MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.
−Removed: We are a biotechnology company with an advanced cell-based technology
−Removed: We have developed a unique three-dimensional, or 3D, technology platform for cell expansion with an industrial scale in-house
−Removed: GMP cell manufacturing facility.
−Removed: We are utilizing our technology in the field of regenerative medicine and food tech and plan to utilize
−Removed: it in other industries and verticals that have a need for our mass scale and cost-effective cell expansion platform.
−Removed: We use our advanced cell-based
−Removed: technology platform in the field of regenerative medicine to develop placenta-based cell therapy product candidates for the treatment
−Removed: of inflammatory, muscle injuries and hematologic conditions.
−Removed: Our PLX cells are adherent stromal cells that are expanded using our 3D platform.
−Removed: Our PLX cells can be administered to patients off-the-shelf, without blood or tissue matching or additional manipulation prior to administration.
−Removed: PLX cells are believed to release a range of therapeutic proteins in response to the patient’s condition.
−Removed: Our operations are focused on the research, development and manufacturing
−Removed: of cells and cell-based products, conducting clinical studies and the business development of cell therapeutics and cell-based technologies,
−Removed: such as our recent collaboration with Tnuva Food Industries – Agricultural Cooperative in Israel Ltd., through its fully owned subsidiary,
−Removed: Tnuva, to use our technology to establish a cultivated food platform.
−Removed: We expect to demonstrate a
−Removed: real-world impact and value from our cell-based technology platform, our current PLX pipeline and from other cell-based product candidates
−Removed: that may be developed based on our platform.
−Removed: Our business model for commercialization and revenue generation includes, but is not limited
−Removed: to, licensing deals, joint ventures, partnerships, joint development agreements and direct sale of our products.
−Removed: We are now completing a multinational
−Removed: Phase III clinical study in muscle recovery following surgery for hip fracture, with sites in the United States, Europe and Israel.
−Removed: the last year, we have completed a Phase II clinical study in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, or ARDS, associated with COVID-19 and
−Removed: a Phase I clinical study for incomplete recovery following bone marrow transplantation.
−Removed: Additional areas of focus for clinical development
−Removed: include an investigator-led Phase I/II Chronic Graft versus Host Disease, or cGVHD, study in Israel, and an Acute Radiation Syndrome,
−Removed: or ARS, program under the U.S.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, animal rule.
−Removed: We believe that each of these indications represents
−Removed: a severe unmet medical need.
−Removed: We were incorporated in Nevada on May 11, 2001.
−Removed: owned subsidiary, Pluri Biotech Ltd., or the Subsidiary, previously named Pluristem Ltd., which is incorporated under the laws of the
−Removed: State of Israel.
−Removed: In January 2020, the Subsidiary established a wholly owned subsidiary, Pluristem GmbH, which is incorporated under the
−Removed: laws of Germany.
−Removed: In January 2022, the Subsidiary established an additional subsidiary, Plurinuva Ltd., or Plurinuva, which is incorporated
−Removed: under the laws of Israel, which followed the execution of the collaboration agreement with Tnuva .
−Removed: On July 26, 2022, we completed
−Removed: our legal entity name change from Pluristem Therapeutics Inc.
−Removed: to Pluri Inc., by merging a wholly-owned
−Removed: subsidiary with and into the Company, with us being the surviving corporation.
−Removed: The name change reflects a broader strategy of leveraging
−Removed: our 3D cell expansion technology to develop innovative cell-based products that can be harnessed for a range of fields beyond medicine,
−Removed: providing solutions for various areas of life.
−Removed: Effective July 26, 2022, our Nasdaq ticker symbol was changed to “PLUR.”
−Removed: RESULTS OF OPERATIONS – YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2022 COMPARED
−Removed: TO YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2021.
−Removed: Revenues for the year ended
−Removed: June 30, 2022 were $234,000, compared to no revenues for the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: The revenues in the year ended June 30, 2022 were
−Removed: related to the revenue derived from our license agreement with Takeda and the sale of our PLX cells for research use.
−Removed: Research and Development, Net
+Added: We are a biotechnology company
+Added: with an advanced cell-based technology platform.
+Added: We have developed a unique 3D technology platform for cell expansion with an industrial
+Added: scale in-house GMP cell manufacturing facility.
+Added: We are utilizing our technology in the field of regenerative medicine and food tech and
+Added: plan to utilize it in other industries and verticals that have a need for our mass scale and cost-effective cell expansion platform.
+Added: use our advanced cell-based technology platform in the field of regenerative medicine to develop placenta-based cell therapy product
+Added: candidates for the treatment of inflammatory, muscle injuries and hematologic conditions.
+Added: Our PLX cells are adherent stromal cells that
+Added: are expanded using our 3D platform.
+Added: Our PLX cells can be administered to patients off-the-shelf, without blood or tissue matching
+Added: or additional manipulation prior to administration.
+Added: PLX cells are believed to release a range of therapeutic proteins in response to
+Added: the patient’s condition.
+Added: Our operations are focused
+Added: on the research, development and manufacturing of cells and cell-based products, conducting clinical studies and the business development
+Added: of cell therapeutics and cell-based technologies, such as our collaboration with Tnuva to use our technology to establish a cultivated
+Added: food platform, as well as the collaboration agreement we signed in 2022 with a leading European manufacturer of APIs to use our expansion
+Added: technology, which aims to revolutionize the production of biologics by enabling a cost-effective, sustainable and cruelty-free ingredient.
