April Securities Offering
On April 20, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with a certain institutional investor, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Investor in a registered direct offering (i) 291,395 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and (ii) pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of 509,300 shares of Common Stock. Each share of common stock was sold at a price of $3.07 per share and each Pre-funded Warrant was sold at an offering price of $3.069 per share underlying such Pre-funded Warrants, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2.5 million before deducting the placement agent’s fees and the offering expenses. The Company has been using the net proceeds of this offering to continue implementation of its growth strategies, for working capital and general corporate purposes. In addition, under the Purchase Agreement, the Company also agreed to issue and sell to the Investor in a concurrent private placement warrants to purchase an aggregate of 800,695 shares of common stock.
In connection with the Offering, the Company also agreed that certain existing warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 164,656 shares of Common Stock that were issued to the Investor, at an exercise price of $15.00 per share, were amended effective upon the closing of the Offering so that the amended warrants have an exercise price of $3.07.
The Company’s exclusive placement agent in connection with the Offering, Maxim Group LLC, received a cash fee equal to 7.0% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the sale of the securities in Offering, as well as reimbursement for certain expenses, and warrants to purchase up to 40,035 shares of Common Stock, which is equal to 5.0% of the aggregate amount of shares of Common Stock issued in the Offering, at an exercise price of $3.38 per share.
The offering closed April 24, 2023.
February Public Offering of Common Stock and Warrants
On February 8, 2023, the Company closed a public offering of 1,275,000 units, with each consisting of one share of its common stock, or one pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of its common stock, and one warrant to purchase one and one-half shares of its common stock. Each unit was sold at public offering price of $8.00. The warrants in the units are immediately exercisable at a price of $8.00 per share and expire five years from the date of issuance. Alternatively, each warrant can be exercised pursuant to the “alternative cashless exercise” provision, to which the holders would receive an aggregate number of shares of common stock equal the product of (x) the aggregate number of shares of common stock that would be issuable upon a cash exercise and (y) 0.50. For purposes of clarity, one common warrant to purchase one and one-half shares would be exercisable for 0.75 shares under this alternative cashless exercise provision. The shares of common stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) and accompanying warrants were only purchasable together in this offering but were issued separately and immediately separable upon issuance. As of September 30, 2023, warrants to purchase 1,674,376 shares of common stock have been exercised under the alternative cashless exercise for a total of 835,313 shares of common stock.
Gross proceeds, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, are approximately $10.2 million. The Company has been using the net proceeds of this offering to continue implementation of its growth strategies, for working capital and general corporate purposes.
The Company also granted the underwriters an option to purchase an additional 191,250 shares of common stock and/or additional warrants to purchase up to 286,875 shares of common stock, to cover over-allotments, of which Maxim Group LLC exercised its option to purchase additional warrants to purchase 286,875 shares of common stock.
(7) Warrants
On April 24, 2023, the Company completed a securities purchase offering in which three classes of warrants were issued. There were 800,695 common stock purchase warrants issued with an exercise price of $3.07. The common stock purchase warrants were valued at $1.5 million using the fair value approach at the time of issuance. The fair value of the common stock purchase warrants was determined using a Black Scholes option pricing model using a risk free rate of 3.558%, expected term of 5.5 years, expected dividends of zero and an expected volatility of 88.4%.