additional capital, adequate personnel, and infrastructure and extensive compliance-reporting capabilities. Even if our drug development efforts are successful, it is uncertain when, if ever, we will realize significant revenue from product sales.
Cash and cash equivalents totaled $19,843,052 as of March 31, 2021. Net losses totaled $5,784,421 and $1,582,834 for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and March 31, 2020, respectively. Net losses totaled $13,373,003 and $9,224 for the year ended December 31, 2020 and the period ended December 31, 2019, respectively.
On July 10, 2020, we obtained a mortgage loan in the amount of $3,562,500 for the purpose of purchasing a facility located in Indianapolis, Indiana (see Note 5 to the 2020 Financial Statements and Q1 2021 Financial Statements included elsewhere in this prospectus). The loan was collateralized by a first charge over the property. As part of the financing, we incurred $17,194 of costs and fees from the lender that are capitalized and recorded as finance costs over the life of the mortgage. The mortgage bore interest at 2.85% plus a minimum rate of 1-month LIBOR, subject to a LIBOR floor of 0.25%. The loan required quarterly interest payments, commencing October 1, 2020, with the principal amount due at maturity on January 10, 2022. On July 29, 2021, this mortgage loan was repaid in full and the related mortgage on the facility in Indianapolis, Indiana was released.
For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and the year ended December 31, 2020, we recorded $26,689 and $54,605, respectively, in interest costs which have been capitalized within property, in development, and $2,799 and $5,354, respectively of accretion expense recorded within finance costs related to the amortization of capitalized financing costs and fees
As of March 31, 2021, we did not have any lease or other contractual obligations. We currently have a facility lease that is a month-to-month arrangement.
On January 28, 2021, 800,000 warrants for the purchase of common shares of Old POINT were exercised resulting in net proceeds of $20,000,000. We intend to use the net proceeds from the transaction for general corporate purpose, funding of development programs, payment of milestones pursuant to our license agreements, general and administrative expenses, licensing of additional product candidates and to support our working capital needs.
On March 8, 2021, 18,000 stock options were exercised resulting in cash proceeds of $450,000.
Future Funding Requirements
Our primary use of cash is to fund operating expenses, primarily related to our research and development activities. Cash used to fund operating expenses is impacted by the timing of when we pay these expenses, as reflected in the change in our outstanding accounts payable, accrued expenses and prepaid expenses.
We expect to continue to incur significant and increasing expenses and operating losses for the foreseeable future. We will require additional capital to meet operational needs and capital requirements for clinical trials, other research and development expenditures, and business development activities. Because of the numerous risks and uncertainties associated with the development and commercialization of our product candidates, we are unable to estimate the amounts of increased capital outlays and operating expenditures associated with our current and anticipated clinical trials and preclinical studies.
Our future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including, but not limited to:
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the scope, progress, results and costs of researching and developing our current product candidates, as well as other additional product candidates we may develop and pursue in the future;
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the timing of, and the costs involved in, obtaining marketing approvals for our product candidates and any other additional product candidates we may develop and pursue in the future;
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the number of future product candidates that we may pursue and their development requirements;
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subject to receipt of regulatory approval, the costs of commercialization activities for our product candidates, to the extent such costs are not the responsibility of any future collaborators, including the costs and timing of establishing product sales, marketing, distribution, and manufacturing capabilities;