As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 28 , 2018July 11, 2023

Registration No. 333-228285333-_______

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

Amendment No. 3

to

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

283694-3078125
(State or Other Jurisdictionother jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)

 

2836

(Primary Standard Industrial

(I.R.S. Employer
incorporation or organization)Classification Code Number)

 

94-3078125

(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

25 Recreation Park Drive, Unit 108288 Grove Street, Suite 388
Hingham,

Braintree, MA 0204302184

(908) 967-6677

(781) 875-3605

(Address, Including Zip Code,including zip code and Telephone Number, Including Area Code,
telephone number, including area code, of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)
registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Harel Gadot


President, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman
25 Recreation Park Drive, Unit 108
Hingham, MA 02043

(781) 875-3605288 Grove Street, Suite 388

Braintree, MA 02184

(908) 967-6677

(Name, Address, Including Zip Code,address, including zip code and Telephone Number, Including Area Code,telephone number, including area code, of Agentagent for Service)service)

 

Copies to:

Stephen E. Fox, Esq.

Marc D. Mantell, Esq.
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC

1425 RXR Plaza

15th Floor, East Tower

Uniondale, NY 11556

(516) 663-6600

and Popeo, P.C.
One Financial Center
Boston, Massachusetts 02111
(617) 542-6000

Stephen E. Fox, Esq.

Ruskin Moscou Faltischek PC

1425 RXR Plaza

15thFloor, East Tower

Uniondale, New York 11556

(516) 663-6600

Steven Skolnick, Esq.
Michael Lerner, Esq.
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
(212) 262-6700

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicableFrom time to time after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Formform are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), check the following box. ☒

 

If this Formform is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Formform is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”).Act.

 

Large accelerated filer ☐Accelerated filer ☐
Non-accelerated filer ☒Smaller reporting company ☒
 Emerging growth company ☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

Title of Each Class of Securities To Be Registered Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering
Price (1)(2)
  Amount of Registration
Fee (2)
 
Units, each unit consisting of one share of common stock, par value $0.01 per share, and one common warrant to purchase one share of common stock (3) $11,500,000  $1,393.80 
(i) Common stock included in the units (4)  -   - 
(ii) Common warrants included in the units (4)  -   - 
Pre-funded units, each pre-funded unit consisting of one pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of common stock and one common warrant to purchase one share of common stock (3) $

11,385,000

  $

1,379.86

 
(i) Pre-funded warrants included in the pre-funded units (4)  -   - 
(ii) Common warrants included in the pre-funded units (4)  -   - 
Shares of common stock underlying common warrants included in the units and the pre-funded units (3) $

23,000,000

  $

2,787.60

 
Shares of common stock underlying pre-funded warrants included in the pre-funded units (3) $

115,000

  $

13.94

 
Underwriter’s warrants to purchase common stock (5)  -   - 
Common stock issuable upon exercise of the underwriter’s warrants (6) $

718,750

  $

87.11

 
Total $

46,718,750

  $

5,662.31

(7)

(1)Estimated solely for purposes of computing the amount of the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Includes securities subject to the underwriter’s option to purchase additional securities.

(2)Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act, the shares of common stock registered hereby also include an indeterminate number of additional shares of common stock as may, from time to time, become issuable by reason of stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations or other similar transactions.

(3)The proposed maximum aggregate offering price of the units proposed to be sold in the offering will be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis based on the offering price of any pre-funded units offered and sold in the offering, and as such the proposed maximum aggregate offering price of the units and pre-funded units (including the common stock issuable upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants included in the pre-funded units), if any, is $11,500,000.

(4)No additional registration fee is payable pursuant to Rule 457(i) under the Securities Act.

(5)No additional registration fee is payable pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act.

(6)Represents warrants to purchase a number of shares of common stock equal to 5.0% of the number of shares of common stock (i) included within the units and (ii) issuable upon the exercise of the pre-funded warrants included within the pre-funded units placed in this offering at an exercise price equal to 125% of the offering price per unit (excluding any shares of common stock underlying the common warrants included in the units and the pre-funded units sold in this offering).
(7)

A filing fee of $2,961.83 was previously paid with respect to shares of the Registrant’s common stock to be registered pursuant to a Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-228285) initially filed with the SEC on November 8, 2018 as amended by Amendment No. 1 filed with the SEC on November 19, 2018 and Amendment No. 2 filed with the SEC on December 17, 2018.Accordingly, the Registrant has paid the balance of $2,700.48 in connection with the filing of Amendment No. 3 to Form S-1.

The Registrantregistrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrantregistrant shall file a further amendment that specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 
 

 

The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. WeThe selling stockholders may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we areis not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdictionstate where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS SUBJECT TO COMPLETION, DATED DECEMBER 28, 2018Subject to Completion, Dated July 11, 2023

 

 PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS

 

Up to 6,024,096 Units (each Unit contains one Share of Common Stock and one Common Warrant to purchase one Share of Common Stock) 

 

Up to 6,024,096 Pre-funded Units (each Pre-funded Unit contains one Pre-funded Warrant to purchase one Share of Common Stock and one Common Warrant to purchase one Share of Common Stock)2,281,626

6,024,096 Shares of Common Stock Underlying the Pre-funded Warrants and

6,024,096 Shares of Common Stock Underlying the Common Warrants

 

We are offeringThis prospectus relates to the sale or other disposition from time to time of up to 6,024,096 units (each unit consisting2,281,626 shares of oneour common stock, $0.01 par value per share, including 385,246 issued and outstanding shares of our common stock, and onean aggregate of up to 1,896,380 shares issuable upon the exercise of options and warrants held by the selling stockholders named in this prospectus, including their transferees, pledgees, donees or successors. We are not selling any shares of common warrant to purchase one sharestock under this prospectus and will not receive any of ourthe proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock). Eachstock by the selling stockholders.

The selling stockholders may sell or otherwise dispose of the shares of common warrant containedstock covered by this prospectus in a unitnumber of different ways and at varying prices. We provide more information about how the selling stockholders may sell or otherwise dispose of their shares of common stock in the section entitled “Plan of Distribution” beginning on page 42. The selling stockholders will have an assumed exercise price of $1.66 per share (representing 100%pay all brokerage fees and commissions and similar expenses. We will pay all expenses (except brokerage fees and commissions and similar expenses) relating to the registration of the assumed public offering price per unitshares with the Securities and Exchange Commission. No underwriter or other person has been engaged to be sold in this offering) (which may be adjusted as set forth in this prospectus). The common warrants contained infacilitate the units will be exercisable immediately and will expire five years from the datesale of issuance. We are also offering the shares of our common stock that are issuable from time to time upon exercise of the common warrants contained in the units.

We are also offering to each purchaser whose purchase of units in this offering would otherwise result in the purchaser, together with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% of our outstanding common stock immediately following the consummation of this offering, the opportunity to purchase, if the purchaser so chooses, pre-funded units (each pre-funded unit consisting of one pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of our common stock and one common warrant to purchase one share of our common stock) in lieu of units that would otherwise result in the purchaser’s beneficial ownership exceeding 4.99% of our outstanding common stock (or at the election of the purchaser, 9.99%). Each pre-funded warrant contained in a pre-funded unit will be exercisable for one share of our common stock. The purchase price of each pre-funded unit will equal the price per unit being sold to the public in this offering minus $0.01, and the exercise price of each pre-funded warrant included in the pre-funded unit will be $0.01 per share. The pre-funded warrants contained in the pre-funded units will be exercisable immediately and may be exercised at any time until the pre-funded warrants are exercised in full. This offering also relates to the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of any pre-funded warrants contained in the pre-funded units sold in this offering. Each common warrant contained in a pre-funded unit will have an assumed exercise price of $1.66 per share (representing 100% of the assumed public offering price per unit to be sold in this offering) (which may be adjusted as set forth in this prospectus). The common warrants contained in the pre-funded units will be exercisable immediately and will expire five years from the date of issuance. We are also offering the shares of our common stock that are issuable from time to time upon exercise of the common warrants contained in the pre-funded units.

For each pre-funded unit we sell, the number of units we are offering will be decreased on a one-for-one basis. Units and the pre-funded units will not be issued or certificated. The shares of common stock or pre-funded warrants, as the case may be, and the common warrants can only be purchased together in this offering but the securities contained in the units or pre-funded units will be issued separately.

 

Our common stock is listed on Thethe Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol “MBOT”.“MBOT.” On December 24, 2018,July 7, 2023, the last reported closing price of our common stock on Thethe Nasdaq Capital Market was $1.66. We do not intend to apply for listing of the common warrants or pre-funded warrants on any securities exchange or other nationally recognized trading system. There is no established public trading market for the common warrants or pre-funded warrants, and we do not expect a market to develop. Without an active trading market, the liquidity of the common warrants and pre-funded warrants will be limited. We have assumed a public offering price of $1.66 per unit, the closing price for our common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Capital Market on December 24, 2018, and $1.65 per pre-funded unit. The actual offering price per unit or pre-funded unit, as the case may be, will be negotiated between us and the underwriter based on the trading of our common stock prior to the offering, among other things, and may be at a discount to the current market price. Therefore, the assumed public offering price used throughout this prospectus may not be indicative of the final offering price.

$2.78.

 

Investing in our securitiescommon stock involves a high degree of risk. SeeYou should review carefully the section entitledrisks and uncertainties described under the heading “Risk Factors” beginning on page 711 of this prospectus, and under similar headings in the documents incorporated by reference intoany amendments or supplements to this prospectus for a discussion of risks that should be considered in connection with an investment in our securities.

Per UnitPer Pre-Funded UnitTotal
Public offering price$$$
Underwriting discounts and commissions(1)$$$
Proceeds, before expenses, to us$$$

(1)See “Underwriting” beginning on page 21 of this prospectus for a description of compensation and reimbursement of expenses payable to the underwriter.

The offering is being underwritten on a firm commitment basis. We have granted the underwriter an option for a period of 30 days from the date of this prospectus to purchase up to an additional 903,614 shares of our common stock ata purchase price of $         per share and/or common warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 903,614 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $0.01 per common warrant with an exercise price of $        per share, less the underwriting discounts and commissions. If the underwriter exercises this option in full, the total underwriting discounts and commissions payable by us will be $           , and the total proceeds to us, before expenses, will be $          .prospectus.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

Delivery of t he securities to purchasers is expected on or about                    , 2018, subject to certain customary closing conditions.

Sole Book-Running Manager

H.C. Wainwright & Co.

The date of this prospectus is                   , 20182023.

 

 
 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTSTable of Contents

 

 Page
  
PROSPECTUS SUMMARY1
RISK FACTORSABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS71
RISK FACTOR SUMMARY

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY4
THE OFFERING10
RISK FACTORS11
USE OF PROCEEDS30
MARKET FOR COMMON STOCK30
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS31
SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS1131
USEMANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF PROCEEDSFINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS1232
PRICE RANGE OF OUR COMMON STOCKBUSINESS1332
DIVIDEND POLICYMANAGEMENT1439
DILUTIONEXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION1539
PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERSTRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PERSONS1639
SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT40
DILUTION41
SELLING STOCKHOLDERS41
PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION42
DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK1743
DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES WE ARE OFFERINGLEGAL MATTERS1947
UNDERWRITINGEXPERTS2147
LEGAL MATTERS26
EXPERTS26
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONALMORE INFORMATION2647
INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATIONDOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE26
FINANCIAL STATEMENTSF-147

 

ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

You should rely only on the information that we have provided or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement that we may authorize to be provided to you. We have not, and the underwriter hasselling stockholders have not, authorized anyone to provide you with different information. No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to make any representations other than thoserepresent anything not contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectuses prepared byprospectus supplement that we may authorize to be provided to you. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on behalf of us or to which we have referred you. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as toit. You should assume that the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the securities offered hereby, and only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus or inand any applicable, authorized free writing prospectus supplement is currentaccurate only as of itsthe date on the cover of the document and that any information in documentswe have incorporated by reference is currentaccurate only as of the date of the document incorporated by reference, regardless of itsthe time of delivery of this prospectus or any prospectus supplement or any sale of our securities.a security. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.those dates.

 

For investors outsideWe urge you to carefully read this prospectus and any prospectus supplement, together with the United States:information incorporated herein by reference as described under the heading “Where You Can Find More Information” and “Incorporation of Documents by Reference.”

Unless the context indicates otherwise, as used in this prospectus, the terms “we,” “us,” “our,” the “Company” and “Microbot” refer to Microbot Medical Inc., including our directly and indirectly wholly owned subsidiary. Unless the context otherwise requires, the historical business, financial statements and operations of Microbot include Microbot Medical Ltd., an Israeli corporation (“Microbot Israel”) which became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company on November 28, 2016.

We own or have rights to various U.S. federal trademark registrations and applications, and unregistered trademarks and servicemarks, including LIBERTY®. All other trade names, trademarks and service marks appearing in this prospectus are the property of their respective owners. We have not,assumed that the reader understands that all such terms are source-indicating. Accordingly, such terms, when first mentioned in this prospectus, appear with the trade name, trademark or service mark notice and then throughout the underwriter has not, done anything that would permit this offering or possession or distributionremainder of this prospectus without trade name, trademark or service mark notices for convenience only and should not be construed as being used in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required, other than in the United States. Persons outside the United States who come into possession of this prospectus must inform themselves about, and observe any restrictions relating to, the offering of the securities and the distribution of this prospectus outside the United States.a descriptive or generic sense.

 

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RISK FACTOR SUMMARY

The following is a summary of the principal risks that could adversely affect our business, operations, and financial results. A more thorough discussion of these and other risks are listed under the section entitled “Risk Factors” commencing on page 11.

Risks Relating to Microbot’s Financial Position and Need for Additional Capital

 There is substantial doubt regarding on our ability to continue as a going concern.
We are subject to litigation, which may divert management’s attention and, in the event of an adverse judgment or settlement for some or all of the $6,750,000 being litigated, will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and our ability to continue our operations.
Microbot has had no revenue and has incurred significant operating losses since inception and is expected to continue to incur significant operating losses for the foreseeable future. The Company may never become profitable or, if achieved, be able to sustain profitability.
Microbot has a limited operating history outside of being a research and development-stage company, which may make it difficult to evaluate the prospects for the Company’s future viability.
Microbot will need additional funding. If Microbot is unable to raise capital when needed, it could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate its product development programs or commercialization efforts.
We may still be subject to significant disruptions to our clinical trials or other business operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Risks Relating to the Development and Commercialization of Microbot’s Product Candidates

Unsuccessful animal studies, clinical trials or procedures relating to product candidates under development could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s prospects.
Microbot’s business depends heavily on the success of its lead product candidate, the LIBERTY®. If Microbot is unable to commercialize the LIBERTY, or experiences significant delays in doing so, Microbot’s business will be materially harmed.
The results of Microbot’s research and development efforts are uncertain and there can be no assurance of the commercial success of Microbot’s product candidates.

Microbot’s ability to expand its technology platforms for other uses may be limited.

At this time, Microbot does not know the extent of the clinical trial that the FDA will require it to submit in support of its future marketing applications for its LIBERTY product candidate, which creates uncertainty for Microbot as well as the possibility of increased product development costs and time to market.
Microbot’s One & Done technology is subject to a buy-back clause which, if triggered, could cause us to lose rights to the technology.
Microbot will depend upon the ability of third parties, including contract research organizations, collaborative academic groups, future clinical trial sites and investigators, to conduct or to assist the Company in conducting clinical trials for its product candidates, if such trials become necessary.
If the commercial opportunity for LIBERTY and any other commercial products that may be developed by Microbot is smaller than Microbot anticipates, Microbot’s future revenue from LIBERTY and such other products will be adversely affected and Microbot’s business will suffer.
Customers will be unlikely to buy the LIBERTY or any other product candidates unless Microbot can demonstrate that they can be produced for sale to consumers at attractive prices.
Microbot has relied on, and intends to continue to rely on, third-party manufacturers to produce its product candidates.
If Microbot’s product candidates are not considered to be a safe and effective alternative to existing technologies, Microbot will not be commercially successful.
Microbot may be subject to penalties and may be precluded from marketing its product candidates if Microbot fails to comply with extensive governmental regulations.
If Microbot is not able to both obtain and maintain adequate levels of third-party reimbursement for procedures involving its product candidates after they are approved for marketing and launched commercially, it would have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business.
Clinical outcome studies for the LIBERTY may not provide sufficient data to make Microbot’s product candidates the standard of care.
Microbot products may in the future be subject to mandatory product recalls that could harm its reputation, business and financial results.
If Microbot’s future commercialized products cause or contribute to a death or a serious injury, Microbot will be subject to Medical Device Reporting regulations, which can result in voluntary corrective actions or agency enforcement actions.
Microbot could be exposed to significant liability claims if Microbot is unable to obtain insurance at acceptable costs and adequate levels or otherwise protect itself against potential product liability claims.
If Microbot fails to retain certain of its key personnel and attract and retain additional qualified personnel, Microbot might not be able to pursue its growth strategy effectively.

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Risks Relating to International Business

If Microbot fails to obtain regulatory clearances in other countries for its product candidates under development, Microbot will not be able to commercialize these product candidates in those countries.
Microbot operations in international markets involve inherent risks that Microbot may not be able to control.
Microbot’s financial results may be affected by fluctuations in exchange rates and Microbot’s current currency hedging strategy may not be sufficient to counter such fluctuations.

 

Risks Relating to Microbot’s Intellectual Property

Termination of the license with respect to one or more of our technology platforms may result in Microbot ceasing its development efforts for the applicable product candidate(s).
Microbot may not meet its product candidates’ development and commercialization objectives in a timely manner or at all.
Intellectual property litigation and infringement claims could cause Microbot to incur significant expenses or prevent Microbot from selling certain of its product candidates.
If Microbot or TRDF are unable to protect the patents or other proprietary rights relating to Microbot’s product candidates, or if Microbot infringes on the patents or other proprietary rights of others, Microbot’s competitiveness and business prospects may be materially damaged.
Dependence on patent and other proprietary rights and failing to protect such rights or to be successful in litigation related to such rights may result in Microbot’s payment of significant monetary damages or impact offerings in its product portfolios.

 

Risks Relating to Operations in Israel

Microbot has facilities located in Israel, and therefore, political conditions in Israel may affect Microbot’s operations and results.
Political relations could limit Microbot’s ability to sell or buy internationally.
Israel’s economy may become unstable.
Exchange rate fluctuations between the U.S. dollar and the NIS currencies may negatively affect Microbot’s operating costs.
Funding and other benefits provided by Israeli government programs may be terminated or reduced in the future and the terms of such funding may have a significant impact on future corporate decisions.
Some of Microbot’s employees and officers are obligated to perform military reserve duty in Israel.
It may be difficult to enforce a non-Israeli judgment against Microbot or its officers and directors.

Risks Relating to Microbot’s Securities, Governance and Other Matters

If we fail to comply with the continued listing requirements of The Nasdaq Capital Market, our common stock may be delisted and the price of our common stock and our ability to access the capital markets could be negatively impacted.
We do not expect to pay cash dividends on our common stock.
Anti-takeover provisions in the Company’s charter and bylaws under Delaware law may prevent or frustrate attempts by stockholders to change the board of directors or current management and could make a third-party acquisition of the Company difficult.

General Risks

Raising additional capital may cause dilution to the Company’s investors, restrict its operations or require it to relinquish rights to its technologies or product candidates.

Microbot operates in a competitive industry and if its competitors have products that are marketed more effectively or develop products, treatments or procedures that are similar, more advanced, safer or more effective, its commercial opportunities will be reduced or eliminated, which would materially harm its business.

Our business strategy in part relies on identifying, acquiring, and developing complementary technologies and products, which entails risks which could negatively affect our business, operations and financial condition.

The market price for our Common Stock may be volatile.

The issuance of shares upon exercise of outstanding warrants and options could cause immediate and substantial dilution to existing stockholders.

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

 

This summary highlights certain information about us and this offering contained elsewhere in other parts of this prospectus or information incorporated by reference into this prospectus from our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, listed in the section of the prospectus entitled “Incorporation of Certain Information by Reference.”prospectus. Because it is only a summary, it does not contain all of the information that you should consider before purchasinginvesting in shares of our securities in this offering and it is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read in conjunction with, the more detailed information appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Before you decide to invest in our securities, you should read the entire prospectus carefully, including “Risk Factors” beginning on page 11, and the consolidated financial statements and related notes and the other information included in or incorporated by reference into this prospectus. You should read the entire prospectus, the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and the information incorporated by reference herein in their entirety, including the “Risk Factors” and our financial statements and the related notes incorporated by reference into this prospectus, before purchasing our securities in this offering. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to “Microbot,” “we,” “us” and “our” refer to Microbot Medical Inc. together with its wholly owned subsidiaries.

 

Overview

Our Company

 

Microbot is a pre-clinical medical device company specializing in the research, design and development of next generation robotic endoluminal surgery devices targeting the minimally invasive surgery space. Microbot is primarily focused on leveraging its micro-roboticrobotic technologies with the goal of redefining surgical robotics while improving surgical outcomes for patients.

 

Microbot’s current Using our LIBERTY® technological platforms, ViRobTM, CardioSertTMplatform, we are developing the first ever fully disposable robot for various endovascular interventional procedures.

Recent Developments

Registered Direct and TipCATTM, are comprisedPrivate Placement Offerings

On June 26, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering an aggregate of proprietary innovative technologies. Using the ViRob platform, Microbot is currently developing its first product candidate: the Self Cleaning Shunt, or SCSTM, for the treatment of hydrocephalus and Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, or NPH. Although the SCS utilizes one624,618 shares of our platforms,common stock, at an offering price of $3.25 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds, with the private placement described below, of approximately $2 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “Second June Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 31,231 shares of our common stock. The registered direct offering was consummated on June 28, 2023. In a concurrent private placement, we also issued to the purchasers of our shares of common stock in the Second June Offering, series D preferred investment options to purchase up to 312,309 shares of our common stock. Each series D preferred investment option is exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $3.19 commencing on the date of issuance and expires five and one-half years from the initial exercise date.

On June 2, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering an aggregate of 701,756 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.1375 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds, with the private placement described below, of approximately $1.5 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “First June Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 35,088 shares of our common stock. The registered direct offering was consummated on June 6, 2023. In a concurrent private placement, we also issued to the purchasers of our shares of common stock in the First June Offering, series C preferred investment options to purchase up to 350,878 shares of our common stock. Each series C preferred investment option is exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $2.075 commencing on the date of issuance and expires five and one-half years from the initial exercise date.

On May 23, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering (i) an aggregate of 975,000 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.20 per share and (ii) pre-funded warrants exercisable for up to 234,500 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.1999 per pre-funded warrant, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2.66 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “Second May Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 60,476 shares of our common stock. The Second May Offering was consummated on May 24, 2023.

On May 22, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering an aggregate of 655,569 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.20 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $1.4 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “First May Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 32,778 shares of our common stock. The First May Offering was consummated on May 23, 2023.

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Preferred Investment Options Amendment

In connection with the Second May Offering, we agreed to amend the terms of (i) the Series A preferred investment options to purchase 1,022,495 shares of our common stock for an exercise price of $4.64 per share which are focusedscheduled to expire on October 25, 2027 and (ii) the Series B preferred investment options to purchase 1,022,495 shares of our common stock for an exercise price of $4.64 per share which were initially scheduled to expire on October 25, 2024 (the “Series B Preferred Investment Options”), in each case previously issued to the investor in October 2022 under the securities purchase agreement dated October 21, 2022, and further described in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 25, 2022 (collectively, the “Existing Preferred Investment Options”), which investor also participated in the Second May Offering, such that effective upon the closing of the Second May Offering, the Existing Preferred Investment Options have a reduced exercise price of $2.20 per share and the Series B Preferred Investment Options expire on October 25, 2027. On June 16, 2023, the holder of the Series B Preferred Investment Options exercised all of such Series B Preferred Investment Options pursuant to its cashless exercise provision into 385,246 shares of our common stock.

Approval for Grant from The Israel Innovation Authority

On June 2, 2023, we announced that we received approval for grant from the Israel Innovation Authority (“IIA”) in the amount of NIS 1.62 million, which based on a recent exchange rate to the U.S. dollar, would be approximately $440,000, to further finance the development of a Multi Generation Pipeline Portfolio utilizing all threeour manufacturing process of our proprietary technologies.flagship robotic surgical system, the LIBERTY.

In relation to the IIA grant, we are obligated to pay royalties amounting to between 3%-5% of our future sales of the LIBERTY product up to the grant amount plus interest. The grant is linked to the U.S. dollar and bears interest at Libor per annum. The grant monies will be paid over time based on the terms of the grant, and the U.S. dollar amount actually received will be based on the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the New Israeli Shekel at the time of payment.

Core-Business Focus Program

 

Microbot hasOn May 15, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company authorized, and the Company commenced, a patent portfoliocore-business focus program while the Company seeks to raise additional capital to continue development of 30 issued/allowed patentsthe LIBERTY robotic system. This core-business focus program includes the cessation of research and 18 patent applications pending worldwide.development activities not related to LIBERTY, including terminating the Company’s agreement with CardioSert for that technology, and returning intellectual property relating to the SCS (Virob) and TipCat to Technion Research and Development Foundation.

 

Cost Reduction Plan

On May 15, 2023, in addition to the core-business focus program described above, the Board of Directors of the Company authorized, and the Company commenced, a cost reduction plan while the Company seeks to raise additional capital to continue development of the LIBERTY robotic system. This cost reduction plan includes:

Focus its research & development and regulatory efforts to complete the LIBERTY’s verification and validation process (“V&V”), complete robotics build-up and execute first in human cases outside the USA.
Postpone a Good Laboratory Practice study for LIBERTY until the completion of the V&V.
Harel Gadot, Chairman, President and CEO of the Company, has agreed to a reduction of 50% of his base salary, with terms and conditions with respect to the reduction period to be determined.
All other executive officers have agreed to a reduction of 30-40% of base salary, as follows:

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Rachel Vaknin, CFO. Pursuant to an Addendum to Employment Agreement, Ms. Vaknin’s gross monthly salary was decreased to a gross amount of NIS 35,000. Social and fringe benefits due to Ms. Vaknin shall be calculated based upon the updated salary, excluding sick days and vacation days which will continue to be accumulated per her existing employment agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of termination of Ms. Vaknin’s employment, either by us or by Ms. Vaknin, the redemption of accrued vacation days and the payment of prior notice period shall be calculated based on Ms. Vaknin’s salary prior to May 15, 2023.
Simon Sharon, CTO and General Manager. Pursuant to an Addendum to Employment Agreement, Mr. Sharon’s gross monthly salary was decreased to a gross amount of NIS 44,496. Social and fringe benefits due to Mr. Sharon shall be calculated based upon the updated salary, excluding sick days and vacation days which will continue to be accumulated per his existing employment agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of termination of Mr. Sharon’s employment, either by us or by Mr. Sharon, the redemption of accrued vacation days and the payment of prior notice period shall be calculated based on Mr. Sharon’s salary prior to May 15, 2023.
Eyal Morag, CMO. Pursuant to an Addendum to Employment Agreement, Dr. Morag’s gross monthly salary was decreased to a gross amount of NIS 49,440. Social and fringe benefits due to Dr. Morag shall be calculated based upon the updated salary, excluding sick days and vacation days which will continue to be accumulated per his existing employment agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of termination of Dr. Morag’s employment, either by us or by Dr. Morag, the redemption of accrued vacation days and the payment of prior notice period shall be calculated based on Dr. Morag’s salary prior to May 15, 2023. Pursuant to a separate Addendum to Employment Agreement, the advance notice period upon termination of Dr. Morag’s Employment Agreement was shortened to ninety days.

The independent members of the Board of Directors have agreed to a suspension of their director fees, with reinstatement of such fees to be determined.
Freeze on new hires.
Reduce employee headcount in both the US and Israel offices which are not directly involved in the research & development and/or regulatory process of LIBERTY, while retaining research & development and clinical-related employees to support the completion of the V&V and production of LIBERTY systems.
Professor Moshe Shoham, a co-founder of the Company and currently a member of its Scientific Advisory Board, waived his SAB fees, with fees payable to the remaining SAB members to be restructured.
Postpone CE activities for the LIBERTY device.

We expect that the savings generated from such cost-reduction activities, along with the net proceeds raised from the First May Offering, the Second May Offering, the First June Offering and the Second June Offering, will enable us to continue the V&V, explore a first-in-human trial outside of the U.S., prepare and submit an Investigational device exemption with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and commence a clinical trial in the U.S.

Completion of Pre-Clinical Study

On June 29, 2023, we announced the successful completion of a two-day pre-clinical study held by leading key opinion leaders at a New York-based research lab, where they performed dozens of catheterizations, including the utilization of the LIBERTY® Robotic Surgical System’s remote operation capabilities, to pre-determined vascular targets, with a 100% success rate of reaching the intended target with no observable on-site complications.

First-In-Human Clinical Cases

We recently announced that we have initiated preparations for potential First-In-Human cases in Brazil, by engaging with interventional radiologist Prof. Francisco Cesar Carnevale. The engagement with Prof. Carnevale, from University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital, is expected to support our intention to conduct a first-in-human clinical trial in Brazil as part of our ongoing clinical and regulatory efforts. The potential clinical cases are expected to commence upon completion of the V&V process of our LIBERTY Robotic system, as well as obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals to perform those cases.

We are also exploring options to conduct First-In-Human trials or cases in other places where the regulatory laws allow.

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Catheterization Milestone

On May 3, 2023, we announced that the LIBERTY Robotic system has surpassed its 100th catheterization during multiple pre-clinical studies, with a 95% success rate of reaching pre-determined vascular targets, such as distal branches of hepatic, gastric, splenic, mesenteric, renal and hypogastric arteries. Moreover, all of the procedures were completed without notable signs of intraoperative injury.

Technological Platforms

LIBERTY®

On January 13, 2020, Microbot unveiled what it believes is the world’s first fully disposable robotic system for use in endovascular interventional procedures, such as cardiovascular, peripheral and neurovascular. The LIBERTY robotic system features a unique compact design with the capability to be operated remotely, reduce radiation exposure and physical strain to the physician, reduce the risk of cross contamination, as well as the potential to eliminate the use of multiple consumables when used with its NovaCross platform or possibly other guidewire/microcatheter technologies.

LIBERTY is designed to maneuver guidewires and over-the-wire devices (such as microcatheters) within the body’s vasculature. It eliminates the need for extensive capital equipment requiring dedicated Cath-lab rooms as well as dedicated staff.

We believe LIBERTY’s addressable markets are the Interventional Cardiology, Interventional Radiology and Interventional Neuroradiology markets.

The unique characteristics of LIBERTY - compact, mobile, disposable and remotely controlled - open the opportunity of expanding telerobotic interventions to patients with limited access to life-saving procedures, such as mechanical thrombectomy in ischemic stroke.

LIBERTY is being designed to have the following attributes:

Compact size - Eliminates the need for large capital equipment in dedicated cath-lab rooms with dedicated staff.
Fully disposable - To our knowledge, the first and only fully disposable, robotic system for endovascular procedures.
Streamlines Cath-lab procedures - Can be made compatible with Microbot’s NitiLoop’s NovaCross products or possibly other guidewire/microcatheter technologies, that combines guidewire and microcatheter into a single device.
State of the art maneuverability - Provides linear, rotational and tip control of guidewire, as well as linear motion for an additional “over the wire” device.
Compatibility with a wide range of commercially-available guidewires, microcatheters and guide-catheters.
Enhanced operator safety and comfort - Aims to reduce exposure to ionizing radiation and the need for heavy lead vests otherwise to be worn during procedures, as well as reducing the exposure to Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI).
Ease of use - LIBERTY’s intuitive remote controls aims to simplify advanced procedures while shortening the physician’s learning curve.
Telemedicine compatible - Capable of supporting tele-catheterization, carried out remotely by highly trained specialists.

On August 17, 2020, Microbot announced the successful conclusion of its feasibility animal study using the LIBERTY robotic system. The study met all of its end points with no intraoperative adverse events, which supports Microbot’s objectives to allow physicians to conduct a catheter-based procedure from outside the catheterization laboratory (cath-lab), avoiding radiation exposure, physical strain and the risk of cross contamination. The study was performed by two leading physicians in the neuro vascular and peripheral vascular intervention spaces, and the results demonstrated robust navigation capabilities, intuitive usability and accurate deployment of embolic agents, most of which was conducted remotely from the cath-lab’s control room.

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On December 22, 2021, we entered into a strategic collaboration agreement for technology co-development with Stryker Corporation, acting through its Neurovascular Division. Pursuant to the agreement, the collaborative development program between Stryker and us aims to integrate certain of Stryker’s instruments with our LIBERTY Robotic System to address certain neurovascular procedures. The activities contemplated by the Agreement shall be specified in one or more development plans derived from the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement. We are still determining scheduling to move the collaboration forward.

In December 2021, we achieved design freeze of the LIBERTY device.

In the first quarter of 2022, we filed our pre-submission package for the LIBERTY Robotic System with the FDA, addressing the regulatory pathway for the LIBERTY® Robotic System. On July 22, 2022, the Company completed a pre-submission process with the FDA regarding the LIBERTY device. Formal feedback from the FDA included a recommendation to perform a clinical study and a human factors validation study, to support clearance through the 510(k) notification process.

In September and October 2022, the Company conducted an animal study at an FDA accredited European-based MedTech research laboratory, which was performed by a team of seasoned Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in the endovascular space, using porcine model.

During the animal study, the physicians conducted 63 navigations to the targeted sites using the investigational LIBERTY Robotic System and performed an equal number of procedures manually. The LIBERTY Robotic System received positive feedback from participating physicians, and there were no observable immediate intraoperative adverse events, or harm, to the test subjects.

The report from the animal study, which included histopathology data (the microscopic examination of tissue to study the manifestations of disease), exhibited equivocal results which were identified as related to unusual physiological animal responses in both manual and robotic test groups.

The Company believes the results of the study allow it to move forward and focus on the next phases to ultimately include a U.S.-based pivotal pre-clinical study.

The Company, together with its regulatory experts and consultants, believe a larger sample size and robust data generated by this study will advance the company’s efforts towards the submission of Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

One & DoneTM Technology

On April 8, 2018, we acquired a patent-protected technology from CardioSert Ltd., a privately-held medical device company based in Israel that was part of a technological incubator supported by the Israel Innovation Authorities. The CardioSert technology contemplates a combination of a guidewire and microcatheter, technologies that are broadly used for surgery within a tubular organ or structure such as a blood vessel or duct. The CardioSert technology features a unique guidewire delivery system with steering and stiffness control capabilities which when developed is expected to give the physician the ability to control the tip curvature, to adjust tip load to varying degrees of stiffness in a gradually continuous manner. The technology was originally developed to support interventional cardiologists in crossing chronic total occlusions (CTO) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures and has the potential to be used in other spaces and applications, such as peripheral intervention, and neurosurgery. Our CardioSert tool is now trademarked as “One & DoneTM”.

Microbot had been exploring the integration of the One & DoneTM technology into the LIBERTY endovascular robotic system for a range of potential applications in the cardiovascular, peripheral vascular and neurovascular spaces. However, as a result of its recently enacted core-business focus program and its cost reduction plan, the Company has terminated its existing agreement with CardioSert Ltd. effective as of August 17, 2023 and ceased its research and development of and commercialization efforts for the One & DoneTM, which could result in the technology being re-acquired by CardioSert Ltd. for nominal consideration.

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NovaCrossTM

On October 6, 2022, we purchased substantially all of the assets, including intellectual property, devices, components and product related materials of Nitiloop Ltd., an Israeli limited liability company. The assets include intellectual property and technology in the field of intraluminal revascularization devices with anchoring mechanism and integrated microcatheter, and the products or potential products incorporating the technology owned by Nitiloop and designated by Nitiloop as “NovaCross”, “NovaCross Xtreme” and “NovaCross BTK” and any enhancements, modifications and improvements.

ViRob

 

The ViRob is an autonomous crawling micro-robot which can be controlled remotely or within the body. Its miniature dimensions are expected to allow it to navigate and crawl in different natural spaces within the human body, including blood vessels, the digestive tract and the respiratory system as well as artificial spaces such as shunts, catheters, ports, etc. Its unique structure is expected to give it the ability to move in tight spaces and curved passages as well as the ability to remain within the human body for prolonged time. The SCS product was developed using the ViRob technology.

On October 11, 2022, we announced that we are planning to focus our strategic efforts on the growing endovascular space and advancing the LIBERTY Robotic System to achieve its regulatory and commercial milestones, as well as expanding the LIBERTY ecosystem, and made a strategic decision to suspend the continued research and development of the SCS project, effective at that date. The SCS generally performed as expected during testing, both internally and externally, and we believe it continues to have potential clinical value as evidenced by the pre-clinical data submitted to the FDA, which allowed us to successfully apply for the Early Feasibility Study program administered by the FDA. However, the conflicting commercialization pathways between LIBERTY and the SCS due to different hospital call points, and the anticipated lengthier regulatory process of the SCS, led us to believe that focusing our strategic efforts on the LIBERTY Robotic System will provide us with a greater opportunity for success and future growth. We had been exploring opportunities with the SCS assets with the focus on maximizing shareholders value, including seeking buyers for the assets, entering into joint ventures, licensing arrangements, spinning-off the assets into a new operating company or discontinue the project altogether. However, as a result of our recently enacted core-business focus program and our cost reduction plan, we have been in contact with TRDF, the licensor of the technology, and intend to return the licensed intellectual property for the SCS (ViRob) back to TRDF as early as the end of July 2023 in accordance with the terms of its license agreement, as we have not been successful in any such possible other opportunities.

TipCAT

CardioSert

On May 25, 2018, Microbot acquired a patent-protected technology from CardioSert Ltd., a privately-held medical device company based in Israel. The CardioSertTMtechnology contemplates a combination of a guidewire and microcatheter, technologies that are broadly used for surgery within a tubular organ or structure such as a blood vessel or duct. The CardioSertTM technology features a unique guidewire delivery system with steering and stiffness control capabilities which when developed is expected to give the physician the ability to control the tip curvature, to adjust tip load to varying degrees of stiffness in a gradually continuous manner. The CardioSertTMtechnology was originally developed to support interventional cardiologists in crossing chronic total occlusions (CTO) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures and has the potential to be used in other spaces and applications, such as peripheral intervention, and neurosurgery. CardioSertTM was part of a technological incubator supported by the Israel Innovation Authorities (formerly known as the Office of the Chief Scientist, or OCS), and a device based on the technology has successfully completed pre-clinical testing.

TipCAT

The TipCAT is a disposable self-propelled locomotive device that is specially designed to advance in tubular anatomies. The TipCAT is a mechanism comprising a series of interconnected balloons at the device’s tip that provides the TipCAT with its forward locomotion capability. The device can self-propel within natural tubular lumens such as the blood vessels, respiratory and the urinary and GI tracts. A single channel of air/fluid supply sequentially inflates and deflates a series of balloons creating an inchworm like forward motion. The TipCAT maintains a standard working channel for treatments. Unlike standard access devices such as guidewires, catheters for vascular access and endoscopes, the TipCAT does not need to be pushed into the patient’s lumen using external pressure; rather, it will gently advance itself through the organ’s anatomy. As a result, the TipCAT is designed to be able to reach every part of the lumen under examination regardless of the topography, be less operator dependent, and greatly reduce the likelihood of damage to lumen structure. The TipCAT thus offers functionality features equivalent to modern tubular access devices, along with advantages associated with its physiologically adapted self-propelling mechanism, flexibility, and design.

 

Industry Overview

CSF Management

Hydrocephalus is a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid, or CSF, in the brain that can cause increased intracranial pressure. It is estimated that one in every 500 babies are born with hydrocephalus, and over 1,000,000 people in the United States currently live with hydrocephalus.

Symptoms of hydrocephalus vary with age, disease progression and individual tolerance to the condition, but they can include convulsion, tunnel vision, mental disability or dementia-like symptoms and even death. NPH is a type of hydrocephalus that usually occurs in older adults. NPH is generally treated as distinct from other types of hydrocephalus because it develops slowly over time. In NPH, the drainage of CSF is blocked gradually and the excess fluid builds up slowly. This slow accumulation means that the fluid pressure may not be as high as in other types of hydrocephalus. It is estimated that more than 700,000 Americans have NPH, but less than 20% receive an appropriate diagnosis.

Hydrocephalus is most often treated by the surgical insertion of a shunt system. The shunt system diverts the flow of CSF from the brain’s ventricles (or the lumbar subarachnoid space) to another part of the body where the fluid can be more readily absorbed. Hydrocephalus shunt designs have changed little since their introduction in the 1950s. A shunt system typically consists of three parts: the distal tubing or shunt (a flexible and sturdy plastic tube), the ventricular catheter (the proximal catheter), and a valve. The end of the shunt system with the proximal catheter is placed in the ventricles (within the CSF) and the distal catheter is placed in the site of the body where the CSF can be drained. A valve is located along the shunt to maintain and regulate the rate of CSF flow. Current systems can be created from separate components or bought as complete units.

The treatment of hydrocephalus with existing shunt systems often includes complications. For example, approximately 50% of shunts used in the pediatric population fail within two years of placement and repeated neurosurgical operations are often required. Ventricular catheter blockage, or occlusion, is by far the most frequent event that results in shunt failure. Shunt occlusion occurs when there is a partial or complete blockage of the shunt that causes it to function intermittently or not at all. Such a shunt blockage can be caused by the accumulation of blood cells, tissue, or bacteria in any part of the shunt system. In the event of shunt occlusion, CSF begins to accumulate in the brain or lumbar region again and the symptoms of untreated hydrocephalus can reappear until a shunt replacement surgery is performed.

Although several companies are active in the field of hydrocephalus treatment and the manufacturing of shunt systems and shunt components, Microbot believes that the majority of those companies are focusing on the development of valves. The development of a “smart shunt” – a shunt that could provide data to the physician on patient conditions and shunt function with sensor-based controls, or correct the high failure rate of existing shunt systems – is for the most part at an academic and conceptual level only. Reports of smart shunt technologies are typically focused on a subset of components with remaining factors left unspecified, such as hardware, control algorithms or power management. Microbot does not believe that a smart shunt that can prevent functional failures hasWe had been developed to date. Because of the limited innovation in this area, Microbot believes an opportunity exists to provide patients suffering from hydrocephalus or NPH with a more effective instrument for treating their condition.

An alternative, short-term solution to hydrocephalus is the implantation of an External Ventricular Drainage, or EVD, an implanted device used in neurosurgery for the short-term treatment and monitoring of elevated intracranial pressure when the normal flow of CSF inside the brain is obstructed. If after using an EVD, the underlying hydrocephalus does not eventually resolve, the EVD may then be converted to a cerebral shunt, a fully internalized, long-term treatment for hydrocephalus.

