Peraso Inc.

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Amendment to Registration Statement - Specified Transactions (Form S-3/A)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 4, 2025

Registration No. 333-290776

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

AMENDMENT NO. 1

TO

FORM S-3

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

PERASO INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware 77-0291941
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

2033 Gateway Place, Suite 500

San Jose, California 95110

(408) 418-7500

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

Ronald Glibbery

Chief Executive Officer

Peraso Inc.

2033 Gateway Place, Suite 500

San Jose, California 95110

(408) 418-7500

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,

including area code, of agent for service)

Copies of all communications to:

Blake Baron, Esq.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

437 Madison Avenue, 25th Floor

New York, NY 10022

(917) 546-7709

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: From time to time after this registration statement becomes effective.

If the only securities being registered on this Form are being offered pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following box: ☐

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, 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.

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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 Securities Act. ☐

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Pre-Effective Amendment No. 1 (this "Amendment No. 1") to the Registration Statement on Form S-3 of Peraso Inc. (File No. 333-290776), (the "Registration Statement") is being filed as an exhibit-only filing to file an updated consent of Weinberg & Co., P.A., filed herewith as Exhibit 23.1 (the "Consent"). Accordingly, this Amendment No. 1 consists only of the facing page, this explanatory note, Item 16 of Part II of the Registration Statement, the signature page to the Registration Statement and the Consent filed herewith as Exhibit 23.1. The prospectus and the balance of Part II of the Registration Statement are unchanged and have been omitted.

PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

Item 16. Exhibits.

Reference Filed or
Exhibit No. Exhibit Description Form File No. Form
Exhibit
Filing Date Furnished
Herewith
2.1* Arrangement Agreement with Peraso Technologies Inc. 8-K 000-32929 2.1 September 15, 2021
2.2 First Amending Agreement dated October 21, 2021 8-K 000-32929 2.1 October 22, 2021
3.1 Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company 8-K 000-32929 3.6 November 12, 2010
3.1.1 Certificate of Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company 8-K 000-32929 3.1 February 14, 2017
3.1.2 Certificate of Amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on August 27, 2019 8-K 000-32929 3.1 August 27, 2019
3.1.3 Certificate of Amendment to Articles of Incorporation (Name Change) 8-K 000-32929 3.1 December 20, 2021
3.1.4 Certificate of Designation of Series A Special Voting Preferred Stock 8-K 000-32929 3.2 December 20, 2021
3.1.5 Certificate of Amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on December 15, 2023 8-K 000-32929 3.1 December 19, 2023
3.2 Amended and Restated Bylaws of the Company 8-K 000-32929 3.1 November 23, 2021
4.1 Form of Series E Warrant 8-K 000-32929 4.1 September 12, 2025
4.2 Form of Placement Agent Warrant 8-K 000-32929 4.2 September 12, 2025
5.1 Opinion of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP S-3 333-290776 5.1 October 8, 2025
10.1 Form of Inducement Letter 8-K 000-32929 10.1 September 12, 2025
23.1 Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm-Weinberg & Co., P.A. X
23.2 Consent of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1) S-3 333-290776 23.2 October 8, 2025
24.1 Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to the initial filing of the Registration Statement) S-3 333-290776 24.1 October 8, 2025
107 Filing fee table S-3 333-290776 107 October 8, 2025
* Certain schedules, exhibits and similar attachments have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The Company hereby undertakes to furnish copies of such omitted materials supplementally upon request by the SEC.

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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-3 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of San Jose, State of California, on December 4, 2025.

Peraso Inc.
By: /s/ James Sullivan
Name: James Sullivan
Title: Chief Financial Officer

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature Title Date
* Chief Executive Officer and Director December 4, 2025
Ronald Glibbery (principal executive officer)
/s/ James Sullivan Chief Financial Officer December 4, 2025
James Sullivan (principal financial and accounting officer)
* Director December 4, 2025
Daniel Lewis
* Director December 4, 2025
Robert Y. Newell
* Director December 4, 2025
Ian McWalter
* Director December 4, 2025
Andreas Melder
*By: /s/ James Sullivan
James Sullivan
Attorney-In-Fact

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