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Equity | 10. Equity On February 21, 2024, the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) with certain institutional accredited investors (the “Investors”), pursuant to which the Company issued and sold to the Investors in a private placement an aggregate of 32,413,560 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Shares”), at a price of $7.52 per share, and, to certain Investors in lieu of Shares, pre-funded warrants to purchase 10,805,957 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”), at a price of $7.519 per Pre-Funded Warrant (the “2024 Private Placement”). Each Pre-Funded Warrant issued in the 2024 Private Placement has an exercise price of $0.001 per share, is currently exercisable and will remain exercisable until the Pre-Funded Warrant is exercised in full. The 2024 Private Placement closed on February 26, 2024. The Company received total net proceeds from the 2024 Private Placement of approximately $316,353 after deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses. The Company accounts for the Pre-Funded Warrants as a component of permanent equity. In connection with entering into the Securities Purchase Agreement, also on February 21, 2024, the Company entered into a registration rights agreement with the Investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to register for resale the Shares and the shares of the Company’s common stock issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants (together with the Shares, the “Registrable Securities”). The Company filed a registration statement regarding the Registrable Securities on Form S-3 with the SEC on March 25, 2024. On March 28, 2024, the Company issued 5,769,232 shares of its common stock to the holder of the Convertible Notes in connection with the Conversion. The newly issued shares of common stock were valued at fair value, being the closing price of the Company’s common stock on that day, and resulted in an increase in additional paid-in capital of $52,499. On August 9, 2021, the Company and Jefferies LLC (“Jefferies”) entered into an Open Market Sale Agreement (the “2021 Sales Agreement”) under which the Company may offer and sell shares of its common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $100,000 from time to time through Jefferies, acting as agent. The Company did not offer or sell shares of its common stock under the 2021 Sales Agreement during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. |