EX-10.6



 Exhibit 10.6 

BIONANO GENOMICS, INC. 

2018 EMPLOYEE STOCK PURCHASE PLAN 

ADOPTED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
JULY 16, 2018 
 APPROVED BY THE STOCKHOLDERS:
JULY 16, 2018 
  

	1.	 GENERAL; PURPOSE. 



(a)        The Plan provides a means by which Eligible Employees of the Company
and certain designated Related Corporations may be given an opportunity to purchase shares of Common Stock. The Plan permits the Company to grant a series of Purchase Rights to Eligible Employees under an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. 

(b)        The Company, by means of the Plan, seeks to retain the services of
such Employees, to secure and retain the services of new Employees and to provide incentives for such persons to exert maximum efforts for the success of the Company and its Related Corporations. 

 

	2.	 ADMINISTRATION. 



(a)        The Board will administer the Plan unless and until the Board
delegates administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees, as provided in Section 2(c). 

(b)        The Board will have the power, subject to, and within the
limitations of, the express provisions of the Plan: 
 (i)        To
determine how and when Purchase Rights will be granted and the provisions of each Offering (which need not be identical). 

(ii)        To designate from time to time which Related Corporations of the
Company will be eligible to participate in the Plan. 
 (iii)        To
construe and interpret the Plan and Purchase Rights, and to establish, amend and revoke rules and regulations for its administration. The Board, in the exercise of this power, may correct any defect, omission or inconsistency in the Plan, in a
manner and to the extent it deems necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective. 

(iv)        To settle all controversies regarding the Plan and Purchase Rights
granted under the Plan. 
 (v)        To suspend or terminate the Plan at
any time as provided in Section 12. 
 (vi)        To amend the Plan at
any time as provided in Section 12. 
 (vii)        Generally, to
exercise such powers and to perform such acts as it deems necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company and its Related Corporations and to carry out the intent that the Plan be treated as an Employee Stock Purchase Plan. 

(viii)        To adopt such procedures and
sub-plans as are necessary or appropriate to permit participation in the Plan by Employees who are foreign nationals or employed outside the United States. 

  
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 (c)        The Board may delegate
some or all of the administration of the Plan to a Committee or Committees. If administration is delegated to a Committee, the Committee will have, in connection with the administration of the Plan, the powers theretofore possessed by the Board that
have been delegated to the Committee, including the power to delegate to a subcommittee any of the administrative powers the Committee is authorized to exercise (and references to the Board in this Plan and in any applicable Offering Document will
thereafter be to the Committee or subcommittee), subject, however, to such resolutions, not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan, as may be adopted from time to time by the Board. The Board may retain the authority to concurrently administer
the Plan with the Committee and may, at any time, revest in the Board some or all of the powers previously delegated. Whether or not the Board has delegated administration of the Plan to a Committee, the Board will have the final power to determine
all questions of policy and expediency that may arise in the administration of the Plan. 

(d)        All determinations, interpretations and constructions made by the
Board in good faith will not be subject to review by any person and will be final, binding and conclusive on all persons. 
  

	3.	 SHARES OF COMMON STOCK SUBJECT
TO THE PLAN. 



(a)        Subject to the provisions of Section 11(a) relating to
Capitalization Adjustments, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued under the Plan will not exceed 240,000 shares of Common Stock, plus the number of shares of Common Stock that are automatically added on January 1st of each
year for a period of up to ten years, commencing on the first January 1 following the IPO Date and ending on (and including) January 1, 2028, in an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 1% of the total number of shares of Capital Stock
outstanding on December 31st of the preceding calendar year, and (ii) 300,000 shares of Common Stock. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may act prior to the first day of any calendar year to provide that there will be no January 1st increase in the share reserve for such calendar year or that the increase in the share reserve for such calendar year will be a lesser number of shares of Common Stock than would otherwise occur
pursuant to the preceding sentence. 
 (b)        If any Purchase Right
granted under the Plan terminates without having been exercised in full, the shares of Common Stock not purchased under such Purchase Right will again become available for issuance under the Plan. 

