Business Developments
In December 2018, we entered into a Sale of Goods Agreement (the "Agreement") with CHC Management Services, LLC, or Kindred, pursuant to which, among other things, Kindred agreed to purchase from us our InMotion® ARM Interactive Therapy Systems - a minimum of one for each of Kindred's existing and soon-to-open affiliated inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and similar facilities described in the Agreement, and in a second phase a minimum of one InMotion® ARM Interactive Therapy System for each future inpatient rehabilitation facilities of Kindred, during the four-year minimum term of the Agreement.
In June 2020, we launched our InMotion Connect platform, which consists of a hardware device connected to the InMotion Robot as well as a subscription to InMotion Connect Pulse. This platform provides anonymized data allowing us to focus activity to increase adoption and utilization of InMotion robotic technologies across healthcare systems.
During 2021, we implemented a machine learning prototype predictive model for the classification of the level of responsiveness of the InMotion® therapy outcomes. This solution was developed with Bitstrapped, a Toronto-based data engineering firm specializing in machine learning infrastructure through their partnership with Google Cloud Platform. This prototype enables us to continually train the model on anonymized data collected in real-time with InMotion Connect in rehabilitation facilities and track improvements in performance. This is the first step to a machine learning platform being developed as funds allow.
On July 15, 2021, we commenced a refinancing of our existing indebtedness and launched a new secured convertible promissory note offering of up to $10.0 million. Pursuant to the terms of the offering, we were offering for sale up to $10.0 million in convertible notes to accredited investors and non-U.S. persons. As a result, we issued an aggregate of $8.3 million in principal of convertible notes of which an aggregate of $5.0 million was purchased for cash and the remainder was issued as a result of consolidating existing debt.
Covid-19 Pandemic
As a result of extended shutdowns of businesses around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have seen a slowdown in our business as most of the capital expenditure programs of the healthcare facilities that make up our customer base have been put on hold or has been significantly curtailed. This, along with our typically long sales cycle, has affected our ability to generate revenues in recent months. As a result, we have taken steps to address the decrease in revenue, as follows:
Effective April 1, 2020, we furloughed nine employees in the United States and temporarily laid-off one employee in Canada. Additionally, our senior management agreed to a salary deferral of between 30-50%. Our remaining employees in the U.S. received base salary reductions of between 30%-50%. In Canada, our remaining employees received a reduction in base salary and hours of 45%. As a result of obtaining the U.S. and Canadian government's programs described below U.S. employees with salaries less than $100,000 annually were returned to full salary and with salaries exceeding $100,000 annually were increased to 75% of their normal base salary. Senior managements salaries were restored in December 2020 until March 2021, when certain senior management salaries were reduced between 30%-50% for 3 months.
On May 6, 2020, our U.S. subsidiary received funding in the original principal amount of $0.5 million pursuant to the federal Paycheck Protection Program under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, which is administered by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The loan was funded by Bank of America, N.A. pursuant to the terms of a Promissory Note dated as of May 1, 2020. We have used the proceeds from this funding for eligible purposes, including to retain workers and maintain payroll or make mortgage interest payments, lease payments, and utility payments. We applied for forgiveness of this debt with the SBA and as of May 23, 2021, have received forgiveness of the loan and all interest of $0.5 million which is included in other income, net in the condensed consolidated statement of operations.
Our Canada operations secured $84,000 of government financial relief under the Canadian Emergency Wage Subsidy in the six months ended September 30, 2020, which is available monthly until May 2022, which was used to return the salaries of many of our Canadian non-management employees back to their full amount. There was no relief received in the six months ended September 30, 2021.
Although, we can not predict what the next stages of the COVID-19 pandemic will be, we do believe that worst is behind us as restrictions all over the world are slowly lifted and vaccines become more widely distributed.