EVDs are also used in other instances when the normal flow of CSF inside the brain is obstructed, such as a result of head trauma, intracerebral hemorrhage, brain tumors and infection. The EVD serves to divert excess fluids from the brain and allows for the monitoring of intracranial pressure. An EVD must be placed in a center with full neurosurgical capabilities because immediate neurosurgical intervention may be needed if a complication of EVD placement, such as bleeding, is encountered. EVD is one of the most commonly used and most important life-saving procedures in the neurologic ICU, with more than 200,000 neuro-intensive patients requiring EVD insertions annually.

Similar to shunts, EVDs are also prone to occlusion, mostly due to cellular debris, such as blood clots and/or tissue fragments. Studies have shown that approximately 1-7% of EVDs require replacement secondary to occlusion. Current solutions for EVD occlusion include irrigation and replacement, which we believe may be ineffective (in the case of irrigation) or costly (in the case of replacement) and in either case, put the patient at risk of unintended side effects. Microbot believes that with its portfolio of technologies, and its initial pre-clinical results, it is well-positioned to explore and expand its offerings as an alternative solution for EVD occlusion.

Minimally Invasive Endovascular Neurosurgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery, or MIS, refers to surgical procedures performed through tiny incisions instead of a single large opening. Because the incisions are small, patients tend to have quicker recovery times and experience less trauma than with conventional surgery. The global MIS market is expected to exceed $50 billion by 2019, with a CAGR of over 20% through 2023. MIS involves three major category of devices: surgical, monitoring and visualization, and endoscopy. The market for surgical devices, including ablation, electrosurgery and medical robotic systems, accounts for the largest share of revenue and is also expected to show the highest rate of growth.

As a subset of MIS, endovascular neurosurgery refers to surgeries performed by using devices that pass through the blood vessels to diagnose and treat neurological diseases and conditions such as stroke, arteriovenous malformations, aneurysms and atherosclerosis, rather than using open surgery.

The global neurovascular device market was valued at $1.62 billion in 2015 and is expected to reach a value of $2.92 billion by 2024, growing at a CAGR of 6.5%. Increases in the geriatric population and a rise in the number of patients suffering from neurovascular disorders, implementation of advanced technological platforms, and favorable reimbursement policies across established markets are expected to drive this market’s growth. On the other hand, the high cost of the endovascular devices and scarcity of neurovascular surgeons may impede such growth.

Stroke is a devastating condition, affecting 33 million people worldwide every year. In the United States alone, there are nearly 800,000 instances of stroke yearly, with about three in four being first-time strokes. This number is expected to increase to one million annually in 2021. Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States and is a leading cause of long-term disability, with related care costs estimated at $70 billion annually.

Mechanical thrombectomy has only been approved as a first-line treatment for ischemic stroke since 2016. Prior to such approval, chemical thrombolysis using tissue plasminogen activators was the only first-line treatment available, limiting the therapeutic window for ischemic stroke patients to as little as 3-4 hours from the onset of symptoms. With mechanical thrombectomy, treatment can be started within 6-24 hours of the time the patient was last known to be well. The US mechanical thrombectomy market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 23.9% between 2014-2020, to reach a value over $350 million.

According to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, an estimated 6 million people in the United States have an unruptured brain aneurysm, or 1 in 50 people. The annual rate of rupture is approximately 8 – 10 per 100,000 people, or about 30,000 people in the United States annually. Embolic coiling is the established gold-standard treatment for aneurysms, and the most established product line in the neurovascular market – it is a strong but relatively stagnant market, projected to grow at a CAGR of 1.7% between 2014-2020, to reach a value of over $800 million. New devices that improve treatment of complex aneurysms, such as embolization-enabling stents, bifurcations stents, flow-diversion stents, liquid embolics and intrasaccular devices, are expected to boost market growth.

The major companies in the field of neurovascular devices include Stryker Corporation, Medtronic Plc., Cerenovus (Johnson & Johnson), Terumo Corporation and Penumbra, Inc. Neurovascular access devices are the means for delivering neurovascular treatment tools and devices from an opening in the femoral or radial arteries into the brain vasculature. Such access devices include sheaths, guidewires and microcatheters. Wires and catheters account for 18.6% of the overall neurovascular market.

Navigating and placing access devices through tortuous and highly delicate brain arteries is a complex procedure that requires high-level surgical skills with specialist training. In many procedures, surgeons exchange numerous access devices before reaching the target and applying the therapeutic agent or device, increasing the risk of adverse events and the exposure of both patient and physician to radiation. Adverse events, such as perforation of brain arteries or the release of embolies from a thrombus or atherosclerotic lesion can have devastating or even fatal results.

Microbot believes that with its portfolio of technologies specifically CardioSertTM and TipCAT, it is well-positioned to explore and develop such technologies as neurovascular access devices, with a focus on improving the ease and access and enhancing the safety of endovascular neurosurgery.

Our Product Pipeline

Self-Cleaning Shunt

The SCS device is designed to act as the ventricular catheter portion of a CSF shunt system that is used to relieve hydrocephalus and NPH. It is designed to work as an alternative to any ventricular catheter options currently on the market and to connect to all existing shunt system valves currently on the market; therefore, the successful commercialization of the SCS is not dependent on any single shunt system. Initially, Microbot expects the SCS device to be an aftermarket purchase that would be deployed to modify existing products by the end user. Microbot believes that the use of its SCS device will be able to reduce, and potentially eliminate, shunt occlusions, and by doing so, Microbot believes its SCS has the potential to become the gold standard ventricular shunt in the treatment of hydrocephalus and NPH.

The SCS device embeds an internal robotic cleaning mechanism in the lumen, or inside space, of the ventricular catheter which prevents cell accumulation and tissue ingrowth into the catheter. The SCS device consists of a silicone tube with a perforated titanium tip, which connects to a standard shunt valve at its distal end. The internal cleaning mechanism is embedded in the lumen of the titanium tip. Once activated, the cleaning mechanism keeps tissue from entering the catheter perforations while maintaining the CSF flow in the ventricular catheter.

The internal cleaning mechanism of the SCS device is activated by means of an induced magnetic field, which is currently designed to be externally generated by the patient through a user-friendly headset that transmits the magnetic field at a pre-determined frequency and operating sequence protocol. The magnetic field that is created by the headset is then captured by a flexible coil and circuit board that is placed just under the patient’s scalp in the location where the valve is located. The circuit board assembly converts the magnetic field into the power necessary to activate the cleaning mechanism within the proximal part of the ventricular catheter.

Microbot has completed the development of an SCS prototype and is currently completing the safety testing, general proof of concept testing and performance testing for the device, which Microbot began in mid-2013. In May 2018, Microbot announced the results of two pre-clinical studies assessing the SCS, anin-vitro study and a small animal study. The in-vitro study, which was performed at Wayne State University by Dr. Carolyn Harris, supports the SCS’s potential as a viable technology for preventing occlusion in shunts used to treat hydrocephalus. The animal study designed to assess the safety profile of the SCS, which was performed by James Patterson McAllister, PhD, a Professor of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, met the primary goal to determine the safety of the SCS device that aims to prevent obstruction in CSF catheters. Since the completion of these initial studies, Microbot has commenced a follow-up study to further evaluate the safety and to investigate the efficacy of the SCS. The follow-up study is also being conducted by leading hydrocephalus experts at Washington University and Wayne State University. The study will include a larger sample size compared to the initial studies and the primary and secondary endpoints will seek to validate the safety and efficacy of the SCS that will be activated in bothin-vitro (lab) andin-vivo (animal) models. Microbot plans to use the findings for initial regulatory submissions in the United States, Europe and other jurisdictions, although upon the completion of animal studies, Microbot may conduct clinical trials if they are requested by the FDA or if Microbot decides that the data from such trials would improve the marketability of the product candidate. Microbot believes that the animal study results of its first generation SCS device should be available during the second half of 2019 and we expect to submit that data to the FDA either in a regulatory submission or as part of a pre-submission meeting request, depending on the final results of this ongoing studies. The proposed indication for use of the SCS device would be for the treatment of hydrocephalus as a component of a shunt system when draining or shunting of CSF is indicated. It continues to be possible that the FDA could require us to conduct a human clinical study to support the safety and efficacy of the SCS and that such clinical data would need to be submitted as part of a 510(k) notification to authorize marketing of the medical device in the U.S.

Microbot may also conduct clinical trials for the SCS in other countries where such trials are necessary for Microbot to sell its SCS device in such country’s market, although it has no current plans to do so.

TipCAT

A TipCAT prototype was shown to self-propel and self-navigate in curved plastic pipes and curved ex-vivo colon. In addition, in its first feasibility study, the prototype device was tested in a live animal experiment and successfully self-propelled through segments of the animal’s colon, with no post-procedural damage. All tests were conducted at AMIT (Alfred Mann Institute of Technology at the Technion), prior to the licensing of TipCAT by Microbot.

Microbot is no longer pursuing the development of the TipCAT as a colonoscopy tool but is currently exploring the use of the TipCAT for minimally invasive neurosurgical and endovascular neurosurgical applications.applications to complement our other technologies. However, as a result of our recently enacted core-business focus program and our cost reduction plan, we returned the licensed intellectual property for the TipCAT back to TRDF, the licensor of the technology, in June 2023, as we do not have the funds to continue to develop this technology.

 

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Risks Associated with Our Business and this OfferingTHE OFFERING

 

Our business and our abilityThis prospectus relates to implement our business strategy are subject to numerous risks, as more fully describedthe resale by the selling stockholders identified in the section of this prospectus entitled “Risk Factors” and under similarly titled headings of the documents incorporated herein by reference. You should read these risks before you invest inup to 2,281,626 shares of our securities. We may be unable, for many reasons, including those that are beyond our control, to implement our business strategy. In particular, risks associated with our business include:common stock, as follows:

 

 We will need to raise significant additional capital to support385,246 shares of our operations.common stock issued in June 2023 upon the cashless exercise of series B preferred investment options
   
 We have incurred significant losses since our inception and anticipate that we will continue to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future, and our future profitability is uncertain.
Our product candidates must undergo rigorous clinical testing, such clinical testing may fail to demonstrate safety and efficacy and any of our product candidates could cause undesirable side effects, which would substantially delay or prevent regulatory approval or commercialization.
We are dependent on patents and proprietary technology. If we fail to adequately protect this intellectual property or if we otherwise do not have exclusivity for the marketing of our products, our ability to commercialize products could suffer.
If our competitors are able to develop and market products that are more effective, safer or more affordable than ours, or obtain marketing approval before we do, our commercial opportunities may be limited.
If you purchase our securities in this offering, you will incur immediate and substantial dilution.
We will have broad discretion in the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may not use them effectively.

Corporate and Other Information

We were incorporated on August 2, 1988 in the State of Delaware under the name Cellular Transplants, Inc. The original Certificate of Incorporation was restated on February 14, 1992 to change our name to CytoTherapeutics, Inc. On May 24, 2000, the Certificate of Incorporation as restated was further amended to change our name to StemCells, Inc. On November 28, 2016, C&RD Israel Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours, completed its merger with and into Microbot Medical Ltd., or Microbot Israel, an Israeli corporation that then owned our assets and operated our current business, with Microbot Israel surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours. We refer to this transaction as the Merger. On November 28, 2016, in connection with the Merger, we changed our name from “StemCells, Inc.” to Microbot Medical Inc., and each outstanding share of Microbot Israel capital stock was converted into the right to receive shares of our common stock. In addition, all outstanding options to purchase the ordinary shares of Microbot Israel were assumed by us and converted into options to purchase shares of the common stock of Microbot Medical Inc. On November 29, 2016, our common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT”. Prior to the Merger, we were a biopharmaceutical company that operated in one segment, the research, development, and commercialization of stem cell therapeutics and related technologies. Substantially all of the material assets relating to the stem cell business were sold on November 29, 2016.

In May 2016, we effected a 1-for-12 reverse split of our common stock, and in November 2016, we effected a 1-for-9 reverse split of our common stock in connection with the Merger. In September 2018, we effected a 1-for-15 reverse split of our common stock. The share and per share information described in this prospectus that occurred prior to these reverse splits have been adjusted to give retrospective effect to the reverse splits.

Our principal executive offices are located at 25 Recreation Park Drive, Unit 108, Hingham, MA 02043. The telephone number at our principal executive office is (781) 875-3605. Our website address iswww.microbotmedical.com. Our website and the information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference in, and are not considered part of, this prospectus. You should not rely on our website or any such information in making your decision whether to purchase our securities in this offering.

This prospectus contains references to our trademarks and to trademarks and trade names belonging to other entities. Solely for convenience, trademarks and trade names referred to in this prospectus, including logos, artwork and other visual displays, may appear without the ® or ™ symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that their respective owners will not assert, to the fullest extent under applicable law, their rights thereto. We do not intend our use or display of other companies’ trade names or trademarks to imply a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, any other companies.

Implications of Being a Smaller Reporting Company

We are a “smaller reporting company” as defined in the Exchange Act and have elected to take advantage of certain of the scaled disclosures available to smaller reporting companies, including certain of the reduced disclosure obligations in the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. As a result, the information that we provide to our stockholders may be different than you might receive from other public reporting companies in which you hold equity interests.

The Offering

Units offered by usUp to 6,024,096 units, each consisting of one share of our common stock and one common warrant to purchase one share of our common stock.
Pre-funded units offered by usWe are also offering to each purchaser whose purchase of units in this offering would otherwise result in the purchaser, together with its affiliates and certain related parties, beneficially owning more than 4.99% of our outstanding common stock immediately following the consummation of this offering, the opportunity to purchase, if the purchaser so chooses, pre-funded units (each pre-funded unit consisting of one pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of our common stock and one common warrant to purchase one share of our common stock) in lieu of units that would otherwise result in the purchaser’s beneficial ownership exceeding 4.99% of our outstanding common stock (or, at the election of the purchaser, 9.99%). The purchase price of each pre-funded unit will equal the price at which the units are being sold to the public in this offering, minus $0.01, and the exercise price of each pre-funded warrant included in each pre-funded unit will be $0.01 per share. The pre-funded warrants will be immediately exercisable and may be exercised at any time until the pre-funded warrants are exercised in full. This offering also relates to the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of any pre-funded warrants sold in this offering. For each pre-funded unit we sell, the number of units we are offering will be decreased on a one-for-one basis. Because we will issue a common warrant as part of each unit or pre-funded unit, the number of common warrants sold in this offering will not change as a result of a change in the mix of the units and pre-funded units sold.
Common warrants offered by us

Common warrants to purchase an aggregate of 6,024,096 shares of our common stock. Each unit and each pre-funded unit includes a common warrant to purchase one share of our common stock. Each common warrant will have an assumed exercise price of $1.66 per share (representing 100% of the assumed public offering price per unit to be sold in this offering) (which may be adjusted as set forth in this prospectus), will be immediately separable from the common stock or pre-funded warrant, as the case may be, will be immediately exercisable and will expire on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date. This prospectus also relates to the offering of the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the common warrants.

Option to purchase additional securitiesThe underwriter has the option to purchase up to an additional 903,614 shares of our common stock at a purchase price of $         per share and/or common warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 903,614 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $0.01 per common warrant with an exercise price of $       per share, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The underwriter can exercise this option at any time within 30 days from the date of this prospectus.
Common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering(1)9,036,439 shares (assuming no exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional securities, assuming no sale of any pre-funded units and assuming none of the common warrants issued in this offering are exercised).
Public offering priceThe assumed public offering price is $1.66 per unit and $1.65 per pre-funded unit, which is based on the closing price for our common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Capital Market on December 24, 2018. The actual offering price per each unit and pre-funded unit will be negotiated between us and the underwriter based on the trading of our common stock prior to the offering, among other things, and may be at a discount to the current market price.
Use of proceedsWe intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for attaining regulatory approvals for our SCS device for the treatment of hydrocephalus and NPH; expanding and developing the applications of our existing ViRob and SCS IP and prototypes into other areas of CSF management, such as EVD, through regulatory submission; developing the CardioSertTMtechnology, including the potential addition of complementary assets to the CardioSert portfolio either through internal development or acquisition, for neurovascular disorders from proof of concept to pre-clinical studies; and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. See “Use of Proceeds.”
Risk FactorsAn investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 7 of this prospectus and the similarly titled sections in the documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus.

Nasdaq Capital Market trading symbol

Our common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT.” We do not intend to apply for listing of the common warrants or pre-funded warrants on any securities exchange or other nationally recognized trading system. There is no established public trading market for the common warrants or pre-funded warrants, and we do not expect a market to develop. Without an active trading market, the liquidity of the common warrants and pre-funded warrants will be limited.

(1)The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding after this offering is based on 3,012,343 shares of common stock outstanding as of December 24 , 2018, and excludes, as of December 24 , 2018:
422,4781,022,495 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding stockseries A preferred investment options with exercise prices ranging from $0 to $19.35 and having a weighted-averageexpiring in October 2027, originally at an exercise price per share of $11.70$4.64 but amended to a reduced exercise price per share;share of $2.20 in connection with the offering that was consummated on May 24, 2023;
   
 211,239 shares of our common stock reserved for future grant under our 2017 Equity Incentive Plan;
Approximately 7,53151,125 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants withexpiring in October 2027, at an exercise prices ranging from approximately $40.00 to $2,885price per share and having a weighted-averageof $6.1125;
32,778 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in November 2026, at an exercise price per share of $1,697$2.75;
60,476 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in November 2026, at an exercise price per share;share of $2.75;
35,088 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in November 2026, at an exercise price per share of $2.6719;
350,878 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding series C preferred investment options expiring in December 2028, at an exercise price per share of $2.075;
312,309 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding series D preferred investment options expiring in December 2028, at an exercise price per share of $3.19; and
   
 

6,024,09631,231 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of commonoutstanding warrants to be issued to investorsexpiring in this offeringJune 2028, at an exercise price per share of $               per share; and

301,204 shares (or 346,385 shares if the underwriter’s option to purchase additional securities is exercised in full) of our common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants being issued to the underwriter in connection with this offering.$4.0625.

 

Common stock offered by the selling stockholders

2,281,626 shares

Common stock outstanding before the offering (1)11,707,317 shares
Common stock to be outstanding after the offering (2)

13,603,697 shares

Nasdaq Capital Market SymbolMBOT

Except as otherwise indicated herein, all information in this prospectus, including

(1)Based on the number of shares outstanding as of July 7, 2023.
(2)Assumes the exercise of all of the 1,896,380 options and warrants held by the selling stockholders, the underlying shares of which are being registered pursuant to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Does not include the exercise of any other options or warrants that may be outstanding or issuable.

Use of Proceeds

The 385,246 issued and outstanding shares of our common stock and the number1,896,380 shares of shares that will be outstanding after this offering, does not assume or give effect tocommon stock issuable upon the exercise of currently outstanding options and warrants, in each case that are being offered for resale by the selling stockholders will be sold for the accounts of the selling stockholders named in this prospectus. As a result, all proceeds from the sales of the such shares of common stock offered for resale hereby will go to the selling stockholders and we will not receive any proceeds from the resale of those shares of common stock by the selling stockholders.

We may receive up to a total of $4,763,404 in gross proceeds if all of the options and warrants are exercised hereunder for cash. However, as we are unable to predict the timing or amount of potential exercises of the warrants, outstanding aswe have not allocated any proceeds of December 24, 2018such exercises to any particular purpose. Accordingly, all such proceeds, if any would be allocated to working capital. Pursuant to conditions set forth in the warrants, the warrants are exercisable under certain circumstances on a cashless basis, and assumes noshould a selling stockholder elect to exercise on a cashless basis we will not receive any proceeds from the sale of any pre-funded units in this offering.common stock issued upon the cashless exercise of the warrant.

 

Unless otherwise indicated,We will incur all information contained incosts associated with this prospectus assumes no exercise by the underwriter of its option to purchase additional securities.registration statement and prospectus.

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RISK FACTORSDividend Policy

We have never paid dividends on our capital stock and do not anticipate paying any dividends for the foreseeable future.

Risk Factors

Investing in our securitiescommon stock involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefullyPlease read the risks described below, together with allinformation contained under the heading “Risk Factors” beginning on page 11 of the other information included orthis prospectus and in any subsequent report incorporated by reference herein.

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RISK FACTORS

This prospectus and the documents incorporated in this prospectus including theby reference contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties discussed under “Risk Factors”uncertainties. Our business, operating results, financial performance, and share price may be materially adversely affected by a number of factors, including but not limited to the following risk factors, any one of which could cause actual results to vary materially from anticipated results or from those expressed in any forward-looking statements made by us in this prospectus or in other reports, press releases or other statements issued from time to time. Additional factors that may cause such a difference are set forth elsewhere in this prospectus or in the documents incorporated in this prospectus by reference. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this report. We do not undertake any obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements.

Risks Relating to Microbot’s Financial Position and Need for Additional Capital

There is substantial doubt regarding on our ability to continue as a going concern.

As stated elsewhere in this prospectus or in the documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus, including in our Annual Reportreport on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 20172022 and in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2018, before deciding whetherMarch 31, 2023, we have not generated any revenues, have sustained losses and have accumulated a significant deficit since our inception. Also, we estimate that our cash resources are only sufficient to purchasefund our securities inoperations for approximately 9 months from the date of this offering. All of these risk factors are incorporated herein in their entirety. The risks described belowprospectus and incorporated by reference are material risks currently known, expectedas a result, our continued existence is dependent upon our ability to obtain additional debt or reasonably foreseeable by us. However,equity financing and to ultimately become a commercially viable organization.

There can be no assurance that the risks described belowadditional necessary debt or that we incorporate by reference are not the only ones that we face. Additional risks not presently knownequity financing will be available, or will be available on terms acceptable to us, in which case we may be unable to meet our obligations or thatfully implement our business plan, if at all, beyond such 9 month period. Additionally, should we currently deem immaterialbe unable to realize our assets and discharge our liabilities in the normal course of business, the net realizable value of our assets may alsobe materially less than the amounts recorded in our financial statements. As a result of the foregoing and our current cash position, these conditions raise substantial doubt about Microbot’s ability to continue as a going concern beyond approximately the next 9 months, which could adversely affect our business, operating results, prospects or financial condition. If any of these risks actually materialize,ability to raise capital, expand our business prospects,and develop our planned products.

We are subject to litigation, which may divert management’s attention and, in the event of an adverse judgment or settlement for some or all of the $6,750,000 being litigated, have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and resultsour ability to continue our operations.

We are the defendant in a lawsuit captioned Empery Asset Master Ltd., Empery Tax Efficient, LP, Empery Tax Efficient II, LP, Hudson Bay Master Fund Ltd., Plaintiffs, against Microbot Medical Inc., Defendant, in the Supreme Court of operations couldthe State of New York, County of New York (Index No. 651182/2020). The complaint alleged, among other things, that we breached multiple representations and warranties contained in the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) related to our June 8, 2017 equity financing (the “Financing”), of which the Plaintiffs participated. The complaint seeks rescission of the SPA and return of the Plaintiffs’ $6.75 million purchase price with respect to the Financing.

Management is unable to assess the likelihood that we would be seriously harmed. This could causesuccessful in any trial with respect to the trading priceSPA or the Financing, having previously lost another lawsuit with respect to the Financing. Accordingly, no assurance can be given that if we go to trial and ultimately lose, or if we decide to settle at any time, such an adverse outcome would not be material to our consolidated financial position. Additionally, in any such case, we will likely be required to use available cash, or the proceeds from future offerings, towards the rescission or settlement, that we otherwise would have used to build our business and develop our technologies into commercial products. In such event, we would be required to raise additional capital sooner than we otherwise would, of which we can give no assurance of success, or delay, curtail or cease the commercialization of some or all of our common stockproduct candidates.

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Microbot has had no revenue and has incurred significant operating losses since inception and is expected to continue to incur significant operating losses for the foreseeable future. The Company may never become profitable or, if achieved, be able to sustain profitability.

Microbot has incurred significant operating losses since its inception and expects to incur significant losses for the foreseeable future as Microbot continues its preclinical and clinical development programs for its existing product candidates, primarily the LIBERTY device; its research and development of any other future product candidates; and all other work necessary to obtain regulatory clearances or approvals for its product candidates in the United States and other markets. In the future, Microbot intends to continue conducting micro-robotics research and development; performing necessary animal and clinical testing; working towards medical device regulatory compliance; and, if LIBERTY or other future product candidates are approved or cleared for commercial distribution, engaging in appropriate sales and marketing activities that, together with anticipated general and administrative expenses, will likely result in Microbot incurring further significant losses for the foreseeable future.

Microbot is a development-stage medical device company and currently generates no revenue from product sales, and may never be able to commercialize LIBERTY or other future product candidates. Microbot does not currently have the required approvals or clearances to market or test in humans the LIBERTY or any other future product candidates and Microbot may never receive them. Microbot does not anticipate generating significant revenues until it can successfully develop, commercialize and sell products derived from its product pipeline, of which Microbot can give no assurance. Even if Microbot or any of its future development partners succeed in commercializing any of its product candidates, Microbot may never generate revenues significant enough to achieve profitability.

Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with its product development pipeline and strategy, Microbot cannot accurately predict when it will achieve profitability, if ever. Failure to become and remain profitable would depress the value of the warrantsCompany and could impair its ability to decline,raise capital, which may force the Company to curtail or discontinue its research and development programs and/or day-to-day operations. Furthermore, there can be no assurance that profitability, if achieved, can be sustained on an ongoing basis.

Microbot has a limited operating history outside of being a research and development-stage company, which may make it difficult to evaluate the prospects for the Company’s future viability.

Microbot has a limited operating history upon which an evaluation of its business plan or performance and prospects can be made. The business and prospects of Microbot must be considered in the light of the potential problems, delays, uncertainties and complications that may be encountered in connection with a newly established business. The risks include, but are not limited to, the possibility that Microbot will not be able to develop functional and scalable products, or that although functional and scalable, its products will not be economical to market; that its competitors hold proprietary rights that may preclude Microbot from marketing such products; that its competitors market a superior or equivalent product; that Microbot is not able to upgrade and enhance its technologies and products to accommodate new features and expanded service offerings; or the failure to receive necessary regulatory clearances or approvals for its products. To successfully introduce and market its products at a profit, Microbot must establish brand name recognition and competitive advantages for its products. There are no assurances that Microbot can successfully address these challenges. If it is unsuccessful, Microbot and its business, financial condition and operating results could be materially and adversely affected.

Microbot’s operations to date have been limited to organizing the company, entering into licensing arrangements to initially obtain rights to its technologies, developing and securing its technologies, raising capital, developing regulatory and reimbursement strategies for its product candidates, preparing for pre-clinical and clinical trials of product candidates from time to time and, most recently, commencing pre-commercialization planning for the LIBERTY device. Microbot has not yet demonstrated its ability to successfully complete development of any product candidate, obtain marketing clearance or approval, manufacture a commercial-scale product or arrange for a third party to do so on its behalf, or conduct sales and marketing activities necessary for successful product commercialization. Consequently, any predictions made about Microbot’s future success or viability may not be as accurate as they could be if Microbot had a longer operating history.

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Microbot will need additional funding. If Microbot is unable to raise capital when needed, it could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate its product development programs or commercialization efforts.

To date, Microbot has funded its operations primarily through offerings of debt and equity securities and grants. Microbot does not know when, or if, it will generate any revenue, but does not expect to generate significant revenue unless and until it obtains regulatory clearance or approval of and commercializes one of its current or future product candidates. It is anticipated that the Company will continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future, and that losses will increase as it continues the development of, and seeks regulatory review of, its product candidates, and begins to commercialize any approved or cleared products following a successful regulatory review.

Microbot expects the research and development expenses of the Company to continue to increase substantially in future periods as it conducts pre-clinical studies in large animals and potentially clinical trials for its product candidates, and especially if it initiates additional research programs for future product candidates. This is the case even with the recent suspension of the research and development program relating to the SCS device. In addition, if the Company obtains marketing clearance or approval for any of its product candidates, it expects to incur significant commercialization expenses related to product manufacturing, marketing and sales. Microbot may also require additional funds for operations if it loses its current lawsuit with Empery and Hudson Bay, discussed in great detail elsewhere in this prospectus and in the documents incorporated by reference into this prospectus. Furthermore, Microbot incurs substantial costs associated with operating as a public company in the United States. Accordingly, the Company may need to obtain substantial additional funding in connection with its continuing operations through its projected profitability, of which it can give no assurance of success. If the Company is unable to raise capital when needed or on attractive terms, it could be forced to delay, reduce or eliminate its research and development programs or any future commercialization efforts.

The Company intends to continue to opportunistically strengthen its balance sheet by raising additional funds through equity offerings, including possibly through its existing but currently suspended At-the-Market offering, or otherwise in order to meet expected future liquidity needs, including the introduction of LIBERTY. The Company’s future capital requirements, generally, will depend on many factors, including:

the timing and outcomes of the product candidates’ regulatory reviews, subsequent approvals or clearances, or other regulatory actions;
the final outcome of the Company’s existing lawsuit with Empery and Hudson Bay;
the costs, design, duration and any potential delays of the clinical trials that could be conducted at the FDA’s request using Microbot’s product candidates;
the costs of acquiring, licensing or investing in new and existing businesses, product candidates and technologies;
the costs to maintain, expand and defend the scope of Microbot’s intellectual property portfolio;
the costs to secure or establish sales, marketing and commercial manufacturing capabilities or arrangements with third parties regarding same;
the Company’s need and ability to hire additional management and scientific and medical personnel; and
the costs to operate as a public company in the United States.

We may still be subject to significant disruptions to our clinical trials or other business operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Although we have not yet commenced clinical trials, in the event the coronavirus pandemic or another pandemic is continuing when we are prepared to commence such trials, the coronavirus disease may cause significant delays and disruptions to our clinical trials and our interactions with the FDA. If the patients involved with any such clinical trials become infected with the coronavirus disease, we may have more AEs and deaths in our clinical trials as a result. We may also face difficulties enrolling patients in our clinical trials if the patient populations that are eligible for our clinical trials are impacted by the coronavirus or other disease. Additionally, if our clinical trial patients are unable to travel to our clinical trial sites as a result of quarantines or other restrictions resulting from the coronavirus or other disease, we may experience higher drop-out rates or delays in our clinical trials, and some patients may not be able to comply with clinical trial protocols if quarantines impede patient movement or interrupt healthcare services, which could impact our ability to determine the efficacy or safety of our LIBERTY device. Site initiation and patient enrollment may also be delayed due to prioritization of hospital resources toward the coronavirus disease outbreak.

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Additionally, travel restrictions and expanded screenings may be implemented locally or worldwide in an effort to contain the coronavirus or other disease. As such, we and our contract research organizations may be unable to visit our trial sites and monitor the data from our trials on timely basis. Our employees may also face travel restrictions, which would impact our business. Furthermore, some of our manufacturers and suppliers are in Europe and Asia and may be impacted by port closures and other restrictions resulting from any such outbreak, which may disrupt our supply chain or limit our ability to obtain sufficient materials for our products.

The ultimate impact of the coronavirus disease outbreak or a losssimilar health epidemic is highly uncertain and subject to change, and we cannot presently predict the scope and severity of allany further potential business shutdowns or partdisruptions, but if we or any of your investment.the third parties with whom we engage, including the suppliers, clinical trial sites, contract research organizations, regulators, including the FDA health care providers and other third parties with whom we conduct business, were to experience shutdowns or other business disruptions, our ability to conduct our business and operations could be materially and negatively impacted, which could prevent or delay us from obtaining approval for our LIBERTY device.

 

Risks Relating to the Development and Commercialization of Microbot’s Product Candidates

 

Unsuccessful animal studies, clinical trials or procedures relating to product candidates under development could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s prospects.

The regulatory approval process for new products and new indications for existing products requires extensive data and procedures, including the development of regulatory and quality standards and, potentially, certain clinical studies. Unfavorable or inconsistent data from current or future clinical trials or other studies conducted by Microbot or third parties, or perceptions regarding such data, could adversely affect Microbot’s ability to obtain necessary device clearance or approval and the market’s view of Microbot’s future prospects.

Failure to successfully complete the studies or trials in a timely and cost-effective manner could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s prospects with respect to the LIBERTY device or other product candidates. Because animal trials, clinical trials and other types of scientific studies are inherently uncertain, there can be no assurance that these trials or studies will be completed in a timely or cost-effective manner or result in a commercially viable product. Clinical trials or studies may experience significant setbacks even if earlier preclinical or animal studies have shown promising results. Furthermore, preliminary results from clinical trials may be contradicted by subsequent clinical analysis. Results from clinical trials may also not be supported by actual long-term studies or clinical experience. If preliminary clinical results are later contradicted, or if initial results cannot be supported by actual long-term studies or clinical experience, Microbot’s business could be adversely affected. Clinical trials also may be suspended or terminated by us, the FDA or other regulatory authorities at any time if it is believed that the trial participants face unacceptable health risks. The FDA may disagree with our interpretation of the data from our clinical trials, or may find the clinical trial design, conduct or results inadequate to demonstrate safety and effectiveness of the product candidate. The FDA may also require additional pre-clinical studies or clinical trials which could further delay approval of our product candidates.

Microbot’s business depends heavily on the success of its sole lead product candidate, the SCS.LIBERTY. If Microbot is unable to commercialize the SCSLIBERTY, or experiences significant delays in doing so, Microbot’s business will be materially harmed.

 

On January 27, 2017, Microbot entered into a research agreement with Washington University in St. Louis to develop the protocol for and to execute the necessary animal study to determine the effectiveness of the Microbot’s SCS prototype. The initial research was completed in 2017 with a comprehensive study expected to be completed in 2019. Upon the completion of animal studies, Microbot may conduct clinical trials if they are requested by the FDA or if Microbot decides that the data from such trials would improve the marketability of the product candidate. AfterGenerally, after all necessary clinical and performance data supporting the safety and effectiveness of SCSthe LIBERTY device, or any other product candidate, are collected, Microbot must still obtain FDA clearance or approval to market the device and those regulatory processes can take several months to several years to be completed. Therefore, Microbot’s ability to generate product revenues will not occur for at least the next few years, if at all, and will depend heavily on the successful commercialization of SCS in the treatmentLIBERTY device, or any of hydrocephalus.our other product candidates from time to time. The success of commercializing SCSany of our product candidates, include the LIBERTY device, will depend on a number of factors, including the following:

 

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our ability to obtain additional capital;
  
successful completion of animal studies and, if necessary, human clinical trials and the collection of sufficient data to demonstrate that the device is safe and effective for its intended use;
  
receipt of marketing approvals or clearances from the FDA and other applicable regulatory authorities;
  
establishing commercial manufacturing arrangements with one or more third parties;
  
obtaining and maintaining patent and trade secret protections;
  
protecting Microbot’s rights in its intellectual property portfolio;
  
establishing sales, marketing and distribution capabilities;
  
generating commercial sales, of SCS, if and when approved, whether alone or in collaboration with other entities;
  
acceptance of SCS,our product candidates, if and when commercially launched, by the medical community, patients and third-party payors;
  
effectively competing with existing shunt and endoscopecompetitive products on the market and any new competing products that may enter the market; and
  
maintaining quality and an acceptable safety profile of SCSour products following clearance or approval.

 

We recently suspended our research and development programs for all of our product candidates and platforms other than LIBERTY as a result of, among other things, some of the above factors, and our short and medium term success is no longer tied to multiple product candidates but rather just the LIBERTY device. If Microbot does not achieve one or more of these factors in a timely manner or at all, it could experience significant delays or an inability to successfully commercialize SCS,the LIBERTY or any other product candidate, which would materially harm its business.

 

The results of Microbot’s research and development efforts are uncertain and there can be no assurance of the commercial success of Microbot’s product candidates.

Microbot believe that its success will depend in part on its ability to expand its product offerings and continue to improve its existing product candidates in response to changing technologies, customer demands and competitive pressures. As such, Microbot expects to continue dedicating significant resources in research and development. The product candidates and services being developed by Microbot may not be technologically successful. In addition, the length of Microbot’s product candidates and service development cycle may be greater than Microbot originally expected.

Microbot’s ability to expand ourits technology platforms for other uses including endovascular neurosurgery other than for the treatment of hydrocephalus, may be limited.

 

After spending time working with experts in the field, Microbot has recently decided to no longer pursue the use of TipCAT in colonoscopy and has instead committed to focus on expanding all of its technology platforms for use in segments of the endovascular, cardiovascular and neurosurgery market, including traumatic brain injury, to capitalize on its existing competencies in hydrocephalus and the market’s needs.markets. Microbot’s ability to expand its technology platforms for use in the endovascular neurosurgery marketsuch markets will be limited by its ability to develop and/or refine the necessary technology, obtain the necessary regulatory approvals for their use on humans, and the marketing of its products and otherwise obtaining market acceptance of its product in the United States and in other countries.

Microbot operates in a competitive industry and if its competitors have products that are marketed more effectively or develop products, treatments or procedures that are similar, more advanced, safer or more effective, its commercial opportunities will be reduced or eliminated, which would materially harm its business.

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Our competitors that have developed or are developing endoluminal robotics surgical systems include Corindus Vascular Robotics, Inc., Hansen Medical, Inc. Auris Health, Inc., Stereotaxis, Inc., Medrobotics Corporation and others. Our competitors may develop products, treatments or procedures that directly compete with our products and potential products and which are similar, more advanced, safer or more effective than ours. The medical device industry is very competitive and subject to significant technological and practice changes. Microbot expects to face competition from many different sources with respect to the SCS and products that it is seeking to develop or commercialize with respect to its other product candidates in the future.

Competing against large established competitors with significant resources may make establishing a market for any products that it develops difficult which would have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business. Microbot’s commercial opportunities could also be reduced or eliminated if its competitors develop and commercialize products, treatments or procedures quicker, that are safer, more effective, are more convenient or are less expensive than the SCS or any product that Microbot may develop. Many of Microbot’s potential competitors have significantly greater financial resources and expertise in research and development, manufacturing, preclinical testing, conducting clinical trials, obtaining regulatory approvals and marketing approved products than Microbot may have. Mergers and acquisitions in the medical device industry market may result in even more resources being concentrated among a smaller number of Microbot’s potential competitors.

 

At this time, Microbot does not know whetherthe extent of the clinical trial that the FDA will require it to submit clinical data in support of its future marketing applications for its SCSLIBERTY product candidate, particularly in light of recent initiatives by the FDA to enhance and modernize its approach to medical device safety and innovation, which creates uncertainty for Microbot as well as the possibility of increased product development costs and time to market.

 

Microbot anticipates thathas identified a predicate device for the LIBERTY device, which it intended to use in its lead product candidate, the SCS, will be classified by the FDA as Class II and thus be eligible for marketing pursuant to a cleared 510(k) notification.application. However, there is no guarantee that the FDA will agree with the Company’s determination or that the FDA would accept the predicate device that Microbot intends to submit in its 510(k) notification in order to establish that its new device product is substantially equivalent to one or more predicate devices.. The FDA also may request additional data in response to a 510(k) notification, or require Microbot to conduct further testing or compile more data in support of its 510(k) submission. Such additional data could include clinical data that must be derived from human clinical studies that are designed appropriately to address the potential questions from the FDA regarding a proposed product’s safety or effectiveness.. It is unclear at this time whether and how various activities recently initiated or announced by the FDA to modernize the U.S. medical device regulatory system could affect the marketing pathway or timeline for our product candidate, given the timing and the undeveloped nature of some of the FDA’s new medical device safety and innovation initiatives. One of the recent initiatives was announced in April 2018, when the FDA Commissioner issued a statement with the release of a Medical Device Safety Action Plan. Among other key areas of the Medical Device Safety Action Plan, the Commissioner stated that the FDA is “exploring what further actions we can take to spur innovation towards technologies that can make devices and their use safer. For instance, our Breakthrough Device Program that helps address unmet medical needs can be used to facilitate patient access to innovative new devices that have important improvements to patient safety. We’re considering developing a similar program to support the development of safer devices that do not otherwise meet the Breakthrough Program criteria, but are clearly intended to be safer than currently available technologies.” This type of program may negatively affect our existing development plan for the SCS product candidate or it may benefit Microbot, but at this time those potential impacts from recent FDA medical device initiatives are unknown and uncertain. Similarly, the FDA Commissioner announced various agency goals under a Medical Innovation Access Plan in 2017.nature.

 

If theThe FDA does requirerequires clinical data to be submitted as part of the SCSLIBERTY marketing submission, any type of clinical study performed in humans will require the investment of substantial expense, professional resources and time. In order to conduct a clinical investigation involving human subjects for the purpose of demonstrating the safety and effectiveness of a medical device, a company must, among other things, apply for and obtain Institutional Review Board, or IRB, approval of the proposed investigation. In addition, if the clinical study involves a “significant risk” (as defined by the FDA) to human health, the sponsor of the investigation must also submit and obtain FDA approval of an Investigational Device Exemption, or IDE, application. Microbot may not be able to obtain FDA and/or IRB approval to undertake clinical trials in the United States for any new devices Microbot intends to market in the United States in the future. Moreover, the timing of the commencement, continuation and completion of any future clinical trial may be subject to significant delays attributable to various causes, including scheduling conflicts with participating clinicians and clinical institutions, difficulties in identifying and enrolling patients who meet trial eligibility criteria, failure of patients to complete the clinical trial, delay in or failure to obtain IRB approval to conduct a clinical trial at a prospective site, and shortages of supply in the investigational device.

Thus, the addition of one or more mandatory clinical trials to the development timeline for the SCSLIBERTY or any other product candidate would significantly increase the costs associated with developing and commercializing the product and delay the timing of U.S. regulatory authorization. The current uncertainty regarding near-term medical device regulatory changes by the FDA could further affect our development plans for the SCS,LIBERTY or any other product candidate, depending on their nature, scope and applicability. Microbot and its business, financial condition and operating results could be materially and adversely affected as a result of any such costs, delays or uncertainty.

 

Risks RelatedMicrobot’s One & Done technology is subject to this Offeringa buy-back clause which, if triggered, could cause us to lose rights to the technology.

Pursuant to the agreement we entered into in January 2018 to acquire the One & Done technology, we are required to meet certain commercialization deadlines or CardioSert may terminate the agreement and buy back the technology for $1.00, subject to certain limited exceptions. One of the exceptions in the agreement is if “The First Commercial Sale does not occur within 50 months of the Effective Date” of the contract. 50 months have expired in 2022 and Microbot did not meet the commercialization deadlines.

