $48,357  $49,062 
Total current assets   $2,906,156  $2,339,948 
           
Investment in affiliate 12  -  $135,692 
Intangibles          
Licensing rights, net of accumulated amortization 4  -   - 
Total assets   $2,906,156  $2,475,640 
           
Liabilities and shareholders’ equity          
Current liabilities:          
Accounts payable and accrued expenses 6 $475,431  $787,469 
Related party payables 7 $328,980  $1,769,293 
Convertible notes payable 9 $5,133,706  $5,133,706 
Total current liabilities   $5,938,117  $7,690,468 
           
Non-current liabilities:          
Employee benefit liabilities 6 $15,605   - 
Total non-current liabilities   $15,605   - 
Total liabilities   $5,953,722  $7,690,468 
Commitments and Contingencies    -   - 
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Shareholders’ equity          
Common shares (8,630,000 shares issued and outstanding as of 9/30/2020 and 8,630,000 shares issued and outstanding as of 6/30/2020)   $2,850,001  $2,850,001 
Preferred shares (2,810,190 shares issued and outstanding as of 9/30/2020 and 2,370,891 shares issued outstanding as of 6/30/2020)   $20,623,427  $17,328,682 
Additional paid-in capital   $(9,168,732) $(9,168,732)
Accumulated deficit   $(16,905,027) $(15,832,517)
Accumulated other comprehensive income   $(414,519) $(363,951)
 Total consolidated group equity   $(3,014,850) $(5,186,517)
Non-controlling interests   $(32,716) $(28,311)
Total shareholders’ (deficit) equity   $(3,047,566) $(5,214,828)
Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity   $2,906,156  $2,475,640 

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

  

3 Months to

September 30, 2020

  

3 Months to

September 30, 2019

 
Revenue        
Other income:        
Government support income $55,427   - 
Interest income $70  $42 
Shared services  -  $122,075 
  $55,497  $122,117 
Operating expenses:        
Audit and accountancy fees $62,513  $7,588 
Director fees $6,998  $6,712 
Employee benefit expense $388,001  $306,544 
General and administrative expenses $44,291  $304,272 
Prospectus and capital raising expenses $166,481   - 
Interest expense $85,828  $149,511 
Rent expense $9,930  $7,139 
Other expenses $4,865   - 
Realized foreign exchange loss $192,470   - 
Development and regulatory approval expenses $30,938  $105,181 
Total operating expenses $992,315  $886,947 
         
Equity loss from affiliate $135,692   - 
Consolidated net (loss) $(1,072,510) $(764,830)
Less: (loss) attributable to non-controlling interest $(4,405) $(6,980)
Net (loss) attributable to holding company and subsidiaries $(1,068,105) $(757,850)
         
Other comprehensive income        
Foreign currency translation gain/(loss) $

 

(50,568

) $4,234 
Other comprehensive income for the period $(50,568) $4,234 
Total comprehensive Income / (loss) for the period $(1,123,078) $(760,596)
Loss per share based on net loss (Note 15):        
         
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributed to common shareholders of GBS Inc. $(0.12) $(0.09)
         
Weighted-average number of common shares  8,630,000   8,510,000 

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE PERIOD FROM July 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020

  GBS Inc. Shareholders  Non-controlling Interests 
  Common Shares  Total Subscribed Value  No of Preferred Shares (1)  Total Value  Additional paid-in capital  (Accumulated deficit)  Other comprehensive income  Shareholders’ equity  No of Ordinary Shares in GBSGC Pty Ltd  Total Value 
Balance at July 1, 2020  8,630,000  $2,850,001   2,370,891  $17,328,682  $(9,168,732) $(15,832,517) $(363,951) $(5,186,517)  1,036,000  $(28,311)
Issuance of common shares                  -   -   -   -   -   - 
Issuance of convertible preferred shares          439,299   3,294,745   -   -   -   3,294,745   -   - 
Foreign currency translation loss  -   -   -   -   -   -  $(50,568) $(50,568)  -   - 
Net (loss)  -   -   -   -   -  $(1,072,510)  -  $(1,072,510)  -  $(4,405)
Balance at September 30, 2020  8,630,000   2,850,001   2,810,190   20,623,427  $(9,168,732) $(16,905,027) $(414,519) $(3,014,850)  1,036,000  $(32,716)

(1)Convertible Preference Shares are convertible at a potential IPO to 1 ordinary share and one option exercisable at the IPO price between 2 – 3 years after the IPO providing the option holder holds the underlying share.

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

FOR THE PERIOD FROM July 1, 2019 to September 30, 2019

  GBS Inc. Shareholders  Non-controlling Interests 
  Common Shares  Total Subscribed Value  No of Preferred Shares (1)  Total Value  Additional paid-in capital  (Accumulated deficit)  Other comprehensive income  Shareholders’ equity  No of Ordinary Shares in GBSGC Pty Ltd  Total Value 
Balance at July 1, 2019  8,510,000  $1,950,001   2,064,884  $15,033,630  $(8,713,077) $(12,668,741) $(216,869) $(4,615,057)  1,036,000  $637,919 
Reclassification of non-controlling interest (Note 3)  -   -   -   -  $637,056   -   -  $637,056   -  $(637,056)
Balance at July 1, 2019 (Reclassified)  8,510,000  $1,950,001   2,064,884  $15,033,630  $(8,076,022) $(12,668,741) $(216,869) $(3,978,001)  1,036,000  $863 
Subscription to purchase preference shares of GBS Inc.  -   -   -   -  $1,102,717   -   -  $1,102,717   -   - 
Deemed dividend in accordance with FASB ASC 805 to bring the book value of the purchased procurement assets (license to sell) to its historical value (zero net book value)  -   -   -   -  $(976,308)  -   -  $(976,308)  -   - 
Issuance of convertible preferred shares  -   -   111,978  $839,837   -   -   -  $839,837   -   - 
Cost of issuance of ordinary shares and convertible preferred shares, the latter that may convert to common shares  -   -   -   -  $(116,401)  -   -  $(116,401)  -   - 
Foreign currency translation gain/(loss)  -   -   -   -   -   -  $4,234  $4,234   -   - 
Net (loss)  -   -   -   -   -  $(757,850)  -  $(757,850)  -  $(6,980)
Balance at September 30, 2019  8,510,000  $1,950,001   2,176,862  $15,873,467  $(8,066,014) $(13,426,591) $(212,635) $(3,881,772)  1,036,000  $(6,117)

(1)Convertible Preference Shares are convertible at a potential IPO to 1 ordinary share and one option exercisable at the IPO price between 2 – 3 years after the IPO providing the option holder holds the underlying share.