(c)        The stock purchasable under the Plan will be shares of authorized
but unissued or reacquired Common Stock, including shares repurchased by the Company on the open market. 
  

	4.	 GRANT OF PURCHASE RIGHTS;
OFFERING. 


 (a)        The Board may
from time to time grant or provide for the grant of Purchase Rights to Eligible Employees under an Offering (consisting of one or more Purchase Periods) on an Offering Date or Offering Dates selected by the Board. Each Offering will be in such form
and will contain such terms and conditions as the Board will deem appropriate, and will comply with the requirement of Section 423(b)(5) of the Code that all Employees granted Purchase Rights will have the same rights and privileges. The terms
and conditions of an Offering shall be incorporated by reference into the Plan and treated as part of the Plan. The provisions of separate Offerings need not be identical, but each Offering will include (through incorporation of the provisions of
this Plan by reference in the document comprising the Offering or otherwise) the period during which the Offering will be effective, which period will not exceed 27 months beginning with the Offering Date, and the substance of the provisions
contained in Sections 5 through 8, inclusive. 
 (b)        If a Participant
has more than one Purchase Right outstanding under the Plan, unless he or she otherwise indicates in forms delivered to the Company: (i) each form will apply to all of his or her 

  
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Purchase Rights under the Plan, and (ii) a Purchase Right with a lower exercise price (or an earlier-granted Purchase Right, if different Purchase Rights have identical exercise prices) will
be exercised to the fullest possible extent before a Purchase Right with a higher exercise price (or a later-granted Purchase Right if different Purchase Rights have identical exercise prices) will be exercised. 

(c)        The Board will have the discretion to structure an Offering so that
if the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the first Trading Day of a new Purchase Period within that Offering is less than or equal to the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock on the Offering Date for that Offering, then
(i) that Offering will terminate immediately as of that first Trading Day, and (ii) the Participants in such terminated Offering will be automatically enrolled in a new Offering beginning on the first Trading Day of such new Purchase
Period. 
  

	5.	 ELIGIBILITY. 



(a)        Purchase Rights may be granted only to Employees of the Company or,
as the Board may designate in accordance with Section 2(b), to Employees of a Related Corporation. Except as provided in Section 5(b), an Employee will not be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights unless, on the Offering Date, the
Employee has been in the employ of the Company or the Related Corporation, as the case may be, for such continuous period preceding such Offering Date as the Board may require, but in no event will the required period of continuous employment be
equal to or greater than two years. In addition, the Board may provide that no Employee will be eligible to be granted Purchase Rights under the Plan unless, on the Offering Date, such Employee’s customary employment with the Company or the
Related Corporation is more than 20 hours per week and more than five months per calendar year or such other criteria as the Board may determine consistent with Section 423 of the Code. 

(b)        The Board may provide that each person who, during the course of an
Offering, first becomes an Eligible Employee will, on a date or dates specified in the Offering which coincides with the day on which such person becomes an Eligible Employee or which occurs thereafter, receive a Purchase Right under that Offering,
which Purchase Right will thereafter be deemed to be a part of that Offering. Such Purchase Right will have the same characteristics as any Purchase Rights originally granted under that Offering, as described herein, except that: 

(i)        the date on which such Purchase Right is granted will be the
“Offering Date” of such Purchase Right for all purposes, including determination of the exercise price of such Purchase Right; 

(ii)        the period of the Offering with respect to such Purchase Right
will begin on its Offering Date and end coincident with the end of such Offering; and 

(iii)        the Board may provide that if such person first becomes an
Eligible Employee within a specified period of time before the end of the Offering, he or she will not receive any Purchase Right under that Offering. 

(c)        No Employee will be eligible for the grant of any Purchase Rights
if, immediately after any such Purchase Rights are granted, such Employee owns stock possessing five percent or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of stock of the Company or of any Related Corporation. For purposes of
this Section 5(c), the rules of Section 424(d) of the Code will apply in determining the stock ownership of any Employee, and stock which such Employee may purchase under all outstanding Purchase Rights and options will be treated as stock
owned by such Employee. 

