9 unchanged sentences
Convertible note receivable
−Removed: LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’
+Added: LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
Current liabilities
4 unchanged sentences
Commitments and contingencies
−Removed: Stockholders’
+Added: Stockholders’ equity
Preferred stock, $ .0001 par value, 50,000,000 Authorized
5,000,000 shares designated;
−Removed: 4,725 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020;
+Added: 4,725 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020;
liquidation value of $ 0.0001 per share
5,000,000 shares designated;
−Removed: 834 shares issued and outstanding at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020;
+Added: 834 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020;
liquidation value of $ 0.0001 per share
Common stock, $0.0001 par value, 100,000,000 shares authorized;
−Removed: 89,531,149 and 34,920,222 shares issued at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively;
−Removed: 89,531,146 and 34,920,219 shares outstanding at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively
+Added: 89,531,149 and 34,920,222 shares issued at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively;
+Added: 89,531,146 and 34,920,219 shares outstanding at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020, respectively
Additional paid-in capital
−Removed: Treasury stock, at cost, 3 shares at March 31, 2021 and December 31, 2020
+Added: Treasury stock, at cost, 3 shares at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020
Accumulated deficit
−Removed: Total stockholders’
−Removed: Total liabilities and stockholders’
+Added: Total stockholders’ equity
+Added: Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
2 unchanged sentences
Three Months Ended
+Added: Six Months Ended
Operating costs and expenses
6 unchanged sentences
Interest income
−Removed: Losses on marketable securities
+Added: Gains on marketable securities
Change in fair value of investment
−Removed: Total other expenses
+Added: Total other income (expenses)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted
3 unchanged sentences
accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
−Removed: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
in thousands except share and per share amounts)
−Removed: the Three Months Ended March 31, 2021
+Added: the Three Months Ended June 30, 2021
Preferred Stock
Treasury Stock
−Removed: Total Stockholders’
+Added: Total Stockholders’
+Added: Balance at March 31, 2021
+Added: $ ( 160,565 )
+Added: Stock-based compensation
+Added: Balance at June 30, 2021
+Added: $ ( 161,917 )
+Added: the Three Months Ended June 30, 2020
+Added: Total Stockholders’
+Added: March 31, 2020
+Added: $ ( 152,599 )
+Added: Issuance of common stock,
+Added: net of offering cost
+Added: Common warrant and prefunded
+Added: warrant exercise
+Added: at June 30, 2020
+Added: $ ( 154,912 )
+Added: accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
+Added: Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity
+Added: in thousands except share and per share amounts)
+Added: the Six Months Ended June 30, 2021
+Added: Preferred Stock
+Added: Treasury Stock
+Added: Total Stockholders’
Balance at December 31, 2020
+Added: $ ( 156,603 )
Issuance of common stock and warrants (net of offering costs of $8,260)
2 unchanged sentences
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Balance at March 31, 2021
−Removed: the Three Months Ended March 31, 2020
−Removed: Preferred Stock
−Removed: Treasury Stock
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: Balance at December 31, 2019
−Removed: Issuance of common stock, common warrants and prefunded warrants (net of offering costs of $958)
−Removed: Issuance of common stock (net of offering costs of $655)
−Removed: Common warrant and prefunded warrant exercise
−Removed: Balance at March 31, 2020
+Added: Balance at June 30, 2021
+Added: $ ( 161,917 )
+Added: the Six Months Ended June 30, 2020
+Added: Stockholders’
+Added: at December 31, 2019
+Added: $ ( 144,266 )
+Added: of common stock, common warrants and prefunded warrants, net of offering cost
+Added: of common stock, net of offering cost
+Added: warrant and prefunded warrant exercise
+Added: at June 30, 2020
+Added: $ ( 154,912 )
accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
1 unchanged sentence
in thousands)
−Removed: Three Months Ended
+Added: Six Months Ended
Cash flows from operating activities
3 unchanged sentences
Stock-based compensation
−Removed: Realized (gain) loss on marketable securities
+Added: Realized gain on marketable securities
Unrealized loss on marketable securities
9 unchanged sentences
Sale of marketable securities
+Added: Sale of Hoth common shares
+Added: Funds to deposit accounts, net
Purchase of research and development licenses
2 unchanged sentences
Cash flows from financing activities
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance common stock and warrants, net of offering cost
−Removed: Proceeds from issuance common stock, net of offering cost
+Added: Proceeds from issuance of common stock and warrants, net of offering cost
+Added: Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of offering cost
Proceeds from exercise of warrants
3 unchanged sentences
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
−Removed: Non-cash investing and financing activities
−Removed: Offering cost included in accrued expenses
accompanying notes to condensed consolidated financial statements
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: AIKIDO PHARMA INC.
+Added: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Organization and Description of Business and Recent Developments
−Removed: and Description of Business
−Removed: Pharma Inc.(the “Company”
−Removed: and “We”), formerly known as Spherix Incorporated, was initially formed in 1967.
−Removed: 2017, the Company has operated as a biotechnology company with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics
−Removed: in development.
−Removed: The Company’s pipeline consists of patented technology from leading universities and researchers.