Our failure to meet the applicable commercialization deadline could therefore result in the sale back of the technology to CardioSert. In addition, as a result of our recently enacted core-business focus program and cost reduction plan, we terminated our existing agreement with Cardiosert Ltd. effective as of August 17, 2023, which could result in the technology being re-acquired by Cardiosert Ltd. for nominal consideration. Although we have not yet been notified of any such election, any such sale would materially adversely affect our ability to develop and commercialize, or materially delay the development and commercialization of, our One & Done technology, if we were to otherwise determine to restart that product platform.

 

YouMicrobot will experience immediatedepend upon the ability of third parties, including contract research organizations, collaborative academic groups, future clinical trial sites and substantial dilutioninvestigators, to conduct or to assist the Company in conducting clinical trials for its product candidates, if you purchase securities in this offering.such trials become necessary.

 

As a development-stage, pre-clinical company, Microbot has no prior experience in designing, initiating, conducting and monitoring human clinical trials. Microbot will depend upon its ability and/or the ability of future collaborators, contract research organizations, clinical trial sites and investigators to successfully design, initiate, conduct and monitor such clinical trials.

As

Failure by Microbot or by any of September 30, 2018, our net tangible book value was approximately $6,566,000 ,these future collaborating parties to timely and effectively initiate, conduct and monitor a future clinical trial could significantly delay or $2.2066 per share. Youmaterially impair Microbot’s ability to complete those clinical trials and/or obtain regulatory clearance or approval of its product candidates and, consequently, could delay or materially impair its ability to generate revenues from the commercialization of those products.

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If the commercial opportunity for LIBERTY and any other commercial products that may be developed by Microbot is smaller than Microbot anticipates, Microbot’s future revenue from LIBERTY and such other products will be adversely affected and Microbot’s business will suffer.

If the size of the commercial opportunities in any of Microbot’s target markets is smaller than it anticipates, Microbot may not be able to achieve profitability and growth. It is difficult to predict the penetration, future growth rate or size of the market for Microbot’s product candidate.

The commercial success of LIBERTY or any other product candidates will require broad acceptance of the devices by the doctors and other medical professionals who specialize in the procedures targeted by each device, a limited number of whom may be able to influence device selection and purchasing decisions. If Microbot’s technologies are not broadly accepted and perceived as having significant advantages over existing medical devices, then it will not suffermeet its business objectives. Such perceptions are likely to be based on a determination by medical facilities and physicians that Microbot’s product candidates are safe and effective, are cost-effective in comparison to existing devices, and represent acceptable methods of treatment. Microbot cannot assure that it will be able to establish the relationships and arrangements with medical facilities and physicians necessary to support the market uptake of its product candidates. In addition, its competitors may develop new technologies for the same markets Microbot is targeting that are more attractive to medical facilities and physicians. If doctors and other medical professionals do not consider Microbot product candidates to be suitable for application in the procedures we are targeting and an improvement over the use of existing or competing products, Microbot’s business goals will not be realized.

Customers will be unlikely to buy the LIBERTY or any dilution if you purchase securities in this offering with respectother product candidates unless Microbot can demonstrate that they can be produced for sale to the net tangible book valueconsumers at attractive prices.

To date, Microbot has focused primarily on research and development of the common stock includedLIBERTY device and first generation versions of other current and former product candidates. Consequently, Microbot has no experience in manufacturing its product candidates, and intends to manufacture its product candidates through third-party manufacturers. Microbot can offer no assurance that either it or its manufacturing partners will develop efficient, automated, low-cost manufacturing capabilities and processes to meet the quality, price, engineering, design and production standards or production volumes required to successfully mass produce its commercial products. Even if its manufacturing partners are successful in developing such manufacturing capability and quality processes, including the assurance of GMP-compliant device manufacturing, there can be no assurance that Microbot can timely meet its product commercialization schedule or the production and delivery requirements of potential customers. A failure to develop such manufacturing processes and capabilities could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business and financial results.

The proposed price of Microbot’s product candidates, once approved for sale, will be dependent on material and other manufacturing costs. Microbot cannot offer any assurances that its manufacturing partner will be able manufacture its product candidates at a competitive price or that achieving cost reductions will not cause a reduction in the units or issuable upon the exerciseperformance, reliability and longevity of the common warrants or the pre-funded warrants issued in this offering, based on the assumed public offering price of  $1.66 per unit being sold in this offering (the closing price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on December 24, 2018) and our net tangible book value per share as of September 30, 2018. However, upon certain circumstances such as increases in the actual public offering price per share in this offering, you can suffer immediate and substantial dilution per share with respect to the net tangible book value of the common stock included in the units or issuable upon the exercise of the common warrants or the pre-funded warrants issued in this offering. See the section entitled “Dilution” for a more detailed discussion of the dilution, if any, you will incur if you purchase units in this offering. The discussion above assumes (i) no sale of common warrants or the pre-funded warrants, which, if sold, would reduce the number of shares of common stock that we are offering on a one-for-one basis until such warrants are exercised and (ii) no exercise by the underwriter of the Underwriter’s Warrants.its product candidates.

 

There is no public market for the common warrants or the pre-funded warrants being offered in this offering.Microbot has relied on, and intends to continue to rely on, third-party manufacturers to produce its product candidates.

 

There is no established public trading marketMicrobot currently relies, and expects to rely for the common warrantsforeseeable future, on third-party manufacturers to produce and supply its product candidates, and it expects to rely on third parties to manufacture the commercialized products as well, should they receive the necessary regulatory clearance or approval. Reliance on third-party manufacturers entails risks to which Microbot would not be subject if Microbot manufactured its product candidates or future commercial products itself, including:

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limitations on supply availability resulting from capacity, internal operational problems or scheduling constraints of third parties;
potential regulatory non-compliance or other violations by the third-party manufacturer that could result in quality assurance;
the possible breach of manufacturing agreements by third parties because of various factors beyond Microbot’s control; and
the possible termination or non-renewal of manufacturing agreements by third parties for various reasons beyond Microbot’s control, at a time that is costly or inconvenient to Microbot.

If Microbot is not able to maintain its key manufacturing relationships, Microbot may fail to find replacement manufacturers or develop its own manufacturing capabilities, which could delay or impair Microbot’s ability to obtain regulatory clearance or approval for its product candidates and could substantially increase its costs or deplete profit margins, if any. If Microbot does find replacement manufacturers, Microbot may not be able to enter into agreements with them on terms and conditions favorable to it and there could be a substantial delay before new facilities could be qualified and registered with the pre-funded warrants being offered in this offering,FDA and we do not expect a market to develop. In addition, we do not intend to apply to list the common warrants or the pre-funded warrants on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system, including The Nasdaq Capital Market. Without an active market, the liquidity of the common warrants and the pre-funded warrants will be limited.other foreign regulatory authorities.

If Microbot’s product candidates are not considered to be a safe and effective alternative to existing technologies, Microbot will not be commercially successful.

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The LIBERTY and our other product candidates rely on new technologies, and Microbot’s success will depend on acceptance of these technologies by the medical community as safe, clinically effective, cost effective and a preferred device as compared to products of its competitors. Microbot does not have broad discretion inlong-term data regarding efficacy, safety and clinical outcomes associated with the use of LIBERTY or our other product candidates. Any data that is generated in the net proceedsfuture may not be positive or may not support the product candidates’ regulatory dossiers, which would negatively affect market acceptance and the rate at which its product candidates are adopted. Equally important will be physicians’ perceptions of the safety of Microbot’s product candidates because Microbot’s technologies are relatively new. If, over the long term, Microbot’s product candidates do not meet surgeons’ expectations as to safety, efficacy and ease of use, they may not become widely adopted.

Market acceptance of Microbot’s product candidates will also be affected by other factors, including Microbot’s ability to convince key opinion leaders to provide recommendations regarding its product candidates; convince distributors that its technologies are attractive alternatives to existing and competing technologies; supply and service sufficient quantities of products directly or through marketing alliances; and price products competitively in light of the current macroeconomic environment, which is increasingly price sensitive.

Microbot may be subject to penalties and may be precluded from marketing its product candidates if Microbot fails to comply with extensive governmental regulations.

Microbot believes that its medical device product candidates will be categorized as Class II devices, which typically require a 510(k) or 510(k) de-novo premarket submission to the FDA. However, the FDA has not made any determination about whether Microbot’s medical product candidates are Class II medical devices and may disagree with that classification. If the FDA determines that Microbot’s product candidates should be reclassified as Class III medical devices, Microbot could be precluded from marketing the devices for clinical use within the United States for months, years or longer, depending on the specifics of the change in classification. Reclassification of any of Microbot’s product candidates as Class III medical devices could significantly increase Microbot’s regulatory costs, including the timing and expense associated with required clinical trials and other costs.

The FDA and non-U.S. regulatory authorities require that Microbot product candidates be manufactured according to rigorous standards. These regulatory requirements significantly increase Microbot’s production costs, which may prevent Microbot from offering products within the price range and in quantities necessary to meet market demands. If Microbot or one of its third-party manufacturers changes an approved manufacturing process, the FDA may need to review the process before it may be used. Failure to comply with applicable pre-market and post-market regulatory requirements could subject Microbot to enforcement actions, including warning letters, fines, injunctions and civil penalties, recall or seizure of its products, operating restrictions, partial suspension or total shutdown of its production, and criminal prosecution.

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If Microbot is not able to both obtain and maintain adequate levels of third-party reimbursement for procedures involving its product candidates after they are approved for marketing and launched commercially, it would have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business.

Healthcare providers and related facilities are generally reimbursed for their services through payment systems managed by various governmental agencies worldwide, private insurance companies, and managed care organizations. The manner and level of reimbursement in any given case may depend on the site of care, the procedure(s) performed, the final patient diagnosis, the device(s) utilized, available budget, or a combination of these factors, and coverage and payment levels are determined at each payor’s discretion. The coverage policies and reimbursement levels of these third-party payors may impact the decisions of healthcare providers and facilities regarding which medical products they purchase and the prices they are willing to pay for those products. Microbot cannot assure you that its sales will not be impeded and its business harmed if third-party payors fail to provide reimbursement for Microbot products that healthcare providers view as adequate.

In the United States, Microbot expects that its product candidates, once approved, will be purchased primarily by medical institutions, which then bill various third-party payors, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, which administers the Medicare program through Medicare Administrative Contractors, and other government health care programs and private insurance plans, for the healthcare products and services provided to their patients. The process involved in applying for coverage and incremental reimbursement from CMS is lengthy and expensive. Moreover, many private payors look to CMS in setting their reimbursement policies and amounts. If CMS or other agencies limit coverage for procedures utilizing Microbot’s products or decrease or limit reimbursement payments for doctors and hospitals utilizing Microbot’s products, this offeringmay affect coverage and reimbursement determinations by many private payors.

If a procedure involving a medical device is not reimbursed separately by a government or private insurer, then a medical institution would have to absorb the cost of Microbot’s products as part of the cost of the procedure in which the products are used. At this time, Microbot does not know the extent to which medical institutions would consider insurers’ payment levels adequate to cover the cost of its products. Failure by hospitals and surgeons to receive an amount that they consider to be adequate reimbursement for procedures in which Microbot products are used could deter them from purchasing Microbot products and limit sales growth for those products.

Microbot has no control over payor decision-making with respect to coverage and payment levels for its medical device product candidates, once they are approved. Additionally, Microbot expects many payors to continue to explore cost-containment strategies (e.g., comparative and cost-effectiveness analyses, so-called “pay-for-performance” programs implemented by various public government health care programs and private third-party payors, and expansion of payment bundling initiatives, and other such methods that shift medical cost risk to providers) that may potentially impact coverage and/or payment levels for Microbot’s current product candidates or products Microbot develops in the future.

As Microbot’s product offerings are used across diverse healthcare settings, they will be affected to varying degrees by the different payment systems.

Clinical outcome studies for the LIBERTY may not provide sufficient data to make such product candidates the standard of care.

Microbot’s business plan with respect to the LIBERTY relies on the broad adoption by surgeons of the products for their respective planned applications.

Clinical studies may not show an advantage in LIBERTY based procedures in a timely manner, or at all, and outcome studies have not been designed at this time, and may be too large and too costly for Microbot to conduct. Both situations could prevent broad adoption of the LIBERTY and materially impact Microbot’s business.

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Microbot products may in the future be subject to mandatory product recalls that could harm its reputation, business and financial results.

The FDA and similar foreign governmental authorities have the authority to require the recall of commercialized products in the event of material deficiencies or defects in design or manufacture that could pose a risk of injury to patients. In the case of the FDA, the authority to require a recall must be based on an FDA finding that there is a reasonable probability that the device would cause serious injury or death, although in most cases this mandatory recall authority is not used because manufacturers typically initiate a voluntary recall when a device violation is discovered. In addition, foreign governmental bodies have the authority to require the recall of Microbot products in the event of material deficiencies or defects in design or manufacture. Manufacturers may, under their own initiative, recall a product if any material deficiency in a device is found. A government-mandated or voluntary recall by Microbot or one of its distributors could occur as a result of component failures, manufacturing errors, design or labeling defects or other deficiencies and issues. Recalls of any Microbot products would divert managerial and financial resources and have an adverse effect on Microbot’s financial condition and results of operations, and any future recall announcements could harm Microbot’s reputation with customers and negatively affect its sales. In addition, the FDA could take enforcement action, including any of the following sanctions for failing to timely report a recall to the FDA:

untitled letters, warning letters, fines, injunctions, consent decrees and civil penalties;
detention or seizure of Microbot products;
operating restrictions or partial suspension or total shutdown of production;
refusing or delaying requests for 510(k) clearance or premarket approval of new products or modified products;
withdrawing 510(k) clearances or other types of regulatory authorizations -that have already been granted;
refusing to grant export approval for Microbot products; or
criminal prosecution.

If Microbot’s future commercialized products cause or contribute to a death or a serious injury, Microbot will be subject to Medical Device Reporting regulations, which can result in voluntary corrective actions or agency enforcement actions.

Under FDA regulations, Microbot will be required to report to the FDA any incident in which a marketed medical device product may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury or in which a medical device malfunctioned and, if the malfunction were to recur, would likely cause or contribute to death or serious injury. In addition, all manufacturers placing medical devices in European Union markets are legally bound to report any serious or potentially serious incidents involving devices they produce or sell to the relevant authority in whose jurisdiction the incident occurred.

Microbot anticipates that in the future it is likely that we may experience events that would require reporting to the FDA pursuant to the Medical Device Reporting (MDR) regulations. Any adverse event involving a Microbot product could result in future voluntary corrective actions, such as product actions or customer notifications, or agency actions, such as inspection, mandatory recall or other enforcement action. Any corrective action, whether voluntary or involuntary, as well as defending Microbot in a lawsuit, will require the dedication of our time and capital, distract management from operating our business, and may harm our reputation and financial results.

Microbot could be exposed to significant liability claims if Microbot is unable to obtain insurance at acceptable costs and adequate levels or otherwise protect itself against potential product liability claims.

The testing, manufacture, marketing and sale of medical devices entail the inherent risk of liability claims or product recalls. Product liability insurance is expensive and may not use thembe available on acceptable terms, if at all. A successful product liability claim or product recall could inhibit or prevent the successful commercialization of Microbot’s products, cause a significant financial burden on Microbot, or both, which in any case could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business and financial condition.

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If Microbot fails to retain certain of its key personnel and attract and retain additional qualified personnel, Microbot might not be able to pursue its growth strategy effectively.

 

OurMicrobot is dependent on its senior management, in particular Harel Gadot, Microbot’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, and Simon Sharon, its General Manager and Chief Technology Officer. Although Microbot believes that its relationship with members of its senior management is positive, there can be no assurance that the services of any of these individuals will have broad discretioncontinue to be available to Microbot in the applicationfuture. In particular, as part of our cost reduction program, we have reduced all executive officers’ salaries by between 30-50%. We can give no assurance that any of our executives will remain with our company in light of such reductions. Microbot’s future success will depend in part on its ability to retain its management and scientific teams, to identify, hire and retain additional qualified personnel with expertise in research and development and sales and marketing, and to effectively provide for the succession of senior management, when necessary. Competition for qualified personnel in the medical device industry is intense and finding and retaining qualified personnel with experience in the industry is very difficult. Microbot believes that there are only a limited number of individuals with the requisite skills to serve in key positions at Microbot, particularly in Israel, and it competes for key personnel with other medical equipment and technology companies, as well as research institutions.

Microbot does not carry, and does not intend to carry, any key man life insurance policies on any of its existing executive officers.

Risks Relating to International Business

If Microbot fails to obtain regulatory clearances in other countries for its product candidates under development, Microbot will not be able to commercialize these product candidates in those countries.

In order for Microbot to market its product candidates in countries other than the United States, it must comply with the safety and quality regulations in such countries.

In Europe, these regulations, including the requirements for approvals, clearance or grant of Conformité Européenne, or CE, Certificates of Conformity and the time required for regulatory review, vary from country to country. Failure to obtain regulatory approval, clearance or CE Certificates of Conformity (or equivalent) in any foreign country in which Microbot plans to market its product candidates may harm its ability to generate revenue and harm its business. Approval and CE marking procedures vary among countries and can involve additional product testing and additional administrative review periods. The time required to obtain approval or CE Certificate of Conformity in other countries might differ from that required to obtain FDA clearance. The regulatory approval or CE marking process in other countries may include all of the net proceeds from this offering, including forrisks detailed above regarding FDA clearance in the United States. Regulatory approval or the CE marking of a product candidate in one country does not ensure regulatory approval in another, but a failure or delay in obtaining regulatory approval or a CE Certificate of Conformity in one country may negatively impact the regulatory process in others. Failure to obtain regulatory approval or a CE Certificate of Conformity in other countries or any delay or setback in obtaining such approval could have the same adverse effects described above regarding FDA clearance in the United States.

Microbot cannot be certain that it will be successful in complying with the requirements of the purposes describedCE Certificate of Conformity and receiving a CE Mark for its product candidates or in continuing to meet the requirements of the Medical Devices Directive in the section entitled “UseEuropean Economic Area (EEA).

Israel’s Medical Devices Law generally requires the registration of Proceeds,”all medical products with the Ministry of Health, or MOH, Registrar through the submission of an application to the Ministry of Health Medical Institutions and youDevices Licensing Department, or AMAR. If the application includes a certificate issued by a competent authority of a “recognized” country, which includes Australia, Canada, the European Community Member States, Japan or the United States, the registration process is expedited, but is generally still expected to take 6 to 9 months for approval. If certification from a recognized country is not available, the registration process takes significantly longer and a license is rarely issued under such circumstances, as the MOH may require the presentation of significant additional clinical data. Once granted, a license (marketing authorization) for a medical device is valid for five years from the date of registration of the device, except for implants with a life-supporting function, for which the validity is for only two years from the date of registration. Furthermore, the holder of the license must meet several additional requirements to maintain the license. Microbot cannot be certain that it will be successful in applying for a license from the MOH for its product candidates.

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Microbot operations in international markets involve inherent risks that Microbot may not be able to control.

Microbot’s business plan includes the marketing and sale of its proposed product candidates internationally, and specifically in Europe and Israel. Accordingly, Microbot’s results could be materially and adversely affected by a variety of factors relating to international business operations that it may or may not be able to control, including:

adverse macroeconomic conditions affecting geographies where Microbot intends to do business;
closing of international borders, including as a result of biohazards or pandemics;
foreign currency exchange rates;
political or social unrest or economic instability in a specific country or region;
higher costs of doing business in certain foreign countries;
infringement claims on foreign patents, copyrights or trademark rights;
difficulties in staffing and managing operations across disparate geographic areas;
difficulties associated with enforcing agreements and intellectual property rights through foreign legal systems;
trade protection measures and other regulatory requirements, which affect Microbot’s ability to import or export its product candidates from or to various countries;
adverse tax consequences;
unexpected changes in legal and regulatory requirements;
military conflict, terrorist activities, natural disasters and medical epidemics; and
Microbot’s ability to recruit and retain channel partners in foreign jurisdictions.

Microbot’s financial results may be affected by fluctuations in exchange rates and Microbot’s current currency hedging strategy may not be sufficient to counter such fluctuations.

Microbot’s financial statements are denominated in U.S. dollars and the financial results of the Company are denominated in U.S. dollars, while a significant portion of Microbot’s business is conducted, and a substantial portion of its operating expenses are payable, in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. Exchange rate fluctuations may have an adverse impact on Microbot’s future revenues or expenses as presented in the financial statements. Microbot may in the future use financial instruments, such as forward foreign currency contracts, in its management of foreign currency exposure. These contracts would primarily require Microbot to purchase and sell certain foreign currencies with or for U.S. dollars at contracted rates. Microbot may be exposed to a credit loss in the event of non-performance by the counterparties of these contracts. In addition, these financial instruments may not adequately manage Microbot’s foreign currency exposure. Microbot’s results of operations could be adversely affected if Microbot is unable to successfully manage currency fluctuations in the future.

Risks Relating to Microbot’s Intellectual Property

Microbot’s right to develop and commercialize the LIBERTY product candidate is subject to the terms and condition of a license granted to Microbot by Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. and termination of the license with respect to the technology platform underlying the product candidate could result in Microbot ceasing its development efforts for the LIBERTY platform.

Microbot entered into a license agreement with Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd., or TRDF, pursuant to which Microbot obtained an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-bearing, sub-licensable license to certain patents and inventions, originally relating to the SCS and TipCAT technology platforms and subsequently amended to include our LIBERTY platform. Pursuant to the terms of the license agreement, in order to maintain the license with respect to each platform, Microbot must use commercially reasonable efforts to develop products covered by the license, including meeting certain agreed upon development milestones. TRDF has the option to terminate a license granted in the event Microbot fails to meet a development milestone associated with such technology. Therefore, the failure to meet development milestones may lead to a complete termination of the license agreement and result in Microbot ceasing its development efforts for the applicable product candidate. Failure to meet any development milestone will give TRDF the right to terminate the license with respect to the technology underlying the missed milestone. TRDF has previously demonstrated flexibility with respect to amending the terms of the license to extend the milestone dates, although we can give no assurance at this time that TRDF will continue to be so flexible with respect to amending the terms of the license. We have informed TRDF of our suspension of our SCS research and development program and our plans exploring strategic alternatives for such product and technology. Furthermore, we have returned the intellectual property relating to the TipCat platform as part of our core-business focus program and we may similarly return the intellectual property relating to the SCS(ViRob) platform. To-date, TRDF has not taken any action to so terminate the license, although we can give no assurance they will not do so.

Under the license agreement, Microbot is also subject to various other obligations, including obligations with respect to payment upon the achievement of certain milestones and royalties on product sales. TRDF may terminate the license agreement under certain circumstances, including material breaches by Microbot or under certain bankruptcy or insolvency events. In the case of termination of the license by Microbot without cause or by TRDF for cause, TRDF has the right to receive a non-exclusive license from Microbot with respect to improvements to the licensed technologies made by Microbot.

If TRDF were to terminate the license agreement or if Microbot was to otherwise lose the ability to exploit the licensed patents, Microbot’s competitive advantage with respect to its LIBERTY technology platform could be reduced or terminated, and Microbot will likely not be able to find a source to replace the licensed technology.

Additionally, if there is any future dispute between Microbot and TRDF regarding the respective parties’ rights under the license agreement, Microbot’s ability to develop and commercialize the LIBERTY may be materially harmed, although at this time no material development or commercialization of either platform is in effect.

Microbot may not meet its product candidates’ development and commercialization objectives in a timely manner or at all.

Microbot has established internal goals, based upon expectations with respect to its technologies, which Microbot has used to assess its progress toward developing its product candidates. These goals relate to technology and design improvements as well as to dates for achieving specific development results. If the product candidates exhibit technical defects or are unable to meet cost or performance goals, Microbot’s commercialization schedule could be delayed and potential purchasers of its initial commercialized products may decline to purchase such products or may opt to pursue alternative products, which would materially harm its business.

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Intellectual property litigation and infringement claims could cause Microbot to incur significant expenses or prevent Microbot from selling certain of its product candidates.

The medical device industry is characterized by extensive intellectual property litigation. From time to time, Microbot might be the subject of claims by third parties of potential infringement or misappropriation. Regardless of outcome, such claims are expensive to defend and divert the time and effort of Microbot’s management and operating personnel from other business issues. A successful claim or claims of patent or other intellectual property infringement against Microbot could result in its payment of significant monetary damages and/or royalty payments or negatively impact its ability to sell current or future products in the affected category and could have a material adverse effect on its business, cash flows, financial condition or results of operations.

If Microbot or TRDF are unable to protect the patents or other proprietary rights relating to Microbot’s product candidates, or if Microbot infringes on the patents or other proprietary rights of others, Microbot’s competitiveness and business prospects may be materially damaged.

Microbot’s success depends on its ability to protect its intellectual property (including its licensed intellectual property) and its proprietary technologies. Microbot’s commercial success depends in part on its ability to obtain and maintain patent protection and trade secret protection for its product candidates, proprietary technologies, and their uses, as well as its ability to operate without infringing upon the proprietary rights of others.

Microbot currently holds, through licenses or otherwise, an intellectual property portfolio that includes U.S. and international patents and pending patents, and other patents under development. Microbot intends to continue to seek legal protection, primarily through patents, including the TRDF licensed patents, for its proprietary technology. Seeking patent protection is a lengthy and costly process, and there can be no assurance that patents will be issued from any pending applications, or that any claims allowed from existing or pending patents will be sufficiently broad or strong to protect its proprietary technology. There is also no guarantee that any patents Microbot holds, through licenses or otherwise, will not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented, or that the patent rights granted will provide competitive advantages to Microbot. Microbot’s competitors have developed and may continue to develop and obtain patents for technologies that are similar or superior to Microbot’s technologies. In addition, the laws of foreign jurisdictions in which Microbot develops, manufactures or sells its product candidates may not protect Microbot’s intellectual property rights to the same extent as do the laws of the United States.

Adverse outcomes in current or future legal disputes regarding patent and other intellectual property rights could result in the loss of Microbot’s intellectual property rights, subject Microbot to significant liabilities to third parties, require Microbot to seek licenses from third parties on terms that may not be reasonable or favorable to Microbot, prevent Microbot from manufacturing, importing or selling its product candidates, or compel Microbot to redesign its product candidates to avoid infringing third parties’ intellectual property. As a result, Microbot may be required to incur substantial costs to prosecute, enforce or defend its intellectual property rights if they are challenged. Any of these circumstances could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business, financial condition and resources or results of operations.

Microbot has the first right, but not the obligation, to control the prosecution, maintenance or enforcement of the licensed patents from TRDF. However, there may be situations in which Microbot will not have control over the opportunity as part of your investment decision to assess whether the net proceeds are being used appropriately. Becauseprosecution, maintenance or enforcement of the number and variability of factorspatents that will determine our use of the net proceeds from this offering, their ultimate use may vary substantially from their currently intended use. Our managementMicrobot licenses, or may not applyhave sufficient ability to consult and input into the net proceeds from this offering in ways that ultimately increasepatent prosecution and maintenance process with respect to such patents. If Microbot does not control the value of your investment. The failure by our managementpatent prosecution and maintenance process with respect to apply these funds effectively could harm our business. Pending their use, wethe TRDF licensed patents, TRDF may invest the net proceeds from this offering in short-term, investment-grade, interest-bearing securities or as otherwise provided in our investment policies in effect from timeelect to time. These investments may not yield a favorable return to our stockholders. If we do not invest or apply the net proceeds from this offering in ways that enhance stockholder value, weso but may fail to achieve expected financial results, which could cause our stock pricetake the steps that are necessary or desirable in order to decline.obtain, maintain and enforce the licensed patents.

Microbot’s ability to develop intellectual property depends in large part on hiring, retaining and motivating highly qualified design and engineering staff and consultants with the knowledge and technical competence to advance its technology and productivity goals. To protect Microbot’s trade secrets and proprietary information, Microbot has entered into confidentiality agreements with its employees, as well as with consultants and other parties. If these agreements prove inadequate or are breached, Microbot’s remedies may not be sufficient to cover its losses.

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Dependence on patent and other proprietary rights and failing to protect such rights or to be successful in litigation related to such rights may result in Microbot’s payment of significant monetary damages or impact offerings in its product portfolios.

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Microbot’s long-term success largely depends on its ability to market technologically competitive product candidates. If Microbot fails to obtain or maintain adequate intellectual property protection, it may not be able to prevent third parties from using its proprietary technologies or may lose access to technologies critical to our product candidates. Also, Microbot currently pending or future patent applications may not result in issued patents, and issued patents are subject to a lawsuitclaims concerning priority, scope and other issues.

Furthermore, Microbot has not filed applications for all of our patents internationally and it may not be able to prevent third parties from using its proprietary technologies or may lose access to technologies critical to its product candidates in other countries.

Risks Relating to Operations in Israel

Microbot has facilities located in Israel, and therefore, political conditions in Israel may affect Microbot’s operations and results.

Microbot has facilities located in Israel. In addition, one of its seven directors, its General Manager and Chief Technology Officer, Chief Medical Officer and its Chief Financial Officer, as well as substantially all of its research and development team and non-management employees, are residents of Israel. Accordingly, political, economic and military conditions in Israel will directly or indirectly affect Microbot’s operations and results. Most recently, for example, the current political situation in Israel where the ruling parties are attempting to implement laws that essentially allow the parliament to enact laws that are preemptively immune to judicial review could adversely affect our business and our useresults of proceeds from this offering.

We are named asoperations. In addition, since the defendant in a lawsuit, which we refer to as the Matter, captioned Sabby Healthcare Master Fund Ltd. and Sabby Volatility Warrant Master Fund Ltd., Plaintiffs, against Microbot Medical Inc., Defendant, pending in the Supreme Courtestablishment of the State of New York, CountyIsrael, a number of New York (the “Court”) (Index No. 654581/2017). The complaint alleges, among other things, that we breached multiple representationsarmed conflicts have taken place between Israel and warranties containedits Arab neighbors. An ongoing state of hostility, varying in degree and intensity has led to security and economic problems for Israel. For a number of years there have been continuing hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians. This includes hostilities with the Islamic movement Hamas in the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”)Gaza Strip, which have adversely affected the peace process and at times resulted in armed conflicts. Such hostilities have negatively influenced Israel’s economy as well as impaired Israel’s relationships with several other countries. Israel also faces threats from Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, from ISIS and rebel forces in Syria, from the government of Iran and other potential threats from additional countries in the region. Moreover, some of Israel’s neighboring countries have recently undergone or are undergoing significant political changes. These political, economic and military conditions in Israel could have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business, financial condition, results of operations and future growth.

Political relations could limit Microbot’s ability to sell or buy internationally.

Microbot could be adversely affected by the interruption or reduction of trade between Israel and its trading partners. Some countries, companies and organizations continue to participate in a boycott of Israeli firms and others doing business with Israel, with Israeli companies or with Israeli-owned companies operating in other countries. Foreign government defense export policies towards Israel could also make it more difficult for us to obtain the export authorizations necessary for Microbot’s activities. Also, over the past several years there have been calls in the United States, Europe and elsewhere to reduce trade with Israel. There can be no assurance that restrictive laws, policies or practices directed towards Israel or Israeli businesses will not have an adverse impact on Microbot’s business.

Israel’s economy may become unstable.

From time to time, Israel’s economy may experience inflation or deflation, low foreign exchange reserves, fluctuations in world commodity prices, military conflicts and civil unrest. For these and other reasons, the government of Israel has intervened in the economy employing fiscal and monetary policies, import duties, foreign currency restrictions, controls of wages, prices and foreign currency exchange rates and regulations regarding the lending limits of Israeli banks to companies considered to be in an affiliated group. The Israeli government has periodically changed its policies in these areas. Reoccurrence of previous destabilizing factors could make it more difficult for Microbot to operate its business and could adversely affect its business.

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Exchange rate fluctuations between the U.S. dollar and the NIS currencies may negatively affect Microbot’s operating costs.

A significant portion of Microbot’s expenses are paid in New Israeli Shekels, or NIS, but its financial statements are denominated in U.S. dollars. As a result, Microbot is exposed to the risks that the NIS may appreciate relative to the U.S. dollar, or the NIS instead devalues relative to the U.S. dollar, and the inflation rate in Israel may exceed such rate of devaluation of the NIS, or that the timing of such devaluation may lag behind inflation in Israel. In any such event, the U.S. dollar cost of Microbot’s operations in Israel would increase and Microbot’s U.S. dollar-denominated results of operations would be adversely affected. Microbot cannot predict any future trends in the rate of inflation in Israel or the rate of devaluation (if any) of the NIS against the U.S. dollar.

Microbot’s primary expenses paid in NIS that are not linked to the U.S. dollar are employee expenses in Israel and lease payments on its Israeli facility. If Microbot is unsuccessful in hedging against its position in NIS, a change in the value of the NIS compared to the U.S. dollar could increase Microbot’s research and development expenses, labor costs and general and administrative expenses, and as a result, have a negative impact on Microbot’s profits.

Funding and other benefits provided by Israeli government programs may be terminated or reduced in the future and the terms of such funding may have a significant impact on future corporate decisions.

Microbot participates in programs under the auspices of the Israeli Innovation Authority, for which it receives funding for the development of its technologies and product candidates. If Microbot fails to comply with the conditions applicable to this program, it may be required to pay additional penalties or make refunds and may be denied future benefits. From time to time, the government of Israel has discussed reducing or eliminating the benefits available under this program, and therefore these benefits may not be available in the future at their current levels or at all.

Microbot’s research and development efforts from inception until now have been financed in part through such Israeli Innovation Authority royalty bearing grants in an aggregate amount of approximately $1,500,000 through March 31, 2023, plus a recent approval for a grant in the amount of NIS 1.62 million, which based on a recent exchange rate to the U.S. dollar, would be approximately $440,000, to further finance the development of a manufacturing process for the LIBERTY. In addition, as a result of our 2018 agreement with CardioSert and our 2022 agreement with Nitiloop, we took over the liability to repay CardioSert’s and Nitiloop’s IIA grants in the aggregate amount of approximately $530,000 and $925,000, respectively.

With respect to such grants Microbot is committed to pay royalties at a rate of between 3% to 3.5% on sales proceeds up to the total amount of grants received, linked to the dollar, plus interest at an annual rate of USD LIBOR. In addition, as a recipient of Israeli Innovation Authority grants, Microbot must comply with the requirements of the Israeli Encouragement of Industrial Research and Development Law, 1984, or the R&D Law, and related regulations. Under the terms of the grants and the R&D Law, Microbot is restricted from transferring any technologies, know-how, manufacturing or manufacturing rights developed using Israeli Innovation Authority grants outside of Israel without the prior approval of Israeli Innovation Authority. Therefore, if aspects of its technologies are deemed to have been developed with Israeli Innovation Authority funding, the discretionary approval of an Israeli Innovation Authority committee would be required for any transfer to third parties outside of Israel of the technologies, know-how, manufacturing or manufacturing rights related to our June 8, 2017 equity financing,such aspects. Furthermore, the Israeli Innovation Authority may impose certain conditions on any arrangement under which it permits Microbot to transfer technology or development outside of Israel or may not grant such approvals at all.

If approved, the Financing,transfer of Israeli Innovation Authority-supported technology or know-how outside of Israel may involve the payment of significant fees, which will depend on the Plaintiffs participated. The complaint seeks rescissionvalue of the SPAtransferred technology or know-how, the total amount Israeli Innovation Authority funding received by Microbot, the number of years since the funding and returnother factors. These restrictions and requirements for payment may impair Microbot’s ability to sell its technology assets outside of the Plaintiffs’ $3,375,000 purchase priceIsrael or to outsource or transfer development or manufacturing activities with respect to the Financing, and damages in an amount to be determined at trial, but alleged to exceed $1 million. On August 3, 2018, both Plaintiffs and Defendant filed motions for summary judgment. On September 27, 2018, the Court heard oral argument on the parties’ respective summary judgment motions. After oral argument, the Court denied Plaintiffs’ motion in its entirety from the bench. On September 28, 2018, the Court issued a decision granting our motion for summary judgment regarding Plaintiffs’ claim for monetary damages and denying our motion for summary judgment on Plaintiffs’ claim for rescission, finding that there were material questionsany product or technology outside of fact that would need to be resolved at trial. A trial date has been set for February 11, 2019.

On April 4, 2018, we entered into a Tolling and Standstill Agreement with Empery Asset Master, Ltd., Empery Tax Efficient LP, Empery Tax Efficient II LP, and Hudson Bay Master Fund, Ltd., the other investors in the Financing, of whom we refer to as the Other Investors. Pursuant to the Tolling Agreement, among other things, (a) the Other Investors agree not to bring any claims against us arising out of the Matter, (b) the parties agree that if we reach an agreement to settle the claims asserted by the Sabby Funds in the above suit, we will provide the same settlement terms on a pro rata basis to the Other Investors, and the Other Investors will either accept same or waive all of their claims and (c) the parties froze in time the rights and privileges of each party as of the effective date of the Tolling Agreement, until (i) an agreement to settle the suit is executed; (ii) a judgment in the suit is obtained; or (iii) the suit is otherwise dismissed with prejudice.

We believe that the claims are without merit and have been and intend to continue to defend the action vigorously. However, management is unable to assess the likelihood of the claim andIsrael. Furthermore, the amount of potential damages,consideration available to Microbot’s shareholders in a transaction involving the transfer of technology or know-how developed with Israeli Innovation Authority funding outside of Israel (such as through a merger or other similar transaction) may be reduced by any amounts that Microbot is required to pay to the Israeli Innovation Authority.

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Some of Microbot’s employees and officers are obligated to perform military reserve duty in Israel.

Generally, Israeli adult male citizens and permanent residents are obligated to perform annual military reserve duty up to a specified age. They also may be called to active duty at any time under emergency circumstances, which could have a disruptive impact on Microbot’s workforce.

It may be difficult to enforce a non-Israeli judgment against Microbot or its officers and directors.

The operating subsidiary of the Company is incorporated in Israel. Some of Microbot’s executive officers and directors are not residents of the United States, and a substantial portion of Microbot’s assets and the assets of its executive officers and directors are located outside the United States. Therefore, a judgment obtained against Microbot, or any of these persons, including a judgment based on the civil liability provisions of the U.S. federal securities laws, may not be collectible in the United States and may not necessarily be enforced by an Israeli court. It also may be difficult to affect service of process on these persons in the United States or to assert U.S. securities law claims in original actions instituted in Israel. Additionally, it may be difficult for an investor, or any other person or entity, to initiate an action with respect to U.S. securities laws in Israel. Israeli courts may refuse to hear a claim based on an alleged violation of U.S. securities laws reasoning that Israel is not the most appropriate forum in which to bring such a claim. In addition, even if any,an Israeli court agrees to hear a claim, it may determine that Israeli law and not U.S. law is applicable to the claim. If U.S. law is found to be awarded. Accordingly, no assuranceapplicable, the content of applicable U.S. law often involves the testimony of expert witnesses, which can be givena time consuming and costly process. Certain matters of procedure will also be governed by Israeli law. There is little binding case law in Israel that addresses the matters described above. As a result of the difficulty associated with enforcing a judgment against Microbot in Israel, it may be impossible to collect any adverse outcome would notdamages awarded by either a U.S. or foreign court.

Risks Relating to Microbot’s Securities, Governance and Other Matters

If we fail to comply with the continued listing requirements of The Nasdaq Capital Market, our common stock may be delisted and the price of our common stock and our ability to access the capital markets could be negatively impacted.

Our common stock is currently listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. In order to maintain that listing, we must satisfy minimum financial and other continued listing requirements and standards, including those regarding director independence and independent committee requirements, minimum stockholders’ equity, minimum share price, and certain corporate governance requirements. There can be no assurances that we will be able to comply with the applicable listing standards. In 2018, we effected a 1:15 reverse stock split to address our stock price falling below the minimum share price required by Nasdaq. Failure to again meet applicable Nasdaq continued listing standards could result in a delisting of our common stock. A delisting of our common stock from The Nasdaq Capital Market could materially reduce the liquidity of our common stock and result in a corresponding material to our consolidated financial position. Additionally,reduction in the event the court holds for the Plaintiffsprice of our common stock. In addition, delisting could harm our ability to raise capital on terms acceptable to us, or at all, and may result in the Matterpotential loss of confidence by investors, employees and fewer business opportunities. Additionally, if we loseare not eligible for quotation or listing on another exchange, trading of our appeals, we will likelycommon stock could be required to useconducted only in the proceeds from this offeringover-the-counter market or available cash towards payment of damages toon an electronic bulletin board established for unlisted securities such as the Plaintiffs and the Other Investors, that we otherwise would have used to build our business and develop our technologies into commercial products.OTC Marketplace. In such event, weit could become more difficult to dispose of, or obtain accurate price quotations for, our common stock, and there would likely also be requireda reduction in our coverage by securities analysts and the news media, which could cause the price of our common stock to raise additional capital sooner than we otherwise would, of which we can give no assurance of success.decline further.

There may be future sales of our securities or other dilution of our equity, which may adversely affect the market price ofWe do not expect to pay cash dividends on our common stock.

 

We are generallyanticipate that we will retain our earnings, if any, for future growth and therefore do not restrictedanticipate paying cash dividends on our Common Stock in the future. Investors seeking cash dividends should not invest in our Common Stock for that purpose.

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Anti-takeover provisions in the Company’s charter and bylaws under Delaware law may prevent or frustrate attempts by stockholders to change the board of directors or current management and could make a third-party acquisition of the Company difficult.

Provisions in the Company’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws may delay or prevent an acquisition or a change in management. These provisions include a classified board of directors. In addition, because the Company is incorporated in Delaware, it is governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the DGCL, which prohibits stockholders owning in excess of 15% of outstanding voting stock from issuing additional common stock, including any securities that are convertible intomerging or exchangeablecombining with the Company. Although the Company believes these provisions collectively will provide for or that represent the rightan opportunity to receive common stock. The market pricehigher bids by requiring potential acquirers to negotiate with the Company’s board of our common stock could decline as a resultdirectors, they would apply even if the offer may be considered beneficial by some stockholders. In addition, these provisions may frustrate or prevent any attempts by the Company’s stockholders to replace or remove then current management by making it more difficult for stockholders to replace members of salesthe board of common stock or securities that are convertible into or exchangeabledirectors, which is responsible for or that represent the right to receive, common stock after this offering or the perception that such sales could occur.appointing members of management.

General Risks

Holders of common warrants and pre-funded warrants purchased in this offering will have noRaising additional capital may cause dilution to the Company’s investors, restrict its operations or require it to relinquish rights as common stockholders until such holders exercise their respective warrants and acquire our common stock.to its technologies or product candidates.

 

Until holderssuch time, if ever, as the Company can generate substantial product revenues, it expects to finance its cash needs through a combination of equity offerings, including possibly through its existing but currently suspended At-the-Market offering, licensing, collaboration or similar arrangements, grants and debt financings. The Company does not have any committed external source of funds. To the extent that the Company raises additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the ownership interest of its stockholders will be diluted, and the terms of these securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect the rights of holder of the Company’s common warrantsstock. Debt financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting the Company’s ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures, declaring dividends or other distributions, selling or licensing intellectual property rights, and pre-funded warrants acquire shares ofother operating restrictions that could adversely affect the Company’s ability to conduct its business.

