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Description of Business and Organization
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Description of Business and Organization [Abstract]  
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION
NOTE-1 DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION

 

Society Pass Incorporated (the “Company”) was incorporated in the State of Nevada on June 22, 2018, under the name of Food Society Inc. On October 3, 2018, the Company changed its company name to Society Pass Incorporated. The Company, through its subsidiaries, mainly sells and distributes the hardware and software for a Point of Sales (POS) application in Vietnam. The Company also has online lifestyle platform to enable consumers to purchase high-end brands of all categories under its own brand name of “Leflair.” The Company has made several acquisitions in calendar year 2022 and 2023, as follows:

 

  In February 2022, the Company completed the acquisition of 100% of the equity interest of New Retail Experience Incorporated and Dream Space Trading Company Limited through its subsidiary – Push Delivery Pte Limited, which two companies mainly provide an on-line grocery and food delivery platform in the Philippines and Vietnam respectively.

 

  In May 2022, the Company completed another acquisition of 100% of the equity interests of Gorilla Networks Pte Ltd, Gorilla Mobile Pte Ltd, Gorilla Connects Pte Ltd and Gorilla Networks (VN) Co Ltd (collectively, “Gorilla Networks”), a food delivery service.

 

  In July, 2022, the Company and its wholly owned subsidiary Thoughtful Media Group Incorporated collectively acquired 100% of the equity interests of Thoughtful Media Group Incorporated and AdActive Media, Inc. (collectively “Thoughtful Media”), whose business provides services to advertisers that helps to make internet advertising more effective.

 

  In July, 2022, the Company acquired 100% of the equity interests of Mangan PH Food Delivery Service Corp. (“Mangan), a Philippines restaurant and grocery delivery business.

 

  In August, 2022, the Company and its 95%-owned subsidiary SOPA Technology, Pte, Ltd., collectively acquired 75% of the outstanding capital stock of Nusatrip International Pte Ltd. (“Nusatrip”) and also purchased all of the outstanding capital stock of PT Tunas Sukses Mandiri (“Tunas”), a company existing under the law of the Republic of Indonesia, and both engaged in online ticketing and reservation services.

 

  In April, 2023, the Company’s 100% owned subsidiary Thoughtful Media Group Inc and Adactive Media CA Inc acquired 100% of outstanding capital stock of PT Wahana Cerita Indonesia, an Indonesia company operating digital marketing and event organizing.

 

  In April, 2023, the Company’s 99% owned subsidiary Nusatrip International Pte. Ltd. acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Mekong Leisure Travel Company Limited (changed business nature from Join Stock Company), a Vietnam travel agency.

 

  In July, 2023, the Company’s 99% owned subsidiary Mekong Leisure Travel Company Limited acquired 100% of the outstanding capital stock of Vietnam International Travel and Service Joint Stock Company, a Vietnam travel agency.

 

On February 10, 2021, the Company effected a 750 for 1 forward stock split of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock. The number of authorized shares and par value remain unchanged. All share and per share information in these financial statements and its footnotes have been retroactively adjusted for the years presented, unless otherwise indicated, to give effect to the forward stock split.

 

On September 21, 2021, the Company effected a 1 for 2.5 reverse stock split of the issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock. The number of authorized shares and par value remain unchanged. All share and per share information in these financial statements and its footnotes have been retroactively adjusted for the years presented, unless otherwise indicated, to give effect to the reverse stock split.

 

The forward stock split and reverse stock split transactions described above had no effect on the stated value of the preferred stock and the number of designated shares and outstanding shares of each series of preferred stock was unchanged in accordance with the respective certificate of designations. The number of authorized shares of preferred stock also remained unchanged.

 

The registration statement for the Company’s Initial Public Offering became effective on November 8, 2021. On November 8, 2021, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with Maxim Group LLC (the “Underwriter”) related to the offering of 2,888,889 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Firm Shares”), at a public offering price of $9.00 per share. Under the terms of the Underwriting Agreement, the Company granted the Underwriters an option, exercisable for 45 days, to purchase an additional 236,111 shares of common stock (the “Option Shares”) to cover over-allotments. The Company raised gross proceeds of $26,000,001 and $2,124,999 from its initial public offering and from the sale of the Option Shares, respectively.