−Removed: The Company is
−Removed: currently in the process of developing its innovative therapeutic drug pipeline through strong partnerships with world renowned educational
−Removed: institutions, including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and Wake Forest University.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: oncology therapeutics include prospective treatments for pancreatic cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia
−Removed: The Company is also developing a broad-spectrum antiviral platform, in which the lead compounds have activity in cell-based assays
−Removed: against multiple viruses including Influenza virus, Ebolavirus and Marburg virus, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19.
−Removed: As a result of the Company’s biotechnology research
−Removed: and development and associated investments and acquisitions, its business portfolio now focuses on the treatment of three different cancers
−Removed: and multiple types of viral infections.
−Removed: The Company’s pancreatic drug candidate, DHA-dFdC, developed at and licensed from the University
−Removed: of Texas at Austin, is a new compound that it hopes will become the next generation of chemotherapy treatment for advanced pancreatic
−Removed: DHA-dFdC overcomes tumor cell resistance to current chemotherapeutic drugs and is well tolerated in preclinical toxicity tests.
−Removed: Preclinical studies have also indicated that DHA-dFdC inhibits pancreatic cancer cell growth (up to 100,000-fold more potent that gemcitabine,
−Removed: a current standard therapy), targets pancreatic tumors and has demonstrated activities against other cancers.
−Removed: The Company has also executed
−Removed: a Sponsored Research Agreement with UMB to support the development of the technology under the direction of these inventors at UMB.
+Added: Organization and Description of Business
+Added: AIkido Pharma Inc.
+Added: (the “Company”
+Added: and “We”), formerly known as Spherix Incorporated, was initially formed in 1967.
+Added: Since 2017, the Company has operated
+Added: as a biotechnology company with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics in development.
+Added: The Company’s
+Added: pipeline consists of patented technology from leading universities and researchers.
+Added: The Company is currently in the process of developing
+Added: its innovative therapeutic drug pipeline through strong partnerships with world renowned educational institutions, including the University
+Added: of Texas at Austin, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and Wake Forest University.
+Added: The Company’s oncology therapeutics include
+Added: prospective treatments for pancreatic cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
+Added: The Company is also
+Added: developing a broad-spectrum antiviral platform, in which the lead compounds have activity in cell-based assays against multiple viruses
+Added: including Influenza virus, Ebolavirus and Marburg virus, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19.
+Added: As a result of the Company’s biotechnology
+Added: research and development and associated investments and acquisitions, its business portfolio now focuses on the treatment of three different
+Added: cancers and multiple types of viral infections.
+Added: The Company’s pancreatic drug candidate, DHA-dFdC, developed at and licensed from
+Added: the University of Texas at Austin, is a new compound that it hopes will become the next generation of chemotherapy treatment for advanced
+Added: pancreatic cancer.
+Added: DHA-dFdC overcomes tumor cell resistance to current chemotherapeutic drugs and is well tolerated in preclinical toxicity
+Added: Preclinical studies have also indicated that DHA-dFdC inhibits pancreatic cancer cell growth (up to 100,000-fold more potent that
+Added: gemcitabine, a current standard therapy), targets pancreatic tumors and has demonstrated activities against other cancers.
+Added: has also executed a Sponsored Research Agreement with UMB to support the development of the technology under the direction of these inventors
Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: Company continues to incur ongoing administrative and other expenses, including public company expenses, in excess of corresponding (non-financing
−Removed: related) revenue.
−Removed: While the Company continues to implement its business strategy, it intends to finance its activities through managing
−Removed: current cash on hand from the Company’s past debt and equity offerings.
−Removed: the first quarter of 2021, the Company consummated a public offering of 53,905,927 shares of common stock (including the underwriter
−Removed: overallotment).
−Removed: The Company received net proceeds of approximately $78.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions
−Removed: and estimated offering expenses payable by the Company.
−Removed: Based upon projected cash flow requirements, the Company has adequate cash to
−Removed: fund its operations for at least the next twelve months from the date of the issuance of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: is currently evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and has concluded that while it is reasonably possible that
−Removed: the virus could have a negative effect on the Company’s financial position, results of its operations and/or search for drug candidates,
−Removed: the specific impact is not readily determinable as of the date of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: The consolidated financial
−Removed: statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
+Added: The Company continues to incur ongoing administrative
+Added: and other expenses, including public company expenses, in excess of corresponding (non-financing related) revenue.
+Added: While the Company continues
+Added: to implement its business strategy, it intends to finance its activities through managing current cash on hand from the Company’s
+Added: past debt and equity offerings.
+Added: During the first quarter of 2021, the Company
+Added: consummated a public offering of 53,905,927 shares of common stock (including the underwriter overallotment).
+Added: The Company received net
+Added: proceeds of approximately $ 78.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable
+Added: by the Company.
+Added: Based upon projected cash flow requirements, the Company has adequate cash to fund its operations for at least the next
+Added: twelve months from the date of the issuance of these consolidated financial statements.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
−Removed: of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
−Removed: accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated interim financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries,
−Removed: Nuta Technology Corp.
−Removed: (“Nuta”), Spherix Portfolio Acquisition II, Inc.
−Removed: (“SPAII”), Guidance IP, LLC (“Guidance”),
−Removed: Directional IP, LLC (“Directional”), Spherix Management Services, LLC (“SMS”), Spherix Delaware Merger Sub Inc.
−Removed: (“Merger Sub”), Spherix Merger Subsidiary, Inc (“SMSI”) and NNPT, LLC (“NNPT”).
