Strive, Inc 8-K/A, filed Apr 17, 2024
Strive, Inc. (ASST)
About this 8-K/A
Strive, Inc filed this 8-K/A on April 17, 2024, reporting on events of April 3, 2024.
Items reported
- Item 3.02: Unregistered sale of equity
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
On April 9, 2024, Asset Entities Inc., a Nevada corporation (the “Company”), filed a Current Report on Form 8-K which reported the issuance of 621,590 shares of the Company’s Class B Common Stock, $0.0001 par value per share (the “Class B Common Stock”), to Triton Funds LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Triton”), on April 3, 2024, pursuant to Item 3.02 of Form 8-K (the “Previous Form 8-K”). As previously reported, the price of the shares was required to be 85% of the lowest daily volume-weighted average price of the Class B Common Stock during the five business days prior to the closing of the purchase of the shares (the “Triton Closing”), and the Triton Closing was required to occur within five business days after the date that the Triton Shares were received by Triton, in accordance with the Amended and Restated Closing Agreement, dated as of August 1, 2023, between the Company and Triton, as amended by the Amendment to Amended and Restated Closing Agreement, dated as of September 27, 2023, between the Company and Triton, the Second Amendment to Amended and Restated Closing Agreement, dated as of December 30, 2023, between the Company and Triton, and the Third Amendment to Amended and Restated Closing Agreement, dated as of March 29, 2024, between the Company and Triton (as amended, the “Amended and Restated Closing Agreement”). On April 10, 2024, the date of the Triton Closing, the price of the Triton Shares was determined to be $0.34 per share based on the lowest daily volume-weighted average price of the Class B Common Stock during the five business days prior to the Triton Closing. On April 17, 2024, the Company received gross proceeds of $211,341. This Amendment No. 1 to Current Report on Form 8-K/A amends the Previous Form 8-K to include the date of receipt and amount of the gross proceeds and the placement agent compensation required due to the receipt of such gross proceeds pursuant to the engagement letter agreement between the Company and Boustead Securities, LLC (“Boustead”), dated November 29, 2021 (the “Boustead Engagement Letter”), and the underwriting agreement between the Company and Boustead, as representative of the underwriters of the Company’s initial public offering, dated February 2, 2023 (the “Underwriting Agreement”).
| Item 3.02 | Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities. |
Pursuant to the Amended and Restated Closing Agreement, on March 27, 2024, the Company delivered a notice to Triton (the “Closing Notice”) informing Triton that the Company had elected to exercise its right pursuant to the Amended and Restated Closing Agreement to sell Triton the 621,590 Triton Shares. The price of each of the Triton Shares was required to be 85% of the lowest daily volume-weighted average price of the Class B Common Stock during the five business days prior to the Triton Closing, and the Triton Closing was required to occur within five business days after the date that the Triton Shares were received by Triton in accordance with the Amended and Restated Closing Agreement.
On April 10, 2024, the date of the Triton Closing, the price of the Triton Shares was determined to be $0.34 per share based on the lowest daily volume-weighted average price of the Class B Common Stock during the five business days prior to the Triton Closing, which was $0.40 per share. On April 17, 2024, the Company received gross proceeds of $211,341.
In connection with the Triton Closing, pursuant to the Boustead Engagement Letter and the Underwriting Agreement, the Company paid Boustead, as placement agent compensation, a total of $16,907, equal to 7% of the aggregate purchase price and a non-accountable expense allowance equal to 1% of the aggregate purchase price for the Triton Shares. In addition, the Company issued a warrant to Boustead for the purchase of 43,511 shares of Class B Common Stock, equal to 7% of the number of the Triton Shares, with an exercise price of $0.34 per share, equal to the purchase price per share of the Triton Shares (the “Tail Warrant”). The Tail Warrant is exercisable for a period of five years and contains cashless exercise provisions.
The Triton Shares were offered and sold by the Company to Triton in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506(b) of Regulation D thereunder. In the Amended and Restated Closing Agreement, Triton represented to the Company, among other things, that it is an “accredited investor” (as such term is defined in Rule 501(a)(3) of Regulation D under the Securities Act). Accordingly, the offer and sale by the Company of the Triton Shares to Triton under the Amended and Restated Closing Agreement have not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws and, therefore, such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws.
The Tail Warrant issued by the Company to Boustead under the Boustead Engagement Letter and the Underwriting Agreement was offered and sold, and the shares of Class B Common Stock that may be issued upon exercise of the Tail Warrant will be offered and sold, by the Company to Boustead in a transaction that is exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, in reliance on Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506(b) of Regulation D thereunder. Accordingly, the offer and sale by the Company of the Tail Warrant and the underlying shares of Class B Common Stock to Boustead under the Boustead Engagement Letter has not been and will not be registered under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws and, therefore, such securities may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an exemption from registration under the Securities Act and any applicable state securities or “Blue Sky” laws.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| Date: April 17, 2024 | ASSET ENTITIES INC. |
| /s/ Arshia Sarkhani | |
| Name: Arshia Sarkhani | |
| Title: Chief Executive Officer and President |