SEC Company Response from Midori Group Inc. (CIK 0001910053) — Jun 20, 2025
Midori Group Inc. (CIK 0001910053)
Date: June 20, 2025 · CIK: 0001910053 · Accession: 0001641172-25-015703
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File numbers found in text: 024-12526
Referenced dates: May 5, 2025
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June
20, 2025
Office
of Industrial Applications and Services
Division
of Corporation Finance
Re:
Midori
Group Inc.
Amendment
No. 2 to Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed
April 10, 2025
File
No. 024-12526
Ladies
and Gentlemen:
Please
see below for responses to the Division’s letter dated May 5, 2025 regarding the above captioned matter. All questions have been
addressed in Amendment No. 3 to the Offering Statement, on Form 1-A/A, filed June 20, 2025 (“Amendment”), as further herein
detailed.
Amendment
No. 2 on Form 1-A filed April 10, 2025
Summary
Information
Business,
page 3
1. We
note your response to prior comment 5 and reissue the comment. You cross- reference descriptions in the section captioned ‘Our
Products.’ However, this section does not appear to provide a description of what these qualifications or standards mean with respect
to your additive. Please briefly describe the applicable regulation or designation or otherwise explain what it means for the Midori
Biosolutions additive to be FDA FOOD, REACH, FTC, PROP65 and CONEG compliant. Your disclosure should explain if your product has been
certified by a third party as meeting the criteria for such designation or if compliance has been determined by management.
We
have updated the Amendment to remove discussion of the foregoing from the “Summary” section, as we do not believe it materially
relevant there, and have instead provided more description in the “Description of Business – Our Products” Section.
Description
of the Business
Business,
page 28
2. We
note your revisions in response to prior comment 6 and reissue the comment in part. Your disclosure on page 28 states that use of your
product involves a step that breaks down plastic to biogas which “promotes renewable energy development.” Please provide
additional disclosure to explain the creation of a renewable energy source or remove this statement. We additionally note your disclosure
on page 29 that you believe “the Midori-Biosolutions additive provides brands and retailers with a sustainable solution for fossil
fuel-based plastics.” Please support the claim that your product creates a sustainable solution or remove this statement.
We
have removed reference to “sustainable” from the Amendment and provided additional disclosure supporting the claim that our
product “promotes renewable energy development.”
3. We
note your revisions in response to prior comment 11 and reissue the comment in part. Please further explain the process in which
your product is integrated with or into third-party plastics and whether this process has been validated or is still experimental. In
this regard, we note your statements that your product may be in the form of pellets, powder, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polypropylene
(PP), polystyrene (PS), nylon, and synthetic rubber and that your additive “can be added to virtually all polymer types, processes
and applications.” However, with respect to your signed customers you note that you are still conducting testing to ensure the
additive can be integrated into their products effectively prior to launch to the public.
We
have added disclosure to the “Summary” and “Description of Business” Sections in response to the Division’s
above comment.
4. We
note your revisions in response to prior comment 13. You state that “a significant percentage of plastics that get recycled
end up in landfills” and that “[r]ecycling only processes a fraction of what they collect with the balance going to landfills.”
Please revise your disclosure to reconcile these two statements and clarify if the significant percentage of plastics going into landfills
has been recycled or was only deposited or collected to be recycled. Additionally, please substantiate these claims or revise them to
state that these are your beliefs.
We
have updated the Amendment to make clear our source for the above-mentioned claims and to reconcile the above comments as requested.
5. We
note your response to prior comment 16 and your statements that you do not own the intellectual property rights to the additive you sell
and that if your distribution agreement with your supplier were terminated, you would need to contract with one of the several other
manufacturers of the additive of which you are aware. Please clarify the type of intellectual property rights associated with your product.
Specifically, please explain whether there are any active patents covering the product or if it can be can freely manufactured by any
third party. If the product can be freely manufactured, please explain what intellectual property rights you would propose to acquire
with the proceeds of the offering. Alternatively, if the product cannot be freely manufactured as a result of applicable third party
intellectual property rights, please explain how you would be able to contract with alternative suppliers of your product if your distribution
agreement were terminated.
The
Amendment has been updated to clarify the intellectual property involved with the additive includes formulas and know how, which are
not subject to patents of which the Company is aware.
Competition,
page 32
6. We
note your revisions in response to prior comment 17. Please briefly describe what an enzymatic process is and further explain how it
differentiates your company to your competitors.
The
Amendment has been updated to include the above requested disclosures.
Liquidity
and Capital Resources, page 33
7. We
note you refer to working capital of $1,911,853. However, this amount is your total current assets and does not reflect any liabilities.
Please clarify your disclosure related to working capital.
The
Amendment has been updated to include the correct figure net of liabilities.
