8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 9, 2023

TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware	001-36818	34-2037594
(State or other jurisdiction	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)
of incorporation)
4350 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 800 San Diego, California		92122
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (858) 550-0780 ____________________________________________________________________________

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Act:

Title of each class	Trading symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share	TCON	The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).             Emerging growth company ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

On March 9, 2023, TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Opaleye L.P. (the “Purchaser”) pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell 174,508 shares (the “Shares”) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of 2,013,999 shares of Common Stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants” and together with the Shares, the “Securities”) in a private placement (the “Private Placement”). The Pre-Funded Warrants are being issued in lieu of additional Shares to result in the Purchaser, together with its affiliates, beneficially owning no more than 19.99% of the outstanding Common Stock immediately following the Private Placement, subject to approval of the Company’s stockholders for the Purchaser to exceed such limit in accordance with the rules of the Nasdaq Stock Market. The Pre-Funded Warrants enable the holder to make a cash investment in the Company without increasing its beneficial ownership in the Common Stock because the shares of Common Stock underlying the Pre-Funded Warrant are not issued until the warrant is exercised. The aggregate purchase price of the Securities is approximately $3.0 million. The purchase price for the Shares is $1.38 per Share (the “Share Purchase Price”) and the purchase price for the Pre-Funded Warrants is $1.37 (the Share Purchase Price minus $0.01 per Pre-Funded Warrant). The closing of the Private Placement is expected to occur on or about March 10, 2023, subject to customary closing conditions. The Pre-Funded Warrants have a per share exercise price of $0.01. The exercise price and the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon the exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants are subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of certain stock dividends and distributions, stock splits, stock combinations, reclassifications or similar events affecting the Common Stock and also upon any distributions of assets, including cash, stock or other property to the Company’s stockholders.

The Pre-Funded Warrants expire on March 10, 2033 (the “Termination Date”), provided that if the Purchaser cannot exercise a Pre-Funded Warrant in full as of the Termination Date because (i) after giving effect to such exercise, the Purchaser (together with its affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 19.99% of the shares of Common Stock outstanding and/or the then combined voting power of all of the Company’s voting securities immediately after giving effect to such exercise and (ii) requisite Stockholder Approval (as defined below) has not been obtained, the Termination Date will automatically be extended to March 10, 2043. The shares of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants will be issued separately.

The Purchaser and the Company have agreed that the Purchaser may not exercise any Pre-Funded Warrant if at the time of such exercise, such exercise would violate, or would result in a violation by the Company of, any Nasdaq Stock Market Rule (and any successor to the Nasdaq Stock Market and any other trading market on which the Common Stock is listed), including, without limitation, Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(b) relating to a change of control and Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(d) relating to private issuances. In the event the Purchaser is prevented from exercising a Pre-Funded Warrant for such a reason, the Company has agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain at the next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company for which the Company has not already filed proxy statement materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) following the time when such exercise of a Pre-Funded Warrant is not permitted (the “Applicable Annual Stockholders’ Meeting”), the approval by the holders of Common Stock that are required under the listing standards of the Nasdaq Stock Market (and any successor to the Nasdaq Stock Market and any other trading market on which the Common Stock is listed), including Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(b) and Rule 5635(d), to permit the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, including, if applicable, above relevant thresholds included in such rules (“Stockholder Approval”).

Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, the Company also agreed to file one or more registration statements with the SEC registering the resale of the Shares and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants by the Purchaser, to have all such registration statements declared effective within the timeframes set forth in the Purchase Agreement, and to keep such registration statements effective for up to three years. The Company will bear all expenses of the registration, excluding fees of legal counsel for the Purchaser.

The Purchase Agreement contains customary representations, warranties and agreements by the Company, indemnification obligations of the Company and the Purchaser, including for liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and other obligations of the parties. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement were made only for purposes of such Purchase Agreement and are made as of specific dates; are solely for the benefit of the parties (except as specifically set forth therein); may be subject to qualifications and limitations agreed upon by the parties in connection with negotiating the terms of the Purchase Agreement, including being qualified by confidential disclosures made for the purpose of allocating

contractual risk between the parties, instead of establishing matters as facts; and may be subject to standards of materiality and knowledge applicable to the contracting parties that differ from those applicable to the investors generally. Investors should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any description thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or condition of the Company.

Based solely on reports filed by the Purchaser with the SEC, the Purchaser currently owns 19.27% of the outstanding shares of Common Stock as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The Securities to be issued by the Company pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and to be issued upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants have not been registered under the Securities Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements. The Company relied and will rely on the private placement exemption from registration provided by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and by Rule 506 of Registration D, promulgated by the SEC, and on similar exemptions under applicable state laws. The Purchaser has represented that it is an “accredited investor” as defined in Regulation D of the Securities Act and that it is acquiring the Securities for investment only and not with a view towards, or for resale in connection with, the public sale or distribution thereof, and appropriate legends will be affixed to the Securities.

The foregoing descriptions of the Purchase Agreement and the Pre-Funded Warrants do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement and the form of Pre-Funded Warrant filed as Exhibits 10.1 and 4.1, respectively, to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K that are not strictly historical in nature are forward-looking statements. These statements include but are not limited to statements related to the expected proceeds from and timing of the closing of the Private Placement, the anticipated filing of registration statements to cover resales of the Shares and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants and the seeking and obtaining of any Stockholder Approval. These statements are only predictions based on current information and expectations and involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Actual events or results may differ materially from those projected in any of such statements due to various factors, including the Company’s ability to satisfy the conditions to closing the Private Placement, file a resale registration statement and obtain the Stockholder Approval. For a discussion of these and other factors, please refer to the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 as well as the Company’s subsequent filings with the SEC. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. All forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement and the Company undertakes no obligation to revise or update this report to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof, except as required by law.

Item 3.02. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities.

The disclosure regarding the Securities to be sold and issued under the Purchase Agreement as set forth under Item 1.01 above is incorporated by reference under this Item 3.02.

Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit No.	Description
4.1	Form of Pre-Funded Warrant to Purchase Common Stock.
10.1	Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 9, 2023, by and between TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and the purchaser listed on Exhibit A thereto.
104	Cover page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

Date: March 9, 2023	TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
	By:	/s/ Charles P. Theuer, M.D., Ph.D.
	Name:	Charles P. Theuer, M.D., Ph.D.
		President and Chief Executive Officer

EX-4.1

Exhibit 4.1

FORM OF PRE-FUNDED WARRANT

THIS WARRANT AND THE UNDERLYING SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THOSE LAWS. THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO THE EXTENT THAT AN OPINION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE SECURITIES WERE ISSUED.

TRACON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

PRE-FUNDED WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK

No. PFW March [__], 2023

Void After March [__], 2033

THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value received, [ ] or its permitted assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled to subscribe for and purchase at the Exercise Price (defined below) from TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the“Company”) with an address of 4350 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 800, San Diego, CA, 92122, up to [] shares of the Common Stock of the Company (the“Common Stock”), subject to adjustment as provided herein. This Warrant is one of a series of Warrants being issued pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 9, 2023, by and among the Company and the original Holder of this Warrant and the other parties named therein (the “Purchase Agreement”). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Purchase Agreement.

1.DEFINITIONS. As used herein, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:

1.1“Exercise Period” shall mean, subject to Section 2.5, the period commencing March [__], 2023 and ending March [__], 2033, unless sooner terminated as provided below.

1.2“Exercise Price” shall mean $0.01 per share, subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 5 below.

1.3“Exercise Shares” shall mean the shares of the Company’s Common Stock issued upon exercise of this Warrant, subject to adjustment pursuant to the terms herein, including but not limited to adjustment pursuant to Section 5 below.

2.EXERCISE OF WARRANT.

2.1Method of Exercise. The rights represented by this Warrant may be exercised in whole or in part at any time during the Exercise Period, by delivery of the following to the Company at its address set forth above (or at such other address as it may designate by notice in writing to the Holder):

(a)An executed Notice of Exercise in the form attached hereto;

(b)Payment of the Exercise Price either (i) in cash or by check or wire transfer of immediately available funds, or (ii) pursuant to a Cashless Exercise, as described and permitted below; and

(c)This Warrant.

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Upon the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant, shares of Common Stock shall be issued for the Exercise Shares so purchased, and shall be registered in the name of the Holder or persons affiliated with the Holder, if the Holder so designates, within a reasonable time after the rights represented by this Warrant shall have been so exercised and shall be issued in certificate form and delivered to the Holder, if so requested.

The person in whose name any Exercise Shares are to be issued upon exercise of this Warrant shall be deemed to have become the holder of record of such shares on the date on which this Warrant was surrendered and payment of the Exercise Price was made, irrespective of the date of issuance of the shares of Common Stock, except that, if the date of such surrender and payment is a date when the stock transfer books of the Company are closed, such person shall be deemed to have become the holder of such shares at the close of business on the next succeeding date on which the stock transfer books are open.

2.2Cashless Exercise. Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, if, at any time during the Exercise Period, the Current Market Price (as defined below) of one share of Common Stock is greater than the Exercise Price (at the date of calculation as set forth below), then, in lieu of exercising this Warrant by payment of cash, the Holder may exercise this Warrant by a cashless exercise by surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with the properly endorsed Notice of Exercise and the Company shall issue to the Holder a number of shares of Common Stock computed using the following formula:

	X =	Y (B-A)       B
Where:	X =	the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Holder.
	Y =	the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon exercise of all of the Warrant or, if only a portion of the Warrant is being exercised, the portion of the Warrant being exercised.
	A =	the Exercise Price.
	B =	the Current Market Price of one share of Common Stock.

“Current Market Price” means on any particular date:

(a)if the Common Stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”), the closing price of the Common Stock of the Company on such market on the day prior to the applicable date of valuation;

(b)if the Common Stock is traded on any registered national stock exchange but is not traded on Nasdaq, the closing price of the Common Stock of the Company on such exchange on the day prior to the applicable date of valuation;

(c)if the Common Stock is traded over-the-counter, but not on Nasdaq or another registered national stock exchange, the closing bid price of the Common Stock of the Company on the day prior to the applicable date of valuation; and

(d)if there is no active public market for the Common Stock, the value thereof, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company upon due consideration of the proposed determination thereof by the Holder.

2.3Partial Exercise. If this Warrant is exercised in part only, the Company shall, upon surrender of this Warrant, execute and deliver, within 10 days of the date of exercise, a new Warrant evidencing the rights of the Holder, or such other person as shall be designated in the Notice of Exercise, to purchase the balance of the Exercise Shares purchasable hereunder. In no event shall this Warrant be exercised for a fractional Exercise Share, and the Company shall not distribute a Warrant exercisable for a fractional Exercise Share. Fractional Warrant shares shall be treated as provided in Section 6 hereof.

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2.4No Settlement for Cash. The Warrant cannot be settled with the Company for cash and except with respect to fractional shares as provided herein, the Company shall have no obligation to pay cash upon any exercise of this Warrant.

2.5Exercise Limitation. The Company shall not effect the exercise of this Warrant and the Holder shall not have the right to exercise this Warrant, (A) to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 19.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding and/or the then combined voting power of all of the Company’s voting securities immediately after giving effect to such exercise (the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”) and (B) if at the time of such exercise, such exercise would violate, or would result in a violation by the Company of, any Nasdaq Stock Market Rule (and any successor to the Nasdaq Stock Market and any other trading market on which the Common Stock is listed), including, without limitation, Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(b) relating to a change of control and Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(d) relating to private issuances; provided, that, with respect to clause (A) above, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation shall not apply in the event that the Company obtains Stockholder Approval for a change of control with respect to the Holder and such Stockholder Approval remains valid pursuant to Nasdaq and such exercise otherwise satisfies the requirements of Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635 with respect to issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant or any other warrant held by the Holder. If, on the last Business Day of the Exercise Period, the Holder cannot exercise this Warrant in full because (i) such exercise would cause the Holder to exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation and (ii) Stockholder Approval has not been obtained for such exercise, the Exercise Period shall automatically, and without any further action of the parties, be extended to March [__], 2043. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (a) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates and (b) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act. For purposes of this Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (x) the Company’s most recent Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, as the case may be, filed with the SEC on the date thereof, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (z) any other notice by the Company or its transfer agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. By written notice to the Company, the Holder may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 19.99% specified in such notice; provided that (i) any such increase will not be effective until the sixty-fifth (65th) day after such notice is delivered to the Company and (ii) any such increase or decrease will apply only to the Holder and not to any other holder of Warrants. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation and comply with any rules of Nasdaq. Notwithstanding any of the limitations set forth in this paragraph, this Warrant shall be fully exercisable in connection with a Liquidation Event (as defined below); provided further that this sentence shall not be given effect to the extent it could conflict with the rules of Nasdaq or any similar rule of any stock exchange on which the Common Stock is listed at the relevant time. In accordance with such listing standards, this restriction will apply at any time when the Warrant is outstanding, regardless of whether the Company then has a class of securities listed on Nasdaq. For purposes herein, “Liquidation Event” shall mean the consummation of any of the following transactions: (a) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving entity (other than a merger or consolidation with a wholly owned subsidiary, a reincorporation or continuation of the Company in a different jurisdiction, or other transaction in which there is no substantial change in the stockholders of the Company), (b) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or (c) the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the Company by a single stockholder and its Affiliates as a result of a tender offer or similar transaction.