If the Company raises additional funds through licensing, collaboration or similar arrangements, it may have to relinquish valuable rights to its technologies, future revenue streams, research and development programs or product candidates or to grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to the Company. If the Company is unable to raise additional funds through equity or debt financings or other arrangements when needed, it may be required to delay, limit, reduce or terminate its product development or future commercialization efforts or grant rights to develop and market product candidates that it would otherwise prefer to develop and market itself.

Microbot operates in a competitive industry and if its competitors have products that are marketed more effectively or develop products, treatments or procedures that are similar, more advanced, safer or more effective, its commercial opportunities will be reduced or eliminated, which would materially harm its business.

Our competitors may develop products, treatments or procedures that directly compete with our common stock upon exercise of their respective warrants, holders of such warrants will have no rightsproducts and potential products and which are similar, more advanced, safer or more effective than ours. The medical device industry is very competitive and subject to significant technological and practice changes. Microbot expects to face competition from many different sources with respect to the sharesLIBERTY and other products that it is seeking to develop or commercialize with respect to its other product candidates in the future.

Competing against large established competitors with significant resources may make establishing a market for any products that it develops difficult which would have a material adverse effect on Microbot’s business. Microbot’s commercial opportunities could also be reduced or eliminated if its competitors develop and commercialize products, treatments or procedures quicker, that are safer, more effective, are more convenient or are less expensive than the LIBERTY or any product that Microbot may develop. Many of our common stock underlying such warrants. Upon exerciseMicrobot’s potential competitors have significantly greater financial resources and expertise in research and development, manufacturing, preclinical testing, conducting clinical trials, obtaining regulatory approvals and marketing approved products than Microbot may have. Mergers and acquisitions in the medical device industry market may result in even more resources being concentrated among a smaller number of such warrants, the holders will be entitled to exercise the rights of a common stockholder only as to matters for which the record date occurs after the applicable exercise date.Microbot’s potential competitors.

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Even if this offering is successful, we will need to raise additional capitalOur business strategy in the future to continuepart relies on identifying, acquiring and developing complementary technologies and products, which entails risks which could negatively affect our business, operations which may not be available on acceptable terms, or at all. Failure to obtain this necessary capital when needed may force us to delay, limit or terminate our product development efforts or other operations.and financial condition.

 

We have had significant recurring losses from operationsin the past and we do not generate any cash from operations and must raise additional funds in order to continue operating our business. We expect to continue to fund our operationsmay again in the future primarily through equitypursue other acquisitions of businesses and debt financings, grants from the Israel Innovation Authority and other sources. If additional capital is not available to us when needed or on acceptable terms,technologies. Acquisitions entail numerous risks, including:

difficulties in the integration of acquired operations, services and products;
failure to achieve expected synergies;
diversion of management’s attention from other business concerns;
assumption of unknown material liabilities of acquired companies;
amortization of acquired intangible assets, which could reduce future reported earnings;
Lack of funding to properly and adequately develop and commercialize the technologies acquired;
potential loss of clients or key employees of acquired companies; and
dilution to existing stockholders.

As part of our growth strategy, we may notconsider, and from time to time may engage in, discussions and negotiations regarding transactions, such as acquisitions, mergers and combinations within our industry. The purchase price for possible acquisitions could be paid in cash, through the issuance of common stock or other securities, borrowings or a combination of these methods.

We cannot be certain that we will be able to continueidentify, consummate and successfully integrate acquisitions, and no assurance can be given with respect to operatethe timing, likelihood or business effect of any possible transaction. For example, we could begin negotiations that we subsequently decide to suspend or terminate for a variety of reasons. Similarly, we could acquire a technology or asset, and later determine that such technology or asset no longer fits in our business pursuantstrategy or goals. However, opportunities may arise from time to our business plan or we may have to discontinue our operations entirely. As of September 30, 2018, we had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $6.7 million. We estimatetime that we will receive net proceedsevaluate. Any transactions that we consummate would involve risks and uncertainties to us. These risks could cause the failure of approximately $8.7 million from the saleany anticipated benefits of the securities offered by us in this offering, based on the assumed public offering price of  $1.66 per unit (the closing price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on December 24 , 2018) and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, and excluding the proceeds, if any, from the exercise of the common warrants and the pre-funded warrants issued pursuant to this offering. In the event of a decrease in the net proceeds to us from this offering as a result of a decrease in the assumed public offering price or the number of units offered by us, if the Plaintiffs succeed in the Matter or if our use of proceeds changes from our plans as described under “Use of Proceeds”, we may need to raise additional capital sooner than we anticipate. In addition, we cannot provide assurances that our plans will not change or that changed circumstances will not result in the depletion of our capital resources more rapidly than we currently anticipate.

Any additional fundraising efforts may divert our management from their day-to-day activities, which may adversely affect our ability to develop and commercialize our product candidates. Our ability to raise additional funds will depend, in part, on the success of our product development activities, any clinical trials, regulatory events, our ability to identify and enter into in-licensing or other strategic arrangements, and other events or conditions that may affect our value or prospects, as well as factors related to financial, economic and market conditions, many of which are beyond our control. There can be no assurances that sufficient funds will be available to us when required or on acceptable terms, if at all.

If we are unable to secure additional funds when needed or on acceptable terms, we may be required to defer, reduce or eliminate significant planned expenditures, restructure, curtail or eliminate some or all of our development programs or other operations, dispose of technology or assets, pursue an acquisition of our company by a third party at a price that may result in a loss on investment for our stockholders, enter into arrangements that may require us to relinquish rights to certain of our product candidates, technologies or potential markets, file for bankruptcy or cease operations altogether. Any of these eventsbe realized, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Moreover, if we are unable to obtain additional funds on a timely basis, there willoperations and prospects.

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The market price for our Common Stock may be substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern and increased risk of insolvency and up to a total loss of investment by our stockholders.volatile.

 

The common warrantsmarket price for our Common Stock may be volatile and the pre-funded warrants in this offering are speculative in nature.

Neither the common warrants nor the pre-funded warrants in this offering confer any rights of common stock ownership on its holders, such as voting rights or the right to receive dividends, but rather merely represent the right to acquire shares of common stock at a fixed price and, with respect to the common warrants, during a fixed period of time. Specifically, commencing on the date of issuance, holders of the common warrants may exercise their right to acquire the common stock and pay an exercise price of $            per share, subject to certain adjustments, priorwide fluctuations in response to factors including the expiration of the common warrants on the fifth anniversary of the original issuance date. Commencing on the date of issuance, holders of the pre-funded warrants may exercise their right to acquire the common stock and pay an exercise price of $0.01 per share, subject to certain adjustments, at any time until the pre-funded warrants are exercised in full. Moreover, following this offering, the market value of the common warrants and the pre-funded warrants, if any, is uncertain and there can be no assurance that the market value of the common warrants or the pre-funded warrants will equal or exceed their imputed offering price. Neither the common warrants nor the pre-funded warrants will be listed or quoted for trading on any market or exchange. There can also be no assurance that the market price of the common stock will ever equal or exceed the exercise price of the common warrants, and consequently, whether it will ever be profitable for holders of the common warrants to exercise the common warrants.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus and the documents incorporated by reference herein contain forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are contained principally in the sections entitled “Prospectus Summary,” “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business” in this prospectus or the documents incorporated herein by reference. These statements relate to future events or to our future financial performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:following:

 

actual or anticipated fluctuations in our estimates regarding anticipatedquarterly or annual operating losses, capital requirements and needs for additional funds;results;
  
our ability to raise additional capital when needed and to continue as a going concern;changes in financial or operational estimates or projections;
  
our ability to manufacture, or otherwise secure the manufacture of, sufficient amounts of our product candidates for our preclinical studies and clinical trials;conditions in markets generally;
  
our abilitychanges in the economic performance or market valuations of companies similar to find and develop applications for our technologies for other neurosurgical conditions besides hydrocephalus;ours;
  
announcements by us or our clinical development and other research and development plans and expectations;competitors of new products, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures or capital commitments;
  
the safety and efficacy of our product candidates;
the anticipated regulatory pathways for our product candidates;
our ability to successfully complete preclinical and clinical development of, and obtain regulatory approval of our product candidates and commercialize any approved products on our expected timeframes or at all;
the content and timing of submissions to and decisions made by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulatory agencies;
our ability to leverage the experience of our management team;
our ability to attract and keep management and other key personnel;
the capacities and performance of our suppliers, manufacturers and other third parties over whom we have limited control;
the actions of our competitors and success of competing products that are or may become available;
our expectations with respect to future growth and investments in our infrastructure, and our ability to effectively manage any such growth;
the size and potential growth of the markets for any of our product candidates, and our ability to capture share in or impact the size of those markets;
the benefits of our product candidates;
market and industry trends;
the outcome of any litigation in which we or any of our officers or directors may be involved, including with respect to the Matter;
the effects of government regulation and regulatory developments, and our ability and the ability of the third parties with whom we engage to comply with applicable regulatory requirements;
the accuracy of our estimates regarding future expenses, revenues, capital requirements and need for additional financing;
our expectations regarding future planned expenditures;
our ability to achieve and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act;
our ability to obtain, maintain and successfully enforce adequate patent and other intellectual property protection of any of our products and product candidates;
our expected use of the net proceeds from this offering;position; and
  
our ability to operate our business without infringinggeneral economic or political conditions in the intellectual property rights of others.United States, Israel or elsewhere.

 

In some cases, you can identify these statements by terms such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “may,” “plan,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “will,” “would” oraddition, the negative of those terms, and similar expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes. These forward-looking statements reflect our management’s beliefs and views with respect to future events and are based on estimates and assumptions as of the date of this prospectus and are subject to risks and uncertainties. We discuss many of these risks in greater detail in the documents incorporated by reference herein, usually under the heading “Risk Factors.” Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emergesecurities market has from time to time. It istime experienced significant price and volume fluctuations that are not possiblerelated to the operating performance of particular companies. These market fluctuations may also materially and adversely affect the market price of shares of our Common Stock.

The issuance of shares upon exercise of outstanding warrants and options could cause immediate and substantial dilution to existing stockholders.

The issuance of shares upon exercise of warrants and options could result in substantial dilution to the interests of other stockholders since the holders of such securities may ultimately convert and sell the full amount issuable on conversion.

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USE OF PROCEEDS

The 385,246 issued and outstanding shares of our common stock and the 1,896,380 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of currently outstanding options and warrants, in each case that are being offered for our management to predict all risks, nor can we assessresale by the impact of all factors on our business orselling stockholders will be sold for the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us asaccounts of the dateselling stockholders named in this prospectus. As a result, all proceeds from the sales of this prospectus,such shares of common stock offered for resale hereby will go to the selling stockholders and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements shouldwill not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or reviewreceive any proceeds from the resale of all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain. Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.those shares of common stock by the selling stockholders.

 

You should carefully read this prospectus, the documents that we incorporate by reference into this prospectus and the documents we referenceWe may receive up to a total of $4,763,404 in this prospectus and have filed as exhibits to the registration statement, of which this prospectus is a part, completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We qualifygross proceeds if all of the forward-looking statementswarrants are exercised hereunder for cash. However, as we are unable to predict the timing or amount of potential exercises of the warrants, we have not allocated any proceeds of such exercises to any particular purpose. Accordingly, all such proceeds, if any would be allocated to working capital. Pursuant to conditions set forth in this prospectus by these cautionary statements.

Except as required by law, we assume no obligationthe warrants, the warrants are exercisable under certain circumstances on a cashless basis, and should a selling stockholder elect to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in any forward-looking statements, whether asexercise on a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

USE OF PROCEEDS

We estimate thatcashless basis we will not receive netany proceeds of approximately $8.7 million (or approximately $ 10.1 million if the underwriter’s over-allotment option is exercised in full) from the sale of the securities offered by us in this offering, based on the assumed public offering price of  $ 1.66 per unit (the closing price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on December 24 , 2018), and after deductingissued upon the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, and excluding the proceeds, if any, from the exercise of any common warrants and pre-funded warrants issued pursuant to this offering.

A $0.25 increase (decrease) in the assumed public offering price of  $ 1.66 per unit would increase (decrease) the expected net proceeds to us from this offering by approximately $ 1.4 million, assuming that the number of units offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us and excluding the proceeds, if any, from thecashless exercise of the common warrants and the pre-funded warrants issued pursuant to this offering.

Similarly, a one million share increase in the number of units offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase the net proceeds to us by approximately $1.5 million, and a one million share decrease in the number of units offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would decrease the net proceeds to us by approximately $1.5 million, in each case assuming the assumed public offering price of  $1.66 per unit remains the same, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us and excluding the proceeds, if any, from the exercise of the common warrants and the pre-funded warrants issued pursuant to this offering.

We currently intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for attaining regulatory approvals for our SCS device for the treatment of hydrocephalus and NPH; expanding and developing the applications of our existing ViRob and SCS IP and prototypes into other areas of CSF management, such as EVD, through regulatory submission; developing the CardioSertTM technology, including the potential addition of complementary assets to the CardioSert portfolio either through internal development or acquisition, for neurovascular disorders from proof of concept to pre-clinical studies; and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. See “Risk Factors” for a discussion of certain risks that may affect our intended use of the net proceeds from this offering, including with respect to the Matter. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds from this offering to in-license, acquire, or invest in complementary businesses, technologies, products or assets. However, we have no current commitments or obligations to do so.warrant.

 

We currently anticipate that our existing resources, togetherwill incur all costs associated with the expected net proceeds from this offering, will be sufficient to fund our planned operations until December 2020.registration statement and prospectus.

 

Our expected use of net proceeds from this offering represents our current intentions based upon our present plans and business condition. As of the date of this prospectus, we cannot currently allocate specific percentages of the net proceeds that we may use for the purposes specified above, and we cannot predict with certainty all of the particular uses for the net proceeds to be received upon the completion of this offering, or the amounts that we will actually spend on the uses set forth above. The amounts and timing of our actual use of the net proceeds will vary depending on numerous factors, including our ability to obtain additional financing, the progress, cost and results of our preclinical and clinical development programs and whether we are able to enter into future licensing or collaboration arrangements. We may find it necessary or advisable to use the net proceeds for other purposes, and our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds, and investors will be relying on our judgment regarding the application of the net proceeds from this offering.

Pending the use of the net proceeds from this offering, we intend to invest the net proceeds in investment-grade, interest-bearing instruments.

PRICE RANGE OF OURMARKET FOR COMMON STOCK

 

Our common stock is listed on The Nasdaqthe NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT.“MBOT” since November 29, 2016. Prior to that, our common stock was traded under the symbol “STEM. On December 24 , 2018,

As of July 7, 2023, there were approximately 101 holders of record of our common stock, and the closing price for our common stock as reported on The Nasdaq Capital Market was $1.66 per share. The following table sets forth the ranges of high and low sales prices per share of our common stock as reported on The Nasdaqthe NASDAQ Capital Market for the period indicated. Such quotations represent inter-dealer prices without retail markup, markdown or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.

  High(1)  Low(1) 
Year Ended December 31, 2017        
First Quarter $149.10  $64.50 
Second Quarter $90.00  $19.80 
Third Quarter $23.25  $15.00 
Fourth Quarter $22.80  $15.15 
Year Ending December 31, 2018        
First Quarter $17.25  $9.97 
Second Quarter $15.30  $8.70 
Third Quarter $11.55  $5.47 
Fourth Quarter (through December 24 , 2018) $8.30  $1.38 

(1)Adjusted for our one-for-fifteen reverse stock split on September 4, 2018.

As of December 24 , 2018, there were approximately 176 holders of record of our common stock, which excludes stockholders whose shares were held in nominee or street name by brokers. The actual number of common stockholders is greater than the number of record holders, and includes stockholders who are beneficial owners, but whose shares are held in street name by brokers and other nominees. This number of holders of record also does not include stockholders whose shares may be held in trust by other entities.

DIVIDEND POLICYwas $2.78.

 

We have never paid cash dividends on our common stock and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends on common stock in the foreseeable future. The payment of dividends on our common stock will depend on earnings, financial condition, debt covenants in place, and other business and economic factors affecting us at such time as our Board of Directors may consider relevant. If we do not pay dividends, our common stock may be less valuable because a return on a stockholders’ investment will only occur if our stock price appreciates.

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Please see Part II, Item 8 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference, for the following financial statements:

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm(PCAOB ID No. 1197)
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2022, and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements

See also Part I, Item 1 in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on May 17, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference, for the following financial statements:

Interim Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2023 (Unaudited) and December 31, 2022 (Audited)
Interim Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 (Unaudited)
Interim Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 (Unaudited)
Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Three Months Ended March 31, 2023 and 2022 (Unaudited)
Notes to Interim Consolidated Financial Statements

DILUTIONSPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

IfThis prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the information incorporated by reference in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement contain certain statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. The words “believe,” “may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “could,” “would,” “project,” “plan,” “potentially,” “likely,” and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying such statements. Those statements appear in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated herein and therein by reference, particularly in the sections titled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of our management that are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions. You are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors.

Because forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, some of which cannot be predicted or quantified, you investshould not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur and actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States and the rules and regulations of the SEC, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein after we distribute this prospectus, whether as a result of any new information, future events or otherwise.

In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of such statements, and although we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted a thorough inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Please see Item 7 in our securitiesAnnual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, and Item 2 in this offering, your ownership interest willour Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on May 17, 2023, both of which are incorporated herein by reference, for our management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations for the respective periods.

BUSINESS

Please see Item 1 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference, for a discussion of our business.

Technological Platforms

LIBERTY®

On January 13, 2020, Microbot unveiled what it believes is the world’s first fully disposable robotic system for use in endovascular interventional procedures, such as cardiovascular, peripheral and neurovascular. The LIBERTY robotic system features a unique compact design with the capability to be diluted immediatelyoperated remotely, reduce radiation exposure and physical strain to the extentphysician, reduce the risk of cross contamination, as well as the difference betweenpotential to eliminate the effective public offering price per shareuse of our common stock included in the unitsmultiple consumables when used with its NovaCross platform or issuable upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants and the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock after this offering.possibly other guidewire/microcatheter technologies.

 

Our historical net tangible book valueLIBERTY is designed to maneuver guidewires and over-the-wire devices (such as of September 30, 2018 was approximately $6,566,000 , or $2.2066 per share of common stock. Our historical net tangible book value ismicrocatheters) within the amount of our total tangible assets less our liabilities. Historical net tangible book value per common share is our historical net tangible book value divided bybody’s vasculature. It eliminates the number of shares of common stock outstandingneed for extensive capital equipment requiring dedicated Cath-lab rooms as of September 30, 2018.well as dedicated staff.

 

After giving effect toWe believe LIBERTY’s addressable markets are the sale of the   units in this offering at the assumed public offering price of  $1.66 per unit (the closing price of our common stock on The Nasdaq Capital Market on December 24 , 2018), assuming no sale of any pre-funded units in this offeringInterventional Cardiology, Interventional Radiology and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, and excluding the proceeds, if any, from the exercise of any common warrants issued pursuant to this offering, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2018 would have been approximately $15.3 million, or $1.6952 per share of common stock. This represents an immediate decrease in as adjusted net tangible book value of  $0.5114 per share to our existing stockholders, and new investors purchasing units in this offering will not be subject to dilution at the assumed public offering price.

The following table illustrates this on a per unit basis:

Assumed public offering price per unit    $1.6600 
Historical net tangible book value per share as of September 30, 2018 $2.2066    
Pro forma decrease in net tangible book value per share attributable to
investors in this offering
  0.5114    
As adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering    $1.6952 
Dilution per share to investors participating in this offering    $(0.0352)

If the underwriter exercises its option to purchase additional securities in full, and assuming no sale of any pre-funded units in this offering, the as adjusted net tangible book value per share after this offering would be $1.6798 per share, the decrease in net tangible book value per share to existing stockholders would be $0.5267 per share and new investors purchasing units in this offering will not be subject to dilution at the assumed public offering price.

Each $0.25 increase (decrease) in the assumed public offering price of  $1.66 per unit would increase (decrease) the as adjusted net tangible book value by 0.1540 per share of common stock and the dilution to new investors by 0.0960 per share, assuming that the number of units offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

We may also increase or decrease the number of units we are offering. An increase of 1,000,000 units offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase our as adjusted net tangible book value by approximately $1.5 million, or a decrease of approximately $0.0168 per share of common stock, and increase the dilution per share to investors in this offering by approximately $0.0168 per share, assuming that the assumed public offering price per unit remains the same, and after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by us. Similarly, a decrease of 1,000,000 units offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would decrease our as adjusted net tangible book value by approximately $1.5 million, or an increase of approximately $0.0210 per share, and decrease the dilution per share to investors in this offering by approximately $0.0210 per share, assuming that the assumed public offering price per unit remains the same, and after deducting the estimated offering expenses payable by us. The information discussed above is illustrative only and will adjust based on the actual public offering price, the actual number of shares of common stock that we offer in this offering, our actual expenses, and other terms of this offering determined at pricing.Interventional Neuroradiology markets.

 

The foregoing discussionunique characteristics of LIBERTY - compact, mobile, disposable and table are based on 2,975,676 sharesremotely controlled - open the opportunity of common stock outstandingexpanding telerobotic interventions to patients with limited access to life-saving procedures, such as of September 30, 2018, and excludes, as of September 30, 2018:mechanical thrombectomy in ischemic stroke.

LIBERTY is being designed to have the following attributes:

 

 422,478 shares of our common stock issuable uponCompact size - Eliminates the exercise of outstanding stock options,need for large capital equipment in dedicated cath-lab rooms with exercise prices ranging from $0 to $19.35 and having a weighted-average exercise price of $11.70 per share;dedicated staff.
   
 211,239 shares ofFully disposable - To our common stock reservedknowledge, the first and only fully disposable, robotic system for future grant under our 2017 Equity Incentive Plan;endovascular procedures.
   
 Approximately 7,531 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants,Streamlines Cath-lab procedures - Can be made compatible with exercise prices ranging from approximately $40.00 to $2,885 per shareMicrobot’s NitiLoop’s NovaCross products or possibly other guidewire/microcatheter technologies, that combines guidewire and havingmicrocatheter into a weighted-average exercise price of $1,967 per share;single device.
   
 An aggregateState of approximately 36,667 sharesthe art maneuverability - Provides linear, rotational and tip control of our common stock issuable uponguidewire, as well as linear motion for an additional “over the conversion of 550 shares of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, all of which were converted subsequent to September 30, 2018 ;wire” device.
   
 

6,024,096 sharesCompatibility with a wide range of common stock issuable upon the exercise of common warrants to be issued to investors in this offering at an exercise price of $               per share;commercially-available guidewires, microcatheters and

guide-catheters.
   
 

301,204 shares (or 346,385 shares ifEnhanced operator safety and comfort - Aims to reduce exposure to ionizing radiation and the underwriter’s optionneed for heavy lead vests otherwise to purchase additional securities is exercised in full) of our common stock issuable upon exercise ofbe worn during procedures, as well as reducing the warrants being issuedexposure to the underwriter in connection with this offering.

To the extent that options, warrants or other convertible securities outstanding as of September 30, 2018 have been or may be exercised, converted or other shares issued, investors purchasing securities in this offering may experience further dilution. In addition, we may seek to raise additional capital in the future through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities. To the extent that additional capital is raised through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the issuance of these securities could result in further dilution to our stockholders.

PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

The following table sets forth information regarding beneficial ownership of our capital stock, as of December 24 , 2018, by:

each of our directors;Hospital Acquired Infections (HAI).
   
 eachEase of our named executive officers;use - LIBERTY’s intuitive remote controls aims to simplify advanced procedures while shortening the physician’s learning curve.
   
 allTelemedicine compatible - Capable of our current directorssupporting tele-catheterization, carried out remotely by highly trained specialists.

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On August 17, 2020, Microbot announced the successful conclusion of its feasibility animal study using the LIBERTY robotic system. The study met all of its end points with no intraoperative adverse events, which supports Microbot’s objectives to allow physicians to conduct a catheter-based procedure from outside the catheterization laboratory (cath-lab), avoiding radiation exposure, physical strain and the risk of cross contamination. The study was performed by two leading physicians in the neuro vascular and peripheral vascular intervention spaces, and the results demonstrated robust navigation capabilities, intuitive usability and accurate deployment of embolic agents, most of which was conducted remotely from the cath-lab’s control room.

On December 22, 2021, we entered into a strategic collaboration agreement for technology co-development with Stryker Corporation, acting through its Neurovascular Division. Pursuant to the agreement, the collaborative development program between Stryker and us aims to integrate certain of Stryker’s instruments with our LIBERTY Robotic System to address certain neurovascular procedures. The activities contemplated by the Agreement shall be specified in one or more development plans derived from the terms and conditions set forth in the Agreement. We are still determining scheduling to move the collaboration forward.

In December 2021, we achieved design freeze of the LIBERTY device.

In the first quarter of 2022, we filed our pre-submission package for the LIBERTY Robotic System with the FDA, addressing the regulatory pathway for the LIBERTY® Robotic System. On July 22, 2022, the Company completed a pre-submission process with the FDA regarding the LIBERTY device. Formal feedback from the FDA included a recommendation to perform a clinical study and a human factors validation study, to support clearance through the 510(k) notification process.

In September and October 2022, the Company conducted an animal study at an FDA accredited European-based MedTech research laboratory, which was performed by a team of seasoned Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in the endovascular space, using porcine model.

During the animal study, the physicians conducted 63 navigations to the targeted sites using the investigational LIBERTY Robotic System and performed an equal number of procedures manually. The LIBERTY Robotic System received positive feedback from participating physicians, and there were no observable immediate intraoperative adverse events, or harm, to the test subjects.

The report from the animal study, which included histopathology data (the microscopic examination of tissue to study the manifestations of disease), exhibited equivocal results which were identified as related to unusual physiological animal responses in both manual and robotic test groups.

The Company believes the results of the study allow it to move forward and focus on the next phases to ultimately include a U.S.-based pivotal pre-clinical study.

The Company, together with its regulatory experts and consultants, believe a larger sample size and robust data generated by this study will advance the company’s efforts towards the submission of Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

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One & DoneTM Technology

On April 8, 2018, we acquired a patent-protected technology from CardioSert Ltd., a privately-held medical device company based in Israel that was part of a technological incubator supported by the Israel Innovation Authorities. The CardioSert technology contemplates a combination of a guidewire and microcatheter, technologies that are broadly used for surgery within a tubular organ or structure such as a blood vessel or duct. The CardioSert technology features a unique guidewire delivery system with steering and stiffness control capabilities which when developed is expected to give the physician the ability to control the tip curvature, to adjust tip load to varying degrees of stiffness in a gradually continuous manner. The technology was originally developed to support interventional cardiologists in crossing chronic total occlusions (CTO) during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedures and has the potential to be used in other spaces and applications, such as peripheral intervention, and neurosurgery. Our CardioSert tool is now trademarked as “One & DoneTM”.

Microbot had been exploring the integration of the One & DoneTM technology into the LIBERTY endovascular robotic system for a range of potential applications in the cardiovascular, peripheral vascular and neurovascular spaces. However, as a result of its recently enacted core-business focus program and its cost reduction plan, the Company has terminated its existing agreement with CardioSert Ltd. effective as of August 17, 2023 and ceased its research and development of and commercialization efforts for the One & Done, which could result in the technology being re-acquired by CardioSert Ltd. for nominal consideration.

NovaCrossTM

On October 6, 2022, we purchased substantially all of the assets, including intellectual property, devices, components and product related materials of Nitiloop Ltd., an Israeli limited liability company. The assets include intellectual property and technology in the field of intraluminal revascularization devices with anchoring mechanism and integrated microcatheter, and the products or potential products incorporating the technology owned by Nitiloop and designated by Nitiloop as “NovaCross”, “NovaCross Xtreme” and “NovaCross BTK” and any enhancements, modifications and improvements.

ViRob

The ViRob is an autonomous crawling micro-robot which can be controlled remotely or within the body. Its miniature dimensions are expected to allow it to navigate and crawl in different natural spaces within the human body, including blood vessels, the digestive tract and the respiratory system as well as artificial spaces such as shunts, catheters, ports, etc. Its unique structure is expected to give it the ability to move in tight spaces and curved passages as well as the ability to remain within the human body for prolonged time. The SCS product was developed using the ViRob technology.

On October 11, 2022, we announced that we are planning to focus our strategic efforts on the growing endovascular space and advancing the LIBERTY Robotic System to achieve its regulatory and commercial milestones, as well as expanding the LIBERTY ecosystem, and made a strategic decision to suspend the continued research and development of the SCS project, effective at that date. The SCS generally performed as expected during testing, both internally and externally, and we believe it continues to have potential clinical value as evidenced by the pre-clinical data submitted to the FDA, which allowed us to successfully apply for the Early Feasibility Study program administered by the FDA. However, the conflicting commercialization pathways between LIBERTY and the SCS due to different hospital call points, and the anticipated lengthier regulatory process of the SCS, led us to believe that focusing our strategic efforts on the LIBERTY Robotic System will provide us with a greater opportunity for success and future growth. We had been exploring opportunities with the SCS assets with the focus on maximizing shareholders value, including seeking buyers for the assets, entering into joint ventures, licensing arrangements, spinning-off the assets into a new operating company or discontinue the project altogether. However, as a result of our recently enacted core-business focus program and our cost reduction plan , we have been in contact with TRDF, the licensor of the technology, and intend to return the licensed intellectual property for the SCS (ViRob) back to TRDF as early as the end of July 2023 in accordance with the terms of its license agreement, as we have not been successful in any such possible other opportunities.

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TipCAT

The TipCAT is a disposable self-propelled locomotive device that is specially designed to advance in tubular anatomies. The TipCAT is a mechanism comprising a series of interconnected balloons at the device’s tip that provides the TipCAT with its forward locomotion capability. The device can self-propel within natural tubular lumens such as the blood vessels, respiratory and the urinary and GI tracts. A single channel of air/fluid supply sequentially inflates and deflates a series of balloons creating an inchworm like forward motion. The TipCAT maintains a standard working channel for treatments. Unlike standard access devices such as guidewires, catheters for vascular access and endoscopes, the TipCAT does not need to be pushed into the patient’s lumen using external pressure; rather, it will gently advance itself through the organ’s anatomy. As a result, the TipCAT is designed to be able to reach every part of the lumen under examination regardless of the topography, be less operator dependent, and greatly reduce the likelihood of damage to lumen structure. The TipCAT thus offers functionality features equivalent to modern tubular access devices, along with advantages associated with its physiologically adapted self-propelling mechanism, flexibility, and design.

We had been exploring the use of the TipCAT for minimally invasive neurosurgical and endovascular applications to complement our other technologies. However, as a result of our recently enacted core-business focus program and our cost reduction plan , we returned the licensed intellectual property for the TipCAT back to TRDF, the licensor of the technology, in June 2023, as we do not have the funds to continue to develop this technology.

Recent Developments

Registered Direct and Private Placement Offerings

On June 26, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering an aggregate of 624,618 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $3.25 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds, with the private placement described below, of approximately $2 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “Second June Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 31,231 shares of our common stock. The registered direct offering was consummated on June 28, 2023. In a concurrent private placement, we also issued to the purchasers of our shares of common stock in the Second June Offering, series D preferred investment options to purchase up to 312,309 shares of our common stock. Each series D preferred investment option is exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $3.19 commencing on the date of issuance and expires five and one-half years from the initial exercise date.

On June 2, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering an aggregate of 701,756 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.1375 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds, with the private placement described below, of approximately $1.5 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “First June Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 35,088 shares of our common stock. The registered direct offering was consummated on June 6, 2023. In a concurrent private placement, we also issued to the purchasers of our shares of common stock in the First June Offering, series C preferred investment options to purchase up to 350,878 shares of our common stock. Each series C preferred investment option is exercisable for one share of common stock at an exercise price of $2.075 commencing on the date of issuance and expires five and one-half years from the initial exercise date.

On May 23, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering (i) an aggregate of 975,000 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.20 per share and (ii) pre-funded warrants exercisable for up to 234,500 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.1999 per pre-funded warrant, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $2.66 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “Second May Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 60,476 shares of our common stock. The Second May Offering was consummated on May 24, 2023.

On May 22, 2023, we entered into a securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor, pursuant to which we agreed to issue and sell in a registered direct offering an aggregate of 655,569 shares of our common stock, at an offering price of $2.20 per share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $1.4 million before deducting the placement agent fee and related offering expenses (the “First May Offering”). We also agreed to issue to H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC or its designees preferred investment options to purchase 32,778 shares of our common stock. The First May Offering was consummated on May 23, 2023.

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Preferred Investment Options Amendment

In connection with the Second May Offering, we agreed to amend the terms of (i) the Series A preferred investment options to purchase 1,022,495 shares of our common stock for an exercise price of $4.64 per share which are scheduled to expire on October 25, 2027 and (ii) the Series B preferred investment options to purchase 1,022,495 shares of our common stock for an exercise price of $4.64 per share which were initially scheduled to expire on October 25, 2024 (the “Series B Preferred Investment Options”), in each case previously issued to the investor in October 2022 under the securities purchase agreement dated October 21, 2022, and further described in our Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 25, 2022 (collectively, the “Existing Preferred Investment Options”), which investor also participated in the Second May Offering, such that effective upon the closing of the Second May Offering, the Existing Preferred Investment Options have a reduced exercise price of $2.20 per share and the Series B Preferred Investment Options expire on October 25, 2027. On June 16, 2023, the holder of the Series B Preferred Investment Options exercised all of such Series B Preferred Investment Options pursuant to its cashless exercise provision into 385,246 shares of our common stock.

Approval for Grant from The Israel Innovation Authority

On June 2, 2023, we announced that we received a grant from the Israel Innovation Authority (“IIA”) in the amount of NIS 1.62 million, which based on a recent exchange rate to the U.S. dollar, would be approximately $440,000, to further finance the development of our manufacturing process of our flagship robotic surgical system, the LIBERTY.

In relation to the IIA grant, we are obligated to pay royalties amounting to between 3%-5% of our future sales of the LIBERTY product up to the grant amount plus interest. The grant is linked to the U.S. dollar and bears interest at Libor per annum. The grant monies will be paid over time based on the terms of the grant, and the U.S. dollar amount actually received will be based on the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar to the New Israeli Shekel at the time of payment.

Core-Business Focus Program

On May 15, 2023, the Board of Directors of the Company authorized, and the Company commenced, a core-business focus program while the Company seeks to raise additional capital to continue development of the LIBERTY robotic system. This core-business focus program includes the cessation of research and development activities not related to LIBERTY, including terminating the Company’s agreement with CardioSert for that technology, and returning intellectual property relating to the SCS (Virob) and TipCat to Technion Research and Development Foundation.

Cost Reduction Plan

On May 15, 2023, in addition to the core-business focus program described above, the Board of Directors of the Company authorized, and the Company commenced, a cost reduction plan while the Company seeks to raise additional capital to continue development of the LIBERTY robotic system. This cost reduction plan includes:

Focus its research & development and executive officers as a group;regulatory efforts to complete the LIBERTY’s verification and validation process (“V&V”), complete robotics build-up and execute first in human cases outside the USA.
   
 all those knownPostpone a Good Laboratory Practice study for LIBERTY until the completion of the V&V.
Harel Gadot, Chairman, President and CEO of the Company, has agreed to a reduction of 50% of his base salary, with terms and conditions with respect to the reduction period to be determined.

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All other executive officers have agreed to a reduction of 30-40% of base salary, as follows:

Rachel Vaknin, CFO. Pursuant to an Addendum to Employment Agreement, Ms. Vaknin’s gross monthly salary was decreased to a gross amount of NIS 35,000. Social and fringe benefits due to Ms. Vaknin shall be calculated based upon the updated salary, excluding sick days and vacation days which will continue to be accumulated per her existing employment agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of termination of Ms. Vaknin’s employment, either by us or by Ms. Vaknin, the redemption of accrued vacation days and the payment of prior notice period shall be calculated based on Ms. Vaknin’s salary prior to May 15, 2023.
Simon Sharon, CTO and General Manager. Pursuant to an Addendum to Employment Agreement, Mr. Sharon’s gross monthly salary was decreased to a gross amount of NIS 44,496. Social and fringe benefits due to Mr. Sharon shall be calculated based upon the updated salary, excluding sick days and vacation days which will continue to be accumulated per his existing employment agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of termination of Mr. Sharon’s employment, either by us or by Mr. Sharon, the redemption of accrued vacation days and the payment of prior notice period shall be calculated based on Mr. Sharon’s salary prior to May 15, 2023.
Eyal Morag, CMO. Pursuant to an Addendum to Employment Agreement, Dr. Morag’s gross monthly salary was decreased to a beneficial ownergross amount of more than 5%NIS 49,440. Social and fringe benefits due to Dr. Morag shall be calculated based upon the updated salary, excluding sick days and vacation days which will continue to be accumulated per his existing employment agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event of termination of Dr. Morag’s employment, either by us or by Dr. Morag, the redemption of accrued vacation days and the payment of prior notice period shall be calculated based on Dr. Morag’s salary prior to May 15, 2023. Pursuant to a separate Addendum to Employment Agreement, the advance notice period upon termination of Dr. Morag’s Employment Agreement was shortened to ninety days.

The independent members of the Company’s common stock.Board of Directors have agreed to a suspension of their director fees, with reinstatement of such fees to be determined.
Freeze on new hires.
Reduce employee headcount in both the US and Israel offices which are not directly involved in the research & development and/or regulatory process of LIBERTY, while retaining research & development and clinical-related employees to support the completion of the V&V and production of LIBERTY systems.
Professor Moshe Shoham, a co-founder of the Company and currently a member of its Scientific Advisory Board, waived his SAB fees, with fees payable to the remaining SAB members to be restructured.
Postpone CE activities for the LIBERTY device.

 

We expect that the savings generated from such cost-reduction activities, along with the net proceeds raised from the First May Offering, the Second May Offering, the First June Offering and the Second June Offering, will enable us to continue the V&V, explore a first-in-human trial outside of the U.S., prepare and submit an Investigational device exemption with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and commence a clinical trial in the U.S.

Completion of Pre-Clinical Study

On June 29, 2023, we announced the successful completion of a two-day pre-clinical study held by leading key opinion leaders at a New York-based research lab, where they performed dozens of catheterizations, including the utilization of the LIBERTY® Robotic Surgical System’s remote operation capabilities, to pre-determined vascular targets, with a 100% success rate of reaching the intended target with no observable on-site complications.

First-In-Human Clinical Cases

We recently announced that we have initiated preparations for potential First-In-Human cases in Brazil, by engaging with interventional radiologist Prof. Francisco Cesar Carnevale. The engagement with Prof. Carnevale, from University of Sao Paulo Medical School Hospital, is expected to support our intention to conduct a first-in-human clinical trial in Brazil as part of our ongoing clinical and regulatory efforts. The potential clinical cases are expected to commence upon completion of the V&V process of our LIBERTY Robotic system, as well as obtaining the necessary regulatory approvals to perform those cases.

We are also exploring options to conduct First-In-Human trials or cases in other places where the regulatory laws allow.

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Catheterization Milestone

On May 3, 2023, we announced that the LIBERTY Robotic system has surpassed its 100th catheterization during multiple pre-clinical studies, with a 95% success rate of reaching pre-determined vascular targets, such as distal branches of hepatic, gastric, splenic, mesenteric, renal and hypogastric arteries. Moreover, all of the procedures were completed without notable signs of intraoperative injury.

Legal Proceedings - Litigation Resulting from 2017 Financing

We were named as the defendant in a lawsuit captioned Empery Asset Master Ltd., Empery Tax Efficient, LP, Empery Tax Efficient II, LP, Hudson Bay Master Fund Ltd., Plaintiffs, against Microbot Medical Inc., Defendant, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York (Index No. 651182/2020). The complaint alleges, among other things, that we breached multiple representations and warranties contained in the SPA, of which the Plaintiffs participated, and fraudulently induced Plaintiffs into signing the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) related to our June 8, 2017 equity financing (the “Financing”). The complaint seeks rescission of the SPA and return of the Plaintiffs’ $6.75 million purchase price with respect to the Financing. We are currently in the discovery phase and we are commencing court-ordered mediation. Management is unable to assess the outcome of any such mediation, or the likelihood that we will succeed at trial with respect to the SPA or the Financing, having previously lost another lawsuit with respect to the Financing.

Description of Property

Microbot recently terminated its lease at its Hingham, Massachusetts facility as a result of its cost reduction plan, and is exploring a possible replacement office for its U.S. staff. Pending new U.S. facilities, the Company’s U.S. employees are working remotely. It has retained a small leased storage facility and a mailing address in the United States. Microbot also occupies facilities in premises of approximately 6,975 square feet at 6 Hayozma St., Yokneam, P.O.B. 242, Israel. This facility is expected to provide the space and infrastructure necessary to accommodate its development work based on its current operating plan. Microbot does not own any real property.

Human Capital

Employees

As of July 7, 2023, we have 17 employees (including full-time and hourly employees).

Microbot’s Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman, Harel Gadot, along with 1 full-time and one part-time employee, are based in the United States. Additionally, Microbot has 13 full-time employees and 1 hourly employee based in its office located in Yokneam, Israel. These employees oversee day-to-day operations of the Company and leading engineering, manufacturing, intellectual property and administration functions of the Company. As required, Microbot also engages consultants to provide services to the Company, including regulatory, legal and corporate services. We are subject to labor laws and regulations within our locations in the U.S. and Israel. These laws and regulations principally concern matters such as pensions, paid annual vacation, paid sick days, length of the workday and work week, minimum wages, overtime pay, insurance for work-related accidents, severance pay and other conditions of employment. Microbot has no unionized employees.

We have historically been able to attract and retain top talent by creating a culture that challenges and engages our employees, offering them opportunities to learn, grow and achieve their career goals.

Compensation, Benefits and Wellbeing

We provide competitive compensation for our employees We have historically offered annual bonuses and stock-based compensation for eligible employees. As a result of our recent cost reduction plan, our executive officers and certain of our employees have taken salary reductions. We can give no assurance that such plan will not have an adverse effect on our ability to attract and/or retain employees or remain competitive for talent.

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Leadership, Training and Development

We aim to provide our employees with advanced professional and development skills, so that they can perform effectively in their roles and build their capabilities and career prospects for the future.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

We strive to encourage a diversity of views and to create an equal opportunity workplace. During the past year, we have increased the total number of women in management positions.

