Stockholders' Equity

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2021

Equity [Abstract]

Stockholders' Equity

Note 12. Stockholders’ Equity

At-the-Market Equity Offerings:

2021 ATM Offering

For the period August 31, 2021 to September 30, 2021, in connection with the At-the-Market Sales Agreement between the Company and its sales agent, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co., B. Riley FBR, Inc., BTIG, LLC, Compass Point Research & Trading, LLC and Roth Capital Partners, LLC (the “Sales Agents”) the Company received gross proceeds of approximately $35.7 million ($34.8 million, net of $0.9 million in commissions and expenses) from the sale of 1,227,991 shares of common stock, with an average fair value of $29.07 per share, in the 2021 ATM Offering.

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Notes to the Condensed Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

(Unaudited)

December 2020 ATM Offering

During January 2021, in connection with the Second Amendment to the At-the-Market Sales Agreement between the Company and its sales agent, H.C. Wainwright, the Company received gross proceeds of approximately $84.8 million ($82.7 million, net of $2.1 million in expenses) from the sale of 4,433,468 shares of common stock, with an average fair value of $19.13 per share, in the December 2020 ATM Offering. With the sale and issuance of these shares, all $200 million in shares of the Company’s common stock registered under the December 2020 Registration Statement had been issued and the Company completed the December 2020 ATM Offering. Under the terms of the December 2020 ATM Offering, the Company only issued shares of its common stock.

Common Stock:

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company issued 11,800,000 shares of its common stock in connection with its acquisition of Whinstone. See Note 4, “Acquisitions”.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, 316,920 shares of common stock were issued to members of the Company’s board of directors, officers, employees and advisors of the Company in settlement of an equal number of fully vested restricted stock units awarded to such individuals by the Company pursuant to grants made under the Company’s 2019 Equity Plan, as amended (the “2019 Equity Plan”). The Company withheld 56,649 of these shares, at a fair value of approximately $1.8 million, to cover the withholding taxes related to the settlement of these vested restricted stock units, as permitted by the 2019 Equity Plan.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company issued 415,657 shares of its common stock in connection with the exercise of 415,657 common stock warrants issued to investors in connection with the Company’s January 2019 private placement transaction, for net proceeds of approximately $0.8 million.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, the Company issued 543,686 shares of its common stock in connection with the cashless exercise of warrants to purchase 1,257,235 shares of common stock, which were issued to investors in connection with private placement transactions in December 2017.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2021, 2,000 shares of the Company’s Series B preferred stock were converted into 2,000 shares of its common stock, leaving 2,199 shares outstanding.