Note 11 – Stock-based compensation

Issuance of Common Stock

On January 13, 2021, the non-employee members of the Board of Directors were granted an aggregate of 52,317 shares of Common Stock as compensation, in lieu of cash compensation, for service as directors during the fourth quarter of 2021, pursuant to the Company’s non-employee director compensation policy. The Company recorded $56 in accrued expenses as of December 31, 2020 for director services during the three months ended December 31, 2020. The number of shares granted to the Company’s directors, in lieu of cash compensation, was determined by the dollar amount of quarterly fees due under the non-employee director compensation policy divided by the fair market value of a share of Common Stock as of the grant date which was $1.08.

On February 17, 2021, the Company’s Compensation Committee approved a modification to the non-employee director compensation policy to permit payment of the fees for service as directors for 2021 in grants of the Company’s common stock, in lieu of cash compensation. Non-employee members of the Board of Directors were granted an aggregate of 121,237 shares of common stock at a price equal to $1.78 per share of common stock, as compensation, in lieu of $216 of cash compensation, for service as directors for 2021. As of March 31, 2021, the Company recorded $162 in prepaid board of directors’ compensation. For the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Company recorded $55 of expense in relation to the board of directors’ compensation.

Issuance of Warrants to Purchase Common Stock

On February 6, 2020, the Company entered into a services agreement whereby it agreed to issue warrants to purchase 120,000 shares of common stock of the Company. The warrants will vest over a one-year period on a monthly basis and expire three years from the date of issuance. 60,000 of the granted warrants are exercisable at a price equal to $2.16 per share of common stock and 60,000 of the remaining warrants granted are exercisable at a price equal to $3.50 per share of common stock. The fair value of the warrants were valued on the date of grant at $112 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following parameters: (1) risk-free interest rate of 1.43%; (2) expected life in years of 3.0; (3) expected stock volatility of 74.82%; and (4) expected dividend yield of 0%. The Company recorded $9 and $19 as general and administrative expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of comprehensive loss in relation to the consulting agreement for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

On January 20, 2021, the Company entered into a services agreement with a service provider whereby it agreed to issue warrants to purchase an aggregate 340,020 shares of common stock of the Company with an exercise price equal to $1.75 per share of common stock, which will vest over a one-year period on a monthly basis and will have an exercise period of three years from the date of issuance. The fair value of the warrants were valued on the date of grant at $355 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following parameters: (1) risk-free interest rate of 0.19%; (2) expected life in years of 3.0; (3) expected stock volatility of 100.99%; and (4) expected dividend yield of 0%. The Company recorded $59 as general and administrative expense in the accompanying consolidated statement of comprehensive loss in relation to the consulting agreement for the three months ended March 31, 2021.

On August 28, 2020 the Company entered into a securities purchase agreement (the “Securities Purchase Agreement”) under which it sold and issued to an institutional investor (the “Holder”), in a registered direct offering, an aggregate of 3,200,000 shares of the Company’s common stock par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and pre-funded warrants to purchase an aggregate of 5,533,625 shares of Common Stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”) at an exercise price of $0.001 per share. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, the Pre-Funded Warrants for 5,533,625 shares of common stock were exercised which resulted in aggregate proceeds of $6.

Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, as described above, in a concurrent private placement, the Company also agreed to issue to the purchaser warrants to purchase up to 8,733,625 shares of Common Stock (the “Private Placement Warrants”). These warrants were immediately exercisable at an exercise price of $1.30 per share and expire on the fifth anniversary of the date of issuance. On January 27, 2021, the Company entered into a Warrant Exercise Agreement (the “Exercise Agreement”) with the Holder, at which time 8,000,000 of the Private Placement Warrants remained outstanding, due to the prior exercise of 733,625 of the Private Placement Warrants on January 22, 2021. Pursuant to the Exercise Agreement, the Holder agreed to exercise the remaining outstanding 8,000,000 Private Placement Warrants. In consideration of the exercise, the Company agreed to sell to the Holder, new warrants (the “New Warrants”) to purchase 0.75 shares of Common Stock for each share of Common Stock issued upon such exercise of the remaining 8,000,000 Private Placement Warrants pursuant to the Exercise Agreement, or an aggregate of 6,000,000 New Warrants. In addition, the Holder paid a cash payment of $0.10 for each New Warrant issued to the Holder, for an aggregate of $600,000 to the Company. The Company received aggregate gross proceeds before expenses of approximately $11.0 million from the exercise of all of the remaining 8,000,000 outstanding Private Placement Warrants held by the Holder and the payment of the purchase price for the New Warrants. The terms of the New Warrants are substantially similar to those of the Private Placement Warrants, except that the New Warrants will have an exercise price of $2.12, will be immediately exercisable and will expire five years from the date of the Exercise Agreement. The aggregate of 6,000,000 New Warrants were issued in four tranches during the first quarter of 2021 as the 8,000,000 Private Placement Warrants were exercised. The fair values of the 6,000,000 New Warrants were valued on the date of grant of each tranche and totaled in aggregate of $6,745 using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following parameters: (1) risk-free interest rates with a range of 0.41%-0.57%.; (2) expected life in years with a range of 4.95-5.00; (3) expected stock volatilities with a range of 103.00%-103.23%; and (4) expected dividend yields of 0%. The Company recognized the excess fair value of the New Warrants above the aggregate purchase price as a deemed dividend of $6,145. However, as the Company is in an accumulated deficit position as of the issuance dates, the resulting deemed dividend was recorded as a reduction of additional paid-in capital, however the deemed divided was included in net loss attributable to common shareholders in the calculation of loss per share.

