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Exhibit 99.1
CREXENDO ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF NETSAPIENS MERGER
PHOENIX,
AZ / ACCESSWIRE / June 1, 2021 / Crexendo, Inc. (NASDAQ:CXDO) an
award-winning premier provider of cloud communications, UCaaS
(Unified Communications as a Service), call center, collaboration
services, and other cloud business services that are designed to
provide enterprise-class cloud services to any size business at
affordable monthly rates, today announced that it has closed its
previously announced merger with NetSapiens, Inc. The merger was
supported by over 99% of voting Crexendo shareholders and 100% of
the NetSapiens shareholders. The transaction was valued at
approximately $50 million, consisting of $10 million in cash, and
approximately $40 million in common stock and stock options.
In connection with the closing of the
Merger, the Company issued 3,097,309 shares of the Company’s
common stock valued at $6.19 per share for common stock
consideration of approximately $19.2 million, and 4,482,328 options
under the Crexendo, Inc. 2021 Equity Incentive Plan with an
aggregate value of $22.1 million, net of the aggregate exercise
price of $5.6 million.
NetSapiens
is an award-winning, patented cloud-native communications platform
delivered via a high availability, multi-tenant solution that can
be consumed however the service providers prefer, in their cloud or
the NetSapiens cloud, on a subscription or a purchase model.
NetSapiens maintains a portfolio of cloud-native solutions,
including its flagship SNAPsolution platform and its award winning
SnapHD video collaboration solution. NetSapiens was recently
spotlighted in Frost & Sullivan’s UCaaS (Unified
Communications as a Service) report as the third-party platform
vendor with the fastest growth rate in the North American market
and the #4 ranked provider of UCaaS seats in North America.
NetSapiens platform currently supports over 1.7 million end
users.
Steven
G. Mihaylo, Chief Executive Officer commented “Today is a
momentous day for Crexendo, NetSapiens, and our combined employees
and our shareholders. We set out to build a truly great company, it
has been an amazing journey building Crexendo to where it is today,
but we truly believe we are at the start of an incredible new
chapter in our growth. We have been very effective in our
commitments and strategy to grow the Company, we were able to
achieve profitability, we were able to organically up-list to
Nasdaq, we were able to raise money in a public offering and we
have now closed on a major accretive acquisition. The merger with
NetSapiens is a game changer for all parties. We will be able to
take the best of the Crexendo technology and supplement it with the
best of breed NetSapiens portfolio. NetSapiens will get the benefit
of our deep telecom expertise which will benefit the entire
NetSapiens community.”
Mihaylo
added “We will be growing the Company substantially; the
combined company pro forma consolidated revenue for 2020 of $27.8
million was nearly a 20% increase compared to $23.3 million for
2019, and
I have every expectation that the revenue will
continue to grow. We are proud to add Anand, David and Jim to our
executive management team and I am excited to add their superb
talent to an already excellent team. We will be able to streamline
combined operations and reduce expenses. We will continue to follow
our plan of growing both organically and through accretive
acquisitions. We are proud of this accomplishment, and this
exciting first major acquisition for our
organization.”
Doug
Gaylor, President and Chief Operating Officer, stated, "This is a
major milestone for both Crexendo and NetSapiens. I believe this is
as close to a perfect merger as you can get, both companies are
adding resources that will be very helpful in the combined growth.
All of our customers get the combined company’s expertise
which will make the experience better for both the NetSapiens
community and Crexendo customers. We are all invested in making
this merger work effectively. We have been working closely with the
NetSapiens team, and Ron, Jon, Jeff, and I are in San Diego this
week having operational meetings with the NetSapiens management
team. Our employees, partners and customers are excited, and we
trust the results will excite our shareholders.”
Anand
Buch, co-founder of NetSapiens stated "This is a very exciting day
for the entire NetSapiens team. We have worked tirelessly to build
NetSapiens to be the fastest growing UCaaS platform in the
business. We knew that in order to keep growing market share we
needed to find a partner who could help accelerate our growth.
Crexendo proved to be the perfect partner, they share our passion
for excellence, they share our desire to continue to improve our
offerings and to keep providing services which are second to none
to the NetSapiens community. Our teams will work closely together
to continue to improve the combined company, to provide excellent
service to all of our customers and to increase shareholder value.
I am humbled to be joining the Crexendo board of directors to add
my background and experience to a very accomplished board. As Steve
said, this is indeed an exciting start of a combined new chapter in
our growth.”
About Crexendo
Crexendo,
Inc. is an award-winning premier provider of UCaaS (Unified
Communications as a Service), call center, collaboration services,
and other cloud business services that are designed to provide
enterprise-class cloud services to any size business at affordable
monthly rates.
About NetSapiens
NetSapiens,
Inc. provides a comprehensive suite of unified communications (UC),
video conferencing, Collaboration & contact center solutions to
over 190+ service providers , servicing over 1.7M users around the
globe. Our platform enables our service provider partners to
custom-package with unprecedented levels of flexibility,
profitability, and ease of use.
Safe Harbor Statement
This
press release contains forward-looking statements. The Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 provides a "safe harbor"
for such forward-looking statements. The words "believe," "expect,"
"anticipate," "estimate," "will" and other similar statements of
expectation identify forward-looking statements. Specific
forward-looking statements in this press release include
information about Crexendo; (i) believing today is a momentous day
for it, NetSapiens, and our combined employees and our
shareholders; (ii) believing it is at the start of an incredible
new chapter in its growth; (iii) having been very effective in our
commitments and strategy to grow the Company; (iv) believing that
the merger with NetSapiens is a game changer for all parties; (v)
taking the best of the Crexendo technology and supplementing it
with the best of breed NetSapiens portfolio; (vi) believing
NetSapiens will get the Company deep telecom expertise which will
benefit the entire NetSapiens community;(vii) having every
expectation that the revenue will continue to grow; (viii) will be
able to streamline combined operations and reduce expenses; (ix)
will continue to follow its plan of growing both organically and
through accretive acquisitions; (x) being proud of this
accomplishment; (xi) believing this is as close to a perfect merger
as you can get with both companies are adding resources that will
be very helpful in the combined growth; (xii) believing customers
get the combined company’s expertise which will make the
experience better for both the NetSapiens community and its
customers; (xiii) believing all are invested in making this merger
working effectively; (xiv) NetSapiens division believing they have
worked tirelessly to build NetSapiens to be the fastest growing
UCaaS platform in the business; ( xv) believing that in order to
keep growing market share NetSapiens needed to find a partner who
could help accelerate their growth and that Crexendo is the perfect
partner and share the desire to continue to improve the offerings
and to keep providing services which are second to none to the
NetSapiens community; and (xvi) believing that the teams will work
closely together to continue to improve the combined company, to
provide excellent service to all of its customers and to increase
shareholder value.
For a
more detailed discussion of risk factors that may affect Crexendo's
operations and results, please refer to the company's Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 2020, quarterly Form 10-Qs as filed
with the SEC, and Definitive Proxy filed on April 26, 2021. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which such
statements are made, and the company undertakes no obligation to
update such forward-looking statements, except as required by
law.
CONTACT:
Crexendo,
Inc.
Doug
Gaylor
President
and Chief Operating Officer
602-732-7990
dgaylor@crexendo.com