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1610065802.8 LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT THIS LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT is made and dated as of June 28, 2024 and is entered into by and among Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Company”), and each other Person that has delivered a Joinder Agreement pursuant to Section 7.13 from time to time party hereto (together with Company, individually or collectively, as the context may require, “Borrower”), each Original Guarantor and each Additional Guarantor from time to time party hereto the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time party hereto as lenders (each, a “Lender”, and collectively “Lenders”) and HERCULES CAPITAL, INC., a Maryland corporation, in its capacity as administrative agent and collateral agent for itself and Lenders (in such capacity, including any successors or assigns, “Agent”). RECITALS A. The Loan Parties have requested Lenders make available to Borrower a term loan in an aggregate principal amount of Fifty-Eight Million Dollars ($58,000,000) (the “Term Loan”); and B. Lenders are willing to make the Term Loan on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. AGREEMENT NOW, THEREFORE, Loan Parties, Agent and Lenders agree as follows: SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION 1.1 Unless otherwise defined herein, the following capitalized terms shall have the following meanings: “Account Control Agreement(s)” means any agreement entered into by and among Agent, the applicable Loan Party and a third-party bank or other institution (including a Securities Intermediary) in which the applicable Loan Party maintains a Deposit Account or an account holding Investment Property and which perfects Agent’s first priority security interest in the subject account or accounts. “ACH Authorization” means the ACH Debit Authorization Agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit H, which account numbers shall be redacted for security purposes if and when filed publicly by Borrower. “Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose of or resulting, directly or indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of a Person, or of any business, line of business or division or other unit of operation of a Person, (b) the acquisition of fifty percent (50%) or more of the Equity Interests of any Person, whether or not involving a merger, consolidation or similar transaction with such other Person, or otherwise causing any Person to become a Subsidiary of any Loan Party, or (c) the acquisition of, or the right to use, develop or sell (in each case, including through licensing (other than “off-the-shelf” licenses)), any product, product line or intellectual property of or from any other Person. “Additional Guarantor” means each Person that has delivered a Joinder Agreement pursuant to Section 7.13 and elected to become a ‘Guarantor’ thereunder. “Advance(s)” means a Term Loan Advance.


 
1610065802.8 2 “Advance Date” means the funding date of any Advance. “Advance Request” means a request for an Advance submitted by Borrower to Agent in substantially the form of Exhibit A, which account numbers shall be redacted for security purposes if and when filed publicly by Borrower. “Affiliate” means (a) any Person that directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Person in question, (b) in the case of any Loan Party, (i) any Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to vote ten percent (10%) or more of the outstanding voting securities of such Loan Party, or (ii), any Person ten percent (10%) or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled or held by such Loan Party with power to vote such securities, (c) in the case of any other Person other than a Loan Party, (i) any Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding with power to vote a majority or more of the outstanding voting securities of such Person, or (ii) any Person a majority or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned, controlled or held by such Person with power to vote such securities, or (d) any Person related by blood or marriage to any Person described in subsection (a), or, as applicable, (b) or (c) of this definition. As used in the definition of “Affiliate,” the term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise. “Agreement” means this Loan and Security Agreement, as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time. “Amortization Date” means July 1, 2026; provided however, if (a) the First Interest Only Extension Conditions are satisfied, then July 1, 2027, and (b) the Second Interest Only Extension Conditions are satisfied, then July 1, 2028. “Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to any Loan Party or any of their respective Affiliates from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption, including without limitation the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended, the UK Bribery Act 2010 and other similar legislation in any other jurisdictions. “Anti-Terrorism Laws” means any laws, rules, regulations or orders relating to terrorism or money laundering, including without limitation Executive Order No. 13224 (effective September 24, 2001), the USA PATRIOT Act, the laws comprising or implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, and the laws administered by OFAC. “Available Amount” means, at any time, without duplication, an amount equal to the sum of aggregate proceeds received by the Borrower from its (a) issuance of shares of Series C Preferred Stock in excess of Twenty-Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($27,500,000) and (b) issuance of additional Equity Interests after the Closing Date. “Bankruptcy Code” means the federal bankruptcy law of the United States as from time to time in effect, currently as Title 11 of the United States Code. Section references to current sections of the Bankruptcy Code shall refer to comparable sections of any revised version thereof if section numbering is changed. “Blocked Person” means any Person: (a) listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No. 13224, (b) a Person owned or controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, any Person that is listed in the annex to, or is otherwise subject to the provisions of, Executive Order No.


 
1610065802.8 3 13224, (c) a Person with which any Lender is prohibited from dealing or otherwise engaging in any transaction by any Anti-Terrorism Law, (d) a Person that commits, threatens or conspires to commit or supports “terrorism” as defined in Executive Order No. 13224, or (e) a Person that is named a “specially designated national” or “blocked person” on the most current list published by OFAC or other similar list. “Board of Directors” means, with respect to any Person that is a corporation (including a public benefit corporation), its board of directors, with respect to any Person that is a limited liability company, its board of managers, board of members or similar governing body, and with respect to any other Person that is another form of a legal entity, such Person’s governing body in accordance with its Organizational Documents. “Borrower’s Books” means Borrower’s or any Loan Party’s books and records including ledgers, federal, state, local and foreign tax returns, records regarding any Loan Party’s assets or liabilities, the Collateral, business operations or financial condition, and all computer programs or storage or any equipment containing such information. “Borrower Products” means all products, software, service offerings, technical data or technology currently being designed, manufactured or sold or that are under clinical investigation or development by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or which any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries intends to sell, license, or distribute in the future including any products or service offerings under development, collectively, together with all products, software, service offerings, technical data or technology that have been sold, licensed or distributed by Loan Party since its formation or incorporation. “Borrowing Base Limit” means an amount equal to: (a) prior to Borrower’s achievement of the Equity Milestone, (i) with respect to the fiscal quarters ending December 31, 2024, March 31, 2025, and June 30, 2025, 1.45 multiplied by T6MA Gross Profit, (ii) with respect to the fiscal quarters ending on September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2025, 1.25 multiplied by T6MA Gross Profit and (iii) with respect to fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2026 and each fiscal quarter thereafter, 1.00 multiplied by T6MA Gross Profit; and (b) after Borrower’s achievement of the Equity Milestone, (i) with respect to the fiscal quarters ending December 31, 2024, March 31, 2025, and June 30, 2025, 1.50 multiplied by T6MA Gross Profit, (ii) with respect to the fiscal quarters ending on September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2025, 1.25 multiplied by T6MA Gross Profit and (iii) with respect to fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2026 and each fiscal quarter thereafter, 1.00 multiplied by T6MA Gross Profit. “Borrowing Base Limit Period” shall mean any day on or after December 31, 2024 when Borrower maintains Qualified Cash in an amount less than Thirty Million Dollars ($30,000,000). “Business Day” means any day other than Saturday, Sunday and any other day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are closed for business. “Cash” means all cash, cash equivalents and liquid funds. “Change in Control” means (a) at any time, any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), shall become, or obtain rights (whether by means of warrants, options or otherwise) to become, the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), directly or indirectly, of


 
1610065802.8 4 forty-nine percent (49.0%) or more of the ordinary voting power for the election of directors, partners, managers and members, as applicable, of Company (determined on a fully diluted basis); (b) during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months, a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of Company cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that Board of Directors on the first (1st) day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that Board of Directors was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that Board of Directors or (iii) whose election or nomination to that Board of Directors was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that Board of Directors; or (c) at any time, Company shall cease to own and control, of record and beneficially, directly or indirectly, the lesser of (i) one hundred percent (100.0%) and (ii) its current (as of the Closing Date) ownership percentage of each class of outstanding stock, partnership, membership, or other ownership interest or other equity securities of each Subsidiary of Company free and clear of all Liens (other than Permitted Liens). “Charter” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s incorporation, formation or equivalent documents, as in effect from time to time. “Closing Date” means the date of this Agreement. “Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. “Collateral Claim” means any and all present and future “claims” (used in its broadest sense, as contemplated by and defined in Section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code, but without regard to whether such claim would be disallowed under the Bankruptcy Code) of a Lender now or hereafter arising or existing under or relating to this Agreement and related Loan Documents, whether joint, several, or joint and several, whether fixed or indeterminate, due or not yet due, contingent or non-contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, or disputed or undisputed, whether under a guaranty or a letter of credit, and whether arising under contract, in tort, by law, or otherwise, any interest or fees thereon (including interest or fees that accrue after the filing of a petition by or against a Loan Party under the Bankruptcy Code, irrespective of whether allowable under the Bankruptcy Code), any costs of Enforcement Actions, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs, and any prepayment or termination premiums. “Compliance Certificate” means a certificate in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E. “Contingent Obligation” means, as applied to any Person, any direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of that Person with respect to (i) any Indebtedness, lease (excluding operating leases of real property), dividend, letter of credit or other obligation of another Person, including any such obligation directly or indirectly guaranteed, endorsed, co-made or discounted or sold with recourse by that Person, or in respect of which that Person is otherwise directly or indirectly liable; (ii) any obligations with respect to undrawn letters of credit, corporate credit cards or merchant services issued for the account of that Person; and (iii) all obligations arising under any interest rate, currency or commodity swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest rate collar agreement, or other agreement or arrangement designated to protect a Person against fluctuation in interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices; provided, however, that the term “Contingent Obligation” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed, without duplication of the primary obligation, to be an amount equal to the stated or determined amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by such Person in good faith; provided, however, that such amount shall not in any event exceed the maximum amount of the obligations under the guarantee or other support arrangement.


 
1610065802.8 5 “Copyright License” means any written agreement granting any right to use any Copyright or Copyright registration, now owned or hereafter acquired by a Loan Party or in which a Loan Party now holds or hereafter acquires any interest. “Copyrights” means all copyrights, whether registered or unregistered, held pursuant to the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof, or of any other country. “Default” means any event, circumstance or condition that has occurred or exists, that would, with the passage of time or the requirement that notice be given or both, become an Event of Default. “Deposit Accounts” means any “deposit accounts”, as such term is defined in the UCC, and includes any checking account, savings account, or certificate of deposit. “Division” means, in reference to any Person which is an entity, the division of such Person into two (2) or more separate Persons, with the dividing Person either continuing or terminating its existence as part of such division, including, without limitation, as contemplated under Section 18-217 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act for limited liability companies formed under Delaware law, Section 17-220 of the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act for limited partnerships formed under Delaware law, or any analogous action taken pursuant to any other applicable law with respect to any corporation (including a public benefit corporation), limited liability company, partnership or other entity. “Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary organized under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof, the District of Columbia, or any other jurisdiction within the United States of America. “DreamUp” means Borrower’s Subsidiary, DreamUp, PBC, a Delaware public benefit corporation. “Due Diligence Fee” means Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000), which fee has been paid to Agent and received by Agent prior to the Closing Date, and shall be deemed fully earned on such date regardless of the early termination of this Agreement. “EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, an amount equal to (a) Gross Profit for such period, minus (b) operating expenses (as determined in accordance with GAAP), plus (c) without duplication and to the extent deducted in the calculation of (i) total depreciation expense for such period, plus (ii) total amortization expense for such period), calculated in good faith, commercially reasonable manner, consistent with the model provided to the Agent prior to the Closing Date as of the last day of the month for which the most recent monthly financial statements were delivered in accordance with Section 7.1(a) (including, with respect to such financial statements, any supporting documentation requested by Agent). “Electrical Engineering JV” means Electrical Engineering and Space Solutions LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. “Enforcement Action” means, with respect to any Lender and with respect to any Collateral Claim of such Lender or any item of Collateral in which such Lender has or claims a security interest lien or right of offset, any action, whether judicial or nonjudicial, to repossess, collect, accelerate, offset, recoup, give notification to third parties with respect to, sell, dispose of, foreclose upon, give notice of sale, disposition, or foreclosure with respect to, or obtain equitable or injunctive relief with respect to, such


 
1610065802.8 6 Collateral Claim or Collateral. The filing, or the joining in the filing, by any Lender of an involuntary bankruptcy or Insolvency Proceeding against a Loan Party also is an Enforcement Action. “Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, the capital stock, partnership or limited liability company interest, or other equity securities or equity ownership interests of such Person. “Equity Milestone” means Borrower’s receipt, on or before December 31, 2024, of unrestricted (including, not subject to any redemption, clawback, escrow or similar encumbrance or restriction) net cash proceeds in excess of Forty Million Dollars ($40,000,000) from issuance of shares of Series C Preferred Stock. “ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and the regulations promulgated thereunder. “Excluded Accounts” means any of the following Deposit Accounts which are designated as such in writing to Agent as of the Closing Date or, with respect to any Deposit Account opened after the Closing Date, in the next Compliance Certificate delivered after such Deposit Account is opened: (a) Deposit Accounts exclusively used for payroll, payroll taxes, and other employee wage and benefit payments to or for the benefit of a Loan Party’s employees holding an aggregate amount across all such accounts of not more than amounts needed for the then-next two (2) payroll cycles, (b) any Deposit Account which is a zero-balance disbursement account, (c) any Deposit Account which is solely used for disbursements and payments of withheld income taxes, payroll taxes and/or federal, state or local employee taxes, (d) any Deposit Account which is solely used as a trust account, escrow account, or other fiduciary account, (e) any Deposit Accounts owned by the Starlab JV or the Electrical Engineering JV, (f) Deposit Accounts owned by an Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary, (g) any Deposit Account exclusively used for deposits referenced in clause (vi) of the defined term “Permitted Liens” are made, (h) Deposit Accounts with a balance not greater than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) individually and One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) in the aggregate at any time. “FDA” means the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any successor thereto. “First Interest Only Extension Conditions” means satisfaction of each of the following events: (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred; and (b) Borrower’s achievement of Interest Only Milestone I. “Foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary other than any Domestic Subsidiary. “Funding Account” means the deposit account maintained at PNC Bank, N.A., bearing account number 4751242658 in which Borrower has an interest (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall be the account into which the proceeds of the Loan will be funded into on the Closing Date). “GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time. “Governmental Approval” means any consent, authorization, approval, order, license, franchise, permit, certificate, accreditation, registration, filing or notice, of, issued by, from or to, or other act by or in respect of, any Governmental Authority. “Governmental Authority” means any federal, state, municipal, national or other government, governmental department, commission, board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or


 
1610065802.8 7 political subdivision thereof (including the FDA) or any entity or officer exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to any government or any court, in each case whether associated with a state or locality of the United States, the United States, or a foreign government. “Gross Profit” means, with respect to any Person for any period, an amount equal to total revenue (as determined in accordance with GAAP), minus total cost of goods sold (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but exclusive of (a) any gross profit attributable to the Starlab JV or the Electrical Engineering JV and (b) non-cash costs or charges incurred in connection with that certain Subscription Agreement, dated as of June 17, 2024, by and between the Company and Palantir Technologies Inc., and all transactions related thereto). “Guarantor” means each Original Guarantor or an Additional Guarantor. “Guaranty” means the guarantee of the Secured Obligations provided by the Guarantors under Section 12. “Immaterial Foreign Subsidiary” means any Foreign Subsidiary that is not a Material Foreign Subsidiary. “Indebtedness” means indebtedness of any kind, including, without duplication (a) all indebtedness for borrowed money, (b) the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding trade credit entered into in the ordinary course of business due within one hundred twenty (120) days), including reimbursement and other obligations with respect to surety bonds and letters of credit, (c) all obligations evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments, (d) all capital lease obligations, (e) all equity securities of any Person subject to repurchase or redemption other than at the sole option of such Person, (f) “earnouts”, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature arising out of purchase and sale contracts, in each case, the aggregate amount of which is determined by the Company in accordance with GAAP (g) obligations arising under bonus, deferred compensation, incentive compensation or similar arrangements (other than those arising in the ordinary course of business), (h) non-contingent obligations to reimburse any bank or Person in respect of amounts paid under a letter of credit, banker’s acceptance or similar instrument, and (i) all Contingent Obligations in respect of any of the obligations set forth in clauses (a) through (g) above. “Initial Facility Charge” means Five hundred Eighty Thousand Dollars ($580,000), which is payable to Lenders in accordance with Section 4.1(g). “Insolvency Proceeding” means any proceeding by or against any Person under the United States Bankruptcy Code, or any other bankruptcy, liquidation, moratorium, receivership, or insolvency law, including assignments for the benefit of creditors, compositions, extensions generally with its creditors, or proceedings seeking reorganization, administration, arrangement, receivership or other similar relief proceedings in the applicable jurisdiction from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally. “Intellectual Property” means all of a Loan Party’s Copyrights; Trademarks; Patents; Licenses; trade secrets and inventions; mask works; all of a Loan Party’s applications therefor and reissues, extensions, or renewals thereof; and such Loan Party’s goodwill associated with any of the foregoing, together with such Loan Party’s rights to sue for past, present and future infringement of Intellectual Property and the goodwill associated therewith.


 
1610065802.8 8 “Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means the Intellectual Property Security Agreement dated as of the Closing Date between Loan Parties party thereto and Agent, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented. “Interest Only Milestone I” means Borrower’s simultaneous achievement of (a) at least Fifty-Five Million Dollars ($55,000,000) of Gross Profit (measured on a trailing twelve (12) month basis), and (b) at least Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) of EBITDA (measured on a trailing twelve (12) month basis) as of the last day of the month for which the most recent monthly financial statements were delivered in accordance with Section 7.1(a) and calculated consistently with such financial statements and subject to Agent’s receipt of any supporting documentation reasonably requested by Agent, in each case on or before December 31, 2025. “Interest Only Milestone II” means Borrower’s simultaneous achievement of (a) at least Seventy-Two Million Dollars ($72,000,000) of Gross Profit (measured on a trailing twelve (12) month basis), and (b) at least Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) of EBITDA (measured on a trailing twelve (12) month basis) as of the last day of the month for which the most recent monthly financial statements were delivered in accordance with Section 7.1(a) and calculated consistently with such financial statements and subject to Agent’s receipt of any supporting documentation reasonably requested by Agent, in each case on or before December 31, 2026. “Investment” means (a) purchasing, holding or acquiring any stock, partnership interests, limited liability company interests, or other equity securities or ownership interests of or in any Person, (b) making any loan, advance or capital contribution to any Person, or (c) making any Acquisition, or (d) other transfers on behalf of or in connection with any formation or acquisition of equity ownership or similar transfers. “IRS” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. “Joinder Agreements” means for each Subsidiary required to join as a Borrower or as a Guarantor pursuant to Section 7.13, a completed and executed Joinder Agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit F. “License” means any Copyright License, Patent License, Trademark License or other Intellectual Property license of rights or interests. “Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment for security, security interest, encumbrance, levy, lien or charge of any kind, whether voluntarily incurred or arising by operation of law or otherwise, against any property, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, and any lease in the nature of a security interest. “Loan” means the Advances made under this Agreement. “Loan Documents” means this Agreement, the promissory notes (if any), the ACH Authorization, the Account Control Agreements, any Joinder Agreement, all UCC Financing Statements, any Guaranty, the Pledge Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement, and any other documents executed by a Loan Party in favor of the Agent of any Lender in connection with the Secured Obligations or the transactions contemplated hereby, as the same may from time to time be amended, modified, supplemented or restated. “Loan Party” means Borrower or any Guarantor.


