Common Stock: 

On August 24, 2022, the Company’s stockholders approved increasing the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 60,000,000 shares, par value $0.0001 per share, to 120,000,000 shares, par value $0.0001 per share.

Treasury Stock:

Refer to note 9A.

Initial Public Offering: 

On December 18, 2018, the Company consummated its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 7,000,000 units (“Public Units”). The Public Units sold in the IPO were sold at an offering price of $10.00 per Public Unit, generating total gross proceeds of $70,000. The Public Units each consist of one share of Common Stock and one warrant to purchase one-half of a share of Common Stock (“Public Warrant”), with every two Public Warrants entitling the holder to purchase one share of Common Stock for $11.50 per full share. 

Simultaneous with the consummation of the IPO, the Company consummated the private placement of an aggregate of 2,900,000 warrants (“Private Placement Warrants”). The Private Placement Warrants were expired on December 13, 2023.

Stock Exchange:

As detailed in note 1, as part of the Recapitalization Transaction on October 28, 2019, the Company issued 15,069,058 shares of Common Stock in exchange for approximately 65% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares and all the preferred shares of BiomX Israel.

In addition, the Company also agreed to issue the following number of additional shares of Common Stock, in the aggregate, to stockholders on a pro rata basis, subject to the Company’s achievement of the conditions specified below following the recapitalization transaction (all with respect to the Company’s Common Stock traded on the NYSE American):

Private Investment in Public Equity:

On February 22, 2023, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement to issue and sell an aggregate of 15,997,448 shares of its Common Stock and 14,610,714 pre-funded warrants (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”, and collectively, the “Securities”) at a price of $0.245 per share and $0.244 per Pre-Funded Warrant, through a PIPE. The gross proceeds from this offering are approximately $7,485, before deducting issuance costs. The offering closed in two parts. The first closing, which covered 3,199,491 shares of Common Stock and 2,776,428 Pre-Funded Warrants for gross proceeds of $1,469, occurred on February 27, 2023. Such Pre-Funded Warrants became exercisable on February 27, 2023, at an exercise price of $0.001 per share of Common Stock and have no expiration date. At the first closing, the Company raised net proceeds of $1,293, after deducting issuance costs of $176. On April 24, 2023, the Company’s stockholders approved the issuance of up to 24,632,243 shares of Common Stock, comprised of shares and shares underlying Pre-Funded Warrants, in accordance with NYSE American rules. On May 4, 2023, the Company completed the second closing of the offering and issued an aggregate of 12,797,957 shares of Common Stock and 11,834,286 Pre-Funded Warrants. Such Pre-Funded Warrants became exercisable on May 4, 2023, at an exercise price of $0.001 per share of Common Stock and have no expiration date. At the second closing, the Company raised net proceeds of $5,859, after deducting issuance costs of $157. As of December 31, 2023, no Pre-Funded Warrants were exercised.

The exercise of the outstanding Pre-Funded Warrants is subject to a beneficial ownership limitation between 9.90%-9.99%, The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Pre-Funded Warrants are subject to adjustment in the event of any stock dividends, stock splits, reverse stock split and reclassification, as described in the agreements. Pursuant to the sole discretion of the holder, the Pre-Funded Warrants may be exercisable on a “cashless” basis. The Pre-Funded Warrants were classified as a component of stockholders’ equity.

At-the-market Sales Agreement:

In December 2020, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 11, 2020, the Company entered into an Open Market Issuance Sales Agreement (“ATM Agreement”) with Jefferies LLC. (“Jefferies”), which provided that, upon the terms and subject to the conditions and limitations in the ATM Agreement, the Company could elect, from time to time, to offer and sell shares of Common Stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $50,000 through Jefferies acting as sales agent. During the year ended December 31, 2023, the Company sold 200 shares of Common Stock under the ATM Agreement, at an average price of $0.62 per share. During the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company sold 229,044 shares of Common Stock under the ATM Agreement, at an average price of $1.19 per share, raising aggregate net proceeds of approximately $273, after deducting an aggregate commission of $8. The ATM Agreement was terminated on December 7, 2023.

In December 2023, pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-3 declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 2, 2024, the Company entered into an Open Market Offering Agreement with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (“Wainwright”), pursuant to which the Company may issue and sell shares of Common Stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $7,500,000 from time to time through Wainwright. The Company recorded transaction costs of $210 in the consolidated statements of operations.