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

  

3 Months

to September 30,

2020

  

3 Months

to September 30,

2019

 
Operating Activities:        
Net (loss) $(1,072,510) $(764,830)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by/(used) in operating activities:        
Changes in assets and liabilities:        
Other current assets $705  $(218,468)
Accounts payable, accrued expenses and deferred charges $(1,752,351) $(973,184 
Equity loss from affiliate $135,692   - 
Other non-cash items $(54,317)  - 
Net cash used in operating activities $(2,742,781) $(10,114)
Investing Activities:        
Net cash used in investing activities  -   - 
Financing Activities:        
Cash received from subscribers for convertible preference shares convertible to common shares $3,294,745  $648,750 
Cash paid to raise funds by the issuance of shares  -  $(116,402)
Net cash provided by financing activities $3,294,745  $532,348 
Total net cash provided by/(used) in operational, investing and finance activities $551,964  $522,324 
         
Cash at the beginning of the period $427,273  $197,940 
Exchange rate adjustment $14,949  $(5,868)
Cash at the end of the period $994,186  $714,307 
         
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information        
Interest paid $85,076  $85,158 
Interest income $70  $42 

These financial statements shall be read in conjunction with the accompanying notes.

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

NOTE 1. GOING CONCERN

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) Topic 205-40, Presentation of Financial Statements - Going Concern (ASC 205-40) requires management to assess an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern within one year of the date of the financial statements are issued. In each reporting period, including interim periods, an entity is required to assess conditions known and reasonably knowable as of the financial statement issuance date to determine whether it is probable an entity will not meet its financial obligations within one year from the financial statement issuance date. Substantial doubt about an entity’s ability to continue as a going concern exists when conditions and events, considered in the aggregate, indicate it is probable the entity will be unable to meet its financial obligations as they become due within one year after the date the financial statements are issued.

The Company is an emerging growth company and has not generated any revenues to date. As such, the Company is subject to all of the risks associated with emerging growth companies. Since inception, the Company has incurred losses and negative cash flows from operating activities. The Company does not expect to generate positive cash flows from operating activities in the near future until such time, if at all, the Company completes the development process of its products, including regulatory approvals, and thereafter, begins to commercialize and achieve substantial acceptance in the marketplace for the first of a series of products in its medical device portfolio.

The Company incurred a net loss of $1,068,105 for the three months to September 30, 2020 (Net loss $757,850 for the three months to September 30, 2019). As at September 30, 2020, the Company had an accumulated deficit of $16,905,027, negative working capital of $3,031,961, $5,938,117 in current liabilities of which $5,133,706 are convertible notes that will convert to equity upon the proposed IPO, and cash of $994,186 (as at June 30, 2020 the Company had an accumulated deficit of $15,832,517, negative working capital of $5,350,520, $7,690,468 in current liabilities of which $5,133,706 are convertible notes that will convert to equity upon the proposed IPO, and cash of $427,273).

On January 30, 2020, the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) outbreak a public health emergency of international concern and on March 12, 2020 the WHO announced the outbreak was a pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a negative impact on global markets and business activity, which has had a negative but limited impact on our core business operations. However, due to the nature of our platform technology we are able to quickly adapt to this rapidly evolving environment. As part of the immunology modality of the biosensor platform, the parent company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (LSBD) executed an agreement on May 29, 2020 with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss) to use the biosensor platform to develop a COVID-19 rapid diagnostic test. The Company has the rights to the technology from this agreement under a Technology Transfer Agreement global license with LSBD entered into on June 23, 2020.

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NOTE 1. GOING CONCERN (CONT.)

GBS Inc. is the global licensee and intends to commercialize COVID-19 diagnostic tests across the US, Europe, APAC and the rest of the world through appropriately qualified distributors.

In the near future, the Company anticipates incurring operating losses and does not expect to experience positive cash flows from operating activities and may continue to incur operating losses until it completes the development of its products and seeks regulatory approvals to market such products. These factors raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern without sufficient capital.

The Group’s ability to fund its operations is dependent upon management’s plans and execution, which include in addition to financial assistance where required from the parent company and the Proposed Public Offering (as per subsequent event in Note 13), obtaining regulatory approvals for its products currently under development, commercializing and generating revenues from products currently under development, and continuing to control expenses.

The Group’s consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis which contemplates the realization of assets and satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments relating to the recoverability and classification of recorded asset amounts or the amounts and classification of liabilities should the Group be unable to continue as a going concern.

NOTE 2. ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

GBS Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, GBS Operations Inc. are formed under the laws of the state of Delaware, and were formed on December 5, 2016. Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd (“GBSPL”) was formed on August 4, 2016 under the laws of New South Wales, Australia and was renamed to GBS (APAC) Pty Ltd on October 14, 2020. Glucose Biosensor Systems (Japan) Pty Ltd and Glucose Biosensor Systems (APAC) Pty Ltd were formed under the laws of New South Wales, Australia on February 22, 2017 and February 23, 2017 respectively. These companies (collectively, the “Company” or “Group”) were formed to provide a non-invasive, pain free innovation to make it easier for people to manage diabetes.

On May 29, 2020 a research agreement was executed between the parent company (LSBD) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University (Wyss). The Company is not a legal party to the agreement but is expecting to derive a benefit through the Technology Transfer Agreement executed with LSBD and the Company on June 23, 2020, further details which are provided below. The company has transferred biosensors (research materials) to the Wyss Institute where its research and development scientists have commenced a pilot research program. Since the biosensor architecture is complete and given the pre-existing plans to develop immunology diagnostic tests, it is therefore relatively straightforward and expeditious to develop the SARS-CoV-2 test.

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NOTE 2. ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS (CONT.)

SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing in saliva can play a critically important role in large-scale ‘sero’-surveillance to address key public health priorities and guide policy and decision-making for COVID-19. It is anticipated that FDA review will be under the Emergency Use Authorization program, which means expedited time to market.

On June 23, 2020, The Company entered into a Technology Transfer Agreement global license with LSBD. The significant terms of the license agreement are:

The Company has the exclusive worldwide rights to a biosensor strip for antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and associated application for reading devices to:
act as the authorized party for the purpose of processing the application of, and obtaining any, regulatory approval for the Licensed Product, including being authorized to process the approval for an investigational device required for the purpose of carrying out clinical studies.
manufacture, promote, market, import, offer, sell, and distribute the Licensed Products.
provide reasonable customer support services on the use of the Licensed Products to end users of, and health care practitioners referring end users to, the Licensed Products.
use the Licensed Products only for the purposes identified and permitted pursuant to regulatory approval; and
collect data acquired from the Licensed Products
The royalty rate is 13%, based upon mutually agreed sales projections on the net sales of the commercial units and dedicated reading devices. This serves as the minimum royalty and falls to 3% at the expiry of the relevant patent(s)
Each additional year, the sales upon which the minimum royalty is calculated on is increased by the mutually agreed Expected Market Growth rate plus an Additional Growth Percentage rate up to 7% annually. The Additional Growth Percentage Rate is calculated and applied for 10 years
In the event of a dispute, in relation to the expected market growth or additional percentage, the agreement provides for a dispute resolution by an independent third party.

There are no milestone payments.

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NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

On May 29, 2020 the parent Company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, issued 14,000,000 common shares of BiosensX (North America) Inc. to the company at par value of $0.001 each. This will complement the license of the Company for North America Region. Thus providing the Company with 50% interest in the BiosensX (North America) Inc., holder of the technology license for the North America region. This will allow further development of synergies by allowing GBS Inc. to pursue regulatory approval of the biosensor to measure glucose from saliva testing, and allow the Company to concentrate in the development of the other applications of the technology predominantly the field of antibodies, allergies and hormones. Refer to Note 12 for the details.