 
1610065802.8 9 “Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect upon: (i) the business, operations, properties, assets or financial condition of the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries taken as a whole; or (ii) the ability of the Loan Parties to perform or pay the Secured Obligations in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, or the ability of Agent or Lenders to enforce any of its rights or remedies with respect to the Secured Obligations; or (iii) the Collateral or Agent’s Liens on the Collateral or the priority of such Liens. “Material Agreement” means any license, agreement or other contractual arrangement involving the receipt or payment of amounts in the aggregate exceeding Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) per fiscal year. “Material Foreign Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination, any Foreign Subsidiary of Borrower which (a) has generated more than five percent (5.0%) of Borrower’s consolidated total net revenues determined in accordance with GAAP for the four calendar quarter period ending on the last day of the most recent period for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(b), or (b) at any time holds assets the aggregate value of which exceed five percent (5.0%) of Borrower’s consolidated assets; provided that if all Foreign Subsidiaries that are not Material Foreign Subsidiaries in the aggregate, exceed ten percent (10%) of either the of the Company’s consolidated total net revenues or the Company’s consolidated assets, then the Company shall designate as many such Foreign Subsidiaries as are necessary to be deemed Material Foreign Subsidiaries so that after such designation the Foreign Subsidiaries that are not Material Foreign Subsidiaries in the aggregate are below such ten percent (10%) threshold with respect to both the Company’s consolidated total net revenues and Company’s consolidated assets. “Maximum Term Loan Amount” means Fifty-Eight Million Dollars and No/100 Dollars ($58,000,000). “Non-Disclosure Agreement” means that certain Mutual Confidentiality and Non- Disclosure Agreement by and between Borrower and Hercules Capital, Inc. dated as of March 1, 2024. “OFAC” means the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control. “OFAC Lists” means, collectively, the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List maintained by OFAC pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, 66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (Sept. 25, 2001) and/or any other list of terrorists or other restricted Persons maintained pursuant to any of the rules and regulations of OFAC or pursuant to any other applicable Executive Orders. “Organizational Documents” means with respect to any Person, such Person’s Charter, and (a) if such Person is a corporation (including a public benefit corporation), its bylaws, (b) if such Person is a limited liability company, its limited liability company agreement (or similar agreement), (c) if such Person is a partnership, its partnership agreement (or similar agreement), each of the foregoing with all current amendments or modifications thereto, and (d) if such Person is a Joint Venture Company, its shareholders agreements, joint venture agreements or similar binding agreements relating to any Joint Venture Company. “Original Guarantor” means each of the Borrower’s direct and indirect Subsidiaries listed on Annex A attached hereto. “Patent License” means any written agreement granting any right with respect to any invention on which a Patent is in existence or a Patent application is pending, in which agreement a Loan Party now holds or hereafter acquires any interest.


 
1610065802.8 10 “Patents” means all letters patent of, or rights corresponding thereto, in the United States of America or in any other country, all registrations and recordings thereof, and all applications for letters patent of, or rights corresponding thereto, in the United States of America or any other country. “Perfection Certificate” means each completed certificate entitled “Perfection Certificate”, dated as of the Closing Date, delivered by Company to Agent and Lenders, signed by Company (as amended pursuant to the terms of this Agreement). “Permitted Acquisition” means any Acquisition which is conducted in accordance with the following requirements: (i) of a business or Person or product engaged in substantially the same line of business as that of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries; (ii) if such Acquisition is structured as a stock acquisition, then the Person so acquired shall either (i) become a majority-owned Subsidiary of the Borrower and the Borrower shall comply, or cause such Subsidiary to comply, with Section 7.13 hereof or (ii) such Person shall be merged with and into a Loan Party (with such Loan Party being the surviving entity); (iii) if such Acquisition is structured as the acquisition or in-licensing of assets, such assets shall be acquired by Borrower or a newly-organized wholly-owned Subsidiary (in which event such Subsidiary shall comply with Section 7.13 hereof), and shall be free and clear of Liens other than Permitted Liens; (iv) Borrower shall have delivered to Lenders not less than fifteen (15) nor more than forty five (45) days prior to the date of such Acquisition, notice of such Acquisition together with pro forma projected financial information, copies of all material documents relating to such acquisition, and historical financial statements for such acquired entity, division or line of business, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to Lenders and demonstrating compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.21 on a pro forma basis as if the Acquisition occurred on the first day of the most recent measurement period; (v) both immediately before and after such Acquisition no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing; (vi) the target of such Acquisition is headquartered in the United States; (vii) Borrower shall have delivered to Lenders not less than fifteen (15) nor more than forty five (45) days prior to the date of such Acquisition, calculations demonstrating Remaining Months Liquidity of at least 12; and (viii) the sum of the purchase price of such proposed new Acquisition, computed on the basis of total acquisition cash consideration paid or incurred, or to be paid or incurred, by the Borrower with respect thereto, including the amount of Permitted Indebtedness assumed or to which such assets, businesses or business or ownership interest or shares, or any Person so acquired, is subject (excluding deferred or installment payments and “earnouts” or similar contingent payments otherwise permitted under this Agreement), and all other Permitted Acquisitions consummated in the same year shall not exceed the sum of (A) One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) per year, plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted


 
1610065802.8 11 Indebtedness or Permitted Investments; provided, however, that there shall be no limit on consideration paid in the form of Equity Interests of any Loan Party. “Permitted Indebtedness” means: (i) Indebtedness of Borrower in favor of any Lender or Agent arising under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (ii) Indebtedness existing on the Closing Date which is disclosed in Schedule 1A; (iii) Indebtedness of up to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) outstanding at any time secured by a Lien described in subsection (vii) of the defined term “Permitted Liens,” provided such Indebtedness does not exceed the cost of the equipment, software or other Intellectual Property financed with such Indebtedness; (iv) Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business with corporate credit cards in an aggregate outstanding amount not to exceed Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000) at any time; (v) Indebtedness that also constitutes a Permitted Investment or is secured by a Permitted Lien; (vi) Subordinated Indebtedness; (vii) reimbursement obligations in connection with letters of credit that are at any time outstanding and secured by Cash and issued on behalf of any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000); (viii) other unsecured Indebtedness in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) at any time outstanding; (ix) Indebtedness of any Loan Party owing to any other Loan Party; (x) Indebtedness of a Loan Party or any other Person consisting of obligations pursuant to put rights and/or call rights in an amount not to exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) per year, plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments; (xi) “earnouts”, purchase price adjustments, profit sharing arrangements, deferred purchase money amounts and similar payment obligations or continuing obligations of any nature arising out of purchase and sale contracts incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or any other Investment permitted hereunder; provided that aggregate amount of all such items permitted by this subsection (xi) shall not exceed (A) the sum of (1) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), plus (2) the Available Amount, minus (3) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, and (B) the sum of (1) One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), plus (2) the Available Amount, minus (3) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted


 
1610065802.8 12 Investments, plus (4) and the amount of operating cash flow minus capital expenditures, received by the Company from the target of such Permitted Acquisition or Investment and in each case calculated in accordance with GAAP on a trailing twelve (12) month basis as of the last day of the most recently ended calendar month for which financial statements are available, per fiscal year thereafter; provided, however, that there shall be no limit on amounts paid in the form of Equity Interests of any Loan Party for all items permitted by this subsection (xi); Contingent Obligations incurred by any Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness of any of their respective Subsidiaries and incurred by any of their respective Subsidiaries in respect of Indebtedness of any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary in an aggregate amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) at any time outstanding; (xii) Indebtedness of any Loan Party incurred to finance the acquisition, construction, or improvement of any fixed or capital assets (whether or not constituting purchase money Indebtedness) in the ordinary course of business, including capital lease obligations and Indebtedness assumed in connection with the acquisition of any such assets or secured by a Lien on any such assets (which shall attach only to such assets and shall not be an “all assets” or “blanket” Lien) prior to the acquisition thereof; provided, that (A) such Indebtedness is incurred prior to or within ninety (90) days after such acquisition or the completion of such construction or improvement and (B) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness permitted by this subsection (xii) shall not exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in aggregate at any time outstanding; (xiii) obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees provided by any Loan Party or its Subsidiaries to any Person and similar obligations, in an aggregate amount not to exceed (A) with respect to the bid bond for the United Arab Emirates Gateway Project, Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($12,500,000) at any time outstanding, and (B), for all other such performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees, the sum of (1) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) (or such larger amount that Agent shall approve in advance in writing in its sole discretion) plus (2) the Available Amount, minus (3) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments at any time outstanding; and (xiv) extensions, refinancings and renewals of any items of Permitted Indebtedness, provided that the principal amount is not increased or the terms modified to impose materially more burdensome terms upon any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries, as the case may be, and subject to any limitations on the aggregate amount of such Indebtedness. “Permitted Investment” means: (i) Investments existing on the Closing Date which are disclosed in Schedule 1B; (ii) (a) marketable direct obligations issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or any agency or any State thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof currently having a rating of at least A-2 or P-2 from either Standard & Poor’s Corporation or Moody’s Investors Service, (b) commercial paper maturing no more than one year from the date of creation thereof and currently having a rating of at least A-2 or P-2 from either Standard & Poor’s Corporation or Moody’s Investors Service, (c) certificates of deposit issued by any bank with assets of at least Five Hundred Million Dollars ($500,000,000) maturing no more than one year from the date of investment therein, and (d) money market accounts;


 
1610065802.8 13 (iii) repurchases of stock of Borrower from former employees, directors, or consultants of Borrower under the terms of applicable repurchase agreements at the original issuance price of such securities in an aggregate amount not to exceed Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($750,000) in any year, provided that no Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or could exist after giving effect to the repurchases; (iv) Investments accepted in connection with Permitted Transfers; (v) Investments (including debt obligations) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of customers or suppliers and in settlement of delinquent obligations of, and other disputes with, customers or suppliers arising in the ordinary course of any Loan Party’s business; (vi) Investments consisting of notes receivable of, or prepaid royalties and other credit extensions, to customers and suppliers who are not Affiliates, in the ordinary course of business, provided that this subsection (vi) shall not apply to Investments of any Loan Party in any Subsidiary of a Loan Party; (vii) Investments consisting of loans not involving the net transfer on a substantially contemporaneous basis of cash proceeds to employees, officers or directors relating to the purchase of capital stock of Company pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or other similar agreements approved by Company’s Board of Directors; (viii) Investments consisting of: (A) travel advances and employee relocation loans in the ordinary course of business, and (B) loans to employees, officers, managers or directors relating to the purchase of equity securities of Borrower pursuant to employee stock purchase plans or agreements approved by Borrower’s Board of Directors or similar governing body; not to exceed Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) in the aggregate for (A) and (B), collectively, from the Closing Date until the time that no Secured Obligations (other than for inchoate indemnification obligations which, by their terms, survive termination of this Agreement) remain outstanding; (ix) Investments (A) by a Loan Party in or to another Loan Party (other than an Original Guarantor), and (B) by any Loan Party in any Subsidiaries, provided that each such Subsidiary enters into a Joinder Agreement in accordance with Section 7.13; (x) Investments in Foreign Subsidiaries not to exceed the sum of (A) One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments in aggregate per year; (xi) joint ventures or strategic alliances other than the Starlab JV in the ordinary course of a Loan Party’s business consisting of the nonexclusive licensing of technology, the development of technology or the providing of technical support, provided that any cash Investments by the Loan Parties do not exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments, in the aggregate per year;


 
1610065802.8 14 (xii) Investments in the Starlab JV in the ordinary course of Borrower’s business consisting of (A) up to Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in in kind services in the aggregate per year, and (B) cash Investments by Borrower that do not exceed the sum of (A) One Million Dollars ($1,000,000), plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments, in the aggregate per year; (xiii) Investments in Domestic Subsidiaries which are not Loan Parties in an aggregate amount per year not to exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000); (xiv) any Permitted Acquisitions; (xv) advances of payroll payments to employees of Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of such advances shall not exceed One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) in aggregate per year; (xvi) Investments in the nature of pledges or deposits with respect to leases or utilities provided to third parties in the ordinary course of business and in an aggregate amount per year not to exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments,; (xvii) Investments, including Acquisitions, to the extent that payment for such Investments is made in the form of Equity Interests of the Borrower; (xviii) Investments by the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries (A) consisting of deposits, prepayment and other credits to suppliers or landlords and (B) in connection with obtaining, maintaining or renewing client contracts, each made in the ordinary course of business; (xix) the issuance of directors’ qualifying shares and shares of Equity Interests of Foreign Subsidiaries issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by law; (xx) guarantees, provided, that the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties that is guaranteed by any Loan Party shall not exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in aggregate outstanding at any time; (xxi) Investments in Subsidiaries which are not wholly-owned Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date for purposes of acquiring additional Equity Interests in such Subsidiary, provided, however, the aggregate amount of cash Investments made pursuant to this subsection (xxi) shall not exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) per year, plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments, in the aggregate; (xxii) Investments in Subsidiaries which are not wholly-owned Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date for purposes of acquiring additional Equity Interests in such Subsidiary pursuant to put rights and/or call rights held by the Loan Parties or other holders of Equity Interests in such Subsidiaries, provided, however, the aggregate amount of cash Investments made pursuant to this subsection (xxii) shall not exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) per


 
1610065802.8 15 year, plus (B) the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments, in the aggregate; (xxiii) Investments in Subsidiaries made solely for the purpose of funding obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees pursuant to subsection (xiii) of the definition of “Permitted Indebtedness”, provided, however, the aggregate amount of cash Investments made pursuant to this subsection (xxiii) shall not exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) per year, plus (B) the remaining unused portion of the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments, in the aggregate; and (xxiv) additional Investments that do not exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in the aggregate. “Permitted Liens” means: (i) Liens in favor of Agent or Lenders; (ii) Liens existing on the Closing Date which are disclosed in Schedule 1C; (iii) Liens for taxes, fees, assessments or other governmental charges or levies, either not yet due or being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted; provided, that Borrower maintains adequate reserves therefor on Borrower’s Books in accordance with GAAP; (iv) Liens securing claims or demands of materialmen, artisans, mechanics, carriers, warehousemen, landlords and other like Persons arising in the ordinary course of any Loan Party’s business and imposed without action of such parties; provided, that the payment thereof is not yet required; (v) Liens arising from judgments, decrees or attachments in circumstances which do not constitute an Event of Default hereunder; (vi) the following deposits, to the extent made in connection with the United Arab Emirates Gateway Project or in the ordinary course of business: deposits under worker’s compensation, unemployment insurance, social security and other similar laws, or to secure the performance of bids, tenders or contracts (other than for the repayment of borrowed money) or to secure indemnity, performance or other similar bonds for the performance of bids, tenders or contracts (other than for the repayment of borrowed money) or to secure statutory obligations (other than Liens arising under ERISA or environmental Liens) or surety, bid or appeal bonds, or to secure indemnity, performance or other similar bonds; provided, however, that Borrower, Agent and the Lenders mutually agree to work in the best interest of the Company to submit the bid bond related to the Emirates Gateway Project which the Company is currently pursuing (the “Gateway Bid Bond”) and agree that any cash deposited by the Company towards the Gateway Bid Bond will be excluded from the definition of Qualified Cash under this Agreement; provided, further, that if this treatment of the Gateway Bid Bond prevents the Company from pursuing the Emirates Gateway Project, the Parties agree to work in good faith to identify alternative solutions, including potential temporary modifications to the Loan Agreement, to enable the posting of a Gateway Bid Bond and


 
1610065802.8 16 the pursuit of the Emirates Gateway Project, which will ultimately be subject to Lender’s Investment Committee approval in its sole discretion; (i) Liens on equipment or software or other intellectual property constituting purchase money Liens and other Liens in connection with capital leases securing Indebtedness permitted in clause (iii) of “Permitted Indebtedness”; (ii) Liens incurred in connection with Subordinated Indebtedness; (iii) leasehold interests in leases or subleases and licenses (other than with respect to Intellectual Property) granted in the ordinary course of business and not interfering in any material respect with the business of the licensor; (iv) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of custom duties that are promptly paid on or before the date they become due; (v) Liens on insurance proceeds securing the payment of financed insurance premiums that are promptly paid on or before the date they become due (provided that such Liens extend only to such insurance proceeds and not to any other property or assets); (vi) statutory and common law rights of set-off and other similar rights as to deposits of cash and securities in favor of banks, other depository institutions and brokerage firms; (vii) easements, servitudes, zoning restrictions, rights-of-way and similar encumbrances on real property imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business so long as they do not materially impair the value or marketability of the related property; (viii) Liens on Cash securing obligations permitted under clause (vii) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness in an aggregate amount not to exceed Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) at any time; (ix) Licenses that qualify as Permitted Transfers; (x) Liens in favor of other financial institutions arising in connection with a Deposit Account or Securities Account of a Loan Party or Subsidiary thereof held at such institutions, provided, that Agent has a perfected security interest in such Deposit Account (other than an Excluded Account), or the securities maintained therein and Agent has received an Account Control Agreement with respect thereto to the extent required pursuant to the applicable Loan Documents; (xi) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted by clause (xii) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness; (xii) Liens incurred in connection with the extension, renewal or refinancing of the Indebtedness secured by Liens of the type described in clauses (i) through (xvii) above; provided, that any extension, renewal or replacement Lien shall be limited to the property encumbered by the existing Lien and the principal amount of the Indebtedness being extended, renewed or refinanced (as may have been reduced by any payment thereon) does not increase. “Permitted Transfers” means: (i) sales of Inventory in the ordinary course of business;


 
1610065802.8 17 (ii) non-exclusive licenses and similar arrangements for the use of Intellectual Property in the ordinary course of business and licenses on an arms’ length basis, including in connection with business development transactions, co-development or co-promotion transactions, collaborations, licensing, partnering or similar transactions with third parties and that are entered into with commercially reasonable terms, that are not exclusive or could not result in a legal transfer of title of the licensed property that may be exclusive in respects other than territory or may be exclusive as to territory but only as to discrete geographical areas outside of the United States of America in the ordinary course of business; (iii) Transfers (A) among Loan Parties, (B) among Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties and (C) from Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties to Loan Parties; (iv) transfers constituting the making of Permitted Investments, or the granting of Permitted Liens; (v) (A) dispositions of worn-out, obsolete or surplus property at fair market value in the ordinary course of business, (B) dispositions of property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business, and (C) abandonment or lapse of Intellectual Property, in each case, that is, in the good faith reasonable judgement of such Loan Party or Subsidiary, no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful; (vi) the use of cash and cash equivalents (or other assets that were cash equivalents when the relevant Investment was made) in the ordinary course of business to make payments that are not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement; (vii) the surrender or waiver of contractual rights and settle or waive contractual or litigation claims in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice or otherwise if Borrower determines in good faith after consultation with the Lenders that such action is in the best interests of the Loan Parties; (viii) other Transfers of assets having a fair market value of not more than Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in the aggregate per year. “Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization, association, corporation (including a public benefit corporation), limited liability company, institution, other entity or government. “Pledge Agreement” means the Pledge Agreement dated as of the Closing Date between each Loan Party party thereto and Agent, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented. “Prime Rate” means the greater of (a) the “prime rate” as reported in The Wall Street Journal or any successor publication thereto and (b) eight and one half of one percent (8.50%). “Qualified Cash” means an amount equal to (a) the amount of each Loan Party’s Cash held in accounts subject to an Account Control Agreement in favor of Agent, minus (b) the Qualified Cash A/P Amount.