+Added: In the pharmaceutical area,
+Added: we have focused on several indications utilizing our product candidates, including, but not limited to, muscle recovery following surgery
+Added: for hip fracture, incomplete recovery following bone marrow transplantation CLI Chronic Graft versus Host Disease and a potential treatment
+Added: Some of these studies have been completed while others are still ongoing.
+Added: We believe that each of these indications is a severe
+Added: unmet medical need.
+Added: In July 2023, we announced
+Added: that we signed a three year $4.2 million contract with the NIAID, which is part of the NIH.
+Added: Pluri will collaborate with the U.S.
+Added: of Defense’s Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute, or AFRRI, and the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, or
+Added: USUHS, in Maryland, U.S.A., to further advance the development of its PLX-R18 cell therapy as a potential novel treatment for H-ARS, a
+Added: deadly disease that can result from nuclear disasters and radiation exposure.
+Added: In the food tech field, we
+Added: established a new venture with Tnuva, Ever After Foods .
+Added: Ever After Foods is developing cultivated meat products based on Pluri’s
+Added: platform 3D cell expansion technology.
+Added: OF OPERATIONS – YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2023 COMPARED TO YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2022.
+Added: for the year ended June 30, 2023 were $287,000, compared to $234,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022.
+Added: The revenues in the year ended
+Added: June 30, 2023 were mainly related to our API Collaboration and the revenues in the year ended June 30, 2022 were related to the revenue
+Added: derived from our license agreement with Takeda and the sale of our PLX cells for research use.
+Added: and Development, Net
Research and development,
−Removed: net (costs less participation and grants by the IIA, Horizon 2020 and other parties) decreased by 19% from $30,066,000 for the year ended
−Removed: June 30, 2021, to $24,377,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: The decrease is mainly attributed to a decrease
−Removed: in clinical study expenses following the termination of our CLI study, end of enrollment of our Phase II studies of ARDS associated with
−Removed: COVID-19, and end of enrollment in our Phase III hip study , as well as a decrease in share-based
−Removed: compensation expenses related to restricted share units, or RSUs, granted to employees and consultants.
−Removed: The decrease was partially offset
−Removed: by an increase in materials purchased to support our manufacturing plans, increased payroll expenses related to payroll adjustments and
−Removed: exchange rate fluctuations, and an increase in building lease costs following the extension of our lease contract.
−Removed: General and Administrative
+Added: net (costs less participation and grants by the IIA, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and other parties) decreased by 35% from $24,377,000
+Added: for the year ended June 30, 2022, to $15,745,000 for the year ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: The decrease is mainly attributed to:
+Added: (1) a decrease
+Added: in clinical studies expenses following the completion of our CLI and ARDS associated with COVID-19 studies and the end of enrollment of
+Added: our muscle regeneration following hip fracture study in November 2021, (2) a decrease in material purchases in accordance with our manufacturing
+Added: needs and plans, (3) a decrease in salaries and related expenses as part of our efficiency cost-reduction plan , specifically a reduction
+Added: of 22 research and development, or R&D, employees in Pluri Biotech Ltd.
+Added: (108 on June 30, 2023, compared to 130 on June 30, 2022),
+Added: (4) a decrease in share-based compensation expenses and (5) higher participation by the European Union with respect to the Horizon 2020
+Added: grants, which relate to our CLI and muscle regeneration following hip fracture studies.
+Added: and Administrative
General and administrative
expenses decreased by 32% from $17,450,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022, to $11,779,000 for the year ended June 30, 2023.
−Removed: decrease is mainly attributed to a decrease in share-based compensation expenses related to market based vesting conditioned RSUs granted
−Removed: to our CEO and Chairman, partially offset by an increase in share-based compensation expenses related to the allocation of shares
−Removed: of Plurinuva to our CEO, CFO and Chairman pursuant to their employment or consulting agreement (see also notes 1e and 9b1 to the consolidated
−Removed: financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report) and increased payroll expenses related to new employees, payroll adjustments
−Removed: and exchange rate fluctuations.
−Removed: Total Financial Income, Net
−Removed: Financial income, net decreased from $758,000 for the year ended June
−Removed: 30, 2021 to $219,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: This decrease is mainly attributable to an
−Removed: increase in interest expenses related to the EIB loan provided to us in June 2021 pursuant to the EIB Finance Agreement and losses
−Removed: from hedging transactions due to strength of the U.S Dollar against the Euro, partially offset by
−Removed: exchange rate income on lease liability due to the strength of the U.S Dollar against the NIS and exchange rates adjustments relating
−Removed: to the EIB loan.
−Removed: Net loss decreased from $49,865,000
−Removed: for the year ended June 30, 2021 to $41,374,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: The decrease was
−Removed: mainly due to a decrease in research and development expenses , net, and a decrease in general
−Removed: and administrative expenses for the reasons mentioned above.
−Removed: We had a net loss attributed
−Removed: to our non-controlling interest in Plurinuva for the year ended June 30, 2022 of $132,000.
+Added: is mainly attributed to a decrease in share-based compensation expenses related to market based vesting conditioned restricted stock units,
+Added: or RSUs, granted to our CEO and Chairman, a decrease in share-based compensation expenses related to the allocation of shares of
+Added: Ever After Foods to our CEO, Chief Financial Officer, or CFO, and Chairman of our Board pursuant to their employment or consulting agreements,
+Added: employee terminations and RSU expense amortization over time (see also notes 1e and 9c to the consolidated financial statements included
+Added: elsewhere in this Annual Report).
