6. COMMON STOCK, PREFERRED STOCK AND WARRANTS
Public Offering
On May 9, 2024, the Company closed on a registered public offering consisting of 704,999 shares of Common Stock (the “2024 Public Offering”), pre-funded warrants to purchase 2,147,222 shares of Common Stock (the “Pre-funded Warrants”) and accompanying Series A Warrants to purchase up to 2,852,221 shares of its Common Stock (“Series A Warrants”) and Series B Warrants to purchase up to 2,852,221 shares of its Common Stock (“Series B Warrants”, and together with the Series A Warrants, the “2024 Public Warrants”). The 2024 Public Offering price per share of Common Stock and accompanying Series A Warrants and Series B Warrants was $2.25, the public offering price per Pre-funded Warrant and accompanying Series A and Series B warrant was $2.249. The Pre-funded Warrants have an exercise price of $0.001 per share and 1,076,445 were exercised on the closing date. Net proceeds from the 2024 Public Offering, after deducting placement agent fees and expenses and other offering costs, were approximately $5.5 million.
The 2024 Public Warrants have an exercise price of $2.25 per share and are exercisable upon issuance. The Series A Warrants will expire five years following the date of issuance and the Series B Warrants will expire twelve months following the date of issuance. The Pre-funded Warrants are exercisable upon issuance and may be exercised at any time until the Pre-funded Warrants are exercised in full.
At-The-Market Offering
On June 23, 2023, the Company entered into a Sales Agreement (the “Sales Agreement”) with Roth Capital Partners, LLC (“Roth”) to create an at-the-market offering program (“ATM”) under which the Company may offer and sell shares with an aggregate offering price of up to $2.0 million. Roth is entitled to a fixed commission rate equal to up to 3% of the gross proceeds pursuant to the Sales Agreement. As of June 30, 2024, 201,211 shares have been sold under the ATM generating net proceeds of $1.8 million.
Series B Preferred Stock
On March 23, 2023, the Board of Directors declared a dividend of one one-thousandth of a share of Series B Preferred Stock (“Series B Preferred Stock”) for each outstanding share of Common Stock held of record on April 3, 2023. The value of the Series B Preferred Stock issued in connection with the stock dividend was immaterial.
The outstanding shares of Series B Preferred Stock voted together with the outstanding shares of the Company’s Common Stock, as a single class, exclusively with respect to a proposal giving the Board of Directors the authority, as it determines appropriate, to implement a reverse stock split within twelve months following the approval of such proposal by the Company’s stockholders as well as any proposal to adjourn any meeting of stockholders called for the purpose of voting on the foregoing matters.
Each share of Series B Preferred Stock entitled the holder to 1,000,000 votes per share and each fraction of a share of Series B Preferred Stock had a ratable number of votes. The holder of Series B Preferred Stock, as such, are not entitled to receive dividends.
At the annual meeting of stockholders of the Company held on May 24, 2023, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation to effect a reverse stock split of its outstanding Common Stock. All shares of Series B Preferred Stock that did not vote in person or by proxy were redeemed in whole by the Company. Shares of Series B Preferred Stock that did vote in person or by proxy will need to request redemption from the Company at a rate of $0.001 per share in cash. As of June 30, 2024, no shareholders of Series B Preferred Stock have requested such redemption.
Warrants
The Company issued warrants to purchase an aggregate of 720,000 shares of Common Stock (“2022 Warrants”) in connection with the August 2022 Public Offering, as more fully described in Note 8 to our Consolidated Financial