 
1610065802.8 18 “Qualified Cash A/P Amount” means the aggregate amount of the Loan Parties’ accounts payable under GAAP in excess of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) not paid after the 90th day following the due date for such account payable. “Receivables” means (i) all of the Loan Parties’ Accounts, Instruments, Documents, Chattel Paper, Supporting Obligations, letters of credit, proceeds of any letter of credit, and Letter of Credit Rights, and (ii) all customer lists, software, and business records related thereto. “Registration” means any registration, authorization, approval, license, permit, clearance, certificate, and exemption issued or allowed by the FDA or state pharmacy licensing authorities (including, without limitation, new drug applications, abbreviated new drug applications, investigational new drug applications, pricing and reimbursement approvals, labelling approvals or their foreign equivalent, and wholesale distributor permits). “Remaining Months Liquidity” means, as of any date of determination, the quotient of (a) the consolidated cash of Borrower and the target of a Permitted Acquisition, calculated on a pro forma basis as of the day immediately after the date of such Acquisition, divided by (b) the pro forma sum for Borrower and the target of such Acquisition of (i) operating cash flow minus (ii) capital expenditures, in each case calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP on a trailing twelve (12) month basis as of the last day of the most recently ended calendar month for which financial statements have been delivered to Agent pursuant to Section 7.1(a) as if such Acquisition occurred on the first day of the most recent measurement period. “Required Lenders” means at any time, the holders of more than fifty percent (50%) of the sum of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding. “Restricted License” means any agreement with respect to which a Loan Party is the licensee (a) that prohibits or otherwise restricts such Loan Party from granting a security interest in such Loan Party’s interest in such License or agreement or any other property, or (b) for which a default under or termination of could interfere with Agent’s right to sell any Collateral. “Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country or territory which is the subject or target of any Sanctions. “Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any Person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated Persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or any EU member state, (b) any Person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c) any Person controlled by any such Person. “Sanctions” means economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury or the U.S. Department of State, or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom. “SBA Funding Date” means each date on which a Lender which is an SBIC funds any portion of the Term Loan.


 
1610065802.8 19 “Second Interest Only Extension Conditions” means satisfaction of each of the following events: (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred; (b) Borrower’s achievement of Interest Only Milestone I; and (c) Borrower’s achievement of Interest Only Milestone II. “Secured Obligations” means Borrower’s obligations under this Agreement and any Loan Document, including any obligation to pay any amount now owing or later arising. “Starlab JV” means Borrower’s Subsidiary, Starlab Space LLC, a Delaware limited liability company. “Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness subordinated to the Secured Obligations in amounts and on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to Agent in its sole discretion and subject to a subordination agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Agent in its sole discretion. “Subsidiary” means an entity, whether a corporation (including a public benefit corporation), partnership, limited liability company, joint venture or otherwise, in which a Loan Party owns or controls, either directly or indirectly, fifty percent (50%) or more of the outstanding voting securities, including each entity listed on Schedule 1. “T6MA Gross Profit” means, as of any date of determination, the product of (a) Borrower’s gross profit (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but exclusive of any gross profit attributable to the Starlab JV or the Electrical Engineering JV) for the two (2) most recently ended fiscal quarters, calculated as of the last day of the fiscal quarter for which the most recent quarterly financial statements were delivered in accordance with Section 7.1(b) and calculated consistently with such financial statements and subject to Agent’s receipt of any supporting documentation reasonably requested by Agent,, multiplied by (b) two (2). “Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto. “Term Commitment” means as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make a Term Loan Advance to Borrower in a principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading “Term Commitment” opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1. “Term Loan” means any Term Loan Advance made under this Agreement. “Term Loan Advance” means any funds advanced under Section 2.2(a). “Term Loan Cash Interest Rate” means for any day a per annum rate of interest equal to (a) the Prime Rate plus (b) 1.25%. “Term Loan Deferred Additional Interest Rate” means 2.50%. “Term Loan Maturity Date” means July 1, 2028; provided that if such day is not a Business Day, the Term Loan Maturity Date shall be the immediately subsequent Business Day. “Total Debt Outstanding” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to Borrower, determined on a consolidated basis, the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness of the type described in clauses (a), (c), and (h) of the definition thereof, and in each case, secured by Liens on any assets of Borrower.


 
1610065802.8 20 “Trademark License” means any written agreement granting any right to use any Trademark or Trademark registration, now owned or hereafter acquired by a Loan Party or in which a Loan Party now holds or hereafter acquires any interest. “Trademarks” means all trademarks (registered, common law or otherwise) and any applications in connection therewith, including registrations, recordings and applications in the United States Patent and Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States of America, any State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof. “U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same is, from time to time, in effect in the State of New York; provided, that in the event that, by reason of mandatory provisions of law, any or all of the attachment, perfection or priority of, or remedies with respect to, Agent’s Lien on any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as the same is, from time to time, in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, then the term “UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, from time to time, in such other jurisdiction solely for purposes of the provisions thereof relating to such attachment, perfection, priority or remedies and for purposes of definitions related to such provisions. 1.2 The following terms are defined in the Sections or subsections referenced opposite such terms: Defined Term Section 1940 Act 5.6(b) Agent Preamble Assignee 11.14 Borrower Preamble Borrowing Base Cure Period 2.5(b) Borrowing Base Repayment 2.5(b) Claims 11.11(a) Collateral 3.1 Company Preamble Confidential Information 11.13 End of Term Charge 2.6(b) Event of Default 9 Financial Statements 7.1 Indemnified Person 6.3 Lenders Preamble Liabilities 6.3 Maximum Rate 2.3 Observer 7.24(a) Participant Register 11.8 Payment Date 2.2(e)


 
1610065802.8 21 Prepayment Charge 2.5(a) Publicity Materials 11.19 Register 11.7 SBA 7.16 SBIC 7.16 SBIC Act 7.16 Transfer 7.8 1.3 Unless otherwise specified, all references in this Agreement or any Annex or Schedule hereto to a “Section,” “subsection,” “Exhibit,” “Annex,” or “Schedule” shall refer to the corresponding Section, subsection, Exhibit, Annex, or Schedule in or to this Agreement. Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any accounting term used in this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall have the meaning customarily given such term in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof, and all financial computations hereunder shall be computed in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof, consistently applied. Unless otherwise defined herein or in the other Loan Documents, terms that are used herein or in the other Loan Documents and defined in the UCC shall have the meanings given to them in the UCC. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any Division or plan of Division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time. 1.4 If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, Agent, Lenders and Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP; provided that, until so amended, such requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change. 1.5 Any reference in any Loan Document to a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale, disposition or transfer, or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a Division of or by a limited liability company, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company (or the unwinding of such a Division or allocation), as if it were a merger, transfer, consolidation, amalgamation, consolidation, assignment, sale or transfer, or similar term, as applicable, to, of or with a separate Person. Any Division of a limited liability company shall constitute a separate Person under the Loan Documents (and each Division of any limited liability company that is a Subsidiary, joint venture or any other like term shall also constitute such a Person or entity) on the first date of its existence. In connection with any Division, if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then such asset shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person. SECTION 2. THE LOAN 2.1 [Reserved] 2.2 Term Loan Advances.


 
1610065802.8 22 (a) Advances. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, on the Closing Date, Lenders will severally (and not jointly) make, and Borrower agrees to draw, a Term Loan Advance in an aggregate principal amount equal to Fifty-Eight Million Dollars ($58,000,000). (b) Maximum Term Loan Amount. The aggregate outstanding Term Loan Advances shall not exceed the Maximum Term Loan Amount plus, for the avoidance of doubt, any amount equal to the payment-in-kind interest added to principal pursuant to Section 2.1(d)(ii). Each Term Loan Advance of each Lender shall not exceed its respective Term Commitment plus, for the avoidance of doubt, any amount equal to the Term Loan Deferred Additional Interest Rate added to principal pursuant to Section 2.2(d)(ii). After repayment, no Term Loan Advance (or any portion thereof) may be reborrowed. (c) Advance Request. To obtain a Term Loan Advance, Borrower shall complete, sign and deliver an Advance Request (at least one (1) Business Day before the Closing Date and at least five (5) Business Days before each Advance Date other than the Closing Date) to Agent. Lenders shall fund the Term Loan Advance in the manner requested by the Advance Request provided that each of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 4 and applicable to such Term Loan Advance is satisfied as of the requested Advance Date. The proceeds of any Term Loan Advance shall be deposited and at all times prior to satisfaction of the condition set forth in Section 7.25(a) maintained within, the Funding Account an account that is subject to an Account Control Agreement. (d) Interest. Interest shall accrue as set forth below and as provided in the Amortization Schedule which shall be provided by Agent to the Borrower within fourteen (14) Business Days after the Closing Date. (i) Term Loan Cash Interest Rate. In addition to interest accrued pursuant to the Term Loan Deferred Additional Interest Rate, the principal balance (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any payment-in-kind interest added to principal pursuant to Section 2.2(d)(ii)) of each Term Loan Advance shall bear interest thereon from such Advance Date at the Term Loan Cash Interest Rate based on a year consisting of three hundred sixty (360) days, with interest computed daily based on the actual number of days elapsed. The Term Loan Cash Interest Rate will float and change on the day the Prime Rate changes from time to time. (ii) Term Loan Deferred Additional Interest Rate. In addition to interest accrued pursuant to the Term Loan Cash Interest Rate, the principal balance of each Term Loan Advance shall bear interest thereon from such Advance Date at the Term Loan Deferred Additional Interest Rate based on a year consisting of three hundred sixty (360) days, with interest computed daily based on the actual number of days elapsed, which amount shall be added to the outstanding principal balance so as to increase the outstanding principal balance of such Term Loan Advance on each Payment Date for such Advance, which principal amount shall accrue interest payable as provided in Section 2.2(d)(i) and which accrued and unpaid amount shall be payable when the principal amount of the Advance is payable in accordance with Section 2.2(e). (e) Payment. Borrower will pay accrued but unpaid interest on each Term Loan Advance on the first Business Day of each month (each such date, a “Payment Date”), beginning the month after the Advance Date. Borrower shall repay the aggregate principal balance of the Term Loan Advances that is outstanding on the day immediately subsequent the Amortization Date,


 
1610065802.8 23 in equal monthly installments of principal and interest (mortgage style) beginning on the Amortization Date and continuing on the first Business Day of each month thereafter until the Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations which, by their terms, survive termination of this Agreement) are repaid. The entire principal balance of the Term Loan Advances and all accrued but unpaid interest hereunder, shall be due and payable on the Term Loan Maturity Date. Borrower shall make all payments under this Agreement without setoff, recoupment or deduction and regardless of any counterclaim or defense. If a payment hereunder becomes due and payable on a day that is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be the immediately subsequent Business Day. Agent or Lenders will initiate debit entries to Borrower’s account as authorized on the ACH Authorization (i) on each Payment Date of all periodic obligations payable to Lenders under each Term Loan Advance and (ii) reasonable out-of-pocket legal fees and costs actually incurred by Agent or Lenders in connection with Section 11.12; provided that, with respect to clause (i) above, in the event that Lenders or Agent informs Borrower that Lenders will not initiate a debit entry to Borrower’s account for a certain amount of the periodic obligations due on a specific Payment Date, Borrower shall pay to Lenders, such amount of periodic obligations in full in immediately available funds on such Payment Date; provided, further, that, with respect to clause (i) above, if Lenders or Agent informs Borrower that Lenders will not initiate a debit entry as described above later than the date that is three (3) Business Days prior to such Payment Date, Borrower shall pay to Lenders such amount of periodic obligations in full in immediately available funds on the date that is three (3) Business Days after the date on which Lenders or Agent notifies Borrower of such; provided, further, that, with respect to clause (ii) above, in the event that Lenders or Agent informs Borrower that Lenders will not initiate a debit entry to Borrower’s account for specified out-of-pocket legal fees and costs incurred by Agent or Lenders, Borrower shall pay to Lenders such amount in full in immediately available funds within three (3) Business Days. 2.3 Maximum Interest. Notwithstanding any provision in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, it is the parties’ intent not to contract for, charge or receive interest at a rate that is greater than the maximum rate permissible by law that a court of competent jurisdiction shall deem applicable hereto (which under the laws of the State of New York shall be deemed to be the laws relating to permissible rates of interest on commercial loans) (the “Maximum Rate”). If a court of competent jurisdiction shall finally determine that Borrower has actually paid to Lenders an amount of interest in excess of the amount that would have been payable if all of the Secured Obligations had at all times borne interest at the Maximum Rate, then such excess interest actually paid by Borrower shall be applied as follows: first, to the payment of the Secured Obligations consisting of the outstanding principal; second, after all principal is repaid, to the payment of Lenders’ accrued interest, costs, expenses, professional fees and any other Secured Obligations; and third, after all Secured Obligations are repaid, the excess (if any) shall be refunded to Borrower. 2.4 Default Interest. In the event any payment is not paid on the scheduled payment date, an amount equal to four percent (4%) of such past due amount shall be payable on demand. In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of an Event of Default hereunder, all outstanding Secured Obligations, including principal, interest, compounded interest, and professional fees, shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate set forth in Section 2.2(d) plus four percent (4%) per annum. In the event any interest is not paid when due hereunder, delinquent interest shall be added to principal and shall bear interest on interest, compounded at the rate set forth in Section 2.2(d) or 2.4, as applicable. 2.5 Prepayment.


 
1610065802.8 24 (a) Voluntary Prepayment. At its option, Borrower may prepay all or a portion of the outstanding Advances by paying the entire principal balance (or such portion thereof) all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, all unpaid Lender’s fees and expenses due hereunder accrued to the date of the repayment (including, without limitation, the portion of the End of Term Charge applicable to the aggregate original principal amount of the Term Loan Advances being prepaid in accordance with Section 2.6(a)), together with a prepayment charge equal to the following percentage of the outstanding principal amount of such Advance amount being so prepaid: with respect to each Advance (which Advance amount shall include, for the avoidance of doubt, any principal that has been added to the principal balance of such Advance pursuant to Section 2.2(d)(ii)) (a) if the principal amount of such Advance amounts are prepaid on or prior to the date which is twelve (12) months following the Closing Date, three percent (3.00%); (b) if the principal amount of such Advance amounts are prepaid after the date which is twelve (12) months following the Closing Date but on or prior to the date which is twenty-four (24) months following the Closing Date, two percent (2.00)%; and (c) thereafter through the day before the Term Loan Maturity Date, one percent (1.00)% (each, a “Prepayment Charge”). Borrower agrees that the Prepayment Charge is a reasonable calculation of Lenders’ lost profits in view of the difficulties and impracticality of determining actual damages resulting from an early repayment of the Advances. Borrower shall prepay the outstanding amount of all principal and accrued interest through the prepayment date and the Prepayment Charge upon the occurrence of a Change in Control or any other prepayment hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Agent and Lenders agree to waive the Prepayment Charge if Agent and Lenders (in their sole and absolute discretion) agree in writing to refinance the Advances prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date. Any amounts paid under this Section shall be applied by Agent to the then unpaid amount of any outstanding Secured Obligations (including principal and interest) in such order and priority as Agent may choose in its sole discretion. For the avoidance of doubt, if a payment hereunder becomes due and payable on a day that is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be the immediately subsequent Business Day. (b) Mandatory Prepayment. At any time during the Borrowing Base Limit Period, if the Total Debt Outstanding exceeds the Borrowing Base Limit as of the last day of any fiscal quarter, Borrower shall promptly (but in any event, no later than three (3) Business Days after the same shall become due and payable), repay any portion of the Term Loan Advance until the Total Debt Outstanding is less than the Borrowing Base Limit, together with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon (a “Borrowing Base Repayment”). The Borrowing Base Repayment shall be due and payable on the date which is thirty (30) days after the earlier of the date on which the Compliance Certificate for such fiscal quarter has been delivered or was required to have been delivered (the “Borrowing Base Cure Period”). Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, a Borrowing Base Repayment shall not be due and payable if Borrower delivers an updated Compliance Certificate to Agent during the Borrowing Base Cure Period demonstrating that the Total Debt Outstanding no longer exceeds the Borrowing Base Limit. The Prepayment Charge shall not be due and payable with respect to a Borrowing Base Repayment made pursuant to this Section 2.5(b); provided that if any prepayment is made pursuant to Section 2.5(a) or Section 10.1 concurrently with a Borrowing Base Repayment, then the Prepayment Charge shall apply to the Advances repaid to such Borrowing Base Repayment. 2.6 End of Term Charge. (a) On any date that Borrower partially prepays the outstanding Secured Obligations pursuant to Section 2.5, Borrower shall pay Lenders a charge equal to (i) five and one half of one percent (5.50)% multiplied by (ii) the principal amount of such Term Loan Advances being prepaid.


