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Note 7 - Commitments and Contingencies
6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2025
Notes to Financial Statements  
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Note 7  Commitments and Contingencies

 

Contractual Obligations

 

As of September 30, 2025, the Company is obligated under agreements with its content providers and other contractual obligations to make guaranteed payments as follows: $1.0 million, $0.1 million and $0.1 million for the fiscal years ending March 31, 2026, 2027 and 2028, respectively.

 

On a quarterly basis, the Company records the greater of the cumulative actual content acquisition costs incurred or the cumulative minimum guarantee based on forecasted usage for the minimum guarantee period. The minimum guarantee period of time is the period that the minimum guarantee relates to, as specified in each agreement, which may be annual or a longer period. The cumulative minimum guarantee, based on forecasted usage, considers factors such as listening hours, revenue, members, and other terms of each agreement that impact the Company’s expected attainment or recoupment of the minimum guarantees based on the relative attribution method. 

 

On  June 27, 2025 and effective as of  June 1, 2025 (the “Effective Date”), the Company entered into a new employment agreement with Kit Gray, the Company’s current President (the “Gray Employment Agreement”). The term of the Gray Employment Agreement is for two years from the Effective Date at an annual salary of $375,000. Mr. Gray is eligible to earn a discretionary annual performance bonus for each whole or partial fiscal year of his employment period with the Company in accordance with the Company’s annual bonus plan applicable to the Company’s executive officers. Mr. Gray’s “target” performance bonus shall be 100% of his average annualized base salary during the fiscal year for which the performance bonus is earned. Pursuant to the Gray Employment Agreement, Mr. Gray was granted: (i) 700,000 restricted stock units of the Company, and (ii) 150,000 restricted stock units of LiveOne, the Company’s parent.

 

On  June 27, 2025 and effective as of the Effective Date, the Company entered into a new employment agreement with Sue McNamara, the Company’s current Chief Revenue Officer (the “McNamara Employment Agreement”). The term of the McNamara Employment Agreement is for two years from the Effective Date at an annual salary of $325,000. Ms. McNamara is eligible to earn a discretionary annual performance bonus for each whole or partial fiscal year of her employment period with the Company in accordance with the Company’s annual bonus plan applicable to the Company’s executive officers. Ms. McNamara’s “target” performance bonus shall be 100% of her average annualized base salary during the fiscal year for which the performance bonus is earned. Pursuant to the McNamara Employment Agreement, Ms. McNamara was granted 150,000 Company RSUs and 25,000 restricted stock units of LiveOne, the Company’s parent.

 

On   January 15, 2025, the Company entered into a three-year Enterprise Service and Advertising Agreement (the “Agreement”) with ART19 LLC (“ART19”), a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. to move the existing network of PodcastOne programming to the ART19 hosting platform. The Agreement is expected to drive additional monetization opportunities across the Company’s vast library of popular podcasts. Pursuant to the Agreement ART19 is required to pay the Company a minimum guarantee of $15.0 million over the term of the Agreement based on the Company achieving certain minimum impressions amount, which guarantee is subject to adjustment as provided in the Agreement, including if the Company achieves higher minimum impressions amounts. In addition, the Agreement provides for a revenue share split between the Company and ART19 based on gross sales revenue achieved by the Company under the Agreement. During the six months ended September 30, 2025 and 2024 the Company recognized revenue of $4.1 million and none, respectively, from the Agreement.

 

Legal Proceedings 

 

From time to time, the Company is involved in legal proceedings and other matters arising in connection with the conduct of its business activities. Many of these proceedings  may be at preliminary stages and/or seek an indeterminate amount of damages. In the opinion of management, after consultation with legal counsel, except as set forth below, such routine claims and lawsuits are not significant and we do not currently expect them to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, or liquidity.

 

Parent Company Debt

 

