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Such risks and other factors also include those listed in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). When considering these forward-looking statements, you should keep in mind the cautionary statements in this report and the documents incorporated by reference. New risks and uncertainties arise from time to time, and we cannot predict those events or how they may affect us. We assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements after the date of this report as a result of new information, future events or developments, except as required by applicable laws and regulations.
When used in this annual report, the terms the “Company,” “Glimpse Group,”, “Glimpse:,” “we,” “us,” “ours,” and similar terms refer to The Glimpse Group, Inc., a Nevada corporation, and its subsidiaries. As of the date of this annual report, we currently own and operate ten wholly-owned subsidiary companies (“Subsidiary Companies”, “Subsidiaries”): Adept Reality, LLC (dba Adept XR Learning), Kabaq 3D Technologies, LLC (dba QReal), KreatAR, LLC (dba PostReality), D6 VR, LLC, Immersive Health Group, LLC (dba IHG), Foretell Studios, LLC (dba Foretell Reality), Number 9, LLC (dba Pagoni VR), Early Adopter, LLC, MotionZone, LLC (dba AUGGD) and Glimpse Group Yazilim ve ARGE Ticaret Anonim Sirketi (Glimpse Turkey). In addition, we own one non-active subsidiary company, In-It VR, LLC (dba Mezmos), which may be reactivated based on need and market conditions.
PART I
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
History
The Glimpse Group, Inc. was incorporated on June 15, 2016, under the laws of the State of Nevada and is headquartered in New York, New York.
On July 6, 2021, the Company completed its initial public offering (“IPO”). In connection with the IPO, the Company’s common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market on and as of July 1, 2021. In conjunction with its IPO, the Company sold approximately 1.91 million shares of its common stock at $7.00 per share, raising approximately $11.82 million in net proceeds after fees and expenses.
COMPANY OVERVIEW
We are a Virtual (“VR”) and Augmented (“AR”) Reality platform company, comprised of a diversified group of wholly-owned and operated VR and AR companies, providing enterprise-focused software, services and solutions. We believe that we offer significant exposure to the rapidly growing and potentially transformative VR and AR markets, while mitigating downside risk via our diversified model and ecosystem.
Our platform of VR/AR subsidiary companies, collaborative environment and diversified business model aims to simplify the challenges faced by companies in the emerging VR/AR industry, potentially improving each subsidiary company’s ability to succeed, while simultaneously providing investors an opportunity to invest directly into the emerging VR/AR industry via a diversified infrastructure.
Leveraging our platform, we strive to cultivate and manage the business operations of our VR/AR subsidiary companies, with the goal of allowing each underlying company to better focus on mission-critical endeavors, collaborate with the other subsidiary companies, reduce time to market, optimize costs, improve product quality and leverage joint go-to-market strategies. Subject to operational, market and financial developments and conditions, we intend to carefully add to our current portfolio of subsidiary companies via a combination of organic expansion and/or outside acquisition.
The VR/AR industry is an early-stage technology industry with nascent markets. We believe that this industry has significant growth potential across verticals, may be transformative and that our diversified platform and ecosystem create important competitive advantages. Our subsidiary companies currently target a wide array of industry verticals, including but not limited to: Corporate Training, Education, Healthcare, Branding/Marketing/Advertising, Retail, Financial Services, Food & Hospitality, Media & Entertainment, Architecture/Engineering/Construction (“AEC”) and Social VR support groups and therapy. We do not currently target direct-to-consumer (“B2C’) VR/AR software or services, only business-to-business (“B2B”) and business-to-business-to-consumer (“B2B2C”), and we are hardware agnostic.
The Glimpse Platform
We develop, commercialize and market innovative and proprietary VR/AR software products, solutions and intellectual property (“IP”). Our platform is currently comprised of ten active wholly-owned subsidiary companies, each targeting different industry segments in a non-competitive, collaborative manner. Our experienced management and dynamic VR/AR entrepreneurs have deep domain expertise, providing the foundation for value-add-collaborations throughout our ecosystem.
Each of our subsidiary companies share operational, financial and IP infrastructure, facilitating shorter time-to-market, higher quality products, reduced development costs, fewer redundancies, significant go-to-market synergies and, ultimately, a higher potential for success for each subsidiary company. We believe that our collaborative platform is unique and necessary, especially given the early nature of the VR/AR industry. By offering technologies and solutions in various industry segments, we aim to reduce dependency on any one single subsidiary company, technology or industry segment.
We believe that three core tenets enhance our probability of success: (1) our ecosystem of VR/AR companies, (2) diversification and (3) profitable growth.
(1) Our ecosystem of VR/AR software and service companies provides significant benefits to each subsidiary company and our group as a whole. We believe that the most notable benefits are: (a) economies of scale, cost efficiencies and reduced redundancies; (b) cross company collaboration, deep domain expertise, IP and knowledge transfer; (c) superior product offerings; (d) faster time to market; (e) enhanced business development and sales synergies; and (f) multiple monetization paths. In an emerging industry that is lacking in infrastructure, we believe that our ecosystem provides a distinct competitive advantage relative to a single, standalone company in the industry.
(2) By design, we incorporate multiple aspects of diversity to reduce the risks associated with an early stage industry, create multiple monetization venues and improve the probabilities of success. There is no single point of failure or dependency. This is created through: (a) ownership of numerous wholly-owned subsidiary companies operating in different industry segments; (b) targeting large industries with clear VR/AR use-cases; (c) developing and utilizing various technologies and IP; (d) expanding to different geographic technology centers in a hub model under our umbrella; and (e) across industries, having a wide array of customers and potential acquirers/investors.
(3) From our inception, we have prioritized achieving operational cash flow neutrality early in our life. This was an important factor that drove our strategy to: (a) focus on enterprise software and services, only onboarding companies that are generating revenues or clearly could in the short term; (b) target solutions that are based on use cases that have a clear return on investment (“ROI”) and can be effectively developed from existing technologies and hardware; and (c) centralize costs to reduce inefficiencies. By targeting cash flow neutrality, our goal is to minimize dilution and support greater independence from capital markets, thereby increasing resiliency and maximizing upside potential.
As part of our platform, we provide a centralized corporate structure, which significantly reduces general and administrative costs (financial, operational, legal & IP), streamlines capital allocation and helps in coordinating business strategies. This allows our subsidiary company general managers to focus their time and effort almost exclusively on the core software, product and business development activities relating to their subsidiary.
Additionally, aligned economic incentives encourage cross-Company collaboration. All of our employees own equity in our Company. The leadership team of each subsidiary company, in addition to their equity ownership in Glimpse, also have an economic interest in their particular subsidiary company. This economic interest is negotiated with lead management of a subsidiary company upon their joining of our Company, and typically ranges between 5-10% of the total net sale proceeds of the subsidiary and includes a three-year vesting schedule. Thus, there is benefit to them not only when their subsidiary company succeeds but also when any of the other subsidiaries succeeds, and when Glimpse as a whole succeeds. We believe that this ownership mechanism is a strong driver of cross-pollination of ideas and fosters collaboration. While each subsidiary company owns its own IP, our parent company currently owns 100% of each subsidiary company. In addition, there will be perpetual licensing agreements between our subsidiary companies, so that if a subsidiary company is divested, then the remaining subsidiaries, if utilizing the IP of a divested subsidiary company, will continue to retain usage rights post-divestiture.
Active Glimpse Subsidiary Companies