 
1610065802.8 25 (b) On the earliest to occur of (i) the Term Loan Maturity Date, (ii) the date that Borrower prepays the outstanding Secured Obligations (other than any inchoate indemnity obligations and any other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement) in full, (iii) the date that the outstanding Secured Obligations become due and payable, or (iv) as required pursuant to Section 2.5, Borrower shall pay Lenders a charge equal to (A) five and one half of one percent (5.50)% multiplied by the Term Commitment minus (B) the aggregate amount of payments made pursuant to Section 2.6(a) (the “End of Term Charge”). (c) Notwithstanding the required payment date of such End of Term Charge, it shall be deemed earned by Lenders as of each date that an applicable Term Loan Advance is made. For the avoidance of doubt, if a payment hereunder becomes due and payable on a day that is not a Business Day, the due date thereof shall be the immediately subsequent Business Day. 2.7 Pro Rata Treatment. Each payment (including prepayment) on account of any fee and any reduction of the Term Loan Advances shall be made pro rata according to the Term Commitments of the relevant Lender. 2.8 Taxes; Increased Costs. Each Loan Party, Agent and Lenders each hereby agree to the terms and conditions set forth on Addendum 1 attached hereto. 2.9 Treatment of Prepayment Charge and End of Term Charge. Each Loan Party agrees that any Prepayment Charge and any End of Term Charge payable shall be presumed to be the liquidated damages sustained by each Lender as the result of the early termination, and each Loan Party agrees that it is reasonable under the circumstances currently existing and existing as of the Closing Date. The Prepayment Charge and the End of Term Charge shall also be payable in the event the Secured Obligations (and/or this Agreement) are satisfied or released by foreclosure (whether by power of judicial proceeding), deed in lieu of foreclosure, or by any other means. Each Loan Party expressly waives (to the fullest extent it may lawfully do so) the provisions of any present or future statute or law that prohibits or may prohibit the collection of the foregoing Prepayment Charge and End of Term Charge in connection with any such acceleration. Each Loan Party agrees (to the fullest extent that each may lawfully do so): (a) each of the Prepayment Charge and the End of Term Charge is reasonable and is the product of an arm’s length transaction between sophisticated business people, ably represented by counsel; (b) each of the Prepayment Charge and the End of Term Charge shall be payable notwithstanding the then prevailing market rates at the time payment is made; (c) there has been a course of conduct between Lenders and Borrower giving specific consideration in this transaction for such agreement to pay the Prepayment Charge and the End of Term Charge as a charge (and not interest) in the event of prepayment or acceleration; and (d) Borrower shall be estopped from claiming differently than as agreed to in this Section. Each Loan Party expressly acknowledges that its agreement to pay each of the Prepayment Charge and the End of Term Charge to Lenders as herein described was on the Closing Date and continues to be a material inducement to Lenders to provide the Term Loan Advances. SECTION 3. SECURITY INTEREST 3.1 Grant of Security Interest. As security for the prompt and complete payment when due (whether on the payment dates or otherwise) of all the Secured Obligations, each Loan Party grants to Agent a security interest in all of such Loan Party’s right, title, and interest in, to and under all of such Loan Party’s personal property and other assets including without limitation the following (except as set forth herein) whether now owned or hereafter acquired (collectively, the “Collateral”): (a) Receivables; (b) equipment; (c) Fixtures; (d) General Intangibles; (e) Inventory; (f) Investment


 
1610065802.8 26 Property; (g) Deposit Accounts; (h) Cash; (i) Goods; and all other tangible and intangible personal property of such Loan Party whether now or hereafter owned or existing, leased, consigned by or to, or acquired by, such Loan Party and wherever located, and any of such Loan Party’s property in the possession or under the control of Agent; and, to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds of each of the foregoing and all accessions to, substitutions and replacements for, and rents, profits and products of each of the foregoing. 3.2 Excluded Collateral. (a) Notwithstanding the broad grant of the security interest set forth in Section 3.1, above, the Collateral shall not include (i) any “intent to use” trademarks at all times prior to the first use thereof, whether by the actual use thereof in commerce, the recording of a statement of use with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or otherwise, provided, that upon submission and acceptance by the United States Patent and Trademark Office of an amendment to allege use of an intent-to-use trademark application pursuant to 15 U.S.C. Section 1060(a) (or any successor provision) such intent-to-use application shall constitute Collateral, (ii) nonassignable licenses or contracts, which by their terms, or by statute or law, require the consent of the licensor thereof or another party or a Governmental Authority (but only to the extent such prohibition on transfer is enforceable under applicable law, including, without limitation, Sections 9406, 9407 and 9408 of the UCC) and (iii) any Excluded Account. (b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document, no Loan Parties shall be required to take any action to assign its payment rights in accounts owing from an account debtor that is a Governmental Authority or any department, agency or instrumentality thereof, or any other action under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended (the “Assignment of Claims Act”); provided that upon the reasonable written request of Agent, the Loan Parties will use commercially reasonable efforts to take any such action under the Assignment of Claims Act with respect to any contract with a Governmental Authority the value of which exceeds Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) as determined by the Borrower in good faith, except to the extent (i) any such assignment would not be permitted under applicable law (including, without limitation, 31 U.S. Code § 3727 and 41 U.S. Code § 6305), or (ii) Agent or any Lender is ineligible to be an assignee of such payment rights under applicable law. SECTION 4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO LOAN The obligations of Lenders to make the Loan hereunder are subject to the satisfaction by Borrower of the following conditions: 4.1 Initial Advance. On or prior to the Closing Date, the Loan Parties shall have delivered to Agent the following: (a) duly executed copies of the Loan Documents, and all other documents and instruments reasonably required by Agent to effectuate the transactions contemplated hereby or to create and perfect the Liens of Agent with respect to all Collateral, in all cases in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent; (b) duly executed Account Control Agreement(s) with respect to the Funding Account;


 
1610065802.8 27 (c) a legal opinion of counsel for the Loan Parties in form and substance reasonably acceptable to Agent; (d) copy of resolutions of each Loan Party’s Board of Directors, certified by an officer of such Loan Party, evidencing (i) approval of the Loan and other transactions evidenced by the Loan Documents, (ii) authorizing a specified person or persons to execute the Loan Documents to which it is a party on its behalf, (iii) authorizing a specified person or persons, on its behalf, to sign and/or dispatch all documents and notices (including, if relevant, any Advance Request or other relevant notice) to be signed and/or dispatched by it under or in connection with the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (iv) acknowledging that the Board of Directors are acting for a proper purpose and that the Loan Documents are in the best interests of that Loan Party and for its commercial benefit; (e) certified copies of the Charter of each Loan Party, certified by the Secretary of State of the applicable jurisdiction of organization and the other Organizational Documents, as amended through the Closing Date, of such Loan Party; (f) a certificate of good standing for each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization and similar certificates from all other jurisdictions in which it does business and where the failure to be qualified could have a Material Adverse Effect; (g) certified copies, dated as of a recent date, of searches for financing statements filed in the central filing office of the Secretary of State of each Loan Party’s jurisdiction of formation, accompanied by written evidence (including any UCC termination statements) that the Liens on any Collateral indicated in any such financing statements either constitute Permitted Liens or have been or, in connection with the initial Term Loan Advance, will be terminated or released; (h) payment of the Due Diligence Fee, Initial Facility Charge and reimbursement of Agent’s and Lenders’ current expenses reimbursable pursuant to this Agreement, which amounts may be deducted from the initial Advance; (i) a duly executed copy of the Perfection Certificate and each exhibit and addendum thereto; (j) a duly executed copy of a payoff letter from JGB Capital, LP and each exhibit and addendum thereto, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and the Lenders; (k) [Reserved]; (l) [Reserved]; (m) all reports, declarations and forms required by the SBA, including but not limited to SBA 652, SBA 1031 and SBA 480; and (n) such other documents as Agent may reasonably request. 4.2 All Advances. On each Advance Date:


 
1610065802.8 28 (a) Agent shall have received (i) an Advance Request for the relevant Advance as required by Section 2.2(c), duly executed by Borrower’s Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer or Treasurer, and (ii) any other documents Agent may reasonably request; (b) The representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the applicable Advance Date with the same effect as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date; (c) Each Loan Party shall be in compliance with all the terms and provisions set forth herein and in each other Loan Document on its part to be observed or performed; and (d) Each Advance Request shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by each Loan Party on the relevant Advance Date as to the matters specified in Section 4.2(b), Section 4.2(c) and Section 4.3 and as to the matters set forth in the Advance Request. 4.3 No Default. As of the Closing Date and at the time of and immediately after each Advance Date, (i) no fact or condition exists that could (or could, with the passage of time, the giving of notice, or both) constitute an Event of Default, and (ii) no event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect has occurred and is continuing. SECTION 5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES OF BORROWER Each Loan Party represents and warrants that: 5.1 Corporate Status; Execution and Delivery; Binding Effect. Each Loan Party is a corporation, limited liability company, or partnership (as the case may be) duly organized, legally existing and in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation or formation (as applicable), and is duly qualified as a foreign corporation, limited liability company or partnership, as the case may be, in all jurisdictions in which the nature of its business or location of its properties require such qualifications and where the failure to be qualified could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Each Loan Party’s present name, former names (if any), locations, place of formation, tax identification number, organizational identification number and other information are correctly set forth in Exhibit B, as may be updated by such Loan Party in a written notice (including any Compliance Certificate) provided to Agent after the Closing Date in accordance with this Agreement. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by such Loan Party. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Loan Party, enforceable against such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, moratorium or other laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity. 5.2 Collateral. Each Loan Party owns or otherwise has the rights to use the Collateral, free of all Liens, except for Permitted Liens. Each Loan Party has the power and authority to grant to Agent a Lien in the Collateral as security for the Secured Obligations. 5.3 Consents. Each Loan Party’s execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and all other Loan Documents to which it is a party, (i) have been duly authorized by all


 
1610065802.8 29 necessary action of such Loan Party in accordance with its Organizational Documents and applicable law, (ii) will not result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon the Collateral, other than Permitted Liens, (iii) do not violate any provisions of such Loan Party’s Organizational Documents or any, law, regulation, order, injunction, judgment, decree or writ to which such Loan Party is subject and (iv) except as described on Schedule 5.3, do not violate any contract or agreement or require the consent or approval of any other Person or Governmental Authority which has not already been obtained. The individual or individuals executing the Loan Documents are duly authorized to do so. 5.4 Material Adverse Effect. No event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect has occurred and is continuing. No Loan Party is aware of any event or circumstance that is likely to occur that is reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 5.5 Actions Before Governmental Authorities. There are no actions, suits, claims, disputes or proceedings at law or in equity or by or before any Governmental Authority now pending or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, threatened against or affecting such Loan Party or its property, that is reasonably expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. 5.6 Laws. (a) No Loan Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries is in violation of any law, rule or regulation, or in default with respect to any judgment, writ, injunction or decree of any Governmental Authority to which such Loan Party or their respective Subsidiaries are subject, where such violation or default would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No Loan Party is in default in any manner under any provision of any agreement or instrument evidencing Indebtedness, or any other agreement to which it is a party or by which it is bound where such violation or default could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. (b) No Loan Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries is an “investment company,” a company that would be an “investment company” except for the exclusion from the definition of “investment company” in Section 3(c) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” under the 1940 Act. No Loan Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries is engaged as one of its important activities in extending credit for margin stock (under Regulations X, T and U of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors). Each Loan Party and their respective Subsidiaries has complied in all material respects with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act. No Loan Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries is a “holding company” or an “affiliate” of a “holding company” or a “subsidiary company” of a “holding company” as each term is defined and used in the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 2005. Except as disclosed on Schedule 5.6(b), No Loan Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries’ properties or assets have been used by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary or, to each Loan Party’s knowledge, by previous Persons, in disposing, producing, storing, treating, or transporting any hazardous substance other than in material compliance with applicable laws. Each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries has obtained all consents, approvals and authorizations of, made all declarations or filings with, and given all notices to, all Governmental Authorities that are necessary to continue their respective businesses as currently conducted. (c) No Loan Party, any of its Subsidiaries, nor to the knowledge of any Loan Party, any Loan Party’s or its Subsidiaries’ Affiliates or any of their respective agents acting or benefiting


 
1610065802.8 30 in any capacity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement is (i) in violation of any Anti-Terrorism Law, (ii) engaging in or conspiring to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in any Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) is a Blocked Person. No Loan Party nor any of their respective Subsidiaries, or (to the knowledge of any Loan Party) any of their Affiliates or agents acting or benefiting in any capacity in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, (x) conducts any business or engages in making or receiving any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, or (y) deals in, or otherwise engages in any transaction relating to, any property or interest in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224, any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law. None of the funds to be provided under this Agreement will be used, directly or indirectly, (a) for any activities in violation of any applicable anti-money laundering, economic sanctions and anti-bribery laws and regulations or (b) for any payment to any governmental official or employee, political party, official of a political party, candidate for political office, or anyone else acting in an official capacity, in order to obtain, retain or direct business or obtain any improper advantage, in violation of the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended. 5.7 Information Correct and Current. No information, report, Advance Request, financial statement, exhibit or schedule furnished, by or on behalf of any Loan Party to Agent in connection with any Loan Document or included therein or delivered pursuant thereto contained, or, when taken as a whole, contains or will contain any material misstatement of fact or, when taken together with all other such information or documents, omitted, omits or will omit to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were, are or will be made, not materially misleading at the time such statement was made or deemed made. Additionally, any and all financial or business projections provided by any Loan Party to Agent, whether prior to or after the Closing Date, shall be (i) provided in good faith and based on the most current data and information available to such Loan Party, and (ii) the most current of such projections provided to such Loan Party’s Board of Directors. 5.8 Tax Matters. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.8, (a) each Loan Party and their respective Subsidiaries have filed all federal and state income Tax returns and other material Tax returns that they are required to file, (b) each Loan Party and their respective Subsidiaries have duly paid all federal and state income Taxes and other material Taxes or installments thereof that they are required to pay, except Taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which such Loan Party and its Subsidiaries maintain adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP, and (c) to the best of each Loan Party’s knowledge, no proposed or pending Tax assessments, deficiencies, audits or other proceedings with respect to such Loan Party or any Subsidiaries have had, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. 5.9 Intellectual Property Claims. Each Loan Party is the sole owner of, or otherwise has the right to use, the Intellectual Property material to such Loan Party’s business. Except as described on Schedule 5.9, (i) each of the material Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents is valid and enforceable, (ii) no material part of the Intellectual Property has been judged invalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, and (iii) no claim has been made to any Loan Party that the ownership of or use of any material part of the Intellectual Property violates the rights of any third party. Exhibit C is a true, correct and complete list of each of such loan Party’s Patents, registered Trademarks, registered Copyrights, and material agreements under which such Loan Party licenses Intellectual Property from third parties (other than shrink-wrap software licenses or other than “off- the-shelf” licenses or open-source software), together with application or registration numbers, as


 
1610065802.8 31 applicable, owned by such Loan Party or any Subsidiary. No Loan Party is in material breach of, and no Loan Party has failed to perform any material obligations under, any of the foregoing contracts, licenses or agreements and, to such Loan Party’s knowledge, no third party to any such contract, license or agreement is in material breach thereof or has failed to perform any material obligations thereunder. 5.10 Intellectual Property. (a) Except as described on Schedule 5.10, each Loan Party has all material rights with respect to intellectual property necessary or material in the operation or conduct of such Loan Party’s business as currently conducted and proposed to be conducted by such Loan Party. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, except for restrictions that are unenforceable under Division 9 of the UCC or otherwise permitted under this Agreement with respect to Licenses, each Loan Party has the right, to the extent required to operate such Loan Party’s business, to freely transfer, license or assign Intellectual Property necessary or material in the operation or conduct of such Loan Party’s business as currently conducted and proposed to be conducted by such Loan Party, without condition, restriction or payment of any kind (other than license payments in the ordinary course of business) to any third party, and such Loan Party owns or has the right to use, pursuant to valid licenses, all software development tools, library functions, compilers and all other third-party software and other items that are material in the operation or conduct of such Loan Party’s business and used in the design, development, promotion, sale, license, manufacture, import, export, use or distribution of Borrower Products except customary covenants in inbound license agreements and equipment leases where such Loan Party is the licensee or lessee. Except as disclosed on Schedule 5.10, no Loan Party is a party to, nor is it bound by, any Restricted License. (b) No material software or other materials used by any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries (or used in any Borrower Products) are subject to an open-source or similar license (including but not limited to the General Public License, Lesser General Public License, Mozilla Public License, or Affero License) in a manner that would cause such software or other materials to have to be (i) distributed to third parties at no charge or a minimal charge (royalty-free basis); (ii) licensed to third parties to modify, make derivative works based on, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer; or (iii) used in a manner that requires disclosure or distribution in source code form. (c) There are no material unpaid fees or royalties under any Material Agreements that have become overdue. Each Material Agreement is in full force and effect and is legal, valid, binding, and enforceable in accordance with its respective terms, except as may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or similar laws relating to or limiting creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to enforceability. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.10(c), to the knowledge of any Loan Party, neither such Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries, as applicable, is in breach of or default in any manner that could reasonably be expected to materially affect the Borrower Products under any Material Agreement to which it is a party, and no circumstances or grounds exist that would give rise to a claim of breach or right of rescission, termination or nonrenewal of any of the Material Agreements, including the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. 5.11 Borrower Products. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.11, no Intellectual Property owned by any Loan Party or Borrower Product has been or is subject to any actual or, to the knowledge of such Loan Party, threatened litigation, proceeding (including any proceeding in the


