Support Services Segment Overview
On September 14, 2021, GGH Merger Sub, Inc. (“Merger Sub”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenidge, merged with and into Support.com, Inc. (“Support.com”), with Support.com continuing as the surviving corporation (the “Merger”) and a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenidge, pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated March 19, 2021 (the “Merger Agreement”), among Greenidge, Support.com and Merger Sub.
Our Support Services segment consists of the Support.com business and provides customer and technical support solutions delivered by home-based employees. Support.com’s homesourcing model, which enables outsourced work to be delivered by people working from home, has been specifically designed for remote work, with attention to security, recruiting, training, delivery, and employee engagement.
The Committed Equity Financing
Termination of 2021 Committed Equity Financing
On September 15, 2021, we entered into a purchase agreement with the Selling Stockholder (the “2021 Purchase Agreement”) and a related registration rights agreement (the “2021 Registration Rights Agreement”). Under the 2021 Purchase Agreement, the Selling Stockholder committed to purchase up to $500,000,000 of shares of our class A common stock, subject to certain limitations and the satisfaction of the conditions contained in the 2021 Purchase Agreement. Pursuant to the 2021 Purchase Agreement, we had the right, but not the obligation, to sell shares of class A common stock to the Selling Stockholder pursuant to the 2021 Purchase Agreement from time to time over a period of up to 24 months from October 6, 2021. In accordance with the 2021 Registration Rights Agreement, on September 17, 2021, we filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 to register under the Securities Act, the resale by the Selling Stockholder of up to 3,500,000 shares of our class A common stock that were available to be issued and sold by us to the Selling Stockholder under the 2021 Purchase Agreement, which was declared effective by the SEC on October 6, 2021 (the “2021 Resale Registration Statement”). On April 6, 2022, we and the Selling Stockholder mutually agreed to terminate the 2021 Purchase Agreement and the 2021 Registration Rights Agreement, effective immediately on such date. As a result, we are no longer able to sell shares to the Selling Stockholder pursuant to the 2021 Purchase Agreement.
In connection with the termination of such agreements, on April 7, 2022, we filed with the SEC a post-effective amendment to the 2021 Resale Registration Statement to deregister 952,500 shares of class A common stock that remained unsold under the 2021 Resale Registration Statement at the time the 2021 Purchase Agreement and the 2021 Registration Rights Agreement were mutually terminated by the parties, because such shares had not been issued and sold by us to the Selling Stockholder under the 2021 Purchase Agreement as of the date such agreements were terminated. Through April 6, 2022, we sold 2,547,500 shares of our class A common stock to the Selling Stockholder pursuant to the 2021 Purchase Agreement for proceeds of $54.9 million, net of discounts.
New Committed Equity Financing
We entered into a registration rights agreement, dated as of April 7, 2022 (the “Registration Rights Agreement”) and the Purchase Agreement, dated as of April 7, 2022, as amended by an amendment dated April 13, 2022, with the Selling Stockholder. Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, subject to certain limitations and conditions, we have the right, but not the obligation, to sell to the Selling Stockholder up to $500,000,000 of shares of our class A common stock, from time to time. Sales of class A common stock to the Selling Stockholder under the Purchase Agreement, and the timing of any such sales, are solely at our option, and we are under no obligation to sell any securities to the Selling Stockholder under the Purchase Agreement. Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, we have filed the registration statement that includes this prospectus with the SEC to register under the Securities Act the resale by the Selling Stockholder of up to 5,720,951 shares of class A common stock that we may elect, in our sole discretion, to issue and sell to the Selling Stockholder, from time to time from and after the Commencement Date (as defined below) under the Purchase Agreement.
Upon the initial satisfaction of the conditions to the Selling Stockholder’s purchase obligations set forth in the Purchase Agreement (the “Commencement”), including that the registration statement that includes this prospectus is declared effective by the SEC, we will have the right, but not the obligation, from time to time at our sole discretion over the 24-month period after the date on which the Commencement occurs (the “Commencement Date”), to direct the Selling Stockholder, by timely delivering written notice to the Selling Stockholder (each, a “VWAP Purchase Notice”) prior to 9:00 a.m., Eastern time, on any trading day (each, a “Purchase Date”), so long as the closing sale price of our class A common stock on the trading day immediately prior to such Purchase Date is not less than $1.00 (subject to adjustment as set forth in the Purchase Agreement) (the “Threshold Price”), to purchase a specified amount of shares of class A common stock up to a certain maximum amount per VWAP Purchase calculated in accordance with the Purchase Agreement (each, a “VWAP Purchase”).
The per share purchase price for the shares that the Selling Stockholder is required to purchase in any single VWAP Purchase will be determined by reference to the volume weighted average price of our class A common stock (the “VWAP”) for the period on the applicable Purchase Date, beginning at the official open (or “commencement”) of the regular trading session and ending at the earliest to occur of (x) the official close of the regular trading session on Nasdaq on such Purchase Date, (y) such time that the total aggregate volume of shares of class A common stock traded on Nasdaq reaches a certain maximum volume threshold amount calculated in accordance with the Purchase Agreement, and (z) such time that the trading price of a share of our class A common stock falls below a minimum price threshold specified by the Company in the applicable VWAP Purchase Notice for such VWAP Purchase, or if no such minimum price threshold is specified by the Company in the VWAP Purchase Notice, a price calculated in accordance with the Purchase Agreement (such period, the “VWAP Purchase Period”), less a fixed 5% discount to the VWAP of the class A common stock for such VWAP Purchase Period, which shall be increased to a fixed 6% discount at such time that the Company has received aggregate cash proceeds of $200,000,000 from all prior sales of class A common stock to the Selling Stockholder under the Purchase Agreement, aggregated with all prior sales of class A common stock to the Selling Stockholder under the 2021 Purchase Agreement, which was terminated by mutual written consent of the parties thereto on April 6, 2022.