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Note 11. Equity Offerings
September 2024 Public Offering
On August 30, 2024, the Company entered into an Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. as representative (“Ladenburg”) of the underwriters named in the Underwriting Agreement (the “Underwriters”). Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Company completed a public offering of its securities on September 3, 2024 (the “September 2024 Public Offering”) and sold an aggregate of (i) 805,900 common stock Units and (ii) 2,773,000 Pre-Funded Warrant Units at a public offering price of $1.00 per common stock Unit and $0.9999 per Pre-Funded Warrant Unit. The Company collected gross proceeds of approximately $3.6 million before deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and offering expenses payable by the Company of $1.0 million, resulting in net proceeds of $2.6 million.
Each common stock Unit consisted of: (i) one share of the Company's common stock, (ii) a Series H Warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share that expired months from the date of issuance, (iii) a Series I Warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share that expires months from the date of issuance, and (iv) a Series J Warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share that expires years from the date of issuance.
Each Pre-Funded Warrant Unit consisted of: (i) one Pre-Funded Warrant to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.0001 per share with no expiration date, (ii) one Series H Warrant, (iii) one Series I Warrant (iv) and one Series J Warrant.
Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, the Company granted Ladenburg a 45-day Overallotment Option to purchase up to (i) 468,041 additional shares of common stock, (ii) 468,041 additional Series H Warrants, (iii) 468,041 additional Series I Warrants, and/or (iv) 468,041 additional Series J Warrants, solely to cover over-allotments. On August 30, 2024, the Underwriters partially exercised the Overallotment Option to purchase an additional 458,623 shares of common stock, 458,623 Series H Warrants, 458,623 Series I Warrants, and 458,623 Series J Warrants, or 458,623 common stock Units. The common stock Units issued through the exercise of the Overallotment Option are included in the 805,900 common stock Units noted above. The Overallotment Option expired on October 14, 2024.
Furthermore, at the closing date, the Company agreed to deliver to Ladenburg warrants to purchase an aggregate number of shares of common stock equal to 6% of the shares of common stock (i) issued in connection with the September 2024 Public Offering and (ii) issuable upon the exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants. Therefore, the Company issued 214,734 warrants to Ladenburg and its designees (the “Representative Warrants”). The Representative Warrants are part of the underwriter costs and commissions incurred in connection with the September 2024 Public Offering. The Representative Warrants may be exercised to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.55 per share and expire years from the date of issuance.
Each Series H Warrant, Series I Warrant, Series J Warrant (collectively, the “Series Warrants”), and Pre-Funded Warrant was immediately exercisable. The exercise price of the outstanding Series Warrants and Pre-Funded Warrants is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of recapitalization events, stock dividends, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications, reorganizations or similar events affecting the Company’s common stock. Subject to limited exceptions, a holder of the Series Warrants will not have the right to exercise any portion of its Series Warrants if the holder (together with such holder’s affiliates) would beneficially own a number of shares of common stock in excess of 4.99%, or in the case of certain holders 9.99%, of the shares of common stock then outstanding (the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”). Similarly, a holder of the Pre-Funded Warrants has a Beneficial Ownership Limitation of 9.99%. At the holder’s option, the holder of the Series Warrants may increase the beneficial ownership limitation to 19.99% of the shares of common stock then outstanding, with any such increase becoming effective upon 61 days’ prior notice to the Company.
The Representative Warrants became exercisable months after the effective date of the Registration Statement filed by the Company on August 29, 2024. The Representative Warrants further have a Beneficial Ownership Limitation of 4.99%, which may be increased to 9.99% of the shares of common stock then outstanding at the option of Ladenburg. Any increase in the Beneficial Ownership Limitation will become effective upon 61 days’ prior notice to the Company.
The Company assessed the Series Warrants, Pre-Funded Warrants, and Representative Warrants issued in connection with the September 2024 Public Offering (collectively, the “September 2024 Warrants”) and determined that they do not require liability classification pursuant to ASC 480. Furthermore, the September 2024 Warrants do not have any net cash settlement provisions that would preclude equity classification under ASC 815-40. Accordingly, the September 2024 Warrants were recorded to additional paid-in capital in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
All 2,773,090 Pre-Funded Warrant Units issued in the September 2024 Public Offering were exercised during 2024.
2024 Warrant Inducement Offer
On October 25, 2024, the Company executed the 2024 Warrant Inducement Offer with certain holders of the Company’s existing warrants (Series E, Series F, Series G, Series H and Series I Warrants, collectively the “2024 Existing Warrants”). Pursuant to the terms of the 2024 Warrant Inducement Offer, the Company agreed to lower the exercise price per share of common stock for all holders of the 2024 Existing Warrants, including those that did not participate in the 2024 Warrant Inducement Offer. The 2024 Existing Warrants had exercise prices ranging from $1.00 to $40.00 per share of common stock. Following the closing of the 2024 Warrant Inducement Offer, the Holders immediately exercised an aggregate of (i) 33,160.8 Series E Warrants, (ii) 499,909.34 Series F Warrants, (iii) 499,909.34 Series G Warrants, (iv) 1,990,000 Series H Warrants, and (v) 2,325,000 Series I Warrants to purchase 5,347,981 shares of common stock at a reduced exercise price of $0.70 per share. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds of $3.7 million in cash, prior to deducting placement agent fees and offering expense of $0.4 million.