On May 19, 2025 (the “Closing Date”), LiveOne and the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) with certain institutional investors (each, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the “Purchasers”), pursuant to which (i) LiveOne sold to the Purchasers LiveOne’s Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures (the “Initial Debentures”) in an aggregate principal amount of $16,775,000 for an aggregate cash purchase price of $15.25 million, and (ii) if certain conditions are satisfied as set forth in the SPA, including at least one of the Conditions (as defined below), LiveOne  may sell at its option to the Purchasers LiveOne’s additional Original Issue Discount Senior Secured Convertible Debentures in an aggregate principal amount of $11,000,000 on substantially the same terms as the Initial Debentures (the “Additional Debentures” and collectively with the Initial Debentures, the “Debentures”), in a private placement transaction. The Debentures are convertible into shares of LiveOne’s common stock at the holder’s option at a conversion price of $2.10 per share, subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations. LiveOne  may sell to the Purchasers the Additional Debentures if within 15 months of the Closing Date either of the following conditions have been satisfied during such 15-month period (the “Conditions”): (x) the VWAP (as defined in the SPA) of the common stock has been equal to or greater than $4.20 per share (subject to certain customary adjustments such as stock splits, stock dividends and stock combinations) for 30 consecutive trading days, or (y) Free Cash Flow (as defined in the SPA) has been equal to or greater to $3,000,000 for three consecutive fiscal quarters, and has increased in each of the foregoing quarters from the immediately preceding fiscal quarter.

 

The Initial Debentures mature on  May 19, 2028 and accrue interest at 11.75% per year. Commencing with the calendar month of  August 2025 (subject to the following sentence), the holders of the Initial Debentures will have the right, at their option, to require LiveOne to redeem an aggregate of up to $100,000 of the outstanding principal amount of the Debentures per month. Commencing from  November 18, 2025,  May 18, 2026 and  May 18, 2027, the holders of the Initial Debentures will have the right, at their option, to require LiveOne to redeem an aggregate of up to $150,000, $250,000 and $300,000, respectively, of the outstanding principal amount of the Initial Debentures per month.  

 

Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including applicable prior notice to the holders of the Initial Debentures, at any time after  May 19, 2026, LiveOne  may elect to prepay all, but not less than all, of the then outstanding Initial Debentures for a prepayment amount equal to the outstanding principal balance of then outstanding Initial Debentures plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, together with a prepayment premium equal to the following (the “Prepayment Premium”): (a) if the Initial Debentures are prepaid after  May 19, 2026, but on or prior to  May 19, 2027, 5% of the entire outstanding principal balance of the outstanding Initial Debentures (or the applicable portion thereof required to be prepaid by LiveOne); and (c) if the Initial Debentures are prepaid on or after  May 19, 2027, but prior to the maturity date of the Initial Debentures, 4% of the entire outstanding principal balance of then outstanding Initial Debentures (or the applicable portion thereof required to be prepaid by LiveOne). Subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, LiveOne shall be required to prepay the entire outstanding principal amount of all of then outstanding Initial Debentures in connection with a Change of Control Transaction (as defined in the Initial Debentures) for a prepayment amount equal to the outstanding principal balance of then outstanding Initial Debentures, plus all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, plus the applicable Prepayment Premium based on when such Change of Control Transaction occurs within the period set forth above applicable to such Prepayment Premium; provided, that (x) if a Change of Control Transaction occurs on or prior to  May 19, 2026, plus 10% of the entire outstanding principal balance of then outstanding Initial Debentures; (y) if the Specified Carve-Out Transaction (as defined in the Debentures) in consummated, LiveOne shall be required to prepay the Initial Debentures, in an aggregate amount equal to the lower of the outstanding principal balance of then outstanding Initial Debentures and $7,500,000, in each case, plus the applicable Prepayment Premium, and (z) if a Permitted Disposition (as defined in the Debentures) pursuant to clause (g) of the definition thereof is consummated, LiveOne shall be required to prepay the Initial Debentures in an aggregate amount equal to the lower of the outstanding principal balance of then outstanding Initial Debentures and 50% of the first $1,000,000 of net proceeds resulting from such Permitted Disposition up to $1,000,000 and 25% of such net proceeds in excess of $1,000,000, in each case, plus the applicable Prepayment Premium. 

 

LiveOne’s obligations under the Debentures can be accelerated upon the occurrence of certain customary events of default. In the event of default and acceleration of LiveOne’s obligations, LiveOne would be required to pay the applicable prepayment amount described above.  

 

LiveOne’s obligations under the Debentures were guaranteed under a Subsidiary Guarantee, dated as of the Closing Date (the “Subsidiary Guarantee”), by certain of its subsidiaries, including the Company, Slacker, Inc. and LiveXLive, Corp. (collectively, the “Guarantors”). LiveOne’s obligations under the Debentures and the Guarantors’ obligations under the Subsidiary Guarantee are secured under a Security Agreement (the “Security Agreement”) entered into on the Closing Date among LiveOne, the Company and the other Guarantors, certain Purchasers and JGB Collateral, LLC (the “Agent”) as agent for the Purchasers (the “Security Agreement”), by a lien on all of LiveOne’s, the Company’s and the other Guarantors’ assets, subject to certain exceptions. In addition, pursuant to the Security Agreement, LiveOne, the Company and the other Guarantors agreed to pay to the Agent a collateral monitoring fee on the outstanding principal balance of the Debentures at per annum rate of 1%, which fee shall accrue daily and shall be payable to the Agent in cash on the last business day of each calendar month. LiveOne must also maintain a specified minimum cash balance (as set forth in the Debentures) and maintain minimum amounts of liquidity. As of September 30, 2025, LiveOne was in compliance with its debt covenants associated with the Initial Debentures. 

