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NOTE 13 - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 13 RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Services Agreement

 

The Company had previously entered into a Services Agreement with Spike Up, pursuant to which, among other things, Spike Up provides certain specified services to the Company, these include marketing and promotion and other operating support for the Company.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company generated no revenues related to the services performed for Spike Up for the Company. Included in net income from discontinued operations, net of taxes in the consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, $5.5 million and $4.7 million, respectively.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $0 and $0.6 million, respectively, for marketing and other operating costs performed by Spike Up on behalf of the Company, which was included in advertising and promotion in the consolidated statements of operations. For the year ended December 31, 2024, $0.2 million was included in net income for discontinued operations, net of taxes, for marketing and other operating costs performed by Spike Up. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company also incurred other costs from Spike Up that were included in the consolidated statement of operations, consisting of $0 and $0.6 million, respectively, included in general and administrative expenses. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company also incurred other costs from Spike Up that were included in the consolidated statement of operations, consisting of $0.8 million and $2.2 million, respectively, included in direct operating costs. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, $1.7 million and $0.4 million, are included in net income for discontinued operations, net of taxes, respectively.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized an immaterial amount in both periods for services performed by Interactive for the Company which was included in general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations.

 

Happy Hour Solutions Ltd., a company registered in Cyprus and, until the company acquired Happy Hour Solutions Ltd. on December 31, 2025, a subsidiary of Happy Hour Entertainment Holdings Ltd., is the holder of an Estonian gaming license, and as of October 21, 2021 entered into a Services Agreement with HR Entertainment Ltd., a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, whereby Happy Hour Solutions would provide gaming and technical and solutions, as well as hosting and cloud services, customer services, management information systems and other operational services for HR Entertainment. We entered into several agreements with Happy Hour Solutions Ltd., including:

 

         a Domain License Agreement, dated January 1, 2022 (which we refer to as the “Effective Date”), that gives Happy Hour Solutions the right to use our domain;

         a Nominee Agreement, dated as of the Effective Date, which allows Happy Hour Solutions to, among other business solutions, process payments made on the aforementioned domain and allows us to host, manage, administer, operate and support, and enter into contracts in the ordinary course of business in the name of Happy Hour Solutions; and

         in March 2024 Online Gaming Operations Agreement, by which as further described therein we continue to supply Happy Hour Solutions, with services that commenced as of the Effective Date, related to the operation of an online casino primarily through our existing personnel, technical solutions, and commercial relationships while utilizing the Happy Hour Solutions Estonian gaming license and to recognize the revenues generated thereof as agreed upon by the parties.

 

The Happy Hour Solutions Agreements collectively allow HR Entertainment access to additional online gaming revenues. As of March 2024, Happy Hour Solutions Limited entered into a nominee agreement with Interstellar Entertainment N.V., a wholly owned subsidiary of High Roller Technologies Inc. Beginning in the fourth quarter of 2023, the Company also recognized certain administrative costs performed by certain subsidiaries of Happy Hour Entertainment Holdings. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company recognized $0 and $34 thousand, respectively, for services performed for the Company by Happy Hour Entertainment Holdings and its wholly owned subsidiaries which was included in general and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations. On December 31, 2025 the Company acquired Happy Hour Solutions.

 

As of March 1, 2022, the Company entered into an agreement with Funnz (formerly known as WKND) to perform various services in connection with the conduct of the Company’s business. For the year ended December 31, 2025, services totaled $0. For the year ended December 31, 2024, services totaled $208 thousand which was included in product and software development costs in the consolidated statement of operations.

 

Due From/Due to Affiliates

 

The components of related party balances included in due from affiliates and due to affiliates on the consolidated balance sheets as of December 31, 2025 and 2024 are summarized as follows:

 

 

 

December 31,

 

December 31,

 

(in thousands)

 

2025

 

2024

 

Due from affiliates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy Hour Entertainment Holdings

 

 

 

 

498

 

Other

 

 

 

 

6

 

Total due from affiliates

 

$

 

$

504

 

Due to affiliates

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spike Up

 

$

1,993

 

$

3,280

 

Happy Hour Solutions

 

 

 

 

48

 

Other

 

 

 

 

1

 

Total due to affiliates

 

$

1,993

 

$

3,329

 

 

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the total amount due to Spike Up includes $1.8 million and $2.4 million, respectively, related to the HighRoller.com domain name purchase (see Note 7).