−Removed: All significant intercompany
−Removed: balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with the accounting
−Removed: principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S.
−Removed: GAAP”) for interim financial information and pursuant
−Removed: to the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and on
−Removed: the same basis as the Company prepares its annual audited consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: The condensed consolidated balance sheet
−Removed: as of March 31, 2021, condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, condensed consolidated
−Removed: statement of stockholders’
−Removed: equity for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, and the condensed consolidated statements
−Removed: of cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020 are unaudited, but include all adjustments, consisting only of normal
−Removed: recurring adjustments, which the Company considers necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results and
−Removed: cash flows for the periods presented.
−Removed: The results for the three months ended March 31, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of results
−Removed: to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2021 or for any future interim period.
−Removed: The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December
−Removed: 31, 2020 has been derived from audited financial statements;
−Removed: however, it does not include all of the information and notes required by
−Removed: GAAP for complete financial statements.
−Removed: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in
−Removed: conjunction with the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020 and notes thereto included in the Company’s
−Removed: annual report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on March 25, 2021.
−Removed: accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in conformity with US GAAP.
−Removed: This requires management to make
−Removed: estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities
−Removed: at the date of the consolidated financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the period.
−Removed: The Company’s
−Removed: significant estimates and assumptions include stock-based compensation, the valuation of investments and the valuation allowance related
−Removed: to the Company’s deferred tax assets.
−Removed: Certain of the Company’s estimates could be affected by external conditions, including
+Added: Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
+Added: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated
+Added: interim financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Nuta Technology Corp.
+Added: Spherix Portfolio Acquisition II, Inc.
+Added: (“SPAII”), Guidance IP, LLC (“Guidance”), Directional IP, LLC (“Directional”),
+Added: Spherix Management Services, LLC (“SMS”), Spherix Delaware Merger Sub Inc.
+Added: (“Merger Sub”), Spherix Merger Subsidiary,
+Added: Inc (“SMSI”) and NNPT, LLC (“NNPT”).
+Added: All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated
+Added: in consolidation.
+Added: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated
+Added: financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States
+Added: of America (“U.S.
+Added: GAAP”) for interim financial information and pursuant to the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of
+Added: Regulation S-X of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and on the same basis as the Company prepares its annual
+Added: audited consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The condensed consolidated balance sheet as of June 30, 2021, condensed consolidated statements
+Added: of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, condensed consolidated statements of stockholders’ equity
+Added: for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, and the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows for the six months
+Added: ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 are unaudited, but include all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments, which the Company
+Added: considers necessary for a fair presentation of the financial position, operating results and cash flows for the periods presented.
+Added: results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the year ending
+Added: December 31, 2021 or for any future interim period.
+Added: The condensed consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2020 has been derived from
+Added: audited financial statements;
+Added: however, it does not include all of the information and notes required by U.S.
+Added: GAAP for complete financial
+Added: The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated
+Added: financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020 and notes thereto included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K,
+Added: which was filed with the SEC on March 25, 2021.
+Added: AIKIDO PHARMA INC.
+Added: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Use of Estimates
+Added: The accompanying condensed consolidated financial
+Added: statements have been prepared in conformity with US GAAP.
+Added: This requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect certain
+Added: reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial
+Added: statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the period.
+Added: The Company’s significant estimates and assumptions
+Added: include stock-based compensation, the valuation of investments, the valuation of convertible note and the valuation allowance related
+Added: to the Company’s deferred tax assets.
+Added: Certain of the Company’s estimates could be affected by external conditions, including
those unique to the Company and general economic conditions.
It is reasonably possible that these external factors could have an effect
−Removed: on the Company’s estimates and could cause actual results to differ from those estimates and assumptions.
−Removed: Accounting Policies
−Removed: than as described below, there have been no material changes in the Company’s significant accounting policies to those previously
−Removed: disclosed in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on March 25, 2021.
−Removed: Value Option - Convertible Note
−Removed: guidance in ASC 825, Financial Instruments , provides a fair value option election that allows entities to make
−Removed: an irrevocable election of fair value as the initial and subsequent measurement attribute for certain eligible financial assets and liabilities.
−Removed: Unrealized gains and losses on items for which the fair value option has been elected are reported in earnings.
−Removed: to elect the fair value option is determined on an instrument-by-instrument basis and must be applied to an entire instrument
−Removed: and is irrevocable once elected.
−Removed: Assets and liabilities measured at fair value pursuant to this guidance are required to be reported
−Removed: separately in our condensed consolidated balance sheets from those instruments using another accounting method.
−Removed: Adopted Accounting Standards
−Removed: December 2019, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No.
−Removed: 2019-12, “
+Added: on the Company’s estimates and could cause actual results to differ from those estimates and assumptions.
+Added: Significant Accounting Policies
+Added: Other than as described below, there have been
+Added: no material changes in the Company’s significant accounting policies to those previously disclosed in the Company’s annual
+Added: report on Form 10-K, which was filed with the SEC on March 25, 2021.
+Added: Fair Value Option - Convertible Note
+Added: The guidance in ASC 825, Financial Instruments ,
+Added: provides a fair value option election that allows entities to make an irrevocable election of fair value as the initial and subsequent
+Added: measurement attribute for certain eligible financial assets and liabilities.
+Added: Unrealized gains and losses on items for which the fair value
+Added: option has been elected are reported in earnings.
