YOKNE’AM ILLIT, Israel, Sept. 29, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Wearable Devices Ltd. (Nasdaq: WLDS) (“Wearable Devices” or the “Company”), a progress firm creating a non-invasive neural enter interface know-how for B2B and B2C prospects, as we speak introduced its monetary outcomes for the six months ended June 30, 2022.
Wearable Devices continued its funding in analysis and growth actions and along with the bills incurred in reference to the Company’s preliminary public providing (“IPO”), the Company’s web loss elevated to $(2,051,000), or $(0.18) per diluted share, for the six months ended June 30, 2022, as in comparison with a web lack of $(640,000), or $(0.08) per diluted share for the six months ended June 30, 2021.
As beforehand introduced, on September 15, 2022, the Company closed its IPO of three,750,000 items. Each unit was provided at a public providing value of $4.25 and consisted of 1 atypical share and two warrants to buy one atypical share every, at an preliminary train value of $4.00 per atypical share. In addition, the underwriter for the IPO partially exercised its over-allotment possibility with respect to 1,125,000 warrants to buy 1,125,000 atypical shares. The gross proceeds of the providing had been roughly $16 million earlier than deducting underwriting reductions, commissions and providing bills.
Commenting on the IPO and the upcoming targets of the Company, Mr. Asher Dahan, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Wearable Devices, mentioned, “We are thankful to all our investors and very excited about the successful IPO, which is an important step as we bring to market revolutionary solutions that enable the user’s hand to become a universal input device for touchless interaction with technology. We believe that neural-based interfaces will become as common to interaction with wearable computing and digital devices in the near future as the touchscreen is a universal input method for smartphones. This IPO enables us to drive the development of our innovative technology for B2B customers and transition to production on our B2C wearable Mudra wrist band for controlling digital devices using subtle finger movements.
With the Metaverse widely considered to be the future of the internet, we believe the neural control interface market is positioned for growth given that user interfaces frequently dictate the pace of technology advancements. On the B2B side, more than 100 companies have purchased our Mudra Inspire development kit, and 30 of those are multinational technology companies. These companies are exploring various input and control use-cases for their products, across multiple countries and industry sectors, including consumer electronics manufacturers, consumer electronics brands, electronic components manufacturers, IT services and software development companies, industrial companies, and utility providers. Our objective with these companies is to commercialize the Mudra technology by licensing it for integration in the hardware and software of these companies’ products and services.
On the B2C side of our business, we are launching a smart band for the Apple Watch which allows users to control the watch and operate applications using same-hand touchless finger movements. We plan to utilize IPO proceeds in part to deliver pre-orders of our Mudra Band and to solidify production capabilities and volumes. In parallel, we intend to increase our marketing efforts to further expand global awareness of our brand,” mentioned Mr. Dahan.
About Wearable Devices Ltd.
Wearable Devices is a progress firm creating a non-invasive neural enter interface know-how within the type of a wrist wearable band for controlling digital gadgets utilizing refined finger actions. Our firm’s imaginative and prescient is to create a world wherein the person’s hand turns into a common enter system for touchlessly interacting with know-how, and we consider that our know-how is setting the usual enter interface for the Metaverse. Since our know-how was launched to the market, we’ve been working with each Business-to-Business and Business-to-Consumer prospects as a part of our push-pull technique. Combining our personal proprietary sensors and Artificial Intelligence, or AI, algorithms into a trendy wristband, our Mudra platform allows customers to regulate digital gadgets via refined finger actions and hand gestures, with out bodily contact or contact. For extra data, go to https://www.wearabledevices.co.il/.
