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Collaborative Arrangements
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Jun. 30, 2025
Collaborative Arrangements  
Collaborative Arrangements

(15) Collaborative Arrangements

On February 27, 2025, the Company entered into a Collaboration Agreement (the “Collaboration Agreement”) with Quanta Computer Inc., a Taiwan corporation (“Quanta”). The term of the Collaboration Agreement is for five years, subject to cancellation under certain circumstances.

Pursuant to the Collaboration Agreement, during the five year period following February 27, 2025, the Company has agreed it will invest at least $250.0 million in the field of quantum computing, in furtherance of its product roadmap, and Quanta has agreed it will invest at least $250.0 million in the field of quantum computing, and the investment by Quanta will be towards personnel and capital expenditures for developing products and services and manufacturing capability in furtherance of the Company’s product roadmap. No equity or joint venture was formed under the Collaboration Agreement. Costs incurred by the Company under the Collaboration Agreement, consisting of its expenditures for research and development and related capital, will be accounted for in accordance with GAAP as incurred.

Under the Collaboration Agreement, the Company will retain all rights, title and ownership to all QPU Technology (as defined in the Collaboration Agreement) and related intellectual property (IP) rights created in the course of activities specified in a statement of work under the Collaboration Agreement. Other than the QPU Technology and IP rights described above, to the extent there is any jointly created, invented or other developed technology in the course of the performance of activities specified in a statement of work under the Collaboration Agreement, the Company and Quanta will jointly own, and each party will hold a one-half undivided interest in, all such joint project technology and all newly-created or newly-arising IP rights with respect thereto.

In connection with the Collaboration Agreement, on February 27, 2025, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with Quanta, pursuant to which the Company agreed to sell and issue to Quanta in a private placement transaction 3,020,412 shares of its Common Stock at a price per share of approximately $11.59, for an aggregate value of approximately $35.0 million. The price per share was based on the volume weighted-average price of the Company’s Common Stock for the 15 trading days prior to February 27, 2025. The private placement transaction, which was subject to regulatory clearance, closed on April 29, 2025. In connection with the private placement transaction, Quanta entered into a board observer and confidentiality agreement under which it has the option and right to appoint a single representative to attend certain meetings of the board of directors of the Company, subject to exceptions, in a non-voting observer capacity. The securities purchase agreement also contains a lock-up provision prohibiting Quanta from selling any of the shares of the Company’s Common Stock acquired in the securities purchase agreement for a three year period following the closing of the private placement transaction.