---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-033921"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GERN"
cik: "0000886744"
company_name: "GERON CORP"
filed_at: "2024-03-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-04T12:42:11.800293+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Geron raises ~$150M in public offering of common stock and pre-funded warrants

## Summary
- Offering of 42M shares at $3.00 and pre-funded warrants for 8M shares at $0.001 exercise price.
- Each pre-funded warrant priced at $2.999; gross proceeds to Geron ~$150M before expenses.
- Underwriters: Cowen and Company, LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company; closing expected March 21, 2024.
- Pre-funded warrants exercisable immediately, subject to 9.99% ownership cap (adjustable to 19.99%).
- Offering made under existing shelf registration; representations and warranties standard for such deals.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-033921
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GERN
- cik: 0000886744
- company_name: GERON CORP
- filed_at: 2024-03-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024033921/0000950170-24-033921-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024033921/gern-20240319.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-033921.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  GERON CORP entered into Underwriting Agreement with Cowen and Company, LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated valued at approximately $150.0 million (effective 2024-03-19).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: underwriting
  - Counterparty: Cowen and Company, LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated
  - Value: approximately $150.0 million
  - Effective: 2024-03-19
  source text: On March 19, 2024, Geron Corporation (the “Company”) entered into an underwriting agreement (the “Underwriting Agreement”) with Cowen and Company, LLC and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, as representatives of the several underwriters named therein (collectively, the “Underwriters”), relating to the issuance and sale (the “Offering”) of 41,999,998 shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), and pre-funded warrants to purchase 8,002,668 shares of Common Stock (the “Pre-Funded Warrants”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/886744/000095017024033921/0000950170-24-033921-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.