The Transaction marks FingerMotion's formal entry into the enterprise computing market and is the first step in a broader strategy to build a recurring-revenue enterprise compute franchise alongside the Company's existing mobile data and telecommunications operations.
At final closing, FingerMotion shall issue to Alset AI 1,674,480 FingerMotion restricted common shares determined by dividing $500,000 by the sum of (i) the Nasdaq Official Closing Price of one FingerMotion common share on the trading day immediately preceding the closing date and (ii) $0.01, with any fractional share rounded down to the nearest whole share. The FingerMotion shares are to be issued in a private placement transaction, exempt from registration, under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. No cash consideration is payable by FingerMotion at closing. Following closing, Alset AI is expected to retain 90.1% of Lyken.
A Pivotal Step into Enterprise Computing
"This is a deliberate and intentional pivotal move for FingerMotion," said Jolie Kahn, Chief Executive Officer of FingerMotion. "For a decade the Company has operated at the intersection of telecommunications infrastructure and data at enterprise scale. Enterprise computing is the natural extension of that capability, and it is where we intend to build the next phase of this Company. Compute has become the constraint on what enterprises can actually deploy — not ambition, not talent, but access to capacity that is available, governed and supportable. Lyken gives us a real operating platform to serve that need, and this investment is the starting point in this journey."
The Company intends to pursue enterprise compute as a distinct and scalable line of business, with the objective of moving from an initial minority position toward a larger participation in Lyken and in the underlying infrastructure that supports it, subject to commercial performance, capital availability and applicable regulatory and Exchange requirements.
How FingerMotion Intends to Serve the Enterprise Compute Segment
Enterprise buyers of AI and cloud compute are consistently underserved by the two dominant supply models available to them: hyperscale platforms that are difficult to secure allocation from and inflexible on terms, and bare-metal GPU brokers that deliver hardware but not accountability. FingerMotion's strategy is to serve the segment in between — the enterprise that requires committed capacity, a named counterparty, and a professional operating partner that can carry the deployment through to production. The Company intends to build that offering across five components:
"We are not trying to out-build the hyperscalers," added Ms. Kahn. "We are building the layer the enterprise market is actually asking for — capacity that is contracted, connectivity that is private and predictable, deployment support from people who have run production systems, and a cost base anchored in power we can price over the long term. We believe those four factors are what turn a pilot into a production workload, and that is the segment we intend to fulfill."
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