DURHAM, N.C., March 25, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Humacyte, Inc. (NASDAQ:HUMA), a commercial-stage biotechnology platform company developing universally implantable, bioengineered human tissues at commercial scale, today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 25,000,000 shares of its common stock at a public offering price of $2.00 per share. The aggregate gross proceeds from this offering are expected to be $50 million, before deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other offering expenses payable by Humacyte. The closing of the offering is expected to occur on or about March 27, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. In addition, Humacyte has granted the underwriters an option for a period of 30 days to purchase up to an additional 3,750,000 shares of Humacyte's common stock at the public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. All of the shares of common stock are being sold by Humacyte.

TD Cowen, Barclays and BTIG are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. H.C. Wainwright & Co. and The Benchmark Company are acting as lead managers for the offering.

Humacyte intends to use the net proceeds that it will receive from the offering to fund the commercialization of SYMVESS™ in the vascular trauma indication, the development of the product candidates in Humacyte's pipeline and for working capital and general corporate purposes.

A shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-267225) was previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on September 1, 2022 and declared effective by the SEC on September 9, 2022. The securities are being offered by means of a prospectus supplement and accompanying prospectus relating to the offering that form a part of the registration statement. A preliminary prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering was filed with the SEC on March 25, 2025 and is available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. The final prospectus supplement relating to and describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and will be available on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Before investing in the offering, you should read each of the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering in their entirety as well as the other documents that Humacyte has filed with the SEC that are incorporated by reference in the prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to the offering, which provide more information about Humacyte and ...