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Equity Offerings

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2023

Note 12. Equity Offerings

Public Offering

On February 8, 2022, the Company completed the Offering in which it issued and sold (i) 190,700 shares of common stock, (ii) 480,052 warrants to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $25.00 that were immediately exercisable and expire one year from the date of issuance, or Series A warrants, and (iii) 480,052 warrants to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $25.00 that were immediately exercisable and expire seven years from the date of issuance, or Series B warrants, and (iv) 289,352 pre-funded warrants to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.005 per share that were immediately exercisable and expire twenty years from the date of issuance. In addition, the Company granted the underwriters of the Offering a 45-day option (the “Overallotment Option”) to purchase up to (i) 72,000 additional shares of common stock, (ii) 72,000 additional Series A warrants and/or (iii) 72,000 additional Series B warrants, solely to cover overallotments.

The Series A warrants and Series B warrants were valued at approximately $11.6 million using the Black-Scholes model based on the following assumptions:

	Series A			Series B
Risk-free interest rate		0.9	%		1.9	%
Volatility		131.1	%		85.4	%
Expected dividend yield		0.0	%		0.0	%
Expected life (in years)		1.0			7.0

Pursuant to the exercise of the Overallotment Option in February 2022, the Company issued 24,902 shares of common stock, 72,000 Series A warrants and 72,000 Series B warrants, net of underwriting discounts. On various dates in February 2022 and March 2022, the Company issued 289,352 shares of common stock upon the exercise of all of the pre-funded warrants issued in the Offering. In addition, in March 2022, the Company issued 1,000 shares of common stock in connection with the exercise of 500 each of Series A warrants and Series B warrants issued in the Offering. In July 2022, the Company issued 800 shares of common stock in connection with the exercise of 800 Series A warrants issued in the Offering.

Net proceeds received from the Offering were approximately $11.5 million, after deducting underwriter commissions and fees withheld of approximately $1.1 million. In addition, the Company incurred offering expenses paid or payable of $1.8 million.

The Company entered into an agreement with a former placement agent that, subject to satisfaction of the requirements contained therein, called for a cash tail fee payable based on capital raised from certain investors for a definitive time following the expiration of the agreement. The accrued cash tail fee of approximately $0.9 million related to the Offering is included in accrued expenses in the condensed consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2022 and September 30, 2023. Additionally, the agreement called for the issuance of a warrant to purchase approximately 33,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $31.25 per share. Such warrant would be immediately exercisable and expire five years from the date issued. This warrant was originally valued at approximately $0.4 million on the date of the Offering using the Black-Scholes model based on the following assumptions: expected volatility of 93.25%, risk-free interest rate of 1.81%, expected dividend yield of 0% and an expected term of 5 years. On the date of the Warrant Repricing, this warrant was revalued at approximately $0.4 million using the Black-Scholes model based on the following assumptions: expected volatility of 98.9%, risk-free interest rate of 2.87%, expected dividend yield of 0% and an expected term of 4.6 years. This warrant has not been issued by the Company as of the date of this Quarterly Report.

Warrant Inducement Offer

On January 9, 2023, the Company reduced the exercise price of certain existing warrants (the “Existing Warrants”), exercisable for 331,608 shares of the Company’s common stock held by a certain investor (the “Investor”), with exercise prices ranging from $14.00 to $526.50 per share to $4.00 per share (the “Warrant Repricing”). In connection with the Warrant Repricing, the Company entered into a warrant inducement offer letter (the “Inducement Letter”), with the Investor pursuant to which it would exercise up to all of the 331,608 Existing Warrants (the “Inducement Offer”). In consideration for exercising the Existing Warrants pursuant to the terms of the Inducement Letter, the Company received approximately $1.3 million in gross proceeds. The Company paid the placement agent aggregate cash fees of approximately $0.2 million related to the Inducement Offer which represented 8.0% of the gross proceeds received from the Inducement Offer plus other offering costs resulting in net proceeds to the Company of $1.1 million. In consideration for exercising the Existing Warrants pursuant to the terms of the Inducement Letter, the Company issued the Investor a new Series E common stock purchase warrant, or Series E Warrant (the “Series E Warrant”), to purchase 331,608 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $4.00 per share. The Series E Warrant is exercisable for five years from the date of stockholder approval. Exercise of the Series E Warrant in full was subject to approval of the pre-closing holders of the Company’s stockholders which was obtained at the Stockholders’ Meeting. The incremental fair value of the repriced warrants amounted to $0.3 million and the fair value of Series E warrant totaled $1.9 million. The relative fair value of such amounts were recorded to additional paid-in capital concurrent with the exercise of the Existing Warrants.

As a result of the Warrant Repricing and Inducement Offer, the Company presents a deemed dividend for the modification of Existing Warrants and issuance of the Series E Warrants of $0 and $0.8 million during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, respectively. The deemed divided was included in net loss attributable to common stockholders in the calculation of net loss per share in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.

As of September 30, 2023, the Company had 11,042,151 shares of common stock reserved for issuance pursuant to the warrants issued by the Company at a weighted average exercise price of $5.31.