+Added: These decreases were partially offset by an increase in share-based compensation expenses related to
+Added: the amount of RSUs and options granted to our CEO.
+Added: Financial Income (Expense), Net
+Added: financial income (expenses), net decreased from $219,000 in financial income for the year ended 2022 to $1,641,000 in financial expenses
+Added: for the year ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: This decrease is mainly attributable to (1) expenses relating to exchange rate differences related to
+Added: the EIB loan provided to us in June 2021 pursuant to EIB Finance Agreement (as a result of the strength of the Euro against the U.S.
+Added: which increased by 5% in 2023 compared to 2022 where it decreased by 7%), and (2) a decrease due to exchange rate expenses on a lease
+Added: liability due to the strength of the U.S Dollar against the NIS which resulted in an expense of $690,000.
+Added: The decrease in financial income
+Added: (expense) was partially offset by an increase related to interest income from bank deposits.
+Added: Loss for the Year
+Added: loss decreased from $41,374,000 for the year ended June 30, 2022 to $28,887,000 for the year ended June 30, 2023.
+Added: The decrease was mainly
+Added: due to a decrease in R&D expenses, net, and a decrease in general and administrative expenses for the reasons mentioned above.
+Added: had a net loss attributed to our non-controlling interest in Ever After Foods for the year ended June 30, 2023 of $566,000.
Loss per share for the year
1 unchanged sentence
The change in the loss per share
−Removed: was mainly as a result of a decrease in the loss for the year, partially offset by an increase in our weighted average number of shares
−Removed: due to the issuance of additional shares during Fiscal Year 2022.
−Removed: The increase in weighted average
−Removed: common shares outstanding reflects the issuance of additional shares upon settlement of RSUs issued to directors, employees and consultants.
−Removed: Liquidity and Capital Resources
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, our total
−Removed: current assets were $57,747,000 and our total current liabilities were $6,829,000.
−Removed: On June 30, 2022, we had a working capital surplus
−Removed: of $50,918,000 and an accumulated deficit of $371,263,000.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, our total
−Removed: current assets were $67,371,000 and our total current liabilities were $11,517,000.
−Removed: On June 30, 2021, we had a working capital surplus
−Removed: of $55,854,000 and an accumulated deficit of $330,021,000.
−Removed: Our cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash as of June 30, 2022,
−Removed: amounted to $10,779,000, which reflects a decrease of $21,059,000 from the $31,838,000 reported as of June 30, 2021.
−Removed: Our bank deposits
−Removed: as of June 30, 2022, amounted to $45,244,000 compared to $56,978,000 as of June 30, 2021.
−Removed: Our cash equivalents and restricted cash decreased
−Removed: in the year ended June 30, 2022 for the reasons presented below.
−Removed: Our cash used in operating activities was $36,501,000 during the year
−Removed: ended June 30, 2022, and $30,910,000 during the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: Cash used in operating activities in the year ended June 30,
−Removed: 2022, and in the year ended on June 30, 2021 primarily consisted of payments to subcontractors, suppliers, and professional services providers
−Removed: related to our ongoing clinical studies and payments of salaries to our employees, offset by participation of the IIA, Horizon 2020 or
−Removed: other third parties.
−Removed: Cash provided by investing activities was $11,783,000 during the year
−Removed: ended June 30, 2022, as opposed to cash used for investing activities of $7,265,000 during the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: Cash provided
−Removed: by investing activities in the year ended June 30, 2022 consisted primarily of the withdrawal of $23,269,000 of long-term deposits, partially
−Removed: offset by cash investment in short-term deposits of $11,206,000 and payments of $280,000 related to investments in property and equipment.
−Removed: Cash used for investing activities in the year ended June 30, 2021, consisted primarily of cash
−Removed: used for investment in long-term deposits of $10,953,000 and payments of $373,000 related to investments in property and equipment, partially
−Removed: offset by the withdrawal of $4,061,000 of short-term deposits.
+Added: was mainly as a result of a decrease in the loss for the year, and by an increase in our weighted average number of shares due to the
+Added: issuance of additional shares during fiscal year 2023.
+Added: increase in weighted average common shares outstanding reflects the issuance of additional shares pursuant to a private placement offering
+Added: we conducted in December 2022, or the December 2022 Private Placement, and the issuance of additional shares upon the vesting of RSUs
+Added: issued to directors, employees and consultants.
+Added: and Capital Resources
+Added: of June 30, 2023, our total current assets were $41,409,000 and our total current liabilities were $5,621,000.
+Added: On June 30, 2023, we had
+Added: a working capital surplus of $35,788,000 and an accumulated deficit of $399,584,000.
+Added: of June 30, 2022, our total current assets were $57,747,000 and our total current liabilities were $6,829,000.
+Added: On June 30, 2022, we had
+Added: a working capital surplus of $50,918,000 and an accumulated deficit of $371,263,000.
+Added: Our cash, cash equivalents
+Added: and restricted cash as of June 30, 2023, amounted to $5,629,000, which reflects a decrease of $5,150,000 from the $10,779,000 reported
+Added: as of June 30, 2022.
+Added: Our bank deposits as of June 30, 2023, amounted to $34,811,000 compared to $45,244,000 as of June 30, 2022.
+Added: equivalents and restricted cash decreased in the year ended June 30, 2023, for the reasons presented below.
+Added: Our cash used in operating
+Added: activities was $22,857,000 during the year ended June 30, 2023, and $36,501,000 during the year ended June 30, 2022.