MANAGEMENT

Please see Item 10 in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference, for information regarding our board and directors and executive officers.

EXECUTIVE AND DIRECTOR COMPENSATION

Please see the sections captioned “Director Compensation,” “Executive Compensation,” and “Corporate Governance — Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference, for a discussion of executive and director compensation.

TRANSACTIONS WITH RELATED PERSONS

Please see “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2023, which is incorporated herein by reference.

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SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

The following table shows the number of shares of our common stock beneficially owned, as of July 7, 2023, by (i) each of our directors and director nominees, (ii) each of our named executive officers, (iii) all of our current directors and executive officers as a group, and (iv) all those known by us to be to a beneficial owner of more than 5% of the Company’s common stock. In general, “beneficial ownership” refers to shares that an individual or entity has the power to vote or dispose of, and any rights to acquire common stock that are currently exercisable or will become exercisable within 60 days of December 24 , 2018.July 7, 2023. We calculated percentage ownership in accordance with the rules of the SEC. The percentage of common stock beneficially owned is based on 3,012,34311,707,317 shares outstanding as of December 24 , 2018.July 7, 2023. In addition, shares issuable pursuant to options or other convertible securities that may be acquired within 60 days of December 24 , 2018March 30, 2023 are deemed to be issued and outstanding and have been treated as outstanding in calculating and determining the beneficial ownership and percentage ownership of those persons possessing those securities, but not for any other persons.

 

This table is based on information supplied by each prospective director, officer and principal stockholder of the Company. Except as indicated in footnotes to this table, the Company believes that the stockholders named in this table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of Common Stock shown to be beneficially owned by them, based on information provided by such stockholders. Unless otherwise indicated, the address for each director, executive officer and 5% or greater stockholderstockholders of the Company listed is: c/o Microbot Medical Inc., 25 Recreation Park Drive, Unit 108, Hingham,288 Grove Street, Suite 388, Braintree, MA 02043.02184.

 

  Number of Shares  Percentage of Common Stock
Beneficially Owned
 
Beneficial Owner Beneficially Owned  Before Offering  After Offering(1) 
Directors and Executive Officers           
Harel Gadot(2)  303,384   9.67%  3. 31%
Yoav Waizer(3)  1,016   *   * 
Yoseph Bornstein(4)  299,710   9.95%  3. 32%
Scott Burell(3)  1,016   *   * 
Martin Madden(3)  1,016   *   * 
David Ben Naim(3)  2,000   *   * 
Yehezkel (Hezi) Himelfarb(3)  29,004   *   * 
Prattipati Laxminarain(3)  1,016   *   * 
All current directors and executive officers as a group (8 persons)(5)  638,162   20.10%  6.94%
Five Percent Shareholders            
LSA - Life Science Accelerator Ltd.(4)  299,710   9.95%  3. 32%
MEDX Ventures Group LLC(6)  254,711   8.24%  2.79%
Saber Holding GmbH(7)  287,134   9.53%  3. 18%
Moshe Shoham(8)  159,636   5.20%  1. 76%
Beneficial Owner Number of Shares Beneficially Owned  Percentage of Common Stock Beneficially Owned 
Chasing Value Asset Management Inc.(1)  610,657   5.21%
Harel Gadot(2)  779,706   6.31%
Yoseph Bornstein(3)  267,089   2.28%
Scott Burell(4)  25,061   * 
Martin Madden(4)  25,061   * 
Prattipati Laxminarain(4)  25,061   * 
Aileen Stockburger(4)  19,894   * 
Simon Sharon(4)  55,341   * 
Eyal Morag(4)  36,875   * 
Tal Wenderow(4)  18,422   * 
Rachel Vaknin(4)  12,750   * 
All current directors and executive officers as a group (10 persons)(5)  1,265,260   10.05%

 

*Less than 1%.
(1)AssumesBased on a Schedule 13G filed by the salereporting person on January 20, 2021, the reporting person has sole voting power over 207,000 shares and sole dispositive power over 610,657 shares. Sheldon D. Liber is the Chief Executive Officer of 6,024,096the reporting person. The address of the principal business office of the reporting person is 2444 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 300, Santa Monica, California 90403.
(2)Includes (i) 136,847 shares of our common stock and common stock underlying pre-funded warrants offeredowned by us in this offering and does not include any shares of our common stock underlying the common warrants, the underwriter’s option to cover over-allotments, or underlying the Underwriter’s Warrants.
(2)Includes 77,864MEDX Ventures Group LLC, (ii) 77,846 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of options granted to MEDX Ventures Group LLC, and 48,673(iii) 565,013 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of options granted to Mr. Gadot. AllMr. Gadot is the Chief Executive Officer, Company Group Chairman and majority equity owner of suchMEDX Venture Group, LLC and thus may be deemed to share voting and investment power over the shares and 77,864 options are held by MEDX Ventures Group LLC, which is beneficially owned by Mr. Gadot. See Note 6 below.this entity.
(3)Represents options to acquire(i) 242,028 shares of our common stock.
(4)stock owned by LSA - Life Science Accelerator Ltd. and (ii) 25,061 shares of our common stock issuable to Mr. Bornstein upon exercise of options. Based on representations and other information made or provided to the Company by Mr. Bornstein, Mr. Bornstein is the CEO and Director of LSA - Life Science Accelerator Ltd. and of Shizim Ltd., and Mr. Bornstein is the majority equity owner of Shizim. Shizim Ltd. Shizim Ltd. is the majority equity owner of LSA.LSA - Life Science Accelerator Ltd. Accordingly, Mr. Bornstein may be deemed to share voting and investment power over the shares beneficially owned by these entities and has an address of 16 IrisIrus Street, Rosh-Ha’Ayin Israel 4858022. Includes 1,016
(4)Represents options to acquire shares of our common stock issuable upon exercise of options.stock.
(5)Includes shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of options as set forth in footnotes (1)(2), (2)(3) and (3)(4).

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DILUTION

The common stock to be sold by the selling stockholders upon conversion of their warrants is common stock that is issuable upon such exercise. To the extent the common stock underlying the warrants is issued, there will be dilution to the ownership interests of our existing stockholders.

SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

The following table set forth certain information regarding the selling stockholders and the shares of common stock beneficially owned by them, which information is available to us as of July 7, 2023. The selling stockholders may offer the shares under this prospectus from time to time and may elect to sell some, all or none of the shares set forth under this prospectus. However, for the purposes of the table below, we have assumed that, after completion of the offering, none of the shares covered by this prospectus will be held by the selling stockholders. In addition, a selling stockholder may have sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of all or a portion of that holder’s shares of common stock since the date on which the selling stockholder provided information for this table. We have not made independent inquiries about such transfers or dispositions. See the section entitled “Plan of Distribution” beginning on page 42.

Beneficial ownership is determined in accordance with Rule 13d-3(d) promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act. The percentage of shares beneficially owned prior to the offering is based on 11,707,317 shares of our common stock outstanding as of July 7, 2023.

  Number of Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned     Number of Shares of Common  Shares of Common Stock Beneficially Owned After Sale of All Shares of Common Stock Pursuant to this Prospectus 
Selling Stockholder 

Before

Any Sale

  % of Class  

Stock

Offered

  Number of Shares  % of Class 
Armistice Capital LLC(1)  1,745,763   13.36%  1,745,763       
Intracoastal Capital, LLC(2)  221,062   1.85%  221,062       
CVI Investments, Inc.(3)(4)  104,103   *  104,103       
Noam Rubenstein(4)  66,369(5)  *   66,369       
Michael Vasinkevich(4)  135,110(5)  1.14%  135,110       
Craig Schwabe(4)  7,111(5)  *   7,111       
Charles Worthman(4)  2,108(5)  *   2,108       
TOTAL  2,281,626   16.77%  2,281,626       

*Includes 77,864Represents beneficial ownership of less than one percent of the outstanding shares of our common stock.

(1)Consists of (i) 385,246 shares of common stock issuable upon the exerciseand (ii) options to purchase 1,360,517 shares of options granted to MEDX Ventures Group. Mr. Gadot is the Chief Executive Officer, Company Group Chairmancommon stock. The securities are directly held by Armistice Capital Master Fund Ltd., a Cayman Islands exempted company (the “Master Fund”), and majority equity owner of MEDX Venture Group and thus may be deemed to sharebe beneficially owned by: (i) Armistice Capital, LLC (“Armistice Capital”), as the investment manager of the Master Fund; and (ii) Steven Boyd, as the Managing Member of Armistice Capital. The warrants are subject to a beneficial ownership limitation of 4.99%, which such limitation restricts Armistice Capital from exercising that portion of the warrants that would result in Armistice Capital and its affiliates owning, after exercise, a number of shares of common stock in excess of the beneficial ownership limitation. The amounts and percentages in the table do not give effect to the beneficial ownership limitations. The address of Armistice Capital and the Master Fund is c/o Armistice Capital, LLC, 510 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10022.
(2)Consists of options to purchase an aggregate of 221,062 shares of common stock. Mitchell P. Kopin and Daniel B. Asher, each of whom are managers of Intracoastal Capital LLC (“Intracoastal”), have shared voting control and investment discretion over the securities reported herein that are held by Intracoastal. As a result, each of Mr. Kopin and Mr. Asher may be deemed to have beneficial ownership (as determined under Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of the securities reported herein that are held by Intracoastal. The address of Intracoastal is 245 Palm Trail, Delray Beach, FL 33483.
(3)Consists of warrants to purchase shares of common stock. Heights Capital Management, Inc., the authorized agent of CVI Investments, Inc. (“CVI”), has discretionary authority to vote and dispose of the shares held by CVI and may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of these shares. Martin Kobinger, in his capacity as Investment Manager of Heights Capital Management, Inc., may also be deemed to have investment discretion and voting power over the shares held by CVI. Mr. Kobinger disclaims any such beneficial ownership of the shares. CVI is affiliated with one or more FINRA members, none of whom are currently expected to participate in the sale pursuant to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 of which this prospectus forms a part. The address of CVI is c/o Heights Capital Management, Inc., 101 California Street, Suite 3250, San Francisco, CA 94111.
(4)The selling stockholder is an affiliate of a registered broker-dealer.
(5)Consists of warrants to purchase shares of common stock. Each of such selling stockholders is affiliated with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, a registered broker dealer with a registered address of c/o H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, 430 Park Ave, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10022, and has sole voting and dispositive power over the securities held. The number of shares beneficially owned byprior to this entity. Does not include 48,673offering consist of shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of options grantedplacement agent warrants, which were received as compensation for placement agent services provided by Wainwright to Mr. Gadot directly. See Note 1 above.
(7)Pursuantthe Company from time to a Schedule 13D/A-2 filed on June 20, 2017, Mrs. Sandra Berkson owns 100%time over the last three years. Such selling stockholder acquired the placement agent warrants in the ordinary course of business and, at the equity of Saber Holding GmbH. Mr. Avram Berkson and Mrs. Sandra Berkson have shared powertime the placement agent warrants were acquired, the selling stockholder had no agreement or understanding, directly or indirectly, with Saberany person to vote or direct the vote, and to dispose or direct the disposition, ofdistribute such shares. Saber’s address is Krummbaumgasse 10/20, 1020 Wein, Austria.
(8)Includes 55,743 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of options.securities.

 

Information about any other selling stockholders will be included in prospectus supplements or post-effective amendments, if required. Information about the selling stockholders may change from time to time. Any changed information with respect to which we are given notice will be included in prospectus supplements.

Material Relationships with the Selling Stockholders

Other than in connection with the transactions described above and elsewhere in this prospectus, we have not had any material relationships with the selling stockholders in the last three years.

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DESCRIPTIONPLAN OF CAPITAL STOCKDISTRIBUTION

 

AsThe selling stockholders, which, as used herein, includes donees, pledgees, transferees or other successors-in-interest selling shares of common stock or interests in shares of common stock received after the date of this prospectus we are authorizedfrom a selling stockholder as a gift, pledge, partnership distribution or other transfer, may, from time to issue up to 221,000,000time, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of their shares of capitalcommon stock par value $0.01 per share, divided into two classes designated, respectively, “common stock” and undesignated “preferred stock.” Of suchor interests in shares authorized, 220,000,000of common stock on any stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the shares are designatedtraded or in private transactions. These dispositions may be at fixed prices, at prevailing market prices at the time of sale, at prices related to the prevailing market price, at varying prices determined at the time of sale, or at negotiated prices.

The selling stockholders may use any one or more of the following methods when disposing of shares or interests therein:

ordinary brokerage transactions and transactions in which the broker-dealer solicits purchasers;
block trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent, but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;
purchases by a broker-dealer as principal and resale by the broker-dealer for its account;
an exchange distribution in accordance with the rules of the applicable exchange;
privately negotiated transactions;
short sales effected after the date the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part is declared effective by the SEC;
through the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;
broker-dealers may agree with the selling stockholders to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share;
a combination of any such methods of sale; and
any other method permitted by applicable law.

The selling stockholders may, from time to time, pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the shares of common stock owned by them and, 1,000,000if they default in the performance of their secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the shares of common stock, from time to time, under this prospectus, or under an amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act amending the list of selling stockholders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors-in-interest as selling stockholders under this prospectus. The selling stockholders also may transfer the shares of common stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees, pledgees or other successors-in-interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.

In connection with the sale of our common stock or interests therein, the selling stockholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions, which may in turn engage in short sales of the common stock in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The selling stockholders may also sell shares of our common stock short and deliver these securities to close out their short positions, or loan or pledge the common stock to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The selling stockholders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or the creation of one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of shares offered by this prospectus, which shares such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).

The aggregate proceeds to the selling stockholders from the sale of the common stock offered by them will be the purchase price of the common stock less discounts or commissions, if any. Each of the selling stockholders reserves the right to accept and, together with their agents from time to time, to reject, in whole or in part, any proposed purchase of common stock to be made directly or through agents. We will not receive any of the proceeds from this offering. Upon any exercise of the warrants by payment of cash, however, we will receive the exercise price of the warrants.

The selling stockholders also may resell all or a portion of the shares in open market transactions in reliance upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, provided that they meet the criteria and conform to the requirements of that rule.

The selling stockholders and any underwriters, broker-dealers or agents that participate in the sale of the common stock or interests therein may be “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act. Any discounts, commissions, concessions or profit they earn on any resale of the shares may be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. Selling stockholders who are designated as undesignated preferred stock.“underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.

To the extent required, the shares of our common stock to be sold, the names of the selling stockholders, the respective purchase prices and public offering prices, the names of any agents, dealer or underwriter, any applicable commissions or discounts with respect to a particular offer will be set forth in an accompanying prospectus supplement or, if appropriate, a post-effective amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

In order to comply with the securities laws of some states, if applicable, the common stock may be sold in these jurisdictions only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers. In addition, in some states the common stock may not be sold unless it has been registered or qualified for sale or an exemption from registration or qualification requirements is available and is complied with.

We have advised the selling stockholders that the anti-manipulation rules of Regulation M under the Exchange Act may apply to sales of shares in the market and to the activities of the selling stockholders and their affiliates. In addition, to the extent applicable we will make copies of this prospectus (as it may be supplemented or amended from time to time) available to the selling stockholders for the purpose of satisfying the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act. The selling stockholders may indemnify any broker-dealer that participates in transactions involving the sale of the shares against certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act.

We will pay all expenses of the registration of the shares of common stock, including, without limitation, SEC filing fees and expenses of compliance with state securities or “blue sky” laws; provided, however, that each selling stockholder will pay all underwriting discounts and selling commissions, if any, and any related legal expenses incurred by it. We will indemnify the selling stockholders against certain liabilities, including some liabilities under the Securities Act, arising in connection with the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

 

The following is a summary ofdescription summarizes the material terms of our capital stock and certain provisionsas of the date of this prospectus. Because it is only a summary, it does not contain all the information that may be important to you. For a complete description of our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws. Since the terms ofcapital stock, you should refer to our certificate of incorporation and our bylaws, and Delaware law, are more detailed thanto the general information provided below, you should only rely on the actual provisions of those documents and Delaware law. If you would like to read those documents, they are on file with the SEC, as described under the heading “Where You Can Find Additional Information” below. The summary below is also qualified by provisions of applicable Nevada law.

 

On September 4, 2018, we filed a Certificate of Amendment (the “Amendment”) to our Restated Certificate of Incorporation to implement a 1-for-15 reverse split of our common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”). As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, each fifteen shares of our issued and outstanding common stock were automatically combined and converted into one issued and outstanding share of common stock. The Reverse Stock Split affected all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock and preferred stock, as well as common stock underlying stock options, preferred stock and warrants outstanding immediately prior to the effectiveness of the Reverse Stock Split. The Amendment did not decrease the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock, nor did it alter the par value of common stock, which remained at $0.01 per share, or modify any voting rights or other terms of our common stock or preferred stock. Unless otherwise indicated, all information set forth in this prospectus gives effect to the Reverse Stock Split.General

 

AsOur authorized capital stock consists of December 24 , 2018, there were 3,012,34360,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.01, of which 11,707,317 shares were issued and outstanding that were heldas of recordJuly 7, 2023 and 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, none of which are issued and outstanding. Our preferred stock and/or common stock may be issued from time to time without prior approval by approximately 176 stockholders, although we believe that there is a significantly larger numberour stockholders. Our preferred stock and/or common stock may be issued for such consideration as may be fixed from time to time by our Board of beneficial ownersDirectors. Our Board of Directors may issue such shares of our common stock.preferred stock in one or more series, with such voting powers, designations, preferences and rights or qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof as shall be stated in the resolution or resolutions.

 

Common Stock

We are authorized to issue 60,000,000 shares of common stock, $0.01 par value. Each share of common stock shall have one vote per share for all purposes. The holders of a majority of the shares entitled to vote, present in person or represented by proxy shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of our stockholders. Our common stock does not provide preemptive, subscription or conversion rights and there are no redemption or sinking fund provisions or rights. Our common stock holders are not entitled to cumulative voting for election of the Board of Directors.

 

Holders of 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. Holders of common stock are entitled to receive proportionately any dividends as may be declared by our board of directors, out of funds that we may legally use to pay dividends, subject to any preferential dividend rights of any outstanding series of preferred stock or series of preferred stock that we may designate and issue in the future. All shares of common stock outstanding as of the date of this prospectus and, upon issuance and sale, all shares of common stock that we may offer pursuant to this prospectus, will be fully paid and nonassessable.

 

In the event of our liquidation or dissolution, the holders of common stock are entitled to receive proportionately our net assets available for distribution to stockholders after the payment of all debts and other liabilities and subject to the prior rights of any outstanding preferred stock. Holders of common stock have no preemptive, subscription, redemption or conversion rights. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to the common stock.

 

Preferred Stock

General

 

We have authorityThe Company is authorized to issue up to 1,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.01 per share. There are currently nostock. Our Board of Directors is authorized to cause us to issue, from our authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock, issuedone or outstanding.

Our boardmore series of directors is authorized, without stockholder approval,preferred stock, to establish from time to time the number of shares to issue shares of preferred stockbe included in each such series, as well as to fix the designation and may, at the time of issuance, subject to Delaware lawany preferences, conversion and our certificate of incorporation and by-laws, determine theother rights preferences and limitations of each series, including voting rights, dividendsuch series. These rights and limitations may include voting powers, limitations as to dividends, and qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption and liquidation preferences. Satisfaction of any dividend preferences of outstandingthe shares of preferred stock would reduceeach such series. As of the amountdate of funds available for the payment of dividends onthis prospectus, no shares of our common stock. Holders of shares of preferred stock may be entitled to receive a preference payment in the event of any liquidation, dissolutionwere outstanding or winding-up of our company before any payment is made to the holders of shares of our common stock. In some circumstances, the issuance of shares of preferred stock may render more difficult or tend to discourage a merger, tender offer or proxy contest, the assumption of control by a holder of a large block of our securities or the removal of incumbent management. Upon the affirmative vote of our board of directors, without stockholder approval, we may issue shares of preferred stock with voting and conversion rights which could adversely affect the holders of shares of our common stock.designated.

 

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IfOptions

As of July 7, 2023, we issue a specific series of preferred stock, we will file a copy of the certificate establishing the terms of the preferred stock with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware and with the SEC. To the extent required, this description will include:had:

 

 1,529,304 shares of our common stock issuable upon the titleexercise of outstanding stock options granted to employees, directors and stated value;consultants, with exercise prices ranging from approximately $0.005 to $15.75 and having a weighted-average exercise price of $7.05 per share;
   
 the number131,585 shares of shares offered, the liquidation preference per share and the purchase price;
the dividend rate(s), period(s) and/or payment date(s), or method(s) of calculation for such dividends;
whether dividends will be cumulative or non-cumulative and, if cumulative, the date from which dividends will accumulate;
the procedures for any auction and remarketing, if any;
the provisions for a sinking fund, if any;
the provisions for redemption, if applicable;
any listing of the preferred stock on any securities exchange or market;
whether the preferred stock will be convertible into our common stock and, if applicable, the conversion price (or how it will be calculated) and conversion period;
whether the preferred stock will be exchangeable into debt securities, and, if applicable, the exchange price (or how it will be calculated) and exchange period;
voting rights, if any, of the preferred stock;
a discussion of any material and/or special U.S. federal income tax considerations applicable to the preferred stock;
the relative ranking and preferences of the preferred stock as to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the affairs of the Company;reserved for future grant under our 2017 Equity Incentive Plan; and
   
 any material limitations on issuance522,904 shares of any class or series of preferredour common stock ranking senior to or on a parity with the series of preferred stock as to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company.reserved for future grant under our 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan.

 

Outstanding Warrants

 

As of September 30, 2018,July 7, 2023, we had outstanding:

 

 warrants to purchase approximately 2,7701,022,495 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding series A preferred investment options expiring in October 2027, originally at an exercise price of approximately $40.00 per share which are exercisable through March 14, 2022, and which are subjectof $4.64 but amended to “full ratchet” price-based anti-dilution adjustments;a reduced exercise price per share of $2.20 in connection with the offering that was consummated on May 24, 2023;
   
 warrants to purchase approximately 68351,125 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in October 2027, at an exercise price of approximately $1,363 per share which are exercisable through April 30, 2020;of $6.1125;
32,778 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in November 2026, at an exercise price per share of $2.75;
60,476 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in November 2026, at an exercise price per share of $2.75;
35,088 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in November 2026, at an exercise price per share of $2.6719;
350,878 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding series C preferred investment options expiring in December 2028, at an exercise price per share of $2.075;
312,309 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding series D preferred investment options expiring in December 2028, at an exercise price per share of $3.19; and
   
 warrants to purchase approximately 18331,231 shares of our common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants expiring in June 2028, at an exercise price of approximately $2,725 per share which are exercisable through April 9, 2023.of $4.0625.

 

Nasdaq CapitalTrading Market

 

OurThe shares of our common stock is listedare currently quoted on Thethe Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT.”“MBOT”.

 

Transfer Agent and Registrar

 

The transfer agent and registrar forof our common stock is Computershare Trust Company, N.A. The transfer agent and registrar’sIts address is Meidinger Tower, 462 South 4th33 North LaSalle Street, Louisville, KY 40202.

DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES WE ARE OFFERINGSuite 1100, Chicago, IL 60602.

 

Certain Provisions of Delaware Law and of the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws

Anti-Takeover Provisions

Delaware Law

We are offering (i) upsubject to 6,024,096 units,the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL. Section 203 prohibits a publicly-held Delaware corporation from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested stockholder” for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination is, or the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder was, approved in a prescribed manner or another prescribed exception applies. For purposes of Section 203, a “business combination” is defined broadly to include a merger, asset sale or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder, and, subject to certain exceptions, an “interested stockholder” is a person who, together with his or her affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years prior, did own, 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock.

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Staggered Board

Our restated certificate of incorporation and restated by-laws provide for the Board of Directors to be divided into three classes serving staggered terms. At each unit consistingannual meeting of one sharestockholders, directors elected to succeed those directors whose terms expire are elected for a three-year term of office. All directors elected to our classified Board of Directors will serve until the election and qualification of their respective successors or their earlier resignation or removal. The Board of Directors is authorized to create new directorships and to fill such positions so created and is permitted to specify the class to which any such new position is assigned. The person filling such position would serve for the term applicable to that class. The Board of Directors (or its remaining members, even if less than a quorum) is also empowered to fill vacancies on the Board of Directors occurring for any reason for the remainder of the term of the class of directors in which the vacancy occurred. Members of the Board of Directors may only be removed for cause and only by the affirmative vote of 80% of the outstanding voting stock. These provisions are likely to increase the time required for stockholders to change the composition of the Board of Directors. For example, in general, at least two annual meetings will be necessary for stockholders to effect a change in a majority of the members of the Board of Directors. The provision for a classified board could prevent a party who acquires control of a majority of our outstanding common stock and one common warrant to purchase one sharefrom obtaining control of our commonBoard of Directors until our second annual stockholders meeting following the date the acquirer obtains the controlling stock interest. The classified board provision could have the effect of discouraging a potential acquirer from making a tender offer or (ii) upotherwise attempting to 6,024,096 pre-funded units, each pre-funded unit consistingobtain control of one pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of our common stockus and one common warrant to purchase one share of our common stock. For each pre-funded unit we sell,could increase the number of units we are offeringlikelihood that incumbent directors will be decreased on a one-for-one basis. The share of common stock and accompanying common warrant included in each unit will be issued separately, but cannot be purchased separately, and the pre-funded warrant to purchase one share of common stock and the accompanying common warrant included in each pre-funded unit will be issued separately, but cannot be purchased separately. Units or pre-funded units will not be issued or certificated. We are also registering the shares of common stock included in the units and the shares of common stock issuable from time to time upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants included in pre-funded units and common warrants included in the units and the pre-funded units offered hereby.

retain their positions.

 

Common StockAdvance notice provisions for stockholder proposals

Our restated by-laws establish an advance notice procedure for stockholder nominations of candidates for election to our Board of Directors, as well as procedures for including proposed nominations at special meetings at which directors are to be elected. Stockholders at our annual meeting may only consider proposals or nominations specified in the notice of meeting or brought before the meeting by or at the direction of our board or by a stockholder who was a stockholder of record on the record date for the meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who has given to our secretary timely written notice, in proper form, of the stockholder’s intention to bring that business before the meeting, and who has complied with the procedures and requirements set forth in the by-laws. Although the by-laws do not give the Board of Directors the power to approve or disapprove stockholder nominations of candidates or proposals regarding other business to be conducted at a special or annual meeting, these by-laws may have the effect of precluding the conduct of some business at a meeting if the proper procedures are not followed or may discourage or defer a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect its own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of Microbot.

 

Special meetings of stockholders

Special meetings of the stockholders may be called only by the Board of Directors, president or secretary upon the application of a majority of the directors. Stockholders are not permitted to call a special meeting or to require our Board of Directors to call a special meeting.

No stockholder action by written consent

Our restated certificate of incorporation and restated by-laws do not permit our stockholders to act by written consent. As a result, any action to be effected by our stockholders must be effected at a duly called annual or special meeting of the stockholders.

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Super-majority stockholder vote required for certain actions.

The material terms andDGCL provides generally that the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote on any matter is required to amend a corporation’s certificate of incorporation or by-laws, unless the corporation’s certificate of incorporation or by-laws, as the case may be, requires a greater percentage. Our restated certificate of incorporation requires the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 80% of our outstanding voting stock to amend or repeal certain provisions of our commonrestated certificate of incorporation. This 80% stockholder vote would be in addition to any separate class vote that might in the future be required pursuant to the terms of any preferred stock and each other classthat might then be outstanding. In addition, an 80% vote is also required for any amendment to, or repeal of, our securities which qualifiesrestated by-laws by the stockholders. Our restated by-laws may be amended or limits our common stock are described underrepealed by a vote of a majority of the caption “Descriptiontotal number of Capital Stock” in this prospectus.authorized directors.

 

Limitation of Liability and Indemnification

Common Warrants

Our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws provide that each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is otherwise involved (including, without limitation, as a witness) in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was one of our directors or officers or is or was serving at our request as a director, officer, or trustee of another corporation, or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to an employee benefit plan, whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer or trustee or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer or trustee, shall be indemnified and held harmless by us to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such.

 

The following is a summary of all material terms and provisionsSection 145 of the common warrantsDGCL permits a corporation to indemnify any director or officer of the corporation against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with any action, suit or proceeding brought by reason of the fact that are being offered hereby,such person is or was a director or officer of the form of which has been filed as an exhibitcorporation, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. Prospective investors should carefully review the terms and provisionsbest interests of the form of common warrant forcorporation, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, if he or she had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. In a complete descriptionderivative action (i.e., one brought by or on behalf of the termscorporation), indemnification may be provided only for expenses actually and conditionsreasonably incurred by any director or officer in connection with the defense or settlement of such an action or suit if such person acted in good faith and in a manner that he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the common warrants.

Durationcorporation, except that no indemnification shall be provided if such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation, unless and Exercise Price.Each common warrant offered hereby will have an exercise price equal to $    . The common warrants will be immediately exercisable and may be exercised until the fifth anniversary of the issuance date. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations or similar events affecting our common stock and the exercise price. The common warrants will be issued separately from the common stock or pre-funded warrants sold as part of the units or pre-funded units, respectively, and may be transferred separately immediately thereafter. Common warrants will be issued in certificated form only.

Exercisability. The common warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our common stock purchased upon such exercise (except in the case of a cashless exercise as discussed below). A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of such holder’s common warrantsonly to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% ofDelaware Chancery Court or the outstanding common stock immediately after exercise, exceptcourt in which the action or suit was brought shall determine that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s common warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownershipperson is determined in accordance with the terms of the common warrants.

Cashless Exercise.If, at the time a holder exercises its common warrants, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of common stock underlying the common warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available for the issuance of such shares, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of common stock determined according to a formula set forth in the common warrant.

Fundamental Transactions.In the event of a fundamental transaction, as described in the common warrantsfairly and generally including any reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification of our common stock, the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person, the acquisition of more than 50% of our outstanding common stock, or any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding common stock, the holders of the common warrants will bereasonably entitled to receive upon exerciseindemnity for such expenses despite such adjudication of the common warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the common warrants immediately prior to such fundamental transaction.

Transferability.Subject to applicable laws and a standard legend with regard to restriction on transfer only in compliance with a public offering or an available exemption therefrom, the common warrants may be transferred at the option of the holder upon surrender of the common warrants to us together with the appropriate instruments of transfer.

Fractional Shares.No fractional shares of common stock will be issued upon the exercise of the common warrants. Rather, the number of shares of common stock to be issued will, at our election, either be rounded up to the nearest whole number or we will pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the exercise price.

Trading Market.There is no established trading market for the common warrants, and we do not expect an active trading market to develop. We do not intend to apply to list the common warrants on any securities exchange or other trading market. Without a trading market, the liquidity of the common warrants will be extremely limited.

Right as a Stockholder.Except as otherwise provided in the common warrants or by virtue of the holder’s ownership of shares of our common stock, such holders of common warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our common stock, including any voting rights, until such holders exercise their common warrants.

Waivers and Amendments.No term of the common warrants may be amended or waived without the written consent of the holder of such warrant.

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Pre-Funded Warrants

The following summary of certain terms and provisions of pre-funded warrants that are being offered hereby is not complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the provisions of the pre-funded warrant, the form of which is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Prospective investors should carefully review the terms and provisions of the form of pre-funded warrant for a complete description of the terms and conditions of the pre-funded warrants.

Duration and Exercise Price. Each pre-funded warrant offered hereby will have an initial exercise price per share equal to $0.01. The pre-funded warrants will be immediately exercisable and may be exercised at any time until the pre-funded warrants are exercised in full. The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable upon exercise is subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of stock dividends, stock splits, reorganizations or similar events affecting our common stock and the exercise price. The Pre-funded warrants will be issued separately from the accompanying common warrants included in the pre-funded units, and may be transferred separately thereafter.

Exercisability.The pre-funded warrants will be exercisable, at the option of each holder, in whole or in part, by delivering to us a duly executed exercise notice accompanied by payment in full for the number of shares of our common stock purchased upon such exercise (except in the case of a cashless exercise as discussed below). A holder (together with its affiliates) may not exercise any portion of the pre-funded warrant to the extent that the holder would own more than 4.99% of the outstanding common stock immediately after exercise, except that upon at least 61 days’ prior notice from the holder to us, the holder may increase the amount of ownership of outstanding stock after exercising the holder’s pre-funded warrants up to 9.99% of the number of shares of our common stock outstanding immediately after giving effect to the exercise, as such percentage ownership is determined in accordance with the terms of the pre-funded warrants. Purchasers of pre-funded units in this offering may also elect prior to the issuance of the pre-funded warrants to have the initial exercise limitation set at 9.99% of our outstanding common stock.

Cashless Exercise. If, at the time a holder exercises its pre-funded warrants, a registration statement registering the issuance of the shares of common stock underlying the pre-funded warrants under the Securities Act is not then effective or available, then in lieu of making the cash payment otherwise contemplated to be made to us upon such exercise in payment of the aggregate exercise price, the holder may elect instead to receive upon such exercise (either in whole or in part) the net number of shares of common stock determined according to a formula set forth in the pre-funded warrants.

Fundamental Transaction. In the event of a fundamental transaction, as described in the pre-funded warrants and generally including any reorganization, recapitalization or reclassification of our common stock, the sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of our properties or assets, our consolidation or merger with or into another person, the acquisition of more than 50% of our outstanding common stock, or any person or group becoming the beneficial owner of 50% of the voting power represented by our outstanding common stock, the holders of the pre-funded warrants will be entitled to receive upon exercise of the pre-funded warrants the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property that the holders would have received had they exercised the pre-funded warrants immediately prior to such fundamental transaction.

Transferability.Subject to applicable laws, a pre-funded warrant may be transferred at the option of the holder upon surrender of the pre-funded warrant to us together with the appropriate instruments of transfer.

Fractional Shares.No fractional shares of common stock will be issued upon the exercise of the pre-funded warrants. Rather, the number of shares of common stock to be issued will, at our election, either be rounded up to the nearest whole number or we will pay a cash adjustment in respect of such final fraction in an amount equal to such fraction multiplied by the exercise price.

Trading Market. There is no trading market available for the pre-funded warrants on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system. We do not intend to list the pre-funded warrants on any securities exchange or nationally recognized trading system.

Right as a Stockholder. Except as otherwise provided in the pre-funded warrants or by virtue of such holder’s ownership of shares of our common stock, the holders of the pre-funded warrants do not have the rights or privileges of holders of our common stock, including any voting rights, until they exercise their pre-funded warrants.

UNDERWRITING

We have entered into an underwriting agreement dated             , 2018 with H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC, as underwriter, with respect to the securities being offered hereby. Subject to the terms and conditions of the underwriting agreement, we have agreed to sell to the underwriter and the underwriter has agreed to purchase from us, at the public offering price less the underwriting discounts and commissions set forth on the cover page of this prospectus,          Units and          pre-funded units.liability.

 

Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, we have agreed to sell to the underwriter named below, and the underwriter has agreed to purchase from us, the respective number of units and pre-funded units set forth opposite its name below:

UnderwriterNumber of UnitsNumber of Pre- F unded
Units
H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC

The underwriting agreement provides that the obligationSection 102(b)(7) of the underwriter to purchase the units and/or pre-funded units offered by this prospectus is subject to certain conditions. The underwriter is obligated to purchase all of the units and/or pre-funded units if any of the securities are purchased, other than those shares of common stock and/or common warrants covered by the option to purchase additional securities described below. Delivery of the securities to purchasers is expected on or about             , 2018, subject to certain customary closing conditions.

The underwriter proposes to offer the units and/or pre-funded units purchased pursuant to the underwriting agreement to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus and to certain dealers at that price less a concession not in excess of  $           per unit or per pre-funded unit . After this offering, the public offering price and concession may be changed by the underwriter. No such change shall change the amount of proceeds to be received by us as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.

In connection with the sale of the units and/or pre-funded units to be purchased by the underwriter, the underwriter will be deemed to have received compensation in the form of underwriting commissions and discounts. The underwriter’s commissions and discounts will be 7% (or 3.5% under certain circumstances as set forth in the Engagement Letter (as defined below)) of the gross proceeds of this offering, or $           per unit or per pre-funded unit or $           per unit or per pre-funded unit, respectively.

Underwriting Discounts, Commissions and Expenses

The following table shows the public offering price, underwriting discounts and commissions and proceeds, before expenses to us. These amounts are shown assuming both no exercise and full exercise of the underwriter’s option to purchase additional securities .

Total
Per Unit

Per Pre-

Funded

  Unit

Without

Option

Exercise

With

Option

Exercise

Public offering price$$$$
Underwriting discounts and commissions$$$$
Proceeds before expenses$$$$

We have also agreed to pay to the underwriter a management fee equal to 1% of the aggregate gross proceeds raised in this offering. We estimate the total expenses payable by us for this offering, excluding the underwriting discounts and commissions, to be approximately $510,000, which includes (i) a $35,000 non-accountable expense allowance payable to the underwriter, (ii) reimbursement of the accountable expenses of the underwriter up to $125,000, including the legal fees of the underwriter, inclusive of the Advance (as defined below), (iii) if applicable, reimbursement of documented costs of clearing agent settlement up to $10,000 and (iv) other estimated expenses, which include legal, accounting, printing costs and various fees associated with the registration and listingDGCL, Article Ninth of our securities sold in this offering inrestated certificate of incorporation eliminates the liability of a total estimated amount of $340,000.

We have paid an advance of $35,000 to the underwriter, which will be applied against accountable expenses that will be paid by us to the underwriter in connection with the offering, which advance will be refundeddirector to us to the extent not actually incurred by the underwriter in the event this offering is terminated (the “Advance”).

We have also agreed to pay the underwriteror our stockholders for monetary damages for such a tail fee equal to the cash and warrant compensation in this offering if any investor which the underwriter contacted or introduced us to during the termbreach of the underwriter’s engagement (other than investors who havefiduciary duty as a pre-existing relationship with us) provides us with further capital in a public or private offering or capital raising transaction and such offering or transaction is consummated during the six-month period following termination or expiration of that certain engagement letter, dated October 12, 2018, entered into between us and the underwriter (the “Engagement L etter”).

We have agreed to issue to the underwriter warrants (the “Underwriter’s Warrants”) to purchase a number of shares of our common stock equal to 5.0% of the aggregate number of shares of common stock (i) included within the units, (ii) issuable upon the exercise of the pre-funded warrants included within the pre-funded units sold in this offering and (iii) included in the option to purchase additional securities. The underwriter warrants will be exercisable immediately and will have a term of five years from the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part and an exercise price per share equal to 125% of the public offering pricedirector, except for the shares sold in this offering. Pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110(g), the Underwriter’s Warrants and any shares issued upon exercise of the Underwriter’s Warrants shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, or hypothecated, or be the subject of any hedging, short sale, derivative, put or call transaction that would result in the effective economic disposition of the securities by any person for a period of 180 days immediately following the date of effectiveness or commencement of sales of this offering, except the transfer of any security: (i) by operation of law or by reason of our reorganization; (ii) to any FINRA member firm participating in the offering and the officers or partners thereof, if all securities so transferred remain subject to the lock-up restriction set forth above for the remainder of the time period; (iii) if the aggregate amount of our securities held by the underwriter or related persons do not exceed 1% of the securities being offered; (iv) that is beneficially owned on a pro-rata basis by all equity owners of an investment fund, provided that no participating member manages or otherwise directs investments by the fund and the participating members in the aggregate do not own more than 10% of the equity in the fund; or (v) the exercise or conversion of any security, if all securities remain subject to the lock-up restriction set forth above for the remainder of the time period.

Option to Purchase Additional Securities

We have granted to the underwriter an option, exercisable not later than 30 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to an additional 903,614 shares of our common stock at a purchase price of $      per share and/or common warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 903,614 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $0.01 per common warrant with an exercise price of $       per share, less the underwriting discounts and commissions, set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. If any additional securities are purchased pursuant to such option, the underwriter will offer these securities on the same terms as those on which the securities are being offered hereby.

Right of First Refusal

We have also granted the underwriter a right of first refusal for a period of twelve months following the closing of this offering to act as sole book-running manager, sole underwriter or sole placement agent for each and every future public offering or private placement of equity or debt securities by us or any of our subsidiaries.

Lock-up Agreements

Our Section 16 (under the Exchange Act) officers and directors have agreed with the underwriter to be subject to a lock-up period of 90 days following the date of this prospectus. This means that, during the applicable lock-up period, such persons may not offer for sale, contract to sell, sell, distribute, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any of our shares of common stock or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of common stock. Certain limited transfers are permitted during the lock-up period if the transferee agrees to these lock-up restrictions.

We have also agreed, in the underwriting agreement, to similar lock-up restrictions on the issuance and sale of our shares of common stock, or any securities convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, shares of common stock, for 90 days following the closing of this offering, subject to certain exceptions.

The underwriter may, in its sole discretion and without notice, waive the terms of any of these lock-up agreements.

Stabilization, Short Positions and Penalty Bids

The underwriter may engage in syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of our common stock:liabilities arising:

 

 Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. Such a naked short position would be closed out by buying securities in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriter is concerned that there could be downward pressure on the pricefrom any breach of the securities in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.
director’s duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;
 Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids dofrom acts or omissions not exceedin good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a specific maximum.
knowing violation of law;
 Penalty bids permitunder Section 174 of the underwriter to reclaim a selling concession DGCL; and
from a syndicate member whenany transaction from which the securities originally sold by the syndicate member are purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions.director derived an improper personal benefit.

These syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market prices of our securities or preventing or retarding a decline in the market prices of our securities. As a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. Neither we nor the underwriter make any representation or prediction as to the effect that the transactions described above may have on the price of our common stock. These transactions may be effected on the Nasdaq Capital Market, in the over-the-counter market or on any other trading market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.

In connection with this offering, the underwriter also may engage in passive market making transactions in our common stock in accordance with Regulation M during a period before the commencement of offers or sales of our securities in this offering and extending through the completion of the distribution. In general, a passive market maker must display its bid at a price not in excess of the highest independent bid for that security. However, if all independent bids are lowered below the passive market maker’s bid that bid must then be lowered when specific purchase limits are exceeded. Passive market making may stabilize the market price of the securities at a level above that which might otherwise prevail in the open market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.

Neither we nor the underwriter make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the prices of our securities. In addition, neither we nor the underwriter make any representation that the underwriter will engage in these transactions or that any transactions, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.

Indemnification

 

We have agreedentered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain officers, in addition to indemnify the underwriterindemnification provided in our restated certificate of incorporation and our amended and restated bylaws, and intend to enter into indemnification agreements with any new directors and executive officers in the future. We have purchased and intend to maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer against any loss arising from any claim asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, subject to certain liabilities, including certain liabilities arising under the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments that the underwriter may be required to make for these liabilities.