 
1610065802.8 32 United States Patent and Trademark Office or any corresponding foreign office or agency) or outstanding decree, order, judgment, settlement agreement or stipulation that restricts in any manner such Loan Party’s use, transfer or licensing thereof or that may affect the validity, use or enforceability thereof. There is no decree, order, judgment, agreement, stipulation, arbitral award or other provision entered into in connection with any litigation or proceeding that obligates any Loan Party to grant licenses or ownership interest in any future Intellectual Property related to the operation or conduct of the business of such Loan Party or Borrower Products. No Loan Party has received any written notice or claim, or, to the knowledge of such Loan Party, oral notice or claim, challenging or questioning such Loan Party’s ownership in any Intellectual Property (or written notice of any claim challenging or questioning the ownership in any licensed Intellectual Property of the owner thereof) or suggesting that any third party has any claim of legal or beneficial ownership with respect thereto nor, to such Loan Party’s knowledge, is there a reasonable basis for any such claim. No Loan Party’s use of its Intellectual Property nor the production and sale of Borrower Products infringes the Intellectual Property or other rights of others. 5.12 Financial Accounts. Exhibit D, as may be updated by Borrower in a written notice provided to Agent after the Closing Date, is a true, correct and complete list of (a) all banks and other financial institutions at which each Loan Party or any Subsidiary maintains Deposit Accounts and (b) all institutions at which each Loan Party or any Subsidiary maintains an account holding Investment Property, and such exhibit correctly identifies the name, address and telephone number of each bank or other institution, the name in which the account is held, a description of the purpose of the account, and the complete account number therefor. 5.13 Employee Loans. Except for loans constituting Permitted Investments or as described on Schedule 5.13, no Loan Party has any outstanding loans to any employee, officer or director of such Loan Party nor has any Loan Party guaranteed the payment of any loan made to an employee, officer or director of such Loan Party by a third party. 5.14 Capitalization and Subsidiaries. The capitalization of each Loan Party as of the Closing Date is set forth on Schedule 5.14 annexed hereto. No Loan Party owns any stock, partnership interest or other securities of any Person, except for Permitted Investments. Attached as Schedule 5.14, as may be updated by Borrower in a written notice provided after the Closing Date, is a true, correct and complete list of each Subsidiary. 5.15 Solvency. The fair salable value of the Loan Parties’ consolidated assets (including goodwill minus disposition costs) exceeds the fair value of the Loan Parties’ liabilities; no Loan Party is left with unreasonably small capital after the transactions in this Agreement; and the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are able to pay their debts (including trade debts) as they mature. The amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as the amount that would reasonably be expected to become an actual and matured liability. SECTION 6. INSURANCE; INDEMNIFICATION 6.1 Coverage. The Loan Parties shall cause to be carried and maintained commercial general liability insurance covering Borrower and its Subsidiaries, on an occurrence form, against risks and in such amounts customarily insured against in Borrower’s line of business. Such risks shall include the risks of bodily injury, including death, property damage, personal injury, advertising injury, and contractual liability per the terms of the indemnification agreement found in Section 6.3. The Loan Parties must maintain a minimum of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) of commercial general liability insurance for each occurrence. The Loan Parties maintain and shall


 
1610065802.8 33 continue to maintain a minimum of Two Million Dollars ($2,000,000) of directors’ and officers’ insurance for each occurrence and Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) in the aggregate. So long as there are any Secured Obligations outstanding (other than inchoate indemnity obligations which, by their terms, survive termination of this Agreement), Borrower shall also cause to be carried and maintained insurance upon the business and assets of such Loan Party and its Subsidiaries, insuring against all risks of physical loss or damage howsoever caused, in an amount not less than the full replacement cost of the Collateral, provided that such insurance may be subject to standard exceptions and deductibles. If any Loan Party fails to obtain the insurance called for by this Section 6.1 or fails to pay any premium thereon or fails to pay any other amount which such Loan Party is obligated to pay under this Agreement or any other Loan Document or which may be required to preserve the Collateral, Agent may obtain such insurance or make such payment, and all amounts so paid by Agent are immediately due and payable, bearing interest at the then highest rate applicable to the Secured Obligations, and secured by the Collateral. Agent will make reasonable efforts to provide Borrower with notice of Agent obtaining such insurance at the time it is obtained or within a reasonable time thereafter. No payments by Agent are deemed an agreement to make similar payments in the future or Agent’s waiver of any Event of Default. 6.2 Certificates. Borrower shall deliver to Agent certificates of insurance that evidence each Loan Party’s compliance with its insurance obligations in Section 6.1 and the obligations contained in this Section 6.2. Each Loan Party’s insurance certificate shall reflect Agent (shown as “Hercules Capital, Inc., as Agent, and its successors and/or assigns”) is an additional insured for commercial general liability a lenders loss payable for all risk property damage insurance, subject to the insurer’s approval, and a lenders loss payable for property insurance and additional insured for liability insurance for any future insurance that such Loan Party may acquire from such insurer. Subject to Section 7.25(b), attached to the certificates of insurance will be additional insured endorsements for liability and lender’s loss payable endorsements for all risk property damage insurance. All certificates of insurance will provide for a minimum of thirty (30) days’ advance written notice to Agent of cancellation (other than cancellation for non-payment of premiums, for which ten (10) days’ advance written notice shall be sufficient) or any other change adverse to Agent’s interests. Any failure of Agent to scrutinize such insurance certificates for compliance is not a waiver of any of Agent’s rights, all of which are reserved. Each Loan Party shall provide Agent with copies of each insurance policy, and upon entering or amending any insurance policy required hereunder, such Loan Party shall provide Agent with copies of such policies and shall promptly deliver to Agent updated insurance certificates with respect to such policies. 6.3 Indemnity. Each Loan Party agrees to indemnify and hold Agent, Lenders and their officers, directors, employees, agents, in-house attorneys, representatives and shareholders (each, an “Indemnified Person”) harmless from and against any and all third-party claims, costs, expenses, damages and liabilities (including such claims, costs, expenses, damages and liabilities based on liability in tort, including strict liability in tort), including reasonable attorneys’ fees and disbursements and other costs of investigation or defense (including those incurred upon any appeal) (collectively, “Liabilities”), that may be instituted or asserted against or incurred by such Indemnified Person as the result of credit having been extended, suspended or terminated under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or the administration of such credit, or in connection with or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereunder and thereunder, or any actions or failures to act in connection therewith, or arising out of the disposition or utilization of the Collateral, excluding in all cases Liabilities to the extent such Liabilities arise solely out of gross negligence or willful misconduct of any Indemnified Person or changes in income tax rates. This Section 6.3 shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim. In no event shall any Indemnified Person be liable on any theory


 
1610065802.8 34 of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (including any loss of profits, business or anticipated savings). This Section 6.3 shall survive the repayment of indebtedness under, and otherwise shall survive the expiration or other termination of, this Agreement, in each case, subject to the applicable statute of limitations. SECTION 7. COVENANTS OF LOAN PARTIES Borrower agrees as follows: 7.1 Financial Reports. Borrower shall furnish to Agent the financial statements and reports listed hereinafter (the “Financial Statements”): (a) as soon as practicable (and in any event within thirty (30) days) after the end of each month, unaudited interim and year-to-date financial statements as of the end of such month (prepared on a consolidated and consolidating basis, if applicable), solely including balance sheet and related statements of income accompanied by a report detailing any material contingencies (including the commencement of any material litigation by or against any Loan Party) or any other occurrence that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, all certified by a duly authorized officer of Borrower to the effect that they have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, except (i) for the absence of footnotes, (ii) that they are subject to normal year-end adjustments, and (iii) they do not contain certain non-cash items that are customarily included in quarterly and annual financial statements; (b) as soon as practicable (and in any event within forty-five (45) days after the end of each calendar quarter), unaudited interim and year-to-date financial statements as of the end of such calendar quarter (prepared on a consolidated basis), including balance sheet and related statements of income and cash flows accompanied by a report detailing any material contingencies (including the commencement of any material litigation by or against any Loan Party) or any other occurrence that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, certified by a duly authorized officer of Borrower to the effect that they have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, except (i) for the absence of footnotes, and (ii) that they are subject to normal year-end adjustments, as well as the most recent capitalization table for Borrower, including the weighted average exercise price of employee stock options; (c) as soon as practicable (and in any event within one hundred fifty (150) days or, if Borrower or any other Loan Party becomes subject to SEC reporting rules, ninety (90) days) after the end of each fiscal year, audited financial statements as of the end of such year (prepared on a consolidated and consolidating basis, if applicable), including balance sheet and related statements of income and cash flows, and setting forth in comparative form the corresponding figures for the preceding fiscal year, certified without qualification by a firm of independent certified public accountants selected by Borrower and reasonably acceptable to Agent, accompanied by any management report from such accountants; (d) as soon as practicable (and in any event within thirty (30) days) after the end of each month, a Compliance Certificate; (e) as soon as practicable (and in any event within thirty (30) days) after the end of each calendar quarter (or as reasonably requested by Agent), a report showing agings of accounts receivable and accounts payable;


 
1610065802.8 35 (f) promptly after the sending or filing thereof, as the case may be, copies of any proxy statements, financial statements, information or reports that Company has made available to holders of its common stock and copies of any regular, periodic and special reports or registration statements that Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor, or any national securities exchange; (g) copies of any material Governmental Approvals obtained by any Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries; (h) at the same time and in the same manner as it gives to its directors, copies of all notices, minutes, consents and other materials that Borrower provides to its directors in connection with meetings of the Board of Directors, and within thirty (30) days after each such meeting, minutes of such meeting, provided that in all cases Borrower may exclude confidential compensation information; (i) financial and business projections promptly following its presentation to the Company’s Board of Directors, as well as budgets, operating plans and other financial information reasonably requested by Agent; (j) a copy of Borrower’s annual 409A valuation report as soon as practicable (and in any event, within ten (10) days after such report becomes available to Borrower); (k) upon request by the Agent, insurance renewal statements, annually or otherwise promptly upon renewal of insurance policies required to be maintained in accordance with Section 6.1; (l) prompt notice of any legal process that is reasonably likely to result in damages, expenses or liabilities in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000); and (m) prompt (but in any event no more than two (2) Business Days’) notice if Borrower or any Subsidiary has knowledge that Borrower, or any Subsidiary or Affiliate of Borrower, is listed on the OFAC Lists or (a) is convicted on, (b) pleads nolo contendere to, (c) is indicted on, or (d) is arraigned and held over on charges involving money laundering or predicate crimes to money laundering. No Loan Party shall make any change in its (a) accounting policies or reporting practices, or (b) fiscal years or fiscal quarters. The fiscal year of each Loan Party shall end on December 31. The executed Compliance Certificate, and all Financial Statements required to be delivered hereunder shall be sent per instructions (i) specified on Addendum 2 or (ii) otherwise provided by Agent to Borrower via a written notice from time to time. 7.2 Management Rights. The Loan Parties shall permit any representative that Agent or Lenders authorizes, including its attorneys and accountants, to inspect the Collateral and examine and make copies and abstracts of the books of account and records of the Loan Parties at reasonable times and upon reasonable notice during normal business hours; provided, however, that so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such examinations shall be limited to no more often than twice per fiscal year. In addition, in connection with such inspections, any such representative shall have the right to meet with management and officers of the Loan Parties to discuss such books of account and records. In addition, Agent or Lenders shall be entitled at reasonable times and intervals to consult with and advise the management and officers of the Loan


 
1610065802.8 36 Parties concerning significant business issues affecting the Loan Parties. Such consultations shall not unreasonably interfere with the Loan Parties’ business operations. The parties intend that the rights granted Agent and Lenders shall constitute “management rights” within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101(d)(3)(ii), but that any advice, recommendations or participation by Agent or Lenders with respect to any business issues shall not be deemed to give Agent or Lenders, nor be deemed an exercise by Agent or Lenders of, control over the Loan Parties’ management or policies. 7.3 Further Assurances. Each Loan Party shall, and shall cause each other Loan Party to, from time to time execute, deliver and file, alone or with Agent, any financing statements, security agreements, collateral assignments, notices, control agreements, promissory notes or other documents to perfect, give the highest priority to Agent’s Lien on the Collateral or otherwise evidence Agent’s rights herein. Each Loan Party shall from time to time procure any instruments or documents as may be reasonably requested by Agent, and take all further action that may be necessary, or that Agent may reasonably request, to perfect and protect the Liens granted hereby or pursuant to applicable Loan Documents. In addition, and for such purposes only, each Loan Party hereby authorizes Agent to execute and deliver on behalf of such Loan Party and to file such financing statements (including an indication that the financing statement covers “all assets or all personal property” of such Loan Party in accordance with Section 9504 of the UCC), collateral assignments, notices, control agreements, security agreements and other documents without the signature of such Loan Party either in Agent’s name or in the name of Agent as agent and attorney- in-fact for such Loan Party. Each Loan Party shall protect and defend such Loan Party’s title to the Collateral and Agent’s Lien thereon against all Persons claiming any interest adverse to such Loan Party or Agent other than Permitted Liens. 7.4 Indebtedness. No Loan Party shall create, incur, assume, guarantee or be or remain liable with respect to any Indebtedness, or permit any Subsidiary so to do, other than Permitted Indebtedness, or prepay any Indebtedness or take any actions which impose on such Loan Party an obligation to prepay any Indebtedness, except for (a) the conversion of Indebtedness into equity securities and the payment of cash in lieu of fractional shares in connection with such conversion, (b) purchase money Indebtedness pursuant to its then applicable payment schedule, (c) prepayment by any Subsidiary of (i) inter-company Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to any Loan Party, or (ii) if such Subsidiary is not a Loan Party, intercompany Indebtedness owed by such Subsidiary to another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, (d) payments made on Subordinated Indebtedness to the extent permitted under the relevant Subordination Agreement or (e) as otherwise permitted hereunder or approved in writing by Agent. 7.5 Collateral. Each Loan Party shall at all times (a) keep the Collateral and all other property and assets used in such Loan Party’s business or in which such Loan Party now or hereafter holds any interest free and clear from any Liens whatsoever (except for Permitted Liens), and (b) shall give Agent prompt written notice of any legal process affecting the Collateral, such other property and assets, or any Liens thereon, provided however, that the Collateral and such other property or assets may be subject to Permitted Liens except that there shall be no Liens whatsoever on Intellectual Property. No Loan Party shall agree with any Person other than Agent or Lenders to encumber its property other than in connection with Permitted Liens. No Loan Party shall enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any agreement that prohibits or limits the ability of any Loan Party to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property (including Intellectual Property), whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party other than (i) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) any agreements governing any purchase money Liens or capital lease obligations otherwise permitted hereby (in which case, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the


 
1610065802.8 37 assets financed thereby) and (iii) customary restrictions on the assignment of leases, licenses and other agreements. Each Loan Party shall cause its Subsidiaries to protect and defend such Subsidiary’s title to its assets from and against all Persons claiming any interest adverse to such Subsidiary, and such Loan Party shall cause its Subsidiaries at all times to keep such Subsidiary’s property and assets free and clear from any legal process or Liens whatsoever (except for Permitted Liens, provided however, that there shall be no Liens whatsoever on Intellectual Property), and shall give Agent prompt written notice of any legal process affecting such Subsidiary’s assets. 7.6 Investments. No Loan Party shall directly or indirectly acquire or own, or make any Investment in or to any Person, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to do so, other than Permitted Investments. 7.7 Distributions. Except as otherwise described on Schedule 7.7, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it allow any Subsidiary to, (a) repurchase or redeem any class of stock or other Equity Interest other than pursuant to employee, director or consultant repurchase plans or other similar agreements, provided, however, in each case the repurchase or redemption price does not exceed the original consideration paid for such stock or Equity Interest, or (b) declare or pay any cash dividend or make any other cash distribution on any class of stock or other Equity Interest, except that a Subsidiary may pay dividends or make other distributions to such Loan Party or any Subsidiary of such Loan Party, or (c) except for Permitted Investments, lend money to any employees, officers or directors or guarantee the payment of any such loans granted by a third party in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in the aggregate, or (d) convert of any of its convertible securities into other securities pursuant to the terms of such convertible securities or otherwise in exchange thereof, (e) waive, release or forgive any Indebtedness owed by any employees, officers or directors in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) in the aggregate or (f) distributions pursuant to any put right and/or call right obligations not to exceed the sum of (A) Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), plus (B) the remaining unused portion of the Available Amount, minus (C) any portion of the Available Amount that has already been used for a distribution contemplated under this Section 7.7(f), Permitted Acquisitions, Permitted Indebtedness or Permitted Investments. 7.8 Transfers. Except for Permitted Transfers, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, voluntarily or involuntarily transfer, sell, lease, license, lend or in any other manner convey (“Transfer”) any equitable, beneficial or legal interest in any material portion of its assets (including, without limitation, pursuant to a Division). 7.9 Mergers, Consolidations and Acquisitions. No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person (other than mergers or consolidations of (a) a Subsidiary which is not a Loan Party into another Subsidiary or into such Loan Party or (b) a Loan Party into another Loan Party); provided, however, that any Permitted Acquisition and/or Permitted Investment shall be permitted. 7.10 Taxes. Each Loan Party shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, pay when due all material Taxes of any nature whatsoever now or hereafter imposed or assessed against such Loan Party or such Subsidiary or the Collateral or upon such Loan Party’s (or such Subsidiary’s) ownership, possession, use, operation or disposition thereof or upon such Loan Party’s (or such Subsidiary’s) rents, receipts or earnings arising therefrom. Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to, accurately file on or before the due date therefor (taking into account proper