Basis of presentation

The Group prepares its consolidated financial statements using the accrual basis of accounting in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

Reclassifications

In the comparative period (FY 2020), management determined that certain transactions involving the issuance of shares of its subsidiary that occurred during the prior year should have resulted in an adjustment to non-controlling interest (“NCI”) and Additional Paid-in-Capital (“APIC”) to reflect the difference between the fair value of the consideration received and the book value of NCI involving these changes in ownership. As a result, the Company increased its prior year APIC with an offsetting reduction to NCI. Management concluded that this reclassification was not meaningful to the Company’s financial position for the prior year, and as such, this change was recorded in the consolidated balance sheet and statement of shareholder’s equity in the first quarter of the comparative period (FY 2020) as an out-of-period adjustment.

Principles of consolidation

On July 29, 2017, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (the parent entity) transferred to GBS Inc., in a non-reciprocal transfer, its 1,000 shares in Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd. These shares comprised its 100% ownership of Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd. As a result, the accompanying consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the following entities, all of which are under common control. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.

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Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

A summary of the shares authorized and issued of each company at September 30, 2020 and June 30, 2020 are listed below:

At September 30, 2020

Name of entity Country of incorporation 

Shares

authorized

  Shares issued (Common)  Par value per share  Shares Issued (Convertible Preference)  Par Value Per Share 
GBS Inc. United States  22,000,000   8,630,000   USD$0.01   2,810,190   US$.01 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd (2) Australia  99,800,000   99,800,000   N/A (1)   -   - 
GBS Operations Inc. (3) United States  1,000   100   USD$0.01   -   - 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (APAC) Pty Ltd (3) Australia  100   100   N/A (1)   -   - 
Glucose Biosensor (Japan) Pty Ltd (3) Australia  100   100   N/A (1)   -   - 

At June 30, 2020

Name of entity Country of incorporation 

Shares

 

authorized

  Shares issued (Common)  Par value per share  Shares Issued (Convertible Preference)  Par Value Per Share 
GBS Inc. United States  22,000,000   8,630,000   USD$0.01   2,370,891   US$.01 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd (2) Australia  99,800,000   99,800,000   N/A (1)   -   - 
GBS Operations Inc. (3) United States  1,000   100   USD$0.01   -   - 
Glucose Biosensor Systems (APAC) Pty Ltd (3) Australia  100   100   N/A (1)   -   - 
Glucose Biosensor (Japan) Pty Ltd (3) Australia  100   100   N/A (1)   -   - 

(1)Australia does not have the concept of par value per share.
(2)GBS Inc. holds 98.96% ownership in this Company at September 30, 2020 and at June 30, 2020.
(3)GBS Inc. holds 100% ownership in this Company at September 30, 2020 and at June 30, 2020.

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Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

On November 5, 2017 the authorized capital was increased to 22,000,000 with a par value of $0.01 each consisting of 18,000,000 shares of common shares and 4,000,000 shares of preferred shares.

On November 5, 2017 the Company conducted a share split of one to 90,000 resulting in issued common share of 9,000,000.

On August 8, 2018 a reverse share split occurred whereas the total number of common issued share has been consolidated from 9,000,000 to 8,250,000.

On November 24, 2018 the company raised a further $1,950,000 through the allocation of 260,000 common shares to its parent company. This was achieved via extinguishment of the related party debt owing to the parent, with consideration being provided via a conversion from debt to common shares.

On July 28, 2020, the authorized capital was increased to 24,000,000 with a par value of $0.01 each consisting of 20,000,000 shares of common shares and 4,000,000 shares of preferred shares.

On June 27, 2019, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (the Licensor), the Company’s controlling shareholder, transferred a total of 36,600 shares of its common shares to a total of 122 employees of the Licensor and related companies pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

On June 28, 2019, Best Legend Industries Limited, one of the non-controlling shareholders in Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd transferred its 1,000,000 shares to the Company for consideration of 100,000 Series A Convertible Preference Shares in the Company. As a result of this, the non-controlling interest in Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd has decreased to 1.04%.

On September 2, 2019, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd (the Licensor) transferred a total of 42,000 shares of its common shares to a total of 140 employees of the Company and related companies, in each case pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.

On June 30, 2020 the company issued additional 120,000 shares to its parent company for the value of $900,000. This was settled through extinguishment of the related party debt owing to the parent, with consideration being provided via a conversion from debt to common shares. The issue price per share of $7.50, is consistent with pricing of Pre-IPO to external investors. Therefore, as at the date of this report, the Licensor owns a total of 8,551,400 common shares representing 99.1% of the Company’s outstanding common shares.

For the three months ended September 30, 2020 the Company received cash subscriptions of $3,294,745 regarding the issuance of Convertible Preference Shares convertible to common shares at the completion of an initial public offering (“IPO”). The Convertible Preference Shares carry the same rights as common shares except the right to vote at general meetings of shareholders. Further particulars are at Note 10.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Equity offering costs

The Group complies with the requirements of Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification ASC 340 with regards to offering costs. Prior to the completion of an offering, offering costs will be capitalized as deferred offering costs on the balance sheet. The deferred offering costs will be charged to shareholders’ equity (deficit) upon the completion of an offering or to expense if the offering is not completed. Offering costs amounting to $1,863,613 were capitalized as of September 30, 2020 (June 30, 2020: $1,863,613).

Revenue recognition

Revenue from contracts with customers is recognized when, or as, the Company satisfies its performance obligations by delivering the promised goods or service deliverables to the customers. A good or service deliverable is transferred to a customer when, or as, the customer obtains control of that good or service deliverable.

Debt issuance cost

Debt issuance costs are being amortized using the effective interest rate method over the term of the loan and the amortization expense is recorded as part of interest expense of the consolidated statements of operations.

Income taxes

In accordance with the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification (“FASB ASC”) 740, Income Taxes, tax positions initially need to be recognized in the consolidated financial statements when it is more likely than not that the positions will be sustained upon examination by taxing authorities. It also provides guidance for de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure, and transition.

As of September 30, 2020, the Group had no uncertain tax positions that qualified for either recognition or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements. Additionally, the Group had no interest and penalties related to income taxes.

The Group accounts for current and deferred income taxes and, when appropriate, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded with respect to temporary differences in the accounting treatment of items for financial reporting purposes and for income tax purposes. Where, based on the weight of all available evidence, it is more likely than not that some amount of the recorded deferred tax assets will not be realized, a valuation allowance is established for that amount that, in management’s judgment, is sufficient to reduce the deferred tax asset to an amount that is more likely than not to be realized.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Foreign currency translation

Assets and liabilities of foreign subsidiaries are translated from local (functional) currency to presentation currency (U.S. dollar) at the rate of exchange in effect on the consolidated balance sheets date; income and expenses are translated at the average rate of exchange prevailing during the year. Foreign currency movements resulted in a loss of $50,568 for the three months ended September 30, 2020 (three months ended September 30, 2019, foreign currency translation gain of $4,234).

Net loss per share attributable to common shareholders (“EPS”)

The Company calculates earnings per share attributable to common shareholders in accordance with ASC Topic 260, “Earning Per Share.” Basic net income (loss) per share attributable to common shareholders is calculated by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of common shares outstanding during the period. Diluted net income (loss) per common share is calculated by dividing net income (loss) attributable to common shareholders by weighted-average common shares outstanding during the period plus potentially dilutive common shares, such as share warrants.