3.COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

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3.1Covenants as to Exercise Shares. The Company covenants and agrees that all Exercise Shares that may be issued upon the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant will, upon issuance, be validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable, and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issuance thereof. The Company further covenants and agrees that the Company will at all times during the Exercise Period have authorized and reserved, free from preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of its Common Stock to provide for the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant. If at any time during the Exercise Period the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock shall not be sufficient to permit exercise of this Warrant, the Company will take such corporate action as may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock (or other securities as provided herein) to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purposes.

3.2No Impairment. Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder or otherwise in accordance with Section 11 hereof, the Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation (as such may be amended from time to time), or through any means, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms to be observed or performed hereunder by the Company, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of this Warrant and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the exercise rights of the Holder against impairment.

3.3Notices of Record Date. In the event of any taking by the Company of a record of the holders of any class of securities for the purpose of determining the holders thereof who are entitled to receive any dividend (other than a cash dividend which is the same as cash dividends paid in previous quarters) or other distribution, the Company shall mail to the Holder, at least 10 days prior to the date thereof, a notice specifying the date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend or distribution.

3.4Distributions. If the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) (the “Distributed Property”) to holders of shares of Common Stock, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock or other securities, property or options by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a “Distribution”), at any time after the issuance of this Warrant, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled, upon exercise of this Warrant for the purchase of any or all of the Exercise Shares, to receive the amount of Distributed Property which would have been payable to the Holder had such Holder been the holder of such Exercise Shares on the record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to receive such Distributed Property. The Company will at all times set aside in escrow and keep available for distribution to such Holder upon exercise of this Warrant a portion of the Distributed Property to satisfy the distribution to which such Holder is entitled pursuant to the preceding sentence.

3.5Fundamental Transactions. If the Company consummates (a) a merger or consolidation with or into another entity, as a result of which the holders of the Company’s outstanding voting securities as of immediately prior to such merger or consolidation hold less than a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the surviving or successor entity as of immediately after such merger or consolidation or (b) a sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all its property, assets or business to another person or entity (any such transaction being hereinafter referred to as a “Fundamental Transaction”), then the Company shall ensure that lawful and adequate provision shall be made whereby the Holder shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions herein specified and in lieu of the Exercise Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, such shares of stock, securities or assets as would have been issuable or payable with respect to or in exchange for a number of Exercise Shares equal to the number of Exercise Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, had such Fundamental Transaction not taken place. The provisions of this Section 3.5 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or other dispositions.

4.REPRESENTATIONS OF HOLDER.

4.1Acquisition of Warrant for Personal Account. The Holder represents and warrants that it is acquiring the Warrant and the Exercise Shares solely for its account for investment and not with a present view toward the public or distribution of said Warrant or Exercise Shares or any part thereof and has no intention of selling or distributing said Warrant or Exercise Shares or any arrangement or understanding with any other persons regarding the sale or distribution of said Warrant or, except in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 of the Purchase

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Agreement, the Exercise Shares, and except as would not result in a violation of the Securities Act. The Holder will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire or take a pledge of) the Warrant except in accordance with the Securities Act and will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire or take a pledge of) the Exercise Shares except in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 of the Purchase Agreement or pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act.

4.2Securities Are Not Registered.

(a)The Holder understands that the offer and sale of the Warrant or the Exercise Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act on the basis that no distribution or public offering of the securities is to be effected. The Holder realizes that the basis for the exemption may not be present if, notwithstanding its representations, the Holder has a present intention of acquiring the securities for a fixed or determinable period in the future, selling (in connection with a distribution or otherwise), granting any participation in, or otherwise distributing the securities. The Holder has no such present intention.

(b)The Holder recognizes that the Warrant and the Exercise Shares must be held indefinitely unless they are subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Holder recognizes that the Company has no obligation to register the Warrant or, except as provided in the Purchase Agreement, the Exercise Shares of the Company, or to comply with any exemption from such registration.

(c)The Holder is aware that neither the Warrant nor the Exercise Shares may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act unless certain conditions are met, including, among other things, the availability of certain current public information about the Company and the resale following the required holding period under Rule 144. Holder is aware that any such sale made in reliance on Rule 144, if Rule 144 is available, may be made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144.

4.3Disposition of Warrant and Exercise Shares.

(a)The Holder further agrees not to make any disposition of all or any part of the Warrant or Exercise Shares in any event unless and until:

(i)The Company shall have received a letter secured by the Holder from the SEC stating that no action will be recommended to the SEC with respect to the proposed disposition;

(ii)There is then in effect a registration statement under the Securities Act covering such proposed disposition and such disposition is made in accordance with said registration statement; or

(iii)The Holder shall have notified the Company of the proposed disposition and shall have furnished the Company with a detailed statement of the circumstances surrounding the proposed disposition, and if reasonably requested by the Company, the Holder shall have furnished the Company with an opinion of counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Company, for the Holder to the effect that such disposition will not require registration of such Warrant or Exercise Shares under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws; provided, that no opinion shall be required for any disposition made or to be made in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144.

(b)The Holder understands and agrees that all certificates evidencing the Exercise Shares to be issued to the Holder may bear a legend in substantially the following form; provided, that such legend shall be removed (or such Exercise Shares shall be issued without such legend upon exercise of this Warrant) as required pursuant to Section 3.6(b) of the Purchase Agreement:

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE

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REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS, OR UNLESS OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THOSE LAWS. THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO THE EXTENT THAT AN OPINION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE SECURITIES WERE ISSUED.

5.ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE PRICE. In the event of changes in the outstanding Common Stock of the Company by reason of stock dividends, split-ups, recapitalizations, reclassifications, combinations or exchanges of shares, separations, reorganizations, liquidations, or the like, the number and class of shares available under the Warrant in the aggregate and the Exercise Price shall be correspondingly adjusted to give the Holder of the Warrant, on exercise for the same aggregate Exercise Price, the total number, class, and kind of shares as the Holder would have owned had the Warrant been exercised prior to the event and had the Holder continued to hold such shares until after the event requiring adjustment. The form of this Warrant need not be changed because of any adjustment in the number, class, and kind of shares subject to this Warrant. The Company shall promptly provide a certificate from an executive officer of the Company notifying the Holder in writing of any adjustment in the Exercise Price and/or the total number, class, and kind of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, which certificate shall specify the Exercise Price and number, class and kind of shares under this Warrant after giving effect to such adjustment.

6.FRACTIONAL SHARES. No fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant as a consequence of any adjustment pursuant hereto. All Exercise Shares (including fractions) issuable upon exercise of this Warrant may be aggregated for purposes of determining whether the exercise would result in the issuance of any fractional share. If, after aggregation, the exercise would result in the issuance of a fractional share, the Company shall, in lieu of issuance of any fractional share, pay the Holder otherwise entitled to such fraction a sum in cash equal to the product resulting from multiplying the Exercise Price by such fraction.

7.CERTAIN EVENTS. In the event of, at any time during the Exercise Period, any capital reorganization, or any reclassification of the capital stock of the Company (other than a change in par value or from par value to no par value or no par value to par value or as a result of a stock dividend or subdivision, split-up or combination of shares), or the consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another corporation (other than a merger solely to effect a reincorporation of the Company into another jurisdiction), in each case, in which the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such capital reorganization, reclassification, consolidation or merger, will hold less than a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company or resulting corporation immediately after such capital reorganization, reclassification, consolidation or merger, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in its entirety to any other person, other than sales or other dispositions that do not require stockholder approval (each, an “Event”), the Company shall provide to the Holder 10 days’ advance written notice of such Event, and the Holder shall have the option, in its sole discretion, to allow any unexercised portion of the Warrant to be deemed automatically exercised pursuant to Section 2.2, subject to Section 2.5. This Warrant will be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Company upon an Event.

8.NO STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS. This Warrant in and of itself shall not entitle the Holder to any voting rights or other rights as a stockholder of the Company.

9.TRANSFER OF WARRANT. Subject to applicable laws, including compliance with all applicable securities laws, this Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, by the Holder in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon delivery of this Warrant and the form of assignment attached hereto to any transferee designated by Holder. The transferee shall sign an investment letter in form and substance satisfactory to the Company.

10.LOST, STOLEN, MUTILATED OR DESTROYED WARRANT. If this Warrant is lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, the Company may, on such terms as to indemnity or otherwise as it may reasonably impose (which shall, in the case of a mutilated Warrant, include the surrender thereof), issue a new Warrant of like denomination and tenor as the Warrant so lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed and in lieu thereof.

11.MODIFICATIONS AND WAIVER. Except for Section 2.5 of this Warrant at any time prior to the Company attaining Stockholder Approval for issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant in excess of the Maximum Percentage and the Company otherwise satisfies the requirements of Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635 with respect to issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant, this Warrant and any provision hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and either (a) Purchasers holding Pre-Funded Warrants representing at least 75% of the number of Exercise Shares then issuable upon exercise of all Pre-Funded Warrants sold pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, provided, however, that such modification, amendment or waiver is made with respect to all Pre-Funded Warrants and does not adversely affect any Purchaser holding Pre-Funded Warrants in a manner different than all other Purchasers holding Pre-Funded Warrants or (b) the Holder. Any modification, amendment or waiver by a party effected in accordance with this Section 11 shall be binding upon, in the case of clause (a) of the preceding sentence, all Purchasers holding Pre-Funded Warrants, and, in the case of clause (b) of the preceding sentence, the Holder, including with respect to any Exercise Shares then issuable and held by such parties or party and each future holder of all such securities. For the avoidance of doubt, Section 2.5 of this Warrant may not be changed, waived, discharged or terminated at any time prior to the Company attaining Stockholder Approval for issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant in

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excess of the Maximum Percentage and the Company otherwise satisfies the requirements of Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635 with respect to issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant.

12.NOTICES, ETC. All notices required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given: (a) upon personal delivery to the party to be notified, (b) when sent by confirmed email if sent during normal business hours of the recipient, if not, then on the next Business Day, (c) five days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (d) one Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, specifying next day delivery, with written verification of receipt. All communications shall be sent to the Company at the address or email address listed on the signature page and to the Holder at the address or email address on the Company records, or at such other address or email address as the Company or Holder may designate by 10 days’ advance written notice to the other party hereto.

13.ACCEPTANCE. Receipt of this Warrant by the Holder shall constitute acceptance of and agreement to all of the terms and conditions contained herein.

14.GOVERNING LAW. This Warrant and all rights, obligations and liabilities hereunder shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflict of laws.

15.DESCRIPTIVE HEADINGS. The descriptive headings of the several paragraphs of this Warrant are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Warrant. The language in this Warrant shall be construed as to its fair meaning without regard to which party drafted this Warrant.

16.SEVERABILITY. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Warrant in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction, or affect any other provision of this Warrant, which shall remain in full force and effect.

17.ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Warrant constitutes the entire agreement between the parties pertaining to the subject matter contained in it and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, representations, and undertakings of the parties, whether oral or written, with respect to such subject matter.

[Signature Page Follows]

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its duly authorized officer as of March [__], 2023.

TRACON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:	4350 La Jolla Village Drive Suite 800 San Diego, CA 92122
Email:	sbrown@traconpharma.com

 

EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT

ThisSecurities Purchase Agreement (this“Agreement”), dated as of March 9, 2023, is made by and amongTRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the“Company”), and the Purchasers listed on Exhibit A hereto, together with their permitted transferees (each, a “Purchaser” and collectively, the“Purchasers”).

RECITALS

A. The Company and the Purchasers are executing and delivering this Agreement in reliance upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act.

B. The Purchasers desire to purchase and the Company desires to sell, upon the terms and conditions stated in this Agreement, up to a maximum of $3,000,000 of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrants to purchase Common Stock of the Company.

C. The capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined have the meanings given them in Article 7.

AGREEMENT

In consideration of the premises and the mutual covenants contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the Company and the Purchasers (severally and not jointly) hereby agree as follows:

Article 1PURCHASE AND SALE OF SECURITIES

1.1Purchase and Sale of Securities. At the Closing, the Company will issue and sell to each Purchaser, and each Purchaser will, severally and not jointly, purchase from the Company, (a) the number of shares of Common Stock (the “Shares”) set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Exhibit A hereto, at a purchase price of $1.38 per Share (the “Share Purchase Price”), which is the lower of: (i) the Nasdaq Official Closing Price (as reflected on Nasdaq.com) immediately preceding the signing of this Agreement; or (ii) the average Nasdaq Official Closing Price of the Common Stock (as reflected on Nasdaq.com) for the five trading days immediately preceding the signing of this Agreement, (b) for each Purchaser whose purchase of Shares hereunder would otherwise result in such Purchaser, together with its Affiliates, beneficially owning more than 19.99% of the outstanding Common Stock immediately following the Closing, in lieu of Shares and only to that extent, the number of pre-funded warrants to purchase shares of Common Stock set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Exhibit A hereto and substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”), at a purchase price per Pre-Funded Warrant equal to the Share Purchase Price minus $0.01. Each Pre-Funded Warrant shall be exercisable for one (1) share of Common Stock at an exercise price equal to $0.01. The Shares and the Pre-Funded Warrants are referred to collectively as the “Securities.” Each Purchaser’s aggregate purchase price for the Securities purchased by such Purchaser hereunder is referred to as the “Aggregate Purchase Price.”  

1.2Payment. At the Closing, each Purchaser will pay the Aggregate Purchase Price set forth opposite its name on Exhibit A hereto by wire transfer of immediately available funds in accordance with wire instructions provided by the Company to the Purchasers prior to the Closing. The Company will instruct its transfer agent to credit each Purchaser the number of Shares set forth on Exhibit A and will deliver the applicable Pre-Funded Warrants to each applicable Purchaser against delivery of the Aggregate Purchase Price promptly following the Closing Date.