In consideration for the immediate exercise of the 2024 Existing Warrants for cash, the Company issued unregistered new Series K common stock purchase warrants (“Series K Warrants”) to purchase up to 10,695,962 shares of common stock. The Series K Warrants have an exercise price of $0.70 per share of common stock, were not exercisable until stockholders approval was obtained (“Stockholder Approval”), and have a term of 5.5 years following Stockholder Approval. In addition, the exercise price of the Series K Warrants is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of recapitalization events, stock dividends, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications, reorganizations or similar events affecting the Company’s common stock. Stockholder Approval was obtained on January 13, 2025.
In connection with the closing, the Company issued Placement Agent Warrants to the Placement Agent to purchase up to 320,879 shares of common stock on the same terms as the Series K Warrants, except that the exercise price is $1.085 per share and the warrants are exercisable months after the date of issuance.
As a result of the 2024 Warrant Inducement Offer, the Company recorded a deemed dividend for the modification of the 2024 Existing Warrants and issuance of the Series K Warrants of $5.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. Furthermore, the Company assessed the Series K Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants and determined that they do not require liability classification pursuant to ASC 480. The Series K Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants do not have any net cash settlement provisions that would preclude equity classification under ASC 815-40. Accordingly, the Series K Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants were recorded to additional paid-in capital in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Pursuant to the terms of the 2024 Warrant Inducement Offer, in the event that the exercise of the 2024 Existing Warrants would cause a holder to exceed the beneficial ownership limitations included therein, the Company would issue the number of shares of common stock that would not cause a holder to exceed such beneficial ownership limitations and hold the remaining balance of shares of common stock in abeyance (the "Abeyance Shares"). The Abeyance Shares were evidenced through the holder’s existing warrants, which are deemed to be prepaid. The Abeyance Shares were held by the Company until the holder sent notice that the remaining balance of shares of common stock could be issued without surpassing the beneficial ownership limitations.
During the three and six months ended June 30, 2025, the Company released and issued the remaining balance of 2,157,000 and 3,096,000 Abeyance Shares, respectively. Accordingly, the Company held no shares of common stock in abeyance as of June 30, 2025.
May 2025
PIPE Financing
On
May 12, 2025, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (“Securities Purchase Agreement”) for a private placement with
three institutional investors (
“May 2025 PIPE Financing”). Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, the Company sold an aggregate of (i)
1,500 PIPE Units and (ii)
1,500 additional shares of a new series of the Company’s preferred stock, designated Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, par value
$0.0001 per share. Each PIPE Unit consisted of: (i)
one share of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and (ii) Series L common stock purchase warrants ("Series L Warrants") to purchase approximately
2,858 shares of common stock at an exercise price of
$0.50 per share. As consideration for the PIPE Units and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, the Company collected gross proceeds of
$1.5 million in cash and the QHSLab Notes, which had an initial fair value of
$864 thousand as of the closing date, previously held by
one of the investors, before deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses of
$0.4 million (collectively, the “Placement Agent Fees”).
The Series L Warrants were
not exercisable until stockholders' approval was obtained ("Stockholder Approval"), and expire
5.5 years thereafter. Each Series L Warrant is exercisable into
one share of the Company's common stock and
may be cashlessly exercised under certain circumstances. The exercise price of the Series L Warrants is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of recapitalization events, stock dividends, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications, reorganizations or similar events affecting the Company’s common stock. The Series L Warrants are callable by the Company
per share if the volume‑weighted average price of the Company’s common stock for
20 consecutive trading days
per share and the Series L Warrants have
not been exercised. Stockholder approval was obtained on
July 25, 2025.
In the event of certain transactions resulting in a change in control, at the option of the holder, the Company shall repurchase the Series L Warrants for an amount of cash equal to the Black Scholes Value of the unexercised portion of the Series L Warrants. However, if the change of control is not within the Company’s control, then the holders shall receive the same type of consideration offered to the Company’s common stockholders at the Black Scholes Value of the unexercised portion of the Series L Warrant. If the Company’s common stockholders can choose the type of consideration (i.e., cash, stock, or other assets) to be received, then the Holders shall have the same choice. If the Company’s common stockholders do not receive any consideration, they are deemed to receive common stock of the successor entity.
