Company: RNAC
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001453687-25-000085
Chunk: 113

Company: Cartesian Therapeutics, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 8
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centive Award Plan, was adopted by the Board of Directors without stockholder approval pursuant to Rule 5635(c)(4) of the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC listing rules, which authorized 39,166 shares of its common stock for issuance. In March 2019, the Board of Directors approved an amendment and restatement of the 2018 Inducement Incentive Award Plan to reserve an additional 66,667 shares of the Company’s common stock for issuance thereunder. In December 2023, the Board of Directors approved an amendment and restatement of the 2018 Inducement Incentive Award Plan to reserve an additional 60,833 shares of the Company’s common stock for issuance thereunder. In June and December 2024, the Board of Directors approved amendments and restatements of the 2018 Inducement Incentive Award Plan to reserve an additional 360,000 and 450,000 shares, respectively, of the Company’s common stock for issuance thereunder. As of March 31, 2025, there are 489,683 shares available for future grant under the 2018 Inducement Incentive Award Plan.In accordance with the Merger Agreement, the Company assumed Old Cartesian’s 2016 Stock Incentive Plan, or the Old Cartesian Plan. The Old Cartesian Plan permits the granting of options or restricted stock to employees, officers, directors, consultants and advisors to the Company. The unvested common stock options and Series A Preferred Stock options assumed by the Company in connection with the Merger generally vest over a four-year period. Additionally, the stock options granted have a contractual term of ten years and only full shares can be exercised as per the individual award agreements. As of March 31, 2025, there are 36,179 shares available for future grant under the Old Cartesian Plan. In connection with the Merger, the outstanding stock options to purchase Old Cartesian common stock were converted into stock options to purchase 776,865 shares of common stock and 14,112.299 shares of Series A Preferred Stock of the Company. These replacement awards were revalued at their acquisition-date fair value and then attributed to pre- and post-combination service. This resulted in $2.6 million attributed to post-combination service to be recognized as stock-based compensation expense over the remaining terms of the replacement awards, of which $0.2 million and $0.4 million was recognized as research and development expense in the