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WEARABLE DEVICES LTD. AND ITS SUBSIDIARY | ||||||
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM BALANCE SHEETS | ||||||
U.S. {dollars} (in hundreds) | ||||||
June 30, | December 31, | |||||
2022 | 2021 | |||||
ASSETS | Unaudited | |||||
CURRENT ASSETS: | ||||||
Cash | 320 | 1,274 | ||||
Trade receivables | 17 | 8 | ||||
Governmental grant receivable | 55 | 62 | ||||
Other receivables and pay as you go bills | 18 | 47 | ||||
Deferred preliminary public providing price | 25 | – | ||||
Inventories | 8 | 11 | ||||
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS | 443 | 1,402 | ||||
NON-CURRENT ASSETS: | ||||||
Right-of-use asset | 25 | – | ||||
Property and gear, web | 47 | 43 | ||||
TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS | 72 | 43 | ||||
TOTAL ASSETS | 515 | 1,445 | ||||
WEARABLE DEVICES LTD. AND ITS SUBSIDIARY | ||||||
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM BALANCE SHEETS | ||||||
U.S. {dollars} (in hundreds) | ||||||
June 30, | December 31, | |||||
2022 | 2021 | |||||
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT) | Unaudited | |||||
CURRENT LIABILITIES: | ||||||
Accounts payables | 88 | 72 | ||||
Advance funds | 284 | 273 | ||||
Deferred revenues | 23 | 24 | ||||
Accrued payroll and different employment associated accruals | 293 | 222 | ||||
Accrued bills | 170 | 47 | ||||
Lease legal responsibility | 25 | – | ||||
SAFEs | 500 | – | ||||
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES | 1,383 | 638 | ||||
SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT) | ||||||
Ordinary shares, NIS 0.01 par worth: | ||||||
Authorized 20,000,000 and 50,000,000 as of December 31, 2021 and June 30, 2022, respectively; Issued and excellent 11,136,850 shares as of December 31, 2021 as of June 30, 2022 | 31 | 31 | ||||
Additional paid-in capital | 8,065 | 7,689 | ||||
Accumulated losses | (8,964 | ) | (6,913 | ) | ||
TOTAL SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT) | (868 | ) | 807 | |||
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (DEFICIT) | 515 | 1,445 | ||||
WEARABLE DEVICES LTD. AND ITS SUBSIDIARY | ||||||
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS (UNAUDITED) | ||||||
U.S. {dollars} (in hundreds) | ||||||
Six months | Six months | |||||
ended | ended | |||||
June 30, | June 30, | |||||
2022 | 2021 | |||||
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(besides per share quantities) |
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Revenues | 28 | 107 | ||||
Cost of supplies | (5 | ) | (7 | ) | ||
Research and growth, web | (944 | ) | (388 | ) | ||
Sales and advertising and marketing bills, web | (471 | ) | (130 | ) | ||
General and administrative bills | (587 | ) | (188 | ) | ||
Initial public providing bills | (74 | ) | – | |||
OPERATING LOSS | (2,053 | ) | (606 | ) | ||
FINANCING INCOME (EXPENSES),web | 2 | (34 | ) | |||
COMPREHENSIVE AND NET LOSS | (2,051 | ) | (640 | ) | ||
Net loss per atypical share, primary and diluted | (0.18 | ) | (0.08 | ) | ||
Weighted common variety of atypical shares excellent primary and diluted | 11,136,850 | 8,282,329 | ||||
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INTERIM STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED) | ||||||
U.S. {dollars} (in hundreds) | ||||||
Six months ended | ||||||
June 30, | ||||||
2022 | 2021 | |||||
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||
Net loss | (2,051 | ) | (640 | ) | ||
Adjustments required to reconcile web loss to web money utilized in | ||||||
working actions – | ||||||
Depreciation | 11 | 4 | ||||
Share based mostly compensation bills | 376 | 62 | ||||
Accrued curiosity on convertible securities | – | 21 | ||||
Changes in working belongings and liabilities gadgets: | ||||||
Decrease in stock | 3 | 5 | ||||
Increase in commerce receivables | (9 | ) | – | |||
Increase in deferred preliminary public providing price | (25 | ) | – | |||
Decrease (enhance) in governmental grants receivables | 7 | (104 | ) | |||
Decrease (enhance) in different receivables and pay as you go bills | 29 | (44 | ) | |||
Increase upfront funds | 11 | 102 | ||||
Increase (lower) in deferred revenues | (1 | ) | 2 | |||
Increase in accounts payable | 16 | 18 | ||||
Increase in accrued payroll and different employment associated accruals | 71 | 117 | ||||
Decrease upfront funds on governmental grants | – | (42 | ) | |||
Increase in accrued bills | 123 | 8 | ||||
Net money utilized in working actions | (1,439 | ) | (491 | ) | ||
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||
Purchase of property and gear | (15 | ) | (14 | ) | ||
Net money utilized in investing actions | (15 | ) | (14 | ) | ||
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||
Proceeds from issuance of atypical shares and warrants, web of issuance price | – | 2,925 | ||||
Proceeds from issuance of SAFEs | 500 | – | ||||
Exercise of choices to atypical shares | – | 1 | ||||
Net money supplied by financing actions | 500 | 2,926 | ||||
NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH | (954 | ) | 2,421 | |||
CASH AT BEGINNING OF PERIOD | 1,274 | 475 | ||||
CASH AT END OF PERIOD | 320 | 2,896 | ||||
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION: | ||||||
Conversion of convertible securities into atypical shares | – | 3,072 | ||||
Right-of-use asset acknowledged towards lease legal responsibility | 56 | – | ||||