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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS | 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
Our Business
References in this document to the “Company,” “Verb,” “we,” “us,” or “our” are intended to mean Verb Technology Company, Inc., individually, or as the context requires, collectively with its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
Our business is currently comprised of four distinct, yet complimentary business units. They are MARKET.live, a livestream shopping platform and digital media agency; LyveCom, an AI social commerce technology software provider; Go Fund Yourself, a social crowd-funding platform and interactive reality TV show for Regulation CF and Regulation A issuers; and a telehealth business unit that is comprised of two wellness-focused ecommerce sites, VanityPrescribed and GoodGirlRX.
MARKET.live
Focused on interactive video-based social commerce, our MARKET.live platform is a multi-vendor, livestream social shopping destination leveraging the convergence of ecommerce and entertainment. Brands, retailers and creators engage MARKET.live for the ability to broadcast livestream shopping events simultaneously on numerous social media channels, including TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, as well as on MARKET.live, reaching exponentially larger audiences.
MARKET.live has developed and deployed technology integrations with META, TikTok, and Pinterest, among many others. For example, the Meta integration created a seamless, native, friction-free checkout process for Facebook and Instagram users to purchase MARKET.live vendors’ products within each of those popular apps. This integration allows Facebook and Instagram users to browse products featured in MARKET.live shoppable videos, place products in a native shopping cart and checkout – all without leaving Facebook or Instagram. Our TikTok technology integration allows shoppers watching a MARKET.live stream on TikTok to stay on TikTok and check out through TikTok, eliminating the friction or reluctance of TikTok users to leave their TikTok feed in order to complete their purchase. Our technology integration allows the purchase data to flow back through MARKET.live and to the individual vendors and stores on MARKET.live seamlessly for fulfillment of the orders.
Last year we announced an expanded strategic relationship with TikTok evidenced by a formal partnership with TikTok Shop pursuant to which MARKET.live became a service provider for TikTok Shop and officially designated as a TikTok Shop Partner (TSP). Under the terms of the partnership, TikTok Shop refers consumer brands, retailers, influencers and affiliates to MARKET.live for a menu of MARKET.live contract-based recurring fee revenue services that include, among other things, assistance in onboarding to TikTok Shop and establishing a TikTok store, full creative services, including content creation and full remote and in-studio production services, host/influencer casting and management, TikTok Shop maintenance and enhancements for existing TikTok clients’ stores. This same menu of services is also provided to consumer brands that contact us directly or through several brand agencies with which we maintain affiliate relationships and currently represents the largest and fastest growing area of MARKET.live’s business.
LyveCom
On April 17, 2025, we announced the closing of the acquisition of LyveCom, an artificial intelligence (“AI”) driven video commerce platform, pursuant to a stock purchase agreement dated April 11, 2025. The transaction terms are set forth in detail in the Form 8-K filed on April 17, 2025. The integration of LyveCom’s technology into Verb’s MARKET.live expands the platform’s multicast capabilities to allow brands and merchants to deliver a true omnichannel livestream shopping experience. Not only can they broadcast their livestream shopping events simultaneously across multiple social media channels, but they can now also do so across their own websites, apps, and social platforms while leveraging MARKET.live’s new AI-powered video content automation and personalized shopping experiences.
Today’s brands are beholden to big social media and their ever-changing algorithms, relying heavily on their platforms and closed marketplaces to maintain access to a borrowed audience. LyveCom’s technology allows brands to obtain full control over their audience, content, and conversions while funneling ‘zero-party customer data’ back to the brand. Zero-party customer data refers to information a customer intentionally and proactively shares with a business. This very valuable data includes preferences, purchase intentions, personal contexts, and how the customer wants to be recognized. It’s distinct from first-party data, that is collected passively through website interactions, and third-party data, and typically purchased from external sources. The Lyvecom technology also provides brands and merchants with one-click capability to instantly simulcast and scale the broadcast of live shopping events across their own ecommerce sites and apps, marketplaces, and social platforms, maximizing audience reach and engagement while maintaining unified checkout and unified inventory management and control. This month LyveCom will release its new AI Suite, an end-to-end content creation platform available on a subscription basis that automates the production of viral-quality user-generated video content for e-commerce brands.
Purpose-built to address content fatigue, rising production costs, and the ever-increasing demand for short-form video, the LyveCom AI Suite combines proprietary AI scripting tools, ultra-realistic avatars, and autonomous content agents — giving brands the power to scale creative assets at a fraction of the time and cost. The LyveCom Suite includes the following products:
GO FUND YOURSELF
Go Fund Yourself is an interactive social crowd funding platform for public and private companies seeking broad-based exposure across numerous social media channels for their crowd-funded Regulation CF and Regulation A offerings. The platform combines an interactive reality TV show that has been described as a combination of Shark Tank and Kickstarter with MARKET.live’s back-end capabilities allowing viewers to tap or scan onscreen icons and QR codes to facilitate an investment, in near real time, as they watch companies presenting before the Show’s panel of “Titans”. Presenting companies that sell consumer products are able to offer their products directly to viewers during the show in near real time through the same onscreen technology.