In the event of certain restructuring or disposal events, then upon the subsequent exercise of the Series L Warrants, for each share of common stock that would have been issuable upon exercise immediately prior to the event, the holders shall receive the number of shares of common stock of the successor entity and any alternate consideration given to common stockholders. The exercise price shall be adjusted to apply to such alternate consideration based on the amount of alternate consideration issuable for one share of common stock. If holders of common stock are given any choice as to the securities, cash or property to be received for alternate consideration, then the holder shall be given the same choice.
Subject to limited exceptions, the holders of Series L Warrants, will not have the right to exercise any portion of the warrant if the holder (together with such holder’s affiliates) would beneficially own a number of shares of common stock in excess of 4.99% of the shares of common stock then outstanding (the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”). At the holder’s option, the holder may increase the Beneficial Ownership Limitation to 9.99% of the shares of common stock then outstanding, with any such increase becoming effective upon 61 days’ prior notice to the Company.
In connection with the
May 2025 PIPE Financing, the Company also issued Placement Agent Warrants to purchase an aggregate of
257,143 shares of common stock at an exercise price of
$0.5425 per share to the Placement Agent. The Placement Agent Warrants terminate
5 years from the date of issuance. The Placement Agent Warrants are
not callable by the Company. Except for the exercise price, contract term, call option, and change in control provision, the Placement Agent Warrants have the same terms and conditions as the Series L Warrants.
The Company assessed the Series L Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants issued in connection with the May 2025 PIPE Financing and determined that they do not require liability classification pursuant to ASC 480. Furthermore, the Series L Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants do not have any net cash settlement provisions that would preclude equity classification under ASC 815-40. Accordingly, the Series L Warrants and Placement Agent Warrants were recorded to additional paid-in capital in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
See Note 12, Preferred Stock for additional information on the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock issued by the Company in connection with the May 2025 PIPE Financing.
In addition, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the investors requiring the Company to register for resale the shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and Series L Warrants. Failure to timely maintain the registration shall lead to an obligation to pay to the investors cash liquidated damages equal to 2% of each investor’s subscription amount for then outstanding securities for every 30-day period the lapse continues, with unpaid amounts accruing interest at 18% per annum after a specified grace period.
On May 21, 2025, the Company filed the registration statement on Form S-3 for the resale of shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock and Series L Warrants, and it was declared effective on May 30, 2025. It is not probable that the Company will be obligated to make payments under the registration rights agreement as of June 30, 2025.
At the Market Offering Agreement
On
May 19, 2025, the Company entered into an At Market Offering Agreement (the “ ATM Agreement”) with Ladenburg. Under the ATM Agreement, the Company
may offer and sell up to
$1.3 million of shares of common stock, par value
$0.0001 per share, through Ladenburg. On
June 13, 2025, the Company filed a prospectus supplement increasing the aggregate amount available to be sold to
$3.2 million under the ATM (the “Shares”). The Shares have been and will continue to be issued pursuant to the Company’s previously filed and effective Registration Statement on Form S-
3 (File
No.
333-
284217), which was initially filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
January 10, 2025 and declared effective on
January 22, 2025.
The Company has no obligation to sell, and Ladenburg is not obligated to buy or sell, any of the Shares under the ATM Agreement and may at any time suspend offers under the ATM Agreement. The ATM Agreement will terminate upon the earlier of (i) the issuance and sale of all of the shares through Ladenburg on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the ATM Agreement or (ii) termination of the ATM Agreement as otherwise permitted thereby. The ATM Agreement may be terminated at any time by either party upon five (5) business days’ prior notice, or by Ladenburg at any time in certain circumstances, including the occurrence of a material adverse effect on the Company.
The Company has agreed to pay Ladenburg a commission equal to
3.0% of the aggregate gross proceeds from sale of its shares of common stock.
As of
June 30, 2025,
4,183,589 shares of common stock had been sold under the ATM Agreement for gross proceeds of
$1.7 million before deduction of commission and offering expenses of
$0.2 million.
Warrants
The following table presents the number of common stock warrants outstanding:
As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, all warrants outstanding are recorded in additional paid-in capital in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The following table presents the number and type of common stock purchase warrants outstanding, their exercise price, and expiration dates as of June 30, 2025:
As of June 30, 2025, the warrants issued by the Company had a weighted average exercise price of $1.66.
Placement Fees
In connection with offerings completed by the Company in
2022, (the
"2022 Offerings"), the Company entered into an agreement with a placement agent that, subject to satisfaction of the requirements contained therein, called for a placement fee payable based on capital raised from certain investors for a definitive time following the expiration of the agreement. The accrued placement fee of approximat
ely $1.4 million r
elated to the
2022 Offerings is included in accrued expenses in the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of
June 30, 2025 and
December 31, 2024. Additionally, the agreement called for the issuance of warrants with the following terms:
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