+Added: The decrease in cash
+Added: used in operating activities is mainly attributed to a decrease in net loss following the completion of certain clinical trials and the
+Added: implementation of our cost reduction and efficiency plan that we initiated to align with the change in our business strategy.
+Added: in operating activities in year ended June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2022 consisted primarily of payments of fees to our suppliers, subcontractors,
+Added: professional services providers and consultants, and payments of salaries to our employees, partially offset by grants from the IIA, the
+Added: EU’s Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and 2022 programs, Israel’s Ministry of Economy and other research grants.
+Added: Cash provided by investing
+Added: activities was $9,698,000 during the year ended June 30, 2023, as opposed to cash provided for investing activities of $11,783,000 during
+Added: the year ended June 30, 2022.
+Added: Cash provided by investing activities in the year ended June 30, 2023 consisted primarily of the withdrawal
+Added: of $9,960,000 of short-term deposits, partially offset by payments of $262,000 related to investments in property and equipment.
+Added: provided by investing activities in the year ended June 30, 2022, consisted primarily of a withdrawal of $12,063,000 of short-term deposits
+Added: partially offset by payments of $280,000 related to investments in property and equipment.
Financing activities provided
cash in the amount of $8,024,000 during the year ended June 30, 2023, and $7,500,000 during the year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: The cash provided
−Removed: in the year ended June 30, 2022, from financing activities is related to net proceeds of $7,500,000
−Removed: received from an investment by Tnuva in Plurinuva .
−Removed: The cash provided in the year ended
−Removed: June 30, 2021 from financing activities is related to:
−Removed: (1) net proceeds of $36,589,000 from our registered direct offering which closed
−Removed: in February 2021 and common share issuances made under the Open Market Sale Agreement SM , or the ATM Agreement, that we entered
−Removed: into with Jefferies LLC, or Jefferies, on July 16, 2020, (2) proceeds of $24,449,000 received from the EIB pursuant to the EIB Finance
−Removed: Agreement, and (3) net proceeds of $364,000 from the exercise of outstanding warrants.
+Added: The financing
+Added: activities during the year ended June 30, 2023 related to issuances of common shares and warrants, net of issuance costs, in the December
+Added: 2022 Private Placement.
+Added: The financing activities during year ended June 30, 2022 were related to proceeds of $7,500,000 we received from
+Added: Tnuva as an investment in Ever After Foods.
+Added: December 13, 2022, and December 27, 2022, we entered into a series of securities purchase agreements with several purchasers for an aggregate
+Added: of 8,155,900 common shares and warrants, or the Warrants, to purchase up to 8,155,900 common shares.
+Added: On December 13, 2022, we executed
+Added: securities purchase agreements to sell, at a purchase price of $1.03 per share, up to 5,579,883 common shares and Warrants to purchase
+Added: up to 5,579,833 common shares, with an exercise price of $1.03 per share and a term of three years.
+Added: On December 14, 2022, we executed
+Added: securities purchase agreements to sell, at a purchase price of $1.05 per share, up to 2,068,517 common shares and Warrants to purchase
+Added: up to 2,068,517 common shares, with an exercise price of $1.05 per share and a term of three years.
+Added: On December 15, 2022, we executed
+Added: securities purchase agreements to sell, at a purchase price of $1.06 per share, up to 237,500 common shares and Warrants to purchase up
+Added: to 237,500 common shares, with an exercise price of $1.06 per share and a term of three years.
+Added: On December 19, 2022, we executed a securities
+Added: purchase agreement to sell, at a purchase price of $1.09 per share, up to 135,000 common shares and Warrants to purchase up to 135,000
+Added: common shares, with an exercise price of $1.09 per share and a term of three years.
+Added: On December 27, 2022, we executed a securities purchase
+Added: agreement to sell, at a purchase price of $1.12 per share, up to 135,000 common shares and Warrants to purchase up to 135,000 common shares,
+Added: with an exercise price of $1.12 per share and a term of three years.
+Added: The Warrants sold in the December 2022 Private Placement will be
+Added: exercisable within six months from their issuance date.
+Added: As of June 30, 2023, the Company issued 8,155,900 common shares and Warrants that
+Added: relate to the December 2022 Private Placement and received $8,024,000 as of that date net of $445 from issuance expenses.
+Added: addition, the purchasers in the December 2022 Private Placement agreed to execute proxies permitting our CEO and CFO to vote the securities
+Added: purchased in the December 2022 Private Placement in favor of any shareholder vote relating to a future increase of our authorized shares.
+Added: Pursuant to the securities purchase agreements executed with the purchasers, we agreed to hold a meeting of shareholders within 200 days
+Added: of the execution of the securities purchase agreements for the purpose of increasing our authorized shares.
+Added: April 27, 2023, our shareholders approved an amendment to our articles of incorporation to increase the number of authorized common shares
+Added: from 60,000,000 shares to 300,000,000 shares and such increase was effectuated on May 1, 2023, when the Company filed its amendment to
+Added: its articles of incorporation reflecting such increase.
+Added: As such, the Warrants became exercisable 6 months from the date of their issuance.
+Added: December 14, 2022, Yaky Yanay, our CEO, agreed to forgo, starting January 1, 2023, $375,000 of his annual cash salary for the next twelve
+Added: months in return for equity grants, issuable under our existing equity compensation plans.
+Added: In that regard, we granted Mr.
+Added: Yanay (i) 334,821
+Added: RSUs, vesting ratably each month, and (ii) options to purchase 334,821 common shares, vesting ratably each month, with a term of three
+Added: years, at an exercise price of $1.12 per share.
