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Stockholders' Equity
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Equity [Abstract]  
Stockholders' Equity

5. Stockholders’ Equity

Underwritten Follow-On Public Offerings

In September 2021, we completed an underwritten follow-on public offering of 10,781,250 shares of our common stock, including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, at a price to the public of $8.00 per share. The total net proceeds from the offering were approximately $80.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and offering expenses payable by us.

At the Market Offering Programs

In March 2021, we entered into a Capital on DemandTM Sales Agreement with JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC (JonesTrading) for an at-the-market offering program (Prior ATM Offering Program), pursuant to which we were entitled to sell from time to time, at our option, up to an aggregate of $25.0 million of shares of our common stock through JonesTrading, as sales agent or principal. JonesTrading was entitled to a commission at a fixed rate equal of up to 3.0% of the gross proceeds. During 2021, we sold an aggregate of 986,267 shares of common stock at an average price of $4.75 per share for net proceeds of $4.4 million under the Prior ATM Offering Program. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, we sold an aggregate of 260,455 shares of common stock at an average price of $6.07 per share for net proceeds of approximately $1.5 million under the Prior ATM Offering Program. On April 22, 2022, we terminated the Prior ATM Offering Program.

Purchase Agreement

In September 2020, we entered into a common stock purchase agreement (Purchase Agreement) with Aspire Capital Fund, LLC (Aspire Capital), which provides that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions and limitations set forth therein, Aspire Capital is committed to purchase up to an aggregate of $20.0 million of shares of our common stock at our request from time to time during the 30 month term of the Purchase Agreement. Concurrently with entering into the Purchase Agreement, we also entered into a registration rights agreement with Aspire Capital, in which we agreed to file one or more registration statements, as permissible and necessary to register under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, for the resale of the shares of our common stock that have been and may be issued to Aspire Capital under the Purchase Agreement. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, we sold an aggregate of 3,000,000 shares of common stock at an average price of $5.09 per share for net proceeds of $15.2 million under this Purchase Agreement.

Inducement Grants

In March 2022, we adopted and our Board of Directors approved our 2022 Inducement Plan (Inducement Plan). Awards granted under our Inducement Plan are in accordance with the Nasdaq Listing Rules5635(c)(4). A total of 300,000 shares of our common stock were initially reserved for the issuance under our Inducement Plan.

The maximum term of options granted under the Inducement Plan is ten years. Each option vests over a period of four years, with 25% of the shares vesting on the one-year anniversary of the applicable vesting commencement date and the remaining 75% vesting in equal monthly installments over three years, subject to continuous employment.

In March 2022, we granted nonstatutory stock options under our Inducement Plan to purchase an aggregate of 58,400 shares of our common stock, each with an exercise price of $5.24 per share as inducement awards to ten employees.

Common Stock Reserved for Future Issuance

Common stock reserved for future issuance was as follows:

 

 

March 31, 2022

 

Common stock warrants

 

 

13,760

 

Common stock options and restricted stock units

 

 

1,824,164

 

Shares available under the 2015 equity incentive plan

 

 

72,423

 

Shares available under the 2022 inducement plan

 

 

241,600

 

Shares available under the employee stock purchase plan

 

 

71,933

 

 

 

 

2,223,880

 

 

The following table summarizes our stock option activity under all equity incentive plans for the three months ended March 31, 2022:

 

 

 

Number of

Outstanding

Stock Options

 

 

Weighted

Average

Exercise Price

 

Outstanding as of December 31, 2021

 

 

1,412,550

 

 

$

12.01

 

Granted

 

 

331,912

 

 

$

5.47

 

Exercises

 

 

(259

)

 

$

3.77

 

Canceled/forfeited/expired

 

 

(5,477

)

 

$

4.89

 

Outstanding as of March 31, 2022

 

 

1,738,726

 

 

$

10.79

 

 

The assumptions used in the Black-Scholes option pricing model to determine the fair value of the employee stock option grants were as follows:

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Expected term (in years)

 

6.02 – 6.08

 

 

5.99 – 6.02

 

Risk-free interest rate

 

1.7% – 2.4

%

 

0.6% – 0.9

%

Expected volatility

 

85.8% – 86.5

%

 

104.0% – 104.8

%

Expected dividend yield

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

 

The following table summarizes our restricted stock unit activity under all equity incentive plans for the three months ended March 31, 2022:

 

 

Number of Outstanding

Restricted Stock Units

 

 

Weighted Average

Grant Date

Fair Value

 

Balance as of December 31, 2021

 

 

7,500

 

 

$

4.08

 

Granted

 

 

80,438

 

 

$

5.52

 

Released

 

 

(2,500

)

 

$

4.13

 

Balance as of March 31, 2022

 

 

85,438

 

 

$

5.43

 

Stock-based Compensation

The allocation of stock-based compensation for all options and restricted stock units and stock issued pursuant to our employee stock purchase plan is as follows (in thousands):

 

 

March 31,

 

 

 

2022

 

 

2021

 

Research and development

 

$

107

 

 

$

63

 

General and administrative

 

 

310

 

 

 

297

 

Total stock-based compensation expense

 

$

417

 

 

$

360