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Note 5 - Equity
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure [Text Block]
Note
5—Equity
 
Initial Public Offering
 
On
April 3, 2018,
the Company completed its IPO, whereby the Company sold an aggregate of
1,280,000
shares of its common stock, at
$5.00
per share, resulting in net proceeds of
$5,025,000
after underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses of
$895,000.
Additionally, the underwriters have been issued warrants to purchase common stock equal to
3%
of the securities sold in the IPO, or
38,400
shares of Common Stock.
 
Private Placement
 
On
May 9, 2018,
the Company completed a private placement, whereby the Company sold to investors an aggregate of
828,500
shares of its common stock at
$12.07
per share and warrants to purchase up to
621,376
shares of the Company’s common stock with an initial exercise price equal to
$15.62
per share. The per share price and warrant exercise price were subject to automatic adjustment, if applicable, based on the volume weighted average daily prices on the
three
days after the registration statement registering the resale of the shares of common stock sold to the investors and the shares of the common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant was declared effective and the Company’s stockholders approved the transaction. In
no
event would the purchase price or warrant exercise price be less than
$4.25
per share. The Company received net proceeds of
$9,250,000
after commissions and expenses.
 
On
August 1, 2018,
following the effectiveness of our Registration Statement on Form S-
1
(File
No.
333
-
225090
) and pursuant to the terms of the Purchase Agreement and Warrants, we issued to the original investors in the private placement an aggregate of
1,174,440
additional shares of our common stock and the Warrants became exercisable for a total of
2,283,740
shares of our common stock with an exercise price equal to
$4.25
per share. On
March 15, 2019
and
June 25, 2019,
we issued an aggregate of
350,000
shares of Common Stock held in abeyance for an investor in the private placement.
 
Stock Issuances
 
During the
nine
months ended
September 30, 2019
, we issued
253,707
shares of Common Stock for service provided to us, valued at
$392,432,
and we issued
350,000
shares of Common Stock held in abeyance for an investor in the private placement.
 
During the year ended
December 31, 2018
, we issued
200,009
shares of Common Stock, taking into account the forward-split ratio from the Company’s IPO, for services provided to us, valued at
$553,303
and we issued
3,282,940
shares of Common Stock in the Company’s IPO and private placement for cash of
$16,400,000.
 
Preferred Stock
 
In connection with the Company’s IPO, all Preferred Stock included in Series A through Series G, totaling
1,394,953
shares at
March 31, 2018
were converted to
9,324,177
shares of Common Stock as a result of the forward-split (See Capital Stock Note). Upon the completion of the IPO, the Company is authorized to issue
10,000,000
shares of Preferred Stock at a par value of
$0.001
per share,
none
of which is outstanding at
September 30, 2019
.
 
Common Stock
 
Upon the completion of the IPO, all of the Company’s Non-Voting Common Stock automatically converted into Voting Common Stock on a
one
-to-
one
basis. Immediately following the completion of the IPO, the Company is authorized to issue
200,000,000
shares of Common Stock at a par value of
$0.001
per share, all of which is Voting Common Stock. There are
15,842,855
shares of Common Stock outstanding at
September 30, 2019
.
 
Common Stock Purchase Warrants
 
Common Stock purchase warrant activity for the period and year ended
September 30, 2019
and
December 31, 2018
, respectively, are as follows:
 
   
Number of
   
Weighted Avg.
 
   
Warrants
   
Exercise Price
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2018
   
748,060
    $
5.17
 
Issued
   
3,166,492
     
4.47
 
Cancelled or expired
   
(15,385
)    
 
Exercised
   
(34,615
)    
 
Outstanding at December 31, 2018
   
3,864,552
    $
4.60
 
Issued
   
     
 
Cancelled or expired
   
     
 
Exercised
   
     
 
Outstanding at September 30, 2019
   
3,864,552
    $
4.60
 
 
The Company did
not
issue warrants in the
nine
-month period ended
September 30, 2019
.
 
In the year ended
December 31, 2018
, we granted (i) warrants to purchase
38,400
shares of our Common Stock at
$6.25
per share to the underwriter of the Company’s IPO and (ii) warrants to purchase
2,283,740
shares of our Common Stock at
$4.25
per share to the investors in our private placement. We also granted warrants to purchase up to
844,352
shares of common stock in consideration of services valued at
$2,203,506
including (i)
425,000
shares of common stock to Cancer Revolution, LLC, (ii)
225,000
shares of common stock to Cancer Biotech, LLC, (iii)
144,352
shares of common stock to Inception Capital Management, LLC, and (iv) up to
50,000
shares of common stock to World Wide Holdings, LLC at
$5.00
per share.
 
On
January 29, 2018,
the Company entered into an agreement with FundAthena, Inc. whereby the Company agreed to grant warrants to purchase
6,000
shares of our Common Stock at
$5.00
per share in consideration of services valued at
$30,000
provided to the Company. At
September 30, 2019
, the Company has
not
issued these warrant shares.
 
On
September 20, 2018,
World Wide Holdings, LLC exercised its warrant to purchase
50,000
shares via a cashless exercise option. As a result, the Company issued
34,615
shares of Common Stock to World Wide Holdings in exchange for the cashless exercise of the warrant and the remaining
15,385
shares of Common Stock were cancelled.
 