1.3Closing Date. The closing of the transaction contemplated by this Agreement will take place on March 10, 2023 (the“Closing Date”) and the closing (the“Closing”) will be held remotely via the exchange of

 

documents and signatures or at such other time and place as shall be agreed upon by the Company and the Purchasers hereunder of a majority in interest of the aggregate Shares and Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants to be purchased at the Closing.

Article 2REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF THE COMPANY

Except as specifically contemplated by this Agreement or as disclosed in the SEC Documents (defined below), the Company hereby represents and warrants to the Purchasers that:

2.1Organization and Qualification. The Company is duly incorporated, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with full corporate power and authority to conduct its business as currently conducted as disclosed in the SEC Documents. The Company is duly qualified to do business and is in good standing in every jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by it or property owned by it makes such qualification necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or in good standing, as the case may be, would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

2.2Authorization; Enforcement. The Company has all requisite corporate power and authority to enter into and to perform its obligations under this Agreement, to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to issue the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by it of the transactions contemplated hereby (including the issuance of the Securities and the Warrant Shares) have been duly authorized by the Company’s Board of Directors and no further consent or authorization of the Company, its Board of Directors, or its stockholders is required. This Agreement has been duly executed by the Company and constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable against the Company in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and contracting parties’ rights generally and except as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or public policy underlying such laws.

2.3Capitalization. The authorized capital stock of the Company consists of 40,000,000 shares of Common Stock, $0.001 par value per share, and 10,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, $0.001 par value per share. As of March 9, 2023, 23,822,542 shares of Common Stock were issued and outstanding and no shares of Preferred Stock were issued or outstanding. All of the issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock have been duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable. Options to purchase an aggregate of 3,209,710 shares of Common Stock were outstanding as of March 9, 2023. The Company does not have outstanding any options to purchase, or any preemptive rights or other rights to subscribe for or to purchase, any securities or obligations convertible into, or any contracts or commitments to issue or sell, shares of its capital stock or any such options, rights, convertible securities or obligations other than awards and purchase rights granted under the Company’s stock option plans and its employee stock purchase plan and warrants to purchase Common Stock described in the SEC Documents. The Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the“Certificate of Incorporation”), as in effect on the date hereof, and the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the“Bylaws”) as in effect on the date hereof, are each filed as exhibits to the SEC Documents.

2.4Issuance of Securities. The Shares and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants (the “Warrant Shares”) are duly authorized and, upon issuance in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (and, in the case of the Warrant Shares, the Pre-Funded Warrants), will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable and will not be subject to preemptive rights or other similar rights of stockholders of the Company.

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2.5No Conflicts; Government Consents and Permits.

(a)The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement by the Company and the consummation by the Company of the transactions contemplated hereby (including the issuance of the Securities) will not (i) conflict with or result in a violation of any provision of its Certificate of Incorporation or Bylaws or, assuming the accuracy of the Purchasers’ representations and warranties contained herein, require the approval of the Company’s stockholders, (ii) violate or conflict with, or result in a breach of any provision of, or constitute a default under, any agreement, indenture, or instrument to which the Company is a party, or (iii) result in a violation of any law, rule, regulation, order, judgment or decree (including United States federal and state securities laws and regulations and regulations of any self-regulatory organizations to which the Company or its securities are subject) applicable to the Company, except in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) only, for such conflicts, breaches, defaults, and violations as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)The Company is not required to obtain any consent, authorization or order of, or make any filing or registration with, any court or governmental agency or any regulatory or self-regulatory agency in order for it to execute, deliver or perform any of its obligations under this Agreement in accordance with the terms hereof, or to issue and sell the Securities in accordance with the terms hereof other than such as have been made or obtained, and except for the registration of the Shares and the Warrant Shares under the Securities Act pursuant to Section 6 hereof, any filings required to be made under federal or state securities laws after the date hereof, and any required filings or notifications regarding the issuance or listing of additional shares with Nasdaq.

(c)The Company has all franchises, permits, licenses, and any similar authority necessary for the conduct of its business as now being conducted by it and as currently proposed to be conducted as disclosed in the SEC Documents, except for such franchise, permit, license or similar authority, the lack of which would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received any actual notice of any proceeding relating to revocation or modification of any such franchise, permit, license, or similar authority except where such revocation or modification would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

2.6SEC Documents, Financial Statements. The Company has timely filed all reports, schedules, forms, statements and other documents required to be filed by it with the SEC since January 1, 2023, pursuant to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act (all of the foregoing filed prior to the date hereof and all exhibits included therein and financial statements and schedules thereto and documents (other than exhibits) incorporated by reference therein, being hereinafter referred to herein as the “SEC Documents”). The Company is eligible to register its Common Stock for resale using Form S-3 promulgated under the Securities Act. The Company has delivered to each Purchaser, or each Purchaser has had access to, true and complete copies of the SEC Documents. The Company is not, and never has been, a “shell company” (as defined in Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act). As of their respective dates, the SEC Documents complied in all material respects with the requirements of the Exchange Act or the Securities Act, as the case may be, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder applicable to the SEC Documents, and none of the SEC Documents, at the time they were filed with the SEC, contained any untrue statement of a material fact or omitted to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. As of their respective dates, the Financial Statements and the related notes complied as to form in all material respects with applicable accounting requirements and the published rules and regulations of the SEC with respect thereto. The Financial Statements and the related notes have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, consistently applied, during the periods involved (except (a) as may be otherwise indicated in the Financial Statements or the notes thereto, or (b) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may not include footnotes, may be condensed or summary statements or may conform to the SEC’s rules and instructions for Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q) and fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company as of the dates thereof and the consolidated results of its operations and cash flows for the periods then ended (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal and recurring year-end audit adjustments). All material agreements that were required to be filed as exhibits to

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Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K under Item 601(b)(10) of Regulation S-K (collectively, the “Material Agreements”) to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company is a party, or the property or assets of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company are subject, have been filed as exhibits to the SEC Documents. All Material Agreements are valid and enforceable against the Company in accordance with their respective terms, except (i) as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, or moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and contracting parties’ rights generally, and (ii)as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or public policy underlying such laws. The Company is not in breach of or default under any of the Material Agreements, and to the Company’s knowledge, no other party to a Material Agreement is in breach of or default under such Material Agreement, except in each case, for such breaches or defaults as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Company has not received a notice of termination nor is the Company otherwise aware of any threats to terminate any of the Material Agreements.

2.7Disclosure Controls and Procedures. The Company has established and maintains disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and the Company’s certifying officers have evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by the most recently filed quarterly or annual periodic report under the Exchange Act (such date, the “Evaluation Date”). Since the Evaluation Date, there have been no significant changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) or, to the Company’s knowledge, in other factors that could significantly affect the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.

2.8Accounting Controls. The Company maintains a system of internal accounting controls sufficient to provide reasonable assurances that (a) transactions are executed in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, (b) transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles as applied in the United States and to maintain accountability for assets, (c) access to assets is permitted only in accordance with management’s general or specific authorization, and (d) the recorded accountability for assets is compared with existing assets at reasonable intervals and appropriate action is taken with respect to any differences.

2.9Absence of Litigation. Except as set forth in the SEC Documents, as of the date hereof, there is no action, suit, proceeding or investigation before or by any court, public board, government agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened against the Company that if determined adversely to the Company would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or would reasonably be expected to impair the ability of the Company to perform its obligations under this Agreement. To the knowledge of the Company, there is not pending or contemplated any investigation by the SEC of the Company or any director or executive officer of the Company. The Company has not received any stop order or other order suspending the effectiveness of any registration statement filed by the Company under the Exchange Act or the Securities Act and, to the Company’s knowledge, the SEC has not issued any such order.

2.10Intellectual Property Rights. The Company owns or possesses, or has a reasonable basis on which it believes it can obtain on reasonable terms, licenses or sufficient rights to use all patents, patent applications, patent rights, inventions, know-how, trade secrets, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, service names, trade names and copyrights necessary to enable it to conduct its business as conducted as of the date hereof and, to its knowledge, as proposed to be conducted as described in the SEC Documents. As used in this Agreement, the “Intellectual Property” means all patents, patent applications, patent rights, inventions, know-how, trade secrets, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, service names, trade names and copyrights necessary to enable the Company to conduct its business as conducted as of the date hereof and, to its knowledge, as proposed to be conducted as described in the SEC Documents. To the Company’s knowledge, the Company has not infringed the intellectual property rights of third parties and no third party, to the Company’s knowledge, is infringing the

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Intellectual Property, in each case, which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. There are no material options, licenses or agreements relating to the Intellectual Property that are not described in the SEC Documents, nor is the Company bound by or a party to any material options, licenses or agreements relating to the patents, patent applications, patent rights, inventions, know-how, trade secrets, trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, service names, trade names or copyrights of any other Person that are not described in the SEC Documents. There is no material claim or action or proceeding pending or, to the Company’s knowledge, threatened that challenges any of the rights of the Company in or to, or otherwise with respect to, any Intellectual Property.

2.11Investment Company. The Company is not and, after giving effect to the offering and sale of the Securities, will not be an “investment company” as such term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “Investment Company Act”). The Company has no commitments or plans with respect to operating its business that would cause it to become subject to the Investment Company Act.

2.12No Material Adverse Change. Since December 31, 2022, except as described or referred to in the SEC Documents and except for cash expenditures in the ordinary course of business, there has not been any change in the assets, business, properties, financial condition or results of operations of the Company that would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Since December 31, 2022, (a) there has not been any dividend or distribution of any kind declared, set aside for payment, paid or made by the Company on any class of capital stock, (b) the Company has not sustained any material loss or interference with the Company’s business from fire, explosion, flood or other calamity, whether or not covered by insurance, or from any labor disturbance or dispute or any action, order or decree of any court or arbitrator or governmental or regulatory authority, and (c) the Company has not incurred any material liabilities except in the ordinary course of business.

2.13The Nasdaq Capital Market.The Common Stock is listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market, and to the Company’s knowledge, there are no proceedings to revoke or suspend such listing. The Company is in material compliance with the requirements of Nasdaq for continued listing of the Common Stock thereon and any other Nasdaq listing and maintenance requirements.

2.14Accountants. Ernst & Young LLP, which has expressed its opinion with respect to the audited financial statements included as a part of the SEC Documents, are independent accountants as required by the Securities Act.

2.15Insurance. The Company is insured by insurers of recognized financial responsibility against such losses and risks and in such amounts as the Company believes are prudent and customary for a company (a) in the businesses and location in which the Company is engaged, (b) with the resources of the Company, and (c) at a similar stage of development as the Company. The Company has not received any written notice that the Company will not be able to renew its existing insurance coverage as and when such coverage expires. The Company believes it will be able to obtain similar coverage at reasonable cost from similar insurers as may be necessary to continue its business.

2.16Foreign Corrupt Practices. Since January 1, 2021, neither the Company, nor to the Company’s knowledge, any director, officer, agent, employee or other Person acting on behalf of the Company has, in the course of its actions for, or on behalf of, the Company (a) used any corporate funds for any unlawful contribution, gift, entertainment or other unlawful expenses relating to political activity, (b) made any direct or indirect unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee from corporate funds, (c) violated or is in violation of in any material respect any provision of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, or (d) made any unlawful bribe, rebate, payoff, influence payment, kickback or other unlawful payment to any foreign or domestic government official or employee.

2.17Private Placement. Neither the Company, nor to the Company’s knowledge any Person acting on its behalf, has, directly or indirectly, made any offers or sales of any security or solicited any offers to buy any

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security, under any circumstances that would require registration of the Securities under the Securities Act. Assuming the accuracy of the representations and warranties of the Purchasers contained in Article 3 hereof, the issuance of the Securities and the Warrant Shares are exempt from registration under the Securities Act.

2.18No Registration Rights. No Person has the right to (a) prohibit the Company from filing a Registration Statement or (b) require the Company to register any securities for sale under the Securities Act by reason of the filing of a Registration Statement except in the case of clause (b) for rights which have been properly waived. The granting and performance of the registration rights under this Agreement will not violate or conflict with, or result in a breach of any provision of, or constitute a default under, any agreement, indenture, or instrument to which the Company is a party.

2.19Taxes. The Company has filed (or has obtained an extension of time within which to file) all necessary federal, state and foreign income and franchise tax returns and has paid all taxes shown as due on such tax returns, except where the failure to so file or the failure to so pay would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

2.20Real and Personal Property. The Company has good and marketable title to, or has valid rights to lease or otherwise use, all items of real and personal property that are material to the business of the Company free and clear of all liens, encumbrances, claims and defects and imperfections of title except those that (a) do not materially interfere with the use of such property by the Company or (b) would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

2.21No Manipulation of Stock. The Company has not taken, directly or indirectly, any action designed to stabilize or manipulate the price of the Common Stock or any security of the Company to facilitate the sale or resale of any of the Shares.

2.22Related Party Transactions. Except with respect to the transactions (a) that are not required to be disclosed and (b) contemplated hereby to the extent an Affiliate of any director purchases Securities hereunder, all transactions that have occurred between or among the Company, on the one hand, and any of its officers or directors, or any Affiliate or Affiliates of any such officer or director, on the other hand, prior to the date hereof have been disclosed in the SEC Documents to the extent required to be disclosed by the Securities Act or Exchange Act, as the case may be.