Potentially dilutive common shares shall be calculated in accordance with the treasury share method, which assumes that proceeds from the exercise of all warrants are used to repurchase common share at market value. The amount of shares remaining after the proceeds are exhausted represents the potentially dilutive effect of the securities.

The Company has incurred net losses during the three months ended September 30, 2020 and the conversion of the convertible notes payable or the effect of the completion of the issuance of convertible preference shares in a private placement would be anti-dilutive, and thus is not included in loss per share calculation (see Note 9—convertible notes payable).

Use of estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could materially differ from those estimates.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES (CONT.)

Recently issued but not yet effective

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (“ASU 2016-02”). This update requires all leases with a term greater than 12 months to be recognized on the balance sheet through a right-of-use asset and a lease liability and the disclosure of key information pertaining to leasing arrangements. This new guidance is effective for private companies for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2021, and interim period within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022 as amended by ASU 2020-05 with early adoption permitted. The Company has not early adopted the standard. Upon IPO, the Company will be required to adopt ASU 2016-02. The Company has assessed the impact and considers this to be immaterial.

NOTE 4. LICENSING RIGHTS

On July 3, 2019, the Company entered into an amended and restated license agreement for Greater China Region. There is no set expiration date for the license. However, the exclusivity of the license granted under the license agreement runs until the expiration of the patent portfolio covered by the agreement which is currently until 2033. No royalties have been incurred through to June 30, 2020 (June 30, 2019: $ nil).

During the first quarter of the FY 2020 , the Company purchased the license right procurement assets from Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd for an amount of $976,308 (June 30, 2019: $ nil) in relation to the development and approval process for the Glucose Biosensor Technology for APAC region. This supplemented the existing license for the Greater China region. In accordance with FASB ASC 805, this was set to a zero book value which equals the historical carrying value in the books of Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, by use of a deemed dividend. The Company shall pay royalties of sales & milestones payments as defined.

On June 23, 2020, The Company entered into a Technology Transfer Agreement global license with LSBD for SARS-CoV-2 and associated application. Refer to note 2 for further details of the licensing agreement.

NOTE 5. OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

  As of 
  

September 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2020

 
Goods and services tax receivable $8,773  $7,509 
Prepayments $28,922  $29,469 
Accrued income $10,662  $12,084 
Total $48,357  $49,062 

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 6. ACCOUNTS PAYABLE AND ACCRUED EXPENSES

  As of 
  

September 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2020

 
Accounts and other payables $347,381  $483,576 
Accruals $48,412  $56,894 
Employee liabilities (current and non-current) $95,243  $246,999 
Total $491,036  $787,469 

NOTE 7. RELATED PARTY PAYABLES

  As of 
  

September 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2020

 
Amounts payable to Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd $328,980  $1,769,293 
Total $328,980  $1,769,293 

NOTE 8. CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS

  As of 
  

September 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2020

 
Cash at bank $994,186  $427,273 

The Company places its cash and cash equivalents, which may at times be in excess of the Australia Financial Claims Scheme or the United States’ Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limits, with high credit quality financial institutions and attempts to limit the amount of credit exposure with any one institution.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 9. CONVERTIBLE NOTES PAYABLE

Convertible notes payable consists of the following:

  As of 
  

September 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2020

 
Convertible notes payable $5,133,706  $5,133,706 
Less unamortized debt issuance costs  -   - 
Debt less unamortized debt issuance costs $5,133,706  $5,133,706 

Investors have subscribed to a Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd 7% Convertible Note Issue during the periods in the above table. The Notes bear interest at the rate of 7% per annum payable quarterly in arrears. The Notes are unsecured and mature on December 31, 2020 (majority of convertible notes were renewed for 12 months on December 31, 2019).

The Notes also provide that there shall be a 15% discount on the potential IPO Price on the offer document intended to be filed with an approved share exchange. This has been converted at an exchange rate of 0.75, being the rate that is commercially agreed with investors as part of the offer process. The rate has been applied consistently for all raisings in the financial year.

NOTE 10. SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR CONVERTIBLE PREFERENCE SHARES OF GBS INC.

The Company has issued 2,810,190 convertible preference shares. When this is combined with the potential subsequent conversion of convertible notes payable, existing common shares issued in the company, and maximum raise upon successful completion of the IPO, the Company estimates that a maximum of 16,660,115 common shares in GBS Inc. shall be on issue upon the successful completion of the IPO. The 2,810,190 convertible preference shares are represented by $20,623,427 fully paid subscription monies, which have been allocated to total value of preferred shares and 8,630,000 common shares are represented by $2,850,001 subscription moneys, which have been allocated to total value of common shares.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 10. SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR CONVERTIBLE PREFERENCE SHARES OF GBS INC. (CONT.)

Upon the successfully completion of the IPO there will be 2,663,161 preference shares that hold one Loyalty Warrant Entitlement per share, and 147,029 preference shares that hold one Loyalty Warrant Entitlement per two shares. The terms of the Entitlement provide that the holder can exercise the warrant to purchase one common share at the IPO price during years two through to year three following the IPO. At exercise date, the shareholder must hold for each warrant to be exercised, one underlying common share to exercise the option The warrants are not transferable and apply to the number of shares that were subscribed for. In addition, the warrants do not apply to the convertible note holders.

The Company will continue to maintain its 98.96% (98,762,080 shares) in its subsidiary Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd.

NOTE 11. RELATED-PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Sales to and purchases from related parties are made in arm’s length transactions both at normal market prices and on normal commercial terms. The following transactions occurred with Life Science Glucose Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd during the period July 1, 2020 to September 30, 2020 (FY2020: July 1, 2019 to September 30, 2019):

The Company incurred a total of $nil (FY2020: $105,181) towards the services in connection with development and regulatory approval pathway for the technology, including payments made or expenses incurred on behalf of the Company.

The Company incurred a total of $nil (FY2020: $150,661) towards overhead cost reimbursement which includes salaries, rents and other related overheads directly attributable to the company which are included in general and administration expenses.

The Company recognized income of $nil (FY2020: $122,075) in relation to shared labour reimbursement which includes salaries directly attributable to the company which are included in shared-services revenue.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements

NOTE 12. INVESTMENT IN AFFILIATE

On May 29, 2020 the parent Company, Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd, issued 14,000,000 common shares of BiosensX (North America) Inc. to the Company at par value of $0.001 per share. This transaction provided the Company with a 50% interest in BiosensX (North America) Inc., the holder of the technology license for the North America region.

The investment in BiosensX (North America) Inc. is accounted for by use of the equity method in accordance with ASC 323 Investments - Equity Method and Joint Ventures.

Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd is the parent of both the Company and BiosensX (North America), the transfer of BiosensX shares to the Company was deemed to be a common control transaction. As a result of the share transfer, the Company has significant influence over BiosensX (North America) Inc. but in accordance with ASC 810 Consolidation Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics is deemed to have control over BiosensX (North America) Inc. due to its direct ownership of 50% in BiosensX (North America) Inc. and indirect ownership of 50% in BiosensX (North America) Inc. through GBS Inc.

