Quarterly report [Sections 13 or 15(d)]

Equity Securities

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Equity Securities
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Equity [Abstract]  
Equity Securities

4. Equity Securities

 

A summary of the Company’s equity securities as of June 30, 2025, is as follows:

 

Description   Authorized     Issued     Abeyance     Reserved     Outstanding  
Common Stock, par value $0.0001     250,000,000       637,757       388,700       -       637,757  
Preferred Stock     10,000,000       -       -       -       -  
Warrants     -       1,238,949       -       -       1,238,949  
2021 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan     -       20,568       -       13       20,477  
Total equity securities     260,000,000       1,897,274       388,700       13       1,897,183  

 

 

Common Stock

 

On March 27, 2025, the Company entered into an inducement offer letter agreement (the “March 2025 Inducement Letter”) with a holder (the “Holder”) of certain of its existing warrants to purchase an aggregate of 483,447 shares of the Company’s common stock. Such existing warrants were made up of (i) certain of the May 17, 2024 (the “May 2024 Warrants”), which were issued in two separate series, having an exercise price of $49.10 per share, and (ii) the September 16, 2024, which were issued in two separate series, having an exercise price of $15.80 per share (the “September 2024 Warrants” and together with the May 2024 Warrants, the “Existing Warrants”). Pursuant to the March 2025 Inducement Letter, the Holder agreed to exercise for cash its Existing Warrants at a reduced exercise price of $12.84 per share in consideration for the Company’s agreement to issue in a private placement (i) new Series A common stock purchase warrants (the “New Series A Warrants”) to purchase up to 498,080 shares of Common Stock (the “New Series A Warrant Shares”) and (ii) new Series B common stock purchase warrants (the “New Series B Warrants” and together with the New Series A Warrants, the “New Warrants”) to purchase up to 468,813 shares of Common Stock (the “New Series B Warrant Shares” and together with the New Series A Warrant Shares, the “New Warrant Shares”). The New Warrants were exercisable subject to stockholder approval, which the Company received at a stockholder meeting on July 15, 2025. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $5.7 million from the exercise of the Existing Warrants by the Holder, after deducting financial advisor fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company. As of June 30, 2025, the Holder has received 94,747 Common Shares, with the balance of 388,700 shares held in abeyance, to be released to the Holder at the Holder’s request.

 

On January 21, 2025, the Company closed a private placement (the “January 2025 PIPE”) priced at the market under Nasdaq rules, in which it sold 193,539 shares of Common Stock, pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of 7,246 shares of Common Stock with an exercise price of $0.01 per share (“January 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants”), and 200,785 warrants (the “January 2025 PIPE Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 200,785 shares of Common Stock. The January 2025 PIPE Warrants have an exercise price of $12.70. Certain Company insiders, including the Company’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and certain members of the Company’s board of directors, participated in the January 2025 PIPE. These Company insiders purchased an aggregate of 122,047 shares of Common Stock and January 2025 PIPE Warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 122,047 shares of Common Stock, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1,550,000. The purchase price per share of Common Stock and accompanying January 2025 PIPE Warrant for these Company insiders was the same as paid by other investors in the January 2025 PIPE. The January 2025 Warrants were exercisable subject to stockholder approval, which the Company received at a stockholder meeting on July 15, 2025. In connection with the January 2025 PIPE, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the investor, pursuant to which the Company agreed to prepare and file a registration statement with the SEC registering the resale of the shares of Common Stock underlying the securities sold in the January 2025 PIPE financing. The Company filed a Form S-3 on January 30, 2025, which was declared effective by the SEC on February 5, 2025. The Company received net cash proceeds of approximately $2.2 million from the January 2025 PIPE after deducting underwriters’ discounts and offering expenses of approximately $0.4 million. During the first quarter of 2025, all of the January 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants were exercised. As of June 30, 2025, no January 2025 Pre-Funded Warrants remained outstanding.

