Acrivon Therapeutics (ACRV) Announces $130 Million Private Placement Financing

Acrivon Therapeutics, Inc. (“Acrivon” or “Acrivon Therapeutics”) (Nasdaq: ACRV), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing precision oncology medicines that it matches to patients whose tumors are predicted to be sensitive to each specific medicine by utilizing its proprietary proteomics-based patient responder identification platform, Acrivon Predictive Precision Proteomics (AP3), today announced that it has entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain existing and new accredited investors to issue and sell an aggregate of 8,235,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $8.50 per share, a premium to the closing price on April 8, 2024, and pre-funded warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 7,060,000 shares of common stock at a purchase price of $8.499 per pre-funded warrant, through a private investment in public equity (“PIPE”) financing. The pre-funded warrants will have an exercise price of $0.001 per share of common stock, be immediately exercisable and remain exercisable until exercised in full.

Acrivon anticipates the gross proceeds from the oversubscribed PIPE to be approximately $130 million, before deducting fees to the placement agent and other offering expenses payable by the company. The closing of the financing is expected to occur on April 11, 2024, subject to customary closing conditions.

The private placement is being led by a new US-based healthcare and life sciences investor and includes other new and key existing investors, including RA Capital Management, Perceptive Advisors, Paradigm BioCapital, Surveyor Capital (a Citadel company), Sands Capital, and Acorn Bioventures.

“We are excited to announce this financing and thank our new and key existing investors who have shown their support for and confidence in Acrivon,” said Peter Blume-Jensen, M.D., Ph.D., chief executive officer, president, and founder of Acrivon Therapeutics. “With this funding, we are well positioned to continue the advancement of our lead clinical asset, ACR-368, currently in registrational-intent Phase 2 trials, as well as our preclinical pipeline including ACR-2316, our internally-discovered, novel WEE1/PKMYT1 inhibitor and our recently declared cell cycle regulatory program with an undisclosed target. I am particularly excited about the enthusiasm for the broad potential of Acrivon’s differentiated AP3 platform and their support for our compelling long-term strategy aiming to transform precision medicine for the benefit of patients.”

Acrivon currently expects to use the net proceeds from the private placement, together with its existing cash, cash equivalents and investments, to fund the continued advancement of its pipeline, including ACR-368, ACR-2316, and its undisclosed cell cycle regulatory program, to fund research and development to broaden its use and applications of its AP3 platform, to leverage its vast proprietary data sets through artificial intelligence and machine learning, and for other general corporate purposes.

Acrivon believes its cash, cash equivalents and investments, including the expected net proceeds from the private placement, will provide sufficient funding of planned operations into the second half of 2026 with flexibility to extend further.

Jefferies acted as the exclusive placement agent in the private placement.

The securities sold in this PIPE are being made in a transaction not involving a public offering and have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and 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. Pursuant to the securities purchase agreement, the company has agreed to file a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission registering the resale of the securities sold in the PIPE.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. Any offering of the common stock described above under the resale registration statement will only be by means of a prospectus.

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