---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001564590-22-038601"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PRSO"
cik: "0000890394"
company_name: "Peraso Inc."
filed_at: "2022-11-30T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-21T11:58:34.221660+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Peraso raises $2.45M in registered direct offering and private placement warrants

## Summary
- Gross proceeds expected ~$2.45M from sale of 2.45M shares (or pre-funded warrants) at $1.00/share.
- Concurrent private placement: warrants to purchase up to 3.675M shares at $1.36, exercisable in 6 months, 5-year term.
- Net proceeds for operations, 5G product development, and working capital.
- Closing expected Nov 30, 2022; The Benchmark Company acted as placement agent.
- Pre-funded warrants exercise price $0.01, immediately exercisable.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001564590-22-038601
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PRSO
- cik: 0000890394
- company_name: Peraso Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-11-30T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 3.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890394/000156459022038601/0001564590-22-038601-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890394/000156459022038601/prso-8k_20221128.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Peraso Inc. entered into Securities Purchase Agreement with an institutional investor valued at approximately $2.45 million (effective 2022-11-28).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: equity purchase
  - Counterparty: an institutional investor
  - Value: approximately $2.45 million
  - Effective: 2022-11-28
  source text: On November 28, 2022, 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 1,300,000 shares (the “Shares”) of common stock, par value $0.001 per share (the “Common Stock”), at a negotiated purchase price of $1.00 per share.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/890394/000156459022038601/0001564590-22-038601-index.htm

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