In connection with the Exercise Agreement, the Company entered into a financial advisory agreement (the “Letter Agreement”) with A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners (“A.G.P.”), pursuant to which A.G.P. acted as exclusive financial advisor to the Company in this transaction and received a cash fee of $300 upon full cash exercise of the Private Placement Warrants, which was included in financing fees in the consolidated statement of shareholders’ equity, as of March 31, 2021. As additional compensation, A.G.P. will receive a cash fee equal to $200 upon the cash exercise in full of the New Warrants.

Warrants

A summary of the Company’s warrants to purchase common stock activity is as follows:

As of March 31, 2021, 8,847,471 warrants were exercisable.

Stock Options

2016 Equity Incentive Plan

In December 2016, the Company adopted the Motus GI Holdings, Inc. 2016 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2016 Plan”). Pursuant to the 2016 Plan, the Company’s board of directors may grant options to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, stock units, performance shares, performance units, incentive bonus awards, other cash-based awards and other stock-based awards to employees, officers, directors, consultants and advisors. Pursuant to the terms of an annual evergreen provision in the 2016 Plan, the number of shares of common stock available for issuance under the 2016 Plan shall increase annually by six percent (6%) of the total number of shares of common stock outstanding on December 31st of the preceding calendar year; provided, however, that the board of directors may act prior to the first day of any calendar year to provide that there shall be no increase such calendar year, or that the increase shall be a lesser number of shares of the Company’s common stock than would otherwise occur. On January 1, 2021, pursuant to an annual evergreen provision, the number of shares of common stock reserved for future grants was increased by 1,936,669 shares. Under the 2016 Plan, effective as of January 1, 2021, the maximum number of shares of the Company’s common stock authorized for issuance is 7,592,663. As of March 31, 2021, there were 371,577 shares of common stock available for future grant under the 2016 Plan.

A summary of the Company’s stock option activity is as follows:

The Company estimated the fair value of each stock option award using the Black-Scholes option pricing model based on the following weighted average assumptions:

As of March 31, 2021, unamortized share-based compensation for stock options was $3,006, with a weighted-average recognition period of 1.07 years.

As of March 31, 2021, outstanding options to purchase 2,645,219 shares of common stock were exercisable with a weighted-average exercise price per share of $4.14.

For the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020, the Company recorded $669 and $682, respectively, for share based compensation expense related to stock options.

Restricted Stock Units

On February 17, 2021, the Company’s Compensation Committee approved the issuance of 160,000 restricted stock unit awards to non-employee directors which vest on the first anniversary of the date of grant, and 266,000 restricted stock unit awards, to executives which vest over a three-year period on a quarterly basis. The aggregate fair value of the restricted stock unit awards granted was estimated to be $758 using the market price of the stock on the date of the grant which is expensed using the straight-line method over a three-year period.

The Company recorded $182 as general and administrative expense in the accompanying condensed consolidated statement of comprehensive loss for the three months ended March 31, 2021, in relation to the aggregate 501,265 restricted stock units issued to date to the CEO, executives, and directors.

A summary of the Company’s restricted stock unit awards activity is as follows:

As of March 31, 2021, unamortized share compensation for restricted stock units was $1,473, with a weighted-average recognition period of 1.12 years.

Share-based Compensation

The following table sets forth total non-cash share-based compensation for the issuance of options to purchase common stock, warrants to purchase common stock, and restricted stock unit award by operating statement classification for the three months ended March 31, 2021 and 2020: