Preferred Stock and Stockholders' Equity (Deficit)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Equity [Abstract]

Preferred Stock and Stockholders' Equity (Deficit)

12. Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Equity (Deficit)

On April 26, 2006, the date of the Company’s annual stockholders meeting that year, the shareholders approved the adoption of an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to which the Company has 280,000,000 shares of authorized capital stock, of which 250,000,000 shares are designated as common stock (par value $0.001 per share), and 30,000,000 shares are designated as preferred stock (par value $0.001 per share).

Common Stock

The Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation authorizes it to issue 250,000,000 shares of common stock. As of February 24, 2021, there were 214,667,023 shares of common stock outstanding and an additional 31,115,329 shares of common stock reserved for issuance pursuant to outstanding stock options and warrants. Though the Company has no immediate plans to issue additional shares of common stock, other than in connection with its 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, it may need additional shares for business and financial purposes in the future.

February 2020 Public Offering

On February 5, 2020, the Company entered into an underwriting agreement with Jefferies, as representative of the several underwriters named therein, relating to the issuance and sale of 27,826,086 shares of its common stock. The price to the public in the offering was $3.25 per share, and the underwriters agreed to purchase the shares from the Company pursuant to the underwriting agreement at a purchase price of $3.055 per share. Under the terms of the underwriting agreement, the Company also granted the underwriters an option, exercisable for 30 days, to purchase up to an additional 4,173,912 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $3.055 per share. The offering was made pursuant to the Company’s effective registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File No. 333-232283) previously filed with the SEC, and a prospectus supplement thereunder. The underwriters purchased the 27,826,086 shares on February 5, 2020. The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $84.8 million after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses paid by the Company. On March 10, 2020, the underwriters exercised their option to purchase an additional 1,284,025 shares. The net proceeds were approximately $3.9 million after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses paid by the Company.

At-the-Market Offering

During the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company sold an aggregate of 2,814,673 shares of common stock. The offering was made pursuant to the Company’s effective registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File 333-232283) previously filed with the SEC, and a prospectus supplement thereunder. The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $13.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses payable by the Company.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company sold an aggregate of 1,271,274 shares of common stock. The offering was made pursuant to the Company’s effective registration statement on Form S-3ASR (File 333-232283) previously filed with the SEC, and a prospectus supplement thereunder. The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $6.1 million after deducting underwriting discounts and offering expenses payable by the Company.

November 2018 Private Placement and 2019 Inducement Warrants

On November 11, 2018, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional and accredited investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell to the Investors an aggregate of 18,939,394 immediately separable units, with each unit being composed of (i) one share of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and (ii) a warrant to purchase one share of common stock, at a price per unit of $2.64, for net proceeds of approximately $47.1 million (Note 10). 

Preferred Stock

The Company’s Board of Directors are authorized to designate any series of Preferred Stock, to fix and determine the variations in relative rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions as between and among such series.

On June 29, 2016, the Company entered into amendments to certain agreements with Precigen (now PGEN) (Note 7). In consideration for the execution and delivery of these amendments, the Company issued to Precigen 100,000 shares of its newly designated Series 1 preferred stock. Each share of the Company’s Series 1 preferred stock had a stated value of $1,200, subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of any stock dividend, stock split, combination or other recapitalization. The Series 1 preferred stock had certain rights, preferences, privileges and obligations, including dividend rights, conversion rights, consent rights with respect to certain Company actions, and rights to preferential payments in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company or a change of control or sale, lease, transfer or exclusive license of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets prior to the conversion of the Series 1 preferred stock.

On October 5, 2018, the Company and PGEN entered into the License Agreement to replace all existing agreements between the companies, which provides the Company with certain exclusive and non-exclusive rights to technology controlled by PGEN. In consideration of the Company entering into the License Agreement, Precigen forfeited and returned to the Company all shares of the Company’s Series 1 preferred stock held by or payable to Precigen as of the date of the License Agreement (Notes 7 and 9).