Determination of Offering Priceexclusions.

 

The actual offering price of the securities we are offering will be negotiated between us and the underwriter based on the tradingforegoing discussion of our common stock prior to the offering, among other things,restated certificate of incorporation, amended and may be at a discount to the current market price.

Electronic Offer, Salerestated bylaws, indemnification agreements, indemnity agreement, and Distribution of Securities

A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the websites maintained by the underwriter, if any, participating in this offering and the underwriter may distribute prospectuses electronically. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on these websitesDelaware law is not part of this prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus form a part, has not been approved or endorsed by us or the underwriter, and should not be relied upon by investors.

Other Relationships

The underwriter and its respective affiliates may in the future engage in investment banking and other commercial dealings in the ordinary course of business with us or our affiliates.

Listing

Our common stock is listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT.” We do not plan to list the pre-funded warrants , the common warrants or the Underwriter’s Warrants on The Nasdaq Capital Market or any other securities exchange or trading market.

Notice To Investors

Belgium

The offering is exclusively conducted under applicable private placement exemptions and therefore it has not been and will not be notified to, and this document or any other offering material relating to the securities has not been and will not be approved by, the Belgian Banking, Finance and Insurance Commission (“Commission bancaire, financière et des assurances/Commissie voor het Bank, Financie en Assurantiewezen”). Any representation to the contrary is unlawful.

The underwriter has undertaken not to offer sell, resell, transfer or deliver directly or indirectly, any units, or to take any steps relating/ancillary thereto, and not to distribute or publish this document or any other material relating to the units or to the offering in a manner which would be construed as: (a) a public offering under the Belgian Royal Decree of 7 July 1999 on the public character of financial transactions; or (b) an offering of securities to the public under Directive 2003/71/EC which triggers an obligation to publish a prospectus in Belgium. Any action contrary to these restrictions will cause the recipient and the Companyintended to be in violation of the Belgian securities laws.

France

Neither this prospectus nor any other offering material relating to the securities has been submitted to the clearance procedures of the Autorité des marchés financiers in France. The securities have not been offered or sold and will not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, to the public in France. Neither this prospectus nor any other offering material relating to the securities has been or will be: (a) released, issued, distributed or caused to be released, issued or distributed to the public in France; or (b) used in connection with any offer for subscription or sale of the securities to the public in France. Such offers, sales and distributions will be made in France only: (i) to qualified investors (investisseurs qualifiés) and/or to a restricted circle of investors (cercle restreint d’investisseurs), in each case investing for their own account, all as defined in and in accordance with Articles L.411-2, D.411-1, D.411-2, D.734-1,D.744-1, D.754-1 and D.764-1 of the French Code monétaire et financier; (ii) to investment services providers authorised to engage in portfolio management on behalf of third parties; or (iii) in a transaction that, in accordance with article L.411-2-II-1°-or-2°-or 3° of the French Code monétaire et financier and article 211-2 of the General Regulations (Règlement Général) of the Autorité des marchés financiers, does not constitute a public offer (appel public à l’épargne). Such securities may be resold only in compliance with Articles L.411-1, L.411-2, L.412-1 and L.621-8 through L.621-8-3 of the French Code monétaire et financier.

United Kingdom/Germany/Norway/The Netherlands

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area which has implemented the Prospectus Directive (each, a “Relevant Member State”) an offer to the public of any securities which are the subject of the offering contemplated by this prospectus may not be made in that Relevant Member State other than the offers contemplated in this prospectus in name(s) of Member State(s) where prospectus will be approved or passported for the purposes of a non-exempt offer once this prospectus has been approved by the competent authority in such Member State and published and passported in accordance with the Prospectus Directive as implemented in name(s) of relevant Member State(s) except that an offer to the public in that Relevant Member State of any security may be made at any time under the following exemptions under the Prospectus Directive, if they have been implemented in that Relevant Member State:

(a)to legal entities which are authorised or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorised or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
(b)to any legal entity which has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than €43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts;
(c)by the representative to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive); or
(d)in any other circumstances falling within Article 3(2) of the Prospectus Directive, provided that no such offer of units shall result in a requirement for the publication by the company or any underwriter of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer to the public” in relation to any units in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and any units to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase any units, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

The underwriter has represented, warranted and agreed that:

(a)it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated any invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the FSMA)) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of any units in circumstances in which section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to the company; and
(b)it has complied with and will comply with all applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the securities in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.

Israel

This prospectus does not constitute a prospectus under the Israeli Securities Law, 5728-1968, and has not been filed with or approved by the Israel Securities Authority. In Israel, this prospectus is being distributed only to,exhaustive and is directed only at, investors listedqualified in the first addendum,its entirety by such restated certificate of incorporation, amended and restated bylaws, indemnification agreements, indemnity agreement, or the Addendum, to the Israeli Securities Law, consisting primarily of joint investment in trust funds, provident funds, insurance companies, banks, portfolio managers, investment advisors, members of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, underwriters, venture capital funds, entities with equity in excess of NIS 50 million and “qualified individuals,” each as defined in the Addendum (as it may be amended from time to time), collectively referred to as qualified investors, in each case, purchasing for their own account or, where permitted under the Addendum, for the accounts of their clients who are qualified investors. Qualified investors will be required to submit written confirmation that they fall within the scope of the Addendum.

Italy

The offering of the securities offered hereby in Italy has not been registered with the Commissione Nazionale per la Società e la Borsa (“CONSOB”) pursuant to Italian securities legislation and, accordingly, the securities offered hereby cannot be offered, sold or delivered in the Republic of Italy (“Italy”) nor may any copy of this prospectus or any other document relating to the securities offered hereby be distributed in Italy other than to professional investors (operatori qualificati) as defined in Article 31, second paragraph, of CONSOB Regulation No. 11522 of 1 July, 1998 as subsequently amended. Any offer, sale or delivery of the securities offered hereby or distribution of copies of this prospectus or any other document relating to the securities offered hereby in Italy must be made:

(a)by an investment firm, bank or intermediary permitted to conduct such activities in Italy in accordance with Legislative Decree No. 58 of 24 February 1998 and Legislative Decree No. 385 of 1 September 1993 (the “Banking Act”);
(b)in compliance with Article 129 of the Banking Act and the implementing guidelines of the Bank of Italy; and
(c)in compliance with any other applicable laws and regulations and other possible requirements or limitations which may be imposed by Italian authorities.

Sweden

This prospectus has not been nor will it be registered with or approved by Finansinspektionen (the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority). Accordingly, this prospectus may not be made available, nor may the securities offered hereunder be marketed and offered for sale in Sweden, other than under circumstances which are deemed not to require a prospectus under the Financial Instruments Trading Act (1991: 980).

Switzerland

The securities offered pursuant to this prospectus will not be offered, directly or indirectly, to the public in Switzerland and this prospectus does not constitute a public offering prospectus as that term is understood pursuant to art. 652a or art. 1156 of the Swiss Federal Code of Obligations. The company has not applied for a listing of the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus on the SWX Swiss Exchange or on any other regulated securities market, and consequently, the information presented in this prospectus does not necessarily comply with the information standards set out in the relevant listing rules. The securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus have not been registered with the Swiss Federal Banking Commission as foreign investment funds, and the investor protection afforded to acquirers of investment fund certificates does not extend to acquirers of securities.

Investors are advised to contact their legal, financial or tax advisers to obtain an independent assessment of the financial and tax consequences of an investment in securities.law.

 

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LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the securitiesshares of common stock being offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C., Boston, Massachusetts. The underwriter is being represented by Lowenstein Sandler, LLP, New York,Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC, Uniondale, New York.

 

EXPERTS

 

The consolidated financial statements of Microbot Medical Inc. appearing it its Annual Report on Form 10-Kas of December 31, 2022 and 2021, and for each of the yeartwo years in the period ended December 31, 2017,2022, incorporated by reference in this Prospectus, have been audited byBrightman Almagor Zohar &and Co., a Member ofFirm in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited,Global Network, an independent registered public accounting firm, as set forthstated in their report thereon, included therein, and incorporated herein by reference.report. Such consolidated financial statements are incorporated herein by reference in reliance upon suchthe report given on the authority of such firm given their authority as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONALMORE INFORMATION

 

WeThis prospectus, which constitutes a part of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 that we have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act, with respect to the securities being offered by this prospectus. This prospectus does not contain all of the information in the registration statement and its exhibits. For further information with respect to us and the securitiescommon stock offered by this prospectus, weyou should refer you to the registration statement and its exhibits.the exhibits filed as part of that document. Statements contained in this prospectus as to the contents of any contract or any other document referred to are not necessarily complete, and in each instance, we refer you to the copy of the contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. Each of these statements is qualified in all respects by this reference.

 

We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You can read our SEC filings, including the registration statement, over the Internet at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. You mayhttp://www.sec.gov. We also read and copy any document we file with the SEC at its public reference facilities at 100 F Street NE, Washington, D.C. 20549. You may also obtain copies of these documents at prescribed rates by writing to the Public Reference Section of the SEC at 100 F Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference facilities. You may also request a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing us at 25 Recreation Park Drive, Unit 108 Hingham, Massachusetts 02043 or telephoning us at (781) 875-3605.

We are subject to the information and periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, and we file periodic reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. These periodic reports, proxy statements and other information are available for inspection and copying at the public reference room and website of the SEC referred to above. We maintain a website at www.microbotmedical.com. Youhttp://www.microbotmedical.com, at which you may access our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act with the SECthese materials free of charge at our website as soon as reasonably practicable after such material isthey are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. The information contained in, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference in, and is not part of this prospectus. You may also request a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at: 288 Grove Street, Suite 388, Braintree, MA 02184, (908) 967-6677.

 

INCORPORATION OF CERTAIN INFORMATIONDOCUMENTS BY REFERENCE

 

The SEC allows us to “incorporate by reference” information from other documents that we file with it, which means that we canthem. Incorporation by reference allows us to disclose important information to you by referring you to those other documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to bean important part of this prospectus, and information that we file later with the SEC will automatically update and supersede this information. We filed a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, with the SEC with respect to the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus. InformationThis prospectus omits certain information contained in the registration statement, as permitted by the SEC. You should refer to the registration statement, including the exhibits, for further information about us and the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus. Statements in this prospectus supersedes informationregarding the provisions of certain documents filed with, or incorporated by reference in, the registration statement are not necessarily complete and each statement is qualified in all respects by that reference. Copies of all or any part of the registration statement, including the documents incorporated by reference or the exhibits, may be obtained upon payment of the prescribed rates at the offices of the SEC listed above in “Where You Can Find More Information.” We are incorporating by reference the documents listed below, which we have already filed with the SEC, and all documents subsequently filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, except as to any portion of any future report or document that is not deemed filed under such provisions, prior to the datetermination of this prospectus.

We incorporate by reference into this prospectus and the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part the information or documents listed below that we have filed with the SEC (Commission File No. 001-19871):offering:

 

 our annual reportAnnual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 20172022, filed with the SEC on April 2, 2018;
March 31, 2023;
 our quarterly reportsQuarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quartersquarter ended March 31, 2018, June 30, 2018 and September 30, 2018,2023, filed with the SEC on May 15, 2018, August 14, 2018, and November 14, 2018 respectively;
17, 2023;
 our Definitive Proxy StatementCurrent Reports on Schedule 14A,Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on July 27, 2018;
our current reports on Form 8-KJanuary 23, 2023, May 18, 2023May 22, 2023, May 23, 2023, May 24, 2023, May 25, 2023, May 31, 2023, June 2, 2023, June 6, 2023, June 16, 2023, June 22, 2023 and any amendments thereto on Form 8-K/A, filed with the SEC on January 8, 2018; January 31, 2018; March 28, 2018; April 5, 2018; April 16, 2018; September 4, 2018, October 1, 2018, November 19, 2018, November 30, 2018 and December 12, 2018 (inJune 29, 2023 (except in each case except for information contained therein which is furnished rather than filed); and
 the description of our common stock contained in our registration statement on Form 8-A, filed with the SEC on August 3, 1998, including all amendments and reports filed for the purpose of updating such description.

In addition, all documents subsequently filed by us pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14

Any statement contained in this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, prior to the termination of the offering (excluding any information furnished rather than filed) shall bein a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus.prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement will be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this prospectus and any prospectus supplement to the extent that a statement contained in this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement or any other subsequently filed document that is deemed to be incorporated by reference into this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement modifies or supersedes the statement. Any statement so modified or superseded will not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement.

 

We will providefurnish without charge to each person, including any beneficial owners, to whom a prospectus is delivered,you, on written or oral request, a copy of any filing or all of the reports or documents that have beenreport incorporated by reference, in the prospectus contained in the registration statement but not delivered with the prospectus. We will provide these reports or documents upon written or oral request at no costincluding exhibits to the requester.document. You should direct any written requests for documents to Microbot Medical Inc. Attn: Chief Financial Officer, 25 Recreation Park Drive, Unit 108, Hingham, Massachusetts 02043. You may also telephone us at (781) 875-3605.

In accordance with Rule 412 of the Securities Act, any statement contained in a document incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed modified or superseded to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any other subsequently filed document which also is or is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement.

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INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting FirmF-2
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2017, and 2016F-3
Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016F-4
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity (Deficit) for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016F-5
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016F-6
Notes to the Consolidated Financial StatementsF-8
Interim Consolidated Balance Sheets as of September 30, 2018 (unaudited) and December 31, 2017F-29
Interim Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 (unaudited)F-30
Interim Consolidated Statements of Shareholders’ Equity for the year ended December 31, 2018 and the nine months ended September 30, 2018 (unaudited)F-31
Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 (unaudited)F-32
Notes to the Interim Consolidated Financial StatementsF-33

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

MICROBOT MEDICAL, Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Microbot Medical, Inc. and its subsidiary (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 and the related consolidated statements of comprehensive loss, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2017, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”).

In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended December 31, 2017, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ Brightman Almagor Zohar & Co.
Certified Public Accountants
Member of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited

Tel Aviv, Israel

April 2, 2018, except Note 1D, as to which the date is November 8, 2018

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2014.

 

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MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

     As of December 31, 
  Note  2017  2016 
          
ASSETS            
             
Current assets:            
Cash and cash equivalents     $10,787  $2,709 
Restricted cash      27   - 
Other current assets  3   116   606 
       10,930   3,315 
             
Fixed assets, net  4   90   53 
             
Total assets     $11,020  $3,368 
             
             
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY            
             
Current liabilities:            
Trade payables     $78  $512 
Accrued liabilities  5   450   271 
Total current liabilities      528   783 
             
Long-term liabilities:            
Convertible notes  6   -   76 
Derivative warrant liability  7   28   313 
       28   389 
             
Total liabilities      556   1,172 
             
Commitments and contingencies  8         
             
Temporary equity:  9         
Common stock of $0.01 par value; issued and outstanding: 721,107 shares as of December 31, 2017 and 2016      500   500 
             
Shareholders’ equity:            
Preferred stock of $0.01 par value; Authorized: 1,000,000 shares as of December 31, 2017 and 2016;issued and outstanding: 4,001 and 9,736 shares as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively  9   (*)   (*) 
Common stock of $0.01 par value; Authorized: 220,000,000 as of December 31, 2017 and 2016; issued and outstanding (**): 2,013,193 and 1,067,777 shares as of December 31, 2017, and December 31, 2016, respectively      27   18 
Additional paid-in capital      30,561   14,713 
Accumulated deficit      (20,624)  (13,035)
       9,964   1,696 
             
      $11,020  $3,368 

(*) Less than 1

(**) December 31 2017 and 2016 share data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 reverse Stock Split effected on September 4, 2018, as discussed in Note 1.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

     Years ended 
     December 31, 
  Note  2017  2016 
          
Research and development expenses, net  11  $1,100  $901 
             
General and administrative expenses  12   4,167   8,734 
             
Operating loss      (5,267)  (9,635)
             
Financing expenses, net  13   2,322   28 
             
Net loss     $(7,589) $(9,663)
             
Net loss per share, basic and diluted(*)  10  $(2.67) $(5.94)
             
Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted (*)      2,201,992   963,047 

(*) December 31 2017 and 2016 share data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 reverse Stock Split effected on September 4, 2018, as discussed in Note 1.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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Consolidated Statements of Shareholder’s Equity

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

  

Preferred A Shares – Microbot Medical Ltd.

(Pre - merger) *

  

Preferred A Shares – Microbot Medical Inc.

(Post - merger) *

  Common Stock (***)  Additional paid-in  Accumulated  Total shareholders’  Temporary 
  Number  Amount  Number  Amount  Number  Amount  capital   deficit  equity  equity 
                               
Balance, December 31, 2015  8,708,132  $87   -   -   888,188  $9  $3,212  $(3,372) $(64) $- 
                                         
Conversion of convertible notes and exercise of warrants issued upon conversion  4,746,237   48   -   -   -   -   1,803   -   1,851   - 
Effect of reverse recapitalization  (13,454,369)  (135)  -   -   1,030,957   10   597   -   472   - 
Common Stock classified as temporary equity  -   -   -   -   -   -   (500)  -   (500)  500 
Beneficial Conversion Feature recorded on convertible debt acquired in reverse recapitalization  -   -   -   -   -   -   2,029   -   2,029   - 
Transaction costs incurred in reverse recapitalization  -   -   -   -   525,706   5   6,890   -   6,895   - 
Cancellation of ordinary shares and issuance of preferred shares  -   -   9,736   (*)   (655,967)  (6)  6   -       - 
Share based compensation  -   -   -   -   -   -   676   -   676   - 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   (9,663)  (9,663)  - 
                                         
Balances, December 31, 2016  -   -   9,736   

 

 

(*)

   (**)1,788,884   18   14,713   (13,035)  1,696   500 
Issuance of common stock  -   -   -   -   299,815   3   12,699   -   12,702   - 
Share-based compensation  -   -   -   - �� 8,085   (*)   479   -   479   - 
Exercise of options  -   -   -   -   31,787   (*)   (*)   -   -   - 
Cashless exercise of warrants  -   -   -   -   24   (*)   -   -   (*)   - 
Extinguishment of convertible notes and issuance of preferred A shares  -   -   3,255   (*)   -   -   2,676   -   2,676   - 
Conversion of preferred A shares to common stock  -   -   (8,990)  (*)   605,705   6   (6)  -   -   - 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   -   -   (7,589)  (7,589)  - 
                                         
Balances, December 31, 2017  -   -   4,001   $

(*)

   **2,734,300  $27  $30,561  $(20,624) $9,964  $500 

(*) Less than 1

* Share data for periods prior to the reverse recapitalization represents the legal equity structure of Microbot Ltd. with the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the one-to-nine Reverse Stock Split effected on November 28, 2016 as well as the reverse recapitalization consummated on November 28, 2016.

** Includes 721,107 common stock classified as temporary equity.

(***) December 31 2017, 2016 and 2015 share data represent the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 reverse Stock Split effected on September 4, 2018, as discussed in Note 1.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

  Years ended 
  December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
OPERATING ACTIVITIES        
         
Net loss $(7,589) $(9,663)
         
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:        
Depreciation  21   10 
Interest and amortization of discount on convertible notes  237   333 
Share-based transaction costs incurred in reverse recapitalization  -   7,258 
Financing loss on debt extinguishment  2,364   - 
Changes in fair value of derivative warrant liability  (285)  (262)
Share-based compensation expense  479   676 
Changes in assets and liabilities:        
Other receivables  (14)  538 
Other payables and accrued liabilities  (69)  324 
         
Net cash used in operating activities  (4,856)  (786)
         
INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES        
         
Increase in restricted cash  (27)  - 
Purchase of property and equipment  (58)  (25)
         
Net cash used in investing activities  (85)  (25)
         
FINANCING ACTIVITIES        
         
Acquisition of a subsidiary in connection with reverse recapitalization  -   269 
Transaction costs incurred in reverse recapitalization  -   (347)
Inflows in connection with current assets and liabilities acquired in reverse recapitalization, net  317   2,002 
Exercise of warrants issued upon conversion of notes  -   409 
Issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs  12,702   - 
Issuance of convertible notes  -   750 
         
Net cash provided by financing activities  13,019   3,083 
         
Increase in cash and cash equivalents  8,078   2,272 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at the beginning of the year  2,709   437 
         
Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year $10,787  $2,709 
         

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

        
Non-cash financing transactions:        
Cashless exercise of warrants $(*)  $- 
Conversion of preferred A shares into common shares $90  $- 
Extinguishment of convertible notes in exchange for preferred A shares $2,083  $- 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

Assets acquired (liabilities assumed): As of 
  November 28, 
  2016 
  (in thousands) 
    
Current assets excluding cash and cash equivalents $(3,618)
Current liabilities  811 
Derivative warrant liability  575 
Convertible note  2,029 
Reverse recapitalization effect on equity  472 
     
Cash acquired in connection with reverse recapitalization $269 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

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NOTE 1 - GENERAL

A.Description of business:

Microbot Medical Inc. (the “Company”) is a pre-clinical medical device company specializing in the research, design and development of next generation micro-robotics assisted medical technologies targeting the minimally invasive surgery space. The Company is primarily focused on leveraging its micro-robotic technologies with the goal of improving surgical outcomes for patients.

It was incorporated on August 2, 1988 in the State of Delaware under the name Cellular Transplants, Inc. The original Certificate of Incorporation was restated on February 14, 1992 to change the name of the Company to Cyto Therapeutics, Inc. On May 24, 2000, the Certificate of Incorporation as restated was further amended to change the name of the Company to StemCells, Inc.

On November 28, 2016, the Company consummated a transaction pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 15, 2016, with Microbot Medical Ltd., a private medical device company organized under the laws of the State of Israel (“Microbot Israel”), and C&RD Israel Ltd. (“Merger Sub”), an Israeli corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, whereby Merger Sub merged with and into Microbot Israel and Microbot Israel surviving as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the “Merger”). Pursuant to the terms of the Merger, at the effective time of the Merger, each outstanding ordinary share of Microbot Israel capital stock was converted into the right to receive approximately 0.2 shares (2.9 shares before the Reverse Split described below) of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.01 per share, after giving effect to a one for nine reverse stock splits of the date of the merger, for an aggregate of 1,788,884 shares (26,550,974 shares before the Reverse Split) of Company’s common Stock issued to the former Microbot Israel shareholders. In addition, all outstanding options to purchase the ordinary shares of Microbot Israel were assumed by the Company and converted into options to purchase an aggregate of 176,181 shares (2,614,916 shares before the Reverse Split) of the Company’s common stock. Additionally, the Company issued an aggregate of 525,706 restricted shares (7,802,639 restricted shares before the Reverse Split) of its common stock or rights to receive the Company’s common stock, to certain advisers. On the same day and in connection with the Merger, the Company changed its name from StemCells, Inc. to Microbot Medical Inc. On November 29, 2016, the Company’s common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT”.

As a result of the Merger, Microbot Israel became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The transaction between the Company and Microbot Israel was accounted for as a reverse recapitalization. As the shareholders of Microbot Israel received the largest ownership interest in the Company, Microbot Israel was determined to be the “accounting acquirer” in the reverse recapitalization. As a result, the historical financial statements of the Company were replaced with the historical financial statements of Microbot Israel. Unless indicated otherwise, pre-acquisition share, options and warrants data included in these financial statements is retroactively adjusted to reflect the Reverse Stock Split and the Merger.

Prior to the Merger, the Company was a biopharmaceutical company that conducts research, development, and commercialization of stem cell therapeutics and related technologies. Substantially the sale of all material assets relating to the stem cell business were completed on November 29, 2016.

The Company and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the “Company”. “StemCells” or “StemCells, Inc.” refers to the Company prior to the Merger.

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B.Risk Factors:

To date, the Company has not generated revenues from its operations. As of the date of issuance of these financial statements, the Company has cash and cash equivalent balance of $9.5 million, which management believes is sufficient to fund its operations for more than 12 months from the date of issuance of these financial statements and sufficient to fund its operations necessary to continue development activities of its current proposed products. Due to continuing research and development activities, the Company expects to continue to incur net losses into the foreseeable future. The Company plans to continue to fund its current operations as well as other development activities relating to additional product candidates, through future issuances of either debt and/or equity securities and possibly additional grants from the Israeli Innovation Authority. The Company’s ability to raise additional capital in the equity and debt markets is dependent on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the market demand for the Company’s stock, which itself is subject to a number of development and business risks and uncertainties, as well as the uncertainty that the Company would be able to raise such additional capital at a price or on terms that are favorable to the Company.

C.Use of estimates:

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions pertaining to transactions and matters whose ultimate effect on the financial statements cannot precisely be determined at the time of financial statements preparation. Although these estimates are based on management’s best judgment, actual results may differ from these estimates.

D.Reverse Stock Split

On September 4, 2018, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to affect a one-for-15 reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock (the “Reverse Split”). As a result of the Reverse Split, every 15 shares of the Company’s old common stock will be converted into one share of the Company’s new common stock. Fractional shares resulting from the Reverse Split will be rounded up to the nearest whole number. The Reverse Split automatically and proportionately adjusted, based on the one-for-fifteen split ratio, all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, as well as common stock underlying convertible preferred stock, stock options, warrants and other derivative securities outstanding at the time of the effectiveness of the reverse stock split. The exercise price on outstanding equity based-grants was proportionately increased, while the number of shares available under the Company’s equity-based plans was also proportionately reduced. Share and per share data (except par value) for the periods presented reflect the effects of this Reverse Split. References to numbers of shares of common stock and per share data in the accompanying financial statements and notes thereto have been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Split on a retroactive basis.

NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

A.Basis of presentation:

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US GAAP”).

B.Financial statement in U.S. dollars:

The functional currency of the Company is the U.S. dollar (“dollar”) since the dollar is the currency of the primary economic environment in which the Company has operated and expects to continue to operate in the foreseeable future.

Transactions and balances denominated in dollars are presented at their original amounts. Transactions and balances denominated in foreign currencies have been re-measured to dollars in accordance with the provisions of ASC 830-10, “Foreign Currency Translation”.

All transaction gains and losses from re-measurement of monetary balance sheet items denominated in non-dollar currencies are reflected in the statement of operations as financial income or expenses, as appropriate.

C.Cash and cash equivalents:

Cash and cash equivalents consist of cash and demand deposits in banks, and other short-term liquid investments (primarily interest-bearing time deposits) with original maturities of less than three months.

D.Fair value of financial instruments:

The carrying values of cash and cash equivalents, other receivable and other accounts payable and accrued liabilities approximate their fair value due to the short-term maturity of these instruments.

The Company measures the fair value of certain of its financial instruments (such as the derivative warrant liabilities) on a recurring basis. The method of determining the fair value of derivative warrant liabilities is discussed in Note 8.

A fair value hierarchy is used to rank the quality and reliability of the information used to determine fair values. Financial assets and liabilities carried at fair value will be classified and disclosed in one of the following three categories:

Level 1- Quoted prices (unadjusted) in active markets for identical assets and liabilities.

Level 2 - Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as unadjusted quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities, unadjusted quoted prices in the markets that are not active, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3 - Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

E.Fixed assets:

Fixed assets are presented at costs less accumulated depreciation. Depreciation is calculated based on the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, as the following annual rates:

%
Research equipment and software25-33
Furniture and office equipment7

F.Liabilities due to termination of employment agreements

Under Israeli employment laws, employees of Microbot Israel are included under Article 14 of the Severance Compensation Act, 1963 (“Article 14”). According to Article 14, these employees are entitled to monthly deposits made by Microbot Israel on their behalf with insurance companies.

Payments in accordance with Article 14 release Microbot Israel from any future severance payments (under the Israeli Severance Compensation Act, 1963) with respect of those employees. The aforementioned deposits are not recorded as an asset in the Company’s balance sheet,

G.Basic and diluted net loss per share

Basic net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss, as adjusted to include s by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year. Common shares and preferred shares contingently issuable for little or no cash are included in basic net loss per share on an as issued basis.

Diluted net loss per share is computed by dividing net loss, as adjusted to include preferred shares dividend participation rights of preferred shares outstanding during the year as well as of preferred shares that would have been outstanding if all potentially dilutive preferred shares had been issued, by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the year, plus the number of common shares that would have been outstanding if all potentially dilutive common shares had been issued, using the treasury stock method, in accordance with ASC 260-10 “Earnings per Share”.

All outstanding stock options and warrants have been excluded from the calculation of the diluted loss per share for the years ended December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, since all such securities have an anti-dilutive effect.

The weighted average number of shares outstanding has been retroactively restated for the equivalent number of shares received by the accounting acquirer as a result of the reverse recapitalization as if these shares had been outstanding as of the beginning of the earliest period presented.

H.Research and development expenses, net:

Research and development expenses are charged to the statement of operations as incurred. Grants for funding of approved research and development projects are recognized at the time the Company is entitled to such grants, on the basis of the costs incurred and applied as a deduction from the research and development expenses.

I.Convertible Notes:

Proceeds from the sale of debt securities with a conversion feature are allocated to equity based on the intrinsic value of such conversion feature in accordance with ASC 470-20 “Debt with Conversion and Other Options”, with a corresponding discount on the debt instrument recorded in liabilities which is amortized in finance expense over the term of the notes.

Convertible notes with characteristics of both liabilities and equity are classified as either debt or equity based on the characteristics of its monetary value, with convertible notes classified as debt being measured at fair value, in accordance with ASC 480-10, “Accounting for Certain Financial instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity”.

J.Share-based compensation:

The Company applies ASC 718-10, “Share-Based Payment,” which requires the measurement and recognition of compensation expenses for all share-based payment awards made to employees and directors including stock options under the Company’s stock plans based on estimated fair values.

ASC 718-10 requires companies to estimate the fair value of stock options using an option-pricing model. The value of the portion of the award that is ultimately expected to vest is recognized as an expense over the requisite service periods in the Company’s statement of operations.

The Company accounts for stock-based compensation awards to non-employees in accordance with FASB ASC 505-50, “Equity-Based Payments to Non-Employees” (“FASB ASC 505-50”). Under FASB ASC 505-50, the Company determines the fair value of the warrants or stock-based compensation awards granted as either the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of the equity instruments issued, whichever is more reliably measurable.

The Company estimates the fair value of stock options granted as share-based payment awards using a Black-Scholes options pricing model. The option-pricing model requires a number of assumptions, of which the most significant are expected volatility and the expected option term (the time from the grant date until the options are exercised or expire). Expected volatility is estimated based on volatility of similar companies in the technology sector for equity awards granted prior to the Merger and on the Company’s trading share price for equity awards granted subsequent to the Merger. The Company has historically not paid dividends and has no foreseeable plans to issue dividends. The risk-free interest rate is based on the yield from governmental zero-coupon bonds with an equivalent term. The expected stock option term is calculated for stock options granted to employees and directors using the “simplified” method. Grants to non-employees are based on the contractual term. Changes in the determination of each of the inputs can affect the fair value of the stock options granted and the results of operations of the Company.

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K.Reclassification:

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

L.Transaction Costs

Transaction costs incurred in the Merger were charged directly to equity to the extent of cash and net other current assets acquired. Transaction costs in excess of cash acquired were charged to general and administrative expenses.

M.Income Taxes

The Company provides for income taxes using the asset and liability approach. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recorded based on the differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities and the tax rates in effect when these differences are expected to reverse. Deferred tax assets are reduced by a valuation allowance if, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more likely than not that some or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. As of December 31, 2017, and 2016, the Company had a full valuation allowance against deferred tax assets.

N.Recent Accounting Standards:

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” to provide a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. The ASU supersedes most current revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. The FASB subsequently issued ASU 2015-14, ASU 2016-08 and ASU 2016-12, which clarified the guidance, provided scope improvements and amended the effective date of ASU 2014-09. As a result, ASU 2014-09 becomes effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company has not yet generated revenues to date, and does not yet know the impact the standard may have on its consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02 “Leases” to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. For operating leases, the ASU requires a lessee to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability, initially measured at the present value of the lease payments, on its balance sheet. The ASU retains the current accounting for lessors and does not make significant changes to the recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows by a lessee. This ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company continues to evaluate the effect of the adoption of this ASU and expects the adoption will result in an increase in the assets and liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets for operating leases (refer to Note 9) and will likely have an insignificant impact on the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13 “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses” to improve information on credit losses for financial assets and net investment in leases that are not accounted for at fair value through net income. The ASU replaces the current incurred loss impairment methodology with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses. This ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2020, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effect the adoption of this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18 “Restricted Cash” to provide guidance on the presentation of restricted cash in the statement of cash flows. Currently, the statement of cash flows explained the change in cash and cash equivalents for the period. The ASU requires that the statement of cash flows explain the change in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash for the period. The ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2018, with early adoption permitted. The Company does not expect the adoption to have a material effect on the statements of cash flows as the Company’s restricted cash is not expected to be material.

In May 2017, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2017-09, “Compensation-Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Scope of Modification Accounting,” which clarifies when a change to terms or conditions of a share-based payment award must be accounted for as a modification. The new guidance requires modification accounting if the vesting condition, fair value or the award classification is not the same both before and after a change to the terms and conditions of the award. The new guidance is effective for the Company on a prospective basis beginning on January 1, 2018 and early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect to change terms or conditions of share-based payment awards, and therefore, does not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-11, which includes Part I “Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features” and Part II “Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests with a Scope Exception”. The ASU makes limited changes to the Board’s guidance on classifying certain financial instruments as either liabilities or equity. The ASU’s objective is to improve (1) the accounting for instruments with “down-round” provisions and (2) the readability of the guidance in ASC 480 on distinguishing liabilities from equity by replacing the indefinite deferral of certain pending content with scope exceptions. The ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company has derivative warranty liabilities as discussed in Note 8 which upon adoption of the new standard are expected to be classified as equity.

NOTE 3 - OTHER CURRENT ASSETS

  As of December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
Deposit in escrow account (*) $-  $400 
Government institutions  35   15 
Prepaid expenses and others  81   191 
  $116  $606 

(*) Purchase Agreement with BOCO

On November 11, 2016, the Company, together with two of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Stem Cell Sciences Holdings Limited and StemCells California, Inc. (collectively, with the Company, the “Sellers”), entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the “Asset Purchase Agreement”) with BOCO Silicon Valley, Inc., a California corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Bright Oceans Corporation (“BOCO US”).

Pursuant to the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Asset Purchase Agreement, the Sellers sold to BOCO US certain stem and progenitor cell lines that have been researched, studied or manufactured by the Company since 2007 (the “Cell Lines”) and certain other tangible and intangible assets, including intellectual property and books and records, related to the foregoing (together with the Cell Lines, the “Assets”) in exchange for $4 million in cash (the “Asset Consideration”).

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Of the Asset Consideration, $300 was provided to the Company prior to November 11, 2016 in exchange for the Sellers’ agreement not to solicit or reach any agreement with any third party pertaining to the sale of the Assets, and $400 will remain in a twelve-month escrow for the benefit of BOCO US to satisfy certain indemnification obligations of the Sellers which may arise and which, subject to any valid indemnification claims of BOCO US, will be released to the Company at the end of such 12-month period. In addition, sixteen former employees of the Company received, in the aggregate, $495 in accordance with their June 2016 agreements with the Company under which each accepted a more than 50% reduction in his or her severance award otherwise payable.

The Asset Purchase Agreement contains certain covenants prohibiting the Sellers from, during the four-year period immediately following the completion of the Asset Sale, (a) engaging in or having certain financial interests in a business that is engaged in the research, development or commercialization of the Cell Lines, or (b) soliciting for employment employees of BOCO US.

On November 29, 2016, the Sellers completed the sale of the Assets.

As of December 31, 2017, the Company received $320 from the escrow account and paid $80 to certain consultant relating to BOCO transaction.

The opening balance sheet as of the Merger date included a receivable balance with respect to sale of the Assets of $3.5 which fully collected as of December 31 2017.

NOTE 4 - FIXED ASSETS, NET

  As of December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
Cost:        
Research equipment and software $76  $54 
Furniture and office equipment  92   56 
   168   110 
Accumulated Depreciation:        
Research equipment and software  42   29 
Furniture and office equipment  36   28 
   78   57 
         
  $90  $53 

NOTE 5 - ACCRUED LIABILITIES

  As of December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
Employees $64  $102 
Government institution  56   24 
Other current liabilities  330   145 
  $450  $271 

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NOTE 6 - CONVERTIBLE LOAN FROM SHAREHOLDERS

On October 8, 2015, Microbot Israel entered into a convertible loan agreement with several investors who were also existing shareholders. According to the loan agreement, Microbot Israel received an amount of $419. The loan bore interest of 10% and was converted to both equity shares and preferred shares warrants of Microbot Israel on the nine-month anniversary of the loan. The Company concluded the conversion feature is not a Beneficial Conversion Feature pursuant to the provisions of ASC 470-20, “Debt with Conversion and Other Options”. Accordingly, the proceeds were recorded in liabilities in their entirety at the date of issuance.

On July 7, 2016, the outstanding principal and accrued interest were converted into 1,315,023 Series A preferred shares, of Microbot Israel (the “Series A Preferred Shares”) and 1,188,275 warrants to purchase the Series A Preferred Shares, at an exercise price of $1.00 per share. The preferred shares warrants were exercised in full in September 2016 for total gross proceeds to Microbot Israel of $410.

On May 11, 2016, Microbot Israel entered into a convertible loan agreement with several investors who were also existing shareholders. The loan bore interest at a fixed rate of 10% per annum beginning on the issuance date.

At maturity, all of the outstanding principal and accrued interest was converted into Microbot Israel’s ordinary shares subject to the conversion or default events specified in the loan agreement, based on a conversion price that represents a 20% discount on Microbot Israel’s valuation upon such default events.

On November 28, 2016, upon the consummation of the Merger, the loan was converted into an aggregate of 151,119 shares (2,242,939 shares before the Reverse Split) of Company’s common stock.

The Company concluded the value of the loan is predominantly based on a fixed monetary amount known at the date of issuance as represented by the 20% discount on the Company’s valuation. Accordingly, the loan was classified as debt and was measured at its fair value, pursuant to the provisions of ASC 480-10, “Accounting for Certain Financial instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity”.

The fair value of the loan was measured based on observable inputs as the fixed monetary value of the variable number of shares to be issued upon conversion (level 2 measurement).

Secured note to Alpha Capital Anstalt:

On August 15, 2016, concurrent with the execution of the Agreement and Plan of Merger (see Note 1A), StemCells Inc. issued a 6.0% secured note (the “Note”) to Alpha Capital Anstalt (“Alpha Capital”), in the principal amount of $2,000, for value received, payable upon the earlier of (i) 30 days following the consummation of the Merger and (ii) December 31, 2016. Proceeds from the Note were used for the payment of costs and expenses in connection with the Merger and operational expenses leading to such Closing.

The Note bears interest at 6% per annum, payable monthly in arrears on the first of the month, beginning on January 1, 2017 until the principal amount is paid in full. In addition, the Note is secured by a first priority security interest in all of the Company’s intellectual property and certain other general assets pursuant to a Security Agreement

Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital:

As of the effective time of the Merger, the Company entered into a Securities Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Alpha Capital, providing for the issuance to Alpha Capital of a convertible promissory note by the Company (the “Convertible Note”) in a principal amount of $2,029, which is equal to the principal and accrued interest under the Note, in exchange for (a) the full satisfaction, termination and cancellation of the Note and (b) the release and termination of the Security Agreement and the first priority security interest granted thereunder.

The Convertible Note was convertible into the Company’s Common Stock any time after November 28, 2017 and until the maturity date of November 28, 2019, based on a conversion price of $9.60 ($0.64 before the Reverse Split), subject to adjustments as provided in the Exchange Agreement.

Pursuant to the terms of the Convertible Note, the Company was obligated to pay interest on the outstanding principal amount owed under the Convertible Note at a fixed rate per annum of 6.0%, payable at maturity or earlier upon conversion. The Exchange Agreement contains customary representations and warranties and usual and customary affirmative and negative covenants. The Convertible Note also contained certain customary events of default.

As the Exchange Agreement represented the consummation of the original intent of the Company and Alpha Capital, as of the date of execution of the Merger Agreement (August 2016), to enter into a $2 million convertible note sale transaction, upon the consummation of the Merger, the Company accounted for the convertible note in accordance with such economic substance, as if it had been issued for a cash consideration equal to the principal and accrued interest on the Note, as of the effective date of the Merger, in the amount of $2,029 (the “Assumed Consideration”), which is equal to the principal amount of the Convertible Note as determined in the Exchange Agreement.

The Company concluded the conversion feature of the Convertible Note, based on the commitment date of November 28 2016 (the Exchange Agreement date), is a Beneficial Conversion Feature pursuant to the provisions of ASC 470-20, “Debt with Conversion and Other Options”. Accordingly, $2,029 of the Assumed Consideration was recorded in equity with a corresponding discount on the Convertible Note, to be amortized over its term through maturity.

See also Note 10 – Securities Exchange Agreements with Alpha Capital.

The carrying value of the Convertible Note as of the periods below was calculated as follow:

  As of December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
Convertible note $-  $2,029 
Unamortized discount  -   (1,963)
Accrued interest  -   10 
  $-  $76 

NOTE 7 - DERIVATIVE WARRANT LIABILITIES

As part of StemCell’s obligations under the Merger Agreement, in August 2016, StemCells negotiated with certain institutional holders of its 2016 Series A and Series B Warrants, issued by prior to the Merger, to have such holders surrender their 2016 Series B Warrants in exchange for a reduced exercise price of $4.45 ($0.30 before the Reverse Split) per share on their existing 2016 Series A Warrants and the elimination of the anti-dilution price protection in the 2016 Series A Warrants. As a result, the exercise price for all outstanding 2011 Series A Warrants and 2016 Series A and Series B Warrants was reset to of $4.45 ($0.30 before the Reverse Split) per share. Subsequent to the reset of the exercise price, an aggregate of 35,831 (531,814 before the Reverse Split) (from an outstanding aggregate of 38,948 (578,081 before the Reverse Split)) 2011 Series A Warrants were exercised. For the exercise of these warrants, the Company issued 35,831 shares (531,814 shares before the Reverse Split) of its common stock prior to the Merger.