+Added: The decision to elect the fair value option is determined on an instrument-by-instrument
+Added: basis and must be applied to an entire instrument and is irrevocable once elected.
+Added: Assets and liabilities measured at fair value pursuant
+Added: to this guidance are required to be reported separately in our condensed consolidated balance sheets from those instruments using another
+Added: accounting method.
+Added: During the three months ended June 30, 2021, the Company deposited
+Added: $ 5 million with a fund to identify opportunities to expand the Company’s core business strategies in Asia.
+Added: The cash are held in
+Added: bank accounts on behalf of the Company until the fund manager identifies investments.
+Added: During the three months ended June 30, 2021, the
+Added: Company incurred fees of approximately $ 0.5 million advisory fees and the balance held in cash in this fund was $ 4.5 million as of June
+Added: Recently Adopted Accounting Standards
+Added: In December 2019, the Financial Accounting Standards
+Added: Board (“FASB”) issued ASU No.
2019-12, “ Income Taxes (Topic 740):
−Removed: Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (“ASU 2019-12”), which is intended to simplify various aspects related to
−Removed: accounting for income taxes.
−Removed: ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions to the general principles in Topic 740 and also clarifies and amends
−Removed: existing guidance to improve consistent application.
−Removed: This guidance is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal
−Removed: years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes (“ASU
+Added: 2019-12”), which is intended to simplify various aspects related to accounting for income taxes.
+Added: ASU 2019-12 removes certain exceptions
+Added: to the general principles in Topic 740 and also clarifies and amends existing guidance to improve consistent application.
+Added: This guidance
+Added: is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted.
The Company adopted ASU No.
−Removed: 2019-12 effective January 1, 2021,
−Removed: and the adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: License agreement with Silo Pharma Inc.
−Removed: January 5, 2021, the Company entered into an exclusive patent license agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Silo Pharma
−Removed: Inc., a Delaware corporation and Silo Pharma Inc., a Florida corporation, and their affiliates/subsidiaries (collectively, “Silo
−Removed: Pharma”).
−Removed: On April 12, 2021, the Company entered into an amendment to the License Agreement (“Amendment”).
−Removed: The Amendment
−Removed: amended a portion of the license fees included in the original License Agreement and converted 500 shares of the Company’s Series
−Removed: M Convertible Preferred Stock into an aggregate of 625,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per
−Removed: share, effective as of January 5, 2021.
−Removed: consideration for the license of the Licensed Patents, the Company issued and delivered to Silo Pharma 625,000 shares of the Company’s
−Removed: restricted stock.
+Added: 2019-12 effective January 1, 2021, and the adoption did not have a material impact on its consolidated financial
+Added: License agreement with Silo Pharma
+Added: Effective January 5, 2021, the Company entered
+Added: into an exclusive patent license agreement (the “License Agreement”) with Silo Pharma Inc., a Delaware corporation and Silo
+Added: Pharma Inc., a Florida corporation, and their affiliates/subsidiaries (collectively, “Silo Pharma”).
+Added: On April 12, 2021, the
+Added: Company entered into an amendment to the License Agreement (“Amendment”).
+Added: The Amendment amended a portion of the license fees
+Added: included in the original License Agreement and exchange 500 shares of the Company’s Series M Convertible Preferred Stock to an
+Added: aggregate of 625,000 restricted shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $ 0.001 per share, effective as of January 5, 2021.
The Company paid a one-time nonrefundable cash payment of $ 0.5 million to Silo Pharma.
−Removed: The Company shall also pay Silo
−Removed: Pharma a running royalty equal 2% of “net sales”
−Removed: (as such term is defined in the License Agreement).
+Added: The Company shall also pay Silo Pharma a running
+Added: royalty equal to 2 % of “net sales” (as such term is defined in the License Agreement).
+Added: AIKIDO PHARMA INC.
+Added: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Investments in Marketable Securities
−Removed: realized gain or loss, unrealized gain or loss, and dividend income related to marketable securities for the three months ended March
−Removed: 31, 2021 and 2020, which are recorded as a component of gains and (losses) on marketable securities on the consolidated statements of
−Removed: operations, are as follows ($ in thousands):
−Removed: For the Three Months
−Removed: Ended March 31,
+Added: The realized gain or loss, unrealized gain or
+Added: loss, and dividend income related to marketable securities for the three and six months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, which are recorded
+Added: as a component of gains and (losses) on marketable securities on the consolidated statements of operations, are as follows ($ in thousands):
+Added: For the Three
Realized gain (loss)
−Removed: Unrealized loss
+Added: Unrealized gain (loss)
Dividend income
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Investment in Hoth Therapeutics, Inc.
−Removed: following summarizes the Company investment in Hoth as of March 31, 2021:
+Added: The following summarizes the Company investment
+Added: in Hoth as of June 30, 2021:
Security Name
−Removed: Shares Owned as of
−Removed: Fair value per Share as of
−Removed: Fair value as of March 31,
−Removed: (in thousands)
−Removed: Fair Value of Financial Assets and Liabilities
−Removed: instruments, including cash and cash equivalents, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are carried at cost, which management believes
−Removed: approximates fair value due to the short-term nature of these instruments.
−Removed: The Company measures the fair value of financial assets and
−Removed: liabilities based on the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal
−Removed: or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.
−Removed: The Company maximizes the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.