  
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 (d)        As specified by
Section 423(b)(8) of the Code, an Eligible Employee may be granted Purchase Rights only if such Purchase Rights, together with any other rights granted under all Employee Stock Purchase Plans of the Company and any Related Corporations, do not
permit such Eligible Employee’s rights to purchase stock of the Company or any Related Corporation to accrue at a rate which exceeds $25,000 of Fair Market Value of such stock (determined at the time such rights are granted, and which, with
respect to the Plan, will be determined as of their respective Offering Dates) for each calendar year in which such rights are outstanding at any time. 

(e)        Officers of the Company and any designated Related Corporation, if
they are otherwise Eligible Employees, will be eligible to participate in Offerings under the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board may provide in an Offering that Employees who are highly compensated Employees within the meaning of
Section 423(b)(4)(D) of the Code will not be eligible to participate. 
  

	6.	 PURCHASE RIGHTS; PURCHASE PRICE.



 (a)        On each Offering Date, each Eligible
Employee, pursuant to an Offering made under the Plan, will be granted a Purchase Right to purchase up to that number of shares of Common Stock purchasable either with a percentage or with a maximum dollar amount, as designated by the Board, but in
either case not exceeding 15% of such Employee’s earnings (as defined by the Board in each Offering) during the period that begins on the Offering Date (or such later date as the Board determines for a particular Offering) and ends on the date
stated in the Offering, which date will be no later than the end of the Offering. 

(b)        The Board will establish one or more Purchase Dates during an
Offering on which Purchase Rights granted for that Offering will be exercised and shares of Common Stock will be purchased in accordance with such Offering. 

(c)    In connection with each Offering made under the Plan, the Board may specify (i) a
maximum number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased by any Participant on any Purchase Date during such Offering, (ii) a maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased by all Participants pursuant to such
Offering and/or (iii) a maximum aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be purchased by all Participants on any Purchase Date under the Offering. If the aggregate purchase of shares of Common Stock issuable upon exercise of Purchase
Rights granted under the Offering would exceed any such maximum aggregate number, then, in the absence of any Board action otherwise, a pro rata (based on each Participant’s accumulated Contributions) allocation of the shares of Common Stock
available will be made in as nearly a uniform manner as will be practicable and equitable. 

(d)        The purchase price of shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to
Purchase Rights will be not less than the lesser of: 
 (i)        an amount
equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of the shares of Common Stock on the Offering Date; or 

(ii)        an amount equal to 85% of the Fair Market Value of the shares of
Common Stock on the applicable Purchase Date. 
  

	7.	 PARTICIPATION; WITHDRAWAL; TERMINATION.



 (a)        An Eligible Employee may elect to
authorize payroll deductions as the means of making Contributions by completing and delivering to the Company, within the time specified in the Offering, an 

  
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enrollment form provided by the Company. The enrollment form will specify the amount of Contributions not to exceed the maximum amount specified by the Board. Each Participant’s
Contributions will be credited to a bookkeeping account for such Participant under the Plan and will be deposited with the general funds of the Company except where applicable law requires that Contributions be deposited with a third party. If
permitted in the Offering, a Participant may begin such Contributions with the first payroll occurring on or after the Offering Date (or, in the case of a payroll date that occurs after the end of the prior Offering but before the Offering Date of
the next new Offering, Contributions from such payroll will be included in the new Offering). If permitted in the Offering, a Participant may thereafter reduce (including to zero) or increase his or her Contributions. If specifically provided in the
Offering, in addition to making Contributions by payroll deductions, a Participant may make Contributions through the payment by cash or check prior to a Purchase Date. 