2018
Equity Incentive Plan
 
The Company’s board of directors and stockholders has approved and adopted the Company’s
2018
Equity Incentive Plan (
“2018
Plan”), which became effective on the completion of the IPO on
April 3, 2018.
The
2018
Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options (“ISOs”), nonstatutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards, performance-based stock awards, other forms of equity compensation and performance cash awards. ISOs
may
be granted only to employees. All other awards
may
be granted to employees, including officers, and to the Company’s non-employee directors and consultants, and affiliates.
 
A total of
4,160,000
shares of Common Stock are available under the
2018
Plan, which includes
554,963
shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under our
2009
Equity Incentive Plan that were added to
2018
Plan.
No
further grants will be made under the
2009
Plan and any shares subject to outstanding stock options under the
2009
Plan that would otherwise be returned to the
2009
Plan will instead be added to the shares initially reserved under the
2018
Plan.
 
In addition, the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the
2018
Plan will automatically increase on
January 1
of each year, beginning on
January 1, 2019
by
5%
of the total number of shares of the Company’s Common Stock outstanding on
December 31
of the preceding calendar year, or a lesser number of shares determined by the administrator of the
2018
Plan. On
January 1, 2019,
the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the
2018
Plan was increased by an aggregate of
761,957
shares.
 
2018
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
 
The Company’s board of directors and stockholders has approved and adopted the Company’s
2018
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (“ESPP”), which will become effective when the Board determines to make this benefit available to employees. The ESPP authorizes the issuance of
208,500
shares of the Company’s common stock pursuant to purchase rights granted to our eligible employees. The number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance will automatically increase on
January 1
of each calendar year, from
January 1, 2019
by the lesser of
2%
of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding on
December 31
of the preceding calendar year or a number determined by the administrator of the ESPP. The administrator of the ESPP, which is our Board of Directors, determined
not
to increase the number of shares reserved for issuance under the ESPP on
January 1, 2019.
 
Stock Options
 
At
December 31, 2018
, the Company had outstanding stock options to purchase
4,535,681
shares of Common Stock. In the
nine
months ended
September 30, 2019
, the Company granted stock options to employees and consultants to purchase
1,461,715
shares of Common Stock with exercise prices ranging from
$1.45
to
$1.62
per share and cancelled options to purchase
91,813
shares of Common Stock due to the inactivity of service providers.
 
At
September 30, 2019
, the Company has outstanding stock options to purchase
5,905,583
shares of Common Stock that have been granted to various employees, vendors and independent contractors. These options can vest immediately or over periods ranging from
twelve
(
12
) to
forty-eight
(
48
) months, are exercisable for a period of
ten
(
10
) years, and enable the holders to purchase shares of our Common Stock at exercise prices ranging from
$0.001
-
$9.80
per share. The per-share fair values of these options range from
$0.001
to
$7.93,
based on Black-Scholes-Merton pricing models with the following assumptions:
 
Expected term:
10 years
Risk-free rate:
2.33% – 2.60%
Volatility:
76.87%
Dividend yield:
0%
 
The weighted average remaining contractual term for the outstanding options at 
September 30, 2019
 and 
December 31, 2018
 is
7.64
and
7.83
years, respectively.
Stock option activity for the
nine
months and year ended
September 30, 2019
and
December 31, 2018
, respectively, is as follows:
 
   
Number of
   
Weighted Avg.
 
   
Shares
   
Exercise Price
 
Outstanding at January 1, 2018
   
2,628,749
    $
1.31
 
Options granted
   
2,034,525
     
6.21
 
Options exercised
   
     
 
Options expired
   
(127,593
)    
 
Outstanding at December 31, 2018
   
4,535,681
    $
3.31
 
Options granted
   
1,461,715
     
1.60
 
Options exercised
   
     
 
Options expired or cancelled
   
(91,813
)    
 
Outstanding at September 30, 2019
   
5,905,583
    $
2.94
 
 
Share-Based Compensation
 
As of
December 31, 2018,
the Company’s total compensation cost related to nonvested time-based stock option awards granted to employees and board members and
not
yet recognized was approximately
$4.5
million. The Company expects to record this stock-based compensation expense over the next
three
years, in the amount of
$3.3
million with respect to stock option awards using a graded vesting method and
$1.2
million with respect to stock option awards using a cliff vesting method. As of
December 31, 2018,
the weighted average term over which these expenses are expected to be recognized are
2.34
years and
0.69
years, for stock options granted using a graded vesting method and a cliff vesting method respectively.

As of
December 31, 2018,
the Company’s total compensation cost related to nonvested performance-based stock option awards granted to an employee and 
not
yet recognized was approximately
$2.6
million. One-half of this amount, or
$1.3
million,
may
be recognized and recorded, upon the achievement of certain milestones, within
0.92
years from
December 31, 2018,
and the remaining
$1.3
million
may
be recognized and recorded within
2.42
years from
December 31, 2018.
 
In the
nine
months ended
September 30, 2019
, the Company's total share-based compensation was approximately
$2.9
million with approximately 
$2.5
million representing the vesting of options issued to service providers, employees, and board members.