−Removed: Company uses three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:
−Removed: 1 - quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
−Removed: 2 - quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable
−Removed: 3 - inputs that are unobservable (for example, cash flow modeling inputs based on assumptions)
−Removed: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: following table presents the Company’s assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value at March 31, 2021 and December 31,
+Added: Fair value per Share
(in thousands)
−Removed: Fair value measured at March 31, 2021
−Removed: Total at March 31,
+Added: Fair Value of Financial Assets and
+Added: Financial instruments, including cash and cash
+Added: equivalents, accounts payable and accrued liabilities are carried at cost, which management believes approximates fair value due to the
+Added: short-term nature of these instruments.
+Added: The Company measures the fair value of financial assets and liabilities based on the exchange
+Added: price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market
+Added: for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date.
+Added: The Company maximizes the use
+Added: of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.
+Added: The Company uses three levels of inputs that may
+Added: be used to measure fair value:
+Added: Level 1 - quoted prices in active markets for
+Added: identical assets or liabilities
+Added: Level 2 - quoted prices for similar assets and
+Added: liabilities in active markets or inputs that are observable
+Added: Level 3 - inputs that are unobservable (for example,
+Added: cash flow modeling inputs based on assumptions)
+Added: The following table presents the Company’s
+Added: assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value at June 30, 2021 and December 31, 2020 ($ in thousands):
+Added: Fair value measured at June 30, 2021
+Added: Total at June 30,
Quoted prices in active markets
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Marketable securities:
+Added: Mutual fund securities
+Added: Unit Investments Trust
Short-term investment
Convertible note receivable
+Added: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Fair value measured at December 31, 2020
−Removed: Total at December 31,
Quoted prices in active markets
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Marketable securities
−Removed: 3 Valuation Techniques
−Removed: following table sets forth a summary of the changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial assets that are measured
−Removed: at fair value on a recurring basis:
−Removed: Fair Value of Level 3 investment
+Added: Level 3 Valuation Techniques
+Added: The following table sets forth a summary of the
+Added: changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 financial assets that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis:
+Added: Fair Value of Level 3
Beginning balance
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−Removed: January 29, 2021, the Company purchased an 8% convertible promissory note (“Convertible Note”) issued by Convergent Therapeutics,
−Removed: (“Convergent”) with a principal amount of $2 million pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with Convergent.
−Removed: paid a purchase price for the Convertible Note of $2 million.
−Removed: The Company will receive interest on the Convertible Note at the rate of
−Removed: 8% per annum payable upon conversion or maturity of the Convertible Note.
+Added: Convergent Investment
+Added: On January 29, 2021, the Company purchased an
+Added: 8 % convertible promissory note (“Convertible Note”) issued by Convergent Therapeutics, Inc.
+Added: (“Convergent”) with
+Added: a principal amount of $ 2 million pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with Convergent.
+Added: The Company paid a purchase price for the Convertible
+Added: Note of $ 2 million.
+Added: The Company will receive interest on the Convertible Note at the rate of 8 % per annum payable upon conversion or maturity
+Added: of the Convertible Note.
The Convertible Note shall mature on January 29, 2023.
−Removed: Company has elected to measure the purchase of the Convertible Note from Convergent using the fair value option at each reporting
−Removed: Under the fair value option, bifurcation of an embedded derivative is not necessary, and all related gains and losses
−Removed: on the host contract and derivative due to change in the fair value will be reflected in interest income and other, net in the condensed
−Removed: consolidated statements of operations.
−Removed: AIKIDO PHARMA INC.
−Removed: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
−Removed: The Convertible Note is disclosed as
−Removed: a noncurrent Convertible Note investment in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
−Removed: As of March 31, 2021, the fair value of the Convertible
−Removed: Note was measured at $2.0 million, taking into consideration cost of the investment, market participant inputs, market conditions,
−Removed: liquidity, operating results and other qualitative and quantitative factors.
−Removed: The value at which the Company’s Convertible Note is
−Removed: carried on its books is adjusted to estimated fair value at the end of each quarter, taking into account general economic and stock market
−Removed: conditions and those characteristics specific to the underlying investments.
−Removed: No change in fair value was recorded during the three months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2021.
+Added: The Company has elected to measure the purchase
+Added: of the Convertible Note from Convergent using the fair value option at each reporting date.
+Added: Under the fair value option, bifurcation of
+Added: an embedded derivative is not necessary, and all related gains and losses on the host contract and derivative due to change in the fair
+Added: value will be reflected in interest income and other, net in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.
+Added: The Convertible Note is disclosed as a noncurrent
+Added: Convertible Note investment in the condensed consolidated balance sheets.
+Added: As of June 30, 2021, the fair value of the Convertible Note
+Added: was measured at $ 2.0 million, taking into consideration cost of the investment, market participant inputs, market conditions, liquidity,
+Added: operating results and other qualitative and quantitative factors.
+Added: The value at which the Company’s Convertible Note is carried on
+Added: its books is adjusted to estimated fair value at the end of each quarter, taking into account general economic and stock market conditions
+Added: and those characteristics specific to the underlying investments.
+Added: No change in fair value was recorded during the six months ended June
Interest accrues on the unpaid principal balance
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The Company recorded
−Removed: an interest income receivable of approximately $27,000 on the Convertible Note as of March 31, 2021.