 
1610065802.8 38 extensions) all federal and state income Tax returns and other material Tax returns required to be filed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries may contest, in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, Taxes for which such Loan Party and its Subsidiaries maintain adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP. 7.11 Corporate Changes. (a) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall change its corporate name, legal form or jurisdiction of formation without ten (10) days’ prior written notice to Agent. (b) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall suffer a Change in Control. (c) Neither any Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall relocate its chief executive office or its principal place of business unless: (i) it has provided prior written notice to Agent; and (ii) such relocation shall be within the continental United States of America. (d) If any Loan Party intends to add any new offices or business locations, including warehouses, containing any portion of such Loan Party’s assets or property valued, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), then such Loan Party shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cause the landlord of any such new offices or business locations, including warehouses, to execute and deliver a landlord consent in form and substance satisfactory to Agent within forty-five (45) days of such location exceeding such threshold. (e) If any Loan Party intends to deliver any portion of such Loan Party’s assets or property valued, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) to a bailee, and Agent and such bailee are not already parties to a bailee agreement governing both the Collateral and the location to which such Loan Party intends to deliver the Collateral, then such Loan Party will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause such bailee to execute and deliver a bailee agreement in form and substance satisfactory to Agent within forty- five (45) days of such location exceeding such threshold. (f) No Loan Party will, nor will it permit any Subsidiary to, engage to any material extent in any business other than those businesses conducted by such Loan Party and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof or any business reasonably related or incidental thereto or representing a reasonable expansion thereof. (g) Without the prior written consent of Agent, no Loan Party will make, or agree to make, any modification, amendment or waiver of any of the terms or provisions of such Loan Party’s Organizational Documents that is materially adverse to Agent or any of the Lenders. 7.12 Deposit Accounts. No Loan Party shall maintain any Deposit Accounts, or accounts holding Investment Property, except with respect to which Agent has an Account Control Agreement, provided that no Account Control Agreement shall be required for any Excluded Account. 7.13 Joinder of Subsidiaries. Borrower shall notify Agent of each Subsidiary formed or acquired subsequent to the Closing Date (including any new Subsidiary formed by Division) and, (a) each Domestic Subsidiary, and (b) if any Foreign Subsidiary becomes a Material Foreign Subsidiary, then within fifteen (15) days of such formation or acquisition (or such longer period of time as agreed to by Agent in writing in its sole discretion), shall cause any such Domestic


 
1610065802.8 39 Subsidiary or Material Foreign Subsidiary to execute and deliver to Agent a Joinder Agreement and such other documents and instruments as shall be requested by Agent to effectuate the transactions contemplated by such Joinder Agreement (in each case in form and substance acceptable to Agent), or, if requested by Agent, a Guaranty and appropriate collateral security documents to secure the obligations pursuant to such Guaranty (in each case in form and substance acceptable to Agent); it being agreed that if such new Subsidiary is formed by a Division, the foregoing requirements shall be satisfied substantially concurrently with the formation of such Subsidiary. 7.14 [Reserved]. 7.15 Notification of Event of Default. Each Loan Party shall notify Agent promptly (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days) of the occurrence of any Event of Default. 7.16 SBA. One or more affiliates of Agent have received a license from the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) to extend loans as a small business investment company (“SBIC”) pursuant to the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended, and the associated regulations (collectively, the “SBIC Act”). Portions of the Loan to Borrower may be made by a Lender that is a SBIC. Addendum 3 to this Agreement outlines various responsibilities of Agent, each Lender and Borrower associated with a loan made by a SBIC, and such Addendum 3 is hereby incorporated in this Agreement. 7.17 Use of Proceeds. Borrower agrees that the proceeds of the Loans shall be used solely to refinance existing indebtedness, to pay related fees and expenses in connection with this Agreement and for working capital and general corporate purposes. The proceeds of the Loans will not be used in violation of Anti-Corruption Laws or applicable Sanctions. 7.18 [Reserved]. 7.19 Material Agreement. Each Loan Party shall give prompt written notice to Agent of entering into a Material Agreement or amending a Material Agreement in a manner that is reasonably likely to have a material negative impact on Agent or Lenders or terminating a Material Agreement. 7.20 Compliance with Laws. (a) Each Loan Party (i) shall maintain, and shall cause its Subsidiaries to maintain, compliance in all material respects with all applicable laws, rules or regulations (including any law, rule or regulation with respect to the making or brokering of loans or financial accommodations), and (ii) shall, or cause its Subsidiaries to, obtain and maintain all required governmental authorizations, approvals, licenses, franchises, permits or registrations reasonably necessary in connection with the conduct of such Loan Party’s business. No Loan Party shall become an “investment company,” a company that would be an “investment company” except for the exclusion from the definition of “investment company” in Section 3(c) of the 1940 Act, or a company controlled by an “investment company” under the 1940 Act, or undertake as one of its important activities extending credit to purchase or carry margin stock (as defined in Regulation X, T and U of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors). (b) No Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, nor shall such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, knowingly permit any Affiliate to, directly or indirectly, knowingly enter into any documents, instruments, agreements or contracts with any Person listed on the OFAC Lists.


 
1610065802.8 40 No Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries shall, nor shall such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, knowingly permit any Affiliate to, directly or indirectly, (i) conduct any business or engage in any transaction or dealing with any Blocked Person, including, without limitation, the making or receiving of any contribution of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of any Blocked Person, (ii) deal in, or otherwise engage in any transaction relating to, any property or interests in property blocked pursuant to Executive Order No. 13224 or any similar executive order or other Anti-Terrorism Law, or (iii) engage in or conspire to engage in any transaction that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate, any of the prohibitions set forth in Executive Order No. 13224 or other Anti-Terrorism Law. (c) Each Loan Party has implemented and shall maintain in effect policies and procedures designed to ensure compliance by such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions, and such Loan Party, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers and employees and to the knowledge of such Loan Party its directors and agents, are in compliance with Anti- Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions in all material respects. (d) No Loan Party, nor any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective directors, officers or employees, or to the knowledge of such Loan Party, any agent for such Loan Party or its Subsidiaries that will act in any capacity in connection with or benefit from the credit facility established hereby, is a Sanctioned Person. No Loan, use of proceeds or other transaction contemplated by this Agreement will violate Anti-Corruption Laws or applicable Sanctions. 7.21 Financial Covenant. Beginning on the Closing Date and at all times thereafter, the Loan Parties shall maintain Qualified Cash in an amount greater than or equal to (i) at all times prior to Borrower’s achievement of the Equity Milestone, Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000) and (ii) at all times after Borrower’s achievement of the Equity Milestone, Twelve Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($12,500,000). 7.22 Intellectual Property. Each Loan Party shall (i) protect, defend and maintain the validity and enforceability of its Intellectual Property; (ii) promptly advise Agent in writing of infringements of its Intellectual Property which has any material value; and (iii) not allow any Intellectual Property material to such Loan Party’s business to be abandoned, forfeited or dedicated to the public without Agent’s written consent. If any Loan Party (a) obtains any Patent, registered Trademark, registered Copyright, registered mask work, or any pending application for any of the foregoing, whether as owner, licensee or otherwise, or (b) applies for any Patent or the registration of any Trademark, then such Loan Party shall promptly (but in no event no later than with delivery of the next Compliance Certificate required to be delivered hereunder) provide written notice thereof to Agent and shall execute such intellectual property security agreements and other documents and take such other actions as Agent may request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent in such property. If any Loan Party decides to register any Copyrights or mask works in the United States Copyright Office, such Loan Party shall: (x) provide Agent with at least fifteen (15) days prior written notice of such Loan Party’s intent to register such Copyrights or mask works together with a copy of the application it intends to file with the United States Copyright Office (excluding exhibits thereto); (y) execute an intellectual property security agreement and such other documents and take such other actions as Agent may request in its good faith business judgment to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in favor of Agent in the Copyrights or mask works intended to be registered with the United States Copyright Office; and (z) record such intellectual property security agreement with the United States Copyright Office


 
1610065802.8 41 contemporaneously with filing the Copyright or mask work application(s) with the United States Copyright Office. Each Loan Party shall promptly provide to Agent copies of all applications that it files for Patents or for the registration of Trademarks, Copyrights or mask works, together with evidence of the recording of the intellectual property security agreement required for Agent to perfect and maintain a first priority perfected security interest in such property. Each Loan Party shall provide written notice to Agent within thirty (30) days of entering or becoming bound by any Restricted License (other than off-the-shelf software that is commercially available to the public). Each Loan Party shall take such steps as Agent requests to obtain the consent of, or waiver by, any person whose consent or waiver is necessary for (1) any Restricted License to be deemed “Collateral” and for Agent to have a security interest in it that might otherwise be restricted or prohibited by law or by the terms of any such Restricted License, whether now existing or entered into in the future, and (2) Agent to have the ability in the event of a liquidation of any Collateral to dispose of such Collateral in accordance with Agent’s rights and remedies under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. 7.23 Transactions with Affiliates. Except as otherwise described on Schedule 7.23, No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary on terms that are less favorable to such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, than those that might be obtained in an arm’s length transaction from a Person who is not an Affiliate of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary. 7.24 Board Observation Rights. (a) Agent shall have the right to have a single representative attend all meetings of the board of directors of any Loan Party and any Subsidiary, as an observer without the right to vote (the “Observer”). Each Loan Party reserves the right to withhold any information and to exclude the Observer from any meeting of the board of directors or portion thereof if such Loan Party reasonably determines that (a) the access to such information or attendance at such meeting would adversely affect the attorney-client privilege between such Loan Party and its counsel, (b) the access to such information or attendance at such meeting would result in disclosure of trade secrets or a conflict of interest to Observer, (c) or the Observer is a competitor of such Loan Party or an Affiliate of a competitor of such Loan Party. Initially, the Observer shall be Gregory Peterson. Observer shall be provided written notice (which may be via email) of all regular meetings of such entities’ board of directors at the same time as provided to any other director, and at least two (2) full business days’ prior written notice (which may be via email) of all special meetings of such entities’ board of directors thereof unless due to the emergency nature of the matters to be addressed at the meeting 48 hours’ written notice is not reasonably practical. Each Loan Party or Subsidiary, as applicable, shall concurrently provide Observer with copies of all notices, minutes, consents and other materials it provides to any member of such board of directors or any committee, provided that any materials protected from discovery by the attorney- client privilege or the attorney work product privilege, any materials necessary or advisable in the good faith determination of such board of directors to avoid a conflict of interest between such Loan Party, on the one hand, and Agent and Lenders, on the other hand, and any trade secrets may be excluded. All Confidential Information provided to Observer pursuant to this Section 7.24 shall be subject to the confidentiality obligations under Section 11.13. Each Loan Party will reimburse Observer for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by Observer in connection with attendance at any such meetings.


 
1610065802.8 42 (b) In addition to any other rights or remedies to which the Agent may be entitled, Each Loan Party agrees to and will indemnify and hold harmless Agent, Lenders, Observer, their Affiliates and all of their respective successors, assigns, officers, directors, employees, attorneys, and agents from and against any and all losses, claims, obligations, liabilities, deficiencies, diminutions in value, penalties, causes of action, damages, costs, and expenses (including, without limitation, costs of investigation and defense, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) that they, or any of them, may suffer, incur, or be responsible for, arising or resulting from the exercise of rights pursuant to Section 7.24(a) and/or service or status as an “Observer”. 7.25 Post-Closing Obligations. The Loan Parties shall: (a) deliver, or caused to be delivered, to Agent, within thirty (30) days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole but reasonable discretion), duly executed Account Control Agreements with respect to each Deposit Account and Securities Account (other than the Funding Account and any Excluded Accounts) maintained by any Loan Party; (b) deliver, or caused to be delivered, to Agent, within thirty (30) days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole but reasonable discretion), insurance endorsements as required pursuant to Section 6.2; (c) use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent, within thirty (30) days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole but reasonable discretion), landlord consents for its (i) chief executive office or its principal place of business and (ii) offices or business locations, including warehouses, containing in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) of any Loan Party’s assets or property; (d) use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Agent, within thirty (30) days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole but reasonable discretion), duly executed bailee agreements for any bailee location holding a portion of any Loan Party’s assets or property valued, individually or in the aggregate, in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000); (e) within ten (10) days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole but reasonable discretion), all certificates of insurance and copies of each insurance policy and endorsements required hereunder; and (f) within fifteen (15) Business Days after the Closing Date (or such later date as Agent may agree in its sole but reasonable discretion), (i) the certificates representing the Equity Interests required to be pledged pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, together with an undated stock power or similar instrument of transfer for each such certificate endorsed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof, and (ii) each material debt instrument (if any) endorsed (without recourse) in blank (or accompanied by an transfer form endorsed in blank) by the pledgor thereof required to be pledged to Agent under the Pledge Agreement. SECTION 8. [RESERVED] SECTION 9. EVENTS OF DEFAULT The occurrence of any one or more of the following events shall be an “Event of Default”:


 
1610065802.8 43 9.1 Payments. A Loan Party fails to pay any amount due under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents on the due date; provided, however, that an Event of Default shall not occur on account of a failure to pay due solely to an administrative or operational error of Agent or Lenders or Borrower’s bank if Borrower had the funds to make the payment when due and makes the payment within three (3) Business Days following Borrower’s knowledge of such failure to pay; or 9.2 Covenants. A Loan Party breaches or defaults in the performance of any covenant or Secured Obligation under this Agreement, or any of the other Loan Documents or any other agreement among any Loan Party, Agent and Lenders, and (a) with respect to a Default under any covenant under this Agreement (other than under Sections 6, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.15, 7.16, 7.17, 7.19, 7.21, 7.22, 7.24 and 7.25), any other Loan Document, or any other agreement among any Loan Party, Agent and Lenders, such default continues for more than ten (10) days after the earlier of the date on which (i) Agent or Lenders has given notice of such default to Borrower and (ii) any Loan Party has actual knowledge of such default or (b) with respect to a Default under any of Sections 6, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.15, 7.16, 7.17, 7.19, 7.21, 7.22, 7.24 and 7.25, the occurrence of such Default; or 9.3 Material Adverse Effect. A circumstance has occurred that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or 9.4 Representations. Any representation or warranty made by any Loan Party in any Loan Document shall have been false or misleading in any material respect when made or when deemed made; or 9.5 Insolvency. (a) A Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries fails to be solvent as described under Section 5.15 hereof; (b) a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries begins an Insolvency Proceeding; or (c) an Insolvency Proceeding is begun against a Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries and is not dismissed or stayed within thirty (30) days (but no Advances shall be made while any of the conditions described in clause (a) exist or until any Insolvency Proceeding is dismissed); or 9.6 Judgments; Penalties. One or more fines, penalties or final judgments, orders or decrees for the payment of money in an amount, individually or in the aggregate, of at least Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) (not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which liability has been accepted by such insurance carrier) shall be rendered against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries by any Governmental Authority, and the same are not, within ten (10) days after the entry, assessment or issuance thereof, discharged, or after execution thereof, or stayed pending appeal, or such judgments are not discharged prior to the expiration of any such stay (provided that no Advances shall be made prior to the discharge, or stay of such fine, penalty, judgment, order or decree); or 9.7 Attachment; Levy; Restraint on Business. (a) (i) The service of process seeking to attach, by trustee or similar process, any funds of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, or (ii) a notice of lien or levy is filed against any of any Loan Party’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ assets by any Governmental Authority, and the same under subclauses (i) and (ii) hereof are not, within ten (10) days after the occurrence thereof, discharged or stayed (whether through the posting of a bond or otherwise); provided, however, no Advances shall be made during any ten (10) day cure period; or


 
1610065802.8 44 (b) (i) any material portion of any Loan Party’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ assets is attached, seized, levied on, or comes into possession of a trustee or receiver, or (ii) any court order enjoins, restrains, or prevents any Loan Party from conducting all or any material part of its business 9.8 Other Obligations. The occurrence of any default under (i) any agreement or obligation of a Loan Party involving any Indebtedness in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), or (ii) any Material Agreement if (A) a Material Adverse Effect could reasonably be expected to result from such default, or (B) such default either (x) is due to a Loan Party’s material breach of any provision of such Material Agreement that cannot be cured, which results in a right by such third party or parties to terminate such Material Agreement, and such third party or parties terminate such Material Agreement or (y) is due to a Loan Party’s failure to make a payment of a monetary obligation due under such Material Agreement in an amount in excess of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000). 9.9 Governmental Approvals. (a) Any Governmental Approval shall have been revoked, rescinded, suspended, modified in an adverse manner, or not renewed in the ordinary course for a full term and such revocation, rescission, suspension, modification or non renewal has resulted in or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; or (b) (i) DOJ or other Governmental Authority initiates a regulatory action or any other enforcement action against any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries or any supplier of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries that causes such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to recall, withdraw, remove or discontinue manufacturing, distributing, and/or marketing any of its products, even if such action is based on previously disclosed conduct; (ii) any Governmental Authority issues a warning letter to any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any of its activities or products which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; (iii) any loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries enters into a settlement agreement with the DOJ or other Governmental Authority that results in aggregate liability as to any single or related series of transactions, incidents or conditions, of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) or more, or that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, even if such settlement agreement is based on previously disclosed conduct; or (iv) any Governmental Authority revokes any authorization or permission granted under any Registration, or such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries withdraws any Registration, that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 10. REMEDIES 10.1 General. Upon the occurrence of any one or more Events of Default, Agent may, and at the direction of the Required Lenders shall, accelerate and demand payment of all or any part of the outstanding Secured Obligations together with a Prepayment Charge and declare them to be immediately due and payable (provided, that upon the occurrence of an Event of Default of the type described in Section 9.5, all of the Secured Obligations (including, without limitation, the Prepayment Charge and the End of Term Charge) shall automatically be accelerated and made due and payable, in each case without any further notice or act). Each Loan Party hereby irrevocably appoints Agent as its lawful attorney-in-fact to: (a) exercisable following the occurrence of an Event of Default, (i) sign such Loan Party’s name on any invoice or bill of lading for any account or drafts against account debtors; (ii) demand, collect, sue, and give releases to any account debtor for monies due, settle and adjust disputes and claims about the accounts directly with account debtors, and compromise, prosecute, or defend any action, claim, case, or proceeding about any Collateral (including filing a claim or voting a claim in any bankruptcy case in Agent’s or such Loan Party’s name, as Agent may elect); (iii) make, settle, and adjust all claims under such Loan Party’s insurance policies; (iv) pay, contest or settle any Lien, charge, encumbrance, security interest, or other claim


