Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation

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This is an Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation used in conjunction with a Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement between a startup Delaware company and venture capital investors. It sets forth the rights, preferences, and privileges of the Series A Preferred Stock, including dividend rights, liquidation preferences, redemption rights, voting rights, rights to convert the Preferred Stock to Common Stock, anti-dilution protection, and affirmative covenants by the Company and related voting rights of the preferred holders.

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 ENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
OF
[NAME OF COMPANY]

[_______________], a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Corporation”), hereby certifies as follows:

FIRST: The name of the Corporation is [_______________]. The original Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on ____________________, ____.

SECOND: Pursuant to Sections 228, 242 and 245 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, this Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation restates and integrates and further amends the provisions of the Certificate of Incorporation of the Corporation.

THIRD: The text of the original Certificate of Incorporation and any amendment and restatement thereto is hereby amended and restated to read in its entirety as follows:

ARTICLE I

The name of the Corporation is ______________________________.

ARTICLE II

The address of the registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is _____________________, in the City of ______________, County of __________________, and the name of its registered agent at that address is ______________________.

ARTICLE III

The purpose of the Corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

ARTICLE IV

  1. The Corporation is authorized to issue __________ shares of its capital stock, which shall be divided into two classes known as Common Stock, $.001 par value, and Preferred Stock, $.001 par value, respectively. The total number of shares of Common Stock which the Corporation is authorized to issue is ______. The total number of shares of Preferred Stock which the Corporation is authorized to issue is ________.

  2. The Preferred Stock may be divided into such number of series as the Board of Directors may determine. The Board of Directors is authorized to determine and alter the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions granted to and imposed upon any wholly unissued series of Preferred Stock, and to fix the number of shares of any series of Preferred Stock and the designation of any such series of Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors, within the limits and restrictions stated in any resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors originally fixing the number of shares constituting any series, may increase or decrease (but not below the number of shares of such series then outstanding) the number of shares of any series subsequent to the issue of shares of that series. The first series of Preferred Stock shall be designated as Series A Preferred Stock (the “Series A Preferred Stock”), which shall consist of ____________________ shares, and shall have the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions hereinafter provided. [Upon the filing of this __________ Amended and Restated Articles of Incorporation, each outstanding share of Common Stock shall be split and converted into ____ shares of Common Stock.]

  3. The Corporation shall from time to time in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware increase the authorized amount of its Common Stock if at any time the number of shares of Common Stock remaining unissued and available for issuance shall not be sufficient to permit conversion of the Preferred Stock in accordance with the applicable conversion provisions set forth herein.

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