Company: RNAC
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form Type: 424B7
Source: 0001140361-25-000634
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Company: Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-01-08
Form: 424B7
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 hereby. The net proceeds from the sale of the Resale Shares offered by this prospectus will be received by the Selling Stockholders.

Subject to limited exceptions, the Selling Stockholders will pay any underwriting discounts and commissions and expenses incurred by the Selling Stockholders for brokerage, accounting, tax or legal services or any other expenses incurred by the Selling Stockholders in disposing of any of the Resale Shares. We will bear the costs, fees and expenses incurred in effecting the registration of the Resale Shares covered by this prospectus, including all registration and filing fees, listing fees of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC and fees and expenses of our counsel and our independent registered public accounting firm.

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### DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK
The following description of our capital stock is not complete and may not contain all the information you should consider before investing in our capital stock. This description is summarized from, and qualified in its entirety by reference to, our restated certificate of incorporation, as amended, or the Charter, our amended and restated by-laws, or the Bylaws, and the applicable provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or the DGCL. Each of our Charter and Bylaws is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

#### General
As of the date of this prospectus, our authorized capital stock consists of 360,000,000 shares, comprised of 350,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock, $0.0001 par value per share. As of September 30, 2024 there were 23,896,525 shares of our Common Stock outstanding and 604,268.592 shares of preferred stock outstanding, of which (i) 166,341.592 were designated as Series A Preferred Stock, and are convertible into 5,544,719 shares of Common Stock and (ii) 437,927 were designated as Series B Preferred Stock, and are convertible into 437,927 shares of Common Stock.

#### Common Stock
Our Common Stock is listed on the Nasdaq Global Market under the symbol “RNAC.”

Voting Rights . Holders of our Common Stock are entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders and do not have cumulative voting rights. An election of directors by our stockholders shall be determined by a plurality of the votes cast by the stockholders entitled to vote