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Arcadia Biosciences Announces Closing of $7.5 Million Registered Direct Offering Priced At-the-Market
DAVIS, Calif., June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKDA), a food ingredient company and proven leader in agricultural
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n DAVIS, Calif., June 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKDA), a food ingredient company and proven leader in agricultural innovation, improving the quality and nutritional content of crops, today announced the closing of its previously announced registered direct offering of 1,489,575 shares of its common stock. The offering was priced at-the-market at a purchase price per share of $4.91, for gross proceeds of approximately $7.31 million. Additionally, in a concurrent private placement, Arcadia issued unregistered warrants to purchase up to 1,489,575 shares of common stock, representing 100 percent of the shares of common stock purchased in the registered direct offering. Each warrant was sold at a price of $0.125 per underlying warrant share for gross proceeds of approximately $0.19 million. Each warrant has an exercise price of $5.00 per share, is exercisable immediately and will expire five and one-half years from the issuance date.\nH.C. Wainwright & Co. acted as the exclusive placement agent for the offering.\nThe net proceeds of the offering are estimated to be approximately $6.9 million after deducting placement agent fees and other estimated offering expenses. Arcadia intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including, but not limited to, hemp germplasm acquisition, breeding and research activities, the scale-up of GoodWheatTM and for general and administrative expenses.\nThe shares of common stock described above (but not the warrants or the shares of common stock underlying the warrants) were offered pursuant to a \"shelf\" registration statement (File 333-224893) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and declared effective on June 8, 2018. The offering of such shares of common stock was made by means of a prospectus, including a prospectus supplement, forming a part of the effective registration statement. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained on the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov or by contacting H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC at 430 Park Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, by emailing [email protected] or by calling (646) 975-6996.\nThe warrants described above were offered in a private placement under Section 4(a)...