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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

9. Related Party Transactions

 

On December 28, 2018, the Company entered into an agreement with an unaffiliated stockholder of the Company to acquire 450,000 shares of the Company’s common stock and warrants to purchase an aggregate of 48,896 shares of the Company’s common stock for an aggregate cash consideration of $149,700. The Company agreed to assign its right to purchase 450,000 shares of common stock under the purchase agreement to a member of the Company’s board of directors and an entity controlled by a member of the Company’s board of directors and an executive officer at the company named Novelty Capital Partners LP.

 

A member of our board of directors controls an entity named Novelty Capital Partners LP that is a significant shareholder in the Company and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company. The related party has served in these executive roles providing management services to the Company since September 4, 2018; however, does not receive salary or other forms of cash compensation. Management has estimated the market rate for the services rendered for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 as $225,100 and $75,000, respectively. The services have been recorded in the financial statements as a capital contribution.

 

On January 31, 2020, we entered into the Backstop Agreement with a consortium of accredited investors, including all of our directors and led by Novelty Capital Partners LP, pursuant to which such investors agreed to purchase in a private placement, at $0.30 per share, up to $2.41 million of shares of our common stock. The consummation of the investment pursuant to the Backstop Agreement was conditioned on the closing of the Rights Offering. The Rights Offering expired on March 31, 2020. While upon the closing of the Rights Offering, we anticipated that the Backstop Agreement would close by April 14, 2020, as of the filing of this Annual Report on Form 10-K the Backstop Agreement has not closed and we now expect to consummate the Backstop Agreement transactions by the end of April 2020.

 

At the closing of the Rights Offering, we received gross proceeds of $480,191 in exchange for 1.6 million shares of common stock. Pursuant to the Backstop Agreement, we expect to receive proceeds of $2.12 million in exchange for the issuance of 7.0 million restricted shares of common stock.