ORIC® Pharmaceuticals Announces $125 Million Private Placement Financing
May 28 2025 - 4:05PM
ORIC Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ORIC), a clinical stage
oncology company focused on developing treatments that address
mechanisms of therapeutic resistance, today announced that it has
agreed to sell approximately 19.2 million shares of its common
stock (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) to a select group of
institutional and accredited healthcare specialist investors in a
private placement, at a price per share of $6.50 (or $6.4999 per
pre-funded warrant), representing a premium of approximately 18% to
ORIC’s 10-day trailing volume-weighted average price as of deal
signing on May 23, 2025. The pre-funded warrants will have an
exercise price of $0.0001 per share of common stock, will be
immediately exercisable, and will remain exercisable until
exercised in full. The financing is expected to close on May 29,
2025, subject to customary closing conditions. ORIC anticipates the
gross proceeds from the private placement to be approximately $125
million, before deducting any offering related expenses.
The financing includes participation from new
and existing institutional investors and is being led by SR One,
with participation from Point72, Viking Global Investors, Venrock
Healthcare Capital Partners, NEA, Nextech, Vivo Capital, and
NEXTBio Capital.
ORIC intends to use the net proceeds from the
proposed financing to fund research and development of its
clinical-stage product candidates and research programs and for
working capital and general corporate purposes. The proceeds from
this financing, combined with current cash, cash equivalents and
marketable securities, is expected to be sufficient to fund the
current operating plan into the second half of 2027 and through the
anticipated primary endpoint readout from the first ORIC-944 Phase
3 registrational trial in prostate cancer.
The securities described above have not been
registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Accordingly, these securities may not be offered or sold in the
United States, except pursuant to an effective registration
statement or an applicable exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act. ORIC has agreed to file a
registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission (the “SEC”) registering the resale of the shares of
common stock and the shares of common stock issuable upon exercise
of the pre-funded warrants issued in this private placement. Any
offering of the securities under the resale registration statement
will only be made by means of a prospectus.
This press release shall not constitute an offer
to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be
any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such
offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the
registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such
jurisdiction.
About ORIC Pharmaceuticals,
Inc. ORIC Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage
biopharmaceutical company dedicated to improving patients’ lives by
Overcoming Resistance In Cancer. ORIC’s clinical stage product
candidates include (1) ORIC-944, an allosteric inhibitor of the
polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) via the EED subunit, being
developed for prostate cancer, and (2) ORIC-114, a brain penetrant
inhibitor that selectively targets EGFR exon 20, HER2 exon 20 and
EGFR atypical mutations, being developed across multiple
genetically defined cancers. Beyond these two product candidates,
ORIC® is also developing multiple precision medicines targeting
other hallmark cancer resistance mechanisms. ORIC has offices in
South San Francisco and San Diego, California. For more
information, please go to www.oricpharma.com, and follow us
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Cautionary Note Regarding
Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release contains
forward-looking statements as that term is defined in Section 27A
of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. Statements in this press release that are not
purely historical are forward-looking statements. Such
forward-looking statements include, among other things, the timing
and expectation of the closing of the private placement; the
satisfaction of customary closing conditions related to the private
placement and the anticipated use of proceeds therefrom; the
anticipated timing of the primary endpoint readout from the first
ORIC-944 Phase 3 registrational trial in prostate cancer; and the
period over which ORIC estimates the proceeds from the private
placement, combined with its existing cash, cash equivalents and
marketable securities, will be sufficient to fund its current
operating plan. Words such as “believes,” “anticipates,” “plans,”
“expects,” “intends,” “will,” “goal,” “potential” and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
The forward-looking statements contained herein are based upon
ORIC’s current expectations and involve assumptions that may never
materialize or may prove to be incorrect. Actual results could
differ materially from those projected in any forward-looking
statements due to numerous risks and uncertainties, including but
not limited to: risks associated with the process of discovering,
developing and commercializing drugs that are safe and effective
for use as human therapeutics and operating as an early clinical
stage company; ORIC’s ability to develop, initiate or complete
preclinical studies and clinical trials for, obtain approvals for
and commercialize any of its product candidates; changes in ORIC’s
plans to develop and commercialize its product candidates; the
potential for clinical trials of ORIC-944, ORIC-114 or any other
product candidates to differ from preclinical, initial, interim,
preliminary or expected results; negative impacts of health
emergencies, economic instability or international conflicts on
ORIC’s operations, including clinical trials; the risk of the
occurrence of any event, change or other circumstance that could
give rise to the termination of ORIC’s license and collaboration
agreements; regulatory developments in the United States and
foreign countries; ORIC’s reliance on third parties, including
contract manufacturers and contract research organizations; ORIC’s
ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for
its product candidates; the loss of key scientific or management
personnel; competition in the industry in which ORIC operates;
general economic and market conditions; and other risks.
Information regarding the foregoing and additional risks may be
found in the section entitled “Risk Factors” in ORIC’s Quarterly
Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on May 5, 2025, and ORIC’s
future reports to be filed with the SEC. These forward-looking
statements are made as of the date of this press release, and ORIC
assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or
to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those
projected in the forward-looking statements, except as required by
law.
Contact:
Dominic Piscitelli, Chief Financial
Officerdominic.piscitelli@oricpharma.cominfo@oricpharma.com
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