 
1610065802.8 45 in or to the Collateral, or any judgment based thereon, or otherwise take any action to terminate or discharge the same; (v) transfer the Collateral into the name of Agent or a third party as the UCC permits; and (vi) receive, open and dispose of mail addressed to such Loan Party; and (b) regardless of whether an Event of Default has occurred, (i) endorse such Loan Party’s name on any checks, payment instruments, or other forms of payment or security; and (ii) notify all account debtors to pay Agent directly. Each Loan Party hereby appoints Agent as its lawful attorney-in-fact to sign such Loan Party’s name on any documents necessary to perfect or continue the perfection of Agent’s security interest in the Collateral regardless of whether an Event of Default has occurred until all Secured Obligations have been satisfied in full and the Loan Documents have been terminated. Agent’s foregoing appointment as each Loan Party’s attorney in fact, and all of Agent’s rights and powers, coupled with an interest, are irrevocable until all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations which, by their terms, survive termination of this Agreement) have been fully repaid and performed and the Loan Documents have been terminated. Agent may, and at the direction of the Required Lenders shall, exercise all rights and remedies with respect to the Collateral under the Loan Documents or otherwise available to it under the UCC and other applicable law, including the right to release, hold, sell, lease, liquidate, collect, realize upon, or otherwise dispose of all or any part of the Collateral and the right to occupy, utilize, process and commingle the Collateral. All Agent’s rights and remedies shall be cumulative and not exclusive. 10.2 Collection; Foreclosure. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, Agent may, and at the direction of the Required Lenders shall, at any time or from time to time, apply, collect, liquidate, sell in one or more sales, lease or otherwise dispose of, any or all of the Collateral, in its then condition or following any commercially reasonable preparation or processing, in such order as Agent may elect. Any such sale may be made either at public or private sale at its place of business or elsewhere. Each Loan Party agrees that any such public or private sale may occur upon ten (10) calendar days’ prior written notice to Borrower. Agent may require any Loan Party to assemble the Collateral and make it available to Agent at a place designated by Agent that is reasonably convenient to Agent and such Loan Party. The proceeds of any sale, disposition or other realization upon all or any part of the Collateral shall be applied by Agent in the following order of priorities: First, to Agent, in an amount equal to the sum of all fees owing to Agent hereunder and under any other Loan Document; Second, to Agent and Lenders in an amount sufficient to pay in full Agent’s and Lenders’ reasonable costs and professionals’ and advisors’ fees and expenses as described in Section 11.12; Third, to Lenders, ratably, in an amount equal to the sum of all accrued interest owing to Lenders on the Term Loan Advances hereunder; Fourth, to Lenders, ratably, in an amount equal to the sum of the outstanding principal and premium, if any owing to Lenders from the Loan Parties on the Term Loan Advances hereunder; Fifth, to Lenders and Agent, ratably (in proportion to all remaining Secured Obligations owing to each), in an amount equal to the sum of all other outstanding and unpaid Secured Obligations (including principal, interest, and the default rate interest set forth in Section 2.4, if required under this Agreement), in such order and priority as Agent may choose in its sole discretion; and Finally, after the full and final payment in Cash of all of the Secured Obligations (other than inchoate obligations which, by their terms, survive termination of this Agreement), to any


 
1610065802.8 46 creditor holding a junior Lien on the Collateral, or to the Loan Parties or their representatives or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct. Agent shall be deemed to have acted reasonably in the custody, preservation and disposition of any of the Collateral if it complies with the obligations of a secured party under the UCC. 10.3 No Waiver. Agent shall be under no obligation to marshal any of the Collateral for the benefit of any Loan Party or any other Person, and each Loan Party expressly waives all rights, if any, to require Agent to marshal any Collateral. 10.4 Waivers. Each Loan Party waives demand, notice of default or dishonor, notice of payment and nonpayment, notice of any default, nonpayment at maturity, release, compromise, settlement, extension, or renewal of accounts, documents, instruments, chattel paper, and guarantees held by Agent on which such Loan Party is liable. 10.5 Cumulative Remedies. The rights, powers and remedies of Agent hereunder shall be in addition to all rights, powers and remedies given by statute or rule of law and are cumulative. The exercise of any one or more of the rights, powers and remedies provided herein shall not be construed as a waiver of or election of remedies with respect to any other rights, powers and remedies of Agent. SECTION 11. MISCELLANEOUS 11.1 Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement shall be prohibited by or invalid under such law, such provision shall be ineffective only to the extent and duration of such prohibition or invalidity, without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of this Agreement. 11.2 Notice. Except as otherwise provided herein, any notice, demand, request, consent, approval, declaration, service of process or other communication (including the delivery of Financial Statements) that is required, contemplated, or permitted under the Loan Documents or with respect to the subject matter hereof shall be in writing, and shall be deemed to have been validly served, given, delivered, and received upon the earlier of: (i) the day of transmission by electronic mail or hand delivery or delivery by an overnight express service or overnight mail delivery service; or (ii) the third calendar day after deposit in the United States of America mails, with proper first class postage prepaid, in each case addressed to the party to be notified as follows: (a) If to Agent: HERCULES CAPITAL, INC. Legal Department Attention: Chief Legal Officer and Gregory Peterson, James Feldman, and Tess Alonge 1 North B Street, Suite 2000 San Mateo, CA 94401 email: legal@htgc.com, gpeterson@htgc.com, jfeldman@htgc.com, Talonge@htgc.com Telephone: 650-289-3060 (b) If to Lenders:


 
1610065802.8 47 HERCULES CAPITAL, INC. and HERCULES CAPITAL IV L.P. Legal Department Attention: Chief Legal Officer and Gregory Peterson, James Feldman, and Tess Alonge 1 North B Street, Suite 2000 San Mateo, CA 94401 email: legal@htgc.com, gpeterson@htgc.com, jfeldman@htgc.com, Talonge@htgc.com Telephone: 650-289-3060 (c) If to Borrower: VOYAGER SPACE HOLDINGS, INC. Attention: Phil De Sousa and Meg Vernal 1225 17th St, Suite 1100 Denver, CO 80202 email: phil.desousa@voyagerspace.com, meg.vernal@voyagerspace.com Telephone: 917-740-0353 with a copy to: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 2222 Market Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103 Attention: Andrew T. Budreika email: andrew.budreika@morganlewis.com or to such other address as each party may designate for itself by like notice. 11.3 Entire Agreement; Amendments. (a) This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of the subject matter hereof and thereof, and supersede and replace in their entirety any prior proposals, term sheets, non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements, letters, negotiations or other documents or agreements, whether written or oral, with respect to the subject matter hereof or thereof (including Agent’s revised proposal letter dated May 13, 2024 and the Non-Disclosure Agreement). (b) Neither this Agreement, any other Loan Document, nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.3(b). The Required Lenders and Loan Parties party to the relevant Loan Document may, or, with the written consent of the Required Lenders, Agent and Loan Parties party to the relevant Loan Document may, from time to time, (i) enter into written amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or changing in any manner the rights of Lenders or of Loan Parties hereunder or thereunder or (ii) waive, on such terms and conditions as the Required Lenders or Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or Event of Default and its consequences; provided, however, that no such waiver and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall (A) forgive the principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity


 
1610065802.8 48 of any Loan, extend the scheduled date of any amortization payment in respect of any Term Loan Advance, reduce the stated rate of any interest (or fee payable hereunder) or extend the scheduled date of any payment thereof, in each case without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (B) eliminate or reduce the voting rights of any Lender under this Section 11.3(b) without the written consent of such Lender; (C) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by Loan Parties of any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, release all or substantially all of the Collateral or release a Loan Party from its obligations under the Loan Documents, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; or (D) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 11.18 or Addendum 4 without the written consent of Agent. Any such waiver and any such amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each Lender and shall be binding upon the applicable Loan Parties, Lenders, Agent and all future holders of the Loans. 11.4 No Strict Construction. The parties hereto have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. In the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provisions of this Agreement. 11.5 No Waiver. The powers conferred upon Agent and Lenders by this Agreement are solely to protect their rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and their interest in the Collateral and shall not impose any duty upon Agent or Lenders to exercise any such powers. No omission or delay by Agent or Lenders at any time to enforce any right or remedy reserved to them, or to require performance of any of the terms, covenants or provisions hereof by any Loan Party at any time designated, shall be a waiver of any such right or remedy to which Agent or Lenders is entitled, nor shall it in any way affect the right of Agent or Lenders to enforce such provisions thereafter. 11.6 Survival. All agreements, representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or in any document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto shall be for the benefit of Agent and Lenders and shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement. Sections 6.3, 11.9, 11.11, 11.14, 11.15, 11.17 and 11.18 shall survive the termination of this Agreement. 11.7 Successors and Assigns. The provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall inure to the benefit of and be binding on each of the Loan Parties and their assigns (if any). No Loan Party shall assign its obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents without Agent’s express prior written consent, and any such attempted assignment shall be void and of no effect. Agent and Lenders may assign, transfer, or endorse its rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents without prior notice to Borrower, and all of such rights shall inure to the benefit of Agent’s and Lenders’ successors and assigns; provided that as long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, neither Agent nor any Lender may assign, transfer or endorse its rights hereunder or under the Loan Documents to any party that is a direct competitor of Borrower (as reasonably determined by Agent), it being acknowledged that in all cases, any transfer to an Affiliate of any Lender or Agent shall be allowed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (x) in connection with any assignment by a Lender as a result of a forced divestiture at the request of any regulatory agency, the restrictions set forth herein shall not apply and Agent and Lenders may assign, transfer or endorse its rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to any Person or party and (y) in connection with a Lender’s own financing or securitization transactions, the restrictions set forth herein shall not apply and Agent and Lenders may assign, transfer or endorse


 
1610065802.8 49 its rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to any Person or party providing such financing or formed to undertake such securitization transaction and any transferee of such Person or party upon the occurrence of a default, event of default or similar occurrence with respect to such financing or securitization transaction; provided that no such sale, transfer, pledge or assignment under this clause (y) shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such Person or party for such Lender as a party hereto until Agent shall have received and accepted an effective assignment agreement from such Person or party in form satisfactory to Agent executed, delivered and fully completed by the applicable parties thereto, and shall have received such other information regarding such assignee as Agent reasonably shall require. Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Loan Parties, shall maintain at one of its offices in the United States a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of Lender(s), and the Term Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Loan Parteis, Agent and Lender(s) shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. 11.8 Participations. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Loan Parties, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any participant or any information relating to a participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, Agent (in its capacity as Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register. Each Loan Party agrees that each participant shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions in Addendum 1 attached hereto (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 7 of Addendum 1 attached hereto (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 7 of Addendum 1 attached hereto shall be delivered to the participating Lender)) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 11.7; provided that such participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Addendum 1 attached hereto, with respect to any participation, than its participating Lender would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a change in law that occurs after the participant acquired the applicable participation. 11.9 Governing Law. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents have been negotiated and delivered to Agent and Lenders in the State of New York, and shall have been accepted by Agent and Lenders in the State of New York. Payment to Agent and Lenders by Borrower of the Secured Obligations is due in the State of New York. This Agreement and the other Loan shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, excluding conflict of laws principles that would cause the application of laws of any other jurisdiction.


 
1610065802.8 50 11.10 Consent to Jurisdiction and Venue. All judicial proceedings (to the extent that the reference requirement of Section 11.11 is not applicable) arising in or under or related to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents may be brought in any state or federal court located in the State of New York. By execution and delivery of this Agreement, each party hereto generally and unconditionally: (a) consents to nonexclusive personal jurisdiction in the City of New York, borough of Manhattan, or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York; (b) waives any objection as to jurisdiction or venue in City of New York, borough of Manhattan, or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York; (c) agrees not to assert any defense based on lack of jurisdiction or venue in the aforesaid courts; and (d) irrevocably agrees to be bound by any judgment rendered thereby in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. Service of process on any party hereto in any action arising out of or relating to this Agreement shall be effective if given in accordance with the requirements for notice set forth in Section 11.2, and shall be deemed effective and received as set forth in Section 11.2. Nothing herein shall affect the right to serve process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right of either party to bring proceedings in the courts of any other jurisdiction. 11.11 Mutual Waiver of Jury Trial . Because disputes arising in connection with complex financial transactions are most quickly and economically resolved by an experienced and expert Person and the parties wish applicable state and federal laws to apply (rather than arbitration rules), the parties desire that their disputes be resolved by a judge applying such applicable laws. EACH OF THE LOAN PARTIES, AGENT AND LENDERS SPECIFICALLY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CAUSE OF ACTION, CLAIM, CROSS-CLAIM, COUNTERCLAIM, THIRD PARTY CLAIM OR ANY OTHER CLAIM (COLLECTIVELY, “CLAIMS”) ASSERTED BY ANY LOAN PARTY AGAINST AGENT, LENDERS OR THEIR RESPECTIVE ASSIGNEE OR BY AGENT, LENDERS OR THEIR RESPECTIVE ASSIGNEE AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY. This waiver extends to all such Claims, including Claims that involve Persons other than Agent, any Loan Party or any Lenders; Claims that arise out of or are in any way connected to the relationship among Loan Parties, Agent and Lenders; and any Claims for damages, breach of contract, tort, specific performance, or any equitable or legal relief of any kind, arising out of this Agreement, any other Loan Document. 11.12 Professional Fees. Each Loan Party promises to pay Agent’s and Lenders’ fees and expenses necessary to finalize the Loan Documents, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees, UCC searches, filing costs, and other miscellaneous expenses. In addition, each Loan Party promises to pay any and all reasonable attorneys’ and other professionals’ fees (including allocated costs of in-house counsel) and expenses incurred by Agent and Lenders after the Closing Date in connection with or related to: (a) the Loan; (b) the administration, collection, or enforcement of the Loan; (c) the amendment or modification of the Loan Documents; (d) any waiver, consent, release, or termination under the Loan Documents; (e) the protection, preservation, audit, field exam, sale, lease, liquidation, or disposition of Collateral or the exercise of remedies with respect to the Collateral; (f) any legal, litigation, administrative, arbitration, or out of court proceeding in connection with or related to any Loan Party or the Collateral, and any appeal or review thereof; and (g) any bankruptcy, restructuring, reorganization, assignment for the benefit of creditors, workout, foreclosure, or other action related to any Loan Party, the Collateral, the Loan Documents, including representing Agent or Lenders in any adversary proceeding or contested matter commenced or continued by or on behalf of any Loan Party’s estate, and any appeal or review thereof.


 
1610065802.8 51 11.13 Confidentiality. Agent and Lenders acknowledge that certain items of Collateral and information provided to Agent and Lenders by the Loan Parties are confidential and proprietary information of the Loan Parties, if and to the extent such information either (x) is marked as confidential by the Loan Parties at the time of disclosure, or (y) should reasonably be understood to be confidential (the “Confidential Information”). Accordingly, Agent and Lenders agree that any Confidential Information it may obtain in the course of acquiring, administering, or perfecting Agent’s security interest in the Collateral shall not be disclosed to any other Person or entity in any manner whatsoever, in whole or in part, without the prior written consent of Borrower, except that Agent and Lenders may disclose any such information: (a) to its Affiliates and its partners, investors, lenders, directors, officers, employees, agents, advisors, counsel, accountants, representative and other professional advisors if Agent or Lenders in their sole discretion determines that any such party should have access to such information in connection with such party’s responsibilities in connection with the Loan or this Agreement and, provided that such recipient of such Confidential Information either (i) agrees to be bound by the confidentiality provisions of this Section or (ii) is otherwise subject to confidentiality restrictions that reasonably protect against the disclosure of Confidential Information; (b) if such information is generally available to the public or to the extent such information becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or becomes available to Agent or any Lender, or any of their respective Affiliates on a non- confidential basis from a source other than a Loan Party; (c) if required or appropriate in any report, statement or testimony submitted to any Governmental Authority having or claiming to have jurisdiction over Agent or Lenders and any rating agency; (d) if required or appropriate in response to any summons or subpoena or in connection with any litigation, to the extent permitted or deemed advisable by Agent’s or Lenders’ counsel; (e) to comply with any legal requirement or law applicable to Agent or Lenders or demanded by any Governmental Authority; (f) to the extent reasonably necessary in connection with the exercise of, or preparing to exercise, or the enforcement of, or preparing to enforce, any right or remedy under any Loan Document (including Agent’s sale, lease, or other disposition of Collateral after the occurrence of a Default), or any action or proceeding relating to any Loan Document; (g) to any participant or assignee of Agent or Lenders or any prospective participant or assignee, provided, that such participant or assignee or prospective participant or assignee is subject to confidentiality restrictions that reasonably protect against the disclosure of Confidential Information; (h) to any investor or potential investor (and each of their respective Affiliates or clients) in Agent or Lenders (or each of their respective Affiliates); provided that such investor, potential investor, Affiliate or client is subject to confidentiality obligations with respect to the Confidential Information; (i) otherwise to the extent consisting of general portfolio information that does not identify any Loan Party; or (j) otherwise with the prior consent of Borrower; provided, that any disclosure made in violation of this Agreement shall not affect the obligations of Borrower or any of its Affiliates or any guarantor under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. Agent’s and Lenders’ obligations under this Section 11.13 shall supersede all of their respective obligations under the Non-Disclosure Agreement. 11.14 Assignment of Rights. Each Loan Party acknowledges and understands that Agent or Lenders may, subject to Section 11.7, sell and assign all or part of its interest hereunder and under the Loan Documents to any Person or entity (an “Assignee”). After such assignment the term “Agent” or “Lender” as used in the Loan Documents shall mean and include such Assignee, and such Assignee shall be vested with all rights, powers and remedies of Agent and Lenders hereunder with respect to the interest so assigned; but with respect to any such interest not so transferred, Agent and Lenders shall retain all rights, powers and remedies hereby given. No such assignment by Agent or Lenders shall relieve any Loan Party of any of its obligations hereunder. Lenders agree that in the event of any transfer by it of the promissory note(s) (if any), it will endorse thereon a notation