+Added: an interest income receivable of approximately $ 67,000 on the
+Added: Convertible Note as of June 30, 2021.
Net Loss per Share
−Removed: Securities that could potentially dilute loss
−Removed: per share in the future that were not included in the computation of diluted loss per share at March 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows:
−Removed: As of March 31,
+Added: Basic loss per common share is computed by dividing
+Added: the net loss allocable to common stockholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock or common stock equivalents outstanding.
+Added: Diluted loss per common share is computed similar to basic loss per share except that it reflects the potential dilution that could occur
+Added: if dilutive securities or other obligations to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock.
+Added: Securities that could
+Added: potentially dilute loss per share in the future that were not included in the computation of diluted loss per share at June 30, 2021 and
+Added: 2020 are as follows:
+Added: As of June 30,
Convertible preferred stock
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Options to purchase common stock
−Removed: Stockholders’
−Removed: Equity and Convertible
+Added: to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Stockholders’ Equity and Convertible
Preferred Stock
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On February 19, 2021, the Company consummated
−Removed: the public offering pursuant to an amended and restated underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with H.C.
−Removed: & Co., LLC, as representative to the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriter”), pursuant to which the Company agreed
−Removed: to issue and sell to the Underwriter in an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) an aggregate of 46,875,000 shares
−Removed: (the “Shares”) of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”).
+Added: the public offering pursuant to an amended and restated underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with H.C.
+Added: & Co., LLC, as representative to the underwriters named therein (the “Underwriter”), pursuant to which the Company agreed
+Added: to issue and sell to the Underwriter in an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) an aggregate of 46,875,000 shares
+Added: (the “Shares”) of common stock, $ 0.0001 par value per share, of the Company (the “Common Stock”).
received gross proceeds of approximately $ 75 million before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses
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In connection with the Offering, the Company issued
−Removed: the Underwriter warrants (the “Underwriter’s Warrants”) to purchase up to 4,312,473 shares of Common Stock, or 8% of
+Added: the Underwriter warrants (the “Underwriter’s Warrants”) to purchase up to 4,312,473 shares of Common Stock, or 8 % of
the Shares sold in the Offering.
−Removed: The Underwriter’s Warrants will be exercisable for a period of five years from February 19, 2021
+Added: The Underwriter’s Warrants will be exercisable for a period of five years from February 19, 2021
at an exercise price of $ 2.00 per share, subject to adjustment.
−Removed: A summary of warrant activity for the three months
−Removed: ended March 31, 2021 is presented below:
+Added: A summary of warrant activity for the six months
+Added: ended June 30, 2021 is presented below:
Weighted Average Exercise Price
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Outstanding as of December 31, 2020
−Removed: Outstanding as of March 31, 2021
−Removed: AIKIDO PHARMA INC.
−Removed: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
+Added: Outstanding as of June 30, 2021
Stock Options
−Removed: A summary of stock option activity for the three
−Removed: months ended March 31, 2021 is presented below:
+Added: A summary of stock option activity for the six
+Added: months ended June 30, 2021 is presented below:
Number of Shares
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Total Intrinsic Value
−Removed: Weighted Average Remaining Contractual Life (in years)
+Added: Weighted Average Remaining
+Added: Contractual Life
Outstanding as of December 31, 2020
Employee options granted
−Removed: Outstanding as of March 31, 2021
+Added: Employee options expired
+Added: Outstanding as of June 30, 2021
Options vested and exercisable
+Added: AIKIDO PHARMA INC.
+Added: Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
Stock-based compensation associated with the amortization
−Removed: of stock option expense was approximately $0.1 million and $0 for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
−Removed: compensation was recorded as a component of general and administrative expenses.
+Added: of stock option expense was approximately $ 63,000 and $ 0 for the three months ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: compensation associated with the amortization of stock option expense was approximately $ 0.2 million and $ 0 for the six months ended June
+Added: 30, 2021 and 2020, respectively.
+Added: All stock compensation was recorded as a component of general and administrative expenses.
Estimated future stock-based compensation expense
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Pursuant to the patent license agreement effective
−Removed: January 5, 2021 with Silo Parma Inc., the Company issued and delivered to Silo Pharma 625,000 shares of the Company’s restricted
+Added: January 5, 2021 with Silo Parma Inc., the Company issued and delivered to Silo Pharma 625,000 shares of the Company’s restricted
stock as consideration for the license of the licensed patents.
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The Company recorded approximately
−Removed: $0.5 million in research and development expense related with license acquired during the three months ended March 31, 2021 related to
−Removed: this arrangement.
+Added: $ 0.5 million in research and development expense related with license acquired during the six months ended June 30, 2021 related to this
Commitments and Contingencies
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Other than ordinary routine litigation incidental to the business, we know of no material, active or pending legal proceedings against
−Removed: Risks and Uncertainties –
−Removed: Management continues to evaluate the impact of
+Added: Risks and Uncertainties – COVID-19
+Added: Management continues to valuate the impact of
the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and has concluded that while it is reasonably possible that the virus could have a negative effect
−Removed: on the Company’s financial position, results of its operations and/or search for drug candidates, the specific impact is not readily
+Added: on the Company’s financial position, results of its operations and/or search for drug candidates, the specific impact is not readily
determinable as of the date of these consolidated financial statements.
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed down some drug
+Added: development efforts and has slowed the acquisition of new drugs.
