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Second Sight Medical Products,
Announces Warrants Approved for
Listing on Nasdaq With Trading
Scheduled to Commence March 29
under Symbol "EYESW"
Business Wire March 27,
SYLMAR, Calif.-(BUSINESS WIRE)-
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc.
(EYES), (the "Company"), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics that provide some
useful vision to blind patients, today announced that warrants issued in connection with its recent oversubscribed rights offering
have been approved for listing on Nasdaq under the symbol "EYESW" and are scheduled to begin trading on Wednesday March
29, 2017. As previously reported, the Company raised approximately $20.1 million of gross proceeds through a rights offering that
closed earlier this month, selling 13.7 million units at a subscription price of $1.47 per unit. Net proceeds to the Company, after
related costs, are expected to be approximately $19.7 million.
"We want to thank our individual
and institutional shareholders, board members, senior management and employees for their overwhelming support in participating
in this successful offering, demonstrating their continued commitment to Second Sight's mission," said Will McGuire,
President and CEO of the Company. "The proceeds of the offering will allow us to continue executing our strategy to improve
the performance of Argus II, expand our market to include better-sighted patients, and advance the development of the Orion I visual
Pursuant to the terms of the rights
offering, the 13.7 million units each consist of one new share of common stock and one tradable warrant. Each warrant is exercisable
to purchase one registered share of common stock at an exercise price of $1.47 until March 14, 2022, the warrant expiration date.
The securities described above were
offered by the Company pursuant to a registration statement that was previously filed with and declared effective by the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC). This press release does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy the
securities in this offering, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or other jurisdiction in which such offer,
solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to the registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or
other jurisdiction. A final prospectus supplement related to the offering was filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC's
website located at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus relating to this
offering may be obtained by sending a request to the Company.
About the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis
Second Sight's Argus II System provides
electrical stimulation that bypasses the defunct retinal cells and stimulates remaining viable cells inducing visual perception
in individuals with severe to profound Retinitis Pigmentosa. The Argus II works by converting images captured by a miniature video
camera mounted on the patient's glasses into a series of small electrical pulses, which are transmitted wirelessly to an array
of electrodes implanted on the surface of the retina. These pulses are intended to stimulate the retina's remaining cells, resulting
in the perception of patterns of light in the brain. The patient then learns to interpret these visual patterns, thereby regaining
some visual function. The Argus II is the first artificial retina to receive widespread approval, and is offered at approved centers
in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the U.S.
Second Sight's mission is to develop,
manufacture and market innovative implantable visual prosthetics to enable blind individuals to achieve greater independence. Second
Sight has developed and manufactures the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System. Second Sight is currently underway in a trial
to test the safety and utility of the Argus II in individuals with Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Second Sight is also developing
the Orion I Visual Cortical Prosthesis to restore some vision to individuals who are blind due to causes other than
preventable or treatable conditions. U.S. Headquarters are in Sylmar, CA, and European Headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland.
For more information, visit www.secondsight.com.
This press release contains forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the "safe harbor" created by those sections.
All statements in this release that are not based on historical fact are "forward looking statements." These statements
may be identified by words such as "estimates," "anticipates," "projects," "plans," or
"planned," "seeks," "may," "will," "expects," "intends," "believes,"
"should" and similar expressions or the negative versions thereof and which also may be identified by their context.
All statements that address operating performance or events or developments that Second Sight expects or anticipates will occur
in the future are forward-looking statements. While management has based any forward looking statements included in this release
on its current expectations, the information on which such expectations were based may change. Forward-looking statements involve
inherent risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements,
as a result of various factors including those risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our Annual Report on Form 10-K as filed on March
16, 2017, and our other reports filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We urge you to consider
those risks and uncertainties in evaluating our forward-looking statements. We caution readers not to place undue reliance upon
any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities
laws, we disclaim any obligation or undertaking to publicly release any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statement contained
herein (or elsewhere) to reflect any change in our expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances
on which any such statement is based. You should however review additional disclosures we make in our registration statement on
Form S-1 for this offering that has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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