---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-23-045405"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRSO"
cik: "0000890394"
company_name: "Peraso Inc."
filed_at: "2023-06-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T08:45:17.443094+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peraso raises $4.0M via registered direct offering and private placement of common stock and warrants

## Summary
- Issued 2.25M shares at $0.70 and pre-funded warrants for 3.46M shares at $0.69 (exercise $0.01) for gross proceeds of $4.0M.
- Concurrent private placement: Purchase warrants for 5.71M shares at $0.70, 5-year term.
- Existing warrants held by investor repriced from $1.36 to $1.00 exercise price upon closing.
- Net proceeds to be used for operations, 5G product development, and working capital.
- Closing expected June 2, 2023; Benchmark Company acted as placement agent.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-23-045405
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRSO
- cik: 0000890394
- company_name: Peraso Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-06-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890394/000121390023045405/0001213900-23-045405-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890394/000121390023045405/ea179675-8k_peraso.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001213900-23-045405.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Peraso Inc. entered into Securities Purchase Agreement with an institutional investor valued at approximately $4 million (effective 2023-05-31).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: equity purchase
  - Counterparty: an institutional investor
  - Value: approximately $4 million
  - Effective: 2023-05-31
  source text: On May 31, 2023, Peraso Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with an institutional investor (the “Purchaser”), pursuant to which the Company will offer and sell to the Purchaser, in a registered direct offering, an aggregate of 2,250,000 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at a negotiated purchase price of $0.70 per share.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890394/000121390023045405/0001213900-23-045405-index.htm

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