 

On September 17, 2024, the Company closed a private placement (the “September 2024 PIPE”) priced at the market under Nasdaq rules, in which it sold 191,256 pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 191,256 shares of Common Stock with an exercise price of $0.01 per share (the “September 2024 Pre-Funded Warrants”), and 191,256 series A warrants (the “September 2024 PIPE Series A Common Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 191,256 shares of Common Stock and 191,256 series B warrants (the “September 2024 PIPE Series B Common Warrants” and together with the September 2024 PIPE Series A Warrants, the “September 2024 PIPE Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 191,256 shares of Common Stock. The September 2024 PIPE Warrants have an exercise price of $15.80. In connection with the September 2024 PIPE, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the investor, pursuant to which the Company agreed to prepare and file a registration statement with the SEC registering the resale of the shares of Common Stock underlying the securities sold in the September 2024 PIPE financing. The Company filed a Form S-3 on September 19, 2024, which was declared effective by the SEC on September 24, 2024. The Company received net cash proceeds of approximately $3.1 million from the September 2024 PIPE after deducting underwriters’ discounts and offering expenses of approximately $0.4 million. As of December 31, 2024, 90,500 September 2024 Pre-Funded Warrants remained outstanding, which were exercised during the first quarter of 2025. As of June 30, 2025, no September 2024 Pre-Funded Warrants remained outstanding.

 

 

In June 2024, the Company entered into an At The Market Offering Agreement (the “ATM Agreement”) with a sales agent (the “Sales Agent”), providing for the sale of up to $1,157,761 of its shares of Common Stock as set forth in the ATM Agreement. The Sales Agent will be entitled to compensation at a fixed commission rate of 3.0% of the gross sales price of the shares of Common Stock sold pursuant to the ATM Agreement, as well as other transactional fees. During July 2024, the Company issued 35,580 shares of Common Stock under the ATM Agreement resulting in gross proceeds of $1,157,248 before deducting issuance costs. After issuance of the 35,580 shares during July 2024, $513 remained registered under the ATM Agreement. On August 2, 2024, the Company increased the maximum aggregate offering amount of Common Stock issuable under the ATM Agreement by $505,000, from $1,157,761 to $1,662,761. During September 2024, the Company issued 19,421 shares of Common Stock under the ATM Agreement resulting in additional gross proceeds of $504,894 before deducting issuance costs. During 2024, the Company issued a total of 55,001 shares from its ATM resulting in net proceeds of $1.5 million after deducting issuer costs and other expenses related to setting up and issuing shares from the Company’s ATM. As of June 30, 2025, the Company does not have any remaining capacity under its ATM Agreement.

 

On May 21, 2024, the Company closed on inducement agreements (the “May 2024 Inducement”) with certain holders (the “Holders”) of certain of the Company’s existing warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 51,632 shares of the Company’s Common Stock, issued to the Holders on (i) May 26, 2023 (the “May 2023 Warrants”), having an exercise price of $324.00 per share, and (ii) November 2023 New Warrants (as defined below), which were issued in two separate series, each having an exercise price of $97.67 per share (together with the May 2023 Warrants, the “May 2024 Existing Warrants”). Pursuant to the May 2024 Inducement, the Holders agreed to exercise for cash their May 2024 Existing Warrants at a reduced exercise price of $51.60 per share in consideration for the Company’s agreement to issue in a private placement (i) new Series A Common Stock purchase warrants (the “New May 2024 Series A Warrants”) to purchase up to 60,117 shares of Common Stock, and (ii) new Series B Common Stock purchase warrants (the “New May 2024 Series B Warrants” and together with the New May 2024 Series A Warrants, the “New May 2024 Warrants”) to purchase up to 43,149 shares of Common Stock. The Company received net proceeds of approximately $2.3 million from the exercise of the May 2024 Existing Warrants by the Holders, after deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses payable by the Company.

 

Related to the May 2024 Inducement, during July 2024, the balance of 26,700 abeyance shares related to the May 2024 Warrant Inducement were released to the investor, leaving no further abeyance shares outstanding as of December 31, 2024.

 

Preferred Stock

 

While the Company has 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock authorized with a par value of $0.0001, no shares of preferred stock are issued or outstanding as of June 30, 2025, or December 31, 2024, respectively.