+Added: However, the impact of the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns are easing.
+Added: The process of drug development and further acquisitions is now continuing.
The consolidated financial statements do not include any adjustments
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The Company evaluated events that have occurred
−Removed: after the balance sheet date through the date the financial statements were issued.
−Removed: Based upon the evaluation and transactions, the Company
−Removed: did not identify any other subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial
−Removed: Condition and Results of Operations
−Removed: Forward-Looking Statements
−Removed: You should read this discussion together with
−Removed: the Financial Statements, related Notes and other financial information included elsewhere in this Form 10-Q.
−Removed: The following discussion
−Removed: contains assumptions, estimates and other forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties.
−Removed: These risks could
−Removed: cause our actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.
−Removed: All references to “we,”
−Removed: “us,”
−Removed: “our”
−Removed: and the “Company”
−Removed: refer to Aikido Pharma Inc., a Delaware corporation and its consolidated
−Removed: subsidiaries unless the context requires otherwise.
−Removed: AIkido Pharma Inc.
−Removed: was initially formed in 1967.
−Removed: Since 2017, the Company has operated as a biotechnology company with a diverse portfolio of small-molecule anticancer and antiviral therapeutics
−Removed: in development.
−Removed: The Company’s pipeline consists of patented technology from leading universities and researchers.
−Removed: We are currently
−Removed: in the process of developing our innovative therapeutic drug pipeline through strong partnerships with world renowned educational institutions,
−Removed: including the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and Wake Forest University.
−Removed: Our oncology therapeutics
−Removed: include treatments for pancreatic cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
−Removed: The Company is also developing
−Removed: a broad-spectrum antiviral platform, in which the lead compounds have activity against multiple viruses including Influenza virus, Ebolavirus
−Removed: and Marburg virus, SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19.
−Removed: As a result of the Company’s biotechnology
−Removed: research and development and associated investments and acquisitions, our business portfolio now focuses on the treatment of three different
−Removed: cancers and multiple types of viral infections.
−Removed: Our pancreatic drug candidate, DHA-dFdC, developed at and licensed from the University
−Removed: of Texas at Austin, is a new compound that we hope will become the next generation of chemotherapy treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer.
−Removed: DHA-dFdC overcomes tumor cell resistance to current chemotherapeutic drugs and is well tolerated in preclinical toxicity tests.
−Removed: studies have also indicated that DHA-dFdC inhibits pancreatic cancer cell growth (up to 100,000-fold more potent that gemcitabine, a current
−Removed: standard therapy), targets pancreatic tumors and has demonstrated activities against other cancers, including leukemia, lung and melanoma.
−Removed: Our AML and ALL compound, developed at the Wake Forest University, is a targeted therapeutic designed to overcome multiple resistance
−Removed: mechanisms observed with the current standard of care.
−Removed: Our broad-spectrum antiviral platform was developed
−Removed: at the University of Maryland Baltimore (“UMB”), which granted the Company an exclusive worldwide Master License Agreement
−Removed: (MLA”) to technology covered by three separate patent applications.
−Removed: The licensed technology comprises broadly acting pan-viral inhibitory
−Removed: compounds targeting multiple viral pathogens.
−Removed: The technology was invented by UMB scientists Drs.
−Removed: Matthew Frieman, Alexander MacKerell
−Removed: and Stuart Watson.
−Removed: The Company has also executed a Sponsored Research Agreement with UMB to support the development of the technology
−Removed: under the direction of these inventors at UMB.
−Removed: In addition, we are constantly seeking to grow
−Removed: our pipeline of treatments in oncology indications.
−Removed: For example, in January 2021, the Company invested in Convergent Therapeutics, Inc.,
−Removed: which has exclusive rights to technology related to next-generation dual-action peptide receptor radionuclide therapy (“PRRT”)
−Removed: for prostate cancer covered by multiple issued U.S.
−Removed: and foreign patents.
−Removed: Convergent is currently conducting advanced human trials relating
−Removed: to prostate cancer treatments utilizing PRRT that targets the prostate-specific membrane antigen (“PSMA”) present on prostate
−Removed: cancer cells.
−Removed: The technology was developed under the direction of Dr.
−Removed: Neil Bander, Professor of Urologic Oncology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
−Removed: In addition, the Company was granted a license to four patent applications for the use of psilocybin in cancer indications.
−Removed: Additionally, on January 6, 2021 the Company announced
−Removed: that it entered into an exclusive patent license agreement with Silo Pharma Inc.
−Removed: (“Silo Pharma”) pursuant to which Silo Pharma
−Removed: granted the Company a worldwide exclusive, sublicensable, royalty-bearing license to certain Silo Pharma owned provisional patent applications
−Removed: directed to the use of psilocybin in cancer treatment, and any patents issuing therefrom, including all continuations, continuations-in-part,
−Removed: divisions, extensions, substitutions, reissues, re-examinations, and any applications and all patents issuing from any applications and
−Removed: patents that claim domestic benefit or foreign priority to the provisional patent applications.
−Removed: The license is for “Field of Use”
−Removed: (as defined in the exclusive patent license agreement) of “treatment of cancer and symptoms caused by cancer, including but not
−Removed: limited to pain, nausea, neuroinflammation, brain and neural dysfunction, depression, seizures, confusion, dizziness, numbness/tingling,
−Removed: dysfunction of the senses and all other symptoms that are caused by cancer of any type.”