The following table summarizes the amount recorded in the consolidated financial statements:

  As of 
  

September 30,

2020

  

June 30,

2020

 
Investment value $135,692  $14,000 
Equity income/(loss) from affiliate $(135,692) $121,692 
Carrying amount  -  $135,692 

NOTE 13. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

The Company has applied to list its common share in the United States under the exchange symbol “GBSG”. The updated public filing of the prospectus was made on October 20, 2020 with intent to raise $17.90m (net of transactions costs).

No other events have arisen in the interval between the period ended September 30, 2020 and the date of this report any other item, transaction or event of a material and unusual nature likely, in the opinion of the Directors to affect significantly the operations or state of affairs of the Group in future financial years.

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GBS Inc. and subsidiaries

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NOTE 14. INCOME TAX

The Company shall file its income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service and Australian Taxation Office. The Company has net operating loss carried forward of $16,905,027 which are derived from its operations in Australia and the US and are available to reduce future taxable income. Such loss carry forwards may be carried forward indefinitely, subject to compliance with tests of continuity and additional rules.

The net operating loss carried forward gives rise to a deferred tax asset of approximately $3,803,631. However, the Company has determined that a valuation allowance of $3,803,631 against such deferred tax asset is necessary, as it cannot be determined that the carry forwards will be utilized.

NOTE 15. LOSS PER SHARE

  As of 
  

September 30, 2020

  

September 30,

2019 

 
Total Loss $(1,072,510) $(757,850)
Basic and diluted net loss per share attributed to common shareholders $(0.12) $(0.09)
         
Weighted-average number of ordinary shares  8,630,000   8,510,000 

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1,058,824 Units consisting of:

Common Stock

Series A Warrants

Series B Warrants

Dawson James Securities, Inc.

PROSPECTUS

Dated          , 2020

Through and including           , 2020 (the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to a dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to an unsold allotment or subscription.

 

PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 13.Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

 

The estimatedfollowing table sets forth all expenses paid or payable by usthe registrant in connection with this offering. All amounts shown are estimates except for the offering described in thisSEC registration statement (other thanfee and the underwriting discounts) will be as follows:FINRA filing fee.

 

SEC registration fee $8,579.79  
FINRA filing fee $ 11,901.26 
Nasdaq Capital Market initial listing fee $55,000 
Accounting fees and expenses $  
Printing and engraving expenses $10,000 
Legal fees and expenses $  
Miscellaneous $3,500(1)
Total $  

(1)This amount represents additional expenses that may be incurred by the registrant in connection with the offering over and above those specifically listed above, including distribution and mailing costs.
SEC registration fee $

643.99

 
FINRA filing fee $[●] 
Printing expenses $[●] 
Legal fees and expenses $[●] 
Accounting fees and expenses $[●] 
Miscellaneous fees and expenses $[●] 
Total $[●] 

 

Item 14.Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

The Company’s amendedCertificate of Incorporation and restated certificate of incorporation and by-laws will provide that all ofBy-Laws allow for its directors and officers shall be entitled to be indemnified by us to the fullest extent permitted by law.

The Company’s amended and restated by-laws will further provideCertificate of Incorporation provides, in relevant part, that it will indemnifyno director of the Company shall be personally liable to the Company or any other person whom it hasstockholder for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the powerdirector’s duty of loyalty to indemnifythe Company or any stockholder, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under section 145Section 174 of the Delaware General Corporation Law. Law, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit and if the Delaware General Corporation Law is amended after the date of our Certificate of Incorporation to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of a director of the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, as so amended.

The Company’s By-Laws provide, in relevant part, that the Company shall 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 Company by reason of the fact that he 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 expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was unlawful.

The Company’s By-Laws also provide that the Company shall 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 or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he 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 expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit if he acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company 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 Company 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 which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper. Indemnification, as described above, shall be made by the Company only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because he has met the applicable standard of conduct.

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The Company’s By-Laws further provide that that indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to the Company’s By-Laws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office.

In addition, we intend to enterhave entered into customary indemnification agreements with each of our directors and officers.

 

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law concerning indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents is set forth below.

 

“Section 145. Indemnification of officers, directors, employees and agents; insurance.

 

(3)(a)A corporation shall have power 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. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which 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 reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.

(a) A corporation shall have power 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. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which 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 reasonable cause to believe that the person’s conduct was unlawful.

 

(b) A corporation shall have power 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 or in the right of the corporation to procure a judgment in its favor 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 the defense or settlement of such action or suit 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 which the Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

 

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(c) (1) To the extent that a present or former director or officer of a corporation has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, such person shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection therewith. For indemnification with respect to any act or omission occurring after December 31, 2020, references to “officer” for purposes of paragraphs (c)(1) and (2) of this section shall mean only a person who at the time of such act or omission is deemed to have consented to service by the delivery of process to the registered agent of the corporation pursuant to § 3114(b) of Title 10 (for purposes of this sentence only, treating residents of this State as if they were nonresidents to apply § 3114(b) of Title 10 to this sentence). (2) The corporation may indemnify any other person who is not a present or former director or officer of the corporation against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person to the extent he or she has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein.

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(d) Any indemnification under subsections (a) and (b) of this section (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the corporation only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because the person has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in subsections (a) and (b) of this section. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director or officer of the corporation at the time of such determination, (1) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (2) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (3) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (4) by the stockholders.

 

(e) Expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by an officer or director of the corporation in defending any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the corporation in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that such person is not entitled to be indemnified by the corporation as authorized in this section. Such expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred by former directors and officers or other employees and agents of the corporation or by persons serving at the request of the corporation as directors, officers, employees or agents of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the corporation deems appropriate.

 

(f) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the other subsections of this section shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may be entitled under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in such person’s official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. A right to indemnification or to advancement of expenses arising under a provision of the certificate of incorporation or a bylaw shall not be eliminated or impaired by an amendment to such provisionor repeal or elimination of the certificate of incorporation or the bylaws after the occurrence of the act or omission that is the subject of the civil, criminal, administrative or investigative action, suit or proceeding for which indemnification or advancement of expenses is sought, unless the provision in effect at the time of such act or omission explicitly authorizes such elimination or impairment after such action or omission has occurred.

 

(g) A corporation shall have power 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 this section. For purposes of this subsection, insurance shall include any insurance provided directly or indirectly (including pursuant to any fronting or reinsurance arrangement) by or through a captive insurance company organized and licensed in compliance with the laws of any jurisdiction, including any captive insurance company licensed under Chapter 69 of Title 18, provided that the terms of any such captive insurance shall:

(1) Exclude from coverage thereunder, and provide that the insurer shall not make any payment for, loss in connection with any claim made against any person arising out of, based upon or attributable to any (i) personal profit or other financial advantage to which such person was not legally entitled or (ii) deliberate criminal or deliberate fraudulent act of such person, or a knowing violation of law by such person, if (in the case of the foregoing paragraph (g)(1)(i) or (ii) of this section) established by a final, nonappealable adjudication in the underlying proceeding in respect of such claim (which shall not include an action or proceeding initiated by the insurer or the insured to determine coverage under the policy), unless and only to the extent such person is entitled to be indemnified therefor under this section;

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(2) Require that any determination to make a payment under such insurance in respect of a claim against a current director or officer (as defined in paragraph (c)(1) of this section) of the corporation shall be made by a independent claims administrator or in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs (d)(1) through (4) of this section; and

(3) Require that, prior to any payment under such insurance in connection with any dismissal or compromise of any action, suit or proceeding brought by or in the right of a corporation as to which notice is required to be given to stockholders, such corporation shall include in such notice that a payment is proposed to be made under such insurance in connection with such dismissal or compromise.

