SEER Seer Inc

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 6, 2024

Registration No. 333-

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM S-8

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under

The Securities Act of 1933

 

SEER, INC.

(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

Delaware	82-1153150
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)

 

 

3800 Bridge Parkway, Suite 102

Redwood City, California 94065

(Address of principal executive offices, including zip code)

 

 

2020 Equity Incentive Plan

2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

(Full title of plan)

Omid Farokhzad, M.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Seer, Inc.

3800 Bridge Parkway, Suite 102

Redwood City, California 94065

650-453-0000

(Name, address and telephone number, including area code of agent for service)

Copies to:

Tony Jeffries

Christina L. Poulsen

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

650 Page Mill Road

Palo Alto, California 94304

650-493-9300

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer	☐		Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒		Smaller reporting company	☒
			Emerging growth company	☐

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

 

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EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) registers additional shares of Class A Common Stock (“Shares”) of Seer, Inc. (the “Registrant”) reserved for issuance under the Registrant’s 2020 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2020 Plan”) and 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “2020 ESPP”). The number of Shares available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Plan is subject to an annual increase on the first day of each fiscal year, by an amount equal to the least of (i) 9,037,149 Shares, (ii) five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of all classes of the Registrant’s common stock on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year or (iii) such number of Shares determined by the Registrant’s board of directors. The number of Shares available for grant and issuance under the 2020 ESPP is subject to an annual increase on the first day of each fiscal year, by an amount equal to the least of (i) 1,807,476 Shares, (ii) one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of all classes of the Registrant’s common stock on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year or (iii) such number of Shares determined by the Registrant’s board of directors.

This Registration Statement registers (1) 3,214,933 additional shares of common stock available for grant and issuance under the 2020 Plan, which became available for grant and issuance pursuant to the provision of the 2020 Plan providing for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance on January 1, 2024, and (2) 642,986 additional shares of common stock available for issuance under the 2020 ESPP, which became available for grant and issuance pursuant to the provision of the 2020 ESPP providing for an automatic annual increase in the number of shares reserved for issuance on January 1, 2024.

 

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PART I

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS

The information specified in Item 1 and Item 2 of Part I of Form S-8 is omitted from this Registration Statement in accordance with the provisions of Rule 428 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the introductory note to Part I of Form S-8. The documents containing the information specified in Part I of Form S-8 will be delivered to the participants in the equity benefit plans covered by this Registration Statement as specified by Rule 428(b)(1) under the Securities Act.

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PART II

INFORMATION REQUIRED IN REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3. Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

The Registrant hereby incorporates by reference into this Registration Statement the following documents previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”):

(1) The Registrant’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the Commission on March 4, 2024;

(2) All other reports filed pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) since the end of the fiscal year covered by the Registrant’s Annual Report referred to in (a) above (other than the portions of these documents not deemed to be filed); and

(3) The description of the Registrant’s common stock contained in the Company’s Registration Statement on Form 8-A (File No. 001-39747) filed with the Commission on November 30, 2020, pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Exchange Act, including any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating such description.

All documents filed by the Registrant pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act on or after the date of this Registration Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement that indicates that all securities offered have been sold or that deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement and to be part hereof from the date of filing of such documents; provided, however, that documents or information deemed to have been furnished and not filed in accordance with the rules of the Commission shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into this Registration Statement.

Any statement contained in a document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference herein shall be deemed to be modified or superseded for purposes of this Registration Statement to the extent that a statement contained herein or in any subsequently filed document which also is deemed to be incorporated by reference herein modifies or supersedes such statement. Any such statement so modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded, to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.

Item 4. Description of Securities.

Not applicable.

Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

Not applicable.

Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL, empowers a corporation to indemnify its directors and officers and to purchase insurance with respect to liability arising out of their capacity or status as directors and officers, provided that the person acted in good faith and in a manner the person reasonably believed to be in our best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action, had no reasonable cause to believe the person’s actions were unlawful. The DGCL further provides that the indemnification permitted thereunder shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which the directors and officers may be entitled under the corporation’s bylaws, any agreement, a vote of stockholders or otherwise. The certificate of incorporation of the registrant to be in effect upon the completion of this offering provides for the indemnification of the registrant’s directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL. In addition, the bylaws of the registrant to be in effect upon the completion of this offering require the registrant to fully indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative) by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of the registrant, or is or was a director or officer of the registrant serving at the registrant’s request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including

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attorney’s fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Section 102(b)(7) of the DGCL permits a corporation to provide in its certificate of incorporation that a director of the corporation shall not be personally liable to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except (1) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the corporation or its stockholders, (2) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (3) for payments of unlawful dividends or unlawful stock repurchases or redemptions or (4) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit. The registrant’s certificate of incorporation to be in effect upon the completion of this offering provides that the registrant’s directors shall not be personally liable to it or its stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director and that if the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors, then the liability of the registrant’s directors shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.

Section 174 of the DGCL provides, among other things, that a director who willfully or negligently approves of an unlawful payment of dividends or an unlawful stock purchase or redemption may be held liable for such actions. A director who was either absent when the unlawful actions were approved, or dissented at the time, may avoid liability by causing his or her dissent to such actions to be entered in the books containing minutes of the meetings of the board of directors at the time such action occurred or immediately after such absent director receives notice of the unlawful acts.