Article 3PURCHASER’S REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Each Purchaser represents and warrants to the Company, severally and not jointly, with respect to itself and its purchase hereunder, that:

3.1Investment Purpose. The Purchaser is purchasing the Securities for its own account and not with a present view toward the public sale or distribution thereof in violation of the Securities Act and has no intention of selling or distributing any of such Securities or any arrangement or understanding with any other Persons regarding the sale or distribution of such Securities except in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 and except as would not result in a violation of the Securities Act. The Purchaser will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire or take a pledge of) any of the Securities except in accordance with the provisions of Article 6 or pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act. By making the representations herein, such Purchaser does not agree to hold any of the Securities for any minimum or other specific term and reserves the right to assign, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of the Securities at any time in accordance with or pursuant to a registration statement or a valid exemption under the Securities Act.

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3.2Information. The Purchaser has been given access to all relevant materials relating to the business, finances and operations of the Company necessary to make an investment decision, and materials relating to the offer and sale of the Securities, that have been requested by the Purchaser, including, without limitation, the SEC Documents, and the Purchaser has had the opportunity to review the SEC Documents. The Purchaser has been afforded the opportunity to ask questions of the Company. Neither the Purchaser’sreview or inquiries, nor any other due diligence investigations conducted by the Purchaser or its advisors, if any, or its representatives shall modify, amend or affect the Purchaser’s right to rely on the Company’s representations and warranties contained herein or in the Pre-Funded Warrants.

3.3Acknowledgement of Risk.

(a)The Purchaser acknowledges and understands that its investment in the Securities involves a significant degree of risk, including, without limitation, (i) the Company remains a clinical stage business and requires substantial funds in addition to the proceeds from the sale of the Securities, (ii) an investment in the Company is speculative, and only Purchasers who can afford the loss of their entire investment should consider investing in the Company and the Securities, (iii) the Purchaser may not be able to liquidate its investment, (iv) transferability of the Securities is extremely limited, (v) in the event of a disposition of the Securities, the Purchaser could sustain the loss of its entire investment, and (vi) the Company has not paid any dividends on its Common Stock since inception and does not anticipate the payment of dividends in the foreseeable future. Such risks are more fully set forth in the SEC Documents;

(b)The Purchaser is able to bear the economic risk of holding the Securities for an indefinite period, and has knowledge and experience in financial and business matters such that it is capable of evaluating the risks of the investment in the Securities; and

(c)The Purchaser has, in connection with the Purchaser’s decision to purchase Securities, not relied upon any representations or other information (whether oral or written) other than as set forth in the representations and warranties of the Company contained herein and the information disclosed in the SEC Documents, and the Purchaser has, with respect to all matters relating to this Agreement and the offer and sale of the Securities, relied solely upon the advice of such Purchaser’s own counsel and has not relied upon or consulted any counsel to the Company.

3.4Governmental Review. The Purchaser understands that no United States federal or state agency or any other government or governmental agency has passed upon or made any recommendation or endorsement of the Securities or an investment therein.

3.5Transfer or Resale. The Purchaser understands that:

(a)neither the Securities nor the Warrant Shares have been and are not being registered under the Securities Act (other than as contemplated in Article 6) or any applicable state securities laws and, consequently, the Purchaser may have to bear the risk of owning the Securities and the Warrant Shares, if applicable, for an indefinite period of time because the Securities and the Warrant Shares, if applicable, may not be transferred unless (i) the resale of the Securities and the Warrant Shares, if applicable, is registered pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act, as contemplated in Article 6, (ii) the Purchaser has delivered to the Company an opinion of counsel (in form, substance and scope customary for opinions of counsel in comparable transactions) to the effect that the Securities and the Warrant Shares, if applicable, to be sold or transferred may be sold or transferred pursuant to an exemption from such registration, or (iii) the Securities and the Warrant Shares, if applicable, are sold or transferred pursuant to Rule 144;

(b)any sale of the Securities made in reliance on Rule 144 may be made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144 and, if Rule 144 is not applicable, any resale of the Securities under circumstances in

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which the seller (or the Person through whom the sale is made) may be deemed to be an underwriter (as that term is defined in the Securities Act) may require compliance with some other exemption under the Securities Act or the rules and regulations of the SEC thereunder; and

(c)except as set forth in Article 6, neither the Company nor any other Person is under any obligation to register the resale of the Securities or the Warrant Shares, as applicable, under the Securities Act or any state securities laws or to comply with the terms and conditions of any exemption thereunder in connection with the resale of the Securities or the Warrant Shares, as applicable,.

3.6Legends.

(a)Without limiting the Company’s registration obligations in Section 6.1, the Purchaser understands that any certificates representing the Securities will bear a restrictive legend in substantially the following form, in addition to any other legend required by applicable state securities laws or as may be appropriate to legend any restrictions on transfer set forth in this Agreement (and a stop-transfer order may be placed against transfer of the certificates for such Securities):

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS, OR UNLESS OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THOSE LAWS. THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH OPINION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THAT CERTAIN SECURITIES PURCHASE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE SECURITIES WERE ISSUED.

(b)To the extent the resale of the Shares or Warrant Shares is registered under the Securities Act pursuant to an effective Registration Statement, the Company agrees to promptly (i) authorize the removal of the legend set forth in Section 3.6(a) and any other legend not required by applicable law from such Shares or Warrant Shares and (ii) cause its transfer agent to issue such Shares or Warrant Shares without such legends to the holders thereof by electronic delivery at the applicable balance accounts of the holders or their designees at the Depository Trust Company (“DTC”) within two Business Days after surrender of any stock certificates evidencing such Shares or Warrant Shares or after exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, as applicable. With respect to any Shares or Warrant Shares for which restrictive legends are removed pursuant to this Section 3.6(b), the holder thereof agrees to only sell such Shares or Warrant Shares when and as permitted by the effective Registration Statement covering such resale or pursuant to Rule 144 and in accordance with applicable securities laws and regulations.  

(c)The Purchaser may request that the Company remove, and the Company agrees to authorize the removal of, any legend from the Shares or Warrant Shares, and shall issue any Warrant Shares upon exercise of any Pre-Funded Warrants free of any restrictive or other legend (i) following any sale of such Shares or Warrant Shares pursuant to Rule 144, or (ii) if such Shares or Warrant Shares are eligible for sale under Rule 144 following the expiration of the one-year holding requirement under subparagraphs (b)(1)(i) and (d) thereof (giving effect to any tacking in the case of a proper cashless exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants) and the Purchaser is not an Affiliate of the Company, in each case following receipt from the Purchaser of an appropriate certification to such effect. Following the time a legend is no longer required for the Shares or Warrant Shares under this Section 3.6(c), the Company will, no later than two Business Days following the delivery by a Purchaser to the Company or the Company’s transfer agent of a legended certificate representing such securities and appropriate certifications

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that the applicable requirements have been satisfied, deliver or cause to be delivered to such Purchaser a certificate representing such securities that is free from all restrictive and other legends or, at the election of such Purchaser, deliver such securities by electronic delivery to such Purchaser’s or its designee’s balance account at DTC (not subject to any restrictive or other legends).

3.7Authorization; Enforcement. The Purchaser has the requisite power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby. The Purchaser has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement. Upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, this Agreement shall constitute a valid and binding obligation of the Purchaser enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting creditors’ and contracting parties’ rights generally and except as enforceability may be subject to general principles of equity and except as rights to indemnity and contribution may be limited by state or federal securities laws or public policy underlying such laws.

3.8Residency. Unless the Purchaser has otherwise notified the Company in writing, the Purchaser is a resident of the jurisdiction set forth immediately below such Purchaser’s name on the signature pages hereto.

3.9Purchaser Status. At the time the Purchaser was offered Securities, it was, and at the date hereof is, an “accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501(a) of the Securities Act. Neither the Purchaser nor any of its Rule 506(d) Related Parties is a “bad actor” within the meaning of Rule 506(d) of the Securities Act. For purposes of this Agreement, a “Rule 506(d) Related Party” shall mean a person or entity covered by the “Bad Actor disqualification” provision of Rule 506(d) of the Securities Act.

3.10Foreign Purchasers. If any Purchaser is not a United States person (as defined by Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) or is a U.S. subsidiary or affiliate of a foreign parent company (a “Foreign Purchaser”), each such Foreign Purchaser hereby represents that it has satisfied itself as to the full observance of the laws of its jurisdiction in connection with any invitation to subscribe for the Securities or the Warrant Shares or any use of this Agreement, including (a) the legal requirements within its jurisdiction for the purchase of the Securities or the Warrant Shares, (b) any foreign exchange restrictions applicable to such purchase, (c) any government or other consents that may need to be obtained, and (d) the income tax and other tax consequences, if any, that may be relevant to the purchase, holding, redemption, sale or transfer of the Securities or the Warrant Shares. Each Foreign Purchaser further represents that either (i) it does not now, nor will it after the Closing, hold 10% or greater, directly or indirectly, of the voting interest in the Company or (ii) if it does or will, such Foreign Purchaser shall notify the Company and shall provide such information as the Company may reasonably request to comply with state, federal, or local regulations. The Company’s offer and sale and the Foreign Purchaser’s subscription and payment for and continued beneficial ownership of the Securities or the Warrant Shares will not violate any applicable securities or other laws of the Foreign Purchaser’s jurisdiction.

3.11Purchaser Ownership. Assuming that the Company’s representations in Section 2.3 with respect to the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock are accurate as of the Closing, the Purchaser will not beneficially own more than 19.99% of the Common Stock immediately following the Closing. For purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act.

3.12General Solicitation. Such Purchaser is not purchasing the Securities as a result of any advertisement, article, notice or other communication regarding the Securities published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast over television or radio or presented at any seminar or, to the knowledge of such Purchaser, any other general solicitation or general advertisement.

Article 4COVENANTS

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4.1Reporting Status. The Common Stock is registered under Section 12 of the Exchange Act. During the Registration Period, the Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to timely file all documents with the SEC, and the Company will not terminate its status as an issuer required to file reports under the Exchange Act even if the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder would permit such termination.

4.2Expenses. The Company and each Purchaser is liable for, and will pay, its own expenses incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of this Agreement, including, without limitation, attorneys’ and consultants’ fees and expenses.

4.3Financial Information. The financial statements of the Company to be included in any documents filed with the SEC will be prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, consistently applied (except (a) as may be otherwise indicated in such financial statements or the notes thereto, or (b) in the case of unaudited interim statements, to the extent they may not include footnotes, may be condensed or summary statements or may conform to the SEC’s rules and instructions for Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q), and will fairly present in all material respects the consolidated financial position of the Company and consolidated results of its operations and cash flows as of, and for the periods covered by, such financial statements (subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to normal and recurring year-end audit adjustments).

4.4Securities Laws Disclosure. On or before 9:00 a.m., New York local time, on the Business Day following the date hereof, the Company shall issue a press release and/or Current Report on Form 8-K announcing the signing of this Agreement and describing the material terms of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

4.5Sales by Purchasers. Each Purchaser will sell any Securities and, if applicable, any Warrant Shares held by it in compliance with applicable prospectus delivery requirements, if any, or otherwise in compliance with the requirements for an exemption from registration under the Securities Act and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. No Purchaser will make any sale, transfer or other disposition of the Securities or, if applicable, Warrant Shares in violation of federal or state securities laws.

4.6Reservation of Common Stock. The Company shall reserve and keep available at all times during which the Pre-Funded Warrants remain exercisable, free of preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of Common Stock for the purpose of enabling the Company to issue the Warrant Shares upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants in accordance with the terms thereof.

4.7Stockholder Approval. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Purchaser shall have the right to exercise any Pre-Funded Warrant if at the time of such exercise, such exercise would violate, or would result in a violation by the Company of, any Nasdaq Stock Market Rule (and any successor to the Nasdaq Stock Market and any other trading market on which the Common Stock is listed), including, without limitation, Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(b) relating to a change of control and Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(d) relating to private issuances. In the event an exercise of any Pre-Funded Warrant is not permitted pursuant to the foregoing sentence, upon the request of the applicable Purchaser, the Company shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain, at the next annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company for which the Company has not already filed proxy statement materials with the SEC following the time when such exercise of a Pre-Funded Warrant is not permitted (the “Applicable Annual Stockholders’ Meeting”), the approval by the holders of Common Stock that are required under the listing standards of The Nasdaq Stock Market (and any successor to the Nasdaq Stock Market and any other trading market on which the Common Stock is listed), including Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(b) and Rule 5635(d), to permit the issuance of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants, including, if applicable, above relevant thresholds included in such rules (“Stockholder Approval”). Such commercially reasonable efforts will include subject to the board of directors’ fiduciary duties, a recommendation by the Company’s board of directors that the Company’s stockholders approve such proposal. If the Stockholder Approval is not obtained at the Applicable Annual Stockholders’ Meeting or an adjournment or postponement thereof, then the Company agrees to also submit the Stockholder Approval to its stockholders at subsequent annual meetings of

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the Company until the earliest to occur of: (i) the Stockholder Approval; or (ii) the second annual meeting of the stockholders of the Company (or an adjournment or postponement thereof) following the Applicable Annual Stockholders’ Meeting.

Article 5CONDITIONS TO CLOSING

5.1Conditions to Obligations of the Company. The Company’s obligation to complete the purchase and sale of the Securities to be purchased and sold at the Closing and deliver such Securities to each Purchaser is subject to the waiver by the Company or fulfillment as of the Closing Date of the following conditions:

(a)Receipt of Funds. The Company shall have received immediately available funds in the full amount of the Aggregate Purchase Price for the Securities being purchased hereunder as set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Exhibit A hereto.

(b)Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties made by each Purchaser in Article 3 shall be true and correct in all respects as of the Closing Date.

