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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-053232"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BURU"
cik: "0001814215"
company_name: "Nuburu, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T22:19:12.138662+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Nuburu enters $15M pre-funded warrant program; awarded $850K NASA Phase II contract for lunar power beaming

## Summary
- Entered Pre-Funded Warrant Purchase Program with strategic investors; up to $15M total purchase price; investors receive warrants at 150% of pre-funded price.
- Awarded $850K Phase II contract by NASA for blue laser power transmission technology for Lunar and Martian applications.
- Phase II aims to scale power, range, performance; deliver hundreds of watts at kilometer-scale; extend to tens of km on lunar surface.
- Contract builds on Phase I SBIR announced August 2023, which demonstrated technical feasibility of blue laser power beaming.
- CEO Brian Knaley highlights potential terrestrial applications: remote power, disaster relief, and defense logistics.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-053232
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BURU
- cik: 0001814215
- company_name: Nuburu, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-05-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000095017024053232/0000950170-24-053232-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000095017024053232/buru-20240501.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Nuburu, Inc. entered into Pre-Funded Warrant Purchase Program with strategic investors valued at $15 million (effective 2024-05-01).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: equity purchase
  - Counterparty: strategic investors
  - Value: $15 million
  - Effective: 2024-05-01
  source text: Nuburu, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Pre-Funded Warrant Purchase Program (the “Program”), effective as of May 1, 2024, with strategic investors, pursuant to which from time-to-time the Company may sell and the investors may acquire pre-funded warrants, up to a total purchase price to the Company equal to $15 million.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1814215/000095017024053232/0000950170-24-053232-index.htm

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