 

Warrants

 

Summary of Warrants Outstanding

 

The warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2025, are exercisable into 1,238,949 shares of Common Stock which had a fair value of $5.85 per share, based on the closing trading price on June 30, 2025. The aggregate intrinsic value of warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2025, is calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the warrants and the closing market price of the Company’s Common Stock on that date. The intrinsic value of warrants outstanding as of June 30, 2025, was zero.

 

   

Quantity of Warrants

Outstanding as of

           
Description   June 30, 2025     December 31, 2024     Exercise Price    

Expiration Date

Pre-IPO Series 1a Warrants     19       19     $ 49,200.00     11/15/2026
IPO Warrants     1,230       1,230       16,800.00     8/17/2026
IPO Underwriter Warrants     53       53       19,320.00     8/17/2026
March 2023 Offering Placement Agent Warrants     753       753       579.38     3/16/2028
May 2023 PIPE Placement Agent Warrants     371       371       428.45     5/23/2028
November 2023 Placement Agent Warrants     1,619       1,619       122.09     11/21/2028
May 2024 Series A Common Warrants     2,334       60,117       49.10     11/21/2029
May 2024 Series B Common Warrants     -       43,149       49.10     5/21/2026
May 2024 Placement Agent Warrants     3,613       3,613       64.50     11/21/2029
September 2024 PIPE Series A Common Warrants     -       191,256       15.80     3/18/2030
September 2024 PIPE Series B Common Warrants     -       191,256       15.80     3/17/2026
September 2024 PIPE Placement Agent Warrants     13,386       13,386       22.88     3/18/2030
January 2025 PIPE Warrants     200,785       -       12.70     7/15/2030
January 2025 PIPE Placement Agent Warrants     14,053       -       15.88     7/15/2030
March 2025 Warrant Inducement Series A Warrants     498,080       -       12.84     7/15/2030
March 2025 Warrant Inducement Series B Warrants     468,813       -       12.84     1/15/2027
March 2025 Warrant Inducement Placement Agent Warrants     33,840       -       16.05     7/15/2030
Total warrants outstanding     1,238,949       506,822              

 

 

Warrant Inducements

 

In March 2025, the Company entered into the March 2025 Inducement Letter with a Holder who agreed to exercise 483,447 warrants to purchase Common Stock at a reduced exercise price of $12.84 per share in exchange for 498,080 New Series A Warrants and 468,813 New Series B Warrants with an exercise price of $12.84 per share. The March 2025 Inducement Letter, which resulted in the lowering of the exercise price of the Existing Warrants and the issuance of the New Warrants, is considered a modification of the Existing Warrants under the guidance ASC 815-40. The modification is consistent with the equity issuance classification under that guidance as the reason for the modification was to induce the holders of the Existing Warrants to cash exercise their warrants, which raised equity capital and generated net proceeds of approximately $5.7 million. As the Existing Warrants and the New Warrants were classified as equity instruments before and after the exchange, and as the exchange is directly attributable to an equity offering, the Company recognized the effect of the modification of approximately $4.9 million as an equity issuance cost.

 

In May 2024, the Company completed the May 2024 Inducement with the Holders who agreed to exercise 51,632 warrants to purchase Common Stock at a reduced exercise price of $51.60 per share in exchange for 60,117 New May 2024 Series A Warrants and 43,149 New May 2024 Series B Warrants with an exercise price of $49.10 per share. The May 2024 Inducement, which resulted in the lowering of the exercise price of the May 2024 Existing Warrants and the issuance of the May 2024 New Warrants, is considered a modification of the May 2024 Existing Warrants under the guidance ASC 815-40. The modification is consistent with the equity issuance classification under that guidance as the reason for the modification was to induce the holders of the May 2024 Existing Warrants to cash exercise their warrants, which raised equity capital and generated net proceeds of approximately $2.3 million. As the May 2024 Existing Warrants and the May 2024 New Warrants were classified as equity instruments before and after the exchange, and as the exchange is directly attributable to an equity offering, the Company recognized the effect of the modification of approximately $1.5 million as an equity issuance cost.