--- schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1" accession: "0001410578-25-002030" form_type: "8-K" ticker: "WATT" cik: "0001575793" company_name: "Energous Corp" filed_at: "2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00" generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:52:53.263129+00:00" event_type: "other_material" sentiment: "neutral" materiality_score: 0.7 calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7 confidence: "high" source: SEC EDGAR --- # Energous raises $5M gross in registered direct offering and concurrent warrant exercise ## Summary - Gross proceeds of ~$5M from offering and warrant exercise; net proceeds ~$4.1M from offering plus ~$364k from warrant exercise. - Offering comprised 120,000 common shares, 465,347 pre-funded warrants, and 585,347 warrants at $7.92 per unit. - Concurrent exercise of 47,764 old warrants at reduced exercise prices; new unregistered warrants issued at $7.79 strike. - Placement agents Rodman & Renshaw and H.C. Wainwright received agent warrants for 40,974 and 3,343 shares respectively. - Proceeds to be used for working capital and general corporate purposes. ## SEC filing metadata - accession: 0001410578-25-002030 - form_type: 8-K - ticker: WATT - cik: 0001575793 - company_name: Energous Corp - filed_at: 2025-09-11T23:59:59+00:00 - event_type: other_material - sentiment: neutral - materiality_score: 0.7 - calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7 - confidence: high - sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 8.01, 9.01 - EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/0001410578-25-002030-index.htm - EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/tm2525849d2_8k.htm ## Machine-readable alternates - HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410578-25-002030 - JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410578-25-002030.json - Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001410578-25-002030.txt ## Key facts - Equity Issuances Energous Corp issued up to an aggregate of 40,974 shares of Common Stock of warrant to the Placement Agents or their respective designees. - Security: warrant - Shares: up to an aggregate of 40,974 shares of Common Stock - Purchaser: the Placement Agents or their respective designees source text: the Company, in connection with the closing of the Offering, agreed to issue to the Placement Agents or their respective designees warrants (the “Registered Direct Offering Placement Agent Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 40,974 shares of Common Stock evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/0001410578-25-002030-index.htm - Equity Issuances Energous Corp issued pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 465,347 shares of Common Stock of warrant to an institutional investor for combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant. - Security: warrant - Shares: pre-funded warrants to purchase up to 465,347 shares of Common Stock - Purchaser: an institutional investor - Consideration: combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant source text: shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”). Each share of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrant is being offered and sold together with an accompanying Warrant at a combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant, as applicable. Each Pre-Funded Warrant and Warrant is exercisable at any time on or after the date of evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/0001410578-25-002030-index.htm - Equity Issuances Energous Corp issued warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 585,347 shares of Common Stock of warrant to an institutional investor for combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant. - Security: warrant - Shares: warrants to purchase up to an aggregate of 585,347 shares of Common Stock - Purchaser: an institutional investor - Consideration: combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant source text: shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”). Each share of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrant is being offered and sold together with an accompanying Warrant at a combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant, as applicable. Each Pre-Funded Warrant and Warrant is exercisable at any time on or after the date of evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/0001410578-25-002030-index.htm - Equity Issuances Energous Corp issued an aggregate of 47,764 shares of Common Stock of warrant to the Investor for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $364,000. - Security: warrant - Shares: an aggregate of 47,764 shares of Common Stock - Purchaser: the Investor - Consideration: aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $364,000 source text: and the 34,014 warrants issued in February 2024 were exercised at a reduced exercise price of $7.92 per share for aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $364,000. As consideration for the exercise of the Original Warrants for cash, the Company issued new unregistered warrants (the “New Warrants”) to purchase up to an aggregate of 47,764 evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/0001410578-25-002030-index.htm - Equity Issuances Energous Corp issued 120,000 shares of common stock to an institutional investor for combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant. - Security: common stock - Shares: 120,000 shares - Purchaser: an institutional investor - Consideration: combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant source text: shares of Common Stock (the “Warrants”). Each share of Common Stock and Pre-Funded Warrant is being offered and sold together with an accompanying Warrant at a combined price of $7.92 per share of Common Stock or Pre-Funded Warrant and accompanying Warrant, as applicable. Each Pre-Funded Warrant and Warrant is exercisable at any time on or after the date of evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1575793/000141057825002030/0001410578-25-002030-index.htm This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.