Annual report pursuant to Section 13 and 15(d)

ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

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ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2022
ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS  
NOTE 1 - ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

NOTE 1 – ORGANIZATION AND DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

 

ARTELO BIOSCIENCES, INC. (“we”, “us”, “our”, the “Company”) is a Nevada corporation incorporated on May 2, 2011, and based in San Diego County, California. The accounting and reporting policies of the Company conform to accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, and the Company’s fiscal year end is December 31.

 

The Company registered fully owned subsidiaries in Ireland, Trinity Reliant Ventures Limited, on November 11, 2016, and in the UK, Trinity Research & Development Limited, on June 2, 2017. On January 8, 2020, Trinity Research and Development Limited changed its name to Artelo Biosciences Limited. The Company incorporated a wholly owned subsidiary in Canada, Artelo Biosciences Corporation, on March 18, 2020. Operations in the subsidiaries have been consolidated in the financial statements.

 

The Company is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing treatments intended to modulate the endocannabinoid system.

 

Liquidity

 

The Company has incurred losses since inception and incurred a net loss of $10,083 during the year ended December 31, 2022. However, in November 2021, the Company completed an equity offering which generated net proceeds of $18,262. Additionally, in May 2022, the Company entered into a purchase agreement and a registration rights agreement (the “Equity Line”) with an institutional investor, providing for the sale of up to $20,000 worth of the Company’s common stock, over the thirty-six (36) month term of the purchase agreement. Under the terms and subject to the conditions of the purchase agreement, the Company has the right, but not the obligation, to sell to the institutional investor, and the institutional investor is obligated to purchase, up to $20,000 worth of shares of the Company’s Common Stock. As of December 31, 2022, there have been no sales under the Equity Line. The Company’s existing cash resources and the cash received from the November 2021 equity offering are expected to provide sufficient funds to carry out the Company’s planned operations into the second half of 2024. To continue operations beyond such time frame, the Company will be required to raise additional funds by completing additional equity or debt offerings or licensing our product candidates. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in acquiring additional funding, that the Company’s projections of its future working capital needs will prove accurate, or that any additional funding would be sufficient to continue operations in future years.

 

Reverse stock split

 

On August 8, 2022, the Company, filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, a Certificate of Change, pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 78.209, to effect a one-for-fifteen (1-for-15) reverse stock split (the “Reverse Stock Split”) of the Company’s issued and outstanding Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share. The Reverse Stock Split was effective as of August 10, 2022.

 

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, the number of authorized shares of Common Stock has been reduced from 750,000,000 to 50,000,000, while the number of authorized shares of the Company’s preferred stock has been reduced from 6,250,000 to 416,667.

 

COVID-19

 

As the COVID-19 pandemic is still evolving at this time and much of its impact remains unknown, the Company is not able to predict the impact it may have on the development of its product candidates and business. The severity of the COVID-19 pandemic could also negatively impact the Company’s access to its existing supply chain by delaying the delivery of key raw materials used in its product candidates and therefore delay the delivery of such products for use in its clinical trials. Any of these results could have a material adverse impact to our business.

 

All share and per share information in these financial statements retroactively reflect this Reverse Stock Split.