(b)        During an Offering, a Participant may cease making Contributions and
withdraw from the Offering by delivering to the Company a withdrawal form provided by the Company. The Company may impose a deadline before a Purchase Date for withdrawing. Upon such withdrawal, such Participant’s Purchase Right in that
Offering will immediately terminate and the Company will distribute to such Participant all of his or her accumulated but unused Contributions and such Participant’s Purchase Right in that Offering shall thereupon terminate. A
Participant’s withdrawal from that Offering will have no effect upon his or her eligibility to participate in any other Offerings under the Plan, but such Participant will be required to deliver a new enrollment form to participate in
subsequent Offerings. 
 (c)        Purchase Rights granted pursuant to any
Offering under the Plan will terminate immediately if the Participant either (i) is no longer an Employee for any reason or for no reason (subject to any post-employment participation period required by law) or (ii) is otherwise no longer
eligible to participate. The Company will distribute to such individual all of his or her accumulated but unused Contributions. 

(d)        During a Participant’s lifetime, Purchase Rights will be
exercisable only by such Participant. Purchase Rights are not transferable by a Participant, except by will, by the laws of descent and distribution, or, if permitted by the Company, by a beneficiary designation as described in Section 10. 

(e)        Unless otherwise specified in the Offering, the Company will have no
obligation to pay interest on Contributions. 
  

	8.	 EXERCISE OF PURCHASE RIGHTS.



 (a)        On each Purchase Date, each
Participant’s accumulated Contributions will be applied to the purchase of shares of Common Stock, up to the maximum number of shares of Common Stock permitted by the Plan and the applicable Offering, at the purchase price specified in the
Offering. No fractional shares will be issued unless specifically provided for in the Offering. 

(b)        Unless otherwise provided in the Offering, if any amount of
accumulated Contributions remains in a Participant’s account after the purchase of shares of Common Stock and such remaining amount is less than the amount required to purchase one share of Common Stock on the final Purchase Date of an
Offering, then such remaining amount will be held in such Participant’s account for the purchase of shares of Common Stock under the next Offering under the Plan, unless such Participant withdraws from or is not eligible to participate in such
next Offering, in which case such amount will be distributed to such Participant after the final Purchase Date without interest. If the amount of Contributions remaining in a Participant’s account after the purchase of shares of Common Stock is
at least equal to the amount required to purchase one (1) whole share of Common Stock on the final 

  
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Purchase Date of an Offering, then such remaining amount will be distributed in full to such Participant after the final Purchase Date of such Offering without interest. 

(c)        No Purchase Rights may be exercised to any extent unless the shares
of Common Stock to be issued upon such exercise under the Plan are covered by an effective registration statement pursuant to the Securities Act and the Plan is in material compliance with all applicable federal, state, foreign and other securities
and other laws applicable to the Plan. If on a Purchase Date the shares of Common Stock are not so registered or the Plan is not in such compliance, no Purchase Rights will be exercised on such Purchase Date, and the Purchase Date will be delayed
until the shares of Common Stock are subject to such an effective registration statement and the Plan is in material compliance, except that the Purchase Date will in no event be more than 6 months from the Offering Date. If, on the Purchase Date,
as delayed to the maximum extent permissible, the shares of Common Stock are not registered and the Plan is not in material compliance with all applicable laws, no Purchase Rights will be exercised and all accumulated but unused Contributions will
be distributed to the Participants without interest. 
  

	9.	 COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY.



 The Company will seek to obtain from each federal, state, foreign or other regulatory commission or
agency having jurisdiction over the Plan such authority as may be required to grant Purchase Rights and issue and sell shares of Common Stock thereunder. If, after commercially reasonable efforts, the Company is unable to obtain the authority that
counsel for the Company deems necessary for the grant of Purchase Rights or the lawful issuance and sale of Common Stock under the Plan, and at a commercially reasonable cost, the Company will be relieved from any liability for failure to grant
Purchase Rights and/or to issue and sell Common Stock upon exercise of such Purchase Rights. 
  

	10.	 DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY. 



(a)        The Company may, but is not obligated to, permit a Participant to
submit a form designating a beneficiary who will receive any shares of Common Stock and/or Contributions from the Participant’s account under the Plan if the Participant dies before such shares and/or Contributions are delivered to the
Participant. The Company may, but is not obligated to, permit the Participant to change such designation of beneficiary. Any such designation and/or change must be on a form approved by the Company. 