The remaining outstanding warrants and terms as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 is as follows:

Issuance date

 

Outstanding

as of

December 31, 2016(*)

  

Outstanding

as of

December 31, 2017(*)

  

Exercise

Price (*)

  

Exercisable

as of

December 31, 2017(*)

  

Exercisable Through

               
Series A (2011)  4,327   -  $2,244   -  December 2016
Series A (2013)  3,895   3,895  $2,885   3,895  October 2018
Series A (2013)  183   183  $2,725   183  April 2023
Series A (2015)  683   683  $1,363   683  April 2020
Series A (2016)(a)  677   625  $40   625  March 2018
Series B (2016)(a)  2,770   2,770  $40   2,770  March 2022

(*)December 31 2017 and 2016 warrants data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.
a)These warrants contain a full ratchet anti-dilution price protection so that, in most situations upon the issuance of any common stock or securities convertible into common stock at a price below the then-existing exercise price of the outstanding warrants, the warrant exercise price will be reset to the lower common stock sales price. As such anti-dilution price protection does not meet the specific conditions for equity classification, the Company is required to classify the fair value of these warrants as a liability, with changes in fair value to be recorded as income (loss) due to change in fair value of warrant liability. The estimated fair value of our warrant liability at December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, was approximately $28 and $313, respectively.

As quoted prices in active markets for identical or similar warrants are not available, the Company uses directly observable inputs in the valuation of its derivative warrant liabilities (level 2 measurement).

The Company uses the Black-Scholes valuation model to estimate fair value of these warrants. In using this model, the Company makes certain assumptions about risk-free interest rates, dividend yields, volatility, expected term of the warrants and other assumptions. Risk-free interest rates are derived from the yield on U.S. Treasury debt securities. Dividend yields are based on our historical dividend payments, which have been zero to date. Volatility is estimated from the historical volatility of our common stock as traded on NASDAQ. The expected term of the warrants is based on the time to expiration of the warrants from the date of measurement.

b)In March 2017, an institutional holder executed a cashless exercise of 51 warrants (768 before the Reverse Split) and 24 shares (359 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock were issued in connection therewith.

The following table summarizes the observable inputs used in the valuation of the derivative warrant liabilities as of December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016 (in thousands)(**):

  

 

Series
A
(2011)

  

 

Series A (2013)

  

 

Series A (2013)

  

 

Series A (2015)

  Series A
(2016)
  Series B
(2016)
  Total 
  (in thousands) 
Balances at December 31, 2016 $-  $12  $9  $22  $43  $227  $313 
Exercised  -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
Changes in fair value  -   (12)  (9)  (22)  (43)  (199)  (285)
Balances at December 31, 2017 $-  $-  $-  $-   

$ (*)

  $28  $28 

(*)Less than 1
(**)Share data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

The following table summarizes the observable inputs used in the valuation of the derivative warrant liabilities as of December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016:

  

As of

December 31, 2017(*)

  

As of

December 31, 2016(*)

 
  Series A (2016)  Series B (2016)  Series A (2016)  Series B (2016) 
Share price $15.1  $15.1  $90.5  $90.5 
Exercise price $40  $40  $40  $40 
Expected volatility  60%  119%  380%  380%
Risk-free interest  1.24%  1.89%  0.85%  1.93%
Dividend yield            
Expected life of up to (years)  0.25   4.25   1.2   5.2 

(*)December 31 2017 and 2016 options data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

Activity in such liabilities measured on a recurring basis is as follows:

  Derivative warrant liabilities 
  (in thousands) 
As of December 31, 2016 $313 
Revaluation of warrants  (285)
Exercise warrants  

(*

)
As of December 31, 2017 $28 

(*) Less than 1

  Derivative warrant liabilities 
  (in thousands) 
As of November 30, 2016 $575 
Revaluation of warrants  (262)
Exercise warrants  

(*

)
As of December 31, 2016 $313 

(*) Less than 1

In accordance with ASC-820-10-50-2(g), the Company has performed a sensitivity analysis of the derivative warrant liabilities of the Company which are classified as level 3 financial instruments. The Company recalculated the value of warrants by applying a +/- 5% changes to the input variables in the Black-Scholes model that vary overtime, namely, the volatility and the risk-free rate. A 5.0% decrease in volatility would decrease the value of the warrants to $27; a 5.0% increase in volatility would increase the value of the warrants to $29. A 5.0% decrease or increase in the risk-free rate would not have materially changed the value of the warrants; the value of the warrants is not strongly correlated with small changes in interest rates.

NOTE 8 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTIGENCIES

Microbot Israel obtained from the Israeli Innovation Authority (“IIA”) grants for participation in research and development for the years 2013 through December 31, 2017 in the total amount of approximately $1,183 and, in return, Microbot Israel is obligated to pay royalties amounting to 3% of its future sales up to the amount of the grant. The grant is linked to the exchange rate of the dollar to the New Israeli Shekel and bears interest of Libor per annum.

The repayment of the grants is contingent upon the successful completion of the Company’s research and development programs and generating sales. The Company has no obligation to repay these grants, if the project fails, is unsuccessful or aborted or if no sales are generated. The financial risk is assumed completely by the Government of Israel. The grants are received from the Government on a project-by-project basis.

Microbot Israel signed an agreement with the Technion Research and Development Foundation (“TRDF”) in June 2012 by which TRDF transferred to Microbot Israel a global, exclusive, royalty-bearing license. As partial consideration for the license, Microbot Israel shall pay TRDF royalties on net sales (between 1.5%-3%) and on sublicense income as detailed in the agreement.

Lease Agreements:

In June 2016, the Company entered into an office lease agreement, with a term ending on February 28, 2018. According to the lease agreement, the monthly office lease payment is approximately $3.

In December 2016, the Company entered into a cars lease agreement, which will end on December 31, 2019. According to the lease agreement, the monthly car lease payment is approximately $2.5.

In May 2017, the Company entered into an office lease agreement effective from February 1, 2018, with a term ending on December 31, 2020. According to the lease agreement, the monthly office lease payment is approximately $14

Compensation liability

The Company incurred compensation commitments of approximately $400 to a former executive that management estimates as remote that this amount will ever be paid out and therefore is not reflected in these consolidated financial statements.

Contract Research Agreement

On January 27, 2017, the Company entered into a Contract Research Agreement (the “Research Agreement”) with The Washington University (“Washington U.”), pursuant to which the parties will collaborate to determine the effectiveness of the Company’s self-cleaning shunt.

The study in WU includes several phases. The first phase (initial research) was completed. The parties are in the final stage of planning the next phase, including the related various costs.Pursuant to the Research Agreement, all rights, title and interest in the data, information and results obtained or arrived at by Washington U. in the performance of its services under the Research Agreement, as well as any patentable inventions obtained or arrived at in the performance of such services, will be jointly owned by the Company and Washington U., and each will have full right to practice and grant licenses in joint inventions. Additionally, Washington U. granted to the Company: (a) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, perpetual and irrevocable license to use and practice patentable inventions (other than joint inventions and improvements to Washington U.’s animal models) obtained or arrived at by Washington U. in the provision of its services under the Research Agreement (“University Inventions”) with respect to the self-cleaning shunt; and (b) an exclusive option to obtain an exclusive worldwide license in University Inventions, on terms to be negotiated between the parties.

Litigation

The Company is named as the defendant in a lawsuit, captioned Sabby Healthcare Master Fund Ltd. and Sabby Volatility Warrant Master Fund Ltd., Plaintiffs, against Microbot Medical Inc., Defendant, pending in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the Company breached multiple representations and warranties contained in the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) related to the June 8, 2017 equity financing of the Company (the “Financing”), of which the Plaintiffs participated. The complaint seeks rescission of the SPA and return of the Plaintiffs’ $3,375 purchase price with respect to the Financing, and damages in an amount to be determined at trial, but alleged to exceed $1 million. The parties presently are engaged in discovery.

Management is unable to assess the likelihood of the claim and the amount of potential damages, if any, to be awarded. Management believes that the claims made against it are without merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against these claims.

See Note 16 – Subsequent Events, below.

F-19

NOTE 9 - SHARE CAPITAL

Each share of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issued by the Company in December 2016 and in May 2017 (the “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock”), is convertible, at the option of the holder, into 67 shares ( 1,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock, and confer upon the holder dividend rights on an as converted basis.

Exercise of Warrants

On March 2017, an institutional holder exercised, in a cashless transaction, of 52 warrants ( 768 before the Reverse Split) and 24 shares ( 359 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock were issued in connection therewith.

Share capital developments:

The authorized capital stock consists of 221,000,000 shares of capital stock, which consists of 220,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $0.01 (the “Preferred Stock”). As of December 31, 2017, the Company had 2,734,300 shares (40,583,127 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock issued and outstanding, and 4,001 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued and outstanding.

On November 28, 2016, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to (i) effect the Reverse Stock Split, (ii) change its name from “StemCells, Inc.” to “Microbot Medical Inc.” and (iii) increase the number of authorized shares of the Common Stock from 200,000,000 to 220,000,000 shares (the “Certificate of Amendment”).

As a result of the Reverse Stock Split, the number of issued and outstanding shares of the Common Stock immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split were reduced into a smaller number of shares, such that every nine shares of the Common Stock held by a stockholder immediately prior to the Reverse Stock Split were combined and reclassified into one share of the Common Stock.

Immediately following the Reverse Stock Split and the Merger, there were 2,442,646 shares (36,254,240 shares before the Reverse Split) of the Common Stock issued and outstanding, which included certain rights to receive shares of Common Stock or equivalent securities but excludes shares underlying outstanding stock options and warrants and the Convertible Note.

On December 27, 2016, the Company exchanged 655,962 shares (9,735,925 shares before the Reverse Split) or rights to acquire shares of its Common Stock, for 9,736 shares of a newly designated class of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock. See “- Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital” below. See also Note 6 – Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital, above.

On January 5, 2017, the Company entered into a definitive securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor (the “Purchaser”) for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 47,163 shares (700,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock in a registered direct offering for $74 ($5.00 per share before the Reverse Split) or gross proceeds of $3,500. The Company paid the placement agent a fee of $210 plus reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, as well as other offering-related expenses.

On June 5, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with certain institutional investors (the “Investors”) providing for the issuance and sale by the Company to the Investors of an aggregate of 252,658 shares (3,750,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock, at a purchase price per share of $40 ($2.70 per share before the Reverse Split). The gross proceeds to the Company was $10,125,000 before deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses of $922.

F-20

Employee stock option grant:

In September 2014, Microbot Israel’s board of directors approved a grant of 26,906 (403,592 stock options before the Reverse Split) (77,846 stock options as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger and the Reverse Split) to its CEO, through MEDX Venture Group LLC. Each option was exercisable into an ordinary share, at an exercise price of $12 ($0.8 before the Reverse Split) ($4.2 as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger and the Reverse Split). The stock options were fully vested at the date of grant.

On May 2, 2016, Microbot Israel’s board of directors approved a grant of 33,333 stock options (500,000 stock options before the Reverse Split) (96,482 as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger and the Reverse Split) to certain of its employees and directors. Each stock option was exercisable into an ordinary share, NIS 0.001 par value, of Microbot Israel, at an exercise price equal to the ordinary share’s par value. The stock options were fully vested at the date of grant. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $675 included in general and administrative expenses. As the exercise price of the stock options is nominal, Microbot Ltd estimated the fair value of the options as equal to the Company’s share price of $20.25 ($1.35 before the Reverse Split) ($7.05 as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger and the Reverse Split) at the date of grant.

On September 12, 2017, the Company adopted the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), which Plan authorizes, among other things, the grant of options to purchase shares of Common Stock to directors, officers and employees of the Company and to other individuals.

On September 14, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of stock options to purchase an aggregate of up to 120,847 shares (1,812,712 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to Mr. Harel Gadot, the Company’s Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, at an exercise price per share of $15.75 ($1.05 before the Reverse Split). The stock options vest over a period of 3-5 years as outlined in the option agreements. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $156 included in general and administrative expenses for the period ended December 31, 2017.

On September 14, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of stock options to purchase an aggregate of up to 72,508 shares (1,087,627 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to Mr. Hezi Himelfarb, the company’s General Manager, COO and a member of the Board, at an exercise price per share of $19.35 ($1.29 before the Reverse Split). The grant was subject to the Israeli Tax Authority’s approval of the plan which occurred on October 14, 2017. In accordance with the option agreement, the options vest for period of 3 years starting from the grand date. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $92 included in general and administrative expenses for the period ended December 31, 2017.

On December 6, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of 12,698 stock options (190,475 stock options before the Reverse Split) to purchase an aggregate of up to 12,698 shares (190,475 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to certain of its directors, at an exercise price per share of $15.75 ($1.05 before the Reverse Split). The stock options vest over a period of 3 years as outlined in the option agreements. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $4 included in general and administrative expenses for the period ended December 31, 2017.

On December 28, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of 66,036 stock options (990,543 stock options before the Reverse Split) to purchase an aggregate of up to 66,036 shares (990,543 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to certain of its employees, at an exercise price per share of $15.3 ($1.02 before the Reverse Split). The stock options vest over a period of 3 years as outlined in the option agreements. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $95 included in general and administrative expenses for the period ended December 31, 2017.

On November, 2017, certain employees and consultant exercised 31,453 options (471,794 options before the Reverse Split) to 31,453 ordinary shares (471,794 ordinary shares before the Reverse Split) at exercise price of 0.001 NIS.

A summary of the Company’s option activity related to options to employees and directors, and related information is as follows:

  

For the year ended

December 31, 2017(**)

 
  Number of stock options  Weighted average exercise price  Aggregate intrinsic value 
          
Outstanding at beginning of period  174,328  $1.95  $3,739 
Granted  272,090   16.5   - 
Exercised  (31,453)  -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
   414,965  $11.7  $1,859 
Outstanding at end of period  142,875  $1.95  $1,375 
Vested and expected-to-vest at end of period  174,328  $1.95  $3,739 

  

For the year ended

December 31, 2016(**)

 
  Number of stock options  Weighted average exercise price  Aggregate intrinsic value 
          
Outstanding at beginning of period  77,846  $4.2   - 
Granted  96,482   (*)   - 
Exercised  -   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
             
Outstanding at end of period  174,328  $1.95  $15,624 
Vested and expected-to-vest at end of period  174,328  $1.95  $15,624 

(*) Less than 1

(**) December 31 2017 and 2016 options data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the total intrinsic value (the difference between the fair market value of the Common Stock and the exercise price, multiplied by the number of in-the-money stock options on those dates that would have been received by the stock option holders had all stock option holders exercised their stock options on those dates.) as of December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016 respectively,

F-22

The stock options outstanding as of December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, separated by exercise prices, are as follows:

Exercise price  

Stock options outstanding

as of December 31, (**)

  

Weighted average remaining contractual life – years as of

December 31, (**)

  Stock options exercisable as of December 31, (**) 
$  2017  2016  2017  2016  2017  2016 
                    
 4.2   77,846   77,846   8.0   8.0   77,846   77,846 
 15.75   133,546   -   9.75   -   -   - 
 19.35   72,508   -   9.75   -   -   - 
 15.3   66,036   -   10   -   -   - 
 (*)  65,029   96,482   8.75   9.5   65,029   96,482 
     414,965   174,328   -   -   142,875   174,328 

(*) Less than 1

(**) December 31 2017 and 2016 options data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

Compensation expense recorded by the Company in respect of its stock-based employee compensation awards in accordance with ASC 718-10 for the year ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 was $ 254 and $ 675, respectively.

The fair value of the stock options is estimated at the date of grant using Black-Scholes options pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:

  Years ended December 31, 
  2017  2016 
       
Expected volatility  122.5%  77.3%
Risk-free interest  1.64%  0.6%
Dividend yield  0%  0%
Expected life of up to (years)  6.25   5.0 

Shares issued to service provider

In connection with the Merger, the Company issued an aggregate of 525,706 restricted shares (7,802,639 restricted shares before the Reverse Split) of its Common Stock to certain advisors. The fair value of the award of approximately $10,000 was estimated based on the share price of the Common Stock of $19.2 ($1.28 before the Reverse Split) as of the date of grant. The portion of the expense in excess of the cash and other current assets acquired in the Merger, in the amount of $7,300 was included in general and administrative expenses in the Statements of Comprehensive Loss.

During 2017 the Company issued an aggregate of 8, 085 nonrefundable shares (120,000 nonrefundable shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to a consultant as part of investor relations services. The Company recorded expenses of approximately $225 with respect to the issuance of these shares included in general and administrative expenses.

Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital

On December 16, 2016, the Company entered into a Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital, pursuant to which Alpha Capital exchanged 655,967 shares (9,736,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of common stock or rights to acquire shares of the common stock held by it, for 9,736 shares of a newly designated class of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). The common stock and common stock underlying the rights to acquire common stock include all of the shares of common stock issued or issuable to Alpha Capital pursuant to the Merger. The 655,967 shares (9,735,925 shares before the Reverse Split) of common stock and the rights to acquire common stock were cancelled and the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock were reduced to 1,786,684 (26,518,315 before the Reverse Split).

F-23

On May 9, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue 3,254 shares of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, in exchange for the full satisfaction, termination and cancellation of the outstanding 6% convertible promissory note of the Company in the principal amount of approximately $2,029 issued on November 28, 2016 and held by Alpha Capital. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is the same series of securities as the Company’s existing Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued in December 2016. As a result of the extinguishment of the convertible note and issuance of the preferred shares, the Company recorded a financial loss in the amount of $2,360.

During the year 2017, the holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock converted 8,990 shares of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock for 605,705 shares (8,990,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock, pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

Repurchase of Shares

The Company intends to enter into a definitive agreement with up to three Israeli shareholders, some of whom are directors of the Company, that were former shareholders of Microbot Israel, pursuant to which the Company would repurchase, at a discount on the fair value of the share at the date of repurchase, up to $500 of Common Stock held by them, in the aggregate, if and to the extent such shareholders are unable to sell enough of their shares to cover certain of their Israeli tax liabilities resulting from the Merger. Such repurchase(s), if any, would occur only after the two-year anniversary of the Merger. The transaction is subject to negotiating final terms and entering into definitive agreements with such shareholders.

The Company evaluated whether an embedded derivative that requires bifurcation exists within such shares that may be subject to repurchase. The Company concluded the fair value of such derivative instrument would be nominal and, in any case, would represent an asset to the Company as (a) the settlement requires acquiring the shares at a discount on the fair market value of the share at the time of re purchase and in no circumstances the acquisition price will be higher than approximately one dollar per share (representing 25% discount on the fair market value of the share at the merger closing date) and (b) it is assumed that the selling shareholders would use such right as last resort as such repurchase at a discount on the fair market value of such shares results in a loss to be incurred by the selling shareholders.

In accordance with ASC 480-10-S99-3A (formerly EITF D-98), the Company classified the maximum amount it may be required to pay in the event the repurchase right is exercised ($500) as temporary equity.

NOTE10-BASIC AND DILUTED NET LOSS PER SHARE

The basic and diluted net loss per share and weighted average number of common shares used in the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share are as follows (in thousands, except share and per share data):

  

Year

Ended December 31,

 
  2017(*)  2016(*) 
Net loss attributable to shareholders of the Company $7,589  $9,663 
         
Net loss attributable to shareholders of preferred shares  1,582   3,954 
         
Net loss used in the calculation of basic net loss per share $6,007  $5,709 
Net loss per share $(2.67) $(5.94)
Weighted average number of common shares  2,201,992   963,047 

(*) December 31 2017 and 2016 shares data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

As the inclusion of common share equivalents in the calculation would be anti-dilutive for all periods presented, diluted net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share.

The weighted average number of common shares outstanding has been retroactively restated for the equivalent number of common shares received by the accounting acquirer as a result of the reverse recapitalization and reverse stock split as if these common shares had been outstanding as of the beginning of the earliest period presented.

NOTE11 -RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPENSES, NET

  Years ended December 31, 
  2017  2016 
       
Payroll and related expenses $634  $491 
Share-based compensation  1   - 
Materials  266   155 
Patents  66   75 
Office and maintenance expenses  27   21 
Rent  34   36 
Professional services  174   253 
Depreciation  12   7 
Other  65   76 
Less: Grants received from IIA  (179)  (213)
         
  $1,100  $901 

NOTE12 -GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

  Years ended December 31, 
  2017  2016 
       
Payroll and related expenses $1,213  $45 
Share-based compensation  253   676 
Professional services  1,217   528 
Common shares issued for services  -   7,258 
Travel  284   180 
Marketing expenses  26   - 
Office and maintenance expenses  121   - 
Depreciation  9   - 
Public and Investor Relations  515   - 
Insurance  226   - 
Governmental Fees  251     
Other  52   47 
  $4,167  $8,734 

NOTE 13 - FINANCE EXPENSES, NET

  Years ended December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
Bank fees and interest $1  $1 
Change in fair value of derivative warrant liability  (285)  (262)
Financing loss on debt extinguishment  2,364   - 
Exchange rate differences  5   (44)
Revaluation and interest on convertible loans  237   333 
  $2,322  $28 

NOTE 14 - TRANSACTIONS AND BALANCES WITH INTERESTED AND RELATED PARTIES

A.Transactions:

  Year ended 
  December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
       
Payroll and related expenses $851  $- 
Directors fees and insurance  463   58 
Subcontracted work and consulting  67   253 
  $1,381 $311

B.Balances:

  As of
December 31,
 
  2017  2016 
       
Other accounts payable $46   - 
  $46  - 

NOTE 15 - TAXES ON INCOME

The Company is subject to income taxes under the Israeli and U.S. tax laws:

Corporate tax rates

The Company is subject to Israeli corporate tax rate of 25% in the year 2016, 24% in 2017 and 23% from 2018. The Company is subject to a blended U.S. tax rate (Federal as well as state corporate tax) of 35%.

On December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Tax Act”) was signed into law in the United States. The Tax Act, among other provisions, introduces changes in the U.S corporate tax rate, business related exclusions and deductions and credits, and has internationally tax consequences for companies that operate international. Most of the changes introduced in the Tax Act are effective beginning on January 1, 2018. The Tax Act introduces a reduced federal tax rate of 21% from January 1, 2018 and onward.

A.As of December 31, 2017, the Company generated net operating losses in Israel of approximately $5,267 which may be carried forward and offset against taxable income in the future for an indefinite period.

As of December 31, 2017, the Company generated net operating losses in the U.S. of approximately $2,987. Net operating losses in the United States are available through 2035. Utilization of U.S. net operating losses may be subject to substantial annual limitation due to the “change in ownership” provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and similar state provisions. The annual limitation may result in the expiration of net operating losses before utilization.

B.The Company is still in its development stage and has not yet generated revenues, therefore, it is more likely than not that sufficient taxable income will not be available for the tax losses to be utilized in the future. Therefore, a valuation allowance was recorded to reduce the deferred tax assets to its recoverable amounts.

  As of December 31, 
  2017  2016 
    
Net operating loss carry-forward $488,603  $481,052 
         
Total deferred tax assets  117,265   120,263 
Valuation allowance  (117,265)  (120,263)
Net deferred tax assets $-  $- 

Reconciliation of Income Taxes:

The following is a reconciliation of the taxes on income assuming that all income is taxed at the ordinary statutory corporate tax rate in Israel and the effective income tax rate:

  As of December 31, 
  2017  2016 
  (in thousands) 
Net loss as reported in the statements of operations $7,589  $9,663 
Statutory tax rate  24%  25%
Income Tax under statutory tax rate  1,821   2,416 
Change in valuation allowance  (1,821)  (2,416)
Actual income tax $-  $- 

NOTE 16 - SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

On January 4, 2018, Microbot Medical Ltd. entered into an agreement with CardioSert Ltd. to acquire certain patent-protected technology owned by CardioSert. With the closing of the acquisition in April 2018, CardioSert’s issued U.S. patent and three patent applications pending worldwide were added to Microbot’s patent portfolio and Microbot now has a patent portfolio of 30 issued/allowed patents and 18 patent applications pending worldwide.

Pursuant to the Agreement, Microbot Medical Ltd made an initial payment of $50 to CardioSert and has 90-days to complete the acquisition. At the end of the 90-day period, at Microbot’s sole option, CardioSert shall assign and transfer the Technology to Microbot Medical Ltd and Microbot Medical Ltd shall pay to CardioSert additional amounts and options as determined in the agreements.

The Agreement may be terminated by Microbot at any time during the 90-day pre-closing period, and otherwise for convenience upon 90-days’ notice. The Agreement may be terminated by CardioSert in case the first commercial sale does not occur by the third anniversary of the date of signing of the Agreement except in the event that Microbot has invested more than $2,000 in certain development stages, or the first commercial sale does not occur within 50 months. In each of the above termination events, or in case of breach by Microbot, CardioSert shall have the right to buy back the Technology from Microbot for $1.00, upon 60 days prior written notice, but only 1 year after such termination. Additionally, the Agreement may be terminated by either party upon breach of the other (subject to cure).

CardioSert agreed to assist Microbot in the development of the Technology for a minimum of one year, for a monthly consultation fee of NIS40,000 covering up to 60 consulting hours per month.

Share Capital Developments

In 2018, through March 30, 2018, the Company issued an aggregate of 101,063 shares (1,500,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of its Common Stock upon the conversion of an aggregate of 1,500 shares of its Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

Tolling Agreement

On April 2, 2018, the Company entered into a Tolling and Standstill Agreement (the “Tolling Agreement”) with Empery Asset Master, Ltd., Empery Tax Efficient LP, Empery Tax Efficient II LP, and Hudson Bay Master Fund, Ltd., the other investors in the Financing (the “Other Investors”). Pursuant to the Tolling Agreement, among other things, (a) the Other Investors agree not to bring any claims against the Company arising out of the Matter, (b) the parties agree that if the Company reaches an agreement to settle the claims asserted by the Sabby Funds in the above suit, the Company will provide the same settlement terms on a pro rata basis to the Other Investors, and the Other Investors will either accept same or waive all of their claims and (c) the parties froze in time the rights and privileges of each party as of the effective date of the Tolling Agreement, until (i) an agreement to settle the suit is executed; (ii) a judgment in the suit is obtained; or (iii) the suit is otherwise dismissed with prejudice.

MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Interim Consolidated Balance Sheets

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

  Note  As of
September 30, 2018
  As of
December 31, 2017
 
     (Unaudited)  (Audited) 
ASSETS           
            
Current assets:           
Cash and cash equivalents    $6,673  $10,787 
Restricted cash     27   27 
Other current assets     148   116 
      6,848   10,930 
Fixed assets, net     280   90 
Total assets    $7,128  $11,020 
            
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY           
            
Current liabilities:           
Trade payables    $194  $78 
Accrued liabilities     363   450 
Total current liabilities     557   528 
Derivative warrant liability 3   5   28 
Total liabilities     562   556 
            
Commitments and contingencies 4         
            
Temporary equity: 5         
Common stock of $0.01 par value; issued and outstanding: 721,107 shares as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017     500   500 
            
Shareholders’ equity:           
Preferred stock of $0.01 par value; Authorized: 1,000,000 shares as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017; issued and outstanding: 550 and 4,001 shares as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively 5   (*)  (*)
Common stock of $0.01 par value; Authorized: 220,000,000 as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017; issued and outstanding (**): 2,254,569 and 2,013,193 shares as of September 30, 2018, and December 31, 2017, respectively     30   27 
Additional paid-in capital     31,771   30,561 
Accumulated deficit     (25,735)  (20,624)
      6,066   9,964 
            
     $7,128  $11,020 

(*)Less than 1
(**)December 31, 2017 share data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 reverse stock split effected on September 4, 2018.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these interim consolidated financial statements.

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MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Interim Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

     Three months ended September 30,  Nine months ended September 30, 
  Note  2018  2017  2018  2017 
                
Research and development expenses, net    $623  $339  $1,753  $900 
                    
General and administrative expenses     1,130   896   3,407   2,830 
                    
Operating loss     (1,753)  (1,235)  (5,160)  (3,730)
                    
Financing income (expenses), net     4   48   49   (2,272)
                    
Net loss    $(1,749) $(1,187) $(5,111) $(6,002)
                    
Net loss per share, basic and diluted(*) 6  $(0.58) $(0.45) $(1.69) $(2.25)
                    
Weighted-average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted (*)     2,947,633   2,383,327   2,876,020   2,061,331 

(*)September 30, 2017 share data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 reverse stock split effected on September 4, 2018.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these interim consolidated financial statements.

MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Interim Consolidated Statements of Shareholder’s Equity

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

  Preferred A Shares  Common Stock(***)  

Additional

Paid-In

  

Accumulated

  

Total

Shareholders’

  

Temporary

 
  Number  Amount  Number  Amount  Capital  Deficit  Equity  Equity 
                         
Balance, December 31, 2016  9,736   $(*)  **1,788,884  $18  $14,713  $(13,035) $1,696  $500 
                                 
Issuance of Common Stock  -   -   299,815   3   12,699   -   12,702   - 
Share-based compensation  -   -   8,085   (*)  479   -   479   - 
Exercise of options  -   -   31,787   (*)  (*)  -   (*)  - 
Cashless exercise of warrants  -   -   24   (*)  -   -   (*)  - 
Extinguishment of convertible notes and issuance of preferred A shares  3,255   (*)  -   -   2,676   -   2,676   - 
Conversion of preferred A shares to common stock  (8,990)  (*)  605,705   6   (6)  -   -   - 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (7,589)  (7,589)  - 
                                 
Balances, December 31, 2017  4,001  $(*)  **2,734,300  $27  $30,561  $(20,624) $9,964  $500 
Share-based compensation  -   -       -   1,139   -   1,139   - 
Shares issued as consideration-vendor          6,738   1   73   -   74   - 
Exercise of options  -   -   2,487   (*)  -   -   -   - 
Conversion of preferred A shares to common stock  (3,451)  (*)   232,151   2   (2)  -   -   - 
Net loss  -   -   -   -   -   (5,111)  (5,111)  - 
                                 
Balances, September 30, 2018  550   $(*)  **2,975,676  $30  $31,771  $(25,735) $6,066  $500 

(*)Less than 1
(**)Includes 721,107 common stock classified as temporary equity.
(***)December 31, 2017 and 2016 share data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 reverse stock split effected on September 4, 2018.

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these interim consolidated financial statements.

MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.

Interim Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

U.S. dollars in thousands

(Except share data)

  Nine months ended September 30, 
  2018  2017 
       
OPERATING ACTIVITIES        
         
Net loss $(5,111) $(6,002)
         
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:        
Depreciation  49   15 
Interest and revaluation of convertible notes, net  -   237 
Financing loss on debt extinguishment  -   2,364 
Changes in fair value of derivative warrant liability  (23)  (274)
Shares issued as consideration-vendor  74   - 
Share-based compensation expense  1,139   176 
Changes in assets and liabilities:        
Other receivables  (32)  29 
Other payables and accrued liabilities  29   (92)
         
Net cash used in operating activities  (3,875)  (3,547)
         
INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES        
Increase in restricted cash  -   - 
Purchase of property and equipment  (239)  (28)
         
Net cash used in investing activities  (239)  (28)
         
FINANCING ACTIVITIES        
         
Outflow (inflow) in connection with current assets and liabilities acquired in reverse recapitalization, net  -   (82)
Issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs  -   12,704 
         
Net cash provided by financing activities  -   12,622 
         
Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash  (4,114)  9,047 
         
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the beginning of the period  10,814   2,709 
         
Cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash at the end of the period $6,700  $11,756 
         

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:

        
Non-cash financing transactions:        
Cashless exercise of warrants $-  $

(*

)
Conversion of preferred A shares into common shares $

(*

) $

(*

)
Extinguishment of convertible notes in exchange for preferred A shares $-  $2,083 

(*)Less than 1

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these interim consolidated financial statements.

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NOTE 1 - GENERAL

A.Description of Business

Microbot Medical Inc. (the “Company”) is a pre-clinical medical device company specializing in the research, design and development of next generation micro-robotics assisted medical technologies targeting the minimally invasive surgery space. The Company is primarily focused on leveraging its micro-robotic technologies with the goal of improving surgical outcomes for patients.

It was incorporated on August 2, 1988 in the State of Delaware under the name Cellular Transplants, Inc. The original Certificate of Incorporation was restated on February 14, 1992 to change the name of the Company to Cyto Therapeutics, Inc. On May 24, 2000, the Certificate of Incorporation as restated was further amended to change the name of the Company to StemCells, Inc.

On November 28, 2016, the Company consummated a transaction pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated August 15, 2016, with Microbot Medical Ltd., a private medical device company organized under the laws of the State of Israel (“Microbot Israel”). On the same day and in connection with the Merger, the Company changed its name from StemCells, Inc. to Microbot Medical Inc. On November 29, 2016, the Company’s common stock began trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “MBOT”.

Prior to the Merger, the Company was a biopharmaceutical company that conducted research, development, and commercialization of stem cell therapeutics and related technologies. The sale of substantially all material assets relating to the stem cell business were completed on November 29, 2016.

The Company and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the “Company”. “StemCells” or “StemCells, Inc.” refers to the Company prior to the Merger.

B.Risk Factors

To date, the Company has not generated revenues from its operations. As of September 30, 2018, the Company had cash and cash equivalent balance of approximately $6,673, which management believes is sufficient to fund its operations for more than 12 months from the date of issuance of these financial statements and sufficient to fund its operations necessary to continue development activities of its current proposed products. Due to continuing research and development activities, the Company expects to continue to incur net losses into the foreseeable future. The Company plans to continue to fund its current operations as well as other development activities relating to additional product candidates, through future issuances of either debt and/or equity securities and possibly additional grants from the Israeli Innovation Authority and others. The Company’s ability to raise additional capital in the equity and debt markets is dependent on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, the market demand for the Company’s stock, which itself is subject to a number of development and business risks and uncertainties, as well as the uncertainty that the Company would be able to raise such additional capital at a price or on terms that are favorable to the Company.

C.Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions pertaining to transactions and matters whose ultimate effect on the financial statements cannot precisely be determined at the time of financial statements preparation. Although these estimates are based on management’s best judgment, actual results may differ from these estimates.

D.ReverseStock Split

On September 4, 2018, the Company filed a Certificate of Amendment to its Restated Certificate of Incorporation with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware to affect a one-for-15 reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock (the “Reverse Split”). As a result of the Reverse Split, every 15 shares of the Company’s old common stock was converted into one share of the Company’s new common stock. Fractional shares resulting from the Reverse Split were rounded up to the nearest whole number. The Reverse Split automatically and proportionately adjusted, based on the one-for-fifteen split ratio, all issued and outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, as well as common stock underlying convertible preferred stock, stock options, warrants and other derivative securities outstanding at the time of the effectiveness of the Reverse Split. The exercise price on outstanding equity based-grants was proportionately increased, while the number of shares available under the Company’s equity-based plans was also proportionately reduced. Share and per share data (except par value) for the periods presented reflect the effects of the Reverse Split. References to numbers of shares of common stock and per share data in the accompanying financial statements and notes thereto for periods ended prior to September 4, 2018 have been adjusted to reflect the Reverse Split on a retroactive basis.

NOTE 2 - SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

The significant accounting policies applied in the preparation of the financial statements are as follows:

Unaudited Interim Financial Statements

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regulations. Accordingly, they do not include all the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments except as otherwise discussed).

Operating results for the nine-month period ended September 30, 2018, are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Significant Accounting Policies

The significant accounting policies followed in the preparation of these unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements are identical to those applied in the preparation of the latest annual audited financial statements.

Recent Accounting Standards

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09 “Revenue from Contracts with Customers” to provide a single comprehensive model for entities to use in accounting for revenue arising from contracts with customers. The ASU supersedes most current revenue recognition guidance, including industry-specific guidance. The FASB subsequently issued ASU 2015-14, ASU 2016-08 and ASU 2016-12, which clarified the guidance, provided scope improvements and amended the effective date of ASU 2014-09. As a result, ASU 2014-09 becomes effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2018, with early adoption permitted. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our interim consolidated statements of comprehensive loss since the Company has not yet generated revenues to date.

In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-07 “Compensation - Stock Compensation (Topic 718): Improvements to Nonemployee Share-Based Payment Accounting.” These amendments expand the scope of Topic 718, Compensation - Stock Compensation (which currently only includes share-based payments to employees) to include share-based payments issued to nonemployees for goods or services. Consequently, the accounting for share-based payments to nonemployees and employees will be substantially aligned. The ASU supersedes Subtopic 505-50, Equity - Equity-Based Payments to Non-Employees. The guidance is effective for the Company during the first quarter of 2019. The Company is assessing ASU 2018-07 and does not expect it to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02 “Leases” to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. For operating leases, the ASU requires a lessee to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability, initially measured at the present value of the lease payments, on its balance sheet. The ASU retains the current accounting for lessors and does not make significant changes to the recognition, measurement, and presentation of expenses and cash flows by a lessee.

In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-11, “Targeted Improvements - Leases (Topic 842).” This update provides an optional transition method that allows entities to elect to apply the standard prospectively at its effective date, versus recasting the prior periods presented. If elected, an entity would recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption. This ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company continues to evaluate the effect of the adoption of this ASU and expects the adoption will result in an increase in the assets and liabilities on the consolidated balance sheets for operating leases (refer to Note 4) and will likely have an insignificant impact on the consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13 “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses” to improve information on credit losses for financial assets and net investment in leases that are not accounted for at fair value through net income. The ASU replaces the current incurred loss impairment methodology with a methodology that reflects expected credit losses. This ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2020, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effect the adoption of this ASU will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In July 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-11, which includes Part I “Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Down Round Features” and Part II “Replacement of the Indefinite Deferral for Mandatorily Redeemable Financial Instruments of Certain Nonpublic Entities and Certain Mandatorily Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests with a Scope Exception”. The ASU makes limited changes to the Board’s guidance on classifying certain financial instruments as either liabilities or equity. The ASU’s objective is to improve (1) the accounting for instruments with “down-round” provisions and (2) the readability of the guidance in ASC 480 on distinguishing liabilities from equity by replacing the indefinite deferral of certain pending content with scope exceptions. The ASU is effective for the Company in the first quarter of 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company has derivative warranty liabilities as discussed in Note 4 which upon adoption of the new standard are expected to be classified as equity.

NOTE 3 - DERIVATIVE WARRANT LIABILITIES

The remaining outstanding warrants and terms as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 after the split is as follows: (*)

Issuance date Outstanding as of December 31, 2017  Outstanding as of September 30, 2018  Exercise Price  Exercisable as of September 30, 2018  Exercisable Through
               
Series A (2013)  3,895   3,895  $2,885   3,895  October 2018
Series A (2013)  183   183  $2,725   183  April 2023
Series A (2015)  683   683  $1,363   683  April 2020
Series A (2016) (a)  625   -  $-   -  March 2018
Series B (2016) (a)  2,770   2,770  $40   2,770  March 2022

(*)December 31, 2017 warrants data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018
a)These warrants contain a full ratchet anti-dilution price protection so that, in most situations upon the issuance of any common stock or securities convertible into common stock at a price below the then-existing exercise price of the outstanding warrants, the warrant exercise price will be reset to the lower common stock sales price. As such anti-dilution price protection does not meet the specific conditions for equity classification, the Company is required to classify the fair value of these warrants as a liability, with changes in fair value to be recorded as income (loss) due to change in fair value of warrant liability. The estimated fair value of our warrant liability at September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, was approximately $5 and $28, respectively.

As quoted prices in active markets for identical or similar warrants are not available, the Company uses directly observable inputs in the valuation of its derivative warrant liabilities (level 3 measurement).

The Company uses the Black-Scholes valuation model to estimate fair value of these warrants. In using this model, the Company makes certain assumptions about risk-free interest rates, dividend yields, volatility, expected term of the warrants and other assumptions. Risk-free interest rates are derived from the yield on U.S. Treasury debt securities. Dividend yields are based on our historical dividend payments, which have been zero to date. Volatility is estimated from the historical volatility of our common stock as traded on NASDAQ. The expected term of the warrants is based on the time to expiration of the warrants from the date of measurement.

In March 2017, an institutional holder executed a cashless exercise of 51 warrants and 24 shares of Common Stock were issued in connection therewith.

The following table summarizes the observable inputs used in the valuation of the derivative warrant liabilities as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

  Series A
(2011)
  Series A (2013)  Series A (2013)  Series A (2015)  Series A
(2016)
  Series B
(2016)
  Total 
Balances at December 31, 2017 $-  $-  $-  $-  $(*) $28  $28 
Exercised  -   -   -   -   -   -   - 
expiration  -   -   -   -   (*)  -   (*)
Changes in fair value  -   -   -   -   -   (23)  (23)
Balances at September 30, 2018 $-  $-  $-  $-  $-  $5  $5 

(*)Less than 1

The following table summarizes the observable inputs used in the valuation of the derivative warrant liabilities as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

  As of September 30, 2018  As of December 31, 2017 
  Series A (2016)  Series B (2016)  Series A (2016)  Series B (2016) 
Share price    $7.52  $15.1  $15.1 
Exercise price    $40.07  $40.07  $40.07 
Expected volatility     84.9%   60%   119% 
Risk-free interest     2.39%   1.24%   1.89% 
Dividend yield            
Expected life of up to (years)     3.50   0.25   4.25 

Activity in such liabilities measured on a recurring basis is as follows:

  Derivative Warrant Liabilities 
As of December 31, 2017 $28 
Revaluation of warrants  (23) 
As of September 30, 2018 $5 
  Derivative Warrant Liabilities 
As of December 31, 2016 $313 
Revaluation of warrants  (285) 
Exercise warrants  

(*)

 
As of December 31, 2017 $28 

(*)Less than 1

In accordance with ASC-820-10-50-2(g), the Company has performed a sensitivity analysis of the derivative warrant liabilities of the Company which are classified as level 3 financial instruments. The Company recalculated the value of warrants by applying a +/- 5% changes to the input variables in the Black-Scholes model that vary overtime, namely, the volatility and the risk-free rate. A 5.0% decrease or ‘increase in volatility would not have materially changed the value of the warrants. A 5.0% decrease or increase in the risk-free rate would not have materially changed the value of the warrants; the value of the warrants is not strongly correlated with small changes in interest rates.

NOTE 4 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Microbot Israel obtained from the Israeli Innovation Authority (“IIA”) grants for participation in research and development for the years 2013 through September 30, 2018 in the total amount of approximately $1,310 and, in return, Microbot Israel is obligated to pay royalties amounting to 3% of its future sales up to the amount of the grant. The grant is linked to the exchange rate of the dollar to the New Israeli Shekel and bears interest of Libor per annum.

The repayment of the grants is contingent upon the successful completion of the Company’s research and development programs and generating sales. The Company has no obligation to repay these grants, if the project fails, is unsuccessful or aborted or if no sales are generated. The financial risk is assumed completely by the Government of Israel. The grants are received from the Government on a project-by-project basis.

Microbot Israel signed an agreement with the Technion Research and Development Foundation (“TRDF”) in June 2012 by which TRDF transferred to Microbot Israel a global, exclusive, royalty-bearing license. As partial consideration for the license, Microbot Israel shall pay TRDF royalties on net sales (between 1.5%-3%) and on sublicense income as detailed in the agreement.

Lease Agreements

In December 2016, the Company entered into car lease agreements, which will end on December 31, 2019. According to the lease agreement, the monthly car lease payment is approximately $2.5.