The Show airs weekly on CheddarTV, available on most cable operators, prime time at 7pm EST. The Go Fund Yourself business unit generates revenue from fees we charge to issuers to appear on the show and for marketing, ad, and content creation and distribution services. For those issuers that sell products during each airing of the show through our platform, we charge a fee up to 25% of the gross sales revenue for all products sold. The Show’s expert panel of “Titans” include rotating celebrity guest Titans from the worlds of business, sports, and entertainment, such as NFL Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk, among many others, as well as the recurring panel of Titans that include David Meltzer – Chairman of the Napoleon Hill Institute and Former CEO of the Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency; Jayson Waller – thought leader, CEO of multiple multi-million-dollar companies, and host of the popular ‘Jayson Waller Unleashed’ Podcast; and Rory J. Cutaia – the Show’s creator and the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Verb, each of whom are executive producers and minority owners.
TeleHealth/Wellness eCommerce Business Units
VanityPrescribed, and GoodGirlRX represent a new telehealth initiative that leverages MARKET.live’s social commerce technology, which the Company intends to employ to disrupt the traditional healthcare model by utilizing social commerce capabilities to provide tailored healthcare solutions at affordable, fixed prices, without hidden fees, membership costs, or inflated markups. On March 11, 2025, the Company announced the launch of GoodGirlRx.com, a partnership under VanityPrescribed with Savannah Chrisley, a well-known lifestyle personality with millions of social media followers and an advocate for health and wellness. Through GoodGirlRx.com, customers will have access to convenient, no-hassle telehealth services and pharmaceuticals that offer fixed pricing regardless of dosage, breaking away from the industry’s traditional model of excessive pricing and gatekeeping. Subscription pricing is also available through the site.
Historical Operations
Historically, and continuing up through June 13, 2023, the Company was a Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) applications platform developer that offered a SaaS platform for the direct sales industry comprised of a suite of interactive video-based sales enablement business software products marketed on a subscription basis, (the “SaaS Assets”).
On April 12, 2019, Verb Direct, LLC, (“Verb Direct”), a subsidiary of the Company, acquired Sound Concepts Inc. On September 4, 2020, Verb Acquisition Co., LLC (“Verb Acquisition”), a subsidiary of the Company, acquired Ascend Certification, LLC, dba SoloFire (“SoloFire”). These acquisitions were intended to augment and diversify the Company’s internet and Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) business.
On October 18, 2021, the Company established verbMarketplace, LLC (“Market LLC”), a Nevada limited liability company. Market LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company established for the MARKET.live business.
On June 13, 2023, the Company disposed of all of its operating SaaS assets of Verb Direct and Verb Acquisition, (referred to collectively as the “SaaS Assets”) pursuant to an asset purchase agreement in consideration of the sum of $6,500, $4,750 of which was paid in cash by the buyer at the closing of the transaction. An additional payment in the aggregate of $750 will be paid by the buyer if certain profitability and revenue targets are met during the second year following the closing date as set forth more particularly in the asset purchase agreement. A similar payment would have been due and payable to the Company after the first year following the closing if the buyer had met certain profitability and revenue targets specified in the asset purchase agreement, which it failed to meet. The sale of the SaaS Assets was undertaken to allow the Company to focus its resources on its burgeoning MARKET.live business unit which it expects over time will create greater shareholder value.
On November 15, 2024, the Go Fund Yourself Show LLC (“Go Fund Yourself”), a Nevada limited liability company was formed for the operations of the Go Fund Yourself business.
On January 15, 2025, the Company formed Good Girl LLC, a Nevada limited liability company. Good Girl LLC is a majority-owned subsidiary of the Company.
As of June 30, 2025, the Company had cash and restricted cash of $5,233 and short-term investments of $5,125.
Equity Financing
On April 23, 2025, the Company filed a certificate of designation of preferences and rights of Series D Non-Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series D Preferred Stock”), with the Secretary of State of Nevada, designating shares of non-convertible preferred stock, par value $ of the Company, as Series D Preferred Stock. Each share of Series D Preferred Stock shall have a stated face value of $ .
On April 22, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with Streeterville Capital, LLC (the “Investor”). Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company and Investor agreed that the Company shall sell and the Investor agreed to purchase 5,000. The Shares have no voting rights and a face value of $ per share. The sale of the Shares was consummated on April 22, 2025. shares of the Company’s newly designated Non-Convertible, Non-Voting Series D Preferred Stock (the “Shares”) for a total purchase price of $
On August 1, 2025, the Company redeemed in full all outstanding Shares. The redemption was effected pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Certificate of Designation of the Shares. The Company paid an aggregate cash amount equal to the applicable Series D preferred liquidation amount (the original issue price plus any accrued but unpaid 9% annual preferred return).
Economic Disruption
Our business is dependent in part on general economic conditions. Many jurisdictions in which our customers are located and our products are sold have experienced and could continue to experience unfavorable general economic conditions, such as inflation, increased interest rates and recessionary concerns, which could negatively affect demand for our products. Under difficult economic conditions, customers may seek to cease spending on our current products or fail to adopt our new products, which could negatively affect our financial performance. We cannot predict the timing or magnitude of an economic slowdown or the timing or strength of any economic recovery. These and other economic factors could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
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