Peraso Inc 8-K, filed Aug 7, 2024
Peraso Inc. (PRSO)
About this 8-K
Peraso Inc filed this 8-K on August 7, 2024, reporting on events of August 6, 2024.
Items reported
- Item 3.03: Change to shareholders' rights
- Item 9.01: Financial statements and exhibits
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Item 3.03 Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.
On August 6, 2024, Peraso Inc. (the “Company”) extended the expiration date of its outstanding Series B warrants (CUSIP number 71360T 135) (the “Series B Warrants”) to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on October 7, 2024, by entering into an amendment (the “Amendment”) to that certain Warrant Agency Agreement dated as of February 8, 2024 by and between the Company and the warrant agent, Equiniti Trust Company, LLC.
The Series B warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 3,974,520 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, were issued on February 8, 2024 as part of an underwritten public offering. The Series B Warrants have an exercise price of $2.25 per share and would otherwise have expired at 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on August 8, 2024.
The Series B Warrants and shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the Series B Warrants are registered on the Company’s registration statement on Form S-1, as amended (File No. 333-276247), previously filed with and declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The foregoing summary of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
| Exhibit No. | Description | |
| 10.1 | Amendment to the Warrant Agency Agreement dated February 8, 2024 by and between Peraso Inc. and Equiniti Trust Company, LLC, as Warrant Agent, dated August 6, 2024 | |
| 104 | The cover page of this Current Report on Form 8-K formatted in Inline XBRL |
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SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| PERASO INC. | ||
| Date: August 7, 2024 | By: | /s/ James Sullivan |
| James Sullivan | ||
| Chief Financial Officer | ||
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Exhibit 10.1
AMENDMENT TO WARRANT AGENCY AGREEMENT
PERASO INC.
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EQUINITI TRUST COMPANY, LLC, AS WARRANT AGENT
This Amendment to the Warrant Agency Agreement (this “Amendment”) is entered into as of August 6, 2024, by and between Peraso Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and Equiniti Trust Company, LLC (the “Warrant Agent”). All capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings set forth in the Warrant Agency Agreement (as defined below), unless otherwise indicated.
WHEREAS, the Company and the Warrant Agent are parties to that certain Warrant Agency Agreement, dated as of February 8, 2024 (the “Warrant Agency Agreement”), relating to, among other things, the issuance of Series B warrants to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $2.25 (the “Series B Warrants”), and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 20(a) of the Warrant Agency Agreement, the Company and the Warrant Agent desire to amend the Warrant Agency Agreement to extend the period for exercising the Series B Warrants from August 8, 2024 to October 7, 2024.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements contained herein and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, and with the intent to be legally bound, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
| 1. | Amendment. The reference to “August 8, 2024” in the preamble to Exhibit 1-C to the Warrant Agency Agreement (the form of Warrant Certificate for the Series B Warrants) is hereby replaced with a reference to “October 7, 2024”. |
| 2. | No Other Amendments. Unless expressly amended by this Amendment, the terms and provisions of the Warrant Agency Agreement shall remain in full force and effect. |
| 3. | Conflicting Terms. Wherever the terms and conditions of this Amendment and the terms and conditions of the Warrant Agency Agreement are in conflict, the terms of this Amendment shall be deemed to supersede the conflicting terms of the Warrant Agency Agreement. |
| 4. | Governing Law. This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York without giving effect to the conflicts of law principles thereof. |
| 5. | Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in one or more counterparts and, if executed in more than one counterpart, the executed counterparts shall each be deemed to be an original and all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. |
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
| PERASO INC. | |||
| By: | /s/ James Sullivan | ||
| Name: | James Sullivan | ||
| Title: | CFO | ||
| EQUINITI TRUST COMPANY, LLC | |||
| By: | /s/ Martin J Knapp | ||
| Name: | Martin J Knapp | ||
| Title: | SVP, Relationship Director | ||