(c)Covenants. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Purchasers on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all material respects.

(d)Blue Sky. The Company shall have obtained all necessary blue sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state for the offer and sale of the Securities.

(e)Nasdaq Qualification. The Shares to be issued shall be duly authorized for listing by Nasdaq.

(f)Absence of Litigation. No proceeding challenging this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, or seeking to prohibit, alter, prevent or materially delay the Closing, shall have been instituted or be pending before any court, arbitrator, governmental body, agency or official.

(g)No Governmental Prohibition. The sale of the Securities by the Company shall not be prohibited by any law or governmental order or regulation.

5.2Conditions to Purchasers’ Obligations at the Closing. Each Purchaser’s obligation to complete the purchase and sale of the Securities is subject to the waiver by such Purchaser or fulfillment as of the Closing Date of the following conditions:

(a)Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties made by the Company in Article 2 shall be true and correct in all material respects as of the Closing Date.

(b)Covenants. All covenants, agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement to be performed by the Company on or prior to the Closing Date shall have been performed or complied with in all material respects.

(c)Blue Sky. The Company shall have obtained all necessary blue sky law permits and qualifications, or secured exemptions therefrom, required by any state or foreign or other jurisdiction for the offer and sale of the Securities.

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(d)Transfer Agent Instructions. The Company shall have delivered to its transfer agent irrevocable instructions to issue to such Purchaser or in such nominee name(s) as designated by such Purchaser in writing such number of Shares set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Exhibit A hereto.

(e)Nasdaq Qualification. The Shares shall be duly authorized for listing by Nasdaq.

(f)Absence of Litigation. No proceeding challenging this Agreement or the transactions contemplated hereby, or seeking to prohibit, alter, prevent or materially delay the Closing, shall have been instituted or be pending before any court, arbitrator, governmental body, agency or official.

(g)No Governmental Prohibition. The sale of the Securities by the Company shall not be prohibited by any law or governmental order or regulation.

Article 6REGISTRATION RIGHTS

6.1On or before the date that is 30 days after the Closing Date (the “Filing Date”), the Company shall file a registration statement covering the resale of the Registrable Securities with the SEC for an offering to be made on a continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415, or if Rule 415 is not available for offers and sales of the Registrable Securities, by such other means of distribution of Registrable Securities as the Holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities may reasonably specify (the “Initial Registration Statement”). The Initial Registration Statement shall be on Form S-3 (except if the Company is ineligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, in which case such registration shall be on another appropriate form), and the Company shall effect the registration, qualifications or compliances (including, without limitation, the execution of any required undertaking to file post-effective amendments, appropriate qualifications or exemptions under applicable blue sky or other state securities laws and appropriate compliance with applicable securities laws, requirements or regulations) as promptly as possible after the filing thereof, but in any event prior to the date which is 90 days in the event of no review by the SEC, or 110 days in the event of a review by the SEC, after the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, the Company’s obligation to register the Shares and the Warrant Shares shall continue at least until a Registration Statement or Registration Statements covering the resale of all Shares and Warrant shares held by Holders are or have become effective and shall not be canceled prior to that time by the fact that any Shares or Warrant Shares become eligible for sale under Rule 144. In the event the SEC informs the Company that all of the Registrable Securities cannot, as a result of the application of Rule 415, be registered for resale as a secondary offering on a single registration statement, the Company agrees to promptly (a) inform each of the Holders thereof, (b) use its reasonable best efforts to file amendments to the Initial Registration Statement as required by the SEC and/or (c) withdraw the Initial Registration Statement and file a new registration statement (a “New Registration Statement”), in either case covering the maximum number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered by the SEC, on Form S-3 or, if the Company is ineligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, such other form available to register for resale the Registrable Securities as a secondary offering; provided, however, that prior to filing such amendment or New Registration Statement, the Company shall be obligated to use its reasonable best efforts to advocate with the SEC for the registration of all of the Registrable Securities. In the event the Company amends the Initial Registration Statement or files a New Registration Statement, as the case may be, under clauses (b) or (c) above, the Company will use its best efforts to file with the SEC, as promptly as allowed by the SEC, one or more registration statements on Form S-3 or, if the Company is ineligible to register for resale the Registrable Securities on Form S-3, such other form available to register for resale those Registrable Securities that were not registered for resale on the Initial Registration Statement, as amended, or the New Registration Statement (the “Remainder Registration Statements”). Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if the SEC limits the number of Registrable Securities permitted to be registered on a particular Registration Statement (and notwithstanding that the Company used diligent efforts to advocate with the SEC for the registration of all or a greater number of Registrable

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Securities), any required cutback of Registrable Securities shall be applied to the Purchasers pro rata in accordance with the number of such Registrable Securities sought to be included in such Registration Statement by reference to the amount of Registrable Securities set forth opposite such Purchaser’s name on Exhibit A (and in the case of a subsequent transfer, the initial Purchaser’s transferee) relative to the aggregate amount of all Registrable Securities.

6.2All Registration Expenses incurred in connection with any registration, qualification, exemption or compliance pursuant to Section 6.1 shall be borne by the Company. All Selling Expenses relating to the sale of securities registered by or on behalf of any Holder shall be borne by such Holder.

6.3In the case of the registration, qualification, exemption or compliance effected by the Company pursuant to this Agreement, the Company shall, upon reasonable request, inform each Holder as to the status of such registration, qualification, exemption and compliance. At its expense the Company shall:

(a)except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of the prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, use its commercially reasonable efforts to keep such registration, and any qualification, exemption or compliance under state securities laws which the Company determines to obtain, continuously effective with respect to a Holder, and to keep the applicable Registration Statement free of any material misstatements or omissions, until the earlier of the following: (i) the third anniversary of the effective date of the Initial Registration Statement, (ii) the date all Shares and, if applicable, Warrant Shares, held by such Holder (other than a Holder that would beneficially own 10% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock assuming all Warrant Shares held by such Holder were outstanding) may be sold under Rule 144 within a three-month period or (iii) immediately prior to the closing of a Change of Control. The period of time during which the Company is required hereunder to keep a Registration Statement effective is referred to herein as the “Registration Period.”

(b)advise the Holders within five Business Days:

(i)when a Registration Statement or any amendment thereto (other than an amendment pursuant to a periodic or current report) has been filed with the SEC and when such Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto has become effective;

(ii)of any request by the SEC for amendments or supplements to any Registration Statement or the prospectus included therein or for additional information;

(iii)of the issuance by the SEC of any stop order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement or the initiation of any proceedings for such purpose; and

(iv)of the receipt by the Company of any notification with respect to the suspension of the qualification of the Registrable Securities included therein for sale in any jurisdiction or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose.

(c)use its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of any Registration Statement as soon as reasonably practicable;

(d)if a Holder so requests in writing, promptly furnish to each such Holder, without charge, at least one copy of each Registration Statement and each post-effective amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if explicitly requested, all exhibits in the form filed with the SEC;

(e)during the Registration Period, if a Holder so requests in writing, deliver to each Holder, without charge, (i) one copy of the following documents, other than those documents available via EDGAR: (A) its

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annual report to its stockholders, if any (which annual report shall contain financial statements audited in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America by a firm of certified public accountants of recognized standing), (B) if not included in substance in its annual report to stockholders, its annual report on Form 10-K (or similar form), (C) its definitive proxy statement with respect to its annual meeting of stockholders, (D) each of its quarterly reports to its stockholders, and, if not included in substance in its quarterly reports to stockholders, its quarterly report on Form 10-Q (or similar form), and (E) a copy of each full Registration Statement (the foregoing, in each case, excluding exhibits); and (ii) if explicitly requested, all exhibits excluded by the parenthetical to the immediately preceding clause (E);

(f)prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement, promptly take such actions as may be necessary to register or qualify or obtain an exemption for offer and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such United States jurisdictions as any such Holders reasonably request in writing, provided that the Company shall not for any such purpose be required to qualify generally to transact business as a foreign corporation in any jurisdiction where it is not so qualified or to consent to general service of process in any such jurisdiction, and do any and all other acts or things reasonably necessary or advisable to enable the offer and sale in such jurisdictions of the Registrable Securities covered by any such Registration Statement;

(g)upon the occurrence of any event that requires the making of any changes in any Registration Statement or prospectus so that, as of such date, the statements therein are not misleading and do not omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein (in the case of a prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, except for such times as the Company is permitted hereunder to suspend the use of a prospectus forming part of a Registration Statement, the Company shall use its best efforts to as soon as reasonably practicable prepare a post-effective amendment to such Registration Statement or a supplement to the related prospectus, or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to purchasers of the Registrable Securities included therein, such prospectus will not include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading;

(h)use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause all Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange or market, if any, on which the Common Stock has been listed;

(i)use its commercially reasonable efforts to take all other steps necessary to effect the registration of the Registrable Securities contemplated hereby and to enable the Holders to sell Registrable Securities under Rule 144;

(j)provide to each Purchaser and its representatives, if requested, the opportunity to conduct a reasonable inquiry of the Company’s financial and other records during normal business hours and make available its officers, directors and employees for questions regarding information which such Purchaser may reasonably request in order to fulfill any due diligence obligation on its part; and

(k)permit a single counsel for the Purchasers to review any Registration Statement and all amendments and supplements thereto (other than supplements to a Registration Statement on Form S-1 solely for the purpose of incorporating other filings with the SEC into such Registration Statement and other than an amendment to a Registration Statement on Form S-1 or Form S-3 for the purpose of converting such Registration Statement into a Registration Statement on Form S-3), within two Business Days prior to the filing thereof with the SEC;

provided that, in the case of clauses (j) and (k) above, the Company shall not be required (A) to delay the filing of any Registration Statement or any amendment or supplement thereto as a result of any ongoing diligence inquiry by or on behalf of a Holder or to incorporate any comments to any Registration Statement or any amendment or

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supplement thereto by or on behalf of a Holder if such inquiry or comments would require a delay in the filing of such Registration Statement, amendment or supplement, as the case may be, or (B) to provide, and shall not provide, any Purchaser or its representatives with material, non-public information unless such Purchaser agrees to receive such information and enters into a written confidentiality agreement with the Company in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company.

6.4The Holders shall have no right to take any action to restrain, enjoin or otherwise delay any registration pursuant to Section 6.1 hereof as a result of any controversy that may arise with respect to the interpretation or implementation of this Agreement.

6.5(a)To the extent permitted by law, the Company shall indemnify each Holder and each Person controlling such Holder within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, with respect to which any registration that has been effected pursuant to this Agreement, against all claims, losses, damages and liabilities (or action in respect thereof), including any of the foregoing incurred in settlement of any litigation, commenced or threatened (subject to Section 6.5(c) below), arising out of or based on any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus, any amendment or supplement thereof, or other document incident to any such registration, qualification or compliance or based on any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, or any violation by the Company of any rule or regulation promulgated by the Securities Act applicable to the Company and relating to any action or inaction required of the Company in connection with any such registration, qualification or compliance, and will reimburse each Holder and each Person controlling such Holder, for reasonable legal and other out-of-pocket expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action as incurred; provided that the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any untrue statement or omission or allegation thereof is made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of any Holder for use in preparation of any Registration Statement, prospectus, amendment or supplement; provided further, that the Company will not be liable in any such case where the claim, loss, damage or liability arises out of or is related to the failure of any Holder to comply with the covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement respecting sales of Registrable Securities, and except that the foregoing indemnity agreement is subject to the condition that, insofar as it relates to any such untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in any preliminary prospectus but eliminated or remedied in the amended prospectus on file with the SEC at the time any Registration Statement becomes effective or in an amended prospectus filed with the SEC pursuant to Rule 424(b) which meets the requirements of Section 10(a) of the Securities Act (each, a “Final Prospectus”), such indemnity shall not inure to the benefit of any such Holder or any such controlling Person, if a copy of a Final Prospectus furnished by the Company to the Holder for delivery was not furnished or deemed delivered to the Person asserting the loss, liability, claim or damage at or prior to the time such furnishing is required by the Securities Act and a Final Prospectus would have cured the defect giving rise to such loss, liability, claim or damage.

(a)Each Holder will severally, and not jointly, indemnify the Company, each of its directors and officers, and each Person who controls the Company within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act, against all claims, losses, damages and liabilities (or actions in respect thereof), including any of the foregoing incurred in settlement of any litigation, commenced or threatened (subject to Section 6.5(c) below), arising out of or based on any untrue statement (or alleged untrue statement) of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement, prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereof, incident to any such registration, or based on any omission (or alleged omission) to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, in light of the circumstances in which they were made, and will reimburse the Company, such directors and officers, and each Person controlling the Company for reasonable legal and any other expenses reasonably incurred in connection with investigating or defending any such claim, loss, damage, liability or action as incurred, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent, that such untrue statement or omission or allegation thereof is made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company

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by or on behalf of such Holder for use in preparation of any Registration Statement, prospectus, amendment or supplement; provided that the indemnity shall not apply to the extent that such claim, loss, damage or liability results from the fact that a current copy of a prospectus was not made available to the Person asserting the loss, liability, claim or damage at or prior to the time such furnishing is required by the Securities Act and a Final Prospectus would have cured the defect giving rise to such loss, claim, damage or liability. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Holder’s aggregate liability pursuant to this subsection (b) and subsection (d) shall be limited to the net amount received by the Holder from the sale of the Registrable Securities.