Maruho Agreement:

In October 2021, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with a subsidiary of Maruho Co. Ltd., (“Maruho”), a leading dermatology-focused pharmaceutical company in Japan, pursuant to which the Company issued to Maruho 375,000 shares of Common Stock at a price of $8.00 per share for gross proceeds of $3,000. The company also granted Maruho a right of first offer to license its atopic dermatitis product candidate, BX005, in Japan. The right of first offer will commence following the availability of results from the Phase 1/2 study initially expected in 2022. The Company applied ASC 606 by analogy to the agreements. The agreements were combined into a single unit of account for the purpose of applying ASC 606. Part of the consideration paid under the agreements, equal to the grant date fair value of the shares issued to Maruho of $1,024, is attributed to the issuance of shares and accounted for as an increase in equity. The remainder of $1,976 was attributed to a contract liability, to be recognized as other income, at a point in time, once the clinical trials related to the product candidate are completed. Following the Company’s announcement on May 24, 2022, as mentioned in note 18 below regarding the delaying of the Company’s atopic dermatitis program, the contract liability was classified as a non-current liability.

CFF Agreement: 

In December 2021, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with the CF Foundation, an organization that historically played a role in supporting the development of innovative therapies for patients suffering from cystic fibrosis (CF). Under the terms of the agreement, the Company will receive up to $5,000 in two tranches. In the first tranche, which closed and fully received on December 21, 2021, the CF Foundation invested $3,000 as an initial equity investment based on a share price of $2.57. Upon completion of patient dosing in Part 1 of the Company’s Phase 1b/2a study of BX004, the Company would have the right to receive the second tranche of $2,000, also as an equity investment. In the event that the average closing price of the Common Stock for the ten trading days prior to the second tranche completion is less than $2.57, the Company shall have the right in its sole discretion to waive the second tranche payment and in such event the CF Foundation would not have had any right to receive additional shares. However, the CF Foundation may waive the Milestone in its discretion and make the Milestone Payment nonetheless. In February 2023, the Company waived its right to receive the second tranche of $2,000 mentioned above, as the CF Foundation participated in the PIPE and invested an aggregate amount of $2,000.

Preferred Stock:

The Company is authorized to issue 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.0001 per share with such designation, rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”). See note 1D regarding issuance of shares of preferred stock after the balance sheet date.

Warrants:

If the Company calls the Public Warrants for redemption, management will have the option to require all holders that wish to exercise the Public Warrants to do so on a “cashless basis,” as described in the warrant agreement. The exercise price and number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, or recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. However, the warrants will not be adjusted for issuance of Common Stock at a price below their exercise price. Additionally, in no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the warrants.

As of December 31, 2023, the Company had the following outstanding warrants to purchase Common Stock issued to stockholders:

Equity Incentive Plan:

In 2015, the Board of Directors of BiomX Israel approved a plan for the allocation of options to employees, service providers, and officers (the “2015 Plan”). The options represented a right to purchase one Ordinary Share of the BiomX Israel in consideration of the payment of an exercise price. Also, the options were granted in accordance with the “capital gains route” under section 102 and section 3(i) of the Israeli Income Tax Ordinance and section 409A of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code as technically adjusted following the Recapitalization Transaction on October 28, 2019.

As of December 31, 2023, there are no shares of Common Stock remaining for issuance under the 2015 Plan.

In 2019, the Company adopted a new incentive plan (the “2019 Plan”) to grant 1,000 options, exercisable for Common Stock.

The aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be delivered pursuant to the 2019 Plan will automatically increase on January 1 of each year, commencing on January 1, 2020 and ending on (and including) January 1, 2029, in an amount equal to four percent (4%) of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on December 31 of the preceding calendar year.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may act prior to January 1 of a given year to provide that there will be no January 1 increase for such year or that the increase for such year will be a lesser number of shares of Common Stock than provided herein.

As of December 31, 2023, there were 1,011,104 shares of Common Stock remaining for issuance under the 2019 Plan. On January 1, 2024, the number of shares of Common Stock available to grant under the 2019 Plan was increased by 1,839,187.

Stock Options:

On March 29, 2022, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 1,153,500 options to 89 employees, three senior officers, one consultant, and five directors under the Company’s 2019 Plan, without consideration. Options were granted at an exercise price of $1.41 per share with a vesting period of four years. Directors and senior officers are entitled to full acceleration of their unvested options upon the occurrence of both a change in control of the Company and the end of their engagement with the Company. 

On June 21, 2022, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 350,500 options to 53 employees, and one consultant under the Company’s 2019 Plan, without consideration. Options were granted at an exercise price of $0.66 per share with a vesting period of four years. 

