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SEC Comment Letter for Phunware, Inc. (PHUN) (CIK 0001665300) (PHUN) — Apr 12, 2019

Phunware, Inc. (PHUN) (CIK 0001665300)
Date: April 12, 2019 · CIK: 0001665300 · Accession: 0000000000-19-007087

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File numbers found in text: 333-229524

Date
April 12, 2019
Author
Edwin Kim
Form
UPLOAD
Company
Phunware, Inc. (PHUN) (CIK 0001665300)

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April 12, 2019 Alan Knitowski Chief Executive Officer Phunware, Inc. 7800 Shoal Creek Blvd, Suite 230-S Austin, TX 78757 Re:Phunware, Inc. Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 April 8, 2019 File No. 333-229524 Dear Mr. Knitowski: We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following comments. In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we may better understand your disclosure. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments. Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 Prospectus Summary PhunCoin, page 1 1.You reference that you are “currently targeting launching the review (beta) period on a nonproduction digital asset (not an actual security token) in the first half of 2019.” Please clarify what you mean by non-production digital asset and an actual security token and how they relate to the PhunCoin that would be issued to PhunCoin Rights holders. 2.You anticipate that PhunCoin Rights holders will be issued PhunCoin within one year after the PhunCoin Rights were acquired, but the PhunCoin will have no usefulness and you will not create or facilitate the creation of a secondary market for PhunCoin until the PhunCoin Ecosystem is operational. Please clarify the timing of the initial issuances of PhunCoin, as they may be issued as early as June 2019, while the PhunCoin Ecosystem

FirstName LastNameAlan Knitowski Comapany NamePhunware, Inc. April 12, 2019 Page 2 FirstName LastName Alan Knitowski Phunware, Inc. April 12, 2019 Page 2 will still be in its beta stage. Clarify whether the PhunCoin issued under these PhunCoin rights agreements will differ or be distinct from the PhunCoin that will be issued after the PhunCoin Ecosystem has been established and how the utility functions of the PhunCoin issued prior to the PhunCoin Ecosystem will accrue to these older digital assets. 3.While you indicate the specific launch date for the PhunCoin Ecosystem is difficult to determine at this time, you indicate a review (beta) period on a non-production digital asset is targeted to occur in the first half of 2019. Please provide more information as to what additional steps must be performed after the review/beta period has occurred and clarify the timeline of these steps. As part of your response, clarify whether you are nearing the end of your initial development cycle and launch of PhunCoin Ecosystem and whether you intend to issue PhunCoin to a broader set of investors and users as early as June 2019 or shortly thereafter. You may contact Edwin Kim, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-3297 or Barbara C. Jacobs, Assistant Director, at (202) 551-3735 with any questions. Sincerely, Division of Corporation Finance Office of Information Technologies and Services cc: Eric Hsu, Esq.

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April 12, 2019
Alan Knitowski
Chief Executive Officer
Phunware, Inc.
7800 Shoal Creek Blvd, Suite 230-S
Austin, TX 78757
Re:Phunware, Inc.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
April 8, 2019
File No. 333-229524
Dear Mr. Knitowski:
            We have reviewed your amended registration statement and have the following
comments.  In some of our comments, we may ask you to provide us with information so we
may better understand your disclosure.
            Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the
requested information.  If you do not believe our comments apply to your facts and
circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your
response.
            After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you
provide in response to these comments, we may have additional comments.
Amendment No. 3 to Registration Statement on Form S-1
Prospectus Summary
PhunCoin, page 1
1.You reference that you are “currently targeting launching the review (beta) period on a
nonproduction digital asset (not an actual security token) in the first half of 2019.”  Please
clarify what you mean by non-production digital asset and an actual security token and
how they relate to the PhunCoin that would be issued to PhunCoin Rights holders.
2.You anticipate that PhunCoin Rights holders will be issued PhunCoin within one year
after the PhunCoin Rights were acquired, but the PhunCoin will have no usefulness and
you will not create or facilitate the creation of a secondary market for PhunCoin until the
PhunCoin Ecosystem is operational.  Please clarify the timing of the initial issuances of
PhunCoin, as they may be issued as early as June 2019, while the PhunCoin Ecosystem

 FirstName LastNameAlan  Knitowski
 Comapany NamePhunware, Inc.
 April 12, 2019 Page 2
 FirstName LastName
Alan  Knitowski
Phunware, Inc.
April 12, 2019
Page 2
will still be in its beta stage.  Clarify whether the PhunCoin issued under these PhunCoin
rights agreements will differ or be distinct from the PhunCoin that will be issued after the
PhunCoin Ecosystem has been established and how the utility functions of the PhunCoin
issued prior to the PhunCoin Ecosystem will accrue to these older digital assets.
3.While you indicate the specific launch date for the PhunCoin Ecosystem is difficult to
determine at this time, you indicate a review (beta) period on a non-production digital
asset is targeted to occur in the first half of 2019.  Please provide more information as to
what additional steps must be performed after the review/beta period has occurred and
clarify the timeline of these steps.  As part of your response, clarify whether you are
nearing the end of your initial development cycle and launch of PhunCoin Ecosystem and
whether you intend to issue PhunCoin to a broader set of investors and users as early as
June 2019 or shortly thereafter.
            You may contact Edwin Kim, Staff Attorney, at (202) 551-3297 or Barbara C. Jacobs,
Assistant Director, at (202) 551-3735 with any questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Information Technologies
and Services
cc:       Eric Hsu, Esq.