Unique: E-bike maker SONDORS up on the market as firm enters receivership

After a collection of economic setbacks, adopted by an Electrek exposé revealing the failed Metacycle electrical bike venture, e-bike maker SONDORS has appeared to enter receivership. The search is now on for a purchaser who can scoop up the corporate and its belongings.

Electrek has reviewed paperwork despatched out by Rock Creek Monetary Advisors (RCFA) indicating that an RFCA consultant has been appointed as receiver of SONDORS, Inc. and that the corporate is being provided on the market together with its belongings.

RCFA describes itself on its web site as specializing in “advising and working corporations by means of state regulated Project for the Advantage of Collectors (ABCs), that are a quicker, cheaper, and fewer publicized insolvency continuing that permits an organization to shed its liabilities in a price efficient method, promote the belongings of the corporate and wind-down the corporate by the Rock Creek professionals.”

A receivership differs from a chapter. Whereas a conventional chapter continuing is normally a prolonged course of designed to guard the corporate and protect it from collectors, a receivership is normally arrange by a struggling firm’s collectors themselves and is a faster course of meant to guard these collectors – usually by promoting the corporate and its belongings in an try to save lots of their funding.

As defined in an RCFA doc relating to SONDORS, Inc. and reviewed by Electrek, “Rock Creek is working to promote the Belongings. We are going to take into account all provides of curiosity. Time period sheets might be due no later than Friday, January 19, earlier than 11:59 pm ET, however we’ll settle for indications of curiosity previous to that point.”

RCFA additionally offered a prolonged presentation deck ready by SONDORS, Inc. that pitches the worth of the corporate and its numerous product line. Among the many claims within the presentation are that SONDORS, Inc. has bought over 63,000 electrical bikes and has over 10,000 money deposits for its Metacycle electrical bike that complete over $19.9M.

The presentation additionally consists of a number of unreleased merchandise as demonstrations of potential upcoming tasks, together with an electrical dust bike, a bigger electrical bike, and an electrical ATV quad.

The corporate detailed its patents and emblems within the pitch, which might doubtless be included in any sale of the corporate’s belongings.

Nonetheless, a lot of the presentation is outdated. It’s listed as being ready practically a 12 months in the past, in January 2023. Members of the management crew detailed within the presentation have left or modified in that point, and the corporate largely ceased delivering its flagship Metacycle electrical bike sooner or later in 2023.

It’s unclear if there are any potential patrons for SONDORS, Inc., however RCFA seems to be leaving the door open by means of January 19, 2024, providing lower than a month to discover a purchaser for the corporate.