+Added: In addition, the Board also agreed to grant Mr.
+Added: Yanay options to purchase 1,500,000 common
+Added: shares, with a term of three years, with the following terms:
+Added: (i) options to purchase 500,000 common shares at an exercise price of $1.56
+Added: per share, 50% vesting on June 30, 2023 and 50% vesting on December 31, 2023, (ii) options to purchase 500,000 common shares at an exercise
+Added: price of $2.08 per share, 50% vesting on June 30, 2023 and 50% vesting on December 31, 2023, and (iii) options to purchase 500,000 common
+Added: shares at an exercise price of $2.60 per share, 50% vesting on June 30, 2023 and 50% vesting on December 31, 2023.
+Added: All options were granted
+Added: in January 2023 and will expire three years from the later of the vesting date.
On July 16, 2020, we entered
−Removed: into the ATM Agreement with Jefferies, pursuant to which we may issue and sell shares of our common shares having an aggregate offering
−Removed: price of up to $75,000,000 from time to time through Jefferies.
−Removed: Upon entering into the ATM Agreement, we filed a new shelf registration
−Removed: statement on Form S-3, which was declared effective by the SEC on July 23, 2020.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2021, we sold 1,045,097
−Removed: of our common shares under the ATM Agreement at an average price of $8.50 per share for aggregate net proceeds of approximately $8,506,000,
−Removed: net of issuance expenses of $380,000.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2022, we did not sell of our
−Removed: any common shares under the ATM Agreement.
−Removed: In the year ended June 30,
−Removed: 2021, warrants to purchase up to 51,999 shares from our April 2019 firm commitment public offering were exercised by investors at an exercise
−Removed: price of $7.00 per share, resulting in the issuance of 51,999 common shares for net proceeds of approximately $364,000.
−Removed: During the year
−Removed: ended June 30, 2022, no warrants to purchase shares were exercised.
−Removed: On February 2, 2021, we entered
−Removed: into a securities purchase agreement with several institutional investors, or the Investors, pursuant to which we sold, in a registered
−Removed: direct offering, directly to the Investors, 4,761,905 common shares, for gross proceeds of $30,000,000.
−Removed: The aggregate net proceeds were
−Removed: approximately $28,077,000, net of issuance expenses of approximately $1,923,000.
−Removed: In April 2020, we and our subsidiaries, Pluristem Ltd.
−Removed: and Pluristem
−Removed: GmbH, executed the EIB Finance Agreement for funding of up to €50 million in the aggregate, payable in three tranches.
−Removed: from the EIB Finance Agreement are intended to support our research and development in the European Union to further advance our regenerative
−Removed: cell therapy platform, and to bring the products in our pipeline to market.
−Removed: The proceeds from the EIB Finance Agreement are expected to
−Removed: be deployed in three tranches, subject to the achievement of certain clinical, regulatory and scaling up milestones.
−Removed: We do not expect
−Removed: to receive additional funds pursuant to the EIB Finance Agreement.
−Removed: During June 2021, we received
−Removed: the first tranche in the amount of €20 million pursuant to the EIB Finance Agreement.
−Removed: The amount received is due to be repaid on
−Removed: June 1, 2026 and bears annual interest of 4% to be paid together with the principal of the loan.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, the interest accrued
−Removed: was in the amount of €865,000.
−Removed: In addition to the interest payable to the EIB, the EIB is also
−Removed: entitled to royalty payments, pro-rated to the amount disbursed from the EIB loan, on our consolidated revenues beginning in the fiscal
−Removed: year 2024 up to and including its fiscal year 2030, in an amount equal to up to 2.3% of our consolidated revenues below $350 million,
−Removed: 1.2% of our consolidated revenues between $350 million and $500 million and 0.2% of our consolidated revenues exceeding $500 million.
−Removed: Non-dilutive grants
−Removed: During the year ended June
−Removed: 30, 2022, we did not receive any cash grants from the European Union research and development consortiums relating to the Horizon 2020
−Removed: program, as opposed to approximately $239,000 received in cash during the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: According to the IIA grant
−Removed: terms, we are required to pay royalties at a rate of 3% on sales of products and services derived from technology developed using this
−Removed: and other IIA grants until 100% of the dollar-linked grants amount plus interest are repaid.
−Removed: In the absence of such sales, no payment
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2022, no royalties were paid to the IIA.
−Removed: 30, 2022 , total grants obtained from the IIA aggregated to approximately $27,743,000 and total royalties
+Added: into an at-the market agreement, or the ATM Agreement, with Jefferies LLC, or Jefferies, pursuant to which we may issue and sell shares
+Added: of our common shares having an aggregate offering price of up to $75,000,000 from time to time through Jefferies.
+Added: Upon entering into the
+Added: ATM Agreement, we filed a new shelf registration statement on Form S-3, which was declared effective by the SEC on July 23, 2020.
+Added: 21, 2022, as a result of General Instruction I.B.6 of Form S-3, and in accordance with the terms of the Sales Agreement, we reduced the
+Added: amount available to be sold under the ATM Agreement to a maximum aggregate offering price of up to $11,800,000 of our common shares from
+Added: time to time through Jefferies.
+Added: During the years ended June 30, 2022, and 2023, we did not sell of our any common shares under the ATM
+Added: On September 7, 2023, we provided
+Added: a formal notice of termination of the ATM Agreement with Jefferies, which took effect on September 8, 2023.
