Correspondence 0001493152-24-007585 from ZOOZ Strategy Ltd. (ZOOZ)
ZOOZ Strategy Ltd.
Date: Feb. 22, 2024 · CIK: 0001992818 · Accession: 0001493152-24-007585
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VIA
EDGAR
February
22, 2024
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division
of Corporation Finance
Office
of Technology
100
F Street, NE
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Attention:
Austin Pattan
Re:
ZOOZ Power Ltd.
Amendment
No. 2 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Submitted
December 5, 2023
CIK
No. 0001992818
Dear
Mr. Pattan,
ZOOZ
Power Ltd. (the “Company,” “ZOOZ,” “we,” “our” or “us”)
hereby transmits the Company’s responses to the comment letter received from the staff (the “Staff”) of the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”), dated December 14, 2023, regarding our Amendment No. 2
to the Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4 (the “Prior Registration Statement”) submitted to the Commission on
December 5, 2023.
For
the Staff’s convenience, we have repeated below the Staff’s comments in bold, and have followed each comment with the Company’s
response. Disclosure changes made in response to the Staff’s comments to the Prior Registration Statement have been made in the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form F-4 (the “Amended Registration Statement”), which is being filed with
the Commission contemporaneously with the submission of this letter.
Amendment
No. 2 to Draft Registration Statement on Form F-4
Unaudited
Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information Unaudited Condensed Combined Pro Forma Balance Sheet, page 46
1. In
response to prior comment 2, you indicate that as a result of the expected PIPE Investment,
you believe you will have net tangible assets of at least $5,000,001 under each of the redemption
scenarios. Please explain how you believe you meet this condition under the Maximum Redemption
Scenarios considering the pro forma combined total shareholders’ deficit.
Response
to Comment 1: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comments and submits that the net tangible assets under the Maximum
Redemption Scenario exceed the amount of $5,000,001 following the earnout reclassification to equity. The earn-out provisions
in the business combination agreement were amended, primary by the elimination of interdependency of the revenue targets between earnout
periods, which previously precluded the earnout from meeting the conditions to be considered indexed to a Company’s own stock and,
accordingly, the earnout is now classified within equity. Please see pages 50 and 51 of the Amended Registration Statement.
Note
4. Adjustments to Unaudited Condensed Combined Pro Forma Financial Information
Adjustments to Unaudited Condensed Combined Pro Forma
Financial Statements, page 60
2. In
adjustment (A), please explain to us how the reclassification of marketable securities held
in trust account made available results in the issuance of ordinary shares at $0.00077 per
share as well as the related impact on the adjustments to pro forma shareholders’ equity
in adjustment (B).
Response
to Comment 2: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comments and has revised adjustment (A) and (B), to the Unaudited
Condensed Combined Pro Forma Financial Statements included in the Amended Registration Statement. Please see disclosure beginning
on page 60 of the Amended Registration Statement.
Background
of the Business Combination, page 127
3. We
note your disclosure on page 32 that you expect to secure a PIPE investment of $20 million
prior to the closing of the business combination. Please update your discussion of the background
of the business combination to describe any negotiations or board deliberations in connection
with the PIPE investment.
Response
to Comment 3: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and has supplemented the discussion in the referenced section
to describe any negotiations or Keyarch board of directors’ deliberations in connection with the PIPE investment, and provided
updated disclosure regarding the applicable amount. The Company has subscription agreements for investments in the amount of $13 million.
Please see disclosure beginning on page 134 of the Amended Registration Statement and referenced disclosure throughout the registration
statement to the $13 million in PIPE investment, as well as the form of Subscription Agreement included as Exhibit 10.20 to the Amended
Registration Statement.
Audited
Financial Statements Notes
to the Financial Statements
Note
9 - Commitments and Contingencies, page F-33
4. We
note your response to prior comment 7 indicating total grants to date amounted to $1.287
million, which also appears to agree to the total contingent obligation for royalties disclosed
in response to prior comment 6. However, your disclosures indicate that you also received
grants from BIRD in the amount of $63 thousand and $169 thousand in the years ended December
31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, as well as funding from BIRD for the Blink collaboration
agreement in 2020 and $370 thousand from IIA for the Afcon collaboration agreement in 2022.
In addition, you disclose funding from NYPA of $0.9 million. Further, we note from your disclosure
on page 198 that you received grants from BIRD amounting to $0.9 million, from the Israeli
Ministry of Economy and Industry in the amount of NIS 0.18 million, and from the Ministry
of Energy Agreement in the amount of NIS 0.65 million, in addition to the grants from IIA.
Please reconcile the total amount of grants in your response and the total contingent obligation
for royalties to the disclosures in your filing.
Response
to Comment 4: The Company respectfully acknowledges the Staff’s comment and submits the following grants reconciliation reflecting
the amounts received in each fiscal period:
As
indicated in the table above, the total grants that the Company has received, not including funding from NYPA and accumulated interest,
amount to $1,287 thousand.
This
total amount includes funding from BIRD for the Blink collaboration agreement in 2020 in the amount of $90 thousand, grants from BIRD
in the amount of $169 thousand and $63 thousand in the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively.
The
table also indicates funding in 2020, in the amount
of NIS 186 thousand ($50 thousand) from the Israeli Ministry of Economy and Industry, funding in 2020 in the amount of NIS 650 thousand
($171 thousand) from the Ministry of Energy Agreement as well as funding of $370 thousand from IIA for the Afcon collaboration
agreement in 2022.
With
respect to the funding from NYPA, the Company notes that the funding amount of $0.9 million relates to the total amount to which the
Company may be entitled, of which the Company has received as of June 30, 2023 a total amount of $0.26 million, as indicated in the table
above. The Company has accordingly clarified and supplemented its disclosure in the referenced financial statement notes
and related disclosure, of the Amended Registration Statement.
We
thank the Staff for its review of the foregoing and Amended Registration Statement. If you have any further comments, please feel free
to contact Nahal A. Nellis, Esq. at nnellis@egsllp.com or by telephone at (212) 370-1300.
Sincerely,
/s/
Boaz Weizer
Boaz
Weizer, Chief Executive Officer
ZOOZ
Power Ltd.
cc:
Nahal
Nellis, Esq.
Ellenoff
Grossman & Schole LLP