For purposes of paragraph (g)(1) of this section, the conduct of an insured person shall not be imputed to any other insured person. A corporation that establishes or maintains a captive insurance company that provides insurance pursuant to this section shall not, solely by virtue thereof, be subject to the provisions of Title 18.

 

(h) For purposes of this section, references to “the corporation” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, and employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under this section with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as such person would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued.

 

(3)(i)For purposes of this section, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the corporation” as referred to in this section.

(i) For purposes of this section, references to “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans; references to “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to any employee benefit plan; and references to “serving at the request of the corporation” shall include any service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner such person reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interests of the corporation” as referred to in this section.

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(j) The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, this section shall, unless otherwise provided when authorized or ratified, continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

 

(k) The Court of Chancery is hereby vested with exclusive jurisdiction to hear and determine all actions for advancement of expenses or indemnification brought under this section or under any bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors, or otherwise. The Court of Chancery may summarily determine a corporation’s obligation to advance expenses (including attorneys’ fees).”

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers, and controlling persons pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, we have been advised that, in the opinion of the SEC, 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 of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person in a successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, we will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to the 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.

 

Pursuant to the underwriting agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Registration Statement, we have agreed to indemnify the underwriters and the underwriters have agreed to indemnify us against certain civil liabilities that may be incurred in connection with this has, including certain liabilities under the Securities Act.

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Item 15.Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

 

DuringSales after our initial public offering (“IPO”) on December 28, 2020

Except as set forth below, in the past three years we soldpreceding the following sharesfiling of common stock, preferred stock, promissory notes and warrants without registrationthis Registration Statement, the Registrant has not issued any securities that were not registered under the Securities Act:

 

December 2022 Private Placement

On November 5, 2017, we effectedDecember 21, 2022, the Company entered into a forward stock splitSecurities Purchase Agreement (the December Purchase Agreement) with 14 investors (the Series D Investors), pursuant to which the Company sold in a Regulation S private placement (i) 176,462 shares of Series D Preferred Stock, and (ii) 529,386 D Warrants to purchase common stock. The Series D Preferred Stock and D Warrants were sold together as a Unit, with each Unit consisting of one share of Series D Preferred Stock and three D Warrants. An additional 26,469 warrants were issued to 90,000Winx Capital Pty Ltd. (“Winx Capital), the placement agent for the December Private Placement. The purchase price for the Units was $1.25 per Unit. The Unit offering price and the D Warrants exercise price were priced above the Nasdaq “Minimum Price” as that term is defined in Nasdaq Rule 5635(d)(1). The Company received aggregate gross proceeds from the December Private Placement of $220,585 before deducting the placement agent’s fees and the Company’s transaction expenses. The December Private Placement closed on December 22, 2022.

In connection with Winx Capital’s service as placement agent, Winx Capital received fixed fees of AU$20,000 (Austrian dollars), plus a fee of 6% of the gross proceeds received by the Company during the term of the Company’s engagement letter with Winx Capital or as the result of introductions by Winx Capital.

When initially issued in connection with the December Private Placement and prior to the Reverse Stock Split, the 176,462 outstanding shares which resulted in our having 9,000,000 issued and outstandingof Series D Preferred Stock were convertible 529,386 shares of common stock asfollowing shareholder approval of such date. On August 9, 2018, we effectedconversion and without the payment of additional consideration. As a reverse stock splitresult of approximately one to 0.9167the Reverse Stock Split and following shareholder approval of the conversion, the 176,462 outstanding shares which resulted in our having 8,250,000 issued and outstandingof Series D Preferred Stock were, at the time of conversion, convertible into an aggregate of 26,464 shares of common stock aswithout the payment of such date.additional consideration.

 

On November 24, 2018, we issued a further 260,000Following the Reverse Stock Split, (i) each share of Series D Preferred Stock was convertible into 0.15 shares of common stock in exchange forat the cancellationtime of $1,950,000 in debt held by the Licensor, by issuing a further 260,000 inconversion (initially three shares of common stock pre-Reverse Stock Split, subject to adjustment upon the Licensor, resulting in 8,510,000 issued and outstandingoccurrence of specified events); (ii) each D Warrant currently represents the right to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock with an exercise price of $5.80 per share (initially exercisable for one share of common stock with an exercise price of $0.29 per share pre-Reverse Stock Split); and (iii) each Winx Warrant currently represents the right to purchase 0.05 shares of common stock, with an exercise price of $10.40 per share (initially exercisable for one share of common stock with an exercise price of $0.52 per share pre-Reverse Stock Split). The D Warrants expire June 22, 2028 and the Winx Warrants expire five years following the effective date of a registration statement covering the resale of common stock underlying the Series D Preferred Stock acquired by the Series D Investors.

Spiro Sakiris, our Chief Financial Officer, subscribed to 15,993 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock and 47,979 warrants in this placement for aggregate purchase price of $19,991.25. Manuel Kostandas, our Director of Global Integration, subscribed to 10,662 shares of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock and 31,986 warrants in this placement for aggregate purchase price of $13,327.50. The Company used the net proceeds from the December Private Placement for general working capital purposes.

The issuances of the shares of common stock and Series D Preferred Stock pursuant to the December Purchase Agreement were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Regulation S promulgated thereunder.

For additional information regarding the December Private Placement, see “Prospectus Summary – December Private Placement - Series D Preferred Stock.” For additional information regarding the conversion of Series D Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

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IFP Acquisition

In connection with the Company’s acquisition of Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited on October 4, 2022, the Company entered into a Share Exchange Agreement with IFP, the holders of all of the issued shares in the capital of IFP (collectively, the IFP Sellers) and the IFP Sellers’ representative” named therein. Pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement, among other things, the Company acquired from the IFP Sellers all of the issued shares in the capital of IFP, and as consideration therefor the Company issued and sold to the IFP Sellers upon the closing of the IFP Acquisition an aggregate number of (i) 148,155 shares (2,963,091 shares pre-Reverse Stock Split) of the Company’s common stock, and (ii) 2,363,003 shares of the Company’s Series C Preferred Stock. An additional 1,649,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock were reserved for potential future issuance by the Company, consisting of (i) 500,000 shares of Series C Preferred Stock, that are being held back from the IFP Sellers for one year after the closing of the IFP Acquisition to secure potential indemnification claims by the Company against the IFP Sellers and (ii) 1,149,273 shares of Series C Preferred Stock to certain lenders to IFP. Each share of Series C Preferred Stock is currently convertible into 0.15 shares of common stock (initially convertible into three shares of common stock pre-Reverse Stock Split) (subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of specified events), contingent upon approval by the Company’s stockholders.