+Added: Pursuant to a shelf registration
+Added: on Form S-3 filed on July 20, 2023, which we intend to obtain the effectiveness of in the near term, the Company may elect, from time
+Added: to time, to offer and sell shares of common stock, preferred stock, warrants and units having an aggregate offering price of up to $200,000,000.
+Added: April 2020, we and our subsidiaries, Pluri Biotech Ltd.
+Added: and Pluristem GmbH, executed the EIB Finance Agreement for non–dilutive
+Added: funding of up to €50 million in the aggregate, payable in three tranches.
+Added: The proceeds from the EIB Finance Agreement were intended
+Added: to support our research and development in the EU to further advance our regenerative cell therapy platform, and to bring the products
+Added: in our pipeline to market.
+Added: The term of the project was three years commencing on January 1, 2020.
+Added: June 2021, we received the first tranche in the amount of €20 million pursuant to the EIB Finance Agreement.
+Added: The amount received
+Added: is due to be repaid on June 1, 2026, and bears annual interest of 4% to be paid together with the principal of the loan.
+Added: As of June 30,
+Added: 2023, the interest accrued was in the amount of €1,665,000.
+Added: In addition to the interest payable, the EIB is also entitled to royalty
+Added: payments, pro-rated to the amount disbursed from the EIB loan, on our consolidated revenues beginning in the fiscal year 2024 up to and
+Added: including its fiscal year 2030, in an amount equal to up to 2.3% of our consolidated revenues below $350 million, 1.2% of our consolidated
+Added: revenues between $350 million and $500 million and 0.2% of our consolidated revenues exceeding $500 million.
+Added: As the project term ended
+Added: on December 31, 2022, we do not expect to receive additional funds pursuant to the EIB Finance Agreement.
+Added: Innovation Authority (IIA)
+Added: to the IIA grant terms, we are required to pay royalties at a rate of 3% on sales of products and services derived from technology developed
+Added: using this and other IIA grants until 100% of the dollar-linked grants amount plus interest are repaid.
+Added: In the absence of such sales,
+Added: no payment is required.
+Added: Through June 30, 2023, total grants obtained from the IIA aggregated to approximately $27,743,000 and total royalties
paid and accrued amounted to $179,000.
−Removed: The IIA may impose certain
−Removed: conditions on any arrangement under which the IIA permits the Company to transfer technology or development out of Israel or outsource
−Removed: manufacturing out of Israel.
−Removed: While the grant is given to the Company over a certain period of time (usually a year), the requirements
−Removed: and restrictions under the Israeli Law for the Encouragement of Industrial Research and Development, 1984 continue and do not have a set
−Removed: expiration period, except for the royalties, which requirement to pay them expires after payment in full.
−Removed: In June 2020, we
−Removed: announced that we were selected as a member of the CRISPR-IL consortium, a group funded by the IIA.
−Removed: CRISPR-IL brings together the
−Removed: leading experts in life science and computer science from academia, medicine, and industry, to develop AI based end-to-end genome-editing
+Added: IIA may impose certain conditions on any arrangement under which the IIA permits the Company to transfer technology or development out
+Added: of Israel or outsource manufacturing out of Israel.
+Added: While the grant is given to the Company over a certain period of time (usually a
+Added: year), the requirements and restrictions under the Israeli Law for the Encouragement of Industrial Research and Development, 1984 continue
+Added: and do not have a set expiration period, except for the royalties, which requirement to pay them expires after payment in full.
+Added: In June 2020, we announced
+Added: that we were selected as a member of the CRISPR-IL consortium, a group funded by the IIA.
+Added: CRISPR-IL brings together the leading experts
+Added: in life science and computer science from academia, medicine, and industry, to develop AI based end-to-end genome-editing solutions.
+Added: next-generation, multi-species genome editing products for human, plant, and animal DNA, have applications in the pharmaceutical, agriculture,
+Added: and aquaculture industries.
CRISPR-IL is funded by the IIA with a total budget of approximately $10,000,000 of which, an amount of approximately
−Removed: was a direct grant allocated to us, for an initial period of 18 months.
−Removed: During October 2021, we
−Removed: received an approval for an additional grant of approximately $583,000 from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program, for
−Removed: an additional period of eighteen months.
+Added: $480,000 was a direct grant allocated to us, for the initial period of 18 months.
+Added: During October 2021, we received an approval for an
+Added: additional grant of approximately $583,000 from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program, for an additional period of eighteen
+Added: During January 2023, we received approval for an extension of an additional 2 months to finish the program until June 30, 2023.
The CRISPR-IL consortium program does not include any obligation to pay royalties.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022 and 2021,
−Removed: we received total grants of approximately $694,000 and $401,000 in cash from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program, respectively.
−Removed: In July 2017, we were awarded
−Removed: the Smart Money grant of approximately $229,000 from Israel’s Ministry of Economy.
−Removed: The Israeli government granted us budget resources
−Removed: to advance our product candidate towards marketing in China-Hong Kong markets.
−Removed: The Smart Money program ended on April 2022.
−Removed: 30, 2022, we received total grants of approximately $179,000 in cash from Israel’s Ministry of Economy for the Smart Money program.
+Added: Through June 30, 2023, we received total grants
+Added: of approximately $774,000 in cash from the IIA pursuant to the CRISPR-IL consortium program, and we expect to receive an additional $253,000.
+Added: grants – Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe
+Added: June 30, 2023, we received total grants of approximately $8,621,000 in cash from the EU R&D consortiums pursuant to the Horizon programs.