As permitted by the DGCL, the registrant intends to enter into separate indemnification agreements with each of the registrant’s directors and certain of the registrant’s officers which would require the registrant, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities which may arise by reason of their status as directors, officers or certain other employees.

The registrant expects to obtain and maintain insurance policies under which its directors and officers are insured, within the limits and subject to the limitations of those policies, against certain expenses in connection with the defense of, and certain liabilities which might be imposed as a result of, actions, suits or proceedings to which they are parties by reason of being or having been directors or officers. The coverage provided by these policies may apply whether or not the registrant would have the power to indemnify such person against such liability under the provisions of the DGCL.

These indemnification provisions and the indemnification agreements intended to be entered into between the registrant and the registrant’s officers and directors may be sufficiently broad to permit indemnification of the registrant’s officers and directors for liabilities (including reimbursement of expenses incurred) arising under the Securities Act.

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

Not applicable.

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Item 8. Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number		Description
4.1(1)		Form of common stock certificate of the Registrant.
4.2(2)		2020 Equity Incentive Plan and related form agreements.
4.3		Amended and Restated 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and related form agreements.
5.1		Opinion of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.
23.1		Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP, independent registered public accounting firm.
23.2		Consent of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C. (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1		Power of Attorney (contained on signature page hereto).
107		Filing Fee Table.

 

 

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Item 9. Undertakings.

Provided, however, that paragraphs (A)(1)(i) and (A)(1)(ii) do not apply if the information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in reports filed with or furnished to the Commission by the Registrant pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act that are incorporated by reference in this Registration Statement.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Redwood City, California, on March 6, 2024.

 

SEER, INC.
By:	/s/ Omid Farokhzad, M.D.
	Omid Farokhzad, M.D.
	Chief Executive Officer

 

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below hereby constitutes and appoints Omid Farokhzad, M.D. and David Horn as his or her lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution, for him or her in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments to this registration statement on Form S-8 (including post-effective amendments), and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney in fact, proxy and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, proxy and agent, or his substitute, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement on Form S-8 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

SIGNATURE		TITLE		DATE
		Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Directors (Principal Executive Officer)		March 6, 2024
/s/ Omid Farokhzad, M.D.
Omid Farokhzad, M.D.
/s/ David R. Horn		Chief Financial Officer and President (Principal Financial Officer and Accounting Officer)		March 6, 2024
David R. Horn
/s/ David Hallal		Lead Independent Director		March 6, 2024
David Hallal
/s/ Meeta Gulyani		Director		March 6, 2024
Meeta Gulyani
/s/ Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D.		Director		March 6, 2024
Rachel Haurwitz, Ph.D.
/s/ Robert Langer, Sc.D.		Director		March 6, 2024
Robert Langer, Sc.D.
/s/ Terrance McGuire		Director		March 6, 2024
Terrance McGuire
/s/ Deep Nishar		Director		March 6, 2024
Deep Nishar

 

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March 6, 2024

 

Seer, Inc.

3800 Bridge Parkway, Suite 102

Redwood City, CA 94065

Re: Registration Statement on Form S‑8

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

We have examined the Registration Statement on Form S-8 (the “Registration Statement”) to be filed by Seer, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about the date hereof, relating to the registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, of (i) 3,214,933 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.00001 per share (“Common Stock”), reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company’s 2020 Equity Incentive Plan, and (ii) 642,986 shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance pursuant to the Company’s 2020 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (which plans are referred to herein as the “Plans” and which shares of Common Stock are referred to herein as the “Shares”).

 

On the basis of the foregoing, and in reliance thereon, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued and sold in the manner referred to in the Plans and pursuant to the agreements that accompany the Plans, will be validly issued, fully paid, and nonassessable.

 

We consent to the use of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and further consent to the use of our name wherever appearing in the Registration Statement and any amendments thereto.

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Very truly yours,

 

/s/ Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, P.C.

WILSON SONSINI GOODRICH & ROSATI

Professional Corporation

 

 

 

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CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

We consent to the incorporation by reference in this Registration Statement on Form S-8 of our report dated March 4, 2024, relating to the financial statements of Seer, Inc. appearing in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Seer, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2023.

/s/ Deloitte & Touche LLP

San Francisco, California

March 6, 2024

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Exhibit 107

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE TABLE

Form S-8

(Form Type)

 

Seer, Inc.

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

Table 1 – Newly Registered Securities

Security Type	Securities Class Type		Fee Calculation Rule	Amount to be Registered(1)	Proposed Maximum Offering Price Per Share	Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price	Fee Rate	Amount of Registration Fee
Equity	Class A common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan		Rules 457(c) and (h)	3,214,933 (2)	$1.85 (4)	$5,947,626.05	$0.0001476	$877.87
Equity	Class A common stock, $0.00001 par value per share, reserved for issuance pursuant to the 2020 Equity Incentive Plan		Rules 457(c) and (h)	642,986 (3)	$1.57 (5)	$1,009,488.02	$0.0001476	$149.00
TOTAL OFFERING AMOUNT				3,857,919		$6,957,114.07		$1,026.87
TOTAL FEE OFFSETS
NET FEE DUE								$1,026.87

 

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