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Note 1. Organization

 

Akoustis Technologies, Inc. (formerly known as Danlax, Corp.) (“the Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada, U.S. on April 10, 2013. Effective December 15, 2016, the Company changed its state of incorporation from the State of Nevada to the State of Delaware. Through its subsidiary, Akoustis, Inc. (a Delaware corporation), the Company operates in the telecommunications and fiber optics sector and is based in Huntersville, North Carolina. The mission of the Company is to commercialize and manufacture its patented BulkONE® acoustic wave technology to address the critical frequency-selectivity requirements in today’s mobile smartphones - improving the efficiency and signal quality of mobile wireless devices and enabling the Internet of Things.

 

On August 11, 2016, the Company changed its fiscal year from the period beginning on April 1 and ending on March 31 to the period beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30 of each year, effective immediately.

 

On March 10, 2017, the Company announced that its common stock was approved for listing on the NASDAQ Capital Market, effective March 13, 2017 under the symbol AKTS.

 

On March 23, 2017, the Company entered into a Definitive Asset Purchase Agreement and a Definitive Real Property Purchase Agreement (together, the “Agreements”) with The Research Foundation for the State University of New York (RF-SUNY) and Fuller Road Management Corporation (FRMC), an affiliate of RF-SUNY, to acquire for an aggregate purchase price of $2.75 million, certain specified assets, including STC-MEMS, a semiconductor wafer-manufacturing operation and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) business with associated wafer-manufacturing tools and 28 employees, as well as the real estate and improvements associated with the facility located in Canandaigua, New York, which is used in the operation of STC-MEMS. Subject to satisfaction of certain conditions precedent, the Agreements contemplate that closing of the transactions is expected to occur approximately 90 days from the date of execution of the definitive agreement which is on or about June 26, 2017.

 

The 2016-2017 Offering

 

The Company sold a total of 2,141,993 shares of its common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”) in a private placement offering (the “2016-2017 Offering”) at a fixed purchase price of $5.00 per share (the “2016-2017 Offering Price”), with closings in each of November and December 2016 and January and February 2017. Aggregate gross proceeds were $10.7 million before deducting commissions and expenses of approximately $854,000. In connection with the 2016-2017 Offering, the Company also issued to the placement agents, warrants to purchase an aggregate 205,126 shares of Common Stock with a term of five years and an exercise price of $5.00 per share. In accordance with the terms of the subscription agreements executed by the Company and each of the investors, if the Company issues additional shares of Common Stock or Common Stock equivalents (subject to customary exceptions, including but not limited to issuances of awards under Company employee stock incentive programs and certain issuances in connection with credit arrangements, equipment financings, lease arrangements, or similar transactions) between November 25, 2016 and the date that is 90 days after the date on which a registration statement registering the resale of the shares issued in the 2016-2017 Offering is declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), for a consideration per share less than the 2016-2017 Offering Price (as adjusted for any subsequent stock dividend, stock split, distribution, recapitalization, reclassification, reorganization, or similar event) (the “Lower Price”), each investor will be entitled to receive from the Company additional shares of Common Stock in an amount such that, when added to the number of shares of Common Stock initially purchased by such Investor, will equal the number of shares of Common Stock that such Investor’s investment in the Offering would have purchased at the Lower Price.