(b)Each party entitled to indemnification under this Section 6.5 (the“Indemnified Party”) shall give notice to the party required to provide indemnification (the“Indemnifying Party”) promptly after such Indemnified Party has actual knowledge of any claim as to which indemnity may be sought, and shall permit the Indemnifying Party (at its expense) to assume the defense of any such claim or any litigation resulting therefrom, provided that counsel for the Indemnifying Party, who shall conduct the defense of such claim or litigation, shall be approved by the Indemnified Party (whose approval shall not unreasonably be withheld), and the Indemnified Party may participate in such defense at such Indemnified Party’s expense, and provided further that the failure of any Indemnified Party to give notice as provided herein shall not relieve the Indemnifying Party of its obligations under this Agreement, unless such failure is materially prejudicial to the Indemnifying Party in defending such claim or litigation. An Indemnifying Party shall not be liable for any settlement of an action or claim effected without its written consent (which consent will not be unreasonably withheld). No Indemnifying Party, in its defense of any such claim or litigation, shall, except with the consent of each Indemnified Party, consent to entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such Indemnified Party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

(c)If the indemnification provided for in this Section 6.5 is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unavailable to an Indemnified Party with respect to any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense referred to therein, then the Indemnifying Party, in lieu of indemnifying such Indemnified Party thereunder, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by such Indemnified Party as a result of such loss, liability, claim, damage or expense in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the Indemnifying Party on the one hand and of the Indemnified Party on the other in connection with the statements or omissions which resulted in such loss, liability, claim, damage or expense as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the Indemnifying Party and of the Indemnified Party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or the omission to state a material fact relates to information supplied by the Indemnifying Party or by the Indemnified Party and the parties’ relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such statement or omission.

6.6(a)Each Holder agrees that, upon receipt of any notice from the Company of the happening of any event requiring the preparation of a supplement or amendment to a prospectus relating to Registrable Securities so that, as thereafter delivered to the Holders, such prospectus shall not contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, each Holder will forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement and prospectus contemplated by Section 6.1 until its receipt of copies of the supplemented or amended prospectus from the Company and, if so directed by the Company, each Holder shall deliver to the Company all copies, other than permanent file copies then in such Holder’s possession, of the prospectus covering such Registrable Securities current at the time of receipt of such notice.

(a)Each Holder shall suspend, upon request of the Company, any disposition of Registrable Securities pursuant to any Registration Statement and prospectus contemplated by Section 6.1 during no more than two periods of no more than 30 calendar days each during any 12-month period to the extent that the Company determines in good faith that the sale of Registrable Securities under any such Registration Statement would be reasonably likely to cause a violation of the Securities Act or Exchange Act.

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(b)As a condition to the inclusion of its Registrable Securities, each Holder shall furnish to the Company such information regarding such Holder and the distribution proposed by such Holder as the Company may reasonably request in writing, including completing a Registration Statement Questionnaire in the form provided by the Company, or as shall be required in connection with any registration referred to in this Article 6.

(c)Each Holder hereby covenants with the Company not to make any sale of the Registrable Securities pursuant to a Registration Statement without effectively causing the prospectus delivery requirements under the Securities Act to be satisfied.

(d)At the end of the Registration Period the Holders shall discontinue sales of shares pursuant to any Registration Statement upon receipt of notice from the Company of its intention to remove from registration the shares covered by any such Registration Statement which remain unsold, and such Holders shall notify the Company of the number of shares registered which remain unsold immediately upon receipt of such notice from the Company.

6.7With a view to making available to the Holders the benefits of certain rules and regulations of the SEC which at any time permit the sale of the Registrable Securities to the public without registration, so long as the Holders still own Registrable Securities (including Warrant Shares issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants), the Company shall use best efforts to:

(a)make and keep public information available, as those terms are understood and defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, at all times;

(b)file with the SEC in a timely manner all reports and other documents required of the Company under the Exchange Act; and

(c)so long as a Holder owns any Registrable Securities, furnish to such Holder, upon any reasonable request, a written statement by the Company as to its compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act, and of the Exchange Act, a copy of the most recent annual or quarterly report of the Company, and such other reports and documents of the Company as such Holder may reasonably request in availing itself of any rule or regulation of the SEC allowing a Holder to sell any such securities without registration.

6.8The rights to cause the Company to register Registrable Securities granted to the Holders by the Company under Section 6.1 may be assigned by a Holder in connection with a transfer by such Holder of all or a portion of its Registrable Securities, provided, however, that such transfer must be made at least 10 days prior to the Filing Date and that (i) such transfer may otherwise be effected in accordance with applicable securities laws; (ii) such Holder gives prior written notice to the Company at least ten days prior to the Filing Date; and (iii) such transferee agrees to comply with the terms and provisions of this Agreement, and such transfer is otherwise in compliance with this Agreement. Except as specifically permitted by this Section 6.8, the rights of a Holder with respect to Registrable Securities as set out herein shall not be transferable to any other Person, and any attempted transfer shall cause all rights of such Holder therein to be forfeited.

6.9The rights of any Holder under any provision of this Article 6 may be waived (either generally or in a particular instance, either retroactively or prospectively and either for a specified period of time or indefinitely) or amended by an instrument in writing signed by such Holder.

Article 7DEFINITIONS

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7.1“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person controlling, controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such Person (for the purposes of this definition“control,” when used with respect to any specified Person, shall mean the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms“controlling” and“controlled” shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing).

7.2“Aggregate Purchase Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1.

7.3“Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preamble.

7.4“Business Day” means a day Monday through Friday on which banks are generally open for business in New York City.

7.5“Bylaws” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.

7.6“Certificate of Incorporation” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3.

7.7“Change of Control” means a sale, conveyance or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property or business of the Company (other than to a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company), or a merger of consolidation with or into any other corporation or other business transaction or series of transactions as a result of which stockholders of the Company immediately prior to the transaction would hold less than a majority of the voting interests of the Company (or successor or parent company thereof) after the transaction; provided that a “Change of Control” shall not include any transaction or series of related transaction principally for bona fide equity financing purposes.

7.8“Closing” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.3.

7.9“Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.3.

7.10“Common Stock” means the common stock, par value $0.001 per share, of the Company.

7.11“Company” means TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

7.12“Evaluation Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.7.

7.13“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

7.14“Filing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.

7.15“Final Prospectus” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5(a).

7.16“Financial Statements” means the financial statements of the Company included in the SEC Documents.

7.17“Financing” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.13.

7.18“Foreign Purchaser” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.10.

7.19“Holders” means any Person holding Registrable Securities or any Person to whom the rights under Article 6 have been transferred in accordance with Section 6.8 hereof.

7.20“Indemnified Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5(c).

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7.21“Indemnifying Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.5(c).

7.22“Initial Registration Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.

7.23“Intellectual Property” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.10.

7.24“Investment Company Act” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12.

7.25“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, assets or financial condition of the Company, taken as a whole, or (b) the ability of the Company to perform its obligations pursuant to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

7.26“Material Agreements” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.6.

7.27“Nasdaq” means The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC.

7.28“New Registration Statement” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.

7.29“Offering” means the private placement of the Securities contemplated by this Agreement.

7.30“Person” means any person, individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, trust or other nongovernmental entity or any governmental agency, court, authority or other body (whether foreign, federal, state, local or otherwise).

7.31“Pre-Funded Warrants”has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1.

7.32“Purchasers” mean the Purchasers whose names are set forth on the signature pages of this Agreement, and their permitted transferees.

7.33“Registrable Securities” means (i) the Shares and (ii) the Warrant Shares; provided, however, that securities shall only be treated as Registrable Securities if and only for so long as they (A) have not been disposed of pursuant to a registration statement declared effective by the SEC, (B) have not been sold in a transaction exempt from the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act so that all transfer restrictions and restrictive legends with respect thereto are removed upon the consummation of such sale, (C) with respect to any Holder, are not all eligible to be sold pursuant to Rule 144 within a three-month period (assuming a cash exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants), or (D) are held by a Holder or a permitted transferee pursuant to Section 6.8; further provided that, with respect to a Holder that would beneficially own 10% or more of the outstanding shares of Common Stock (assuming all Warrant Shares held by such Holder were outstanding), securities held by such Holder that would otherwise be Registrable Securities shall not be disqualified from being deemed Registrable Securities by the fact that they become eligible for sale under Rule 144.

7.34“Registration Expenses” means all expenses incurred by the Company in complying with Section 6.1 hereof, including, without limitation, all registration, qualification and filing fees, printing expenses, escrow fees, fees and expenses of counsel for the Company, blue sky fees and expenses and the expense of any special audits incident to or required by any such registration (but excluding the fees of legal counsel for any Holder).

7.35“Registration Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.3(a).

7.36 “Registration Statement” means any one or more registration statements of the Company filed under the Securities Act that covers the resale of any of the Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement (including without limitation the Initial Registration Statement, the New Registration Statement and any

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Remainder Registration Statements) and amendments and supplements to such Registration Statements, including post-effective amendments.

7.37“Remainder Registration Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.1.

7.38“Rule 144” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act, or any successor rule.

7.39“Rule 415” means Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act, or any successor rule.

7.40“Rule 506(d) Related Party” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.9.

7.41“SEC Documents” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.6.

7.42“SEC” means the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

7.43“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, or any similar successor statute.

7.44“Securities” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1.

7.45“Selling Expenses” means all selling commissions applicable to the sale of Registrable Securities and all fees and expenses of legal counsel for any Holder.

7.46“Share Purchase Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1.

7.47“Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1.

7.48“Stockholder Approval” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.7.

7.49“Subsidiary” of any Person shall mean any corporation, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or other legal entity of which such Person (either above or through or together with any other subsidiary) owns, directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the stock or other equity interests the holders of which are generally entitled to vote for the election of the board of directors or other governing body of such corporation or other legal entity.

7.50“Warrant Shares” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.4.

7.51The terms “register,” “registered” and “registration” refer to the registration effected by preparing and filing a registration statement in compliance with the Securities Act, and the declaration or ordering of the effectiveness of such registration statement.

Article 8GOVERNING LAW; MISCELLANEOUS

8.1Governing Law; Jurisdiction. This Agreement will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflict of laws.

8.2Counterparts; Signatures by Facsimile. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, all of which are considered one and the same agreement and will become effective when counterparts have been signed by each party and delivered to the other parties. This Agreement, once executed by a party, may

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be delivered to the other parties hereto by facsimile or e-mail transmission of a copy of this Agreement bearing the signature of the party so delivering this Agreement.

8.3Headings. The headings of this Agreement are for convenience of reference only, are not part of this Agreement and do not affect its interpretation.

8.4Severability. If any provision of this Agreement is invalid or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law, then such provision will be deemed modified in order to conform with such statute or rule of law. Any provision hereof that may prove invalid or unenforceable under any law will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof.

8.5Entire Agreement; Amendments. This Agreement (including all schedules and exhibits hereto) constitutes the entire agreement among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof. There are no restrictions, promises, warranties or undertakings, other than those set forth or referred to herein or therein. This Agreement supersedes all prior agreements and understandings among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof. This Agreement and any provision hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and either (a) Purchasers holding Securities representing a majority in interest of the aggregate Shares and Warrant Shares (issuable upon exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants purchased at the Closing); provided, however, that such modification, amendment or waiver is made with respect to all Purchasers and does not adversely affect any Purchaser in a manner different than all other Purchasers, or (b) the Purchaser to be charged with enforcement of such modification, amendment or waiver. Any amendment or waiver by a party effected in accordance with this Section 8.5 shall be binding upon, in the case of clause (a) of the preceding sentence, all Purchasers, and, in the case of clause (b) of the preceding sentence, the applicable Purchaser, including with respect to any Securities purchased under this Agreement or Warrant Shares at the time outstanding and held by such parties or party (including securities into which such Securities are convertible and for which such Securities are exercisable) and each future holder of all such securities.

8.6Notices. All notices required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given: (a) upon personal delivery to the party to be notified, (b) when sent by confirmed email, telex or facsimile if sent during normal business hours of the recipient, if not, then on the next Business Day, (c) five days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (d) one Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, specifying next day delivery, with written verification of receipt. The addresses for such communications are:

If to the Company:TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

4350 La Jolla Village Drive

Suite 800

San Diego, CA 92122

  Attn: Chief Executive Officer

With a copy to:Cooley LLP

10265 Science Center Drive

  San Diego, CA 92121

  Attn: Matthew Browne

If to a Purchaser: To the address set forth immediately below such Purchaser’s name on the signature pages hereto. Each party will provide ten days’ advance written notice to the other parties of any change in its address.

8.7Successors and Assigns. This Agreement is binding upon and inures to the benefit of the parties and their successors and assigns. The Company will not assign this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Purchasers, and no Purchaser may assign this Agreement or any rights or

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obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Company, except as permitted in accordance with Section 6.8 hereof.

8.8Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is intended for the benefit of the parties hereto, their respective permitted successors and assigns, and is not for the benefit of, nor may any provision hereof be enforced by, any other Person.

8.9Further Assurances. Each party will do and perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and will execute and deliver all other agreements, certificates, instruments and documents, as another party may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby.

8.10No Strict Construction. The language used in this Agreement is deemed to be the language chosen by the parties to express their mutual intent, and no rules of strict construction will be applied against any party.

8.11Equitable Relief. The Company recognizes that, if it fails to perform or discharge any of its obligations under this Agreement, any remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Purchasers. The Company therefore agrees that the Purchasers are entitled to seek temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case. Each Purchaser also recognizes that, if it fails to perform or discharge any of its obligations under this Agreement, any remedy at law may prove to be inadequate relief to the Company. Each Purchaser therefore agrees that the Company is entitled to seek temporary and permanent injunctive relief in any such case.