+Added: September 6, 2022, we announced that a €7.5 million non-dilutive grant from the EU’s Horizon program was awarded to Advanced
+Added: Personalized Therapies for Osteoarthritis (PROTO), an international collaboration led by Charité Berlin Institute of Health Center
+Added: for Regenerative Therapies.
+Added: The goal of the PROTO project is to utilize our PLX-PAD cells in a Phase I/IIA study for the treatment of
+Added: mild to moderate knee osteoarthritis.
+Added: Final approval of the grant is subject to completion of the consortium agreement.
+Added: An amount of approximately
+Added: Euro 500,000 (approximately $545,000) will be a direct grant that will be allocated to us.
+Added: Through June 30, 2023, we received a payment
+Added: of approximately $185,000 in cash, which relates to the PROTO program.
+Added: The Phase I/II study will be carried out by Charité,
+Added: together with us and other members of the international consortium under the leadership of Professor Tobias Winkler, Principal Investigator,
+Added: at the Berlin Institute of Health Center of Regenerative Therapies, Julius Wolff Institute and Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery.
In August 2016, our CLI program
−Removed: in the European Union was awarded a €7,600,000 non-royalty bearing grant.
−Removed: The grant is part of the European Union’s Horizon
−Removed: 2020 program.
−Removed: The Phase III study of PLX-PAD in CLI will be a collaborative project carried out by an international consortium led by
−Removed: the Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies together with the Company and with participation of additional third parties.
−Removed: The grant covered a significant portion of the CLI program costs.
−Removed: An amount of €1,900,000 is a direct grant allocated to us, and
−Removed: the Company also had cost savings resulting from grant amounts allocated to the other consortium members.
−Removed: In July 2017, the consortium
−Removed: amended the consortium agreement, pursuant to which the original grant allocation was amended such that we will receive an additional
−Removed: direct grant of €1,177,000.
−Removed: The additional direct grant was allocated to us from the total amount of the original grant.
−Removed: 30, 2022, we received a total of €2,615,000 (approximately $2,946,000) and we expect to receive an additional €461,000 (approximately
−Removed: In September 2017, our Phase
−Removed: III study of PLX-PAD cell therapy in the treatment of muscle injury following surgery for hip fracture was awarded a €7,400,000 grant,
−Removed: as part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program.
−Removed: This Phase III study was a collaborative project carried out by an international
−Removed: consortium led by Charité, together with us, and with participation of additional third parties.
+Added: in the EU was awarded a €7,600,000 non-royalty bearing grant.
+Added: The grant was part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.
+Added: III study of PLX-PAD in CLI was a collaborative project carried out by an international consortium led by the Berlin-Brandenburg Center
+Added: for Regenerative Therapies together with the Company and with participation of additional third parties.
The grant covered a significant
−Removed: portion of the project costs.
−Removed: An amount of € 2,550,000 is a direct grant allocated to us for manufacturing and other costs, and we
−Removed: also expect to have a direct benefit from cost savings resulting from grant amounts allocated to the other consortium members.
−Removed: 30, 2022, we received a total of €2,166,000 (approximately $2,540,000) and we expect to receive an additional €382,000 (approximately
+Added: portion of the CLI program costs, and the program was ended during fiscal year 2023.
+Added: Through June 30, 2023, we received a total of €3,235,000
+Added: relating to the CLI program in the EU (approximately $3,563,000).
+Added: September 2017, our Phase III study of PLX-PAD cell therapy in the treatment of muscle injury following surgery for hip fracture was
+Added: awarded a €7,400,000 grant, as part of the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.
+Added: This Phase III study was a collaborative project carried
+Added: out by an international consortium led by Charité, together with us, and with participation of additional third parties.
+Added: covered a significant portion of the project costs and the program was ended during fiscal year 2023.
+Added: Through June 30, 2023, we received
+Added: a total of €3,228,000 (approximately $3,699,000).
In October 2017, the nTRACK,
a collaborative project carried out by an international consortium led by Leitat was awarded a €6,800,000 non-royalty bearing grant.
−Removed: An amount of €500,000 is a direct grant allocated to us.
−Removed: We also expect to benefit from cost savings resulting from grant amounts
−Removed: allocated to the other consortium members.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2022, we received a total of €414,000 (approximately $473,000) and we expect
−Removed: to receive an additional €73,000 (approximately $76,000).
−Removed: We have accumulated a deficit
−Removed: of $371,263,000 since our inception in May 2001.
−Removed: We do not expect to generate any significant revenues from sales of products in the next
−Removed: twelve months.
−Removed: We expect to generate revenues, from the sale of licenses to use our technology or products, but in the short and medium
−Removed: terms will unlikely exceed our costs of operations.
−Removed: We may be required to obtain
−Removed: additional liquidity resources in order to support the commercialization of our products and technology and maintain our research and
−Removed: development and clinical study activities.
−Removed: We are continually looking
−Removed: for sources of funding, including non-diluting sources such as collaboration with other companies via licensing agreements, the IIA grants,
−Removed: the European Union grant and other research grants, and sales of our common shares.
−Removed: We believe that we have sufficient
−Removed: cash to fund our operations for at least the next twelve months.
−Removed: Application of Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
−Removed: Our significant accounting
−Removed: policies are more fully described in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements appearing in this Annual Report.
−Removed: We believe that
−Removed: the accounting policies below are critical for one to fully understand and evaluate our financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: As of June 30, 2023, we received a total of €764,000 (approximately $859,000).