(b)         If a Participant dies, and in the absence of a valid beneficiary
designation, the Company will deliver any shares of Common Stock and/or Contributions to the executor or administrator of the estate of the Participant. If no executor or administrator has been appointed (to the knowledge of the Company), the
Company, in its sole discretion, may deliver such shares of Common Stock and/or Contributions to the Participant’s spouse, dependents or relatives, or if no spouse, dependent or relative is known to the Company, then to such other person as the
Company may designate. 
  

	11.	 ADJUSTMENTS UPON CHANGES IN
COMMON STOCK; CORPORATE TRANSACTIONS. 



(a)        In the event of a Capitalization Adjustment, the Board will
appropriately and proportionately adjust: (i) the class(es) and maximum number of securities subject to the Plan pursuant to Section 3(a), (ii) the class(es) and maximum number of securities by which the share reserve is to increase
automatically each year pursuant to Section 3(a), (iii) the class(es) and number of securities subject to, and the purchase price applicable to outstanding Offerings and Purchase Rights, and (iv) the class(es) and number of securities that
are the subject of the purchase limits under each ongoing Offering. The Board will make these adjustments, and its determination will be final, binding and conclusive. 

  
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 (b)        In the event of a
Corporate Transaction, then: (i) any surviving corporation or acquiring corporation (or the surviving or acquiring corporation’s parent company) may assume or continue outstanding Purchase Rights or may substitute similar rights (including
a right to acquire the same consideration paid to the stockholders in the Corporate Transaction) for outstanding Purchase Rights, or (ii) if any surviving or acquiring corporation (or its parent company) does not assume or continue such
Purchase Rights or does not substitute similar rights for such Purchase Rights, then the Participants’ accumulated Contributions will be used to purchase shares of Common Stock within ten business days prior to the Corporate Transaction under
the outstanding Purchase Rights, and the Purchase Rights will terminate immediately after such purchase. 
  

	12.	 AMENDMENT, TERMINATION OR SUSPENSION
OF THE PLAN. 



(a)        The Board may amend the Plan at any time in any respect the Board
deems necessary or advisable. However, except as provided in Section 11(a) relating to Capitalization Adjustments, stockholder approval will be required for any amendment of the Plan for which stockholder approval is required by applicable law
or listing requirements. 
 (b)        The Board may suspend or terminate the
Plan at any time. No Purchase Rights may be granted under the Plan while the Plan is suspended or after it is terminated. 

(c)        Any benefits, privileges, entitlements and obligations under any
outstanding Purchase Rights granted before an amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan will not be materially impaired by any such amendment, suspension or termination except (i) with the consent of the person to whom such Purchase
Rights were granted, (ii) as necessary to comply with any laws, listing requirements, or governmental regulations (including, without limitation, the provisions of Section 423 of the Code and the regulations and other interpretive guidance
issued thereunder relating to Employee Stock Purchase Plans) including without limitation any such regulations or other guidance that may be issued or amended after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board, or (iii) as necessary to obtain or
maintain favorable tax, listing, or regulatory treatment. To be clear, the Board may amend outstanding Purchase Rights without a Participant’s consent if such amendment is necessary to ensure that the Purchase Right and/or the Plan complies
with the requirements of Section 423 of the Code. 
 Notwithstanding anything in the Plan or any Offering Document to
the contrary, the Board will be entitled to: (i) establish the exchange ratio applicable to amounts withheld in a currency other than U.S. dollars; (ii) permit Contributions in excess of the amount designated by a Participant in order to
adjust for mistakes in the Company’s processing of properly completed Contribution elections; (iii) establish reasonable waiting and adjustment periods and/or accounting and crediting procedures to ensure that amounts applied toward the
purchase of Common Stock for each Participant properly correspond with amounts withheld from the Participant’s Contributions; (iv) amend any outstanding Purchase Rights or clarify any ambiguities regarding the terms of any Offering to
enable the Purchase Rights to qualify under and/or comply with Section 423 of the Code; and (v) establish other limitations or procedures as the Board determines in its sole discretion advisable that are consistent with the Plan. The
actions of the Board pursuant to this paragraph will not be considered to alter or impair any Purchase Rights granted under an Offering as they are part of the initial terms of each Offering and the Purchase Rights granted under each Offering. 