 

On  August 5, 2025, LiveOne amended certain defined terms contained in the Initial Debentures to provide that LiveOne and/or its subsidiaries shall be permitted to purchase Bitcoin, Solana or Ethereum (collectively, “Crypto”) up to an amount as agreed to by the parties from time to time in one or more transactions in accordance with the investment guidelines adopted by LiveOne from time to time and reasonably acceptable to the Purchasers (the “Guidelines”), and that LiveOne  may retain one or more investment managers to engage in a Bitcoin yield strategy or other active management of any purchased Crypto in accordance with the Guidelines, in each case to further enable LiveOne to pursue its recently announced digital asset treasury strategy. The terms of the Initial Debentures and other transactions documents entered into in connection therewith remain unchanged. Pursuant to the Security Agreement entered into by the parties in connection with the issuance of the Initial Debentures, the Purchasers have a security interest in any purchased Crypto.

 

LiveOne Equity Offering

 

On July 15, 2025, LiveOne entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Lucid Capital Markets, LLC (the “Underwriter”) pursuant to which LiveOne will issue and sell to the Underwriter 1,360,833 shares (the “Shares”) of LiveOne’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share (the “common stock”), at an offering price of $7.50 per Share and which includes the grant to the Underwriter of an option for the issuance and sales of up to 177,500 additional Shares (the “Option”) to be sold by LiveOne (the “Offering”). The aggregate gross proceeds to LiveOne from the Offering will be approximately $9.5 million (including the exercise of the Underwriter’s Option), after deducting an underwriting discount of 7% of the price to the public, but before deducting expenses payable by LiveOne in connection with the Offering. Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement LiveOne has also agreed to issue the Underwriter’s common stock purchase warrants to purchase up to 4% of the securities sold in the Offering at an exercise price of $9.375. On July 16, 2025, the Underwriter exercised the Option. The Offering, including the Option, closed on July 17, 2025.

 

LiveOne expects to use the net proceeds from the Offering to fund the acquisition of cryptocurrencies, the development and implementation of a cryptocurrency treasury strategy and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

 

LiveOne Preferred Stock Exchange

 

On  July 15, 2025, LiveOne entered into letter agreements (collectively, the “Agreements”) with the Harvest Funds and Trinad Capital Master Fund Ltd., a fund controlled by Mr. Ellin, LiveOne’s Chief Executive Officer, Chairman, director and principal stockholder of LiveOne and Executive Chairman of our Company (“Trinad Capital” and collectively with the Harvest Funds, the “Holders”), the holders of LiveOne’s Series A Preferred Stock, which has a stated value of $1,000 per share. Pursuant to the Agreements (i) the Harvest Funds exchanged $4,500,000 worth of its shares of Series A Preferred Stock into 3,000,000 shares of LiveOne’s common stock, at a price of $1.50 per share, and Trinad Capital exchanged $2,250,000 worth of shares of its Series A Preferred Stock into 1,500,000 shares of LiveOne’s common stock at the same price, and (ii) the Harvest Funds and Trinad Capital received 3,000,000 and 1,500,000 three-year warrants to purchase LiveOne’s common stock exercisable at a price of $0.01 per share.

 

LiveOne further agreed, on or prior to the date that is 45 days after the Effective Date, to prepare and file with the SEC a Registration Statement on Form S-3 (or such other form as applicable) covering the resale under the Securities Act of the Shares, the Warrants and the Warrant Shares. LiveOne agreed to use its commercially reasonable best efforts to cause such registration statement to be declared effective promptly thereafter on or before 45 days after the filing of such registration statement (or if the SEC issues any comments with respect to such registration statement, on or before 90 days after the filing of such registration statement). Upon effectiveness of such Registration Statement, LiveOne agreed to use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Registration Statement effective with the SEC for a period equal to three years from the Effective Date for the Warrants, and with respect to the Warrant Shares, so long as any Warrants are outstanding, and to supplement, amend and/or re-file such Registration Statement to comply with such effectiveness requirement.