−Removed: Critical Accounting Policies
−Removed: Our critical accounting policies are disclosed
−Removed: in our annual report on Form 10K for the year ended December 31, 2020 and there have been no material changes to such policy or estimates
−Removed: during the three months ended March 31, 2021.
−Removed: Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
−Removed: See Note 3 to the condensed consolidated financial
−Removed: statements for a discussion of recent accounting standards.
−Removed: Results of Operations
−Removed: Three months ended March 31, 2021 compared
−Removed: to three months ended March 31, 2020
−Removed: During the three months ended March 31, 2021,
−Removed: we incurred a loss from operations of approximately $2.3 million, as compared to $2.4 million during the comparable prior year period.
−Removed: The decrease in loss was primarily attributed to $13,000 decrease in research and development expense and $ $92,000 decrease in general
−Removed: and administrative expenses, partially offset by $23,000 increase in research and development expense related with license acquisition.
−Removed: During the three months ended March 31, 2021,
−Removed: other expense was approximately $1.7 million as compared to approximately $5.9 million during the comparable prior year period.
−Removed: loss per share went down from a decrease in net operating losses and a significant increase in the number of shares outstanding.
−Removed: in other expense was primarily attributed to a $4.6 million lower loss in the change in fair value of investment in Hoth, and partially
−Removed: offset by $0.5 million increase in losses on marketable securities.
−Removed: The Company experienced very little or no revenue
−Removed: in the last two years and we don’t expect any revenue until a biotechnology product is fully developed which may not occur for many
−Removed: Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: We continue to incur ongoing administrative and
−Removed: other expenses, including public company expenses, in excess of corresponding (non-financing related) revenue.
−Removed: We do not expect to incur
−Removed: revenue until any of our biotechnology products are fully developed.
−Removed: While we continue to implement our business strategy, we intend to
−Removed: finance our activities through managing current cash on hand from our past equity offerings.
−Removed: During the first quarter of 2021, the Company
−Removed: consummated a public offering of 53,905,927 shares of common stock (including the underwriter overallotment).
−Removed: The Company received net
−Removed: proceeds of approximately $78.0 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable
−Removed: by the Company.
−Removed: Therefore, the Company has adequate cash to fund its operations for at least the next twelve months.
−Removed: Moving forward, the Company intends to manage
−Removed: its cash through an investment committee focused on asset preservation and reasonable risk allocation.
−Removed: Further, the Company intends to
−Removed: grow its drug platform through additional licensing efforts that are similar to those the Company has already entered into and disclosed.
−Removed: In addition, the Company is seeking partnerships with academic institutions and private enterprise to find, fund and advance new drug
−Removed: compounds that can be brought to commercialization.
−Removed: Management continues to evaluate the impact of
−Removed: the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry and has concluded that while it is reasonably possible that the virus could have a negative effect
−Removed: on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of its consolidated operations and/or search for drug candidates, the
−Removed: specific impact is not readily determinable as of the date of these consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: The consolidated financial statements
−Removed: do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.
−Removed: Cash Flows from Operating Activities -
−Removed: For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, net cash used in operations was approximately $1.1 million and $1.4 million, respectively.
−Removed: The cash used in operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2021 primarily resulted from a net loss of $4.0 million, and
−Removed: partially offset by $2.0 million unrealized loss on marketable securities and $1.0 million research and development expense related with
−Removed: license acquired.
−Removed: The cash used in operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2020 primarily resulted from a net loss of
−Removed: $8.3 million, and partially offset by reduction in fair value of investment of $5.1 million and $1.0 million research and development
−Removed: expense related with license acquired.
−Removed: Cash Flows from Investing Activities -
−Removed: For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, net cash used in investing activities was approximately $71.8 million and $17.2 million,
−Removed: respectively.
−Removed: The cash used in investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2021 primarily resulted from our purchase of
−Removed: marketable securities of $83.6 million and purchase of convertible note of $2.0 million, partially offset by our sale of marketable securities
−Removed: of $14.3 million since we invest excess cash into marketable securities until additional cash is needed.
−Removed: The cash used in investing activities
−Removed: for the three months ended March 31, 2020 primarily resulted from our purchase of marketable securities of $20.4 million and research
−Removed: and development expense related with license acquired of $1.0 million, partially offset by our purchase of marketable securities of $4.2
−Removed: million since we invest excess cash into marketable securities.
−Removed: Cash Flows from Financing Activities - Cash
−Removed: provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $78.1 million, which reflects the net proceeds of $78.0
−Removed: million from investors in exchange of issuance of common stock and warrants and net proceeds of $84,000 from the exercise of common warrants.
−Removed: Cash provided by financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2020 was $18.8 million, which reflects the net proceeds of
−Removed: $6.5 from investors in exchange of issuance of common stock, common warrants and prefunded warrants, net proceeds of $5.1 from investors
−Removed: in exchange of issuance of common stock, and net proceeds of $7.1 million from the exercise of common warrants and prefunded warrants.
−Removed: Off-balance sheet arrangements.
−Removed: Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
−Removed: Not required for smaller reporting companies.
+Added: after the balance sheet date through the date the consolidated financial statements were issued.
+Added: Based upon the evaluation and transactions,
+Added: the Company did not identify any other subsequent events that would have required adjustment or disclosure in the consolidated financial
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