 

On February 8, 2022, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with the “Underwriter, related to the offering of 3,030,300 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock and warrants to purchase up to 3,030,300 shares of common stock of the Company (the “Warrants”). Each Share was sold together with one Warrant to purchase one Share at a combined offering price of $3.30. In addition, the Company granted the Underwriter a 45-day over-allotment option to purchase up to an additional 454,545 Shares and/or Warrants, at the public offering price, less discounts and commissions. On February 10, 2022, the Underwriter gave notice to the Company of the full exercise of their over-allotment option and that delivery of the overallotment securities was made on February 11, 2022.

 

On June 30, 2023, NextGen Retail Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Buyer”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with Story-I Ltd., an Australian corporation (“Story-I Australia”), Story-I Pte Ltd., a Singapore corporation (“Story-I Singapore”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Story-I Australia, and Michael Chan, to purchase 95% of the outstanding shares (the “Majority Shares”) of PT Inetindo Infocom (the “Company”), an Indonesian company and retail reseller of Apple computers and other electronics in Indonesia. The consideration for the Majority Shares to be paid to Story-I Australia and Story-I Singapore by the Buyer is AUS$2,787,173, approximately US$ 1.85 million based on current exchange rates. The Company formally terminated the agreement on April 12, 2024.

 

Schedule of Description of subsidiaries

 

 

Name

  Place and date of
incorporation
  Principal
activities
  Particulars of
registered/ paid
up share capital
  Effective
interest held
 
Society Technology LLC  United States,
January 24, 2019
  IP Licensing  US$1   100%
SOPA Cognitive Analytics Private Limited  India
February 5, 2019
  Computer sciences consultancy and data analytics  INR 1,238,470   100%
SOPA Technology Pte. Ltd.  Singapore,
June 4, 2019
  Investment holding  SGD 1,250,000   95%
SOPA Technology Company Limited  Vietnam
October 1, 2019
  Software production 

Registered: VND 2,307,300,000;

Paid up: VND 1,034,029,911

   100%
Thoughtful Media (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (FKA: Hottab Pte Ltd. (HPL))  Singapore
January 17, 2015
  Digital marketing  SGD 620,287.75   100%
Hottab Vietnam Co. Ltd  Vietnam
April 17, 2015
  Sale of POS hardware and software  VND 1,000,000,000   100%
Thoughtful Media Group Co. Ltd (FKA: Hottab Asset Company Limited)  Vietnam
July 25, 2019
  Digital marketing  VND 5,000,000,000   100%
Nextgen Retail Inc (FKA: Leflair Incorporated)  United States
December 7, 2021
  Investment holding  US$1   100%
SOPA Capital Limited  United Kingdom
December 07, 2021
  Investment holding  GBP 1   100%
Thoughtful Media (Philippines) Incorporated (FKA: SOPA (Phil) Incorporated)  Philippines
Jan 11, 2022
  Investment holding  PHP 11,000,000   100%

 

 

Name

  Place and date of
incorporation
  Principal
activities
  Particulars of
registered/ paid
up share capital
  Effective
interest held
 
