History
A gold-claims shell, Canyon Gold, drifted through cannabis and vapor deals into weapons-detection scanners, funding itself with convertible financings and repeated reverse splits.
2014-2015: Gold claims and side bets
The company began as Canyon Gold Corp. In April 2014, after a 1-for-20 reverse split, it agreed to buy 180 mineral claims in the Long Canyon Gold Trend in Elko County, Nevada, from EMAC Handels AG for 12,000,000 new shares. EMAC kept a 3% royalty on any metal sold (a net smelter royalty), and the company would carry all claim and exploration costs. Exploration depended on a technical report and funding.
Within weeks the company turned elsewhere. In May 2014 it agreed to buy Marshall Thomsen Ltd., which had applied to Health Canada for a licence to grow medicinal cannabis. The price was preferred shares, some of it tied to the licence being granted and at least $12 million being raised. The record then goes quiet for a year. In June 2015 it agreed to buy 90% of Vaportech3d LLC, owner of a cedar leaf oil vapor technology for disinfecting buildings, for 500,000 Series B preferred shares. The beats do not confirm that either deal was completed.
2015-2017: Weapons detection and a rescinded deal
In October 2015 the company agreed to buy Defense Technology Corporation (DTC), a private Colorado company developing a passive walk-through weapons detector, for 4,000,000 common shares and agreed to fund its development with three $100,000 payments. It also planned to try to spin off its Long Canyon Gold subsidiary. A January 2016 filing said closing documents were signed on December 31, 2015, but a July 2016 filing said the deal actually closed on July 15, 2016, and by then the company was named Defense Technologies International.
In September 2016 it arranged funding with Blackbridge Capital: small convertible notes and a $2.5 million equity facility, priced at a discount to market. Then the DTC deal unravelled. It was rescinded effective October 17, 2016 because DTC could not produce the audited financials needed, and no shares or assets changed hands. Two days later the company signed an exclusive patent license with Controlled Capture Systems (CCS) for the same kind of scanner, with a $25,000 initial fee, a royalty, and 4,000,000 shares for CCS-related investors. In June 2017 it settled $175,182.37 of debt by issuing 1,751,824 Series A preferred shares, each carrying 100 votes.
2018-2020: Small loans and a share reset
The company lived on small financings. In July 2018 a private investor put in $250,000 for development and beta testing of its Passive Portal scanner, in return for warrants and a royalty. In September it took $250,000 from a convertible debenture and used part to settle old debts with Firstfire and Crown Bridge. Share counts swung sharply across this period, and the beats explain one cause: a 1-for-1,500 reverse split in April 2018.
In October 2018 EMAC converted 200,000 Series A preferred shares into 2,000,000 common shares, leaving it with 71.75% of the common stock. The company moved to Del Mar, California. In May 2019 the board restored the preferred conversion rate to 10 common shares per preferred share and settled its Firstfire note for $75,000 cash plus 150,000 shares. Two more convertible financings followed: $250,000 in January 2020 for fabrication equipment, and $250,000 in October 2020 with a price that could reset downward each quarter, partly to fund production of up to 50 Passive Portal units.
2022: Debt swapped for preferred shares
In April 2022 an investor exchanged two debentures ($245,600 and $317,718) for 600 non-voting Series D preferred shares with a $600,000 stated value, and cancelled warrants. The preferred converts at a price that can fall each quarter from July 1, 2022. A 1-for-500 reverse split was expected in May 2022.
On July 29, 2022 the company settled notes and payables valued at $2,979,829 by issuing 716,552 non-voting Series B preferred shares to eight people, each convertible into ten common shares, with a 4.99% ownership cap per holder. As of August 18, 2022 the filings seen reported no Passive Portal sales, going-concern doubt remained, and Merrill W. Moses led the company as President, CEO and interim CFO.
Written from the 17 story beats below (2014 to 18 Aug 2022), which come from the company's own announcements and filings.