8.12Independent Nature of Purchasers’ Obligations and Rights. The obligations of each Purchaser under this Agreement are several and not joint with the obligations of any other Purchaser, and no Purchaser shall be responsible in any way for the performance of the obligations of any other Purchaser under this Agreement. Nothing contained herein and no action taken by any Purchaser pursuant thereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Purchasers as a partnership, an association, a joint venture or any other kind of entity, or create a presumption that the Purchasers are in any way acting in concert or as a group, or are deemed Affiliates with respect to such obligations or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement. Each Purchaser shall be entitled to independently protect and enforce its rights, including without limitation the rights arising out of this Agreement, and it shall not be necessary for any other Purchaser to be joined as an additional party in any proceeding for such purpose.

8.13Waiver of Conflicts. Each Purchaser acknowledges that Cooley LLP, outside general counsel to the Company, has in the past performed and is or may now or in the future represent one or more Purchasers or their Affiliates in matters unrelated to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement (the “Financing”), including representation of such Purchasers or their Affiliates in matters of a similar nature to the Financing. The applicable rules of professional conduct require that Cooley LLP inform the Purchasers hereunder of this representation and obtain their consent. Cooley LLP has served as outside general counsel to the Company and has negotiated the terms of the Financing solely on behalf of the Company. Each Purchaser hereby (a) acknowledges that they have had an opportunity to ask for and have obtained information relevant to such representation, including disclosure of the reasonably foreseeable adverse consequences of such representation, (b) acknowledges that with respect to the Financing, Cooley LLP has represented solely the Company, and not any Purchaser or any stockholder, director or employee of the Company or any Purchaser, and (c) gives its informed consent to Cooley LLP’s representation of the Company in the Financing.

[Signature Page Follows]

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

By:       /s/ Charles P. Theuer

Name:  Charles P. Theuer, M.D., Ph.D.

Title:    President and Chief Executive Officer

[Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Securities Purchase Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

Purchaser:

Opaleye L.P.

By:       /s/ James Silverman

Name:  James Silverman

Title:    Founder/Chairman

[Signature Page to Securities Purchase Agreement]

EXHIBIT A

SCHEDULE OF PURCHASERS

Purchaser	Shares	Pre-Funded Warrants	Aggregate Purchase Price
Opaleye L.P.	174,508	2,013,999	$2,999,999.67
Total	174,508	2,013,999	$2,999,999.67

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EXHIBIT B

FORM OF PRE-FUNDED WARRANT

THIS WARRANT AND THE UNDERLYING SECURITIES HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OR UNLESS OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THOSE LAWS. THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO THE EXTENT THAT AN OPINION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE SECURITIES WERE ISSUED.

TRACON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

PRE-FUNDED WARRANT TO PURCHASE COMMON STOCK

No. PFW March [__], 2023

Void After March [__], 2033

THIS CERTIFIES THAT, for value received, [ ] or its permitted assigns (the “Holder”), is entitled to subscribe for and purchase at the Exercise Price (defined below) from TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the“Company”) with an address of 4350 La Jolla Village Drive, Suite 800, San Diego, CA, 92122, up to [] shares of the Common Stock of the Company (the“Common Stock”), subject to adjustment as provided herein. This Warrant is one of a series of Warrants being issued pursuant to the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated March 9, 2023, by and among the Company and the original Holder of this Warrant and the other parties named therein (the “Purchase Agreement”). Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed to such terms in the Purchase Agreement.

1.DEFINITIONS. As used herein, the following terms shall have the following respective meanings:

1.1“Exercise Period” shall mean, subject to Section 2.5, the period commencing March [__], 2023 and ending March [__], 2033, unless sooner terminated as provided below.

1.2“Exercise Price” shall mean $0.01 per share, subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 5 below.

1.3“Exercise Shares” shall mean the shares of the Company’s Common Stock issued upon exercise of this Warrant, subject to adjustment pursuant to the terms herein, including but not limited to adjustment pursuant to Section 5 below.

2.EXERCISE OF WARRANT.

2.1Method of Exercise. The rights represented by this Warrant may be exercised in whole or in part at any time during the Exercise Period, by delivery of the following to the Company at its address set forth above (or at such other address as it may designate by notice in writing to the Holder):

(a)An executed Notice of Exercise in the form attached hereto;

(b)Payment of the Exercise Price either (i) in cash or by check or wire transfer of immediately available funds, or (ii) pursuant to a Cashless Exercise, as described and permitted below; and

(c)This Warrant.

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Upon the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant, shares of Common Stock shall be issued for the Exercise Shares so purchased, and shall be registered in the name of the Holder or persons affiliated with the Holder, if the Holder so designates, within a reasonable time after the rights represented by this Warrant shall have been so exercised and shall be issued in certificate form and delivered to the Holder, if so requested.

The person in whose name any Exercise Shares are to be issued upon exercise of this Warrant shall be deemed to have become the holder of record of such shares on the date on which this Warrant was surrendered and payment of the Exercise Price was made, irrespective of the date of issuance of the shares of Common Stock, except that, if the date of such surrender and payment is a date when the stock transfer books of the Company are closed, such person shall be deemed to have become the holder of such shares at the close of business on the next succeeding date on which the stock transfer books are open.

2.2Cashless Exercise. Notwithstanding any provisions herein to the contrary, if, at any time during the Exercise Period, the Current Market Price (as defined below) of one share of Common Stock is greater than the Exercise Price (at the date of calculation as set forth below), then, in lieu of exercising this Warrant by payment of cash, the Holder may exercise this Warrant by a cashless exercise by surrender of this Warrant at the principal office of the Company together with the properly endorsed Notice of Exercise and the Company shall issue to the Holder a number of shares of Common Stock computed using the following formula:

	X =	Y (B-A)       B
Where:	X =	the number of shares of Common Stock to be issued to the Holder.
	Y =	the number of shares of Common Stock purchasable upon exercise of all of the Warrant or, if only a portion of the Warrant is being exercised, the portion of the Warrant being exercised.
	A =	the Exercise Price.
	B =	the Current Market Price of one share of Common Stock.

“Current Market Price” means on any particular date:

(a)if the Common Stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”), the closing price of the Common Stock of the Company on such market on the day prior to the applicable date of valuation;

(b)if the Common Stock is traded on any registered national stock exchange but is not traded on Nasdaq, the closing price of the Common Stock of the Company on such exchange on the day prior to the applicable date of valuation;

(c)if the Common Stock is traded over-the-counter, but not on Nasdaq or another registered national stock exchange, the closing bid price of the Common Stock of the Company on the day prior to the applicable date of valuation; and

(d)if there is no active public market for the Common Stock, the value thereof, as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company upon due consideration of the proposed determination thereof by the Holder.

2.3Partial Exercise. If this Warrant is exercised in part only, the Company shall, upon surrender of this Warrant, execute and deliver, within 10 days of the date of exercise, a new Warrant evidencing the rights of the Holder, or such other person as shall be designated in the Notice of Exercise, to purchase the balance of the Exercise Shares purchasable hereunder. In no event shall this Warrant be exercised for a fractional Exercise Share, and the Company shall not distribute a Warrant exercisable for a fractional Exercise Share. Fractional Warrant shares shall be treated as provided in Section 6 hereof.

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2.4No Settlement for Cash. The Warrant cannot be settled with the Company for cash and except with respect to fractional shares as provided herein, the Company shall have no obligation to pay cash upon any exercise of this Warrant.

2.5Exercise Limitation. The Company shall not effect the exercise of this Warrant and the Holder shall not have the right to exercise this Warrant, (A) to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, the Holder (together with the Holder’s Affiliates) would beneficially own in excess of 19.99% (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the shares of Common Stock outstanding and/or the then combined voting power of all of the Company’s voting securities immediately after giving effect to such exercise (the “Beneficial Ownership Limitation”) and (B) if at the time of such exercise, such exercise would violate, or would result in a violation by the Company of, any Nasdaq Stock Market Rule (and any successor to the Nasdaq Stock Market and any other trading market on which the Common Stock is listed), including, without limitation, Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(b) relating to a change of control and Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635(d) relating to private issuances; provided, that, with respect to clause (A) above, the Beneficial Ownership Limitation shall not apply in the event that the Company obtains Stockholder Approval for a change of control with respect to the Holder and such Stockholder Approval remains valid pursuant to Nasdaq and such exercise otherwise satisfies the requirements of Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635 with respect to issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant or any other warrant held by the Holder. If, on the last Business Day of the Exercise Period, the Holder cannot exercise this Warrant in full because (i) such exercise would cause the Holder to exceed the Beneficial Ownership Limitation and (ii) Stockholder Approval has not been obtained for such exercise, the Exercise Period shall automatically, and without any further action of the parties, be extended to March [__], 2043. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates shall include the number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude shares of Common Stock which would be issuable upon (a) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of this Warrant beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates and (b) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by such Holder and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act. For purposes of this Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock, the Holder may rely on the number of outstanding shares of Common Stock as reflected in (x) the Company’s most recent Form 10-Q or Form 10-K, as the case may be, filed with the SEC on the date thereof, (y) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (z) any other notice by the Company or its transfer agent setting forth the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding. By written notice to the Company, the Holder may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage to any other percentage not in excess of 19.99% specified in such notice; provided that (i) any such increase will not be effective until the sixty-fifth (65th) day after such notice is delivered to the Company and (ii) any such increase or decrease will apply only to the Holder and not to any other holder of Warrants. The provisions of this paragraph shall be construed and implemented in a manner otherwise than in strict conformity with the terms of this paragraph to correct this paragraph (or any portion hereof) which may be defective or inconsistent with the intended beneficial ownership limitation herein contained or to make changes or supplements necessary or desirable to properly give effect to such limitation and comply with any rules of Nasdaq. Notwithstanding any of the limitations set forth in this paragraph, this Warrant shall be fully exercisable in connection with a Liquidation Event (as defined below); provided further that this sentence shall not be given effect to the extent it could conflict with the rules of Nasdaq or any similar rule of any stock exchange on which the Common Stock is listed at the relevant time. In accordance with such listing standards, this restriction will apply at any time when the Warrant is outstanding, regardless of whether the Company then has a class of securities listed on Nasdaq. For purposes herein, “Liquidation Event” shall mean the consummation of any of the following transactions: (a) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is not the surviving entity (other than a merger or consolidation with a wholly owned subsidiary, a reincorporation or continuation of the Company in a different jurisdiction, or other transaction in which there is no substantial change in the stockholders of the Company), (b) the sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company, or (c) the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the Company by a single stockholder and its Affiliates as a result of a tender offer or similar transaction.

3.COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.

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3.1Covenants as to Exercise Shares. The Company covenants and agrees that all Exercise Shares that may be issued upon the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant will, upon issuance, be validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable, and free from all taxes, liens and charges with respect to the issuance thereof. The Company further covenants and agrees that the Company will at all times during the Exercise Period have authorized and reserved, free from preemptive rights, a sufficient number of shares of its Common Stock to provide for the exercise of the rights represented by this Warrant. If at any time during the Exercise Period the number of authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock shall not be sufficient to permit exercise of this Warrant, the Company will take such corporate action as may, in the opinion of its counsel, be necessary to increase its authorized but unissued shares of Common Stock (or other securities as provided herein) to such number of shares as shall be sufficient for such purposes.

3.2No Impairment. Except and to the extent as waived or consented to by the Holder or otherwise in accordance with Section 11 hereof, the Company will not, by amendment of its Certificate of Incorporation (as such may be amended from time to time), or through any means, avoid or seek to avoid the observance or performance of any of the terms to be observed or performed hereunder by the Company, but will at all times in good faith assist in the carrying out of all the provisions of this Warrant and in the taking of all such action as may be necessary or appropriate in order to protect the exercise rights of the Holder against impairment.

3.3Notices of Record Date. In the event of any taking by the Company of a record of the holders of any class of securities for the purpose of determining the holders thereof who are entitled to receive any dividend (other than a cash dividend which is the same as cash dividends paid in previous quarters) or other distribution, the Company shall mail to the Holder, at least 10 days prior to the date thereof, a notice specifying the date on which any such record is to be taken for the purpose of such dividend or distribution.

3.4Distributions. If the Company shall declare or make any dividend or other distribution of its assets (or rights to acquire its assets) (the “Distributed Property”) to holders of shares of Common Stock, by way of return of capital or otherwise (including, without limitation, any distribution of cash, stock or other securities, property or options by way of a dividend, spin off, reclassification, corporate rearrangement, scheme of arrangement or other similar transaction) (a “Distribution”), at any time after the issuance of this Warrant, then, in each such case, the Holder shall be entitled, upon exercise of this Warrant for the purchase of any or all of the Exercise Shares, to receive the amount of Distributed Property which would have been payable to the Holder had such Holder been the holder of such Exercise Shares on the record date for the determination of the stockholders entitled to receive such Distributed Property. The Company will at all times set aside in escrow and keep available for distribution to such Holder upon exercise of this Warrant a portion of the Distributed Property to satisfy the distribution to which such Holder is entitled pursuant to the preceding sentence.

3.5Fundamental Transactions. If the Company consummates (a) a merger or consolidation with or into another entity, as a result of which the holders of the Company’s outstanding voting securities as of immediately prior to such merger or consolidation hold less than a majority of the outstanding voting securities of the surviving or successor entity as of immediately after such merger or consolidation or (b) a sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all its property, assets or business to another person or entity (any such transaction being hereinafter referred to as a “Fundamental Transaction”), then the Company shall ensure that lawful and adequate provision shall be made whereby the Holder shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions herein specified and in lieu of the Exercise Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, such shares of stock, securities or assets as would have been issuable or payable with respect to or in exchange for a number of Exercise Shares equal to the number of Exercise Shares immediately theretofore issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, had such Fundamental Transaction not taken place. The provisions of this Section 3.5 shall similarly apply to successive consolidations, mergers, sales, transfers or other dispositions.