Private Placement

On January 9, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“Securities Purchase Agreement”) for a private placement (“Private Placement”), with the Investor. Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Investor agreed to purchase, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $8.0 million, (a) Class A units at a price that is the lower of $3.00 per unit and 90% of the 5 day volume weighted average price of the Company’s common stock immediately prior to obtainment of the approval of the Company’s stockholders of conversion of the PIPE Preferred Stock and PIPE Warrants (as each are defined below), each consisting of one share of common stock, one Series F common stock purchase warrant, or Series F Warrant, and one Series G common stock purchase warrant, or Series G Warrant, and together with the Series F Warrants (the “PIPE Warrants”) and (b) Class B units at a price of $1,000 per unit, each consisting of one share of a new series of the Company’s preferred stock, designated as Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (the “PIPE Preferred Stock”), par value $0.0001, and one Series F Warrant and one Series G Warrant for each share of the Company’s common stock underlying the PIPE Preferred Stock (each share of which is convertible into a number of shares of the Company’s common stock equal to $1,000 divided by the lower of $3.00 and 90% of the 5 day volume weighted average closing price of the Company’s common stock immediately prior to the obtainment of the approval of the Company’s stockholders of conversion of the PIPE Preferred Stock and PIPE Warrants, or the Preferred Conversion Rate. The closing under the Securities Purchase Agreement and the sale and issuance of the Class A units and Class B units (and the issuance of any underlying common stock) were approved at the Stockholders’ Meeting. At the closing of the Private Placement, the Company issued 497,908 Class A units for proceeds of approximately $0.9 million and 7,203 Class B units for proceeds of approximately $7.1 million which are convertible into up to 4,501,060 shares of common stock, as well as the issuance of warrants described below.

The PIPE Warrants, including Series F warrants and Series G warrants, are exercisable at an exercise price of $3.00 per share, subject to adjustments as provided under the terms of the PIPE Warrants. The PIPE Warrants are exercisable at any time on or after the closing date of the Private Placement until the expiration thereof, except that the PIPE Warrants cannot be exercised if, after giving effect thereto, the purchaser would beneficially own more than 4.99%, or the Maximum Percentage, of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company, which Maximum Percentage may be increased or decreased by the purchaser with written notice to the Company to any other percentage specified not in excess of 9.99%. The Series F Warrants have a term of two years from the date of stockholder approval, and the Series G Warrants have a term of six years from the date of stockholder approval. The Series F Warrants and Series G Warrants were approved at the Stockholders’ Meeting.

The Series F warrants and Series G warrants were valued in aggregate at approximately $5.5 million using the Black-Scholes model based on the following assumptions:

	Series F			Series G
Risk-free interest rate		3.8	%		3.4	%
Volatility		80.0	%		74.0	%
Expected dividend yield		0.0	%		0.0	%
Expected life (in years)		2.0			6.0

The proceeds from the Securities Purchase Agreement were allocated to the equity instruments issued based on their relative fair values and recorded in additional paid-in capital.

Shares of PIPE Preferred Stock, the conversion of which was approved at the Stockholders’ Meeting, convert into common stock at the option of the holder at the Preferred Conversion Rate, subject to certain ownership limitations as described below. The conversion price is subject to adjustment in the case of stock splits, stock dividends, combinations of shares and similar recapitalization transactions.

Subject to limited exceptions, holders of shares of PIPE Preferred Stock will not have the right to convert any portion of their Preferred Stock if the holder, together with its affiliates, would beneficially own in excess of 4.99% (or up to 9.99% at the election of the holder) of the number of shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to its conversion.

Holders of PIPE Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive dividends on shares of PIPE Preferred Stock equal, on an as-if-converted-to-common stock basis, and in the same form as dividends actually paid on shares of the common stock. Except as otherwise required by law, the PIPE Preferred Stock does not have voting rights.

The Company also entered into a registration rights agreement with the purchasers requiring the Company to register the resale of the shares of common stock, the shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants and the shares issuable upon the conversion of the PIPE Preferred Stock.

Issuance of Securities in Private Placement

On July 5, 2023 the Company issued 1,093,552 shares of its common stock in connection with the conversion of 1,750 shares of its outstanding Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. The shares were issued in connection with two separate conversions of 875 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock into 546,776 shares of common stock that occurred on July 3, 2023. Each share of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is convertible into approximately 625 shares of common stock. The common stock was issued pursuant to the exemption contained in Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), which applies to transactions in which a security is exchanged by an issuer with its existing security holders exclusively where no commission or other remuneration is paid or given directly or indirectly for soliciting such exchange. The shares issued have been registered for resale on an effective registration statement on Form S-3.

On July 24, 2023, the Company issued 546,776 shares of its common stock in connection with the conversion of 875 shares of its outstanding Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. The common stock was issued pursuant to the exemption contained in Section 3(a)(9) of the Act, which applies to transactions in which a security is exchanged by an issuer with its existing security holders exclusively where no commission or other remuneration is paid or given directly or indirectly for soliciting such exchange. The shares issued have been registered for resale on an effective registration statement on Form S-3.