In January 2018, the Company entered into an office lease agreement in the U.S., with a term ending on December 31, 2021. According to the lease agreement, the monthly office lease payment is approximately $4.

In May 2017, the Company entered into an office lease agreement IN Israel effective from February 1, 2018, with a term ending on December 31, 2020. According to the lease agreement, the monthly office lease payment is approximately $14.

Compensation Liability

The Company incurred compensation commitments of approximately $400 to a former executive that management estimates as remote that this amount will ever be paid out and therefore is not reflected in these consolidated financial statements.

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Contract Research Agreement

On January 27, 2017, the Company entered into a Contract Research Agreement (the “Research Agreement”) with The Washington University (“Washington U.”), pursuant to which the parties are collaborating to determine the effectiveness of the Company’s self-cleaning shunt.

The study in Washington U. includes several phases. The first phase (initial research) was completed. The parties are in the final stage of planning the next phase, including the related various costs.Pursuant to the Research Agreement, all rights, title and interest in the data, information and results obtained or arrived at by Washington U. in the performance of its services under the Research Agreement, as well as any patentable inventions obtained or arrived at in the performance of such services, will be jointly owned by the Company and Washington U., and each will have full right to practice and grant licenses in joint inventions. Additionally, Washington U. granted to the Company: (a) a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, perpetual and irrevocable license to use and practice patentable inventions (other than joint inventions and improvements to Washington U.’s animal models) obtained or arrived at by Washington U. in the provision of its services under the Research Agreement (“University Inventions”) with respect to the self-cleaning shunt; and (b) an exclusive option to obtain an exclusive worldwide license in University Inventions, on terms to be negotiated between the parties.

Litigation

The Company is named as the defendant in a lawsuit, captioned Sabby Healthcare Master Fund Ltd. and Sabby Volatility Warrant Master Fund Ltd., Plaintiffs, against Microbot Medical Inc., Defendant, pending in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the Company breached multiple representations and warranties contained in the Securities Purchase Agreement (the “SPA”) related to the June 8, 2017 equity financing of the Company (the “Financing”), of which the Plaintiffs participated. The complaint seeks rescission of the SPA and return of the Plaintiffs’ $3,375 purchase price with respect to the Financing, and damages in an amount to be determined at trial, but alleged to exceed $1 million. On August 3, 2018, both Plaintiffs and the Company filed motions for summary judgment. On September 27, 2018, the Court heard oral argument on the parties’ respective summary judgment motions. After oral argument, the Court denied Plaintiffs’ motion in its entirety from the bench. On September 28, 2018, the Court issued a decision granting the Company’s motion for summary judgment regarding Plaintiffs’ claim for monetary damages and denying the Company’s motion for summary judgment on Plaintiffs’ claim for rescission, finding that there were material questions of fact that would need to be resolved at trial. A trial date has not been set.

Management is unable to assess the likelihood of the claim and the amount of potential damages, if any, to be awarded. Management believes that the claims made against it are without merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against these claims.

Tolling and Standstill Agreement

On April 4, 2018, the Company entered into a Tolling and Standstill Agreement (the “Tolling Agreement”) with Empery Asset Master, Ltd., Empery Tax Efficient LP, Empery Tax Efficient II LP, and Hudson Bay Master Fund, Ltd., the other investors in the Financing (the “Other Investors”). Pursuant to the Tolling Agreement, among other things, (a) the Other Investors agree not to bring any claims against the Company arising out of the Matter, (b) the parties agree that if the Company reaches an agreement to settle the claims asserted by the Sabby Funds in the above suit, the Company will provide the same settlement terms on a pro rata basis to the Other Investors, and the Other Investors will either accept same or waive all of their claims and (c) the parties froze in time the rights and privileges of each party as of the effective date of the Tolling Agreement, until (i) an agreement to settle the suit is executed; (ii) a judgment in the suit is obtained; or (iii) the suit is otherwise dismissed with prejudice.

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Agreement with CardioSert Ltd.

On January 4, 2018, Microbot Israel entered into an agreement with CardioSert Ltd. (“CardioSert”) to acquire certain patent-protected technology owned by CardioSert (the “Technology”).

Pursuant to the Agreement, Microbot Israel made an initial payment of $50 to CardioSert and has 90-days to elect to complete the acquisition. At the end of the 90-day period, at Microbot Israel’s sole option, CardioSert shall assign and transfer the Technology to Microbot Israel and Microbot Israel shall pay to CardioSert additional amounts and securities as determined in the agreement.

On April 10, 2018, Microbot delivered an Exercise Notice to CardioSert Ltd., notifying it that Microbot elected to exercise the option to acquire the Technology owned by CardioSert and therefore made an additional cash payment of $250 and 6,738 (100,000 common shares before the Reverse Split) common shares estimated of $74. (see note 5).

The agreement may be terminated by Microbot Israel at any time for convenience upon 90-days’ notice. The agreement may be terminated by CardioSert in case the first commercial sale does not occur by the third anniversary of the date of signing of the agreement except if Microbot Israel has invested more than $2,000 in certain development stages, or the first commercial sale does not occur within 50 months. In each of the above termination events, or in case of breach by Microbot Israel, CardioSert shall have the right to buy back the Technology from Microbot Israel for $1.00, upon 60 days prior written notice, but only 1 year after such termination. Additionally, the agreement may be terminated by either party upon breach of the other (subject to cure).

CardioSert agreed to assist Microbot Israel in the development of the Technology for a minimum of one year, for a monthly consultation fee of NIS 40,000 covering up to 60 consulting hours per month.

Agreement with Simon Sharon

Effective as of April 1, 2018, the Company hired Simon Sharon to replace its former Vice President of R&D. Pursuant to the terms thereof, among other things, Mr. Sharon is entitled to options to purchase 10,000 shares (150,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of the Company’s common stock, subject and pursuant to the Company’s 2017 Equity Incentive Plan.

NOTE 5 - SHARE CAPITAL

Each share of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, issued by the Company in December 2016 and in May 2017 (the “Series A Convertible Preferred Stock”), is convertible, at the option of the holder, into 67 shares of Common Stock (1,000 shares of Common Stock before the Reverse Split), and confer upon the holder dividend rights on an as converted basis.

Exercise of Warrants

On March 2017, an institutional holder exercised, in a cashless transaction, 52 warrants (768 warrants before the Reverse Split) and 24 shares (359 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock were issued in connection therewith.

Share Capital Developments

The authorized capital stock consists of 221,000,000 shares of capital stock, which consists of 220,000,000 shares of Common Stock and 1,000,000 shares of undesignated preferred stock, par value $0.01 (the “Preferred Stock”). As of March 31, 2018, the Company had 2,837,863 shares (42,120,127 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock issued and outstanding, and 2,464 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued and outstanding.

On December 27, 2016, the Company exchanged 655,962 shares (9,735,925 shares before the Reverse Split) or rights to acquire shares of its Common Stock, for 9,736 shares of a newly designated class of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

On January 5, 2017, the Company entered into a definitive securities purchase agreement with an institutional investor (the “Purchaser”) for the purchase and sale of an aggregate of 47,163 shares (700,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock in a registered direct offering for $74 per share ($5.00 per share before the Reverse Split) or gross proceeds of $3,500. The Company paid the placement agent a fee of $210 plus reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, as well as other offering-related expenses.

On June 5, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement with certain institutional investors (the “Investors”) providing for the issuance and sale by the Company to the Investors of an aggregate of 252,658 shares (3,750,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock, at a purchase price per share of $40 ($2.70 before the Reverse Split). The gross proceeds to the Company was $10,125 before deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses of $922.

Employee Stock Option Grant

In September 2014, Microbot Israel’s board of directors approved a grant of 26,906 stock options (403,592 stock options before the Reverse Split) (77,846 stock options as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger) to its CEO, through MEDX Venture Group LLC. Each option was exercisable into an ordinary share, at an exercise price of $12 ($0.8 before the Reverse Split) ($4.2 as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger). The stock options were fully vested at the date of grant.

On May 2, 2016, Microbot Israel’s board of directors approved a grant of 33,333 stock options (500,000 stock options before the Reverse Split) (96,482 as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger) to certain of its employees and directors. Each stock option was exercisable into an ordinary share, NIS 0.001 par value, of Microbot Israel, at an exercise price equal to the ordinary share’s par value. The stock options were fully vested at the date of grant. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $675 included in general and administrative expenses. As the exercise price of the stock options is nominal, Microbot Israel estimated the fair value of the options as equal to the Company’s share price of $20.25 ($1.35 before the Reverse Split) ($7.05 as retroactively adjusted to reflect the Merger) at the date of grant.

On September 12, 2017, the Company adopted the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”), which Plan authorizes, among other things, the grant of options to purchase shares of Common Stock to directors, officers and employees of the Company and to other individuals.

On September 14, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of stock options to purchase an aggregate of up to 120,848 shares (1,812,712 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to Mr. Harel Gadot, the Company’s Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, at an exercise price per share of $15.75 ($1.05 before the Reverse Split). The stock options vest over a period of 3-5 years as outlined in the option agreements. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $460 and $0 included in general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 respectively.

On September 14, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of stock options to purchase an aggregate of up to 72,508 shares (1,087,627 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to Mr. Hezi Himelfarb, the company’s General Manager, COO and a member of the Board, at an exercise price per share of $19.35 ($1.29 before the Reverse Split). The grant was subject to the Israeli Tax Authority’s approval of the plan which occurred on October 14, 2017. In accordance with the option agreement, the options vest for period of 3 years starting from the grand date As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $329 and $0 included in general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 respectively.

On December 6, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of 12,698 stock options (190,475 stock options before the Reverse Split) to purchase an aggregate of up to 12,698 shares of Common Stock to certain of its directors, at an exercise price per share of $15.75 ($1.05 before the Reverse Split). The stock options vest over a period of 3 years as outlined in the option agreements. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $55 and $0 included in general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 respectively.

On December 28, 2017, the board of directors approved a grant of 66,036 stock options (990,543 stock options before the Reverse Split) to purchase an aggregate of up to 66,036 shares of Common Stock to certain of its employees, at an exercise price per share of $15.3 ($1.02 before the Reverse Split). The stock options vest over a period of 3 years as outlined in the option agreements. As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $273 and $0 included in general and administrative expenses and research and development expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 respectively.

On November 2017, certain employees and consultant exercised 31,453 options (471,794 options before the Reverse Split) to 31,453 ordinary shares at exercise price of 0.001 NIS.

In February 2018, an employee exercised options to purchase 2,487 shares (37,300 shares of common stock before the Reverse Split) at an exercise price of $0.001 per share

On August 13, 2018, the board of directors approved a grant of stock options to purchase an aggregate of up to 10,000 shares (150,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to Mr. Simon Sharon, the company’s CTO, at an exercise price per share of $9 ($0.6 before the Reverse Split). The grant was subject to the Israeli Tax Authority’s approval of the plan which occurred on October 14, 2017. In accordance with the option agreement, the options vest for period of 3 years starting from the grand date As a result, the Company recognized compensation expenses in the amount of $22 and $0 included in general and administrative expenses for the nine months ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 respectively.

A summary of the Company’s option activity related to options to employees and directors, and related information is as follows:

  For the nine months ended September 30, 2018 
  

Number of

stock options

  Weighted average exercise price  

Aggregate

intrinsic value

 
          
Outstanding at beginning of period  414,965  $11.70  $1,859 
Granted  10,000   9   - 
Exercised  (2,487)   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
Outstanding at end of period  422,478  $11.70  $729 
Vested and expected-to-vest at end of period  228,758  $7.80  $729 

  For the year ended December 31, 2017(*) 
  Number of stock options  Weighted average exercise price  Aggregate intrinsic value 
Outstanding at beginning of period  174,328  $1.95  $3,739 
Granted  272,090   16.50   - 
Exercised  (31,453)   -   - 
Cancelled  -   -   - 
Outstanding at end of period  414,965  $11.70  $1,859 
Vested and expected-to-vest at end of period  142,875  $1.95  $1,375 

(*)December 31, 2017 options data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the total intrinsic value (the difference between the fair market value of the Common Stock and the exercise price, multiplied by the number of in-the-money stock options on those dates that would have been received by the stock option holders had all stock option holders exercised their stock options on those dates.) as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 respectively.

The stock options outstanding as of September 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, separated by exercise prices, are as follows:

Exercise

price

$

  Stock options outstanding as of September 30, 2018  Stock options outstanding as of December 31, 2017(**)  Weighted average remaining contractual life – years as of September 30, 2018  Weighted average remaining contractual life – years as of December 31, 2017(**)  Stock options exercisable as of September 30, 2018  Stock options exercisable as of December 31, 2017(**) 
                    
 4.20   77,846   77,846   7.25   8.00   77,846   77,846 
 15.75   133,546   133,546   9.00   9.75   46,117   - 
 9.00   10,000   -   10.00   -   -   - 
 19.35   72,508   72,508   9.00   9.75   23,565   - 
 15.30   66,036   66,036   9.25   10.00   18,688   - 
 (*)   62,542   65,029   8.00   8.75   62,542   65,029 
     422,478   414,965   8.55   9.3   228,758   142,875 

(*)Less than $0.01.
(**)December 31, 2017 options data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

Compensation expense recorded by the Company in respect of its stock-based employee compensation awards in accordance with ASC 718-10 for the nine-month ended September 30, 2018 and 2017 was $ 1,139 and $196, respectively.

The fair value of the stock options is estimated at the date of grant using Black-Scholes options pricing model with the following weighted-average assumptions:

  Nine months ended September 30, 2018  Year ended
December 31, 2017
 
Expected volatility  99.4%   122.5% 
Risk-free interest  2.39%   1.64% 
Dividend yield  0%   0% 
Expected life of up to (years)  5.24   6.25 

Shares issued to service provider

In connection with the Merger, the Company issued an aggregate of 525,706 restricted shares (7,802,639 restricted shares before the Reverse Split) of its Common Stock to certain advisors. The fair value of the award of approximately $10,000 was estimated based on the share price of the Common Stock of $19.2 ($1.28 before the Reverse Split) as of the date of grant. The portion of the expense in excess of the cash and other current assets acquired in the Merger, in the amount of $7,300 was included in general and administrative expenses in the Statements of Comprehensive Loss.

During 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 8,085 nonrefundable shares (120,000 nonrefundable shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to a consultant as part of investor relations services. The Company recorded expenses of approximately $225 with respect to the issuance of these shares included in general and administrative expenses

On May 24, 2018 the Company issued an aggregate of 6,738 nonrefundable shares (100,000 nonrefundable shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock to CardioSert as part of certain patent acquisition. The Company recorded expenses of approximately $74 with respect to the issuance of these shares included in research and development expenses.

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Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital

On December 16, 2016, the Company entered into a Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital, pursuant to which Alpha Capital exchanged 655,967 shares (9,736,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of common stock or rights to acquire shares of the common stock held by it, for 9,736 shares of a newly designated class of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”). The common stock and common stock underlying the rights to acquire common stock include all of the shares of common stock issued or issuable to Alpha Capital pursuant to the Merger. The 655,967 shares (9,735,925 shares before the Reverse Split) of common stock and the rights to acquire common stock were cancelled and the Company’s issued and outstanding shares of Common Stock were reduced to 1,786,684 (26,518,315 before the Reverse Split).

On May 9, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Exchange Agreement with Alpha Capital pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue 3,254 shares of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, in exchange for the full satisfaction, termination and cancellation of the outstanding 6% convertible promissory note of the Company in the principal amount of approximately $2,029 issued on November 28, 2016 and held by Alpha Capital. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock is the same series of securities as the Company’s existing Series A Convertible Preferred Stock issued in December 2016. As a result of the extinguishment of the convertible note and issuance of the preferred shares, the Company recorded a financial loss in the amount of $2,360.

During the year 2017, the holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock converted 8,990 shares of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock for 605,705 shares (8,990,000 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock, pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

For the nine-month ended September 30, 2018, the holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock converted 3,451 shares of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock for 232,151 shares (3,445,266 shares before the Reverse Split) of Common Stock, pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.

Repurchase of Shares

The Company intends to enter into a definitive agreement with up to three Israeli shareholders, one of which is a director of the Company, that were former shareholders of Microbot Israel, pursuant to which the Company would repurchase, at a discount on the fair value of the share at the date of repurchase, up to $500 of Common Stock held by them, in the aggregate, if and to the extent such shareholders are unable to sell enough of their shares to cover certain of their Israeli tax liabilities resulting from the Merger. Such repurchase(s), if any, would occur only after the two-year anniversary of the Merger. The transaction is subject to negotiating final terms and entering into definitive agreements with such shareholders.

The Company evaluated whether an embedded derivative that requires bifurcation exists within such shares that may be subject to repurchase. The Company concluded the fair value of such derivative instrument would be nominal and, in any case, would represent an asset to the Company as (a) the settlement requires acquiring the shares at a discount on the fair market value of the share at the time of repurchase and in no circumstances the acquisition price will be higher than approximately one dollar per share (representing 25% discount on the fair market value of the share at the merger closing date) and (b) it is assumed that the selling shareholders would use such right as last resort as such repurchase at a discount on the fair market value of such shares results in a loss to be incurred by the selling shareholders.

In accordance with ASC 480-10-S99-3A (formerly EITF D-98), the Company classified the maximum amount it may be required to pay in the event the repurchase right is exercised ($500) as temporary equity.

NOTE 6 - BASIC AND DILUTED NET LOSS PER SHARE

The basic and diluted net loss per share and weighted average number of common shares used in the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share are as follows (in thousands, except share and per share data):

  Nine months ended September 30, 
  2018  2017(*) 
Net loss attributable to shareholders of the Company $(5,111)  $(6,002) 
Net loss attributable to shareholders of preferred shares  (226)   (1,442) 
Net loss used in the calculation of basic net loss per share $(4,885)  $(4,560) 
Net loss per share $(1.69)  $(2.25) 
Weighted average number of common shares  2,876,020   2,061,331 

(*)September 30, 2017 shares data represents the number of shares adjusted to retroactively reflect the 1:15 Reverse Split effected on September 4, 2018.

As the inclusion of common share equivalents in the calculation would be anti-dilutive for all periods presented, diluted net loss per share is the same as basic net loss per share.

Up to 6,024,096 Units (each Units contains one Share of Common Stock and one Common Warrant to purchase one Share of Common Stock)

Up to 6,024,096 Pre-funded Units (each Pre-funded Unit contains one Pre-funded Warrant to purchase one Share of Common Stock and one Common Warrant to purchase one Share of Common Stock)

6,024,096 Shares of Common Stock Underlying the Pre-funded Warrants and

6,024,096 Shares of Common Stock Underlying the Common Warrants

PROSPECTUS

Sole Book-Running Manager

H.C. Wainwright & Co.

, 2018

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution.

 

The following table sets forth all costs and expenses other than underwriting discounts and commissions, paid or payable by Microbot Medical Inc. (the “Company” or the “Registrant”)us in connection with the sale of the securitiescommon stock being registered under this registration statement.registered. None of these costs or expenses will be borne by the selling stockholders. All amounts shown are estimates except for the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC,“SEC,” registration fee and the FINRA filing fee.

 

 Amount  ​ 
Expense 

Amount Paid

or to be Paid

SEC registration fee $

5,662.31

  $

692.71

 
FINRA filing fee 7,507.82 
Printing expenses  1,000.00*
Legal fees and expenses  340,000   10,000.00*
Accounting fees and expenses  25,000   10,000.00*
Transfer agent and registrar fees and expenses  5,000 
Miscellaneous expenses  

126,829.87

  

2,307.29

*
Total $

510,000.00

  $

24,000.00

*

 

*Estimated, as permitted under Item 511 of Regulation S-K.

Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

 

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law (“DGCL”) permits, in general, a Delaware corporation, to indemnify any person who was or is a party to any proceeding (other than an action by, or in the right of, the corporation) by reason of the fact that or she is or was a director, or officer, of the corporation, or served another business enterprise in any capacity at the request of the corporation, against liability incurred in connection with such proceeding, including the expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such proceeding if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, the best interests of the corporation and, in criminal actions or proceedings, additionally had no reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful. A Delaware corporation’s power to indemnify applies to actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, but only to the extent of expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with the defense or settlement of the action or suit, provided that no indemnification shall be provided in such actions in the event of any adjudication of negligence or misconduct in the performance of such person’s duties to the corporation, unless a court believes that in light of all the circumstances indemnification should apply. Section 145 of the DGCL also permits, in general, a Delaware corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director or officer of the corporation, or served another entity in any capacity at the request of the corporation, against liability incurred by such person in such capacity, whether or not the corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability.

 

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits a corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a director to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, provided that such provision shall not eliminate or limit the liability of a director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the DGCL or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

 

The Company’s restated certificate of incorporation provides that the Company’s directors shall not be liable to the Company or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director except to the extent that exculpation from liabilities is not permitted under the DGCL as in effect at the time such liability is determined. The Company’s restated certificate of incorporation further provides that the Company shall indemnify its directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL.

 

We maintain a directors’ and officers’ insurance policy pursuant to which our directors and officers are insured against liability for actions taken in their capacities as directors and officers. We believe that these indemnification provisions and insurance are necessary to attract and retain qualified directors and officers.

 

II-1

 

Indemnification Agreements

The Company has entered into indemnification agreements with each of its directors and executive officers. These indemnification agreements may require the Company, among other things, to indemnify its directors and officers for some expenses, including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines and settlement amounts incurred by a director or officer in any action or proceeding arising out of his or her service as one of the Company’s directors or officers, or any of its subsidiaries or any other company or enterprise to which the person provides services at our request.

 

In any underwriting agreement we enter into in connection with the sale of Securitiescommon stock being registered hereby, the underwriter will agree to indemnify, under certain conditions, us, our directors, our officers and persons who control us within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, against certain liabilities.

 

Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.

Set forth below is information regarding securities issued and options granted by the Company within the past three years that were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules promulgated thereunder (the “Securities Act”). Also included is the consideration, if any, received by the Registrant, for such securities and options and information relating to the Securities Act, or rule of the SEC, under which exemption from registration was claimed. Except with respect to issuances subsequent to September 4, 2018, the below descriptions of such issuances, including any conversion ratios, do not reflect the Company’s September 4, 2018 1-for-15 reverse stock split.

 

On November 26, 2018, the holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”),August 18, 2020, 14,685 outstanding warrants of the Company convertedat an aggregateexercise price per share of 550$8.125, were exercised on a “net exercise” or “cashless” basis into 4,873 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 36,667 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 66.667 shares of the common stock of the Company. The issuances of the 36,6674,873 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules promulgated thereunder (the “Securities Act”) as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid. All shares of Preferred Stock that had been issued have now been converted into shares of the Company’s common stock. Accordingly, there are currently no shares of Preferred Stock issued or outstanding.

On September 24, 2018, the holder of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of the Company, converted 450 shares of the Preferred Stock for 30,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 66.667 shares of the common stock of the Company. The issuances of the 30,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

On May 31, 2018, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted 700 shares of the Preferred Stock for 700,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Company. The issuances of the 700,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

On May 24, 2018, the Company issued 100,000 shares of common stock to CardioSert Ltd. as partial consideration for the acquisition of certain intellectual property assets from CardioSert. The issuance was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as a transaction not involving a public offering to a single stockholder as part of a negotiated transaction.

On March 7, 2018, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted an aggregate of 500 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 500,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Registrant. The issuances of the 500,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

On May 11, 2018, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted 800 shares of the Preferred Stock for 800,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock. The issuance of the 800,000 shares of common stock was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

From November 22, 2017 through January 25, 2018, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted an aggregate of 2,436 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 2,436,000 shares of the Registrant’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Registrant. The issuances of the 2,436,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

On December 11, 2017, the Registrant issued an aggregate of 70,000 shares of the Registrant’s common stock to a consultant as consideration for services. The issuance of the shares was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as a transaction not involving a public offering, as the issuance thereof was made to a limited number of persons or entities as compensation for services rendered.

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From October 4, 2017 through October 25, 2017, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted an aggregate of 1,600 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 1,600,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Registrant. The issuances of the 1,600,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

From August 7, 2017 through September 19, 2017, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted an aggregate of 2,200 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 2,200,000 shares of the Registrant’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Registrant. The issuances of the 2,200,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

Between June 19, 2017 and August 7, 2017, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted an aggregate of 2,029 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 2,029,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Company. The issuances of the 2,029,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

Between May 18, 2017 and June 12, 2017, the holder of the Preferred Stock converted an aggregate of 1,525 shares of the Preferred Stock for an aggregate of 1,525,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. Pursuant to the terms of conversion of the Preferred Stock, each such share is convertible, upon request and for no additional consideration, into 1,000 shares of the common stock of the Company. The issuances of the 1,525,000 shares of common stock were exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as transactions not involving a public offering to a single existing stockholder who is an accredited investor, and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act as the Preferred Stock was exchanged for common stock by an existing security holder and no commission or other remuneration was paid.

On May 26, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 50,000 shares of common stock to a consultant. The issuance of the shares was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act as a transaction not involving a public offering, as the issuance thereof was made to a limited number of persons or entities as compensation for services rendered.

On May 10, 2017, the Company entered into a Securities Exchange Agreement (the “Exchange Agreement”) with Alpha Capital Anstalt (“Alpha Capital”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue 3,255 shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Preferred Stock”), in exchange for the full satisfaction, termination and cancellation of that outstanding 6% convertible promissory note of the Company in the principal amount of $2,028,767, issued on November 28, 2016 and held by Alpha Capital (the “Convertible Note”). Effective as of May 10, 2017, the Company issued 3,255 shares of Preferred Stock to Alpha Capital pursuant to the Exchange Agreement. The issuance of the 3,255 shares of Preferred Stock was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act.

 

In March 2017, an institutional holder exercised,On October 25, 2022, the Company sold in a cashless transaction, 768private placement and issued to an investor (i) Series A preferred investment options to purchase up to 1,022,495 shares of Common Stock (the “Series A Warrants”) at an exercise price of $4.64 per share and (ii) Series B preferred investment options to purchase up to 1,022,495 shares of Common Stock (the “Series B Warrants” and, together with the Series A Warrants, the “Common Warrants”) at an exercise price of $4.64 per share. The Common Warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Common Warrants were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act, and Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder. In connection with such private placement, the Company issued to the placement agent or its designees warrants to purchase 51,125 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $6.1125 per share. Such placement agent warrants and 359the shares of common stock were issued in connection therewith. The issuanceCommon Stock issuable upon the exercise of the 359 share of common stock was exempt from registration underplacement agent warrants were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act.

 

Effective asOn May 23, 2023, in connection with a public offering of December 27, 2016,its securities, the Company closed onissued to the exchange (the “Exchange”) of approximately 9,735,925 sharesplacement agent or rightsits designees warrants to acquirepurchase 32,778 shares of its common stock held by Alpha Capital Anstalt, for 9,736Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.75 per share. Such placement agent warrants and the shares of Preferred Stock. The issuanceCommon Stock issuable upon the exercise of the 9,736 shares of Preferred Stock was exempt from registration underCommon Warrants were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) and/or 3(a)(9) under the Securities Act.

 

The Company issued 26,644,979 sharesOn May 24, 2023, in connection with a public offering of common stock to the existing shareholders of Microbot Israel Ltd. (“Microbot Israel”) and assumed options to purchase an aggregate of 2,614,916 shares of common stock of the existing optionholders of Microbot Israel. Additionally,its securities, the Company issued an aggregate of 7,802,639 restrictedto the placement agent or its designees warrants to purchase 60,476 shares of its common stock or rightsCommon Stock at an exercise price of $2.75 per share. Such placement agent warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Common Warrants were offered pursuant to receive common stock to certain advisors. Such sales were exempt from registration underthe exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) and Regulation D under the Securities Act.

 

On June 6, 2023, the Company sold in a private placement and issued to an investor Series C preferred investment options to purchase up to 350,878 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.075 per share. Such Series C preferred investment options and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Series C preferred investment options were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act, and Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder. In connection with such private placement, the Company issued to the placement agent or its designees warrants to purchase 35,088 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $2.6719 per share. Such placement agent warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the placement agent warrants were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act.

On June 16, 2023, the Company issued 385,246 to the holder of the Company’s Series B preferred investment options pursuant to the cashless exercise provision therein. Such shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Series B preferred investment options were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act.

On June 28, 2023, the Company sold in a private placement and issued to an investor Series D preferred investment options to purchase up to 312,309 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $3.19 per share. Such Series D preferred investment options and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the Series D preferred investment options were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act, and Rule 506(b) promulgated thereunder. In connection with such private placement, the Company issued to the placement agent or its designees warrants to purchase 31,231 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of $4.0625 per share. Such placement agent warrants and the shares of Common Stock issuable upon the exercise of the placement agent warrants were offered pursuant to the exemption provided in Section 4(a)(2) under the Securities Act.

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Item 16. Exhibits and financial statement schedules.Financial Statement Schedules.

(a)Exhibits.

(a) Exhibits.The documents set forth below are filed herewith or incorporated by reference to the location indicated.

 

See the Exhibit Index immediately preceding the signature page to this registration statement, which is incorporated by reference herein.

Exhibit NumberDescription of Document
2.1Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated as of August 15, 2016, by and among StemCells, Inc., C&RD Israel Ltd. and Microbot Medical Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 15, 2016).
3.1Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and filed on March 15, 2007).
3.2Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
3.3Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 4, 2018).
3.4Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 3, 2016).
3.5Certificate of Elimination (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 12, 2018).
3.6Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 11, 2019).
3.7Amendment to Section 5 of the Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 3, 2021).
4.1Description of the Company’s Securities (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019).
4.2Form of Series A Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 25, 2022)
4.3Form of Wainwright Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 25, 2022)
4.4Form of Wainwright Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 23, 2023)
4.5Form of Wainwright Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 24, 2023)
4.6Form of Warrant Amendment Agreement (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 24, 2023)
4.7Form of Series C Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 6, 2023)
4.8Form of Wainwright Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 6, 2023)
4.9Form of Series D Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 28, 2023)
4.10Form of Wainwright Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 28, 2023)
5.1+Opinion of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, PC

 

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10.1Form of Indemnification Agreement, between the Company and each of its Directors and Officers (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.2*Employment Agreement with Harel Gadot (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.3License Agreement, dated June 20, 2012, by and between Technion Research and Development Foundation, and Microbot Medical Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).
10.4*Form of Stock Option Agreement under the Microbot Medical Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended September 30, 2017, filed on November 14, 2017).
10.5Agreement, dated January 4, 2018, by and between CardioSert Ltd. and Microbot Medical Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 8, 2018).
10.6*Employment Agreement with Dr. Eyal Morag (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2019 filed on April 14, 2020).
10.7*Microbot Medical Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A of the Company’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on August 11, 2017).
10.8*Microbot Medical Inc. 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit A of the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed on July 31, 2020)
10.9*Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Microbot Medical Inc. 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.2 of the registration Statement on Form S-8 of the Company filed on November 25, 2020)
10.10*Form of NQO Award Agreement under the Microbot Medical Ltd. 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.3 of the registration Statement on Form S-8 of the Company filed on November 25, 2020)
10.11*Form of Restricted Stock Award Agreement under the Microbot Medical Ltd. 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.4 of the registration Statement on Form S-8 of the Company filed on November 25, 2020)
10.12*Form of SAR Award Agreement under the Microbot Medical Ltd. 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.5 of the registration Statement on Form S-8 of the Company filed on November 25, 2020)
10.13*Form of ISO Award Agreement under the Microbot Medical Ltd. 2020 Omnibus Performance Award Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.6 of the registration Statement on Form S-8 of the Company filed on November 25, 2020)
10.14*Employment Agreement, as of March 31, 2018, with Simon Sharon (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on April 7, 2021)
10.15*First Amendment to Employment Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2021, with Simon Sharon (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on April 22, 2021)
10.16At the Market Offering Agreement, dated June 10, 2021, by and between Microbot Medical Inc. and H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on June 10, 2021)
10.17**Strategic Collaboration Agreement for Technology Co-Development with Stryker Corporation, acting through its Neurovascular Division (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 of the Company’s Form 8-K filed on December 27, 2021)
10.18Asset Purchase Agreement with Nitiloop, Ltd. dated October 6, 2022 (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 7, 2022)
10.19*Employment Agreement with Rachel Vaknin (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 5, 2022)
10.20*Second Amendment to Employment Agreement with Harel Gadot (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 2022)
10.21Letter Agreements dated March 18, 2021 between Microbot Medical Ltd. and Technion Research and Development Foundation Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022, filed on March 31, 2023)
10.22Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 21, 2022, by and among Microbot Medical Inc. and the purchaser party thereto (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 25, 2022)
10.23*Addendum to Employment Agreement with Rachel Vaknin (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 22, 2023)
10.24*Addendum to Employment Agreement with Simon Sharon (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 22, 2023)
10.25*Addendum to Employment Agreement with Eyal Morag (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 22, 2023)
10.26*Addendum to Employment Agreement with Eyal Morag. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 22, 2023)
10.27Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 22, 2023, by and among Microbot Medical Inc. and the purchasers party thereto (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 23, 2023)

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10.28Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of May 23, 2023, by and among Microbot Medical Inc. and the purchaser party thereto (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 24, 2023)
10.29Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 2, 2023, by and among Microbot Medical Inc. and the purchasers party thereto (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 6, 2023)
10.30Form of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of June 26, 2023, by and among Microbot Medical Inc. and the purchasers party thereto (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 28, 2023)
21.1

Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).

23.1

Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

23.2+Consent of Ruskin Moscou Faltischek PC (included in Exhibit 5.1)
24.1Power of Attorney (included on signature page)
107Filing Fee Table

 

*Indicates Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement
**Certain identified information has been excluded from this exhibit because it is both (i) not material and (ii) would be competitively harmful if publicly disclosed.
+To be filed by amendment

(b) Financial statement schedules.schedule.

 

No financial statement schedules are provided because the information called for is not required or is shown either in the financial statements or the notes thereto.None.

 

Item 17. Undertakings.

 

(a) The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriter at the closing specified in the Underwriting Agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each investor.

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

The undersigned Registrantregistrant hereby undertakes:

 

 (1)To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:

 

 (i)To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act;Act of 1933 (the “Act”);
   
 (ii)To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of thethis registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in thethis registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered)statement; and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20 percent change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the “Calculation of Registration Fee” table in the effective registration statement;
   
 (iii)To include any material information with respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in thethis registration statement or any material change to such information in this registration statement.

Provided, however, that paragraphs (a)(1)(i), (a)(1)(ii), and (a)(1)(iii) above do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the registrant pursuant to section 13 or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that are incorporated by reference in the registration statement;statement, or is contained in a form of prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) that is a part of the registration statement.

 

 (2)That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein,herein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
   
 (3)To remove from registration by means of a post-effective amendment any of the securities being registered which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

 (5)
(4)

That, for the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the initial distributionregistration statement as of the securities, the undersigned Registrant undertakesdate it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a primary offering of securitiesregistration statement or prospectus that is part of the undersigned Registrant pursuant to this registration statement regardlessor made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is a part of the method usedregistration statement will, as to sell the securities to thea purchaser if the securities are offered or soldwith a time of contract of sale prior to such purchaser by means offirst use, superseded or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the following communications, the undersigned Registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offerregistration statement or sellmade in any such securitiesdocument immediately prior to such purchaser:date of first use.

 

(b)(i)Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned Registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (§230.424 of this chapter);
(ii)Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned Registrant;
(iii)The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned Registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned Registrant; and
(iv)Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned Registrant to the purchaser.

(5)The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that, for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant’s annual report pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 as amended, or the Exchange Act, (and, where applicable, each filing of an employee benefit plan’s annual report pursuant to section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act)Act of 1934) that is incorporated by reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.
(6)For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.
(7)For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit
Number

Description of Document

1.1 †(h)FormInsofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of Underwriting Agreement.
2.1Agreement and Plan of Merger and Reorganization, dated as of August 15, 2016, by and among StemCells, Inc., C&RD Israel Ltd. and Microbot Medical Ltd. (incorporated by referencethe registrant pursuant to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 15, 2016).
3.1Restated Certificateforegoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006 and filed on March 15, 2007).
3.2Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
3.3Certificate of Amendment to the Restated Certificate of Incorporation (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 4, 2018).
3.4

Certificate of Designations of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock(incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 16, 2016).

3.5

Certificate of Designation of Preferences, Rights and Limitations of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (ncorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 11, 2017).

3.6Amended and Restated By-Laws of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 3, 2016).
4.1Form of Series A Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Registrant’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 16, 2016).
4.2Form of Series B Warrant (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 16, 2016).
4.3 †Form of Pre-Funded Common Stock Purchase Warrant.
4.4 †Form of Underwriter’s Common Stock Purchase Warrant.
4.5†Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant.
5.1 †Opinion of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo P.C.
10.1Letter Agreement between the Company and Alpha Capital Anstalt (incorporated by reference from the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, on December 23, 2016).
10.2Securities Exchange Agreement betweenor SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the CompanyAct and Alpha Capital Anstalt (incorporatedis, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.3Convertible Promissory Noteregistrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in favorthe successful defense of Alpha Capital Anstalt (incorporatedany action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by reference tosuch director, officer or controlling person in connection with the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.4Form of Indemnification Agreement, betweensecurities being registered, the Company and Eachregistrant will, unless in the opinion of its Directorscounsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and Officers (incorporatedwill be governed by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.5Employment Agreement with Harel Gadot (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.6Services Agreement with DBN Finance Services Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 29, 2016).
10.7Employment Agreement with Yehezkel Himelfarb (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 8, 2016).
10.8Securities Exchange Agreement, dated December 16, 2016, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Alpha Capital Anstalt (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 16, 2016).
10.9Formfinal adjudication of Securities Purchase Agreement, dated January 5, 2017 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2017).
10.10Placement Agreement, dated January 4, 2017 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 5, 2017).
10.11Asset Purchase Agreement, dated November 11, 2016, by and among StemCells, Inc., Stem Cell Sciences Holdings Limited, Stemcells California, Inc., and Boco Silicon Valley, Inc. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).
10.12Escrow Agreement, dated as of November 11, 2016, by and among BOCO Silicon Valley, Inc., StemCells, Inc., Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, Kenneth B. Stratton and Alpha Capital Anstalt (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).such issue.

 

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Exhibit
Number
Description of Document
10.13Contract Research Agreement, dated January 27, 2017, with The Washington University (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).
10.14License Agreement, dated June 20, 2012, by and between Technion Research and Development Foundation, and Microbot Medical Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).
10.15Microbot Medical Inc. 2017 Equity Incentive Plan (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended September 30, 2017, filed on November 14, 2017).
10.16Letter Agreement, by and between the Company and Martin McGlynn, dated January 10, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended March 31, 2016, filed on May 10, 2016).
10.17Severance Buy-Out Agreement, Compromise and Release, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Ken Stratton, dated June 6, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.18Severance Buy-Out Agreement, Compromise and Release, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Gregory Schiffman, dated June 6, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.19Severance Buy-Out Agreement, Compromise and Release, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Ian Massey, dated June 6, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.20Cooperation and Consulting Agreement, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Ken Stratton, dated June 6, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.21Cooperation and Consulting Agreement, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Gregory Schiffman, dated June 6, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.22Cooperation and Consulting Agreement, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Ian Massey, dated June 6, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.23Trust Agreement, by and between StemCells, Inc. and David A. Bradlow, dated June 16, 2016 (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the Quarter ended June 30, 2016, filed on August 15, 2016).
10.24Securities Exchange Agreement, dated May 10, 2017, by and between the Company and Capital Anstalt (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 8, 2018).
10.25Asset Purchase Agreement, dated July 13, 2016, by and between StemCells, Inc. and Miltenyi Biotec, Inc. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 15, 2016).
10.26Settlement Agreement, dated as of July 29, 2016, by and between BMR-Pacific Research Center LP and StemCells, Inc. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 15, 2016).
10.27Agreement, dated January 4, 2018, by and between CardioSert Ltd. and Microbot Medical Ltd. (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 8, 2018).
10.29^Tolling and Standstill Agreement, dated as of April 2, 2018, by and among (a) Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, on behalf of Empery Asset Master, Ltd., Empery Tax Efficient LP, Empery Tax Efficient II LP, and Hudson Bay Master Fund, Ltd. and (b) Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., on behalf of the Company.
21.1Subsidiaries of the Company (incorporated by reference to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2016 and filed on March 21, 2017).
23.1 †Consent of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. Reference is made to Exhibit 5.1.
23.2*Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm.
24.1^Power of Attorney.
101.INSXBRL Instance.
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema.
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation.
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition.
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels.
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation.

^Previously filed.

*Filed herewith.
To be filed by amendment.

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this Amendment No.1 to registration statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Hingham,Braintree, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on December 28 , 2018.July 11, 2023.

 

 MICROBOT MEDICAL INC.
  
 /s/ Harel Gadot
 Harel Gadot
 President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Harel Gadot and Rachel Vaknin as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with the full power of substitution, for him of her and in his or her name, place or stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement (including post-effective amendments), and any subsequent registration statement filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 462(b) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which relates to this registration statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or their or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933, as amended,1934, this Registration Statementreport has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

NameSignature Title Date
/s/ Harel Gadot
Harel Gadot

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

December 28 ,2018
     
/s/ David Ben NaimHarel Gadot Chairman, President and Chief Executive OfficerJuly 11, 2023
Harel Gadot(Principal Executive Officer)  
David Ben Naim

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

December 28 , 2018
     
/s/ Yehezkel (Hezi) HimelfarbRachel Vaknin Chief Financial OfficerJuly 11, 2023
Rachel Vaknin(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  
Yehezkel (Hezi) HimelfarbChief Operating Officer, General Manager and DirectorDecember 28,2018
     
*/s/ Yoseph BornsteinDirectorJuly 11, 2023
Yoseph Bornstein    
Yoav WaizerDirectorDecember 28 , 2018
     
*/s/ Prattipati LaxminarainDirectorJuly 11, 2023
Prattipati Laxminarain    
Yoseph BornsteinDirectorDecember 28, 2018
     
*/s/ Scott BurellDirectorJuly 11, 2023
Scott Burell    
Pratipatti LaxminarainDirectorDecember 28, 2018
     
*/s/ Martin MaddenDirectorJuly 11, 2023
Martin Madden    
Scott BurellDirectorDecember 28 , 2018
     
*/s/ Aileen StockburgerDirectorJuly 11, 2023
Aileen Stockburger    
Martin Madden
/s/ Tal Wenderow Director December 28 , 2018July 11, 2023

*By:/s/ Yehezkel (Hezi) HimelfarbTal Wenderow 
 Yehezkel (Hezi) Himelfarb
Attorney-in-fact