Exozymes Inc.: Form 10-Q for the period ended Sep 30, 2024

In a private placement ( “Concurrent Private Offering”) completed concurrently with the completion of the initial public offering by the Company of its shares of Common Stock, it sold to accredited investors an aggregate of 93,750 warrants to purchase up to 93,750 shares of Common Stock (the “Private Warrants”). The Private Warrants were sold at a purchase price of $0.125. The Private Warrants have an exercise price of $8.00 per share, are exercisable beginning six months after issuance, and expire five years from the date of issuance. The Private Warrants have a demand and multiple piggy back registration rights for the underlying shares of Common Stock starting six months after issuance, may be exercised on a cashless basis, and have other terms that are typical of investor warrants such as anti-dilution rights and blocker provisions. The Private Warrants and underlying shares are subject to a one-year lock up from the date of issuance. The gross proceeds from the Concurrent Private Offering were approximately $11,719, and if the Private Warrants are fully exercised, for cash, the Company will receive up to $750,000. The offer and sale of the Private Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of the Private Warrants are not being registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and are being offered pursuant to the exemption from registration provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act and/or Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder.

Disclosure Controls and Procedures

The Company, with the participation of the Chief Executive Officer and Vice President, Finance, evaluated, as of the end of the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act). Based on that evaluation, and as a result of the material weaknesses in internal control over financial reporting described below, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Accounting Officer concluded that, as of September 30, 2024, the disclosure controls and procedures were not effective at the reasonable assurance level.

Ongoing Remediation of Previously Identified Material Weakness

There are no ongoing remediation of previously identified material weakness.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in the internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by Rule 13a-15(d) and 15d-15(d) of the Exchange Act that occurred during the nine-months ended September 30, 2024, that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures

The Company’s management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Vice President, Finance, believes that disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and are effective at the reasonable assurance level. However, management does not expect that the disclosure controls and procedures or the internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the company have been detected. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.

In addition to the information set forth in this Form 10-Q, you should also carefully review and consider the risk factors contained in our other registration statements, reports and periodic filings with the SEC that could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. The risk factors we have identified and discussed, however, do not identify all risks that we face because our business operations could also be affected by additional factors that are not known to us or that we currently consider to be immaterial to our operations.