On August 22, 2022, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 290,000 options to four senior officers under the Company’s 2019 Plan, without consideration. Options were granted at an exercise price of $0.66 per share with a vesting period of four years. Senior officers are entitled to full acceleration of their unvested options upon the occurrence of both a change in control of the Company and the end of their engagement with the Company. 

On September 30, 2022, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 20,000 options to a consultant under the Company’s 2019 Plan, without consideration. Options were granted at an exercise price of $0.37 per share with a vesting period of one year. 

On March 1, 2023, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 1,543,000 options to 49 employees, five senior officers and three directors under the 2019 Plan, without consideration. The options were granted at an exercise price of $0.40 per share with a vesting period of four years. Directors and senior officers are entitled to full acceleration of their unvested options upon the occurrence of both a change in control of the Company and the end of their engagement with the Company.

On August 21, 2023, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 82,000 options to two directors under the Company’s 2019 Plan, without consideration. Options were granted at an exercise price of $0.363 per share with a vesting period of four years. Directors are entitled to full acceleration of their unvested options upon the occurrence of both a change in control of the Company and the end of their engagement with the Company.

On October 19, 2023, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 41,000 options to one director under the 2019 Plan, without consideration. The options were granted at an exercise price of $0.32 per share with a vesting period of four years. Such director is entitled to full acceleration of his unvested options upon the occurrence of both a change in control of the Company and the end of his engagement with the Company.

On October 29, 2023, the Board of Directors approved the grant of 151,100 options to 4 employees and one senior officer under the 2019 Plan, without consideration. The options were granted at an exercise price of $0.275 per share with a vesting period of four years. The senior officer is entitled to full acceleration of her unvested options upon the occurrence of both a change in control of the Company and the end of her engagement with the Company. 

On October 29, 2023, the Board of Directors approved a reduction in the exercise price (“the Repricing”) of each outstanding option to purchase shares of the Company’s Common Stock currently held by employees of BiomX with an original exercise price above $0.69 per share granted under the Company’s 2015 Employee Stock Option Plan to $0.275 per share. Other than the exercise price, no other terms of grant of the repriced options were changed; however, the options may not be exercised until one year after the repricing date. The reduction of the exercise price of the options was considered a type I modification according to ASC 718. As a result of the Repricing, the Company recognized immediately the incremental fair value in the amount of $167 as the repriced options were fully vested on October 29, 2023.

On November 9, 2023, the Company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Tender Offer Statement defining the terms and conditions of a one-time voluntary stock option exchange of certain eligible options for its employees (the “Option Exchange”). the Company offered to exchange certain out-of-the-money stock options for new stock options at an exchange ratio of between 1.4 and 3.8 surrendered options for one new option exercisable for shares of common stock with a lower exercise price. On December 11, 2023, the completion date of the Option Exchange, stock options covering an aggregate of 1,508,280 shares of Common Stock were tendered by eligible employees, and the Company granted new options at an exercise price of $0.275, the Company’s closing stock price on December 11, 2023, covering an aggregate of 694,871 shares of Common Stock under the 2019 Plan in exchange for the tendered options. The Cancellation and new stock options grant qualifies as a “cancellation of an award accompanied by the concurrent grant of a replacement award,” as defined in ASC 718, which is accounted for as a modification. Under ASC 718, incremental compensation cost is measured as the excess, if any, of the fair value of the modified award over the fair value of the original award immediately before its terms are modified. As a result of the Option Exchange, the Company will recognize an incremental stock-based compensation expense of $19 over the remaining vesting period of the new stock options, which is three or four years. The Company will recognize the sum of the incremental stock-based compensation expense and the remaining unrecognized compensation expense for the original awards on the modification date, over the remaining vesting period of the new stock options.

The fair value of each option was estimated as of the date of grant or reporting period using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model using the following assumptions:

Stock Options: (Cont.)

Total fair value embodied in the options granted in 2023 and 2022 at the grant date, is estimated to be $552 and $1,311 respectively. These amounts will be recognized in statements of operations over the vesting period.

As of December 31, 2023, the unrecognized compensation cost related to all unvested, equity classified stock options of $742 is expected to be recognized as an expense on a graded vesting method over a weighted-average period of 1.65 years.

Warrants:

As of December 31, 2023, and 2022, the Company had the following outstanding compensation related warrants to purchase Common Stock as follows:   

The Company recognized stock-based compensation expenses in connection with options granted to executive officers of the Company in the amount of $722 and $923 for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.