4.REPRESENTATIONS OF HOLDER.

4.1Acquisition of Warrant for Personal Account. The Holder represents and warrants that it is acquiring the Warrant and the Exercise Shares solely for its account for investment and not with a present view toward the public or distribution of said Warrant or Exercise Shares or any part thereof and has no intention of selling or distributing said Warrant or Exercise Shares or any arrangement or understanding with any other persons regarding the sale or distribution of said Warrant or, except in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 of the Purchase

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Agreement, the Exercise Shares, and except as would not result in a violation of the Securities Act. The Holder will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire or take a pledge of) the Warrant except in accordance with the Securities Act and will not, directly or indirectly, offer, sell, pledge, transfer or otherwise dispose of (or solicit any offers to buy, purchase or otherwise acquire or take a pledge of) the Exercise Shares except in accordance with the provisions of Section 6 of the Purchase Agreement or pursuant to and in accordance with the Securities Act.

4.2Securities Are Not Registered.

(a)The Holder understands that the offer and sale of the Warrant or the Exercise Shares have not been registered under the Securities Act on the basis that no distribution or public offering of the securities is to be effected. The Holder realizes that the basis for the exemption may not be present if, notwithstanding its representations, the Holder has a present intention of acquiring the securities for a fixed or determinable period in the future, selling (in connection with a distribution or otherwise), granting any participation in, or otherwise distributing the securities. The Holder has no such present intention.

(b)The Holder recognizes that the Warrant and the Exercise Shares must be held indefinitely unless they are subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available. The Holder recognizes that the Company has no obligation to register the Warrant or, except as provided in the Purchase Agreement, the Exercise Shares of the Company, or to comply with any exemption from such registration.

(c)The Holder is aware that neither the Warrant nor the Exercise Shares may be sold pursuant to Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act unless certain conditions are met, including, among other things, the availability of certain current public information about the Company and the resale following the required holding period under Rule 144. Holder is aware that any such sale made in reliance on Rule 144, if Rule 144 is available, may be made only in accordance with the terms of Rule 144.

4.3Disposition of Warrant and Exercise Shares.

(a)The Holder further agrees not to make any disposition of all or any part of the Warrant or Exercise Shares in any event unless and until:

(i)The Company shall have received a letter secured by the Holder from the SEC stating that no action will be recommended to the SEC with respect to the proposed disposition;

(ii)There is then in effect a registration statement under the Securities Act covering such proposed disposition and such disposition is made in accordance with said registration statement; or

(iii)The Holder shall have notified the Company of the proposed disposition and shall have furnished the Company with a detailed statement of the circumstances surrounding the proposed disposition, and if reasonably requested by the Company, the Holder shall have furnished the Company with an opinion of counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Company, for the Holder to the effect that such disposition will not require registration of such Warrant or Exercise Shares under the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws; provided, that no opinion shall be required for any disposition made or to be made in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144.

(b)The Holder understands and agrees that all certificates evidencing the Exercise Shares to be issued to the Holder may bear a legend in substantially the following form; provided, that such legend shall be removed (or such Exercise Shares shall be issued without such legend upon exercise of this Warrant) as required pursuant to Section 3.6(b) of the Purchase Agreement:

THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE SECURITIES MAY NOT BE SOLD, OFFERED FOR SALE, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED, TRANSFERRED OR ASSIGNED IN THE ABSENCE OF AN EFFECTIVE

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REGISTRATION STATEMENT FOR THE SECURITIES UNDER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS, OR UNLESS OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED, HYPOTHECATED OR TRANSFERRED PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THOSE LAWS. THE COMPANY SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REQUIRE AN OPINION OF COUNSEL SATISFACTORY TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS NOT REQUIRED TO THE EXTENT THAT AN OPINION IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THE AGREEMENT UNDER WHICH THE SECURITIES WERE ISSUED.

5.ADJUSTMENT OF EXERCISE PRICE. In the event of changes in the outstanding Common Stock of the Company by reason of stock dividends, split-ups, recapitalizations, reclassifications, combinations or exchanges of shares, separations, reorganizations, liquidations, or the like, the number and class of shares available under the Warrant in the aggregate and the Exercise Price shall be correspondingly adjusted to give the Holder of the Warrant, on exercise for the same aggregate Exercise Price, the total number, class, and kind of shares as the Holder would have owned had the Warrant been exercised prior to the event and had the Holder continued to hold such shares until after the event requiring adjustment. The form of this Warrant need not be changed because of any adjustment in the number, class, and kind of shares subject to this Warrant. The Company shall promptly provide a certificate from an executive officer of the Company notifying the Holder in writing of any adjustment in the Exercise Price and/or the total number, class, and kind of shares issuable upon exercise of this Warrant, which certificate shall specify the Exercise Price and number, class and kind of shares under this Warrant after giving effect to such adjustment.

6.FRACTIONAL SHARES. No fractional shares shall be issued upon the exercise of this Warrant as a consequence of any adjustment pursuant hereto. All Exercise Shares (including fractions) issuable upon exercise of this Warrant may be aggregated for purposes of determining whether the exercise would result in the issuance of any fractional share. If, after aggregation, the exercise would result in the issuance of a fractional share, the Company shall, in lieu of issuance of any fractional share, pay the Holder otherwise entitled to such fraction a sum in cash equal to the product resulting from multiplying the Exercise Price by such fraction.

7.CERTAIN EVENTS. In the event of, at any time during the Exercise Period, any capital reorganization, or any reclassification of the capital stock of the Company (other than a change in par value or from par value to no par value or no par value to par value or as a result of a stock dividend or subdivision, split-up or combination of shares), or the consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another corporation (other than a merger solely to effect a reincorporation of the Company into another jurisdiction), in each case, in which the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such capital reorganization, reclassification, consolidation or merger, will hold less than a majority of the outstanding shares of the Company or resulting corporation immediately after such capital reorganization, reclassification, consolidation or merger, or the sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company and its subsidiaries, taken as a whole, in its entirety to any other person, other than sales or other dispositions that do not require stockholder approval (each, an “Event”), the Company shall provide to the Holder 10 days’ advance written notice of such Event, and the Holder shall have the option, in its sole discretion, to allow any unexercised portion of the Warrant to be deemed automatically exercised pursuant to Section 2.2, subject to Section 2.5. This Warrant will be binding upon the successors and assigns of the Company upon an Event.

8.NO STOCKHOLDER RIGHTS. This Warrant in and of itself shall not entitle the Holder to any voting rights or other rights as a stockholder of the Company.

9.TRANSFER OF WARRANT. Subject to applicable laws, including compliance with all applicable securities laws, this Warrant and all rights hereunder are transferable, by the Holder in person or by duly authorized attorney, upon delivery of this Warrant and the form of assignment attached hereto to any transferee designated by Holder. The transferee shall sign an investment letter in form and substance satisfactory to the Company.

10.LOST, STOLEN, MUTILATED OR DESTROYED WARRANT. If this Warrant is lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, the Company may, on such terms as to indemnity or otherwise as it may reasonably impose (which shall, in the case of a mutilated Warrant, include the surrender thereof), issue a new Warrant of like denomination and tenor as the Warrant so lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed and in lieu thereof.

11.MODIFICATIONS AND WAIVER. Except for Section 2.5 of this Warrant at any time prior to the Company attaining Stockholder Approval for issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant in excess of the Maximum Percentage and the Company otherwise satisfies the requirements of Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635 with respect to issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant, this Warrant and any provision hereof may be changed, waived, discharged or terminated only by an instrument in writing signed by the Company and either (a) Purchasers holding Pre-Funded Warrants representing at least 75% of the number of Exercise Shares then issuable upon exercise of all Pre-Funded Warrants sold pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, provided, however, that such modification, amendment or waiver is made with respect to all Pre-Funded Warrants and does not adversely affect any Purchaser holding Pre-Funded Warrants in a manner different than all other Purchasers holding Pre-Funded Warrants or (b) the Holder. Any modification, amendment or waiver by a party effected in accordance with this Section 11 shall be binding upon, in the case of clause (a) of the preceding sentence, all Purchasers holding Pre-Funded Warrants, and, in the case of clause (b) of the preceding sentence, the Holder, including with respect to any Exercise Shares then issuable and held by such parties or party and each future holder of all such securities. For the avoidance of doubt, Section 2.5 of this Warrant may not be changed, waived, discharged or terminated at any time prior to the Company attaining Stockholder Approval for issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant in

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excess of the Maximum Percentage and the Company otherwise satisfies the requirements of Nasdaq Stock Market Rule 5635 with respect to issuances of shares of Common Stock upon exercise of this Warrant.

12.NOTICES, ETC. All notices required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed effectively given: (a) upon personal delivery to the party to be notified, (b) when sent by confirmed email if sent during normal business hours of the recipient, if not, then on the next Business Day, (c) five days after having been sent by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid, or (d) one Business Day after deposit with a nationally recognized overnight courier, specifying next day delivery, with written verification of receipt. All communications shall be sent to the Company at the address or email address listed on the signature page and to the Holder at the address or email address on the Company records, or at such other address or email address as the Company or Holder may designate by 10 days’ advance written notice to the other party hereto.

13.ACCEPTANCE. Receipt of this Warrant by the Holder shall constitute acceptance of and agreement to all of the terms and conditions contained herein.

14.GOVERNING LAW. This Warrant and all rights, obligations and liabilities hereunder shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to the principles of conflict of laws.

15.DESCRIPTIVE HEADINGS. The descriptive headings of the several paragraphs of this Warrant are inserted for convenience only and do not constitute a part of this Warrant. The language in this Warrant shall be construed as to its fair meaning without regard to which party drafted this Warrant.

16.SEVERABILITY. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Warrant in any jurisdiction shall not affect the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction, or affect any other provision of this Warrant, which shall remain in full force and effect.

17.ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Warrant constitutes the entire agreement between the parties pertaining to the subject matter contained in it and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous agreements, representations, and undertakings of the parties, whether oral or written, with respect to such subject matter.

[Signature Page Follows]

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant to be executed by its duly authorized officer as of March [__], 2023.

TRACON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
By:
Name:
Title:
Address:	4350 La Jolla Village Drive Suite 800 San Diego, CA 92122
Email:	sbrown@traconpharma.com

NOTICE OF EXERCISE

TO: TRACON PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.

(1) The undersigned hereby elects to (check one box only):

☐ purchase shares of the Common Stock of TRACON Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) pursuant to the terms of the attached Warrant, and tenders herewith payment of the exercise price in full for such shares, together with all applicable transfer taxes, if any.

☐ purchase the number of shares of Common Stock of the Company by cashless exercise pursuant to the terms of the Warrant as shall be issuable upon cashless exercise of the portion of the Warrant relating to shares, and shall tender payment of all applicable transfer taxes, if any.

(2) Please issue a certificate or certificates representing said shares of Common Stock in the name of the undersigned or in such other name as is specified below:

(Name)

(Address)

(Email address)

(3) The undersigned represents that (i) the aforesaid shares of Common Stock are being acquired for the account of the undersigned for investment and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, the distribution thereof and that the undersigned has no present intention of distributing or reselling such shares; (ii) the undersigned is aware of the Company’s business affairs and financial condition and has acquired sufficient information about the Company to reach an informed and knowledgeable decision regarding its investment in the Company; (iii) the undersigned is experienced in making investments of this type and has such knowledge and background in financial and business matters that the undersigned is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of this investment and protecting the undersigned’s own interests; (iv) the undersigned understands that the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of this Warrant have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), by reason of a specific exemption from the registration provisions of the Securities Act, which exemption depends upon, among other things, the bona fide nature of the investment intent as expressed herein, and, because such securities have not been registered under the Securities Act, they must be held indefinitely unless subsequently registered under the Securities Act or an exemption from such registration is available; (v) the undersigned is aware that the aforesaid shares of Common Stock may not be sold pursuant to Rule 144 adopted under the Securities Act unless certain conditions are met, including a condition that the undersigned has held the shares for the time period prescribed by Rule 144; and (vi) the undersigned agrees not to make any disposition of all or any part of the aforesaid shares of Common Stock unless and until there is then in effect a registration statement under the Securities Act covering such proposed disposition and such disposition is made in accordance with said registration statement, or the undersigned has furnished the Company with an opinion of counsel, reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to the effect that such disposition is not required to be registered pursuant to the Securities Act or any applicable state securities laws; provided, that no opinion shall be required for any disposition made or to be made in accordance with the provisions of Rule 144.

(Date)	(Signature)
	(Print name)

ASSIGNMENT FORM

(To assign the foregoing Warrant, subject to compliance with Section 4.3 thereof, execute this form and supply required information. Do not use this form to purchase shares.)

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the foregoing Warrant and all rights evidenced thereby are hereby assigned to:

Name:

(Please Print)

Address:

(Please Print)

Email address:

Dated:, 20

Holder’s

Signature:

Holder’s

Address:

NOTE: The signature to this Assignment Form must correspond with the name as it appears on the face of the Warrant, without alteration or enlargement or any change whatever. Officers of corporations and those acting in a fiduciary or other representative capacity should file proper evidence of authority to assign the foregoing Warrant.

 

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