At the Special Meeting of the Company’s stockholders on May 8, 2023, the Company’s stockholders approved the full conversion of all Series C Preferred Stock and subsequently, effective as of such.May 10, 2023, all 3,512,277 shares of outstanding Series C Preferred Stock (which included the 1,149,273 Lender Preferred Shares, but not the 500,000 Closing Holdback Shares) were converted into an aggregate of 526,818 shares of common stock.

The issuances of the shares of common stock and Series C Preferred Stock pursuant to the Share Exchange Agreement were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section4(a)(2) of the Securities Act, Rule 506 of Regulation D promulgated thereunder, and/or Rule 901 promulgated thereunder with respect to individuals who reside outside of the United States.

For additional information regarding the IFP Acquisition and the Share Exchange Agreement, see “Prospectus Summary – IFP Acquisition - Series C Preferred Stock.” For additional information regarding the conversion of the Convertible Debt into Series C Preferred Stock and the conversion of Series C Preferred Stock into common stock, see “Prospectus Summary – Conversion of Convertible Debt and Preferred Stock.”

Sales prior to the closing our IPO in December 2020:

 

As of the date hereof, our 99.1%IPO in December 2020, our subsidiary (98.96%-owned subsidiary,at the time), GBS Pty Ltd, hashad sold to various investors convertible notes in thefor total outstanding aggregate principal and interest amount of $5,133,706, the principal and interest of which notes will$5,133,706. This amount automatically convertconverted at the closing of this offeringthe IPO into 710,548 (approximately 35,527 post-Reverse Stock Split) shares of common stock at a price per share equal to 85% of the public offering price in this offering. In the absence of the completion of this offering and such automatic conversion of the notes, the notes mature on December 31, 2019. These notes were issued along with ordinary shares of GBS Pty Ltd in a private placement conducted in the first quarter of 2018.IPO.

 

As of the date hereof,our IPO in December 2020 we have sold to various investors a total of 2,810,190shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, including 3,000 shares to Spiros Sakiris, our Chief Financial Officer, which will automatically convertconverted into 2,810,190 (approximately 140,510 post-Reverse Stock Split) shares of our common stock upon listing. As of the date hereof,of this offering there are outstanding warrants to purchase 2,736,675 (approximately 136,824 post-Reverse Stock Split) shares of our common stock issued in connection with the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, including warrants to purchase 3,000 shares (Approximately 150 post-Reverse Stock Split) held by Mr. Sakiris, having an exercise price of equal to 100% of the public offering price in this offering, which$8.50 ($170 post-Reverse Stock Split). These warrants are exercisable only during the one-year period commencing on the second anniversary of the closing of this offering.the IPO.

 

In June 2019, the Licensor transferred a total of 36,600 common stocks of our common stock to a total of 122 employees of the Licensor and related companies, and in September 2019, the Licensor transferred a total of 42,000 shares of our common stocks to a total of 140 employees of the Licensor and related companies. Therefore, as at the date hereof, the Licensor owns a total of 8,431,400 shares of our common stock, representing 99.1% of issued common stock.

All of theThe securities described above were issued pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D promulgated thereunder as fewer than 35 investors were non-accredited investors, or pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Regulation S under the Securities Act. The securities transferred by the Licensor to employees of the Licensor and related companies were transferred pursuant to the exemption from registration contained in Regulation S under the Securities Act. No underwriting discounts or commissions were paid with respect to any such sales.

 

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Item 16.Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules.

Item 16. Exhibits

(a) Exhibits

 

(3)

(a)Exhibit

The following exhibits are filed as part of this Registration Statement:No.

Exhibit No. Description
   
1.1++Form of Underwriting Agreement between Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. and Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc.
2.1 Share Exchange Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, by and among GBS INC., Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, the Sellers Listed on Schedule I thereto, Jason Isenberg (as the RFA Sellers’ Representative), and Philip Hand (as the other Sellers’ Representative) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form of Underwriting Agreement.*8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
3.1 Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.*Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on December 21, 2020).
   
3.2 Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated By-laws.*Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 27, 2022).
   
3.3.3.3 

Certificate of Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on February 9, 2023).

3.4Amended and Restated Bylaws of Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc., as amended as of October 26, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 27, 2022).
3.5Certificate of Designation of Series B Preferred Stock *(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.3 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on October 20, 2020).

   

3.4

3.6
 

Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation.Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).

3.7Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2022).
3.8++Certificate of Elimination of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
3.9++Certificate of Elimination of Series D Convertible Preferred Stock.
3.10++Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of Series E Convertible Preferred Stock
   
4.1 Specimen Common Stock Certificate.*Certificate (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on September 19, 2019).

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4.2Form of Series A Warrant.*Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on October 20, 2020).
   
4.3Form of Series B Warrant.*Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on October 20, 2020).
   
4.4Form of Warrant Agency Agreement.*Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on October 20, 2020).
   
4.5

Form of Underwriters’ Warrant.*LSBD Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on December 21, 2020).

   
4.6

Form LSBD Warrant.

5.1OpinionForm of Schiff Hardin LLP*Representative Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 10, 2023).
   
10.14.72019 Incentive Equity Plan.*Form of Warrant (Series D) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2022).
   
10.24.8Form of Placement Agent Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2022).
 
4.9Form of Warrant (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 10, 2023).
4.10++Form of Warrant offered hereby.
4.11++Form of Representative Warrant.
4.12Description of Registrant’s Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on September 22, 2022).
5.1++Opinion of ArentFox Schiff LLP

10.1*

Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. 2019 Long Term Incentive Plan (as amended May 8, 2023) (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 12, 2023).

10.2

Amended and Restated License Agreement between the Company and Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd.* (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on October 13, 2020).
   
10.310.1*Employment Agreement between the Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd and Spiro Sakiris (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on September 15, 2022).
10.2*Employment Agreement between the Glucose Biosensor Systems (Greater China) Pty Ltd and Harry Simeonidis (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on September 15, 2022).

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10.3* Master ServicesEmployment Agreement between the CompanyGBS (APAC) Pty Ltd and IQ3Corp Limited.*Steven Boyages (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on September 30, 2022).
   
10.4Medical Affairs Services Agreement between the Company and Clinical Research Corporation.*
10.5Form of Employment Agreement between the Company and Mr. Simeonidis.*
10.6Form of Employment Agreement between the Company and Dr. Becker.*
10.7Form of Employment Agreement between the Company and Mr. Sakiris.*
10.8Form of Lock-Up Agreement (included in Exhibit 1.1).*
10.9Letter of Financial Assistance from The iQ Group Global Ltd.*
10.10Letter of Financial Assistance from iQX Limited.*
10.11Form of Letter of Equity Support from iQnovate Limited.*
10.12Form of Letter of Equity Support from iQX Limited.*
10.13Technology License Agreement between the Company and Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltd.* (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on October 13, 2020).
10.5Form of Exchange Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on December 21, 2020).
10.6Form of Registration Rights Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on December 21, 2020).
10.7Form of Purchase and Assignment Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on December 21, 2020).
10.8Option Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on April 2, 2021).
10.9Bridge Facility Agreement, dated as of June 16, 2022, between the Company and Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Commission on September 22, 2022).
10.10Form of Warrant Agency Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on March 10, 2023).

