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ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2023
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ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

AppTech Payments Corp. ("AppTech" or the "Company), a Delaware corporation, is a Fintech Company headquartered in Carlsbad, California. AppTech utilizes innovative payment processing and digital banking technologies to complement its core merchant services capabilities. The Company’s patented and proprietary software will provide progressive and adaptable products that are available through a suite of synergistic offerings directly to merchants, banking institutions, and business enterprises.

 

AppTech is developing an embedded, highly secure digital payments and banking platform that powers commerce experiences for clients and their customers. Based upon industry standards for payment and banking protocols, we will offer standalone products and fully integrated solutions that deliver innovative, unparalleled payments, banking, and financial services experiences. Our processing technologies can be taken off-the-shelf or tapped into via our RESTful APIs to build fully branded and customizable experiences while supporting tokenized, multi-channel, and multi-method transactions.

 

In 2017, the Company acquired assets from GlobalTel Media, Inc. The assets included patented, enterprise-grade software for advanced text messaging, four patents in text technology, and additional intellectual property for mobile payments.

 

In 2020, AppTech entered into a strategic partnership with Infinios (formerly “NEC Payments”), to extend its product offering to include flexible, scalable, and secure payment acceptance and issuer payment processing that supports the digitization of business and consumer financial services and the migration of cash and other legacy payment types to contactless card and real time payment transactions. This partnership has since been terminated.

 

In 2021, the Company announced its intent to launch an innovative and patented mobile text payment solution in addition to a suite of digital banking and payment acceptance products designed in the Business-to-Business (“B2B”) and Business-to-Consumer (“B2C”) payment and software space.

 

On December 23, 2021, AppTech re-domiciled to Delaware and changed its name from “AppTech Corp.” to “AppTech Payments Corp.” AppTech stock trades under the symbol “APCX” and its warrants trade under the symbol “APCXW,” on the Nasdaq Capital Market ("NASDAQ").

 

The Company successfully completed its capital raise and uplisting onto NASDAQ (herein referred to as its “Offering”) on January 7, 2022. As part of the Offering, the Company executed a 9.5 to 1 reverse split of its common stock. All information has been adjusted to reflect the reverse split. In addition, the Offering sold 3,614,458 units of our common stock (a unit consisting of one share of common stock and a warrant to purchase one share of common stock) at $4.15 per unit. In addition, 542,168 warrants were granted by EF Hutton and the Offering warrants of 3,614,458, all having a five-year expiration and an exercise price of $5.19. The Offering provided net proceeds of approximately $13.4 million. The exercise price of the warrants were repriced to a floor of $4.15 after the February 2023 Offering (discussed below).

 

In April 2022, the Company acquired HotHand Inc. (“HotHand”), a patent-holding company. These patents are focused on the delivery, purchase, or request of any products or services within specific geolocation and time parameters, provided by a consumer’s cell phone anywhere in the United States, and protect all mobile phone advertising, including in a store’s mobile application.

 

In September 2022, the Company expanded its operations to Austin, Texas by establishing AppTech Holdings LLC. The goal of this expansion is primarily to pursue licensing revenue.

 

In February 2023, the Company completed an underwritten public offering of its common stock and warrants, raising gross proceeds of approximately $5.0 million. As of August 14, 2023, approximately $70.0 million remains available under the shelf registration statement Form S-3 (File No. 333-265526) previously filed and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on July 15, 2022. SEC regulations limit the amount of funds we can raise during any 12-month period pursuant to our effective shelf registration statement on Form S-3. We are currently limited by the Baby Shelf Rule as of the filing of this Quarterly Report, until such time as our public float exceeds $75 million. However, factors such as stock price, volatility, trading volume, market conditions, demand and regulatory requirements may adversely affect the Company’s ability to raise capital in an efficient manner.

 

In June 2023, the Company entered into licensing agreements with InstaCash and PayToMe.co.

 

Management's Plan

 

The Company continues to have yearly losses from its limited revenues from operations. Management believes the present cash flows will not enable it to meet its commitments for twelve months from the date of filing. However, Management has an open S-3 filed with the SEC and it intends to obtain the necessary funding for the Company to meet its obligations for the twelve-month period from the date the financial statements are issued.

 

The Company anticipates raising additional capital in the third quarter of 2023 to further fund operations. Based on the Company’s current operating plan, working capital levels, financial projections, and planned capital raise in the third quarter, Management anticipates that the Company will be able to meet its financial obligations for the next twelve months.