Management’s
Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Results of Operations for Year Ended September 30, 2024 Compared
with Year Ended September 30, 2023, page 33
8.
We note your response to prior comment 18 and reissue in part. Please provide a narrative discussion explaining unusual or infrequent
events or transactions materially affecting your income from operations. This should include any significant components of expenses,
including management and consulting fees and stock-based compensation. Please ensure financial statement line items described here are
those that are reflected on the Consolidated Statements of Loss and Comprehensive Loss. Refer to Item 9(a) of Form 1-A.
The
Amendment has been updated to include the above requested disclosure.
Trends,
page 34
9. We
note your revisions in response to prior comment 20 and reissue the comment in part. Please expand on your disclosure to provide additional
details on the projects you are working on, including any material work or milestones that have been completed to date, and your anticipated
timeframe for the development of these projects. If these projects are all still in preliminary stages and if you do not have any anticipated
timeframe for their development, please state this in your disclosure.
The
Amendment has been updated to include the above requested disclosure.
Compensation
of Directors and Executive Officers
Consulting
Agreement with CFO of Midori Group, page 37
10. We
note your revisions in response to prior comment 23. Please disclose whether the consulting agreement with the CFO of Midori Group was
renewed. We note your disclosure that the agreement was for an initial term of one year and that the agreement provides for annual extensions
upon the mutual agreement of the parties.
The
Amendment has been updated to disclose that the CFO and Company have entered into a new agreement and the terms of such new agreement,
which has been included as an Exhibit to the Amendment.
Equity
Incentive Plan, page 37
11. We
note your response to prior comment 25 that you have included the Equity Incentive Plan as an exhibit to the Amendment. It does not appear
that the plan was filed as an exhibit to the most recent amendment. Once available, please file the Equity Incentive Plan as an exhibit.
The
Equity Incentive Plan has been attached as an Exhibit to the Amendment.
Financial
Statements
Share
Capital, page F-16
12. We
note you disclose shares to be issued. Please describe how the fair values for the shares were determined. Please also disclose if there
are any performance obligations or vesting terms that need to be met in order for the shares to be issued.
As
of September 30, 2024, the Company was required to issue 500,000 common shares to a third-party consultant, and 300,000 common shares
to a third-party referral. To measure, management considered IFRS 2.10 and 2.13, finding that the value of services could not be estimated
reliably. Thus, these shares to be issued were valued based on a recently closed private placement of 2.4 million common shares at a
price of $0.50 per share, for gross proceeds of $1.2 million on May 9, 2024. Results in a FV of $400,000, or at $0.50 per share. Management
believes that the financing was sufficiently large and representative, to be considered an objective and supportable fair value of Midori’s
common shares upon recognizing the shares to be issued. The 500,000 shares were to be issued, pursuant to a consulting agreement between
Midori-Bio and the third-party consultant, as the Company has not completed a listing of its securities on a recognized and publicly
traded stock exchange in Canada or the United States, within 24 months of December 28, 2021. Otherwise, there are no performance obligations
or vesting terms on these shares to be issued.
The
Amendment has been updated to include the above disclosure.
Subsequent
Events, page F-26
13. We
note you disclose warrants that were issued as part of the Release and Settlement Agreement. Please disclose the financial statement
impact of issuing the warrants. Please also disclose the financial statement impact of the other subsequent equity issuances.
On
May 14, 2024, the Company issued 75,000 warrants in connection with the Release and Settlement Agreement. The Company valued these warrants
at $18,716 using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Key inputs to the Black-Scholes model include a stock price of $0.50, exercise
price of $1.00, expected life of 3 years, volatility of 100%, and a discount rate of 4.13%. These warrants were recorded as an expense
- under legal settlement amount - on the consolidated statements of loss for the year ended September 30, 2024, with a corresponding
increase on warrants reserve on the consolidated statements of financial position.
On
Jan 10, 2025. 2,937,334 settlement warrants were issued. The Company valued these warrants at $1,340,856 using the Black-Scholes option
pricing model. Key inputs to the Black-Scholes model include a stock price of $0.50, exercise price of $0.05, expected life of 2 years,
volatility of 100%, and a discount rate of 4.13% These warrants were recorded as an expense in the Q2 2025 quarter - as a legal settlement
expense on the Company’s consolidated statements of loss for the period ending Mar 31, 2025, with a corresponding increase on warrants
reserve on the consolidated statements of financial position.
The
Amendment has been updated to include the above disclosure.
We
appreciate your time and attention in this matter. If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to Arden Anderson, Esq. at
arden@investmentlawyers.com.
Sincerely,
/s/
Dodson Robinette PLLC
d/b/a
Crowdfunding Lawyers