New Retail Experience Incorporated  Philippines
Jan 16, 2020
  On-line Grocery delivery platform  PHP 3,750,000   100%
Dream Space Trading Co. Ltd  Vietnam
May 23, 2018
  On-line Grocery and food delivery platform  VND 500,000,000   100%
Push Delivery Pte Ltd  Singapore
January 7, 2022
  Investment holding  US$2,000   100%
Gorilla Networks Pte. Ltd.  Singapore
September 3, 2019
  Investment holding  US$2,620,000 and SGD 730,000   100%
Gorilla Connect Pte. Ltd.  Singapore
May 18, 2022
  Telecommunications resellers  SGD 100   100%
Gorilla Mobile Singapore Pte. Ltd.  Singapore
August 6, 2020
  Telecommunications resellers  SGD 100   100%
Gorilla Networks (VN) LLC  Vietnam
December 16, 2020
  Telecommunications resellers  VND 233,000,000   100%
Thoughtful Media Group Incorporated  United States
June 28,2022
  Investment holding  US$10   100%
Thoughtful (Thailand) Co. Ltd  Thailand
September 2, 2014
  Digital marketing  THB 4,000,000   99.75%
AdActive Media CA Inc.  United States
April 12, 2010
  Digital marketing  Preferred: US$1,929.1938
Common: US$4,032.7871
   100%
PT Tunas Sukses Mandiri  Indonesia
February 8, 2010
  Online ticketing and reservation  IDR 26,000,000   99%
Nusatrip Malaysia Sdn Bhd  Malaysia
March 1, 2017
  Online ticketing and reservation  MYR 52,000   99%
Nusatrip Singapore Pte Ltd  Singapore
December 6, 2016
  Online ticketing and reservation  SGD 212,206   99%
Nusatrip International Pte Ltd  Singapore
January 9, 2015
  Online ticketing and reservation  SGD 905,006.51   99%
PT Thoughtful Media Group Indonesia (FKA: PT Wahana Cerita Indonesia)  Indonesia
January 14, 2022
  Digital marketing and event organizer  IDR 51,000,000   100%
Mekong Leisure Travel Company Limited  Vietnam
October 6, 2011
  Online ticketing, reservation and system  VND 875,460,000   99%
Vietnam International Travel and Service Joint Stock Company  Vietnam
November 16, 2012
  Ticketing  VND 1,900,000,000   100%
Sopa Incorporated  Unites States
May 22, 2023
  Investment holding  Common: US$0.10   100%
Nusatrip Incorporated  United States
May 22,2023
  Investment holding  Common: US$0.10   100%
Thoughtful Media (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd  Malaysia
October 18, 2023
  Digital marketing  MYR 1,000   100%

 

The Company and its subsidiaries are hereinafter referred to as (the “Company”).

 

On February 23, 2023, Society Pass Incorporated acquired additional issued capital in Nusatrip International Pte Ltd of 2,225,735 number of ordinary stock and increased its shareholding from 75% to 99%, and to the subsidiaries within the group.

 

On May 22, 2023, Thoughtful Media Group Inc and Society Pass Inc acquired additional issued capital in Thoughtful (Thailand) Co Ltd of 397,000 and 2,000 number of ordinary stocks amounted to THB 1,985,000 and THB 10,000 respectively. Total shareholding interest remain unchanged.

 

On August 1, 2023, the Company 95% owned subsidiary Sopa Technology Pte. Ltd. disposed one of its 100% owned subsidiary Sopa (Phil) Incorporated to the Company 100% owned subsidiary Thoughtful Media Group Incorporated as internal group restructuring. At the same day, Sopa (Phil) Incorporated changed name to Thoughtful Media (Philippines) Inc and updated its principal activities to digital marketing.

 

On October 25, 2023, the Company 95% owned subsidiary Sopa Technology Pte. Ltd. acquired one of its 100% owned subsidiary Hottab Vietnam Company Limited from its 100% owned subsidiary Hottab Pte. Ltd. and disposed 100% shareholding of Hottab Pte. Ltd. to its 100% owned subsidiary Thought Media Group Incorporated. At the same day, Hottab Pte. Ltd. changed name to Thoughtful Media (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. and updated its principal activities to digital marketing.

 

During the year of 2023, certain operations are progressively discontinued followings management decision based on operation performance, business strategy and future prospects. This is mainly F&B and groceries delivery operations includes “Handycart” under subsidiary Dream Space Trading Co., Ltd in Vietnam and “Pushkart” and “Mangan” under subsidiary New Retail Experience Incorporated in the Philippines. In view of the operation results which are insignificant to the impact of the group and continue operation involvements are in placed in all these operations, therefore no separate disclosure is considered necessary in accordance to the discontinued operation standards.