10.11

Investors’ Rights Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, by and among the Company, The Ma-Ran Foundation, The Gary W. Rollins Foundation and Jason Isenberg, as the RFA Sellers’ Representative (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).

10.12Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, by and among the Company and the stockholders of the Company named therein (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
10.13Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, by and among the Company and the stockholders of the Company named therein (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
10.14Material TransferVoting Agreement, between Life Science Biosensor Diagnostics Pty Ltddated as of October 4, 2022, by and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering*among the Company and the stockholders of the Company named therein (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
10.15

Form of Exchange Agreement.Voting Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, by and among the Company, the Sellers’ Representatives’ named therein and each of Spiro Sakiris, Harry Simeonidis and Christopher Towers (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).

   
10.16

Extension Agreement, dated as of October 4, 2022, to Bridge Facility Agreement, dated as of June 16, 2022, between the Company and Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form of Registration Rights Agreement.8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).

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10.17 Deed of Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, Karin Briden and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to the Company’s Current Report on Form of Purchase and Assignment Agreement.
14.1Code of Ethics.*
21.1List of Subsidiaries.*
23.1Consent of BDO Audit Pty Ltd.
23.2Consent of Schiff Hardin LLP (to be included in Exhibit 5.1).*
24.1Power of Attorney (included8-K filed with the Commission on the signature page of this Registration Statement)October 11, 2022).
   
24.210.18 PowerDeed of Attorney – Steven Boyages*Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, Debra Coffey and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
24.310.19 PowerDeed of Attorney – Christopher Towers*Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, Thomas Johnson and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
24.410.20 PowerDeed of Attorney – Lawrence Fisher*Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, The Ma-Ran Foundation, The Gary W. Rollins Foundation and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
24.510.21 PowerDeed of Attorney – Harry Simeonidis*Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, John Polden and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.11 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
24.610.22 PowerDeed of Attorney – Jonathan Sessler*Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, Sennett Kirk III and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.12 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
24.710.23 PowerDeed of Attorney – Tom Parmakellis*Amendment and Restatement, dated October 4, 2022, between Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited, Sennett Kirk III Exempt Trust and the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on October 11, 2022).
   
24.810.24 PowerForm of Attorney – Victoria Gavrilenko*Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of December 21, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2022).
   
24.910.25 PowerForm of Attorney – George Margellis*Registration Rights Agreement dated as of December 21, 2022 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on December 22, 2022).
   
24.1010.26 PowerForm of Attorney – Jonathan Hurd*Convertible Loan Conversion Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission on May 17, 2023).
   
24.1110.27++Form of Warrant Agency Agreement between Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company.

14.1 PowerCode of Attorney – Leon Kempler*Ethics (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 14.1 to the Company’s Amended Registration Statement on Form S-1/A (File No. 333-232557) filed with the Commission on August 6, 2020).
   
99.121.1** Audit Committee Charter*List of Subsidiaries
   
99.223.1** Nominating Committee Charter*Consent of BDO Audit Pty Ltd.
   
99.323.2** Compensation Committee Charter*Consent of UHY Haines Norton
23.3++Consent of ArentFox Schiff LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1**Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
99.1**Intelligent Bio Solutions Inc. and Intelligent Fingerprinting Limited Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations for the nine months ended March 31, 2023.
107**Filing Fee Table

 

*Indicates management contract or compensatory plan.

* Previously filed.

** Filed herewith

++ To be filed by amendment.amendment

(b) Financial Statement Schedules: All schedules are omitted because the required information is inapplicable or the information is presented in the financial statements and the related notes.

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Item 17.Undertakings.

(a) 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;
(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 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Filing Fee Tables” table in the effective registration statement; and
(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;

provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (ii) and (iii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act, that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

(2)That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, 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 which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.
(4)That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser,

(i)each prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3) shall be deemed to be part of the registration statement as of the date the filed prospectus was deemed part of and included in the registration statement; and
(ii)each prospectus required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(2), (b)(5), or (b)(7) as part of a registration statement in reliance on Rule 430B relating to an offering made pursuant to Rule 415(a)(1)(i), (vii) or (x) for the purpose of providing the information required by Section 10(a) of the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the earlier of the date such form of prospectus is first used after effectiveness or the date of the first contract of sale of securities in the offering described in the prospectus. As provided in Rule 430B, for liability purposes of the issuer and any person that is at that date an underwriter, such date shall be deemed to be a new effective date of the registration statement relating to the securities in the registration statement to which that prospectus relates, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof; provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such effective date, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such effective date.

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(5) That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser: each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness; provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

(b) 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.

(c) The Registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each filing of the Registrant’s annual report pursuant to provideSection 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the underwritersecurities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the closing specified in the underwriting agreements, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(c)(d) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrantRegistrant pursuant to the foregoingindemnification provisions described herein, or otherwise, the registrantRegistrant 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 registrantRegistrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrantRegistrant 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 registrantRegistrant 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.

 

(d)(e) The undersigned registrantRegistrant hereby undertakes that:

 

(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, the information omitted from the form of prospectus 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.

(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, 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.

(1)For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus 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.
(2)For the purpose of determiningany 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.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, eachthe registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of New York, State of New York,Sydney, Australia, on the 18th day of December, 2020.July 12, 2023.

 

 

GBSINTELLIGENT BIO SOLUTIONS INC.

   
 By:/s/ Harry Simeonidis
 Name:Harry Simeonidis
 Title:Chief Executive Officer and President

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Steven Boyages and Spiro Sakiris, and each and either of them, his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, each with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in his or her name, place, and stead, in any and all capacities, to (i) act on, sign and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement together with all schedules and exhibits thereto and any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, together with all schedules and exhibits thereto, (ii) act on, sign and file such certificates, instruments, agreements and other documents as may be necessary or appropriate in connection therewith, (iii) act on and file any supplement to any prospectus included in this registration statement or any such amendment or any subsequent registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and (iv) take any and all actions which may be necessary or appropriate to be done, as fully for all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

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.

 

Name Position Date
     
/s/ Harry Simeonidis President, Chief Executive Officer and Director December 18,2020July 12, 2023
Harry Simeonidis    
     
/s/ Spiro Sakiris Chief Financial Officer December 18, 2020July 12, 2023
Spiro Sakiris (Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)  
     
/s/ *Steven Boyages Chairman of the Board December 18, 2020July 12, 2023
Steven Boyages MB BS, PhD    
     
/s/ *Lawrence Fisher Director December 18, 2020July 12, 2023
Victoria GavrilenkoLawrence Fisher    
     
/s/ *Jonathan Hurd Director December 18,2020July 12, 2023
Jonathan Hurd    
     
/s/ *Jason Isenberg Director December 18, 2020July 12, 2023
Leon KemplerJason Isenberg    
     
/s/ *David Jenkins Director December 18, 2020July 12, 2023
George Margelis, M.D.David Jenkins    
     
/s/ *Christopher Towers Director December 18,2020
Tom Parmakellis, M.D.
/s/ *DirectorDecember 18,2020
Jonathan Sessler, Ph.D.
/s/ *DirectorDecember 18, 2020July 12, 2023
Christopher Towers    
/s/ *DirectorDecember 18, 2020
Lawrence Fisher

By:* Spiro Sakiris
Spiro Sakiris, Attorney in fact

 

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