 

	13.	 EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN.



 The Plan will become effective immediately prior to and contingent upon the IPO Date. No Purchase
Rights will be exercised unless and until the Plan has been approved by the stockholders of the 

  
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Company, which approval must be within 12 months before or after the date the Plan is adopted (or if required under Section 12(a) above, materially amended) by the Board. 

 

	14.	 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 



(a)        Proceeds from the sale of shares of Common Stock pursuant to
Purchase Rights will constitute general funds of the Company. 
 (b)        A
Participant will not be deemed to be the holder of, or to have any of the rights of a holder with respect to, shares of Common Stock subject to Purchase Rights unless and until the Participant’s shares of Common Stock acquired upon exercise of
Purchase Rights are recorded in the books of the Company (or its transfer agent). 

(c)        The Plan and Offering do not constitute an employment contract.
Nothing in the Plan or in the Offering will in any way alter the at will nature of a Participant’s employment or be deemed to create in any way whatsoever any obligation on the part of any Participant to continue in the employ of the Company or
a Related Corporation, or on the part of the Company or a Related Corporation to continue the employment of a Participant. 

(d)        The provisions of the Plan will be governed by the laws of the State
of Delaware without resort to that state’s conflicts of laws rules. 
  

	15.	 DEFINITIONS. 



As used in the Plan, the following definitions will apply to the capitalized terms indicated below: 

(a)        “Board” means the Board of Directors
of the Company. 
 (b)        “Capital Stock”
means each and every class of common stock of the Company, regardless of the number of votes per share. 

(c)        “Capitalization Adjustment” means any change
that is made in, or other events that occur with respect to, the Common Stock subject to the Plan or subject to any Purchase Right after the date the Plan is adopted by the Board without the receipt of consideration by the Company through merger,
consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization, reincorporation, stock dividend, dividend in property other than cash, large nonrecurring cash dividend, stock split, liquidating dividend, combination of shares, exchange of shares, change in
corporate structure or other similar equity restructuring transaction, as that term is used in Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718 (or any successor thereto). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the conversion
of any convertible securities of the Company will not be treated as a Capitalization Adjustment. 

(d)        “Code” means the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended, including any applicable regulations and guidance thereunder. 

(e)        “Committee” means a committee of one
or more members of the Board to whom authority has been delegated by the Board in accordance with Section 2(c). 

(f)        “Common Stock” means, as of the IPO Date,
the common stock of the Company. 

(g)        “Company” means Bionano Genomics, Inc., a
Delaware corporation. 

  
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(h)        “Contributions” means the payroll deductions
and other additional payments specifically provided for in the Offering that a Participant contributes to fund the exercise of a Purchase Right. A Participant may make additional payments into his or her account if specifically provided for in the
Offering, and then only if the Participant has not already had the maximum permitted amount withheld during the Offering through payroll deductions. 

(i)        “Corporate Transaction” means the
consummation, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of any one or more of the following events: 

(i)        a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all, as
determined by the Board in its sole discretion, of the consolidated assets of the Company and its subsidiaries; 

(ii)        a sale or other disposition of more than 50% of the outstanding
securities of the Company; 
 (iii)        a merger, consolidation or
similar transaction following which the Company is not the surviving corporation; or 

(iv)        a merger, consolidation or similar transaction following which the
Company is the surviving corporation but the shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately preceding the merger, consolidation or similar transaction are converted or exchanged by virtue of the merger, consolidation or similar transaction into
other property, whether in the form of securities, cash or otherwise. 

(j)        “Director” means a member of the
Board. 
 (k)        “Eligible Employee” means
an Employee who meets the requirements set forth in the document(s) governing the Offering for eligibility to participate in the Offering, provided that such Employee also meets the requirements for eligibility to participate set forth in the Plan.

