TEXT-EXTRACT 2 filename2.txt United States securities and exchange commission logo May 29, 2024 Steven Foster Chief Executive Officer and President Tenon Medical, Inc. 104 Cooper Court Los Gatos, CA 95032 Re: Tenon Medical, Inc. Registration Statement on Form S-1 Filed May 10, 2024 File No. 333-279336 Dear Steven Foster: We have conducted a limited review of your registration statement and have the following comment. Please respond to this letter by amending your registration statement and providing the requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After reviewing any amendment to your registration statement and the information you provide in response to this letter, we may have additional comments. Registration Statement on Form S-1 filed May 10, 2024 The Lincoln Park Transaction, page 48 1. We note your disclosure here that you registered 598,909 shares of your common stock under your original registration statement. The registration statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-274451) that was declared effective on September 21, 2023, registered 5,989,087 Shares of Common Stock. Please revise to clarify the reason for this apparent inconsistency. For example, if it relates to the November 2023 reverse stock split, please revise to describe the effect of the stock split on the initial number of shares registered under the prior registration statement, or otherwise explain why these numbers do not correspond. General 2. We note that you are seeking to register 5,014,654 shares of your common stock for resale by the selling stockholder Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC pursuant to the Purchase Steven Foster Tenon Medical, Inc. May 29, 2024 Page 2 Agreement between you and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC dated as of July 24, 2023. We also note the effected reverse stock split that took place on November 2, 2023. However, it appears that you have registered some or all of these securities under the Registration Statement on Form S-1 (File No. 333-274451) declared effective by the SEC on September 21, 2023. Please clarify what portion of these securities have been registered, and provide us your analysis regarding why it is appropriate to register what appear to be the same securities on this registration statement, or remove these shares from your registration statement. We note your disclosure that you may elect to issue and sell to Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC more than the 5,000,000 shares of common stock reserved under the Purchase Agreement. To the extent that these shares are in addition to the 5,000,000 shares registered on the Form S-1 in September 2023 pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, then please revise disclosure throughout the registration statement to reflect that the shares being registered under this registration statement are outside of the reserved amount pursuant to the Purchase Agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of action by the staff. Refer to Rules 460 and 461 regarding requests for acceleration. Please allow adequate time for us to review any amendment prior to the requested effective date of the registration statement. Please contact Nicholas O'Leary at 202-551-4451 or Abby Adams at 202-551-6902 with any other questions. Sincerely, FirstName LastNameSteven Foster Division of Corporation Finance Office of Industrial Applications and Comapany NameTenon Medical, Inc. Services May 29, 2024 Page 2 cc: Jeffrey P. Wofford, Esq. FirstName LastName