Company Believes it Has Regained Compliance with Nasdaq’s Shareholder Equity Requirement
CHESAPEAKE, Va., April 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Greenwave Technology Solutions, Inc. (“Greenwave” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: GWAV), a leading operator of metal recycling facilities in Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio, today announced that during the first quarter of 2024, it received proceeds from warrant exercises of approximately $2.81 million, converted approximately $2.06 million of third party debt to equity, and exchanged $10 million of related-party debt into equity. As a result of the foregoing, the Company has increased its shareholder’s equity by approximately $14.87 million.
The Company believes it has regained compliance with the minimum $2.5 million stockholders’ equity requirement and satisfies the minimum $5 million equity requirement for initial listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market.
Further, the Company has secured waivers from its senior secured note holders of the quarterly-cash covenants until September 30, 2024, as well as monthly amortization payments until July 31, 2024. The Company expects to utilize the additional cashflows from restructuring its debt to grow its operations.
Greenwave believes it is on track to generate record revenues with record volume of steel processed in 2024. For more information, please see the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on April 1, 2024.
About Greenwave
Greenwave Technology Solutions, Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Empire Services, Inc.(“Empire”), is a leading operator of 13 metal recycling facilities in Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio. The Company’s recycling facilities collect, classify, and process raw scrap metal (ferrous and nonferrous) and implement several unique technologies to increase metal processing volumes and operating efficiencies, including a downstream recovery system and cloud-based ERP system.
Steel is one of the world’s most recycled products with the ability to be re-melted and re-cast numerous times. Recycling steel provides key environmental benefits over virgin metals, including reduced energy use, lower CO2 emissions, lower waste, and conserving natural resources. Greenwave’s customers include large corporations, industrial manufacturers, retail customers, and government organizations. The Company plans to aggressively expand its footprint of locations by acquiring independent, profitable scrap yards in the coming months. For more information, please visit www.GWAV.com.
Forward-looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, without limitation, statements about its revenue growth, opening of additional locations, margin expansion and cashflow projections. These statements are identified by the use of the words “could,” “believe,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “expect,” “may,” “continue,” “predict,” “potential,” “project” and similar expressions that are intended to identify forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this press release. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes that its plans, objectives, expectations and intentions reflected in or suggested by the forward-looking statements are reasonable, the Company can give no assurance that these plans, objectives, expectations or intentions will be achieved. Forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties (some of which are beyond the Company’s control), assumptions and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from historical experience and present expectations or projections. Actual results may differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements and the trading price for the Company’s common stock may fluctuate significantly. Forward-looking statements also are affected by the risk factors described in the Company’s filings with the SEC. Except as required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise publicly any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, after the date on which the statements are made or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
SOURCE Greenwave Technology Solutions
