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Innofone.com Secures $50,000,000 of Equity Financing From Cogent
SANTA MONICA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- July 10, 2006 -- Innofone.com, Inc., (OTCBB: INFN), the first public company to focus exclusively on the global market for IPv6 (also known as the New Internet), which includes opportunities for "Quadruple Play" (improved voice, video, data, and wireless) communications, announced today further explanation of its equity financing with Cogent Capital Investments LLC and Cogent Capital Financial LLC ("Cogent"). Innofone.com's goal is to become the leader in the New Internet market by developing and consolidating an array of IPv6-related products and services for governments and corporations around the world. The U.S. Federal Government and the U.S. Department of Defense have mandated transition to IPv6 by 2008. The Japanese Government estimates the total market size for IPv6-related products and services to total $1,550 billion dollars by 2010.
As of June 2, 2006, Cogent Capital Investments LLC completed an investment in Innofone.com of $50,000,000 in the form of U.S. Treasury Bonds ("Treasury Bonds"). The Treasury Bonds were delivered pursuant to a private placement of Innofone.com's Series A Preferred shares and common stock. Concurrent with this investment by Cogent, Innofone.com also entered into an equity swap with Cogent Capital Financial LLC in which Innofone.com posted the Treasury Bonds as collateral. Partial settlements of the equity swap and related releases of the collateral (together, the "Swap Settlements") commence 30 days subsequent to the effective date of a registration statement to be filed by Innofone.com in connection with certain common stock shares purchased by Cogent. Through the Swap Settlements, Innofone.com may sell a fixed percentage of the Treasury Bonds against a fixed reference price for Innofone.com common stock shares at any time thereafter, and use any cash proceeds from such sales for working capital purposes. Other terms and conditions are described in the Company's June 8, 2006 8-K filing and related Exhibits.
"We are very pleased to be an investor in Innofone.com, Inc.," noted Greg Kofford of Cogent. "We feel the transition to IPv6 -- a massive upgrade to the existing Internet -- offers Innofone.com good opportunities to benefit from its presence in this major emerging market. We are impressed with both Innofone.com's vision for this market and with the strong team they have assembled to address it."
Alex Lightman, Innofone.com Chairman & CEO, stated: "I am pleased to secure this investment from Cogent. This funding will allow Innofone.com to implement our business model at a much quicker pace. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is expected to create a rapid expansion of business opportunities, much as the existing Internet did in the late 1990s. As the first full-service pure-play company in the transition to IPv6, we are poised to capture a significantly higher percentage of the market than companies that enter at a later stage. We thus very much appreciate the significant and strategic support Innofone.com is receiving from Cogent Capital Investments LLC and Cogent Capital Financial LLC."
For more information on Cogent Capital Investments LLC and Cogent Capital Financial LLC, please visit www.cogent-capital.com. |