 (l)        “Employee” means any person,
including an Officer or Director, who is “employed” for purposes of Section 423(b)(4) of the Code by the Company or a Related Corporation. However, service solely as a Director, or payment of a fee for such services, will not cause a
Director to be considered an “Employee” for purposes of the Plan. 

(m)        “Employee Stock Purchase Plan” means
a plan that grants Purchase Rights intended to be options issued under an “employee stock purchase plan,” as that term is defined in Section 423(b) of the Code. 

(n)        “Exchange Act” means the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. 

(o)        “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date,
the value of the Common Stock determined as follows: 
 (i)        If the
Common Stock is listed on any established stock exchange or traded on any established market, the Fair Market Value of a share of Common Stock will be, unless otherwise determined by the Board, the closing sales price for such stock as
quoted on such exchange or market (or the exchange or market with the greatest volume of trading in the Common Stock) on the date of determination, as reported in such source as the Board deems reliable. Unless otherwise provided by
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Board, if there is no closing sales price for the Common Stock on the date of determination, then the Fair Market Value will be the closing sales price on the last preceding date for which such
quotation exists. 
 (ii)        In the absence of such markets for the
Common Stock, the Fair Market Value will be determined by the Board in good faith in compliance with applicable laws and in a manner that complies with Sections 409A of the Code. 

(iii)        Notwithstanding the foregoing, for any Offering that commences on
the IPO Date, the Fair Market Value of the shares of Common Stock on the Offering Date will be the price per share at which shares are first sold to the public in the Company’s initial public offering as specified in the final prospectus for
that initial public offering. 
 (p)        “IPO
Date” means the date of the underwriting agreement between the Company and the underwriter(s) managing the initial public offering of the Common Stock, pursuant to which the Common Stock is priced for the initial public offering.

 (q)        “Offering” means the grant to
Eligible Employees of Purchase Rights, with the exercise of those Purchase Rights automatically occurring at the end of one or more Purchase Periods. The terms and conditions of an Offering will generally be set forth in the “Offering
Document” approved by the Board for that Offering. 

(r)        “Offering Date” means a date selected by the
Board for an Offering to commence. 

(s)        “Officer” means a person who
is an officer of the Company or a Related Corporation within the meaning of Section 16 of the Exchange Act. 

(t)        “Participant” means an Eligible
Employee who holds an outstanding Purchase Right. 

(u)        “Plan” means this Bionano Genomics,
Inc. 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. 
 (v)        “Purchase
Date” means one or more dates during an Offering selected by the Board on which Purchase Rights will be exercised and on which purchases of shares of Common Stock will be carried out in accordance with such Offering. 

(w)        “Purchase Period” means a period of time
specified within an Offering, generally beginning on the Offering Date or on the first Trading Day following a Purchase Date, and ending on a Purchase Date. An Offering may consist of one or more Purchase Periods. 

(x)        “Purchase Right” means an option to
purchase shares of Common Stock granted pursuant to the Plan. 

(y)        “Related Corporation” means any
“parent corporation” or “subsidiary corporation” of the Company whether now or subsequently established, as those terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and (f), respectively, of the Code. 

(z)        “Securities Act” means the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended. 
 (aa)        “Subsidiary”
means, with respect to the Company, (i) any corporation of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors of such corporation (irrespective of
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contingency) is at the time, directly or indirectly, Owned by the Company, and (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or other entity in which the Company has a direct or indirect
interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits or capital contribution) of more than fifty percent (50%). For purposes of the foregoing clause (i), the Company will be deemed to “Own” or have “Owned” such
securities if the Company, directly or indirectly, through any contract, arrangement, understanding, relationship or otherwise, has or shares voting power, which includes the power to vote or to direct the voting, with respect to such securities.

 (bb)        “Trading Day” means any day on
which the exchange(s) or market(s) on which shares of Common Stock are listed, including but not limited to the NYSE, Nasdaq Global Select Market, the Nasdaq Global Market, the Nasdaq Capital Market or any successors thereto, is open for trading.


  
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