Item 8.01. Other Events.



As previously announced, on September 22, 2021, Accelerate Diagnostics, Inc. (the "Company") entered into a securities purchase agreement (the "Securities Purchase Agreement") with certain purchasers (collectively, the "Purchasers") for the issuance and sale by the Company of an aggregate of 3,954,546 shares of the Company's Series A Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share (the "Series A Preferred Shares"), to the Purchasers in an offering (the "Private Placement") exempt from registration pursuant to Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Rule 506 promulgated thereunder.

The Securities Purchase Agreement contemplated that the closing of the Private Placement would occur in two tranches. The first tranche closed on the date of the execution of the Securities Purchase Agreement whereby an aggregate of 2,636,364 Series A Preferred Shares were issued and sold to the Purchasers for aggregate proceeds of approximately $20.3 million. On October 29, 2021, the Company closed the second tranche of the Private Placement and issued to the Purchasers an aggregate of 1,318,182 Series A Preferred Shares for aggregate proceeds of approximately $10.2 million.

For additional information regarding the Private Placement, the Securities Purchase Agreement and the terms of the Series A Preferred Shares, see the Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on September 23, 2021.

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