+Added: The nTRACK program ended during fiscal year 2023.
+Added: have accumulated a deficit of $399,584,000 since our inception in May 2001.
+Added: We do not expect to generate any significant revenues from
+Added: sales of products in the next twelve months.
+Added: We expect to generate revenues, from the sale of licenses to use our technology or products,
+Added: but in the short and medium terms will unlikely exceed our costs of operations.
+Added: may be required to obtain additional liquidity resources in order to support the commercialization of our products and technology and
+Added: maintain our research and development activities.
+Added: are continually looking for sources of funding, including collaboration with other companies via licensing agreements, joint ventures
+Added: and partnerships, and other non-dilutive sources such as our contract with NIAID and DoD, research grants such as the IIA grants and the
+Added: European Union grants, and sales of our common shares.
+Added: believe that we have sufficient cash to fund our operations for at least the next twelve months.
+Added: of Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
+Added: Our accounting policies are
+Added: more fully described in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements appearing in this Annual Report.
+Added: We believe that the accounting
+Added: policy below is critical for one to fully understand and evaluate our financial condition and results of operations.
The discussion and analysis
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and liabilities, as well as the reported revenues and expenses during the reporting periods.
−Removed: On an ongoing basis, we evaluate such estimates
−Removed: and judgments, including those described in greater detail below.
−Removed: We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other
−Removed: factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances.
+Added: We evaluate such estimates and judgments
+Added: on an ongoing basis, including those described in greater detail below.
+Added: We base our estimates on historical experience and on various
+Added: other factors that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances.
Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions
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Share-Based Compensation
−Removed: Share-based compensation is
−Removed: considered a critical accounting policy due to the significant expenses of RSUs which were granted to our employees, directors and consultants.
−Removed: In Fiscal Year 2022, we recorded share-based compensation expenses related to options, restricted shares and RSUs in the amount of $8,909,000.
−Removed: In accordance with ASC 718,
−Removed: “Compensation-Stock Compensation”, or ASC 718, RSUs granted to employees and directors are measured at their fair value on
−Removed: the grant date.
−Removed: All RSUs granted in fiscal years 2022 and 2021 were granted for no consideration;
−Removed: therefore, their fair value was equal
−Removed: to the share price at the date of grant unless the RSUs include a market-based condition in which case the fair value RSUs at the date
−Removed: of grant was calculated using the Monte Carlo model.
−Removed: The RSUs granted in Fiscal Year 2022 to non-employee consultants were measured at
−Removed: their fair value on the grant date in accordance with ASU No.
+Added: Share-based compensation is considered a critical
+Added: accounting policy due to the significant expenses of RSUs which were granted to our employees, directors and consultants.
+Added: In fiscal year
+Added: 2023, we recorded share-based compensation expenses related to options, restricted shares and RSUs in the amount of $3,977,000.
+Added: In accordance with ASC 718, “Compensation-Stock
+Added: Compensation”, or ASC 718, RSUs granted to employees and directors are measured at their fair value on the grant date.
+Added: granted in fiscal years 2023 and 2022 were granted for no consideration;
+Added: therefore, their fair value was equal to the share price at the
+Added: date of grant unless the RSUs include a market-based condition in which case the fair value RSUs at the date of grant was calculated using
+Added: the Monte Carlo model.
+Added: The RSUs granted in fiscal year 2023 to non-employee consultants were measured at their fair value on the grant
+Added: date in accordance with ASU No.
2018-07 - “Compensation—Share Compensation”.
−Removed: The fair value of shares of Plurinuva granted to CEO, CFO and Chairman
−Removed: (see details in Item 11 below) was calculated using the Monte Carlo model, and fair value of the options of Plurinuva granted to employees
−Removed: and officers were calculated using the Black Scholes model.
+Added: The fair value of shares of
+Added: Ever After Foods granted to our CEO, CFO and Chairman (see details in Item 11 below) was calculated using the Monte Carlo model, and the
+Added: fair value of the options of Ever After Foods granted to employees and officers were calculated using the Black Scholes model.
The value of the portion of
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grant is 16% for the shares granted to employees and 0% for the shares granted to our directors and officers and non-employee consultants.
−Removed: Research and Development Expenses, Net
−Removed: We expect our research and
−Removed: development expenses to remain our primary expense in the near future as we continue to develop our product candidates.
−Removed: Our research and
−Removed: development expenses consist primarily of clinical study expenses, consultant and subcontractor expenses, payroll and related expenses,
−Removed: lab material expenses, share-based compensation expenses, rent and maintenance expenses.
−Removed: The following table provides a breakdown of the
−Removed: related costs for fiscal years 2021 and 2022 (in thousands of dollars):
−Removed: Year ended June 30,
−Removed: Payroll and related expenses
−Removed: Materials expenses
−Removed: Clinical trials expenses
−Removed: Depreciation expenses
−Removed: Consultants and subcontractor expenses
−Removed: Rent and maintenance expenses
−Removed: Share-based compensation expenses
−Removed: Other Research and development expenses
−Removed: Total expenses
−Removed: Research and development participation grants
−Removed: Research and development expenses, net
−Removed: We invest heavily in research
−Removed: and development.
−Removed: Research and development expenses, net, were our major operating expenses, representing 59% of the total operating expenses
−Removed: for each of our fiscal years 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: We expect that in the upcoming years our research and development expenses,
−Removed: net, will continue to be our major operating expense.
−Removed: Quantitative and
−Removed: Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.
−Removed: Not applicable.
+Added: QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
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