 
1610065802.8 52 as to the portion of the principal of the promissory note(s), which shall have been paid at the time of such transfer and as to the date to which interest shall have been last paid thereon. 11.15 Revival of Secured Obligations. This Agreement and the Loan Documents shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective if any petition is filed by or against any Loan Party for liquidation or reorganization, if such Loan Party becomes insolvent or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors, if a receiver or trustee is appointed for all or any significant part of such Loan Party’s assets, or if any payment or transfer of Collateral is recovered from Agent or Lenders. The Loan Documents and the Secured Obligations and Collateral security shall continue to be effective, or shall be revived or reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Secured Obligations or any transfer of Collateral to Agent, or any part thereof is rescinded, avoided or avoidable, reduced in amount, or must otherwise be restored or returned by, or is recovered from, Agent, Lenders or by any obligee of the Secured Obligations, whether as a “voidable preference,” “fraudulent conveyance,” or otherwise, all as though such payment, performance, or transfer of Collateral had not been made. In the event that any payment, or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, avoided, avoidable, restored, returned, or recovered, the Loan Documents and the Secured Obligations shall be deemed, without any further action or documentation, to have been revived and reinstated except to the extent of the full, final, and indefeasible payment to Agent or Lenders in Cash. 11.16 Counterparts. This Agreement and any amendments, waivers, consents or supplements hereto may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so delivered shall be deemed an original, but all of which counterparts shall constitute but one and the same instrument. 11.17 No Third-Party Beneficiaries. No provisions of the Loan Documents are intended, nor will be interpreted, to provide or create any third-party beneficiary rights or any other rights of any kind in any Person other than Agent, Lenders and Loan Parties unless specifically provided otherwise herein, and, except as otherwise so provided, all provisions of the Loan Documents will be personal and solely among Agent, Lenders and the Loan Parties party thereto. 11.18 Agency. Agent and each Lender hereby agree to the terms and conditions set forth on Addendum 4 attached hereto. Each Loan Party acknowledges and agrees to the terms and conditions set forth on Addendum 4 attached hereto. 11.19 Publicity. Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, each Loan Party hereby agrees that the Agent and Lender may, at Agent’s or such Lender's sole expense, and without any prior approval by or compensation to such Loan Party, make a public announcement of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and may publicize or use (a) the other party’s name (including a brief description of the relationship among the parties hereto), logo or hyperlink to such other parties’ web site, separately or together, in written and oral presentations, advertising, promotional and marketing materials, client lists, public relations materials or on its web site (together, the “Publicity Materials”); (b) the names of officers of such other parties in the Publicity Materials; and (c) such other parties’ name, trademarks, servicemarks in any news or press release concerning such party, in each case to the extent such information is not deemed confidential in accordance with Section 11.13. 11.20 Multiple Borrowers. Each Borrower hereby agrees to the terms and conditions set forth on Addendum 5 attached hereto.


 
1610065802.8 53 11.21 [Reserved]. 11.22 Managerial Assistance. Each Loan Party acknowledges that Hercules Capital, Inc. has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the 1940 Act, and as such is required to make available significant managerial assistance to its portfolio companies. Significant managerial assistance may include, but is not limited to, guidance and counsel concerning the portfolio company’s management, operations, business objectives and policies, arrangement of financing, management of relationships with financing sources, recruitment of management personnel and evaluation of acquisition and divestiture opportunities. Each Loan Party hereby acknowledges and agrees that it may request such assistance at any time from Hercules Capital, Inc. by contacting legal@htgc.com. 11.23 Electronic Execution of Certain Other Documents. The words “execution,” “execute”, “signed,” “signature,” and words of like import in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (including without limitation assignments, assumptions, amendments, waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by Agent, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act. SECTION 12. GUARANTY. 12.1 Guaranty. Each Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees, as primary obligor and not merely as surety, to Agent on behalf of the Lenders the due and prompt payment (whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or otherwise and at all times thereafter), performance and discharge of all Secured Obligations. Each Guarantor further agrees that the Secured Obligations may be increased, amended, extended, renewed or otherwise modified in whole or in part without notice to or consent from such Guarantor, and that such actions will not affect the liability of such Guarantor under this Guaranty. All terms of this Guaranty apply to and may be enforced by or on behalf of any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of any Lender that extended any portion of the Secured Obligations. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that it is jointly and severally liable for this Guaranty. This guaranty of the Secured Obligations includes in all cases all such Secured Obligations which arise after the filing of a bankruptcy petition with respect to any Loan Party and all such Secured Obligations which would become due but for the operation of (i) the automatic stay under Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) Section 502(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, or (iii) Section 506(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, including interest accruing under the Loan Documents after the filing of a bankruptcy petition, whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim in the Insolvency Proceeding. This Guaranty is a guaranty of prompt and punctual payment of the Secured Obligations, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, and is not merely a guaranty of collection. 12.1 Limitation of Liability. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Guaranty, the amount guaranteed by each Guarantor hereunder shall be limited to the extent, if any, required so that its obligations under this Guaranty will not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance and not be subject to avoidance under any applicable Debtor Relief Law or any state Uniform Fraudulent


 
1610065802.8 54 Transfer Act, Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, Uniform Voidable Transactions Act or similar statute or common law. 12.2 Term; Reinstatement. (a) This Guaranty is a continuing guaranty and shall terminate only upon repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement). If, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Guarantor shall have any nonwaivable right under applicable law or otherwise to terminate or revoke this Guaranty, such Guarantor agrees that such termination or revocation shall not be effective until such applicable Lender receives written notice of such termination or revocation. Such notice shall not affect any Lender’s right and power to enforce rights arising prior to receipt thereof. If any Lender makes Advances or takes any other action after such Guarantor’s termination or revocation but prior to receipt of the requisite notice, any such Lender’s rights with respect thereto shall be the same as if such termination or revocation had not occurred. (b) Each Guarantor’s liability hereunder shall be reinstated and revived, and any Lender’s rights shall continue, if at any time all or part of any payment of any Secured Obligation is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any Lender or any other Person upon the bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization of Borrower or any other Guarantor or for any other reason, all as though such payment had not been made and this Guaranty shall be reinstated if the Agreement had expired or terminated and all of the Secured Obligations had been satisfied prior to the restoration or return of the payment. 12.3 Guaranty Absolute and Unconditional; Waiver of Defenses. The liability of each Guarantor under this Guaranty is irrevocable, continuing, unconditional and absolute and the obligations of each Guarantor under this Guaranty will not be reduced, limited, impaired, discharged, subject to setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, or termination, or otherwise affected for any reason (other than repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement)), and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably waives any defenses to enforcement it may have (now or in the future) based on or arising out of any defense of any Loan Party or the unenforceability of all or any part of the Secured Obligations or any Loan Document or any related agreement or instrument from any cause, or the cessation from any cause of the liability of any Loan Party or any other Person liable for the Secured Obligations, other than repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement). Without limiting the foregoing, the obligations of any Loan Party hereunder are not discharged or impaired or otherwise affected by, without limitation: (a) any claim of waiver, release, extension, renewal, settlement, surrender, alteration, change in terms or compromise of any of the Secured Obligations or any other obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document, by operation of law or otherwise; (b) any rescission, waiver, amendment or other modification of any Loan Document or any other agreement, including any increase in the Secured Obligations; (c) any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries; (d) any Insolvency Proceeding affecting any Person, or their assets or any resulting release or discharge of any obligation of any Person; (e) the existence of any claim, setoff or other rights which any Loan Party may have at any time against any Lender or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or in any unrelated transactions; (f) any sale, disposition, application of proceeds, taking, exchange, substitution, release, impairment, or non-perfection of any collateral,


 
1610065802.8 55 or any taking, release, impairment, amendment, waiver, or other modification of any guaranty, for the Secured Obligations; (g) any default in the performance of the Secured Obligations; (h) any failure of any Lender or such Lender’s Affiliates to disclose to any Loan Party any information relating to the business, condition, operations, performance, properties, or prospects of any other Loan Party now or hereafter known to such Person; (i) the release or reduction of liability of any Loan Party, or other guarantor or surety, with respect to the Secured Obligations; (j) the failure of any Loan Party to assert any claim or demand or to exercise or enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of any Loan Document or otherwise; or (k) any other circumstance (including any statute of limitations) or manner of administering the Loans or any existence of or reliance on any representation by any Lender that might vary the risk of any Loan Party or otherwise operate as a defense available to, or a legal or equitable discharge of, any Loan Party or any other guarantor or surety (other than repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement)). Each Loan Party agrees that the payment of all sums payable under the Loan Documents or any part thereof or other act which tolls any statute of limitations applicable to the Loan Documents shall similarly operate to toll the statute of limitations applicable to such Loan Party’s liability under this Guaranty. 12.4 Waivers and Acknowledgments. (a) Each Guarantor hereby unconditionally and irrevocably waives (i) any right to revoke this Guaranty and acknowledges that this Guaranty is continuing in nature and applies to all presently existing and future Secured Obligations, (ii) promptness, diligence, notice of acceptance, presentment, demand for performance, notice of nonperformance, default, acceleration, protest or dishonor, and any other notice with respect to any of the Secured Obligations and this Guaranty, and any requirement that any Lender protect, secure, perfect, or insure any Lien or any property subject thereto and (iii) any defense based on any right of set-off or recoupment or counterclaim against or in respect of the obligations of such Guarantor under this Guaranty. (b) Each Guarantor acknowledges that it has received adequate consideration for entering into this Guaranty and that all waivers and acknowledgments under this Section 12 by such Guarantor are knowingly made and that the Lenders would not enter into the Agreement but for this Guaranty. (c) Each Guarantor (i) acknowledges and agrees that any Lender will not have any duty to advise of or otherwise disclose any information known to it regarding Borrower’s financial condition or assets or of all other circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Secured Obligations or the nature, scope and extent of the risks that each Guarantor assumes and incurs under this Guaranty and (ii) assumes all responsibility for being and keeping itself informed of such circumstances and risks. (d) Each Guarantor confirms that it is not a surety under any state law and shall not raise any such law as a defense to its obligations hereunder. (e) Each Guarantor acknowledges that any Lender may, at its election and without notice to or demand upon such Guarantor, foreclose on any Collateral or other collateral held by it by one or more judicial or non-judicial sales, accept an assignment of any such Collateral or other collateral in lieu of foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Secured Obligations, make any other accommodation with Borrower or any other Loan Party or guarantor, or exercise any other right or remedy available to it against Borrower or any other Loan Party or guarantor, without


 
1610065802.8 56 affecting or impairing in any way the liability of any Guarantor hereunder except on the occurrence of the repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement). Each Guarantor hereby waives any defense arising out of such election even though such election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to extinguish any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution, or indemnification, or other right or remedy of such Guarantor against Borrower or any other Loan Party or guarantor or any Collateral or any other collateral. 12.5 Agreement to Pay; Subrogation; Etc. Without limiting any other right that any Lender has at law or in equity against any Loan Party, if any Loan Party fails to pay any Secured Obligation when and as due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after notice of prepayment, or otherwise, each other Loan Party agrees to promptly pay the amount of such unpaid Secured Obligations to Agent in cash. Each Loan Party hereby defers and no Loan Party shall exercise any rights which it may acquire by reason of any payment made under this Guaranty, whether by way of subrogation, reimbursement or otherwise, in each case, until the prior repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement). Any amount paid to any Loan Party on account of any payment made under this Guaranty prior to repayment in full of all Secured Obligations (other than inchoate indemnity obligations, inchoate reimbursement obligations and/or other obligations which, by their terms, are to survive the termination of this Agreement) shall be held in trust for the benefit of Agent and promptly turned over to Agent. So long as any Secured Obligations remain outstanding, each Loan Party will not take any action or commence any proceeding against any Loan Party, whether in connection with an Insolvency Proceeding or otherwise, to recover any amounts in respect of payments made to any Lender under this Guaranty. 12.6 Taxes. For the avoidance of doubt, each Guarantor agrees to observe and perform each of the terms and conditions set forth in Addendum 1 as it relates to such Guarantor in connection with any payments or performance under this Guaranty. 12.7 Additional Guarantors. Each Person that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 7.13 will become a Guarantor, with the same force and effect as if they were originally named as a Guarantor herein, for all purposes of this Agreement upon the execution and delivery by such Person of a joinder in form and substance acceptable to Agent. Each reference to “Guarantor” or “Loan Party” (or any words of like import referring to a Guarantor) in this Agreement or any other Loan Document shall also mean such additional Guarantor; and each reference in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to this “Guaranty” or “Agreement” (or words of like import referring to this Agreement) shall mean this Agreement as supplemented by such joinder. No consent of any other Loan Party will be required for the execution and delivery of any such joinder. The rights and obligations of each Loan Party will remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the addition of any Guarantor as a party to this Agreement. 12.8 Cumulative Liability. The liability of each Loan Party as a Guarantor under this Section 12 is in addition to and shall be cumulative with all liabilities of such Loan Party to any Lender under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party or in respect of any obligations or liabilities of the other Loan Parties, without any limitation as to amount, unless the instrument or agreement evidencing or creating such other liability specifically provides to the contrary.


 
1610065802.8 57 (SIGNATURES TO FOLLOW)


 
[Signature page to Loan and Security Agreement] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Loan Parties, Agent and Lenders have duly executed and delivered this Loan and Security Agreement as of the day and year first above written. BORROWER: VOYAGER SPACE HOLDINGS, INC. Signature: _/s/ Filipe De Sousa_____ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ GUARANTORS: VOYAGER SPACE IP HOLDINGS, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: _/s/ Filipe De Sousa___________ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ VOYAGER SPACE FORCE, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: __/s/ Filipe De Sousa__________ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ VOYAGER VENTURES, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: _/s/ Filipe De Sousa________ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ DocuSign Envelope ID: 86B94D7B-E355-483B-8BEB-DE4A58550897


 
[Signature page to Loan and Security Agreement] VOYAGER SPACE IPX, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: _/s/ Filipe De Sousa_______ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ VOYAGER SPACE SERVICES, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: _/s/ Filipe De Sousa________ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ ZIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. Signature: _/s/ Carlos Grodsinsky_____________ Print Name: Carlos Grodsinsky ________ Title: President________________ ZIN AEROSPACE, INC. Signature: _/s/ Carlos Grodsinsky___ Print Name: Carlos Grodsinsky ________ Title: President________________ PIONEER INVENTION, LLC Signature: _/s/ Frank Morgan_____________ Print Name: Frank Morgan____________ Title: Chief Operating Officer____ VOYAGER SPACE SCIENCE PARK, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: __/s/ Filipe De Sousa___________ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ DocuSign Envelope ID: 86B94D7B-E355-483B-8BEB-DE4A58550897


 
[Signature page to Loan and Security Agreement] ALTIUS SPACE MACHINES, INC. Signature: _/s/ Paul Schauer_____________ Print Name: Paul Schauer____________ Title: Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer____ XO MARKETS HOLDINGS, INC. Signature: __/s/ Timothy Kopra________ Print Name: Timothy Kopra___________ Title: Chief Executive Officer____ NANORACKS LLC By: XO Markets Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: _/s/ Timothy Kopra_________ Print Name: Timothy Kopra___________ Title: Chief Executive Officer____ XO AIRLOCK, LLC By: XO Markets Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: __/s/ Timothy Kopra______ Print Name: Timothy Kopra___________ Title: Chief Executive Officer____ DREAMUP, PBC Signature: __/s/ Christopher Cummins_______ Print Name: Christopher Cummins_____ Title: President & Vice President_ THE LAUNCH COMPANY, LLC Signature: _/s/ Michael O'Brien_____ Print Name: Michael O’Brien___ ___ Title: President _________ DocuSign Envelope ID: 70BAC5ED-D830-4533-A5D5-243BE9A8442F


 
[Signature page to Loan and Security Agreement] VALLEY TECH SYSTEMS, INC. Signature: _/s/ Michael O'Brien____ Print Name: Michael O’Brien_ ________ Title: President & Chief Financial Officer___ _ SPACE MICRO INC. Signature: __/s/ Arsen Melconian_______ Print Name: Arsen Melconian___ ____ Title: Chief Executive Officer & President____ VOYAGER SPACE EXPLORATION, LLC By: Voyager Space Holdings, Inc., as sole member and member-manager Signature: __/s/ Filipe De Sousa________ Print Name: Filipe De Sousa_________ Title: Chief Financial Officer_____ DocuSign Envelope ID: B1D648B0-06FE-4E57-83B8-ED1225C39FD7


 
[Signature page to Loan and Security Agreement] AGENT: HERCULES CAPITAL, INC. Signature: _/s/ Jennifer Choe__________________ Print Name: Jennifer Choe Title: Deputy General Counsel, Portfolio Transactions LENDERS: HERCULES CAPITAL, INC. Signature: __/s/ Jennifer Choe_________ Print Name: Jennifer Choe Title: Deputy General Counsel, Portfolio Transactions HERCULES CAPITAL IV, L.P. By: Hercules Technology SBIC Management, LLC, its General Partner By: Hercules Capital, Inc., its Manager Signature: _/s/ Jennifer Choe_________ _/s/ Jennifer Choe_________ Print Name: Jennifer Choe Title: Deputy General Counsel, Portfolio Transactions HERCULES PRIVATE CREDIT FUND 1 L.P. By: Hercules Adviser LLC, its Investment Adviser Signature: Print Name: Jennifer Choe Title: Authorized Signatory HERCULES PRIVATE GLOBAL VENTURE GROWTH FUND I L.P. By: Hercules Adviser LLC, its Investment Adviser Signature: _/s/ Jennifer Choe_______ Print Name: Jennifer Choe Title: Authorized Signatory