A possible Fundraising Plan ... Pleased to see the stock price showing some signs of life and ticking upward, albeit a little bit at a time. Good article today in the BIV newspaper - hopefully lots read it.
All of the longer term good prospects aside (and I think there is a bright longer term future), the company is very likely going to need to raise additional money in order to (a) offset cash losses, because China won't ramp quickly enough this year to zero out the cash depletion, and (b) fund further marketing and sales initiatives, as the company will need to ramp that up to drive sales.
If the Q2 numbers show a $900k or greater loss (ie: same size loss roughly as Q1, and we will see the Q2 numbers by end of August), then as of July 1st the Company will have just over 2 quarters of cash remaining if they stay at the same burn rate. Given that the China story and the distribution broadening into the USA are really 2018 stories (correctly), this means there will be little material sales growth to offset the cash burn between now and end fo the year - never mind actually needing incrementally more cash to ramp up sales and marketing in those two new regions.
So where is this extra cash going to come from, since they are not yet profitable and thus can't access bank debt ?
Well, there are two sources: they can either do a treasury offering and issue more shares to investors (so if the price continues to rise that would be less dilutive than doing it at $0.10, the price of the last roung).
OR
They can drive the share price up above 30 cents per share and keep it there for 10 days and then resort to the following terms in the private placement completed last year [quoting below from the news release dated August 4, 2016]:
Each unit consists of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant exercisable at $0.25 per share until August 4, 2018, provided that if the closing price of the Company's shares on any stock exchange or quotation system on which the shares are listed or quoted is equal to or greater than $0.30 for a period of 10 consecutive trading days, the Company will have the right to accelerate the expiry of the warrants by giving notice to the holders of the warrants that the warrants will expire at 4:30 pm (Vancouver time) on a date that is not less than 10 business days from the date the notice is given.
So.... there is a case to be made that we could expect to see, in the next few months (ie: before the company runs too much lower on cash reserves), the share price up above $0.30 in order to either trigger the above clause or to do a treasury share offering to other investors.
Will be interesting to see what happens between now and American Thanksgiving. If there is to be a financing, it will need to be before then...
Good luck to all !!!